SSLS Hale & Max are there to film their show. The two of them film this planet-wide event, marveling at the sports, interviewing the athletes, & checking out the food. Max learns & sings the national anthem along with every team he meets #AwesomeCharacters 1/5

Loop earplugs for workout classes have, thus far, led me to have more energy throughout it. I ended up staying for BodyCombat after BodyPump today!

Sorry, long one today, but even my synonyms were looking uninteresting. This is from late in my rock romance/drama serial (late year 3 or early 4), but Katie surprised me with this so I had to rough draft it. But it also makes sense with her, even if I'm still thinking thru the impact. #WIPSnips

Johee explains Hanaran romance (or lack thereof) while Hale tries not to panic over this romantic encounter #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From Stars, Sparkling Like Snow ✨😘

🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏 🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏 🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer 🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏

Potion witches need ingredients for their magic, but those can be anything, depending on the recipe Necromancers might use a demon to enhance their powers Soulmating is the ultimate tool, strengthening your powers through your connection to another witch’s #Febchantment day 9 1/2

H/V Evie learns fighting moves as part of her League training. She’s a brawler with a bonus shapeshifting element (except in book 2). She trains with poor powerless Danny in book 1, but levels up to sparring with muscular, super-speedy Jesse in books 2&3 #AwesomeCharacters 1/7

Make-up post 1/5 🥲 Kip's not usually the brother I'd go to for advice, but in this instance, I think he's got things figured out 💜 From Poe's arc of The Atlas Brothers Break the Multiverse #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmWriting

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Nooooo! I forgot my sports bra today!

King of Wands = King Jack Frost, Sr. He'd say upright, but mostly reversed (❗CW: child abuse❗) JFS's the most powerful season other than Mother Nature, but he didn't have a Summer equal & couldn't compete for MN. He takes that disappointment out on his son who was chosen #AllHandsOnDeck 1/3

No “airport”s, but Hale & Max go through a few spaceports #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From Stars, Sparkling Like Snow ✨🌅

#Febchantment day 8 Most magic in Magic in Our Bones doesn't have a known source. Some elements, like soulmating, have myths Potion witches, however, have a source. A weak coven combined their powers to allow 1 witch to "create" magic using ingredients. Potion witches are descended from that line

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Sunny Ray & Jack share their love for a flower park in central Ohio. They met there, & that’s where their parents sent them every fall/spring to practice their powers. Most of their history takes place there. It’s where they developed their friendship & their love for each other #AwesomeCharacters

#QueerPrompts Taylor-Made has the most sports with actual soccer playing Magic in Our Bones has football players & marching band, but it’s off-season Hero/Villain has weight-lifting & martial arts training. Also a “How about them Cowboys” joke

I should have known that having a calm, rational conversation with him was impossible. Irredeemable asshole or not, he's still Ice. I guess that's what he was trying to tell me all along, huh? (from Resignation) #WIPSnips

Yay, “Shot in the Dark” time! #SPOP

Mom's theory: The prettier the luger's uniform the worse their performance

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "We don't have enough babies."

Craving some 17th century cold-weather vibes? Please enjoy this historically accurate recipe for drinking chocolate for #FoodPit, inspired by my #W IP #YA(?) swashbuckling farce, THE DUEL IN 1660! ❄️☺️☕

Ten of Wands is the League’s rules & pressure in Hero/Villain While she loves to stop villains, Evie complains a lot about the actual duties of superheroing. She hates the League’s hoops, rules, & reviews. Rather than just being a hero, she has to prove she’s not a villain #AllHandsOnDeck 1/3

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky Grilled watches an execution. cw// descriptions of torture and execution methods

“Redeem” vibes Enjoy a few seconds of Evie & Ace together w/ bodies of their own But Ace’s, which he fought for the whole book, took time to build…time he sacrificed (along w/ his life) to save Evie in the completion of his redemption arc #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From Super/Human 🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏼

Open to submissions of short stories for What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style until April 15th, 2026. 8¢/word. <6,000 words. Simsub ok, no multiple submissions, original stories only. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

THE FINAL CHAPTER Recipe: 🍭Handful of Halloween candy ☕️Splash of coffee 🥐Dash of a croissant 🥜Fistful of crushed peanuts Serve at the bookstore you work at with your sapphic crush. But be careful, someone’s already dead and you could be next… #Foodpit #Q #YA #MY #LGBT

#Febchantment day 7 The myth of soulmating shows a witch bringing her love from the brink of death & healing her body Lilia likes to point out that even the witches’ myths are queer 🏳️‍🌈

Race: In SSLS, the story is set in the far future, but Hale, the MC, is black, & Max, his BFF, is of Asian descent Health: In SCWWGC, Jack has a heart defect that pretty much drives his half of the plot. He manages it most of the time, but the competition puts too much stress on it #QueerPrompts

#QueerPrompts February 7: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Race and/or health diversity rep in your story

Today was the day when I had a realization about how something worked in my decade-old trilogy Me: Why does this happen here? Also me: Obviously, the very logical reason is already built into the story Still me: Okay, thanks, I didn't know that!

A5: While I may not be able to talk about what I'm currently working on, something I can talk about is this cute sapphic bundle I'm a part of over on Itch io right now :) 22 books featuring various sapphics getting up to shenanigans :) itch.io/b/3483/sapph... #QueerWritersChat

All my self-promos are short stories. Right now I have 2 available for free The Aro Shield: ratbaglit.substack.com/p/the-aro-sh... Come As You Aren't: www.mygalvanizedfriend.org/contribution... #QueerWritersChat

I’m doing the world’s smallest Locus write-in campaign, but you can make it slightly bigger by reading, sharing, and voting! bsky.app/profile/theo... Mage By Blood is getting a new chapter later today! www.royalroad.com/fiction/1453... Also Valentines art bsky.app/profile/theo... #QueerWritersChat

Hero/Villain pitch redacted Evie’s channeling her inner [Redacted]. The shapeshifting superhero just wants to meet her celebrity crush. Too bad he’s brainwashing the city to love him. Worse, he’s obsessed w/ her. But what’s a girl to do when she [redacted] with the villain? #QueerWritersChat

I'm Sage. I'm currently working on shorts (a drabble and a longer piece), and my most recent WIP was about an aroace love witch protecting her undead skeleton brother #QueerWritersChat

Goodness knows I've spoiled the 1st plot twist for Hero/Villain all over the place. But I hold the 2 other trilogy twists pretty close to the chest. It'd just be impossible to talk about books 2 & 3 w/out spoiling book 1 Others depend on how strongly I feel about those spoilers #QueerWritersChat

NO BUT SERIOUSLY this shit of "I just NEED AI" when this crap has existed for less than 5 years. You did NOT need AI before. You do NOT need AI now. You will NOT need AI in the future. You are absolutely capable of doing things yourself, with the resources and materials available to you that are

In general, I tend towards what characters see & hear. Smell & feel are next most likely to get mentioned, but less so taste. Probably because I’m picky (go ahead and be surprised after my cinnamon roll Drabble) Some exceptions below #AwesomeCharacters 1/3

People get prickly about these requests bc they see them as individual critiques but they're really efforts to set norms and build culture around sharing information, which feels very meaningful and worthwhile to me in this moment.

#WIPSnips Virgil has a very pragmatic view towards vampirism. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WritingPrompts

Sunny Ray from Summer’s Cruel Warmth, Winter’s Gentle Chill is the Page of Cups More upright than reverse, Sunny is very trusting & optimistic. His biggest concern is that he might not win the competition for Mother Nature, but that’s about his belief that he *will* win #AllHandsOnDecks 1/6

Taylor returns to school after finding out he’s a BOIS-friend (a boyfriend-bot). He should be nervous. Forget the forged notes. He could be “Collected” & destroyed. But today he has a mission. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From Taylor-Made 🤖🧑🏼‍🏫

#QueerPrompts I’d never write erotica. As an asexual prude, it just doesn’t interest me, & I get uncomfortable reading spicy scenes I said for years I was primarily writing fantasy with some SF, but when I take stock of my stuff, it’s actually the opposite. More sci-fi…but still plenty fantasy

#Febchantment My inspirations are so old, but many years ago I imagined a tarot-based story with an ace witch (literally to make an “ace of [suit]” reference). When I picked up the idea again, I changed to an aroace matchmaker, & the tarot fell by the wayside 1/3

Finally! Gawd, Blake’s been wanting a lazy day for months, but Ren always is making him get out of bed & do things! Ren, OTOH, is dying to do something, anything. He doesn’t understand how Blake can waste the day away like that #AwesomeCharacters

Consider “Monoculture” for the Locus Awards! “Monoculture” is a surreal, corn-themed ecological horror inspired by my Midwestern childhood. Listen here (starts 23:30): www.creepypod.com/episodes/202... Vote here: poll.voting.locusmag.com #ecohorror #horror #shortfiction #transwriter #queerwriter

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Seeing an uptick in the number of writing scam accounts on here. I mean, they aren't subtle... if you go to their page, it's just them commenting something generic like "what genre do you write" on every writing post they can find to try to get someone to engage and offer their "services". Be aware👀

Ace of Pentacles is the quest in A Paranormal Bromance 3 Upright: Freshly dating ghost Ren, Blake hits upon the idea to ask god-like being Justyn to manifest Ren’s body & have him live again. Justyn sends them on a quest to win Blake’s greatest desire 1/2 #AllHandsOnDeck