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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Honestly, I really liked that. Made me wonder if stances named after animals may have been derived from styles that came naturally to beast-born in works where they exist. 😁

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ironically just had a post crossing my feed yesterday about how they have web novels as well and was considering looking into it as a secondary place to host. And then this 😬

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Y'all are raising an amazing kid 💖

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This movie was an absolute staple of my childhood 😁 Glad you enjoyed it!

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Too many people assume that every protagonist is just a stand in for the author, and that their bad deeds are what the author thinks are good. Those people are wrong, and any attempt to appease them will not win them over. They don't want to be won over. They want to be angry and right.

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"Steve" @sssparkers.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

this feels like the crux of things, and I don't see it highlighted enough: being creative is fun! i want a machine that does my laundry so i can focus more on making art, not the other way around!!

quote from Seth Rogen: "The idea of a tool that makes me write less is not appealing to me, because I like writing”

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

**gently grabs your face** Listen, the world is full of so many horrors--things out of our direct control. We do what we can, as we can. But there's no magick button labeled Fix This Now. It's important to reach toward joy. Take your meds. Have a snack. Make plans. Laugh. Look at the damn moon.

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I continue to enjoy the long-used style of yours of illustrating mindscape events by shattering the actual comic panels and having characters interact with the layout 💖

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

All told, could be worse. Supportive friends and a snuggly cat do a lot to charge the battery to get to the next writing session. Dessert helps, too

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 26/03/2026

on this point I will not be subtle. JK Rowling is a bigot monster actively harming my community with the money from her work. Harry Potter is full of barely-veiled bigotry itself and is outclassed by so many other stories. including mine. I am confident my books are better than Joanne's.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

People are taking unusual measures to the thwart the scourge of AI

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Merc with a 🫦 in 🎃SpOoKy Mode🎃 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

this is the only thing i could think of, and then uhh my brain short-circuited for a bit, seems unrelated

Audra McDonald, Anne Hathaway, and Raúl Esparza Twelfth Night promo where Audra, holding the hilt of a rapier in one hand, lifts Anne’s chin to kiss her with the other hand, while Raúl leans his face on the other side of Anne as he grips the rapier’s point near his exposed chest.

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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The Trans Rights Readathon is just around the corner, and I'm so proud of this range?! We've got: + transfemme hybrid poetry + t4t sea fantasy + t4t cult decay + transfemme absurd + t4t gambling noir + transmasc roadtrip + gendermix flash fic + genderfluid neo-Dracula + fem transmasc picaresque

A grid of nine of our titles by authors who are trans, featuring trans characters. From the top left, to right, going down:
BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES, by Never Angeline North (transfemme experimental/hybrid poetry)
DEMON ENGINE by Marten Norr (high seas t4t dark fantasy)
CORRUPTED VESSELS by Briar Ripley Page (Southern Gothic decay lit)
LOVE/AGGRESSION by June Martin (transfemme absurd modern)
WAKE UP! by R Merey (t4t gambling noir)
MOST FAMOUS SHORT FILM OF ALL TIME by Tucker Lieberman, (transmasculine autofic(ish) philosophy)
SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT, by yves. (flash fic gender grab-bag)
DARKNESSES by Lachelle Seville (genderfluid sapphic Dracula)
H, by R Merey (fem transmasc sex work picaresque)

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Honestly super guilty of the first part, and started checking myself more in recent years. Got in a rut on pleasant sounds. ^^; Yet managed alright on the harder challenge, somehow. Thanks, brain?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/03/2026

I also recommend if possible to find whatever humor you can. Make fun of these people. Lampooning them doesn’t discount the seriousness of their actions or the destruction of their works - it undermines their power and status and names, and lightens the soul www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...

I know some of you might read this and say "these people can't be stupid! These people run companies! They make huge deals! They read all these books!" and my answer is that some of the stupidest people I've ever met have read more books than you or I will read in a lifetime. While they might be smart when it comes to corporate chess moves or saying "this product category should do this," none of these men - not Altman, Pichai or Nadella - actually has a hand in the design or creation of any of the things their companies make, and they never, ever have.
Regardless, I have a larger point: it's time to start mocking these people and tearing down their legends as geniuses of industry. They are not better than us, nor are they responsible for anything that their companies build other than the share price (which is a meaningless figure) and the accumulation of power and resources.
These men are neither smart nor intellectually superior, and it's time to start treating them as such.

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Preach. I hadn’t even had one until recently, but I much prefer a thick, juicy burger over them

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

With any luck, the current life stressors I have will at least pay off as being something I can channel into a stellar angst piece of fiction someday

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A little bummed I didn't make it into the place I submitted my short story to, but hey, first attempt and still proud of what I wrote. Time to give the story a once over and try again at another publication that fits. 💖

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🫀allez-gory🫀 @puddicure.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

if you havent heard of iheartsapphfic i should point your attention to their Book Finder, which allows you to search their database of sapphic books by genre, themes, character archetypes, sexual/gender identity, protagonist ethnicity, & book format iheartsapphfic.com/bookfinder/

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I Heart SapphFic BookFinder - Find Your Next Sapphic Fiction Read

Find your next sapphic fiction read! Search by genre, themes, character archetypes, and more to find the best lesbian, wlw, or sapphic books.

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🌈Zee Bee🦋 | Yuri Author📚 @onelayergirl.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It’s very unacceptable that Amazon can’t even give a good reason why this happened…🤬 Indie authors work extremely HARD! & having your hard work removed like this is RIDICULOUS😤 #yuri #lesfic #sapphicbooks #blackartist #comic #lesbiansky #webcomic #comicbooks #wlw #GL #sapphic #author #lesficauthor

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

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The New Fabio Is Claude

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

That's just tactical de-escalation 💅

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Slightly diminish a band: Nightrequest

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Floppy disks are too small for growing data collections and CD burners are still too expensive. Enter the Zip Disk and its 100 MB of glory Somewhere in my parents' belongings is one of these things with the cringiest Pokemon fanfiction my 10-year-old brain could write in WordPad.

The iomega Zip Drive and the thick, floppy disk-esque zip disk, which held 100 MB of data.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 21/12/2025

A very disjointed thread (I turned answers off because I'm on leave and would like to not fight forest fires in my mentions). On AI and translation and maybe more translation than AI, I guess.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 19/12/2025

Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2. www.sfwa.org/complete-neb... This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI

11 In order to be eligible for any award, the work must include at least one (1) credited writer.
Works that are wholly written using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.
Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and the nature of the technology’s use will be made clear to voters on the final ballot.

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max schwartz @mightyatom.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

beating a dead horse but part of what makes art both worthwhile to the creator of it and interesting to the beholder is that you can’t actually beam ideas from your head into exactly what you imagined that way when you make it yourself, and the left turns and fingerprints are all part of it

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

My mom even has a short Thomas the Tank Engine picture book I somehow made at 4 years old (what little is written or drawn was expounded upon by yapping), and I started taking part in story-writing contests starting in like 3rd grade

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I've always been fascinated with stories and imaginative worlds, and fixating on them sparked me to eventually write down my own. I need those ideas out of my head and onto a page or they'll consume all of my thoughts and drive me up a wall 😆

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Getting a story written to submit to a magazine was a super satisfying feeling, one I wish I had figuring my life out enough to make happen much sooner. But despite the life delay, getting to write alongside friends doing the same, beta reading for each other felt great. Need to do more of it. 😊

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AzulCrescent @azulcrescent.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Does anyone else get like this or is it just me lol

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

... huh. I have been more of a yapper since starting them. Though it also lines up with several other life changes so it's hard to say. 🤔

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

With the first part wrapped, I am going to be working on some smaller projects and short stories submissions before moving onto part two. Hopefully it won't be terribly long before I can return to them ❤️

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I'm pretty sure I learned about Van Canto through one of your posts and that was basically my reaction 😆

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

As someone that has found catharsis in writing, I feel this, and hope you can find a schedule that lets you take care of life's tasks and get to cartooning. You and your work have been a big part of my life for a long time and I'm cheering you on. 🎉

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Turns out a 12 hour flight where sleep is impossible is actually a great time to crank out a ton of words on the page, but sadly not a viable writing location on the regular. I need to find a nice cafe nearby that I can try to replicate the effect in

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Alexandra Raetz @alexandra-writes.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I had actually been looking up literary magazines that might fit the things I like to write, so this came at a perfect time! Can't wait to see all of the work going into this!

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