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Aud Connelly: transcribing #Dogwood3 (69.6/95k) @audconnelly.bsky.social · 7h

#Dogwood1 #Wipwnips because the book is up for preorders 🥰

Owen set Frankenstein aside and tried to rub some feeling back into his ankle. His foot tingled unpleasantly in his shoe. Though he never heard Wesley turn, he could feel those keen eyes on him, could remember the impatience shadowed by something almost like desire. What is the nature of your injury? Freak.
“It’s old,” Owen said now, on that narrow strip of grass between the student center and the cornfield. “It happened a long time ago.”
“You were a child,” Wesley said, having evidently run the math of an old wound on a young man. “And the wolf who stole you…”
“She didn’t steal me. She saved me.” Nervous hands wrapped a bootlace around his ankle and pulled it tight.
“Saved you for what?”
Owen started. “What do you mean?”
“For what purpose is your guardian saving you?”

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just nine months ago we weren't sure if I'd make it. In that sickness, I feared I'd completely lost the writing spark. Well, I lived. And this new thing I'm working on is over 70,000 words. I love these characters and I can't wait for their next mistakes.

The stats for a Scrivener document, including that the document is currently 71,265 words long.

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Enjoy spooky season, folks! Dropping in before all the fun new October games begin tomorrow to give you advance notice that #Novmemeber will be back again this year. There'll be a mix of returning prompts (with new memes!) and some fun new stuff. I'll ping y'all again at the end of the month! xo👻

The prompt list for #Novmemeber 2026, but the prompts have been obscured by a spooky fog until the event gets closer. For now, a skeleton is sitting on a bench and "PATIENTLY WAITING."

#Novmemeber
Hosted by @sagetgreene.bsky.social

The corners of the graphic have colorful fall leaves (red, orange, yellow) and a silly face emoji with tongue sticking out.

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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aud is an excellent writer and I've been excitedly looking forward to her Dogwood Chronicles for some time now!

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Roan | S&T Rewrite: 138.2/145k @faindriart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OOO YOU WANNA READ THE FUCKED UP POLYAMORY SO BAD OOOOO

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Jae Koyanagi @jaekoyanagi.com · 29/09/2026

I've been keeping up with Aud's posting about this series and am ridiculously excited. She does some fantastic things with character and relationship in her work. Check it out!!

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Y'all this book is absolutely packed with: eerie, otherworldly beauty; deeply traumatized characters behaving badly (GET UR IMPERFECT VICTIMS HERE); bleak and brilliant humor; and intimacy gone wrong, right, and to other locations that defy easy description. Buckle in and SMASH THE LINK

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's the second-best time of year to read this gorgeous funny devastating queer horror and if you haven't YOU SHOULD

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is part of what I'm referring to with many people demanding stories that reassure them they're a good person. They want the moral instruction because otherwise, rather than processing the reading experience, there's a thrum of "am I bad? am I bad? what if someone finds out I'm bad?"

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stories about abuse are allowed to exist without reducing themselves to moral instruction. i think sometimes when people complain about the “romanticization” of abuse, what they're actually objecting to isn't necessarily the way abuse is being represented, but the fact that the representation doesn't provide them with constant moral reassurance. like, there is a difference between “this story frames abuse as desirable or inherently romantic” and “this story depicts abuse in an erotic/ambiguous/complicated way and doesn't repeatedly tell me that abuse is bad, therefore the depiction itself is irresponsible.”

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the kind of review I’ve always dreamed of getting. I’m over the moon. Thank you so much! 📚💙

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A high Sunday review: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ZAK SUFFERING BUT ENDURING! MAX GAINING FLUENCY WITH HIS POWER! [REDACTED SHRIEKING!!!] A BOUNTY OF NARRATIVE RESONANCE there's been lots of it lately but mmmm mmmm things I have been craving for many chapters tastes good.

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MuZe is in Draft Hell @muzetrigger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I promise I am a normal person who can be trusted to write book reviews (even if it takes me a year to do so) Now go buy Name Her Holy by @clericofthevoid.bsky.social the-hallowed.carrd.co

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oh hey look tomorrow is mongolian courier rider game pronouns day, for all who celebrate

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's #SapphicSeptember! I'm giving a rec for every day until the end of September! Today, I'm recommending Name Her Holy by @clericofthevoid.bsky.social the-hallowed.carrd.co

Over a background of violets, Sapphic September - Recommendation of the Day!
Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 19/09/2026

We're now accepting entries into the SFINCS competition! Come enter your Spec-Fic novella! I'm a judge and I WANT TO READ SOME NOVELLAS. FEED ME

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A chronically-ill chosen one and a trans fem valkyrie team up to fight a dead cosmic god rising from its grave among the stars. Also it’s very gay 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫡 the-hallowed.carrd.co

the-hallowed.carrd.co

Name Her Holy

The Hallowed Series by Aubrey Ennis

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Alex, the Hero of Write @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Four women are intertwined across a surface world rebuilding after 300 years and the sky empire responsible for its destruction when the result of centuries of unfathomable greed comes home to roost. FROM UNDER A POISONED BOUGH serializing now!

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From Under A Poisoned Bough

[cover u/c] A sapphic epic fantasy serial Originally serialized August 7th, 2026 Originally published TBD Cover art by u/c Interior art used with permission from alderdoodle Chapter header art draw...

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fics I keep not finishing because they're too good too perfect too delicious and I end up saving it like a potion of maximum healing. be better than me and READ VAL SMUT

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's Sapphic September, and I would be remiss if I didn't promote my sapphic historical novels! THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is a sweet friends-to-lovers with two lesbian MCs (and some comphet), while THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY features bi queen Georgiana Darcy!

A graphic describing various aspects of the The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod. The background is a muted, gentle purple. Text banners read:

- sexy, wet Orpheic dreams
- Sapphic Austen continuation
- bitchy banter
-open door spice
- friends to lovers
- self-improvement (sort of)

"This is one of my favorites. I feel confident I will reread it 20 times" - quote from Heather Hogan.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Exciting news everyone... IT'S HERE!! 🥳 Took way too long, but #GodsOfAtalantis (book 1) is now available to buy as a physical book! 2 kids get chosen as the new gods. Sparks fly. Crystals go boom. If you like stuff like ATLA or FMA:B, this is for you 😁❤️ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-gods-o...

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J || Vampire Pyramid Scheme 🦇 🏳️‍⚧️ | ✨ Sleepiest Vamp🩸 @vampirepyramid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Found a BRIEF moment to escape my house and #BIPOCVampDay website and fundraiser crunch/prep to eat food and get some air. Be proud of me. Virtual schedule is LIVE!! vampirepyramidscheme.com/bipocvampday/schedule2026/

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 18/09/2026

This is a comb jelly — an elegant, voracious predator that lives in the deep sea, the cold poles and the warm tropics. The ribbonlike 𝘊𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘮 𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴, or Venus’ girdle, is one of the largest species. It grows up to 1.5 meters in length. www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-...

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sell your book in 5 words: transfemme Basilisk lured by Medusa

The paperback cover of The Scales of Seduction by Rien Gray.

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Jinti is Making Passive Notice Checks @jinti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

y'all should push for Universal Basic Income 'cuz artists that aren't stressin' over rent and groceries and taxes all the time WILL draw freakier, more unmarketable shit

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Meyerah, Annexed Aletheiophage @myrly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW CAT NEW CAT NEW CAT NEW CAT YAYAYAYAY

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Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇 “Fealty” WIP 17.5k/100k @theeldervampire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A dysphoric trans man finds himself befriending the beast wreaking havoc on his village. Never has he felt respected, nor safe, before meeting it, and the dangerous line he crosses doesn't deter him. It allures him. Beautiful, But Deadly - A Queer Monster Romance gt-anthony.itch.io/beautiful-bu...

Against a dark forest floor background, there is a book cover at the center of the image, a logline pitch at the top, and eight listed tropes bordering the cover. The text throughout the image is written in a pale pink font.

The cover art is for the book "Beautiful, But Deadly - A Novella by G.T. Anthony," in which the cover depicts two hands (one human, the other a beast with dark grey-brown fur), both taking hold of an oleander flower.

Top Logline:
"When a dysphoric farmer trapped in a miserable marriage decides to help the beast terrorising his village instead of harming it, he finds safety in the arms of something he had been taught to fear."

Tropes to the left of the cover, top to bottom:
- Monster Fucker Awakening
- Transmasc MC
- Hug the Beast, get a free transition!
- Touch EITHER of them and Die.

Tropes to the right of the cover, top to bottom:
- Folktale Atmosphere
- Slow Burn
- Beastly/Fae LI
- The Beast STAYS a Beast!

Bottom Caption: Available Now on Itchio

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Catching up and as promised those wards are FALLING! After last chapter's harrowing breaking of bonds, touching reintroductions, and worrying realizations, this chapter contains DEEPLY SATISFYING COMEUPPANCE and a gorgeous transformation of a once-bound being (plus some RUDE CHARACTER ENDANGERMENT😭)

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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Y'all go read this!! @coricatchthorne.bsky.social and @ricoreachthorne.bsky.social are doing something cool

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Like any of these things? 🤔 ✨lighter fantasy ⚖️political intrigue 🧑‍🤝‍🧑ensemble cast 🔥fast-burn 🕯️slow-burn 🏳️‍🌈queer stuff 🗣️communication 🫂family dynamics 😳yearning Then check out TOUCHED! 💕 Itch: sagetgreene.itch.io/touched-blac... Kofi: ko-fi.com/s/fad8961eee Kobo/Zon: books2read.com/Touched-B 🌈📚 🌈✒️ 💙📚

The book covers for Touched: Black and Pink Editions by Sage T. Greene, surrounded by reader feedback.

Readers are saying...
"This is so soft! (cry emoji)"
"A fun, sweet story."
"Delightful prose that is elevated yet accessible."
"The smooching scenes in this book are soooo good."
"Still riding my cozy fantasy romance high from yesterday."
"A relaxing read with an engaging pace."
"The fantasy elements are present but not overwhelming, the descriptions and worldbuilding don't overstay their welcome, and I was actually rooting for the various couples."
"An enjoyable weekend read!"
"Tender, but passionate."

The cover for Touched is a bunch of flowers (roses and peonies) with swirly, romantic text. The background of this graphic is a field of lavender.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026

NEW: One of the largest #NASAWebb images released to date reveals a sweeping view of nearby star forming region IC 348, spanning a whopping 31,000 by 38,000 pixels! Look closely, there’s something to discover in every corner of this stellar nursery: news.stsci.edu/4hgxpnY

A star-forming region. The left two thirds is blanketed in thick clouds of green and yellow gas and dust that form swirling patterns. Some of the gas is spread into thin, thread-like wisps. The right third shows a black background speckled with stars and multi-colored dots that are distant galaxies. Bright stars are scattered throughout the clouds, with the densest cluster situated in the center. Each is crowned with six long spikes and two shorter spikes created by the optics of the telescope’s mirrors. In the upper right, a couple of hidden stars blast out long, glowing jets of material that glow in blue.

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New followers hello and welcome! My posting frequency has been highly irregular for a while due to PaidWork busy times, but I continue to write away on my adult sci-fi serial, Europa University: Admissions, featuring an ensemble cast of kinky queers! More in my pinned: bsky.app/profile/cori...

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Roan | S&T Rewrite: 138.2/145k @faindriart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I made a starter pack for some trans/nonbinary writers who I think are Neat. If we are moots, and I didn't add you, feel free to lmk! This pack is for writers who mainly write original fic, though. (Fandom friends, you're on my general trans list!) go.bsky.app/H8e4DSB

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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For today's #WIPSnips, the backstory of the Vicomte de Tempname! Almost all of which is subject to change if I change my mind 😂 The most important thing is to give you a sense of what kind of guy this is.

They seemed to be endless, but o’er the many days he’d been stuck at Bertley Abbey when the downpours resumed and then had returned to check on Dragon, whom Alexander couldn’t bear to ride home in such muck, Alexander had yet to tire of them. In his fifty years, the vicomte seemed to have ventured every sort of venture there was: he had at eight saved Marie de Médicis by eating a sensitive letter, had at eighteen professed Catholicism at knifepoint in the dust-cloud of La Rochelle, had been five times imprisoned, had sixteen times fought in duels, had twice escaped assasination by the skin of his teeth, and had once held off a half-dozen highwaymen unarmed before joining them, losing two months to wine, and ultimately reforming the lot. He had fought alongside Turenne against the Habsburgs and then, in retrospect unwisely, thrown in with le Grand Condé during the Fronde; seven years in exile followed, five of which were spent on the other side of the Mediterranean, after he was captured off Barcelona by Barbary corsairs.

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo 😈🧄 @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Authors, to get some positives on our feeds, share an excerpt from a review of your book that you're proud of! For This Is How Immortals Die 🥰🔥: #WorldWithoutLove

"Lustful erotic scenes go hand in hand with sword fights; love and hate are muddled-up, mixed-up terms that mean so much more than they do in our world. Having been born and raised in that gruesome world, it isn’t too big a surprise that Carys turned out the way she did: deliciously vile, sarcastic, and irresistibly rude. Calling her morally grey doesn’t..."

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Scarlet Mitchell ⚒️ The Gerzean Blade out NOW!😍 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Authors, to get some positives on our feeds, share an excerpt from a review of your book that you're proud of! (My favorite thing about this one is the reader found Talia likeable, which was a huge fear of mine when putting her out there. Im so glad she found readers who like her🥰🥰🥰)

Excerpt of a 5 star review left on August 25th 2026:

Wonderfully paced mystery novel. Definitely has the kinds of twists, turns, and intrigue you crave out of a genre like this. Talia is an extremely likeable protagonist whose humanity shined throughout. I especially loved how *excerpt cut here*

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. "Virgil Mora burned in Hell. It was a pretty good job." #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

These are the final lines of a chapter towards the end of the book where Jayro and Anora, #AnnoyanceToLovers, are finally, finally realizing they might mean more to each other... as they dangle in the dark from a makeshift bridge on an icy alien planet. #WIPSnips CW: gambling reference

From Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel, a sci-fi romance by Ellie Rhymer
That look, more than blaster fire, more than a four hundred foot drop, more than dangling mid-air as wind screamed over the valley, made his blood run cold.
She was going to let go.
She was going to let go because she thought she was smarter than him, that it would save him.
“Anora,” he said. It was his turn to scold. “Don’t be such an ass.” There was a brief flicker of annoyance in her face. Good. Can’t argue with him from the bottom of the ravine.
“Don’t do that,” she said, teeth chattering.
“Do what?”
“That! Don’t try to make me mad.”
“Why not? It’s working.”
“Jay. I want you to listen. Whatever happens, this isn’t your fault.”
“No, you listen, Butterfly,” Jayro interrupted desperately, his arms trembling with the effort of holding them both up. “You’re trying to reason with me. The thing is, you just can’t reason with gamblers.”
The wind caught at them again and made the plank rock sickeningly.
“Sure, you can work out the odds,” he continued, trying to keep his voice even as he panted with exertion in the thin atmosphere, “you can do the math, and you can say the house always wins, but in the end, that’s not what gambling is about.”
“And just what is gambling about?”
“Getting lucky.”
And with that, a gust of wind roared through the ravine, picked up one end of the plank, and tipped them into the air.

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

From Never Leave the Galaxy Without My Love, WIP sequel to Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel:

Coria Laua of the House of Stardawn, firstborn daughter of Governor Laud Stardawn VI, the Imperial Governor of the Outer Colonies in Sector 12, first of her name and heir to the intergalactic Stardawn fortune, was currently being menaced by a beetle.

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo 😈🧄 @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. #AuthorSky #WriteSky #AmWriting This Is How Immortals Die: "Aphrodite's graceful smile threatened to shatter my heart into pieces." Garden of Rotten Roses: "Lady Hera’s gentle but firm hand guided me to the girl."

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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. "The muffled bass from the warehouse down the street thumps through the cool night air toward us, but it is a trivial murmur compared to the sweet symphony of a hundred hearts beating as one." #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Catching up and our bedraggled bisexual can't catch a break! From HORRIBLE HAND WOLVES into a GORE HAUNTED PUB, everything keeps getting worse as he literally falls apart... Until NEW FRIEND arrives :) then BOAT FRIEND :) :) then UNSETTLING GUARDIAN FRIENDS! :D maybe we'll be okay after all!

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this is the entire fucking mood

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Pamela Jeong 🫜💙🧡 @pamelajeong.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rare opportunity to post back-to-back, continuing snips! This bit comes right after the one I posted yesterday. Melody is trapped in conversation with a chatty stranger. 🪷 From my spec fic, ResortWIP. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying

“…and good lord, the flowers! I’ve never seen so many different kinds of lilies in my life, I swear. And the poppies! Never in my life have I seen poppies like these! Have you seen them? The color is just so delicate. I mean, I know ‘delicate’ describes constitution more than color, but you get my drift, don’t you? I mean, how many workers do you think they employ, just for the gardening, do you figure?” Daria squinted thoughtfully. “At least, what, a dozen, don’t you figure?”

Melody blinked at her—then realized that Daria had more than just stopped for breath and was actually awaiting her response. “At least,” she replied, smiling blandly and shuffling her feet.

She needed out. She no longer cared about devising an appropriate transition; it would simply have to be a hard cut instead of a fade. She could not carry on about the requisite workforce for the resort’s botanical upkeep any longer with this woman wearing a tank top that read SPIRITUAL GANGSTER, whose average words-per-minute had to rival even the most competent of court stenographers.

“Excuse me, I’m just gonna…” Melody lifted her glass to indicate she needed a top-off and began making her way back to the bar.

To her horror, Daria followed.

“I can’t imagine, I mean, I just can’t imagine all the work it takes. Have you been over to the big pool yet? Well, no wonder you can’t appreciate the topic fully, because my word. It is breathtaking. There’s a little garden island in the middle of the pool! It’s pristine, I tell you, just pristine. And on the end of the pool closest to the main building, they’ve got these trees—oh, gosh, what were they called again? I just asked one of the workers on my way over here, and now I’ve completely forgotten…”

That’s it, Melody decided. No matter what, she could not get a second drink. Even if she stayed she couldn’t get a second drink, because this conversation was surely going to kill her before she could.

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Since it's now #SapphicSeptember, I extended this sale for one more day - you can get an immediate bingo for the month with a single dollar purchase! riengray.itch.io/valerin-the-...

The prompts for Sapphic September 2026. Green hearts are placed over several of the prompts.

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Aud Connelly: transcribing #Dogwood3 (69.6/95k) @audconnelly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Aud's August Reads! I started the month with @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social 's gorgeous scifi 🦈 I also kept up with Sword of Shadows by @tearyskies.bsky.social and @desecratedivinity.bsky.social 🔐 AND i read Europa Act 3 by @coricatchthorne.bsky.social 😻 What a good month!🤤🍽️

Lady Susan and The Watsons by Jane Austen. (Sanditon was there too but I skipped it.)
That Which Feeds Us by Keala Kendall.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Feng Shui Modern by Cliff Tan.
Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler.
Bomb by Steve Sheinkin.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
Gliff by Ali Smith.
The Stars Will Be Our Ocean by Lizzie Blackwood.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 30/08/2026

#WIPSnips #WriteSky Kid-Aubergine (called Iom'ren here) just murdered a man and Shallot decided it was best to keep him safe rather than let him turn himself in or return home. Pic of Aubergine as a kid for reference, but this snippet is not as cozy as he is in the picture, lmao

Welcome to the Good Thyme Inn

Iom’ren, shivering in the wretched cold…
“I’m sorry,” he said before Shallot could interject. “I didn’t want to make things worse for you. I appreciate the kindness you’ve shown me, Madam, but I cannot allow myself to be caught by the authorities. I shall take my leave now.”
Shallot swung her arm toward him faster than she thought possible and grabbed his forearm.
“Nonsense. No one’s going to turn you in. And you’re not going back to wherever your sister is. I don’t know what your parents did to you or her, but you’re not going back.”
“Soup. They turned my brain into soup. And they killed her. They killed her just like I killed that man. It would only be right if I died now as payment for my sins. Then I can go to Spiritua and be with S’faira.”
“You’re not going anywhere. Your sister will get the help she needs from the Gods or shinigami, wherever her soul is. You must continue to live.”

A young Aubergine from the Good Thyme Inn books. A dark-skinned teenage boy sitting at a tavern table while eating grilled sliced aubergines. He has wings for ears, jewels embedded in his face, and has a bit of a mischievous look on his face. One arm is propped on the back of the chair.
Drawn by Claire Leslie

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The Literary Minds of J. B. Garner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jbgarnerwrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So... Years ago, I helped Kickstart a Filipino short film from @studioheartbreak.com, with the premise of sushi chef X siren yuri. It premiered last night. I loved it. I think you will, too! Remember to turn on English subtitles, unless you're fluent in Tagalog! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUa2...

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THE LOVERS

YouTube video by Studio Heartbreak

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