S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 19hReeeaaaally depends on the work. For some of them it's the keyword of the story (e.g., "Powered"). For others, it's some phrase that popped into my head that has thematic significance and a lyrical rhythm (e.g., "Murder with the Devil and Friends") 000
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S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 19hme during the week: oh boy! i can't wait for the weekend so i can really focus on my projects! me during the weekend: don't wanna 130
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The best piece of writing advice I ever got (in terms of immediate and profound effect on my writing) was from a Stage Combat workshop: "A fight is a dialogue. Each move should say something about the character making it. Every exchange should add depth to their relationship." 010
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 10/10/2026OOF that sucks. Glad someone else was available to help! 000
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026So grateful that I first published with @duckprintspress.com! They treat us authors SO right in a world full of people trying to take advantage! 0153
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 10/10/2026There's a mere 38% to go till my top surgery is funded! I'm working to line up both my caregiver's schedule and the surgeon's availability. With your help, I will make it!: buff.ly/TNrPdaPbuff.lyBuy Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian a CoffeeBecome a supporter of Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian today! 01216
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it. 212335925
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Ruin a book by adding a word The Murder of Roger Rabbit Ackroyd 041
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026she said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring 121258280
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I feel your pain - I struggle with this, too! 100
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026sometimes you just have A Moment where your inner monologue forgets Show Don't Tell. Literal thought that crossed my mind: "This cup of peppermint tea is making me happy." 010
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 07/10/2026you know what would improve this situation? another tattoo. 240
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Dr Delilah Caldwell (of #PoweredNovel) takes no shit. She may, in the moment, *appear* to be taking someone's shit, but you may rest assured that the aforementioned shit is in fact on a ballistic trajectory around the Moon and will be returning to sender with catastrophic momentum #AwesomeCharacters 150
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 05/10/2026Did you think Pride was over because June has past? Saturday, October 10th is Collar City Pride at Riverfront Park in Troy, New York! See a drag show and local performers hosted by Stella Progress and Lady Seanzia and check out our vendor market from 2 to 6. More info: www.collarcitypride.org/pride 064
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026punk songs: get me out of this shithole town country songs: take me back to my shithole town 030
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026like, no one's doing anything wrong here, i just don't know what to do with my hands 010
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026there's a special kind of awkward bound up in "I introduced this thing to you but now you're way more invested in it than I am" 210
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 03/10/2026Every month, we include anecdotes of queer joy with the folks who subscribe to our newsletter! Have a joy you'd like to share? Submit it to us with this form: duckprintspress.com/resources/du... Want to read everyone's queer joy? Sign up for our newsletter: duckprintspress.com/about-duck-p...duckprintspress.comShare Queer Joy for the Duck Prints Press Newsletter – Duck Prints Press 057
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Still a few hours before the September newsletter goes live, if anybody else ants to hop on the mailing list! mailchi.mp/edac04e59b9d...mailchi.mpA place for the genreweird 011
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Briggandale by C. M. Waggoner was great fun! It has the spirit of Dealing with Dragons and Pratchett in it 052
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Everything was clean and sterile, most of it completely untextured." 020
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Did you know I have a monthly newsletter? Did you know that's where I share concept art, behind-the-scenes, and excerpts for my upcoming superhero novel, "Powered"? Did you know that the next edition comes out tomorrow? 🌠NOW YOU KNOW 🌠 Sign up here, if you like: mailchi.mp/edac04e59b9d...mailchi.mpA place for the genreweird 111
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈sabrina, ghastly cyberdog @unwisewoman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026dark macadamia aesthetic or whatever 2102
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Kaleidotrope re-opens to fiction and poetry submissions for the last time this year in about a month (October 18-24). Will you be ready? Will any of us? kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/static.klipy.comSiap-siap, Gadis Cilik!Alt: Get ready! 03728
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What word or phrase reactivates your accent? Mine is "Saturday". Catch me headin to the park on Sat'rdee 000
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026from the lowliest worm to the mightiest worm, the ground is home to a vast hierarchy of worms 31245260
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Brought back plenty of sanity: the things in life that *really* matter are a hot meal, a warm bed, and not falling to your death. Looked around for relaxation but it was the end of the season and I think it'd all been picked clean by the time I got there. 120
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Eeee thank you! It wouldn't leave me alone, either. 010
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026oh ya plenty. They got: Combo #1: It's getting really, really cold and windy and you're not sure you brought enough warm clothes Combo #2: It's sunset, a storm is rolling in, and you can't find a campsite Combo #3: There's a bull moose 30ft from your tent and it has just noticed you. 000
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026going to the mountains, anybody want anything? 210
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The way I come up with fictional settings is like... I imagine a real place, and then unfocus the eyes of my mind. Let it blur out, shift, funhouse-mirror distort. Everything 1.5x larger than life, like remembering the house I grew up in. Let the failure to reconstruct build something new instead. 000
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I envision this as a movie about an ordinary office guy who, for reasons that are never quite clear to him, is selected to be the leader of a new cult. Midsommar meets The Office. 010
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026change a letter, change a movie Project Hail Gary 220
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"The Lovers" is now online on Youtube. An indie/crowdfunded Filipino short film by students brand-new to the animation industry. Directed by Alice Mao & Sophia Paez (Studio Heartbreak). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUa2... 1549972612
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/08/2026this is a good thread, and I feel like sometimes *some* readers forget that writers are not part of the publishing industry either 16620
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 29/08/2026hypothesis: you can gauge how sexualized a given body part is by how many euphemisms there are for it currently in use in the common parlance 000
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 28/08/2026the opposite of grated cheese is awfuled cheese 010
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026License plate of the week: "R * NAURRRRR" Clearly a fan of the Australian accent 010
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 22/08/2026my character flaw? i call it "tube yoob" 010
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Same! It's like releasing a rehabbed animal. I'll love it forever but it's not mine anymore. 020
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 21/08/2026My #AwesomeCharacters tend to stay confined within their stories - I don't generally think about the "after" or the "in-between" because I already said everything that needed saying. The other parts are for the characters themselves, or for the readers. I've meddled enough. 141
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Nazariel 🏳️⚧️ @nazariel.bsky.social · 16/04/2026 2424075017893
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"I don't think he knows about second puberty, Pip." 26614
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 15/08/2026managed to run 3 miles in 24 minutes (on a treadmill, so Easy Mode), which was less of a goal for me and more of a "let's see how far into the red I can push this thing" 020
S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @mindfulwrath.bsky.social · 13/08/2026we're all constructing elaborate music videos for our OC's in our heads, right? we're all making sure to take time to construct elaborate music videos for our OC's in our heads? 010
Reposted by S. J. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Tokusatsu GIFs @tokugifs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Power Rangers Time Force (2001) Episode 25 3521204