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i write and edit lgbtqia+ fantasy, sci-fi, and romance; if you're looking for help polishing your work, get in touch! website: editingturtle.com 🌈🏴‍☠️🖊️
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This June will do our 3rd annual bundles for charity sale to benefit Rainbow Railroad! 3 bundles! Discounted stories! 32 creators! Multi-genre! Hella queer! Great stories and artwork for buyers, and a heap of funds raised for a wonderful cause! Read all about it: duckprintspress.com/2025/05/15/c...

Happy Pride Month! Given everything going on right now, I think this year's is especially important. Never take your rights for granted. Never rest on "It wouldn't happen here." Love extravagantly, and know no shame. #pride2025 #art #queerart

Get yourself some books by intersex people for Pride, I WILL HELP YOU

This was one of my top five books last year. Really enjoyed it. Well worth the read. 📚💙🪐

queernormative worlds my beloved.

happy pride month to bluesky, a platform that is successful today because of the trans and queer users who made it a cool place to be. love y’all 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙

Happy pride! My books are currently part of this itch bundle!! I'm a demiaroace and non-binary writer from Brazil. All talk more about the stories on the following posts! itch.io/b/3058/aro-b...

#PrideBookFair Hello my lovelies! 🌈 A lot of awesome and lovely people will share their works this month especially. Go and support them! (share, like, buy) I write queer SFF stories with a strong romance side-plot. My debut "The Edge of a World" is a fantasy story about walking your own path.

Happy pride!🌈✨

Link round-up time! We've got articles, reviews, interviews, INTERESTING THOUGHTS, all carefully strained from the turbid torrents of what we used to call the web; check out our Wow! Signal column for more mostly-speculative goodness: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/31/w...

Re-upping for the Sunday crowd.

The most subtle look from MY Pride line is this black shirt with a motif of small pink triangles. Everything else is a lot more explicit. And buying from me means queer money stays in queer pockets. Target doesn't deserve it. (rosalarian.com/shop)

A Knight of the Underdark. 🎨💙 [ #Dnd #art #ocsky #oc ]

“Would you mind sneaking?” Owen said. “There’s a guard I’d like to avoid!” Wesley looked back, eyebrow raised, before pointing carelessly as if to say, Who? That? It took Owen several beats to recognize the scattered bones and guts and torn clothing as the Ranger on duty. #Saturdark #dogwood1

hey bluesky! if you're looking for English language coaching or science tutoring, you should check out my friend Lu! they're a working scientist and a great teacher:

A fun Posca experiment I did recently of a tiger #underneath some duckweed. Figured it fit in with today’s #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #art

Today!

Recruitment remains open! All profits are split evenly, and the interpretation of the theme is generally pretty wide.

I remain astounded that some people think that co-writing with (or being assisted by) one of the worst "writers" I've encountered is actually going to make their story better. Ditch the "AI" and write it yourself. And if you can't manage that, at least stop sending them to me.

Add a letter, ruin a movie: Beauty and the Breast

This image from HRC goes so hard

Luddites weren't anti-tech. They were against technology being used by the capitalist class to capture wealth at the expense of the worker. I am a Luddite, and a tech enthusiast. They're not in opposition. I want technology that makes MY life better, not that sells my life piecemeal to corps.

!!! This email from Boundless Publishing (successor to in-liquidation crowdfunded publisher Unbound) disclaiming responsibility for Unbound’s debt & labeling owed royalties “goodwill payments” (whole thread is worth reading)

Want to write this summer? We'd love to help you meet your goals, grow a healthier & happier practice, and find community 💖 (6 more days to register! Meeting 8 Thursdays evenings starting 12 June on Zoom.) Details: www.eliotwesteditorial.com/writing-grou... #WritingCommunity #Writers 🌈💜

My editing services are expanding! I'm now offering line and copy edits separately, as well as adding a multiple-edits package and a "panic package" option. authorivyljames.com/editing-services

hey, guess who got Errant Wings and Wherever the Stars call up in Queer Liberation Library?? Me! Check them out! Also, if you don't have a digital library card through them, consider getting one!! queerliblib.overdrive.com/search/creat...

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

THIS IS OUR LAST PUSH! We have 3 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a ways to go!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

My most recent work, and by god was it both fun and challenging 😮‍💨 Ophelia, my anglerfish mermaid 🧜‍♀️👹 She is a hunter, by nature, and you 🫵 are lower on the food chain than her. But, maybe if you bring her something nice, she’ll in turn treat you nice 👀✨ #mermay #art #mermaid #anglerfish

So you know how some people are like "if you don't like how worldcon does programming, why don't you hold your own con??" Well, that's what we're* doing. *By "we" I mean a rag-tag band of rabble rousers pitching in, but all credit to Mia for herding us cats and taking the lead. <3 <3 <3

How we are still living under capitalism (I mean, I can, but also HOW)

These feckers have already made off with my last almost-five-decades' worth of creative output to try to "teach" their hopped-up answering machine how to fake writing. If anyone ever *breathed* the suggestion to me that I should willingly use that soi-disant "tool"...it would not go well for them.

i try to keep hopeful but i don't really know what to do anymore.

Axolotl says: #TransRights #TransArtMay

The best writing advice I can give is add more lesbians. No, more. No, more. That's not enough are you even listening-- oh goodness thats a lot of lesbians. Well done. That's good art.

Locus fundraiser needs help! 4 days left and only 45% to their goal. They do incredible work spotlighting emerging writers of all backgrounds; it's quality work but it costs money to put out. It would be a shame if they had to cut back b/c they can't afford it. www.indiegogo.com/projects/loc...

I read Unbury the Bones by @cozyote.bsky.social and I absolutely loved it! 5⭐s! A non-binary, aromantic vampire teams up with their werewolf (best) friend to solve a case of luck magic gone very wrong... Review here: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/dd03... #queerbooks

I finished The Edge of a World by @jd-rivers.com and this was a really fascinating and unique read! The world-building was fantastic and it blended Sci-Fi and Fantasy really well - 4⭐s! Review here: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/54b0... #queerbooks

amazing

Not only do I have a great ass and correct opinions, I *also* wrote a three-book paranormal fantasy series about a transgender eldritch horror with a fourth on the way If that sounds like the sort of thing you're into

Two of our books! Just $526,000 is more than DPP has made, gross, since our founding 4.5 years ago. If I had a million dollars I can't even imagine what I'd do. (that's not true. I know exactly what I'd want to do if I had money. I would love to make an English-language queer webnovel platform...)

We absolutely do, and great news — people are still running them! Here's links to thirty-something existing ones: www.tumblr.com/westiec/7840...

It's ✨Cover Reveal Day✨ for PAINTED FLOCK, my latest fantasy novel!! Look at my gorgeous cover from @layahimalaya.bsky.social 💙 I'm so in love with everything about it, from the peoplez to the birds to the colours. And the wraparound has kitties!! More details / links / info below ~ 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫

This is beyond terrifying www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

AI art is copyright infringement pass it on

I just finished this yesterday! Mysterious archaeological expeditions ❤️ and Andres is such a sweetie 🥰