Being an author is optional! You don’t have to do it! If using an LLM is more appealing than doing the work, just quit! It’s okay! Nobody will care! Go do something you actually like!

Whenever someone uses the food making machine on Star Trek you notice they don’t high five each other and yell I AM A PROFESSIONAL CHEF

I love the 22 spam emails I've recived in the last week that say "Hey, I'm ___ I recently came across your book and really enjoyed your work. Have you ever thought about getting people to read it? If you're open to it, I’d be happy to share a little more." Think I'm about to be best seller lads

It's painfully funny to me that every time a marginalised reader points out a pattern where an author keeps writing something a bit bigoted, some rando will immediately descend with 'depiction isn’t endorsement', as if they’ve discovered fire and we've all been rubbing two sticks together wrong

I feel like I write straight relationships the way an entomologist examines the behavior, classification, and physiology of insects

Community announcement. We have a newsletter! scyllapublishing.com/newsletter We just signed up the designer for the first Scylla anthology cover, and wow you are all in for a treat as we begin the reveals.

I am 28 years old and I still need a second adult with me during my doctors appointment for my doctor to be willing to do anything for me beyond say "I can't do much for you." Being disabled is so fun and nice. I love being believed and supported by the people who are meant to refer you places 😃

I couldn’t stop thinking about @annalisejensen.bsky.social Dyke Knights artwork so I had to draw All Knight Lovers 🥰 #sapphicart #art #artist

The print proof of the special edition arrived, and she is BEAUTIFUL! EXCLUSIVELY available via our Kickstarter, and only for the next week! www.kickstarter.com/projects/268...

We are Scylla Publishing-emerging Sapphic specfic #indiepress from Australia launching our first anthology “Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity and Purpose”. Subs just closed, we’re funded! Pub in Sept 26. Also open for novels and novellas. www.scyllapublishing.com/author-submi...

Onion has been hit with the singular braincell he shares with Bingley and it's got him, well, pondering

the way some people submitting ai generated stories will not even expend the effort to change the font after copy+pasting from chatgpt is so baffling to me. like why bother expending the effort to submit the story in the first place? it's not going to be published lol

MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS to my friend Ashley on her debut!! Ashley is wonderful and so is her book, Child of The Dragon (which I have almost finished) ✨ www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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my new medicine drug makes me feel like my brain is a warm, unbaked dough ball. plus I forgot how to find emojis on my phone and cried. so all in all a great outcome for all group chats, I'd say

Didn't think I'd be spending this week disputing a whopping $583 PayPal charge from some random company, but here I am 😭😭 It is finally under review, so fingers crossed it is reversed soon🤞

you miscast one teensy little spell and suddenly everyone and their aunt is calling it a "blood moon" and a "precursor of doom"

the kind of wisdom one would hope to find in anxient tomes 🩸

Hot take? I love Guillermo del Toro for his monsters, but we need to talk about how his adaptation of Frankenstein engages with disability and monstrosity 🤔 youtu.be/sXQ3Qw41USE?... #Frankenstein #essay

Thesaurus Rex, humble gentleman

today I am visited by the three spirits 1) medicine drug past (ran out) 2) medicine drug present (suffering the consequences of running out) and 3) medicine drug future (dreading the trek in 36 degree heat to get the scripts filled)

Need someone to be a dork with me & talk about the selective activism where people engage with disability only within fictional worlds, directing empathy toward imagined characters while neglecting the needs, voices, and rights of disabled people in real life (Vicarious Fictivism, if you will) 🤓

I am so happy to have had the pleasure of working with Kara and her brilliant story for another anthology!! 💖

I just woke up from a dream where a doctor decided that treating my dislocated shoulder had to involve shaving off all my moles. And you know... having paid obscene amounts of money to see specialists who have no idea how EDS works... 🫢😂

We’re 2/3 funded!!! Can you help us make it to 75% today?

it is actually so laughable to me that some people will read a book where the disabled narrator talks about their disability and symptoms and think "literally nobody talks like this". dawg I am always perceiving and thinking about my pain and symptoms because they inform my life lol

hey google how do I find the will, energy, and brain power to actually write instead of sitting here thinking about how much I want to

By Gilly @profesh_baby: "Wearing an N95 mask (or better!) is the easiest way to protect yourself and everyone around you. It's an act of solidarity." Source: x.com/profesh_baby...

Well, we are in the final days! If you're still polishing up a story for the anthology now's the time :) #queerwriters #writingsky www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology-su...

I have said it before and I'll say it again: The inability to accept the presence of disabled people in sci-fi, fantasy, and futuristic works is a skill and empathy issue 😅 Any assumption of cure/eradication of disability is firmly rooted im ableism & eugenics ideology, conscious or not.

As someone living with a chronic illness I wish I had a book of my own to share! But I would say Artifice & Access by @ellatholmes.bsky.social if you’re into anthologies. #booksky #readingcommunity

IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD is a brilliant disabled romance and it is literally giving me life 😭 #booksky #reading

This essay is so, so incredibly important 💖 I hope Sabina's romance debut is the first of many more to come!!

Ellis's #CrippingDystopia story is very poignant and I am so eager for everyone to read and experience it!

Sapphic #writers of #writersky we want your sapphic stories please and thank you! 🔥

and it is such a great read!! 👀

If your book blurb mentions a cat but the cat doesn't show up for more than 60 words in the book, you're on my shit list for false catvertising 😡

I will not apologise for the way I will be acting about this

drew some o'briens #art #trek

lodged my boys at the airport and they were very well bahaved, had a short cuddle, and didnt understand a word I said about airplane travel 🥹 I hope they don't stress too much 😭

👀 Alexis wrote about WHAT!? You'll have to find out by reading the upcoming anthology 🤭

I can't wait for everyone to read Sally's story!! I WILL be bragging about every contributors stories in this because 🤩They are all so clever and amazing and I am so lucky to be trusted with them 💖

🤯WHAT in the #CrippingDystopia is this!? You're gonna see a few of these floating around very soon... 👀 Who's ready for an anthology of #dystopian stories told by disabled and chronically ill writers? I know I am! #booksky #books #shortstories

Julia Armfield was so right when she said "the ocean is a lesbian" and also "what is it with these lesbians and why are they all so wet?"

Two disabled autistic boys were murdered by their parents in Australia I’m begging everyone to pay close attention to how the media frames this. There’s a tendency to let the “better off dead” narrative creep in whenever disabled lives are lost. Eugenics is everywhere & we must always call it out

Well looking forward to some of our books make this list someday! But here’s to oversaturation of Sapphic books! theliterarygrind.substack.com/p/my-most-an... @theamericano.bsky.social

I am gobsmacked? Shook?? Thunderstruck a.k.a astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak??? (thank you for like my story this much 😭)

If you’re a disabled/chronically ill writer who wants to write about disabled characters in fiction, you can sign up for my six-week WRITING DISABLED CHARACTERS IN FICTION class in March! Will work with MG, YA, and Adult! #WriterSky #BookSky #Teaching www.wow-womenonwriting.com/classroom/La...

some submission ideas just off the top of my noggin (if anyone needs inspiration) - lesbian space noir - lesbian bean factory (in space) - lesbian witches....... in space - lesbian story told through the pov of a space object - space: the final lesbian frontier - what if space were a lesbian