Years ago i wrote a story about a lesbian werewolf whose ex girlfriend became a successful writer…writing about werewolves as if they were fiction. It was me coping with appropriation and I’m still proud, even though it’s hard to find nowadays
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If you have never read BLADE MAIDENS before or need to catch up, good news! Every single page of our series is available for free at our site.
We have 3 completed stories (THE HUNT, STRAYS, and WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE) and our 4th (CLOSED FIST, OPEN HAND) is in progress!
www.blademaidens.com!
I didn't expect to close out May overdrafted. I was down to like $1 in my bank account and then DeleteMe took me to -$125 and counting. I emailed them but... sending me back money I don't have will get me to $0
Plz help me and/or hire me: ko-fi.com/stitchmediamix OR info@stitchmediamix.com
I believe in you! <3
if i was a bajillionaire, everyone eats. i pay ur rent. do whatever the fuck you want. i dont care.
buy shoe. get new video game. eat whole lasagna with ur bare hands.
that would be so joyful. it would be the coolest gift to know fuckloads of people are happy/safe because i barfed eddies. love it.
Media is supposedly so responsible for influencing our behavior and yet none of the sixteen thousand versions of A Christmas Carol* has kept the obscenely wealthy from being the fucking worst
*All of which I will watch every December because shut up that's why
"...realism is just one kind of way of writing fiction, but not necessarily the best."
Yay! Congrats to you that you will be able to start soon!
An organizer from this transgender safe house in Africa reached out to me on X.
They are in need of food vouchers to keep feeding transgender & queer victims who seek refuge. They do not accept money, vouchers only.
If you have the means, I urge you to help them out.
#AllBlackTransLivesMatter
A towering black silhouetted figure stands before a red dusk background, the point of her hat crossing the deep golden moon. Her hair fans out like wings, and her smile is illuminated the same gold as the moon, showing off teeth befitting a bear trap. Below her stands a human woman illuminated orange by the lantern she holds, her hair wild in the wind, a scarf snug around her neck. Tentacles emerge from the silhouetted figure, including several that approach the human woman, looking in the orange illumination like they are flames from a camp fire. Steel chains run around the rim of the cover art, along with silhouettes of jarred creature specimens, books, and at least one bear trap. At the center of the book it reads SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN. At the bottom the author is credited: JOHN WISWELL.
Time for a COVER REVEAL!
SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN out 4/2/24!
Shesheshen is a shapeshifting horror with a big problem: she's fallen for a human. She’s never connected with someone like she does with the kindly Homily…until she learns Homily is here to hunt her.
It seems like a good time to let people know about what we do, our resources, and how you can support us. Hi! We're Dream Foundry, a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization dedicated to providing community and support to creatives as they launch their careers in the speculative arts.
HI ADAM!
excerpt from tweet by @ArnallLabrador reads A person, an object, a random sandwich, a mood is not your spirit animal. Stop doing this. Please. It's been more than enough YEARS of Indigenous peoples telling you and educating you on how wrong this is for you all not to get it.
stop saying “spirit animal”
My island was there before 1492.
My ancestors were alive before 1492.
Decolonize your mind.
Decolonize your syllabus.
Decolonize your fiction.
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.
"This billion-dollar company is directly contributing to bigotry and censorship, even though it has always claimed its book fairs give children the freedom and power to read and buy what they’re interested in."
A flyer advertising four cats up for adoption. It reads adopt a friend rescued from a dangerous situation. Three eight week old kittens (2 tabbies and 1 long haired tortie), very affectionate, friendly, cuddly, and playful. One 1 year old tabby sibling, more shy, gentle, quiet, very sweet with the kittens. Striking orange eyes. All will be spayed/neutered, chipped, and vetted. All are good with children, other cats, and dogs. Email graciedrake512@gmail.com to apply or ask questions! The four kittens are pictured across the poster.
Austin folks! Do you need a new furry friend in your life? Four little kitties rescued by UT grad students need homes. Feel free to share, and maybe add a new member to your family! @fishtopher.bsky.social @jortsthecat.bsky.social
Happy Indigenous People's day, the crimes of the conquistadors were known and recorded not just by their victims but by their cultural and linguistic contemporaries.
Scholastic asks, "Do you want to opt out of 'diverse' books at your school's next book fair?" Your participation in white supremacy has never been easier, just uncheck the 'diverse' books box– poof, no problems. 🙄
Publishers cannot advocate for inclusivity and then pay authors through such a subdivided strategy that only people who are already wealthy can tolerate it, let alone live off it.
Infantalizing readers by refusing to engage in complicated issues is a show of bad craft and a sign of poor faith.
![Acquiring [diverse books] only to shove them into the slog with hundreds of [other titles], never giving them the chance to shine, is just tokenism under a different capitalist guise.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2g4rmhy2kovu3puybfvjiff/bafkreib3dw4utfcs6vlmm2cce3l55tunnmw5vxxb4k6m2unhhcgzevyisy)
Acquiring [diverse books] only to shove them into the slog with hundreds of [other titles], never giving them the chance to shine, is just tokenism under a different capitalist guise.
My cat wants you to buy a Make Bookselling Sustainable shirt in support of BINC!
new essay? new manifesto? here's 24 things publishing should change in 2024: tinyletter.com/misshelved/l...
If it ever gets too overwhelming to keep track of every individual banned author, please consider doing what you can to get involved in and support your public schools and public libraries. The broader stroke of this right-wing project is to undermine public trust in public institutions.
this is the end result of tokenization, of marketing certain books solely by the identities of the characters within the pages & not by merit of the story. so you can talk out of both sides of your mouth as a company, pretend to be progressive while caving to bigots. deeply shameful
Black background with snow falling and a blood splatter in the bottom left corner. Text reads: In the city of Alpinside, the day was fast drawing to a close. The air was cold enough to freeze, the sky coloured like an old bruise, threatening fresh snowiall at any moment, and the nearby mountains were a ghostly shadow on the horizon.
Black background with blood splatter on left side and the outline of a knife. Text reads: The Etherstone Project.
I got some wonderful feedback on Etherstone today and it made me feel quite emotional. I’m so excited to query this book.
#darkfantasy #fantasyauthor #fantasybooks #darkfantasybooks #fangasywriter #fantasynerd #fantasyreader #fsfwritersalliance #fantasywriterscommunity #fantasyreads
On a green and blue duotone background image of a crow on a branch, Tiffany Morris's Green Fuse Burning cover is on the left. Centred below the cover is Waubegeshig Rice's blurb for the book alongside the cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves and an author photo. The blurb reads: “Green Fuse Burning is an impressively vigorous fiction debut from a truly dynamic storyteller. Tiffany Morris has laid out a concise and creepy tale that mesmerizes as it weaves through several realms, from the tangible to the spiritual. I was captivated by the looming mystery and the striking imagery that carried me like a current to the story’s monumental resolution. This book is a must-read in new speculative fiction!”
Grateful to @waub.bsky.social for his glowing words about @tiffmorris.bsky.social's GREEN FUSE BURNING, which he calls "impressively vigorous" & "a must-read in new speculative fiction!"
Grab a ticket to next weekend's virtual launch with Suzan Palumbo: www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
#writingcommunity #worldbuilding #author #writer So it is sunday! Another time for a blogpost! This time, it is about how to make new kinds of queer instead of the BORING old ones that you humans have. @awinchell.bsky.social said it was kinda gay, which we both fully support! tinyurl.com/4amm68nx
Wishing you all a good night and letting you know that the fact that you keep moving forward despite what might set you back is amazing.
I'm proud of you. 💛
This is the perfect book for autumn 🏳️⚧️🎃. You should freaking read it if you didn't already. I wanted to draw a darker cover this month ✨ It's look rad if I can say so myself 😌
Cemetery Boys by @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social 👑
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(I am available for work if needed 😎)
Moodboard for @BaileyKnaub's YA Spooky Season WIP: 9 tiled images from top to bottom: a chalkboard with hundreds of tally marks on them, a string of jack-o-lanterns, hands reaching through cage bars, a spooky forest drenched in gold, a beaten and bloody boy strapped to a chair with the words "the boy who became a monster" written over him, a dark spellbook, a fist punching a mirror, a haunted graveyard, a boy drenched in blood smoking a cigarette with bloody knuckles.
🏳️🌈 Queer HAPPY DEATH DAY x BUZZFEED UNSOLVED
🎃Stuck in a Time Loop on Halloween
🪦 Secrets Buried Along with Bodies
🪄 Bi + Witch = Bitch-craft
💀Gothic Boarding School
🔪Academic Rivals-to-Lovers
🖤Found Coven aka Found Family but 🔮Witchy🔮
😈Corruption Arc
Happy Book Birthday to @theagwrites.bsky.social and The Hurricane Wars! I can't wait to get my hands on this awesome Filipino Romantasy with a light and dark enemies to lovers pairing I know I'm going to love.
#BookLook #filtheshelves #filipinoauthor #filipinofantasy
If your Banned Book Week observances are still focusing on Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mockingbird instead of the plethora of books by queer and BIPOC authors being actively banned RIGHT NOW, then you may want to ask yourself some questions about what you're actually trying to accomplish.
