Yo. Not dead. Just too busy to write right now - Ren Faire opens in (checks watch) 11 days 😬😬😬😂😵‍💫☠️

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Surprising no one who follows me, the RELIC series by @mazmaddox.bsky.social Just absolutely no contest, dinosaurs shifters and mafia, and a wild romp of the BEST kind of fun.

Y'all worried about Obergefell and I'm just wondering how long it takes us to back track and overturn Lawrence v Texas. Consensual, private, same sex relationships have only been legal since 2003. 🙈🙉🙊

Indy Publishing Cult stickers came in today!! And they have ~・°˖✧ SPOT HOLO ✧˖°・~ (You can grab one through my ko-fi.com/s/e3dec6f156 ) ((reposte because I fucked up the link ☠️))

Hey. Hey, you. Yeah, you. The person reading this. You, specifically. Be messier and weirder. Fuck up more. And cut people a break when they're messy and weird and fuck up, if you can. Queerness is about being messy.

Since we don't have polls here on Bluesky yet... In the replies here you will find two posts. Like the post you agree with most. We are pitting hardcover books against paperbacks. I wanna know who reads what!

I am a reclamation kind of bitch. 😌🔥 (I will probably retool this a bit and print some stickers)

So, I used to work at a call center in the fraud department for a financial institution. I dealt with porn claims for maybe a good third of my calls. The problem with explicit content for payment processors isn't actually porn: It's free trial scams. 🧵

I dont understand the appeal of a kilt, but the author of this Ren Faire romance series seems to REALLY like them. I can instantly tell a man introduced is going to be a hunky beefcake if he is wearing a kilt. The Kilt is instant shorthand for Irresistible Sex Appeal. 😆 #romancelandia

Saw this, needed this, delighted to find the first ebook is available from my local library via Libby 🙌✨️

Every time I run into "The primary text is held in private collection." MY BLOOD BOILS, and @mazmaddox.bsky.social I deeply envy the ability to just turn into a dinosaur and eat the history hoarding dipshits.

Come for the gays and dragons, stay for my strong opinions about 18th century trans femme celebrity, diplomat, spy, professional duelist Chevalière d'Éon

One of the many problems with academics who only read historians without ever pulling up the original primary texts is that it renders them COMPLETELY UNABLE TO RECOGNIZE BLARING POLITICAL SATIRE!!!

The countdown clock is in hours and the backing progress bar is nail-bitingly close to fully backed - Lets punt this one across the finish line, and grab some cool queer dragon books from an award winning indy author all in one 😎 🐲 🔥

This is such a cool thread to glance through processes - here are some of mine:

youtu.be/lYNM9RRsmec the video is ready

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible. These pirates spend more time looking for snails than looking for dragons. 😔🐌

anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :

If you live (most places) in Washington State you can also get a card for Sno-Isle for free, which has the fourth largest Libby/Overdrive collection in the nation. They tend to have all the queer books that QLL has and then some, with shorter wait times. www.sno-isle.org/get-a-librar...

It is TOTALLY WILD that I can email a professor on the opposite side of the planet asking for a copy of their journal article deconstructing gender roles in politics in 17th century Europe & they will just SEND IT TO ME, FOR FREE, LESS THAN 24 HOURS LATER!!! IT FEELS LIKE. FUCKING. MAGIC. 🤯✨️⭐️💖👏⭐️💖✨️🎉

This letter from my Orlesian Bard to the Inquisitor (both player characters) proclaiming the love he knows to be deeply one-sided, given just before the final battle of our 5-year-long Dragon Age: The Roleplaying Game campaign, remains the most romantic thing I've ever written in my god damn life

Gender affirming care IS life saving care. I agree that our message to young people should be "there are ways to survive this," but that doesn't mean we should deny the actual literal truth, because that will only give the Alt-Right more ammo to take it all away.

Fan conventions exist through the labor of unpaid volunteers - many working 40-60 hour weeks for months at a time (on top of their real paying jobs). Commonly events with 15,000+ attendees will have zero paid employees. Even shows that pay a few staff members rely on many, many more unpaid ones.

Banning transition healthcare will effectively ban *all* health care for trans patients. You know how long it took me to find a doctor who would see me for routine *antibiotics* when I lived in a state that allowed doctors to opt out of trans health care? Three. Months.

Fan thought for RELIC (dino shifters) by Maz Maddox: Royal and Blaise would both have a *fantastic* time at a Stars on Ice show. Royal because it is just as magical to watch in person as it is on Yuri on Ice. Blaise because figure skating can totally rival drag for sparkly dancing fun ⛸️🦖

A summary of my favorite love interests from romance novels: #romancelandia

If you need a last minute, Pride themed protest sign for today Ive got you covered! (Free & Printable!)

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

Dragons are in my books both because they symbolize the unfiltered power of queer and feminine rage when relinquished from the fetters of systematic opression and because I Fucking Love Dragons, Bro

This femboy needs to absolutely rail my Pirate Captain in the last chapter of this book, and no one can convince me any other conclusion is even moderately acceptable.

Pride & the No Kings rally are on the exact same day in my city, so I made myself a new sign as a treat. 😌🌈 You can download a free printable PDF or PNG here if you want one too~ ko-fi.com/romantasychr...

Spoilers(?) For my Pirates and Dragons WIP: Queens of the Sea and Sky The Polycule - Jean: Bi Kanat: Gay Victor: Trans, Pan(ish) Marcel: Gay Emily: Like a Kinsey 1 Other Main Characters - Tully: Gay Vivienne: Trans, Pan Branches: Nonbinary, Queer Iz: Trans, Queer Riven: Lesbian #Romantasy

We already know that the other side will make all peaceful protests violent. They will send in the proud boys and they will send in ICE and they will kettle protesters and tear gas them and put up images of a street that they have turned into a war zone and say, “see? Rioters.”

pink in the night (2019)

Still on my dinosaur shifters fanart bullshit (Yu is from the RELIC series by @mazmaddox.bsky.social )

#Queers&Quills was AMAZING, I cannot rant and rave enough, an absolute honor to work with everyone on the volunteer team. There was so much fucking heart put into this first year event - this was the Queer Romance Book Event the community DESERVES. #romancelandia #writingcommunity

Calling all trans* authors! My colleagues and I have a form up and running to which you can submit your books for possible purchase by our home institution library. 🌈📚 Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... *including agender, nonbinary, twospirit, and otherwise gender nonconforming authors!

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

Was looking at some old work, and if this doesn't hit directly in the 'tism feels -

Returning to school is making deals with myself like "if you read two more chapters about judicial review you can write one chapter of trans masc pirate romance"

Since it's late and my brain is too fuzzy to write from the IVIG treatments, I thought it might be fun to do a thread on beta readers in general and specifically to my gryphon series. I find beta readers most useful for flagging what's *good* in a draft rather than what's wrong. 🧵

4 types of characters I write: 1. Queer nuerodivergent golden-retreiver boyfriend. 2. High femme queer who can kick ass and take names, probably has knives. 3. Grumpy in need of sunshine. 4. Dragon.

Queers & Quills is coming up and I need to find my watercolors so I can paint some traditional fanart to subtly pass off to some cool ppl

Shout out to the graffiti artist in my neighborhood who tags things like "FUCK TRUMP" and "FREE PALISTINE", and has done so regularly for several years, and helps keep my rent in this queer walkable neighborhood affordable

I worked so hard to get this draft down to 75K, and now it's back up to 85K again 😂😂😂 I do think we took out bloat and added more of the RIGHT words, tho, so that's something #writingcommunity

(Snippet from QSS) Listen, Jarvitz is just a funky little autistic man doing his best out here, you don't have to *shout* at him, Mechael. #writingcommunity #JustLittlePirateThings

I've been struggling this year with the recent discovery that my family, and my upbringing, has been Secretly Jewish, and where that places my own identity culturally. My mother didn't know we were Jewish - she thought we were secretly Native American.

If I bought an audiobook and rented a book through Kindle Unlimited - Does the author still get page reads from KU if I listen to the audiobook via the "read along" feature in the Kindle app? Anyone know? #writingcommunity