iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

well i guess that’s why we never got a response and no action was taken when @okokno.bsky.social reported a HWA member for sexually harassing me cool cool cool

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WE’RE SMOKIN’ BANSHEE BOOGERS & NASHVILLE NIBBLERS

top of my feed when i opened this app for the first time in ages. 10/10 content, thank you

it makes going to irl spaces that much more important which becomes a pain when you are broke due to creative work not selling and have to travel to these places with inventory (that probs isn't going to sell) and do all this despite having chronic fatigue AND agoraphobia i picked the wrong career

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mine is quixotic and i refuse to apologize for that

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

yeah, makes me super tired because it feels so hopeless, constantly marketing and knowing that doesn't ensure you'll "make it" even if you bust ass hourly. but if you don't lay the foundation, there's nothing for lightning to strike if it's primed to happen

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Portals #1 opens to submissions on June 22nd at 12:01 am Eastern! Co-editors Jess and Angel are looking for speculative horror fiction and poetry by trans/nonbinary authors. GUIDELINES: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/... Find their wishlists below, plus more details in the quoted thread! (1/3)

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 10/06/2026

reminder that my queer cozy horror about a lonely autistic clockmaker, a forest spirit turning slowly into a beast, a deeply repressed disabled sapphic woman, and a slightly slutty very annoying lesbian releases July 21! #WriterShareWednesday bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Lord of the Wood

Check out The Lord of the Wood - <strong>The cozy fantasy of TJ Klune meets the creeping horror of T. Kingfisher in this magical novel about a man who enters a deadly enchanted forest expecting it to ...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'd like to share an essay written by my beloved cousin, @okokno.bsky.social who is a fantastic author of horror through the lens of a queer Black woman "Braiding A Rope From Hair" Part 1:

"Braiding A Rope From Hair," an essay by Donyae Coles, author of Bram Stoker award-nominated novel "Midnight Rooms"

(cw: abuse, housing crisis)

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"I have a book coming out and summer is difficult.

Midnight Rooms came out on July 2, 2024. I received an eviction notice the next day, the day of my actual book launch. So first thing in the morning on the day that I'm supposed to celebrate this achievement, I am losing my house.

I was in crisis the. Entire. Time."

"During the time I told stories about what was happening. I'm very good at telling a story, so I told a story about my life, what was happening to me and why it was happening. Some of that was very much out of anyone's control. His mother did die. Our landlord did sell the house.

But the real reason I was in the situation I was in was because I had an abusive husband who didn't want me to succeed. Because if I did well I would leave him.

And so, the crisis.

The endless crisis."

"And the reality. That I did not have any joy for my book release. There was no space for it. I could only survive. I could only focus on survival. I showed up at my (very few) book events, smiled, signed, went home back to survival. Back to figuring things out.

People asked me, a lot, if I was doing events. What my plans were and my plans were figuring out how to keep my kids off the street.

It has been two years."

"I am still healing from that. I am not In Crisis. Not like I was then, that constant dangling above the pit, the single strand of hair by which I keep hold threatening to break at every movement. This is not the fable of Damocles and his sword; there are no riches to be had.

If I fall it is forever.

It has been two years and I think I must be a fraud. That I should be over this, that I should be better. That my life should be as though that time never happened. But it's not."

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it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

i haven't been on here for a hot minute. what did they do?

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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This Pride month don’t forget to BOOKMARK the cool book posts you see so you can grab them when you have the time/spoons/cash

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

anyone doing any itch bundles? kinda got lost in my brain for a while after itch banned e/rotica but whatever i can join would be helpful

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Sneaking this announcement out before the weekend: We are pleased to announce the ToC and share the cover for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025! www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...

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Cover Reveal & ToC: We're Here 2025 — neon hemlock

We’re delighted to announce, along with editor Bogi Takács and series editor Charles Payseur, the full table of contents for We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 : “Magical Girl A...

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we can pretend that is the case!

just realizing this said BREAD ABOUT TRANS MEN instead of “read” in the same post where i’m talking about gluten free muffins and i’m going to fucking scream lol

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i ate too many gluten free mini muffins, so I'm not very hype right now, but if anyone wants to bread about queer trans men, i have one in almost everything i write #ChaosChat jemzero.com

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HWS: Jax is shyly wearing a trans pin, Sei-vész is in latex accepting free condoms AFTA: Callum has never been to Pride. Jesse makes Bennett come with him. Cal stays home lol CGYH: Jericho & Harlan wear normal clothes but J buys H a huge rainbow fan AotR: PACK PARTY (biodegradable glitter only)

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all of my current books are placed in a contemporary setting, and all of them have the usual Pride events! #ChaosChat

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

all my characters are queer unless stated otherwise and even then that's iffy 🤔

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This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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| H • A • P | @kodasea.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

she's doing great i admire her

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Sketch commission for zoanthia

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 31/05/2026

So much of the pandemic was us finding out life actually could be easier and better and more accessible, and then watching them peel every scrap of that back out of our hands & lives, often for incoherent reasons. (return to office!)

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Lucky_Bun @luckybun.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

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Jo @service-worker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Here’s the thing, people are buying the same amount or less of everything as before, but it is costing them more than before because this administration has fucked up every single thing it touches. If you can’t understand that, you might be MAGA

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A chilling Lovecraftian horror story from the author of Midnight Rooms, in which a recently freed slave from America making a new life for herself in 1800 V...

If you're intrigued by the idea of a Lovecraftian horror in which a recently freed slave making a new life in 1800s Venice finds the mysterious plague that killed her former master may have followed her to Italy, and is now stalking the canals... you can preorder THE SUNKEN THE ADORED here!

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The Sunken, the Adored

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Donyae Coles Official: Instagram, Twitter | Linktree

If you were moved by this, I'd love if you would consider supporting my soul cousin, Donyae Coles, in escaping the crisis her ex-husband left her with. Donyae has three disabled children who she cares for with the support of her amazing community. you can find ways to help HERE: linktr.ee/okokno

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"Braiding A Rope From Hair" Part 2:

"I am not hanging over the pit. I am sitting back to the wall but I am still besides it, that pit. I am braiding my hair, the hair that kept me from falling, I am braiding the strands that have grown in these two years, I am braiding the pieces that fell out and scattered all around. I am making a rope, a bridge, a ladder, to get away from the pit.

It has been two years.

For far more time I lived with his abuse."

"I've talked about financial/emotional/mental things but there are far worse stories I've never spoken of. My nervous system is still activated when I have to hear his voice, when his name comes up. When I see photos of him.

The panic, the fear. The stab in the guts. My heart races, my face gets hot, my hands clammy. My god, let me die before I have to be in the same space, share the same air as him ever again.

Or give me claws & teeth. Turn me wild so I can return to him the ruin he gave me."

"My thoughts, my wishes, my curses, are all too beautiful for him. They are wasted on him. It is a joke of the universe that someone as insignificant and undeserving as him has scared me so much.

But he has. And it has been two years.

It takes a long time to come back from destruction. It takes a long time to braid a rope from your hair.

The book.

Midnight Rooms came out during a time of crisis."

"This summer, The Sunken The Adored releases. I would like to not be in crisis. And for that to be the case, I need help. I would like to not have to worry about the rent or losing my belongings in storage. I would like to be able to function and not beg the electric company to keep my shit on. I need help, I need support.

So, if you can, please help me enjoy my accomplishment.

Help me braid this rope."

Support a queer Black woman & horror author by tipping on ko-fi:

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