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Roz 🏳️‍⚧️ @rosenkranz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

drop some knives 🔪🔪

an illustration of a scene from Gideon the Ninth, formatted like a comic page with three panels. in the first and largest panel, a giant monster made of bone takes up most of the space. it has a long spine and two tails which are separated into several smaller tentacle-like tails. it has four crab-like legs and a large human face with closed eyes and closed mouth. the floor underneath it is cracked. there's a large fountain in the middle of the room, overturned pieces of furniture, and broken, ivy-covered columns. in the corner of the panel there are tiny figures of Cytherea and Camilla. Cytherea is saying "you're a nice girl." in the second and third panels, there's a close-up on the two women, with Cytherea's hand wrapped around Cam's throat, and Camilla is holding a knife to Cytherea's throat. Cam is dressed in a grey vest and grey pants with a sheath clipped to her belt, she is covered in blood. Cytherea is wrapped in a white sheet. She is saying "I had a nice girl as a cavalier too... once. she died for me. what can you do?"

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

every time I open any social media app

Black and white still with the caption: What you're about to watch is a nightmare.

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Thea✨🌙 @theaologies.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 25/07/2026

People are reading my new book and that's always weird lol the author wishes to be perceived but also not perceived.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 24/02/2026

drink less water. clench your jaw. worsen your posture. this is the time of monsters

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They Call Me Doctor Mae @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I seriously thought it was a prank. Because we already know what happened to make him that way! Its the 2nd act of the book!

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Last call to snag these at three bucks on itch or on amazon! This weekend all of my books return to regular pricing.

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Hey all! I am officially hanging out my shingle for book layout and design work outside of my immediate if-you-know-you-know circle. I can't start work outside my current client portfolio until sometime in mid-August so I am canvassing for work that would start in MID-AUGUST OR LATER for now. ¹/

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Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · 10/07/2026

i love my artist friends and peers i love you and your art i love when you make art i love when you give yourself a break i love when you rest i love when you come back in love with making your art again

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A friend (didn’t know them at the time this happened) told me reading one of my stories gave them the words (non-binary) they needed to help understand their own identity, and courage to embrace their whole self. Everything is worth that one moment, that one click where someone found hope to *be*

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Merritt Daniel McDowell @mdmcd.com · 04/07/2026

A good evening with an old friend:

Extremely beat paperback stuffed with page tabs and pink post it notes

Attempting to close that book with so much paper in it

Why yes that extremely beat paperback is the one and only BRINGER OF THE SCOURGE with its heavy metal warrior princess and acid-green lettering

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Merritt Daniel McDowell @mdmcd.com · 04/07/2026

I may not have lived here the longest, cumulatively, but you could not scrub the western pennsylvania outta me with a bottle brush; it's etched on me like a mineral deposit from that un-fluoridated well water out in the woods

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

and so is the official paperback & ebook release of the meet-cute for my gay sword & sorcery dynamic duo Ilwyn & Vencario, in By Thieves-Light: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0H6...

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By Thieves-Light: A Romantic Sword & Sorcery Adventure

Amazon.com: By Thieves-Light: A Romantic Sword & Sorcery Adventure: 9798199462297: McDowell, M. Daniel: Books

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

my queer-longing post-apocalyptic sword & sorcery romance novella Beneath the Shattered Gods is now available in paperback and ebook on amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0H4...

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Beneath the Shattered Gods

Amazon.com: Beneath the Shattered Gods: 9798274133463: McDowell, M. Daniel: Books

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

—the first, of course, being the addition of my shop at jayxwolf.itch.io ! I have two of my books available here to start, and if this works out, the rest will follow!

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just refreshed my publications list at mdmcd.com with links to the newest additions to the ranks—

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M. Daniel McDowell

author site for queer sword & sorcery and heroic fantasy author M. Daniel McDowell.

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 02/07/2026

I do have the motherfucking time (not really, but I'm making time for it), and I'm doing it myself on my own platform (since Reactor ignored my pitch 🙃). I would have loved to be paid for the work, but at this point it's public service so I'm doing it for free 👇

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#SmallBooks

Small Press New Releases Subscribe and receive all the lists of quarterly new releases in your inbox Have an upcoming small press SFFH book? Fill out the form. For now, we only list science fiction…

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There’s something going on with novellas: Despite having almost no presence in mainstream book stores, they’re increasingly popular in SFFH circles. So what’s driven this resurgence, and what is the appeal of the novella? @aknighton.bsky.social digs in... britishfantasysociety.org/the-joy-of-n...

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Merritt Daniel McDowell @mdmcd.com · 26/06/2026

At long last!! It has been a big month for M. books & stories!

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

and on itch: jayxwolf.itch.io/by-thieves-l... Ebook is sale priced at $3 on all platforms through the rest of pridemonth (likely a few days after, whenever i remember)

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By Thieves-Light by jay

A Bladesmith & Brigand Novella

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The book is available in ebook or print on Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0H6F9FR7K/ And i will eventually have some print stock available from me directly

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By Thieves-Light : A Romantic Sword & Sorcery Adventure

Amazon.com: By Thieves-Light : A Romantic Sword & Sorcery Adventure eBook : McDowell, M. Daniel: Kindle Store

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The novella edition of BY THIEVES-LIGHT is here! Available on and off Amazon in epub, and for the first time in paperback! I am so excited to finally have this out at last, with another of their stories now out in SHATTER THE SUN as well.

The cover art for By Thieves-Light, without type. Vencario Eratena, a tan fellow with dark curly hair and a cloak, holding his dagger and moon-globe, standing shoulder to shoulder with Ilwyn, a tall broad ginger fellow in smithing gear, holding a scroll.

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Ages End @agesendart.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Elf ranger - dip pen and ink on bristol. #fantasyart #illustration #ink #ttrpgart #osrart

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

⚔️We simply must draw your attention to what @neonhemlock.bsky.social have just released!📖 📸An S&S photoshoot? You know we love it!🫡

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I think I have settled on the color scheme for this cover; final-final_FINAL edits to the manuscript within including some light art adjustments and other Fiddly Things of being one's own publisher notwithstanding. SOON:

Color adjusted cover for the ebook of "By Thieves-Light" featuring rivals Vencario and Ilwyn staring each other down flirtatiously under the eerie glow of thieves-light....

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

and, in the meantime, in case you missed it: news for the *other* gay @mdmcd.com novella in the pipeline! Beneath the Shattered Gods has finally been released in paperback: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4BGGDZH/ and as an epub on Itch: jayxwolf.itch.io/beneath-the-...

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Beneath the Shattered Gods

Amazon.com: Beneath the Shattered Gods: 9798274133463: McDowell, M. Daniel: Books

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#Booksky #PrideMonth We’re so excited to include R.B. Lemberg’s World Fantasy Award-winning novella, YOKE OF STARS, in this year’s Pride StoryBundle! Get it and 15 other great queer reads today!

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

H P Lovecraft may have been a cranky racist hack, but we mustn't let his proclivities taint our appreciation of pretentious verbosity. Sometimes "cyclopean" IS in fact the word we're grasping for. Sometimes it's even "rugose".

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Merritt Daniel McDowell @mdmcd.com · 10/06/2026

have been meaning to give Itch a go for a while; it will be a while before Song of the Scourgelands is available there because of Reasons, but I will have a second release there this coming week...

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Merritt Daniel McDowell @mdmcd.com · 10/06/2026

It's here!! The only true standalone anything that I have ever written in my life probably!

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I think one of the upsetting things about the AI art discourse is that it has revealed (all over again) how many people in the world are genuinely angry and resentful that some artists get paid for a living.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Yes. 100. Also for queer BIPOC work too. Sure people can write what they want and I do enjoy it regardless of who the author is. BUT also often when you talk about queer BIPOC characters a lot of the time the biggest recs/huge sellers are not by BIPOC writers.

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Art by Bruce Pennington‬ for The Day of Their Return by Poul Anderson (Corgi, 1978)

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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Honestly, I feel like millennials as a group are being denied ambition and dreams, at least beyond that of being a code monkey or a service worker. -Science is getting cut to the bone -Ditto health and law -It's the worst time to be a creative or an artist in living memory

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 04/06/2026

📢 Hey friends and fiends! 📢 I'm (finally) working on the 2026 Queer SFF Book list and I want to make sure I don't miss YOUR book! So if you have a adult SFF book coming out this year (2026) that has a queer MC, please take this opportunity to SHOUT IT OUT in the comments or QTs!! 📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜📚

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 05/06/2026

I need us allllll to understand that there are a million different ways to have a positive impact on your community after having "a past" that do not include insisting on holding an elected office. If having a positive impact is your endgame and not just having power.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/06/2026

"you have to know how to use AI or else!" it's literally made for idiots too dumb to come up with ideas. If the invented scenario where I HAVE to use it comes to pass, which it hasn't, I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to draw with those crayons.

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

& the same reason predatory people date young. They don’t know better. They say yes to covers, say yes to a ton of work, burn themselves out. I chaired a young writer whose book was #1 in the country & she was wrecked & worrying about having to make a TikTok. ‘You do NOT have to do that’ I yelled.

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Merritt Daniel McDowell @mdmcd.com · 05/06/2026

Crunchy bits of newsy news if you follow on main, you may have already seen that BY THIEVESLIGHT finally has a cover! I am getting print proofs this coming week and I am Cautiously Excited! to be getting this out there very soon

cover art for BY THIEVESLIGHT featuring main characters Vencario and Ilwyn smirking at each other suggestively

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Bubsy Wubsy, Esq. 🇵🇸 @vonryansexpress.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“THEY WERE ROOMMATES?!?”

Annotated text from a chapter of Moby Dick describing Ishmael & Queequeg’s relationship.

This passage in particular is underlined: “How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other, and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Quee queg- a cosy, loving pair”

Underneath, handwritten in pink ink, is “Homosexuality?”

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Sassy Black Neighbor Recognizes Your Patterns @sassyblackneighbor.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026

There's no respect for life without respect for death. In a pandemic era where we're told to move on from grief, return to normal, we're coerced into believing life is endlessly reproducible if we can just bring people back from the dead. Life is not an infinite resource to be profited from.

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‧₊midaskey₊‧ |WAITLISTS ARE OPEN| 🐸 @midaskey.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Quote with your purple art! 💜 oldie but goodie #arttrain

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Want to write, or draw, or make music but think you don’t have the skills or tools to do so? There have always been solutions: build those skills, obtain those tools, or build new ones, collaborate with somebody else. AI mimics those skills, tools, and collaborations, but robs you of the art.

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hiimeyu ✧ @hiimeyu.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It’s my birthday! 💜🎉 Thank you guys so much for accompanying me on my art journey and for all the amazing friends I have made in the artist community! I would be very grateful if you could share my art for my birthday 🥹💕

My OC Charline as a mermaid with a pink tail and long hair infront of an abstract background

My OC Charline in a celshaded loom and dynamic pose with her sword surrounded by purple clouds

My OCs Charline and Vanir after they finally reunited after years of being apart, they are wearing both formal wear and are inches apart of kissing each other.

My OC Charline, waving at the viewer in her usual purple outfit

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Scottie @scottiecoati.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is a Terryl Whitlatch appreciation post. If you are a creature fan and don't have "The Wildlife of Star Wars" book, you need it asap! #starwars

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