#Swordtember day 22 ⚔️🦢

day 21: ring #swordtember

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice. Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT." IT IS ART. YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

Money very well spent. 👇

Shiny monarch butterflies! Having them gently drift down, pick out a flower, then another - dodging the skippers ... so peaceful and beautiful 🌎 🌿 #Invert

Excellent thread w/ practical advice on taking antihistamines as COVID prevention, to help with side effects post-COVID vax, & to take during an active COVID infection to prevent long COVID. With science to back it up. (Long, you may want to seek out the last post in thread to properly read it.)

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

Another ambiguously gay #Swordtember story! Sir Heron renews his vows of allegiance to Mister Swan, his exiled prince. As little as $4 CAD a month gets you access to exclusive queer fantasy fiction, currently posting 3x week, and helps me afford groceries ⚔️✨🦢 www.patreon.com/posts/swordt...

A demon hunter collects fantastic swords based on beetles 🪲 Every other day this month I'm posting a new prompt-based flash fiction for #Swordtember. If you join my page for as little as $4 CAD, you support me writing more queer fantasy ⚔️✨ www.patreon.com/posts/swordt...

Delighted by this wonderful ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for Mr Collins in Love ❤️

If you want to push back against censorship, here’s some actions to take. Censoring *yourself* is not the way. Please listen to those who are most affected (nsfw artists) and what they’re asking us to do which is not to be silent!

Hey! Who wants an ARC of my gay space horror? Its got eruri-coded boys, autism and ptsd rep, blood/guts/gore, and a rescue mission that goes really bad!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🖤Lija🖤

Highly recommended, if you can swing it: blocking off 24 hours for a “readathon” where you just try to read as much as you can in the time that you have. No phone, minimized distractions I finished two books today and started a third, and I feel significantly less stressed and despairing

I make funnybooks for kids, and I find these guidelines so condescending and utterly useless. They’ve let the people who confuse discomfort with harm hijack their best practices.

I finally wrote my review of MR COLLINS IN LOVE by @leewelchwriter.bsky.social! 5 stars and I'd read a sequel. Recommended for readers looking for a soft, slow queer historical romance with a neurodivergent lead and an emphasis on moving through life in gentleness and kindness.

I'm trying to edit a 400-word story for posting but I have a headache sitting right at the front of my forehead and I want to go to bed and watch tv until bedtime instead.

Just a reminder that right now is a fantastic time to take that monthly Disney plus cash and spend it on trans/bipoc/disabled creators and small businesses. Boycotting the bad things is fantastic, but using those funds to then support and uplift those who’ve been marginalized is even better.

Everything is temporary. Everything passes. You just have to hold on long enough to see it all change again.

shedding velvet drawn for Polar Lights: Midnight #art #sciart 🎨🐾🦊

In Defiance of Death

Now's a good time to check to see if your favs have mailing lists/personal websites. Bring back bookmarks. While Patreon still works if you follow artists (for free!) you're essentially being added to a mailing list. And then call Mastercard and ask why legally made products can't be bought and sold

#SaveSpeech in a bit of not-bad-news: Canada's anti-paypros petition has hit over 12k signatures! Y'all are doing great! This one's deadline is October 25th, so keep pumping those numbers in the meantime! Our support has to look as strong as possible! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

This is now a pepper appreciation account only. Behold! #FoodSky 😍🌶️🫑🌶️😍

If you see this duck it’s a fuckin miracle, your luck will change, fortune will smile, this is a duck Bluesky doesn’t want you to see.

Not the Bluesky ToS taking notes from the CaitVi Kinktober drama....

FELLOW CANADIANS REMEMBER TO SIGN THIS PLEASE IT IS VERY MUCH WORTH YOUR TIME. In case you need any convincing, I've got a small thread about it

Do NOT believe the misinfo going around There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates Most notably: 1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon 2) No "dangerous" kink 3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational" So what can we DO about it? #SaveSpeech 1/🧵

for god‘s sake dont participate in a bluesky blackout, raise hell about the censorship issue instead. make NOISE about it.

This is a BAD idea from a tactical pov all this means is an issue that bsky mods do NOT want controversy around will have NO posting about it for a full week a large number of people who come back from the "blackout" will likely not start up the complaints again it hamstrings the cause

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

I'm writing my last 4 #Swordtember shorts this weekend and I'm returning to my beloved asshole duo, Fionn and Marten. They're awful and I missed them.

How you doing? Need a little break? Maybe some cute and cozy stories would help. Totally free at alhessbooks.itch.io and set in a soft and overgrown post-post-apocalyptic world inspired by the song (Nothing But) Flowers by the Talking Heads 🤖🪻

I want to own physical copies of my favourite shows and movies. Why are so many things completely impossible to buy now. I will give you human cash money to own these things and put them on my shelf. And I want cd and dvd drives back in my computers.

B101.4.2 Stag with gold and silver on horns and neck, and a silver bell.

The judge in the Bartz v. Anthropic case filed a list of questions and concerns to be addressed with the notification form in the class action. There's nothing in particular I want to pull out, but I think it shows that the judge is thinking carefully about fairness to the parties.

I finally wrote my review of MR COLLINS IN LOVE by @leewelchwriter.bsky.social! 5 stars and I'd read a sequel. Recommended for readers looking for a soft, slow queer historical romance with a neurodivergent lead and an emphasis on moving through life in gentleness and kindness.

People make fun of "the wargleblasters were set to nullify and that could only mean one thing: beans." Style, but I'll put up with it if you tell me in the next sentence what that means to the emotional arc of the protagonist. But I won't put up with it if you refuse to tell me why I should care.

Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share. - Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #WriteSky #BookSky

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

I'm writing my last 4 #Swordtember shorts this weekend and I'm returning to my beloved asshole duo, Fionn and Marten. They're awful and I missed them.

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

For bi awareness week, I must bring back my bi eagle 🪶 #art

Really wish people learned to deal with the weird little thoughts in their heads and built trust that the things their brain conjures up and chooses to respond to does not reflect their morality. Your actions do. That's all this puritanical shit is. People scared of their own thoughts and feelings.

really not sure why it's so desperately important to insert consent (of all things) into an intangible nonreal space. fiction is already the fantasy. it's defined by its border. like actually grow up lol

Whenever the topic of what's "allowed" in fiction comes up, you get folks like "why are you against that gross thing getting banned" and the ppl that have been in the trenches for years have to be patient and ask "do you think it will stop just with the thing you think is gross and reach no further"

Oh good another platform built up by adult content creators being told that everyone must now split hairs about make-believe characters in illustrations. hold on let's ask the little fictional guys about it 🎤🧍

Ah yes, nothing makes me want to post more than having to think if the two fully armored up knights fucking each other in this drawing will look consensual enough without their faces visible and with some derogatory dirty talk going on.

But, even for the not tame kinks, what is the justification for banning it other than people just not liking it? Are you going to go with the violence in video games argument? That fictional depictions of violence or immorality cause their viewers to become violent and immoral?