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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 50m

Against all logic and rationality, my wife is switching from Ubuntu to install Linux 95 on her new laptop because she actually WANTS to feel like she's dropped back to Windows 95. My wife is one weird woman.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 3h

#OctoberWorldbuilders The Empire is vast enough to have more than one desert. Catboy Yves is from an arctic desert called The Frosteds. People are generally pretty easy-going there to make up for the harsh environment and place a high value on crafts and the arts. (1/2)

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just learned an acquaintance quit my former employer via sticky note. Good for her! I used to love the place, but it's broken and still getting worse. I wouldn't wish working there on anyone I like at this point.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Dolly Parton Day

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

After running some panels, the vet doesn't think there's anything too dire wrong with the pooch. But he'll need extra attention and special food for a few days, which is directly at odds with the trip I'm supposed to have already left on...

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

The dog has stopped eating and grown lethergic. My wife is on the way to the vet with him. He may be constipated from the unauthorized consumption of half a lasanga a few days ago, but I'm worried he ate some of the foil covering it and has a blockage...

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would like to be less perpetually annoyed with myself.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apparently I was sleepy enough when I answered this to forget the name of the upcoming release. It's Winter's First Verse. Lol.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

#QueerPrompts What season does The First Verse of Winter take place in? If they were on Earth someone would actually argue autumn because the winter solstice is five days after it ends. But on Faereen that person would be called ridiculous. It's ski season, so I don't feel bad calling it winter.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

#QueerPrompts Almost all my characters are pan. The majority who aren't are ace or demi. It's a small minority and none of my leads to date who experience sexual attraction but only to a specific gender. (They call it being gender-selective.) This reflects the general population of my setting.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

My beloved wife has drawn me as if I were one of my characters! I present Andy-jaaj, elven storyteller, and eir zymra kit, Starburst.* Note how my glasses have been replaced with vision enhancement charms.

A light greyish elf with big green eyes and purple hair is nuzzled by a pink winged fantasy critter on eir shoulder

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

I spent last week ripping apart, reassembling, ripping apart again, and reassembling again (repeat) with the first chapter of Winter's First Verse. Most of that time was dedicated to the first page. It is safe to say I am now 100% sick of my opening content. Today I moved on to the second chapter.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

Apologies for the spontaneous ad. I wanted to replace my pinned post with my latest promo graphic. In other news, I'm still deep in what will probably be the last round of edits prior to proofing edits for Winter's First Verse. Then I have something exhausting and non-book-related next weekend.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Harmony of Falling Snow is a mostly-cozy #romantasy set in a #queernormative world featuring #polyamory, #pansexual and #demisexual leads, and positivity. Find information, purchase links, and the 1st 3 chapters at andybrokaw.com/harmony/ #Books #QueerBooks #QueerWriters #PolyamorousBooks

The cover of The Harmony of Falling Snow by Andy Brokaw, featuring a dragon on a mountain looking into snowfall, is surrounded by the words “Queernormative Polyamorous Romantasy; Contains tea, magic, and cute critters.; May lead to feelings of joy and coziness.; Warning: Promotes democracy, hockey, and true love.”

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Writing is part of my mental health care. When I don't give my imagination a healthy outlet, it does nasty things to me and my sense of reality.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

20yo Andy was already writing every day but had yet to even see enough snow to ski on. I think they'd be happy I'm still writing and astonished I'd learned to ski, let alone how to teach skiing. They'd say "Of course" about the 27.5 years of marriage and wonderful adult kid parts of my success.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Talvi's helping me edit today by making sure my lap doesn't get cold. So conscientious! It would be physically impossible for me to possibly love this little guy more than I do. #Cats #BlackCats

A black cat gazes adoringly up at his human

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Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My lavender plant SEEMED to have died in my big move, but I may have underestimated its resilience. Leo the Lavender might be a symbol of hope and resilience to us all. #hope #lavender #plantsky

Photo of an unhealthy, potted lavender plant, still with green leaves but with some dead parts near the base / roots

A lavender plant with dead leaves but a very tiny sprig of green coming up in the side of its pot

Photo of the same dead lavender plant from above and more visible, with its new spring of green growth to the side of the pot visible

Photo of the same lavender from above and closer, showing the original plant grey and dead but the green sprig in the side of the pot larger than before

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's Thursday, and you know what that means! Fairies!

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

My wife has applied several hours of documentaries about castles to my cruddy mood and I am slightly improved.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Seattle legislation not only added protections to the charter for polyamorous people but for nonbinary and asexual ones as well. I should be feeling loved. But I'm having a low self-esteem, nobody cares about me kind of evening regardless.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 15/09/2026

gotta say if you mess up so bad your own touring band quits on you, well, that's very funny and everybody should laugh at you

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters I only think of a few of my more villainous characters as truly punchable. However, I think it's also fair to say that ALL of my characters have moments where the reader would like to smack them up the side of the head. I certainly feel that way about all of them at times.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

🎉🥳🎉 Seattle just passed a measure adding polyamorous people as a protected class! I live outside of Seattle, but part of my polycule is inside city limits. And I feel this is a good step towards a statewide measure. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #polyamorous #polyamory #Seattle

theguardian.com

Seattle passes measure to protect non-monogamous people as protected class | Seattle | The Guardian

City council votes unanimously in favor of bill that also protects multigenerational households

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

#queerwriters I need to rewrite one more scene to fix replacing Ch 1. And then... More edits... I hesitate to put a target on them because I don't want to get into a situation where I'm rushing to meet a goal. And I wanted to design and order business cards, but I did that already!

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 14/09/2026

Breaking news: local lesbian willing to do murder if it will save her girlfriend.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

Behold! My dear wife did a chibi drawing of me with my darling kitties!

A chibi drawing of a pale, purple haired person in purple glasses hugging two majestic black cats

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

#Writing #Excerpt Vil bounced over to the railing to beam at his beloved, fully aware of looking goofy as sewage. “Good morning, Poppet.” Yuri’s responding grunt may have been a reflection of the sentiment. Or might have been a curse on Vil’s entire family. It was sorta hard to tell.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh... I shall have to look through this site tomorrow. I quite like playing tarot. (Anyone who only knows the deck from fortune telling is missing out.)

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 11/09/2026

Observation: Most of the time when people I know are gushing about how great a book is and I find it meh, it's a book about people doing stuff first and being people second. I prefer the other way around.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

Woohoo Seahawks! Made me nervous for a while there, boys... #Seahawks

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know loving football is controversial these days. At least in my circles. But the Seahawks kicking off will mark another summer I survived and I have to celebrate that. Things always get better for me after the NFL comes back. Yeah, part of that's simply autumn. But I DO love football. 🏈💚

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 08/09/2026

I didn't want to say anything publicly. I was hoping I could take care of this privately but my reputation is on the line and the longer I let this go, the worse it's going to be for me. I do not use genAI When I see it and I know it, I don't repost it. If I suspect something is AI, I just don't

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

#Queerwriters My goal this week is to finish this round of edits and start the next round. This round is about stronger sentences. Next round will be about trimming sections. I SHOULD have done that the other way around, but I'm over the halfway mark so it's a bit late to realize that.

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That Person You Read On Accident - Writing Comms Open @otakureview.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Still hurting a bit for money. Want to help? Consider commissioning me to review your favorite (or least favorite) anime or manga! For $25, I will watch/read whatever title you want and publish my thoughts. Check out the link below for samples of my work! www.patreon.com/collection/2...

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Reviews | Collection from L.B. Bryant | 14 posts | Patreon

Explore Reviews, a collection of 14 posts from L.B. Bryant. Get more from L.B. Bryant and join their community on Patreon.

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"If you’re looking to check registration, Vote.org is a people-powered non profit and does not request sensitive voter information or track users’ activities. Vote.gov...was cloned by the National Design Studio and moved under 47’s purview, potentially giving the White House access to voter data."

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🚨VoteSafe.org IS Elon Musk—and He’s Trying To Capture Your Sensitive Voter Data

No $1 Million Giveaways This Time: Musk Is Building Another Voter-Information-Harvesting Platform Like He Did With America PAC in 2024 to Rig the Election

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have 499 followers. Nice! I wonder who the 500th account to follow this mostly harmless, largely silly, noticeably queer writer and ski instructor will be...

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm happy it's raining again! But unhappy it's thundering, which has turned my wife's German Shepard into a quivering mound of terror. Poor guy...

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

The author of The Man Who Robbed a Bank with a Banana attempted to rob a bank with a banana. The things some people will do for publicity... I get it. It's hard to be noticed as an indie. But maybe try to keep your stunts legal? www.loweringthebar.net/2026/09/auth... #marketing #writers

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Author of “The Man Who Robbed a Bank With a Banana” Robs Bank With Banana – Lowering the Bar

The protagonist of his book had written a similar book, which I would not think about too hard if I were you.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

After 3 days off for POTS related reasons, I was repeatedly frustrated by interuptions today as I tried to edit. A lot of it is because B is on her 6th day of being ill, so I have to care for her and take care of her dog... I can't be mad at her for being sick, but am ready for her to be better.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 31/08/2026

I really enjoyed these. They're weird, but in the best ways.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 31/08/2026

I need to learn to be less ableist about my POTS flares. Knowing I was in one yesterday, I still pushed myself to go to a concert as planned. And my group had to leave early when I got too exhausted to communicate. I barely made it back to the car without fainting and puked from the exertion. #POTS

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 31/08/2026

A friend of mine was scared today by a scammer pretending to be with the local county Sheriff's dept claiming she failed to show for jury duty and would go to jail if she didn't immediately pay him $3k.* It's apparently a very common scam in Seattle right now. #KingCounty #Seattle #Scams

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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 29/08/2026

This post was brought to you in response to a reader comment on Winter's First Verse. I think I've done more to load reminders into Chap 1, but I'm still debating a brief summary of the first book. Winters is supposed to stand alone, but there's a LOT to piece together at the start.

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 29/08/2026

Readers of BlueSky! How do you feel about "Last Time in This Series..." prologues? Do you want to see more of them? Do you think they're a waste of time? Do you find them lazy? If you don't like them, will you just skip them or will it make you roll your eyes and toss the book? #BookSky

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Andy Brokaw 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤 @andy.northsky.social · 29/08/2026

I can be happy reading either, but the cozier a story is the more I prefer an accepting or outright queernormative setting.

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