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Khonri 🫜 @khonri.com · 29/09/2026

Because they don't have a lot of options as outlaws, Kallista and Geni like to retreat to Kallista's cabin (the biggest one, as pirate captain of the Paxos) and relish in some alone time 💜 It's like their own private world in there, where the worries outside can't touch them

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Mana and Mori have their favorite place being the third floor balcony outside their bedroom. It's covered just enough by an awning so they can enjoy spring and fall rains both. It's a cozy spot perfect for being able to curl up with a comforter and enjoy coffee watching the weather together. ☕✨

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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧙TIS TIME 🎃 Join us for #LGBTQWriteAThon October 1-31! Answer each day or just the days you like. Have fun & make friends while working on your WIP! Prompts repost daily to @queerwriters.bsky.social (follow & turn on notifications for reminders!)! @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writesky

#LGBTQWRITEATHON
Use the tag and follow the feed on Bluesky! Tag @lgbtqwriteathon in photos on Instagram!

1. Introduce yourself & goal
2. Introduce your WIP moodboard
3. Check in day
4. Line share — foreboding
5. Goals day
6. Bugbears/fears
7. Does your MC wear a mask?
8. Favorite outfit
9. Skeletons in the closet
10. Check in day
11. Line share — mysterious
12. Goals day
13. Share a treat
14. Ghouls/anxieties
15. Never has your MC ever...
16. Thing MC would protect with their life
17. Check in day
18. Line share — creepy
19. Goals day
20. Genre swap!
21. Monsters/antags
22. Tingler your title
23. MC's most embarrassing memory
24. Check in day
25. Line share — terror
26. Goals day
27. Favorite spooky pastime?
28. Favorite fantasy creature
29. Most haunting thing you've written/read?
30. Brain worms — writing songs
31. Was your month a treat or tricky?

Hosts:
Bluesky: @amaralynn, @rebeccafrostwrites.com
Instagram: @lgbtqwriteathon, @amaralynn, @krakengoddess

[Image description: fall decor including Jack o lanterns and bats on a soft orange background]

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#Septopolis I accept your GC rivalry @khonri.com And for sister city I choose you, @wizzardsupreme.bsky.social 's West Harewood, simply because I wanna see how whack it would be to watch humans vs. animals sports, but I reckon Belaqua would cheer on such an outsider team when watching their games

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Oh shit you guys, have you ever summoned the curb your enthusiasm theme on yourself as hard as I did? (Pictured: a snip from my blog post in July, foreshadowing my post this month)

(That does leave me wondering though… am I due for another humbling some time soon? Is it Dunning-Kruger effect all the way down? Only time will tell.)

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estroJenna Seven @jenna7.tgirl.gay · 29/09/2026

#WIPSnips "well" from The First Mate and the Dryad's Daughter 🦜 💚 🌴 currently first drafting

Iona's eyes flicked over Daphne's shoulder. Following her gaze, she saw it was those twins again, minding their own business. She turned back to Iona at the first mate's annoyed tongue click. "Don't look," she hissed, much too late, her shoulder hunched as if trying to hide behind Daphne.

"Would they give me up to the mages, do you think?"

Iona didn't meet her eyes. "I don't know them as well as I thought I did, let's just leave it at that."

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#AwesomeCharacters Both Kallista and Geni have a distortion in their self perception that needs addressing in A Prayer for the Pirate Queen. Along different lines for them each, it's self doubt. Kallista was raised to believe in the law, so now that she's an outlaw there's a major disconnect. 1/2

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 28/09/2026

#queerwriters goal share 🚀 got a deadline. Gotta work on my mainstream persona middle-grade novel. Means I have to shelve my pirate gals for the month 😭 but I'm trying to convince myself it will be worth it. 📰 a couple of bits of admin writing too

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How did I miss this yesterday?! Catching up now with a line from Darwin's Cliff. 🏷️ #QueerWriters (line share: still) #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky

IMAGE: A woman standing in a field, silhouetted against the sunset
TEXT: While I ate and smiled and talked, half of my soul was still tethered to an aching loss that never fully left me no matter what I did or who I was with.

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Septopolis Belaqua gets friendly treatment from all the nations of the Circle Sea as it's seen as a dream holiday destination and is useful for meeting up on as neutral ground by the various govts Gaelle and Tianzo, the 2 countries it borders, both like to claim it as spiritually/culturally theirs

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Please try to remember, the 1st of #Octember! We'll be hosting a ridiculous, nonsensical prompt game for October for drunken party game bullshit questions, and including various insane interludes of our skeletal host, Satchel Cumberland. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#Octember

A month long series of non-sensical
promps abou your characters and stories!

This is deliberately unplanned nonsense. Expect drunk party game questions about things like how your characters would take on Godzilla, what a monster would employ them for, what fae creatures would find them hot... Etc.

Hosted by
@zprospero.bsky.social & a talking skull

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estroJenna Seven @jenna7.tgirl.gay · 28/09/2026

#WIPSnips "prime" The sole usage (so far) in draft three of A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️ 💜 ⚓️

Both women concentrated on their magical castings: Daphne speaking some almost unrecognisable version of ancient Iunian, or possibly a language yet older, and thrusting her hands up at the burgeoning clouds in time with her rhythmic chanting; Geni waving her hands in a ritual blessing over the other woman's head. Kallista tore her eyes away from them and drew her cutlass. They would need defending. Daphne would become the prime target as soon as their enemies realised what she was capable of.

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estroJenna Seven @jenna7.tgirl.gay · 28/09/2026

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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters I appreciate how silly this is 😁 especially since Kallista basically shouted out "Geni is an apple turnover!" in my head when I read it 😂🤷‍♀️ I'm not going to argue with her. Geni took a little time to think it over, and what she told me is ... 🧵

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I have a heck of a lot of "turn" in just 3.5 chapters of 1661 already, but I decided to offer one that has the sense of transformation over time for #SundaySnips! This is Alexander's first meeting with his Destined Horse™️, who btw has a taste for flesh. They are perfect for each other.

His first impression was that this Mistral wouldn’t pass for Pegasus by any means. Alexander’s eye had been taught to see beauty in the arched neck and muscular shoulders of a Spanish horse above all others’ and in a Friesian’s second. Here, whale-eyed and tossing his head, was a homely little pony of fourteen hands, almost mulish in aspect, with a Roman nose, square body, and skinny legs. He had been born bay with three white feet, but at just shy of four had nearly finished turning dappled-grey, giving him in April the colour of a rose rolled in the dirt.

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#queerwriters line share "still" from The First Mate and the Dryad's Daughter 🦜 💚 🌴 currently first drafting

Daphne huffed, lowering her tired arms, unable to keep from smiling as the crew cheered and Paxos sailed clean through the gap between the warships. Though the clouds were dissipating, she could still feel their energy in every goosepimple on her back. Every buffet of wind in the sails was the breath in her lungs. She was power and potential, irrepresable, irresistible.

She turned to find Iona, and met her eyes. With all her will she sent the message through her glance alone: Tonight.

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Mel Waverly @melwaverly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Septopolis The sole law and enforcement of such, as well as defense of the tiny city state of Belaqua, comes from the mystery patron in the pleasure palace, and their functionaries down from there. This will never ever go wrong, I'm sure.

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#lesficfri ***Happy*** Happy belated birthday, Ocean! Shannon didn't know what kind of book she was reading on the bus! #QueerWriters #WritingPrompts #Shaqueline #SapphicWriters #WritingCommunity #sapphicauthors #WriteSky

“I know. Naïve.” She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. “Anyway, a woman spotted me reading it, and we ended up talking for an hour. Turns out, it wasn’t the book that caught her attention. It was the sticker. She was part of this group of women who used to rewrite the endings, then sneak into bookstores and swap them out. They’d leave these stickers on the front so other women could find them.”
Jacqueline’s eyebrows rose. “Do they still do this?”
“Not any more,” Shannon said. “She said her wife—she called her her wife anyway—writes her own books now.” Shannon debated her next words, then took a sip of wine, borrowing a little courage from it before continuing. “I guess I wanted you to have this book because I think everyone deserves a happily ever after.”

Mel Waverly - Wishing You Knew, chapter 29

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Mel Waverly @melwaverly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SapphicLineShare **atmosphere** I dag skal vi bruke et norske ord, Stemning. Today we're using a Norwegian word, stemning. In this scene, my book club lesbians are stuck in a closet during a police raid. #QueerWriters #WritingPrompts #FLBC #SapphicWriters #WritingCommunity #sapphicauthors #LesFic

“What are the police going on about?” Cèilidh asked. “They’re normally not quite so thorough.”
“Something about some smutty books?” Clara said. “Why are they here looking for books?”
Beverly and Cèilidh exchanged a tense glance.
“They’re looking for us, Bev,” Cèilidh whispered.
“Stop calling me Bev, and don’t you think I know that?” she whispered back. “How do they even know about us?”
“I think we should get out of here,” Cèilidh said quietly to Beverly. “We can worry about why later.”
Liv looked at Clara. “I think they have a veldig strange stemmning—uh, chemistry?”
Clara nodded.
“We don’t have chemistry,” they said over each other.
“Clearly not,” Clara drawled, rolling her eyes.
Mel Waverly - The First Lesbian Book Club, chapter 1

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Mel Waverly @melwaverly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SapphicMoon **a farmer** Shannon grew up on a farm, which is about the best I've got. #lesfic #Sapphic #Queerwriters #WritingCommunity #SapphicAuthors #SapphicWriters #Shaqueline

“I’m from near Peterborough. Lindsay, specifically.”
“I’ve been to Lindsay. Driven through, anyway,” Jacqueline said. “It’s beautiful in autumn.”
Shannon’s smile reached her eyes. “Yes, it is.”
“Do you miss it?”
Shannon shook her head. “No, I like Toronto. I spent most of my childhood wishing I lived in a bigger city instead of on a farm in the middle of nowhere.”
“You lived on a farm? I never would’ve guessed. You don’t seem like the type.”
The fact that Jacqueline had given her any thought at all sent a nervous thrill through Shannon.
“You’re right. I’m not.” She chuckled. “That’s why I’m in Toronto.”
Mel Waverly - Wishing You Knew, chapter 15

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 27/09/2026

Delay appears exactly once in Miles From Morning and I love this little snippet. Be careful with those mind-altering frequencies. You never know where you might end up...or where you might believe you've ended up. 🏷️ #WIPSnips (delay) #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky

IMAGE: A man wearing black streetwear and dark sunglasses stands in a corridor in a run-down building. The lighting is dramatic in shades of pink, purple and blue.

TEXT: I’m screaming from lungs that aren’t my lungs, still desperately reaching with hands that aren’t my hands for anything to delay the inevitable. In the slow motion seconds of descent, I still wish with the mind that isn’t my mind for something or someone to save me.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is one of my favorite Kena scenes. I haven't posted it in a while, and I was just thinking about it, so here ya go 😂 From GODS OF ATALANTIS Book 3. Sunshine Boys are hot 😎 Book 1 now available in paperback! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Kena dodged the attack, moving like lightning, and landed a hit on the side of Toctha’s head that sent him stumbling sideways. Mireia, who had of course trained right alongside Kena and knew his fighting capabilities inside and out, was well aware that he could have knocked Toctha unconscious in an instant if he’d chosen to. She also knew that if Toctha had any idea that Kena was deliberately holding back, he would have been even more furious.
Shaking his head, Toctha turned back to Kena and resumed an aggressive fighting stance, bracing to attack again.
“Really? You’re that determined to fight?” Kena sighed, slipping into an almost lazy defensive stance. “I was hoping that blow might have discouraged you.”
“A lucky hit!” Toctha growled, shaking his head and blinking again, still clearly a bit disoriented. “I’ll have you know I was trained by Master Jakuufet himself!”
“Who?” asked Kena.
“Of the Adza Muul Fraternity,” Mireia explained, wondering how she’d managed to remember such a useless fact.
“Adza Muul?” Kena made a face. “Well, that explains a lot.”
Seeing that Kena was distracted, Toctha attempted to charge at him again. But Kena only dodged him once more, easily evading his wide swing and catching him from underneath. An instant later Toctha was on his back in the dirt, panting and groaning and wondering what on earth had just happened.
“You left yourself open, friend,” Kena said, helpfully. “I understand, it’s easy to do. You wouldn’t believe how many times that’s happened to me.”

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Samantha Breaux is looking for ARC readers @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wren is not great with new people. From book 2 of my romantic fantasy series about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #SundaySnips #WritingCommunity #Writingprompts #Wrencer

“Wren, there’s something you should know–” Spencer’s eyes, the same slate gray as the swirling river water, flicked towards the travelers milling near the rest stop privies. “About the man in the coach.”

“Who? Captain floofy sleeves?” There were only two men sharing the carriage with them and Wren doubted Spencer was fretting over the mild mannered painter who could barely look her in the eye. “He’s a lech, but I handled it. If anyone asks, Molly and I have been madly in love for six months as of last Primaday.”

Wren tossed the words casually at the sergeant, a test to see if she’d back the cover story or balk at the lie. But Molly just grinned, mischief dancing brightly in her wheat-brown eyes. “Might come as a bit of a shock to my Fred, but I suppose what he doesn’t know won’t hurt him.”

Irritation prickled under Wren’s skin, but she bricked over the feeling with a placid smile. Sooner or later the woman would give her a reason not to like her. Everyone did, eventually. Well, everyone but Spencer. And Bruce was alright, she supposed. Elton was a good lad, too, if she were counting people who didn’t irritate her with their mere presence.

I am turning into an insufferable sop.

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I was in a bad mood but then I read some Robin Hobb and now I'm in a good mood. God damn that's some powerful stuff there.

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#SundaySnips "turn" Novice mage note to self: do not get distracted from the fight by the hot DPS from The First Mate and the Dryad's Daughter 🦜 💚 🌴 currently first drafting

It might have been a mistake, turning to look, because now she was stuck watching Iona. If Daphne had thought her fast in sparring, now was another magnitude of speed entirely. Where Iona stepped, death followed, swift, merciful in the efficiency, but cruel in the glee she voiced. Daphne's blood thrummed now with a different energy. She raised her arms again to call the storm, and found it sluggish now. At most, she'd get another strike out of it. The clouds' rage was dwindling, or her mood was misaligned with it; she couldn't say truly what was different now, for her lack of training, but her chant took on an edge of begging.

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Ok this is the closest I've got sorry 😅 #sapphicmoon snippet from The First Mate and the Dryad's Daughter 🦜 💚 🌴 currently first drafting

Not even a quarter of the way down the well-worn road, Daphne looked back over her shoulder and, without missing a beat, started jogging. "We might want to hurry things up!" she cried out, head down.

"What?" Iona spun around. More than seeing, it was the rustling and crashing in the jungle behind her that made her shoulder blades tense so hard they almost met. "To the Paxos!" she shouted, waving the other three ahead of her.

In the sea of treetops the way they had come, the head of a huge moving tree bobbed and flowed through the others like an angry commuter bustling through a crowded street, not caring who they budged up against or even knocked down. Leaves shook as if in a gale in its wake, and boughs and trunks complained with creaks and snaps.

Iona took off, not caring to see in any further detail.

The others had overtaken Daphne, who was waiting. Iona caught up in quick order, taking her by the hand. The party of five barreled down the road into the village, picking up stray farm-workers along the way as the people in the fields saw the oncoming fury of the dryads. If only they could make it to the village, perhaps they would turn back ...?

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Emil Bronze - Heart of Oak @tangurple.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#WIPSnips "delay" from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️ 💜 ⚓️ currently in third draft revisions

"I don't yet see why I am vital to this mission."

Kallista's lips pressed together before she spoke. "Because it's likely they've been tortured by our oh-so-benevolent Polis ... and by my old colleagues no less, since it's a naval prison. All those sons and daughters of Seraphinople, hmm?"

"Oh Saints. And I made you delay this rescue mission for my failed return." What horrors had those poor women been through in the last few days, and for Geni's sake? No wonder Iona had been angry.

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#PretendPanel 26 Always love doing these. I live for prompts, gives me something to do I’ve got my #BackerKit launching next month, so i’m trying to find new ways to promote and share it around www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

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