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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

ALIGNMENT FUN FACT: in 2017, when I was fresh off my own personal rock bottom, the Unicorn Frappuccino came out at Starbucks. That was the day that Jack B. Nimble, enchanter-turned-barista, was born. I wrote the scene he got arrested in Magic Beans that same day. 1/? #AMQUERYING #UNICORNFRAPPUCCINO

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

When in doubt, reread your favorite book. Here’s mine:

Cover of THE LAST SUN by KD Edwards. Read it!!!!

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My wife texted me that the Unicorn Frappuccino was back, only to immediately have to retract her news since it’s only at Coachella. This limited edition release drink inspired me so much in 2017 that I wrote a whole book about a magical barista called ALIGNMENT. I’m querying that story now. 1/?

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!!! Sending much love to my trans and non-binary siblings worldwide. Your bravery inspires me every day. You deserve peace and comfort and safety and love, and to live in a world where you don’t have to be brave at all.

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I know I’m querying a whole manuscript so getting rejections isn’t anything special, but I’m very excited for my future rejection from TBQ. I’m going to frame it. And heaven help all of you if my short story actually gets accepted. I will become a menace.

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Feeling the ruthless, diabolical, bloodthirsty joy of molding your inner world into shape, the arduous task of refining it over and over again, spinning straw into gold until your fingers are bloody and you are at last satisfied that it is finished. And a bonus fourth thing: knowing AI could never.

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Am queer, can confirm. Be proud, live más!

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Riley @riley.northsky.social · 24/02/2026

I know I yell about this a lot but I literally got the best opportunities of my life just from sharing my weird art online. You can, and should, try the things that you've wanted to do but didn't because there was a part of you that said, "what's the point?" Sometimes the point is the joy of it bro

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

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N.Y.C. Officials Reinstate Pride Flag at Stonewall After Federal Removal

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Can confirm: this is how ALIGNMENT got written. Except Jack is probably three or four things wrong with me 😅

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If you’re in the query trenches (or a writer at all) please read this wonderful post from Mick, one of the brilliant minds behind TBQ, which you should also be reading. Especially right now with all the atrocities going on, art made by humans is so important.

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Critical status update, y’all: Prince Crunchwrap Supreme and General Diablo are STILL IN THE RUNNING!!!! I am so stoked!!!! 2026 is the year of whimsy, so if you’re reading this, go write that insane thing! You, too, may one day be considered by one of the world’s foremost literary zines!

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KD Edwards @kdedwardsnc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

ALIGNMENT = THE LAST SUN x MAGIC BITES Come for the: 🗡️ Nefarious revenge plot 😝 smartass narrator 🏆 powerful artifacts 🩸 Illegal magic 💥 Epic battles Stay for the: 🩶 morally-gray necromancer ❤️‍🩹 second chance romance 🥰 2x the boyfriends 🌹 only one bed/shower/tomb #GhostPit #Q #A #U #F #LGBT

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

THE LAST SUN x FINDER When his past is resurrected, Jack, enchanter-turned-barista, has no choice: team up with his ex-best-friend-turned-parole officer and a single-dad necromancer to stop his ex’s demonic takeover of the Citadel before the eclipse ends, or die trying. #GhostPit #Q #A #U #F #LGBT

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

How to make ALIGNMENT: - 1 scrappy barista w/gift for enchanting - 2 old flames (1 MUST be evil) - 1 total solar eclipse - 2 forms of illegal magic - 1 pkg Sharpies Shake together w/ 2 large scoops of romance. Garnish with faerie dust. Makes 1 chance to save the world. #GhostPit #Q #A #U #F #LGBT

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

All Jack wanted was to live a quiet life as a barista, leaving his dark past behind. Now all he wants is to stop his ex’s plot to overthrow the magical government: a plot Jack gave his ex the power to achieve. Can Jack stop him? Or will he - and his allies - die trying? #DVPit #A #CF #DF #PR #LGBT

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

WANTED: Barista seeks help saving the world. Looking for: 1 (or 2) hot authority figure(s) w/heart of gold, ok w/blood, murder, trespassing, graffiti. Must love: saving the world, trashing the State Fair in epic magic battles, & making out in alleyways/mausoleums. #DVPit #A #CF #DF #PR #LGBT

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

When his past is resurrected, Jack B. Nimble, enchanter-turned-barista, has no choice: team up with his first-love-turned-parole officer & a hot single-dad necromancer to stop his ex from destroying the world with illegal magic before the eclipse ends, or die trying. #DVPit #A #CF #DF #PR #LGBT

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

How to make ALIGNMENT: - 1 scrappy barista w/gift for enchanting - 2 old flames (1 MUST be evil) - 1 total solar eclipse - 2 forms of illegal magic - 1 pkg Sharpies Shake together w/ 2 large scoops of romance. Garnish w/faerie dust. Makes 1 chance to save the world. #DVPit #A #CF #DF #PR #LGBT

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

MAGIC BITES + THE LAST SUN With the lives of two missing girls hanging in the balance, self-serving enchanter-turned-barista Jack Nimble is forced to ally with love interests both old and new to stop his megalomaniac ex-boyfriend’s demonic revolution - or die trying. #DVPit #A #CF #DF #PR #LGBT

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

For my last trick, here’s the Agent Guide for ALIGNMENT, my completed manuscript. Huge shoutout to the amazing people behind this event for putting it on! #QueerPit #A #UF

A photo collage style moodboard on a plum background. The photos include a purple Ferris wheel, green magic illuminating a hand, two hands brushing in black and white, a partial image of a young man’s face, a display of Sharpies for sale, a total solar eclipse, a silhouette of a house with a purple sky behind it, an ink stained page, and green ivy partially covering a window.
Below these images is white, sharpie-style text saying “Alignment by Lizzy S. Briggs”

$The Pitch: Jack B. Nimble is all-too-familiar with his ex’s plans for world domination. He was supposed to be at the center of it, serving as his right-hand alchemist. Instead, after a brutal reckoning, Jack has crawled out of rock bottom by keeping his head down and avoiding his dark past. Jack’s fragile present as a barista for a magical coffee shop cracks when his illegal secret menu leads to his arrest. It fractures when his former best friend, now a cop, offers to be his parole officer after years of estrangement. It shatters entirely when his ex, Hugo, puts his plans into motion, blowing up the Magisterium in pursuit of both vengeance on Jack and a mysterious artifact. Jack learns he isn’t his ex’s only victim when a handsome necromancer tracks him down, leveraging Jack’s past to secure his help in stopping Hugo’s plan to usher in his new, demonic world order. Can Jack face his past - and his truth - in time to save the world from being rewritten?$

Comps - Valiant by Holly Black, Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews, Finder by Emma Bull, The Last Sun by KD Edwards. Tropes - Childhood best friends to parolee/parole officer, magically bound together, only one bed/shower/mausoleum, second chance romance, actual love triangle, vengeful exes, queer AF. This text is surrounded by Polaroid-style photos of green flames, a coffee shop, a cathedral window covered in ivy, and a man’s hands in handcuffs

Favorite Quotes: “Magic gave us a second chance. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is selling something.” “It made sense he’d require a blood price for me to leave. I just hadn’t expected so much of it to be mine.” “When I was a kid, I used to pretend I could feel the warmth of my imaginary mother at my side, or the comforting weight of my invisible father’s hand on my shoulder. But I had neither, and those memories were stolen, phantoms borne of after-school specials, late-night sitcom reruns, and a desperate, aching hope that wouldn’t fucking die that one day, they’d come back for me. But I guess that’s what real faith is. Unkillable.” “Oh honey, you have no idea who I became without you.”

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

ALIGNMENT - come for the 🗡️ Nefarious revenge plot 🩸 Illegal magic 💥 Epic magic battles Stay for the 🩶 morally-gray necromancer ❤️‍🩹 second chance romance 🌹 alleyway/mausoleum makeouts #QueerPit #A #UF

A grid of nine photos, from left to right:
Top row: an eclipse in phases; text reading “Our almost will always haunt me”; all-black Converse high-tops.
Second row: a shot of healed scars on a man’s tanned back; a cathedral illuminated in red light; a house in front of a purple night sky with fairy lights in bare branches partially obscuring it.
Bottom row: a young man in a white t shirt channeling red light between his palms; a lilac-walled foyer with black and white marble checkerboard flooring; a crow looking down at a headstone it is perched on.

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I absolutely LOVE this premise!! I’m a [redacted] for second chance romances 😍😍😍

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

How to make ALIGNMENT: - 1 scrappy barista w/gift for enchanting - 2 old flames (1 MUST be evil) - 1 total solar eclipse - 2 forms of illegal magic - 1 pkg Sharpies Shake together with 2 large scoops of romance. Garnish with faerie dust. Makes 1 chance to save the world. #QueerPit #A #UF

Nine images in a grid, from left to right.
First row: black and white vintage coffee shop sign; half-shadowed image of a young man’s upper face with tan skin, tousled dark hair, and eyes downcast; a purple night sky with a silhouette of a house with one orange window partially obscured by a bare tree branch string with white fairy lights.
Second row: Photo of a hand curling around a bright green glowing orb; a color shot of a solar eclipse surrounded by clouds; a black and white photo of two hands, both male, one with fingers lightly brushing the back of the other hand.
Third row: a purple Ferris wheel at night; a wall of Sharpies for sale at a store; a photo of a broken cathedral window covered in green ivy.

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

THE LAST SUN x FINDER When his past is resurrected, Jack B. Nimble, enchanter-turned-barista, has no choice: team up with his ex-best-friend-turned-parole officer and a single-dad necromancer to stop his ex’s demonic takeover of the Citadel before the eclipse ends, or die trying. #QueerPit #A #UF

A moodboard of nine squares, from left to right:
First row - Black and white shot of cursive text on paper with a ballpoint pen; black and white shot of a hand holding a lit cigarette trailing smoke; black and white shot of a sign saying “coffee nap roasters”
Second row - black background with white lowercase arial text that reads “blah, blah, blah…shut up”; a half-shadowed colored shot of a tan-skinned young man’s upper face, eyes downcast and black hair tousled; a black background with blue smoke trails
Third row - a wall of sharpie packages on peg hooks in a store; an ivory background with gothic font text reading “maybe I’ve always been more comfortable in chaos”; a close up shot of a white page covered in black cursive writing partially obscured by a black ink splotch

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

MAGIC BITES + THE LAST SUN With the lives of two missing girls hanging in the balance, self-serving enchanter-turned-barista Jack Nimble is forced to ally with love interests new and old to stop his megalomaniac ex-boyfriend’s demonic revolution - or die trying. #BluePit📖 #LGBT #Q #A #F

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Enchanter/Barista seeks help saving the world. Looking for: authority figure w/heart of gold, ok w/blood, murder, and petty crimes. Must love: saving the world, trashing the State Fair in epic magic battles, & making out in alleyways/mausoleums. Must have car. #BluePit📖 #LGBT #Q #A #F

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Lauren | A Bee in the Bonnet @abeeinthebonnet.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

People are quick to pooh-pooh things like knitting and crochet and embroidery and quilting, but there's something a little rebellious about deliberately being inefficient when we're constantly bombarded with tips to optimize our personal output.

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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🧵You can help flood victims in Texas by donating to the organizations I've linked in replies. There may be red, blue, and purple states, but in this moment, these are children and families forever broken. I send my love, my honor and my faith in humanity to help hold these people together.

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This feels like the exact sort of sleazy corporate thing Magic Beans would perpetuate. Thx for inspiring me all those years ago with the Unicorn Frappuccino, but for this among many, MANY other reasons I will never go back. So glad their fictional counterpart gets demolished in ALIGNMENT.

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Strumie @astrumiel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

HAPPY SOLSTICE AND PRIDE MONTH - MAY I RECCOMEND YOU *THE TAROT SEQUENCE BY K.D. EDWARDS*?

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Bea @processpending.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Get your tickets now! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be caught up for the fourth book that releases soon. Perfect for Pride Month and Solstice!

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Another great shot of Chai, my sweet, unbothered king. Stress? He doesn’t know her. But if he did, he’d climb into her lap and purr.

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A much overdue kitty update: Cider has discovered rain also happens outside the office window; Chai is pursuing a career in cybersecurity, and Pumpkin got arrested for being too cute (aka is recovering from his neuter very well).

Cider, a long haired black cat, looks out a window at a rainy suburb

Chai, an orange and white tabby cat, glares up at the camera from the seat of a black and hot pink computer chair

Pumpkin, an orange tabby, is dressed in a baby pink kitty onesie and a “donut cone” shaped like an orange slice, inside a wire dog crate as he recovers post-neuter

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KD Edwards @kdedwardsnc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Public Zoom - Tarot Sequence Updates - This Saturday @ 12:30 www.patreon.com/posts/public...

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Adella Colvin @lolabeanyarnco.com · 29/04/2025

Tonight at 8pm ET, LolaBean Yarn Co. is returning to Wakanda. Black by popular demand, one of the most beloved and powerful collections we’ve ever created is making its triumphant return—this time with a little extra vibranium in the dye pots.

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This was SO FUN! Thank you both for sharing your time with us - if anyone out there is waiting to pull the trigger on membership for either (or both) of KD’s or Micah’s Patreons, let this be your sign to go for it!

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KD Edwards @kdedwardsnc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Mass Market Candy Day!

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

First sock done for my wife’s Valentine’s Day present!! I love the candy-hearts vibes of Beach Bum by Twisted Ambitions Yarn. Pattern is Tadpoles by Jenna Swanson (free on Ravelry, and my go-to sock pattern). I actually have it memorized after nearly 15 years of knitting socks!

A tableau of a hand-knitted cable sock in softly-speckled shades of gray, blue, lilac, and pink, surrounded by the tools of a knitter: balloon stitch markers, a tapestry needle, tiny scissors, circular knitting needles, and the origin cake of yarn the sock was made from on a white background

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hil @wanderinghil.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I've found things on here that weren't available on my local library's libby, and discovered a lot of books I probably wouldn't have heard of otherwise. Definitely worth grabbing a membership!

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Sara's Bookish Macarons (she/her) @sarasbookmacarons.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

And here are some more lovely books with queer rep and the bookish macarons I made for them 🥹🫶 I hope you like them as much as I do! #booksky

Top left is a miniature pumpkin, center/bottom left is the book Gideon the Ninth, on the right are black/orange and white Gideon the Ninth macarons

On the left is the book The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi and on the right are blue macarons decorated to look like the ocean, pirate ships, krakens etc.

On the left is the book Can't Spell Treason Without Tea and on the right are red and gold macarons with dragons, tea cups, swords, tea leaves etc.

In the center is the book A Psalm for the Wild Built on a wooden cutting board and the book is surrounded by green macarons decorated with robots, moss, mushrooms and tea.

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Britt | KnotBadBritt @knotbadbritt.com · 14/01/2025

The Black Fiber Folks Starter Pack and Feed is an ever-growing list of black crochet, knit, weaving, and yarn 🧶 creatives on bsky. You can easily follow everyone on the list or request to be added by replying to this post. go.bsky.app/MPqN7w5

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Lizzy S. Briggs @lizzybriggs.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Honestly as an author, this is THE DREAM (seriously though Sara your work is IMMACULATE)

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