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🇨🇦 edmonton cryptid || they/them 🏳️‍🌈 will GM TTRPGs for cheese 🖋 SFFH & romance writer, codexian 📖 words in Heartlines, Goblincore, Bloodlust website: https://linktr.ee/ashvale newsletter: https://ashvale.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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movies you've watched more than six times and no one is surprised

I can't stop thinking about her... #anglerfish

what if she likes being a girl what if she likes girls

Me in our writer group chat: We should all say nice things about our own writing when we’re feeling low 🙂 Ash in our writer group chat: im going to kill and eat you guys

Build up a supportive, close community of fellow writers! This is the best way to discover who to kill and eat so you can gain their precious, valuable writerly powers. You'll be leveling up in no time!

okay I let myself despair a tiny bit then said I'M the one writing these useless lesbians!!! I'm the boss!!! anyway I'm done my reverse outline 😁

Someone's gotta do it I guess New print here! www.sonnyross.com/shop/together

My only award-eligible work from 2024 is “The Rabbits Become the Hunters” from Slay and Slay Again! An Anthology of Queer Horror, editor Ben Walker, publisher Sliced Up Press. (2800 words) I’m so proud of this story no matter how many or how few people ever read it. It’s my first published story.

I was on a good roll with my novel's reverse outline and just hit two chapters in a row that are mostly going to be deleted and it sucked all the momentum out of me lol. why can't it just be written already in a way that's good and I don't have to do it

Canadian hockey fans rn

YES LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO 🇨🇦

Jordan Binnington I will buy you a pony if you can pull this off

Our Kickstarter continues! We're just shy of 50% with two weeks left to go, so please support us if you can! Subscribe, pick up some cool swag, and get your fiction critiqued by the professionals! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...

lamb of tartary and rebirth [ #art ]

this week on substack I talk about punk and subculture margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/a-message-...

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

oh crap I forgot to post- I have a story out in the new Blood Lust anthology from @blackharepress.bsky.social my story "Dread and Faith" is about a trans guy who lures a creepy water dweller with some edible glitter and receives...an unexpected response ✨️💦 www.blackharepress.com/blood-lust/

this might fix me

“We are not responsible for the whole world, or the totality of its fires. We are responsible for the betterment of ourselves and our communities; to finding, celebrating, and protecting the beauty we have access to. This is stewardship, and it is the honor of our lives.” I write to honor.

Annapurna Interactive announces 'Gone Home' extraction shooter sequel in which 30 players are parachuted into Rural Oregon and attempt to collect enough Angela Carter short story collections and Kate Bush LPs to realize they're a lesbian before anyone else

walking my kid to daycare and whispering to myself "we don't have rats or giant bugs. we don't have rats or giant bugs. we don't have rats or giant bugs. "

I'm not even particularly patriotic but if I see any of you posting or RTing about Canada as the 51st state, or ruminating on whether we'd vote Democrat, I'm blocking you and will consider shitting in your shoes

I haven't posted about my trouble maker book in a couple? few? days. A queer, fast paced, Caribbean Anticolonial space opera novella that takes Caribbean History into account and does not sugar coat what Empires do. Available everywhere, ebook and audio too! ecwpress.com/products/cou...

oh crap I forgot to post- I have a story out in the new Blood Lust anthology from @blackharepress.bsky.social my story "Dread and Faith" is about a trans guy who lures a creepy water dweller with some edible glitter and receives...an unexpected response ✨️💦 www.blackharepress.com/blood-lust/

Today seemed like a good day to update my NO TERFS NO SWERFS IN MY SURF art into something more badass. Shark teeth and sharp claws. Fix your hearts or end up chum.

The quickest way to a man’s heart is to insert a needle between the xiphoid process and left costal margin at a 15-to-30-degree angle, directed towards the left shoulder

I will happily use Valentine's Day as an occasion to share this glorious card I snapped up this summer at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Love you spooky book fam! 😍

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/g... We have now officially launched!

MIDNIGHT! The Cover Reveal & Submission call for WET SCREAMS, an anthology of Monster Erotica, goes live! We’re looking for stories that’ll have us sleepless and breathing heavy. We want to be disturbingly turned on. Details Feb. 14th Happy Valentine’s Day, Monster Lovers. 👹🖤👻📚

Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order. I’m starting out with a blast from the past! I can’t believe this piece is 18 years old. “Toothy Beast movement study”, 2007 10 woodfired beasts of mixed porcelain each 4.5" x 2.5" x 3 to 4"

We hope you'll share out our very first catalogue - we just think it's beautiful, and we hope it'll bring some visibility to our work. A share is a wonderful way to support a small indie. A few words added will give us something to repost with great celebration! 💜 you. -E. atthisarts.com/cat/

day 247 of my cat refusing to eat his food and instead choosing to eat his own hair off the couch

reminder as nominations open for the Nebulas and Hugos - I had some works published this year that are eligible!! in particular I'd love if you read I Met My Wife in the Woods at Heartlines, it's free to read online and has sapphic yearning, creepy fae, and an unreliable narrator!!