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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It feels like a slippery slope to Hay's Code behavior and self-censorship because what if people are upset there's two people having sex or what if they objectify my characters. Our society is already weird about sex in opposite ways (we can't show it but how dare you not want it). 4/6

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Did you know that 7 out of the 10 stories in my new anthology China +100 @commapress.bsky.social are written by women, not to mention the other three female translators working with me on this collection, let's celebrate them all during Women In Translation Month! #books youtube.com/shorts/VSPq_...

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Happy Women In Translation Month!

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We fly home today, and as much fun as this trip west has been, I'm looking forward to my own bed, my own kitchen, delivery Peking duck, my little writing nook. I appreciate hospitality endlessly but there's something to be said for not living out of suitcases for 6 weeks straight.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes. Not so swyvinge evil.

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This Saturday I will be popping into the first public @duckprintspress.com panel on character building! We're now running panels through our public Discord server. We'll talk about building characters, useful resources, advice that works (or doesn't), & more! the Discord link: discord.gg/sUjggK7qKu

a gender-neutral person outline with a variety of icons around it, and the header: Character Building: a Duck Prints Press Panel; Saturday, August 15 at 3pm Eastern

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I finished off two short stories for Fandom Trumps Hate + a novel project chapter. My brain is feeling like goop; I think I overexercised it w/ the wordcount. Time to let it recover a little, especially since tomorrow is going to be me as 1 of 2 Mandarin interpreters at a 13-person function. Joy.

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There is an imminent pet death in my extended household, so today if you have pet pictures, I would very much like to see them. Selfishly, please give me some joy to offset the sorrow.

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I have been getting so little writing done this break, it's killing me. Where am I supposed to fit it in on what is proving to be a very active vacation? Argh! I think I've written all of 5k in the past month, missed some events & deadlines. We fly again tomorrow, too. I miss my writing time!

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This evening, I'm heading out to a fibercrafter night at a brewery an hour away. There is, apparently, a ferry involved on the route. If I can maybe make some knitting acquaintances, it'll be worth it, right? ... right?

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There's some of that in a free online tool with (last I checked) zero LLM bullshit, slickwrite.com. it does some of the syntactical measurements. I think Ellipsus' Ellipsus Plus might integrate some too but I'm not sure.

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Slick Write

Slick Write is a powerful, FREE application that makes it easy to check your writing for grammar errors, potential stylistic mistakes, and other features of interest. Take your writing to the next level.

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Allll the good reading, and then I have my LavenderCon haul from you too! The little chapbooks are lovely.

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Book mail at my mother's! @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social, @ceciliatan.com via @neonhemlock.bsky.social + another NH, @yiggybean.com delivery for my baihe!, @sandratayler.bsky.social, and one of the @duckprintspress.com anthos I'm in! SO HAPPY to finally have my hands on all these!

A horizontal stack of books: Beating Hearts and Battle Axes, The Mystery of the Bitten Peach, Shatter the Sun, At The World's Mercy vol 1 & 2, Structuring Life to Support Creativity, and Scholarly Pursuits.

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We'll be in again today, and if you are in the DC area, you should definitely stop by. LavenderCon has been great fun and you know you want to take home books (and stickers and zines and and and...)

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 25/07/2026

Happy Lavender Con weekend! If you're in the Washington DC metro area, come on out for lots of awesome queer book conning!

A table display with the Duck Prints Press banner on the front. There are books, stickers, pins, and much more visible.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you want to read a book and your library doesn’t have it, it is truly a massive favor to an author to request that the library acquire it. It really and truly is

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Waiting for the plane to DC! Tomorrow is going to be a lot of fun: seeing a long-distance writing and gaming friend, a museum, and also: birthday! And then Saturday is LavenderCon and @duckprintspress.com time! I am more than a little excited, mostly about the friend stuff, tbh.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/07/2026

(Me, learning that someone I thought was interesting and maybe even cool is anti-trans) Huh, well, that's that then (Drops the whole person into the bin)

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 23/07/2026

I do feel like publishers sometimes sneak under the radar a bit on this front. Like we all hear about Hollywood math and Music Industry Math, but every time I tell someone outside of the industry about basket accounting they act like I just killed a puppy in front of them.

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Saturday & Sunday are LavenderCon in Washington DC and I will - for once! - be there! I'll be floating around the con & helping periodically at the @duckprintspress.com booth when allowed! I'm looking forward to seeing people; if you're there and want to say hi, let me know!

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

live your life in such a way that when you go more people return to the things you did that mattered to them than the things you did that harmed them. a low bar rarely more dramatically expressed

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If you're at ReaderCon this weekend, so is @duckprintspress.com ! Swing by the booth, say hi, buy a book or zine or some stickers. We'll also be a LavenderCon in DC at the end of the month, and - for once! - I'll be there too, *not* just my stories!

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is why I add non-fiction into my TBR. The Towers of Bologna turned into the setting for a short story, a book on sumptuary laws and fashion into my sub to Neon Hemlock, and I'm reading a book on murder in Rome and getting ideas for something new. Shove them together, compost, and magic happens!

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Between the two of us, we'd have had a perfect day!

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yesterday was very very wet, but we went to Osaka Castle and tried to enjoy the gardens, regardless. People talk about the castle a lot but no one talks about how positively massive all the walls are. They were frankly some of the most impressive parts!

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thought of another fun exercise everyone can try: turn Bouba and Kiki (of the Bouba/Kiki Effect) into characters that fit your own tastes and interests

Characters Bouba and Kiki posing heroically. Bouba is round and soft and she wields a mace, and Kiki is sharp and angular and wields a sword.

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 02/07/2026

This is horrifying on several levels: a, that common writing techniques stolen by genAI are now all but *owned* by genAI; b, that scant evidence is enough for a checker to call it 100%; and c, that we're again granting a program better judgement that a human* *with training, anyway

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

real life ate my face and I haven't been on bluesky much, so of course I have to check today - and find out I missed all notifications about this, and everything! I'll keep my fingers crossed something like this happens again and I'm more attentive to social media then😅

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E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

...i feel like the wrong people are being laid off at videogame studios ALL I WANT IN LIFE ARE OVERCOMPLICATED DATING SIMS WHERE I OCCASIONALLY COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW BAD I AM AT FIGHTING it doesn't even have to be dragons

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🩸devil's minion pilled🩸 @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

⚔️🏳️‍🌈MY LIEGE: QUEER KNIGHTS IN LOVE by @novamali.bsky.social is live on kickstarter!🏳️‍🌈⚔️ ✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/nov... ✨

Sneak peek of an illustration. There are two main panels shaped like medieval pennant banners. The first shows a blonde haired man, a nobleman, looking upwards towards his knight. The second shows a dark haired man, a knight, with blood on his face. The nobleman is tenderly wiping the blood away with his token handkerchief. Surrounding these panels are borders of daisies, edelweiss flowers, stars, and a swan with a fox in a tender embrace.

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InterfaceLeader @interfaceleader.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Fandoms need diversity to be healthy. They need the rarepair monoshipper, the obsessive perfectionist dropping a 100k epic every 10 years, the crack writer turning out inspired derangement, the multishipper, the gen writer, the AU compulsive, the lore obsessed, the smut lover...

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I have been slacking on this - I would love the discord and the group DM (I'm UTC+8).

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm kind of baffled that THIS is the next step they decide to take, tbqh, rather than selective merge or offline work. I still can't accept one suggestion from an editor or beta, it's all or nothing, but now people can apparently see how much time and how many pauses I make? Really?

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What about parents? I cannot tell you the number of times I've been mid-flow and writing and then suddenly child. Or a phone call. Or someone knocks on my door. Or I need to answer a question for someone. Or I stand up to get a snack. Or I pause for a few minutes and noodle around, then write again.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 10/06/2026

THIS WHOLE FUCKING THREAD Look, my writing process is HIGHLY erratic. This is why I don't share WIP Snippets. I will go MONTHS with zero words, then squirt out 120,000 words in two months. I will write five words one day, then eight thousand the next. I have NO consistency. This does not mean AI!

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Chris Doty-Dunn @chrisdotydunn.com · 10/06/2026

A very stupid (complementary) take about a future influenced by GenAI. Enjoy!

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Had an absolutely amazing time working with them, absolutely would again. Fantastic people, SUCH fun stories, clear contract!

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 08/06/2026

Authors who were at the @sfwa.bsky.social Nebulas conference, and even those who were not, here's the Marketing & Promotion Bingo Card I created for the marketing workshop with @antheasharp.bsky.social K.M Herkes and Greg Kasavin! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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marketing & promo bingo card

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

nothing to incentivize cleaning panic for me like one of my kids asking if they can have a friend over.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

this is so real. like in writing, the reader has no idea how many layers of procrastination the author goes through.

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ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 @clairegregoryau.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I ALSO think if we want people to stick around and keep making stuff we could do with ten times fewer posts about how everyone... does this one thing badly/ there's not enough of/ why do we always x instead of y-- 🙃 Kills creativity to make people feel like they can't risk getting it 'wrong'.

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