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Franklin Veaux

@franklinveaux.bsky.social
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Portland, Oregon. 📍 Part mad scientist, part gonzo journalist. Author, sex toy designer, abuse survivor. Co-author of the Passionate Pantheon novels: passionatepantheon.com

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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 3h
Working with my Talespinner on our hyperurban gangster noir. So far this has been a sprawling, messy, chaotic story with a zillion threads going in all directions, but we’re now 97,000 words in and every one of those threads is about to come together like clockwork. #AmWriting
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
MAGA: “Why do liberals always think they’re so smart? Why do liberals say that MAGA is dumb?” Also MAGA:
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thinking again about how to make party clothing that spontaneously falls off by remote control. A keyfob, a tiny radio receiver+battery, a modified model rocket igniter, and the flash cord used in stage magic tricks should do it. You’re at a party, your partner pushes a button…
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Y’know, I bet the Venn diagram of “people who believe Trump will give them $5,000 if the Republicans win the midterms,” “people who think the cute server at the restaurant is totally hitting on them,” and “people who think men and women can’t be friends” is basically a circle.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Went to a pub last night with a lovely woman I met at a writers group. On the way home, she asked, “do you think you have the same moral obligations to a stranger halfway around the world as to someone right in front of you?” That started a conversation so lively…
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Facebook has inexplicably started flooding my feed with videos of people’s pet cockatoos and I can’t even. Sharing a home with a cockatoo seems like sharing a home with a very smart and very loud toddler who can fly and defeat almost any lock, and has an impulse control disorder.
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Zach the Soulstealer @zachthenarratorguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@calamityjane516.bsky.social Tom and Jerry would NEVER vote for this shit. No one who danced with Gene Kelly AND swam with Esther Williams could be that uncool.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If this were political satire, noboy would believe it.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Many years ago, I dated someone who supported the lesser Bush. I thought he was the least qualified, most crass person I could ever imagine rising to the White House. How naive I was back in those simpler, more innocent days. Oh, to live in the folly of youth.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New on the Passionate Pantheon blog: Blessings in the City. The residents of our far-future, post-scarcity society novels make frequent use of Blessings that modify their perceptions and subjective experience. These aren’t drugs…so what are they? blog.passionatepantheon.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Blessings as a Tool of Connection – Thinky geeky kinky queer erotica
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You might be having a bad day, but are you having an “accidentally shipped 700 pounds of cocaine to the wrong address” day? theprovince.com/news/record-...
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Cocaine shipment mistakenly arrives at Vancouver business
$5.8 million worth of cocaine arrived in Vancouver via Honduras, Jamaica and Montreal
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I love having lovers who have knowledge and skills I don’t. That’s it. That’s the whole post.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MAGA: “Trump is not a totalitarian dictator! Stop saying Trump is a totalitarian dictator!” Trump: *launches official Trump TV station that only broadcasts what he approves* MAGA: “See? That’s totally not a thing authoritarian leaders do!!!”
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
TFW an “article writer” emails my More Than Two address to say she likes my essay on how to keep pets safe and would I be open to a paid collaboration? The fact that she’s using a name from a character on a TV show called Homeland, but the email IP address is in India, is icing.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
EVERYONE CLAP I JUST CLOSED OVER 100 BROWSER TABS! For the first time in more than three years, my “Window” menu fits entirely on my screen without scrolling. I…might have a problem.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Temperance Engine, the new book by Eunice Hung and yours truly, is on Amazon for preorder! It’s the most utterly bizarre steampunk kinky erotica you’ve ever read. It features steam powered fucking machines and a mad doctor hellbent on eradicating the scourge of nymphomania.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I firmly believe that a lot of transphobes are sexually insecure dudes terrified of being attracted to someone who once had a penis, a ton of antivaxxers are people terrified of needles, and a lot of anti-maskers are simply embarrassed about wearing masks.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Noted without comment: Scale.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hot take: Christianity exists on a continuum from Dolly Parton Christians to David Duke Christians. The world needs more Dolly Parton Christians. In the US, the David Duke Christians have successfully taken control of the Christian brand.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Authors/editors/publishers! Got a batch of ISBNs from Bowker. Used one for a book. Amazon and Ingram bounced it claiming the ISBN had been used for another book (I checked, it hadn’t). Anyone ever see this before? Any solution other than using a different ISBN?
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s 1:30 AM. I should be in bed, but I’ve been working on the sequel to London Under Veil all night and the words are just pouring forth, so I’m still hammering away. #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Erotica gives people unrealistic ideas about sex and relationships.” Star Trek gives people unrealistic ideas about people coming together like mature adults to solve problems. Fiction is make-believe, you wall-mounted wankbangle.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Blog post: A tutorial on how to spot romance scammers. Adapted from a Quora answer, this lengthy how-to will help prevent you (and those around you) from being burned by romance scams. blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/09/tuto...
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Tutorial: How to Spot Romance Scammers - Franklin Veaux's Journal
Image: minervastock on Depositphotos A short while back, I wrote an answer on Quora, the Q&A site, about how to spot romance scammers, the sourge of the internet. Briefly: Romance scammers are people,...
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One thing that always blows my mind: developers who don’t really believe their products will ever become successful. They test only on tiny data sets because deep down, they don’t think people will seriously use their products. 1/4
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Welp, it’s gonna be one of those days. The More Than Two site is currently under heavy, sustained attack. The attacks started at around noon, and are currently coming in at the rate of about one every three and a half seconds. The site may be slow to load for a while.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Went to an author and publisher meetup last week, where I was told point-blank that literary fiction is basically an impossible sell right now. My Talespinner and I spent the afternoon re-writing our query for Spin as low fantasy rather than a magical realism literary novel. We’ll see if that helps!
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One raspberry jelly donut is the correct number of raspberry jelly donuts. Two raspberry jelly donuts are too many raspberry jelly donuts. Three raspberry jelly donuts are a ruination of raspberry jelly donuts. In unrelated news, my tummy hurts.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Had a marvelous coffee date with a lovely woman who asked me out, and discovered she’s the only other person I’ve ever met who also lost her virginity in a threesome. We had an absolutely delightful time, and left with the mutual desire to see each other again.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Blog post: Writer beware: If you want to be a published author, be aware of the cloud of parasites, scammers, and unscrupulous “publishers” surrounding the industry like a cloud of bloodsucking insects. Here are some things to watch for. blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/09/writ...
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Writers Beware: Scam scam scammity scam - Franklin Veaux's Journal
The world is filled with people who want to be writers. The world is even more filled with people who don’t want to be writers but want to have written a book, which isn’t the same thing, though that’...
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Blog post: Scaling the Glass Mountain: Masterful liars can lie without uttering a single technical falsehood. This form of deception is called “paltering,” and it reveals itself like a linguistic glass mountain. blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/09/scal...
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Scaling the Glass Mountain - Franklin Veaux's Journal
I’ve been spending some time lately thinking about what I’m calling “glass mountain theory.” Most people like to think of themselves as honest. Most people don’t like to lie directly, even when they w...
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Went out for a walk. Came home to find this by my door. I have not even the tiniest speck of an iota of a shred of a fraction of a clue wtf this is about. Nor do I recognize the handwriting. 🤷‍♂️
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I will not stop using the em-dash simply because people with a sixth-grade education think that only AI chatbots use em-dashes. I refuse to compromise proper grammar, syntax, and punctuation to appease people who can’t write and can’t spot AI writing. I will die on this hill.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Back in the mid-90s, I ran a hard SF tabletop role-playing game for six years. Players had a “terminal,” a networked device with access to an always-on global information network that could also access databases and run software. Had a huge fight with one of my players…
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Writing a story about an archaeologist possessed by the spirit of a Hittite priestess who inspires her to seduce her grad student, then the grad student gets her Ph.D. My fave part is they call each other “Dr. Sands” and “Dr. Davis” while doing the FILTHIEST things to each other.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Got a very angry email from my “BDSM for Nice Guys” page, typical sex-negative “all BDSM is abuse, all guys into kink are rapists” stuff. The woman who sent it said if women were into BDSM, why don’t you have a BDSM for nice girls page? 1/2
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Couple days ago, I got an email from Sync saying my Sync account had been improperly accessed (confirmed, not a phish). That evening I tried to log on to WhatsApp and my phone number on the account had been changed. Maybe unconnected, but it’s hard not to take it personally.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The dragon swallows the moon. Soon chaos magic will spread across the land, and the doorway will open once more. Anyone got popcorn?
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m querying a nonfiction book on social justice. Once it’s done and out the door, I’m considering writing a book about using the internet safely: how to spot romance scams and 419 fraud and pig butchering scams, how trolls manipulate you, etc. Not sure if it’d find a market tho.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Aaah fuck. Came home to find my RAID NAS in a critical state. And hard drive prices are utterly insane rn.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
TFW writing a porn story leads you to learning a LOT about Hittite architecture.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Holy hell, y’all, I just sat down and banged out 2,173 words on this novel in two hours without stopping. Our protagonist is about to be well and truly In The Shit. #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’m sitting in a coffee shop in downtown Portland writing. A woman just walked down the street carrying an antique SPARCstation-20, an old-school Sun workstation, with a carnation on top of it, and you know, that’s only, like, the fifth or sixth oddest thing I’ve seen this week.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
After an epic 3-hour chat, my Talespinner and I hashed out the rest of our novel. Our protagonist is about to end up with a concussion and sepsis while being hunted by police, internal security, a corrupt politician, and an assassin from her own organized crime kongsi. #AmWriting
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Seen on a walk in downtown Portland, randomly sitting on the sidewalk.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Blog post: AI Enshittification Comes Home: Got a hard drive that’s failed under warranty? Good luck getting it replaced. Vendors like GoHardDrive are refusing to honor warranties as they grab cash in the AI price gouging boom. blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/08/ai-e...
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AI Enshittification Comes Home - Franklin Veaux's Journal
Okay, so, this is not going to be a rant about how terrible AI art is, or how LLMs have stolen all our creative output (though I’m still waiting for thousands of dollars from the Anthropic settlement,...
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hot take: Buttons and controls in software UIs that do something different if you press and hold than they do on a quick press are intrinsically terrible. This is a catastrophic UI fail that hides functionality and inhibits discoverability. I will die on this hill.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My co-author and I are doing new author photos for our books, which will be released by a new publisher soon. Somehow, she always looks suave, sexy, charming, cultured, and gorgeous, whereas I look like I’m auditioning for a big-budget remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Blog post: Kink-shaming and policing the boundaries of acceptability: In which I rant about how purity culture has created an environment where safe, sane kink between consenting adults is now policed (with plenty of gaslighting) within the BDSM scene. blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/08/kink...
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Kink-shaming and policing the boundaries of acceptability - Franklin Veaux's Journal
Image: Nina Hill Okay, hold onto your hat, because ima get a bit ranty. There’s a thing I’m seeing in the kink scene these days that’s making me a bit mental. Specifically, I’m seeing a shift away fro...
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Blog post: I have stories in an upcoming erotica anthology due out next month. If you’re a fan of complex erotica with deep characters, sophisticated relationships, and more than a pinch of the weird, check it out! Pre-orders are open! blog.franklinveaux.com/2026/07/9516/
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Franklin Veaux @franklinveaux.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The brain weasels are in a frenzy today! In the last two hours, I banged out 2,429 words, spread across three novels. Gonna make dinner and bang out some more. #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction
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