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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 6h

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 21h

Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 10h

#LGBTQWriteAThon In SL WIP: - Lux: being alone again after traveling with Cara and Emilia - Cara and Emilia: each of them losing hope that they'll never see each other again because they're unable to break the curse upon them

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Brennan making writing easy And meanwhile I'm like, blorb??

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon Two main goals this week: - maximize the next three days I have for writing out new idea, cause that's all the time I have available - continue this weird Hunger Games kick I'm in by reading the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Terminator 2. Nuclear annihilation as an eight year old? Yeah that gave me a nightmare or two

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Came across this on a YouTube watch tonight and I did not realize how much I needed this version of this song in my life. The hurdy gurdy is so cool youtu.be/TGAUYH75els?...

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10 minutes of RIDERS OF ROHAN on the hurdy-gurdy

YouTube video by Michalina Malisz

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Capable of...? Cooking: I'm vegan, so yes by default Whistle: haha haaa Draw: kinda Paint: not kinda Swim: nope! English: sure, yeah Dance: *flails arms* Sing: not really Drive: yes Gifting: well enough I think Write: questionable...? Guitar: I tried before Speaking: can I? Yes. Am I any good? Ehhh

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon check in Well, maybe not as good of a week as planned, as I didn't get a whole lot of writing work done. I did finish the character bios for this solarpunk idea, including this bit below for the 7th and final character that I was just throwing ideas at.

Screen capture of character bio text:

- what is W's deal though? Obviously having someone random joining the journey means he should have something of use
- maybe he's some memory wiped soldier from another part of the world?
- maybe he's just a guy that lost his memory but has some particular skills?
- he should be some sort of survival expert, given how long he's traveled on his own
- maybe he was a tracker of some kind? Like he knows how to hunt things?
- or maybe he's just a guy? And a guy like him just exists in trying to figure out how to engage with this community-based world
- is he a religious guy? A wandering preacher? (Maybe not)
- (maybe)
- (maybe he extols the virtues of a god but it's from a random non-religious text)
- (we're spitballing here)
- anyway

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Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have an ARC up for the sequel to The Shadow God's Knight. Haven't read it? Are you OK with many fine content warnings? Sign up and contact me for a review copy of the first book. Details on the form. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

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Knight on Fire ARC Signup

Thanks for your interest in joining the this ARC! Full details about Knight on Fire right here. Once your participation is confirmed, an e-ARC download link will be sent to the email you provide some...

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat Q5 Thank you for the chat!! If you yearn for a spooky little novella to kick off your October, check out The Witch of the Wood! It comes out on Tuesday! Uni: books2read.com/u/bw6gwP Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/the-witch-of...

The cover of The Witch of the Wood by Alex Larkspur. It features two men in a dark and gloomy forest. Milo stands in front, a man with tan skin and short, dark hair. He’s dressed in a cream tunic and a green cloak around his shoulders. He has a bow and arrows. He is clearly afraid as he stares at his left hand. His fingers are blackened due a curse that is spreading across his hand. Another man, Cam, is turned the other way and holding Milo’s right hand. He’s looking over his shoulder and looking at Milo with concern. His clothes are bright, colorful, and patchwork. The gloom of the forest mutes their color. The trees seem to close in around them.

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 03/10/2026

in which an old man cursed with immortality tells himself he Wants Nothing bc he'll lose it anyway, only to end up in an Ohio town where everyone whoops! makes him Want Things Very Much hardcover / ebook / audiobook / paperback to come! bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #QueerWritersChat

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The Keeper of Lonely Spirits

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY LIBRARY JOURNAL AND REACTOR "Anderson writes a curmudgeonly immortal protagonist and a (literally) haunting story full of heart; a delightful novel." --Library Journal sta...

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat Thanks for a great chat and a fun theme! Ill promo my debut again. Yearning DOES keep getting Talia in trouble. Yearning to be taken seriously as a PI, for her best friend's girl, for her client, for literally ANY money, for answers...

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat Promo time! If you like yearning, you'd LOVE my vampire romance series! SILVER BLOOD is currently on sale: books2read.com/silverblood and its sequel, SHATTERED CITY, comes out on Tuesday! books2read.com/cos-shattered-city

City of Silver: duology with companion novellas:
- m/m vampire romance
- mystery/intrigue
- slow burn
- reluctant allies to lovers
- forbidden romance

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🎃🕸J.M. Weaver 🕷👻 @jmweaverauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat T'was a fun chat, friends. :3 Hope you all have a very lovely night. I'm gonna eat dinner and watch a bad movie. 😅 If you wanna buy Savage as You or are interested in Vitrified, follow me on Itch! Vitrified is out October 20th. jmweaverauthor.itch.io

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Rebecca Frost @rebeccafrostwrites.com · 03/10/2026

Disaster enby and awkward ace each yearning for found family, with a side of amateur sleuthing and a decades-old serial killer case? Check. For sale or posting a chapter a day on my blog. books2read.com/WTS rebeccafrostwrites.com/where-theres... #QueerWritersChat

The cover of Where There’s Smoke by Rebecca Frost, showing a cobalt blue food truck follows a winding road with a foggy background and coals in the foreground

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Sadie Hepworth @sadiehepworth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Boy, do I have two books packed with yearning for you! 12 years ago, Cole and Ezra were ripped apart by fate. Now they've been reunited — and they're trying no strings attached??? a.co/d/0awtLcH5 Sam loves Max. Max loves Sam. Unfortunately, they're both idiots a.co/d/054idTaR #QueerWritersChat

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Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇 “Fealty” WIP 17.5k/100k @theeldervampire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat Thank you for hosting! The Witch of Eden Hollow is chock FULL of emotional yearning and a particularly swoonworthy romance ❤️ And it’s out NEXT FRIDAY! Uni Link: books2read.com/u/mZR9kD Itch: gt-anthony.itch.io/witch-x-hunter

Book cover for The Witch of Eden Hollow by G.T. Anthony

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Roan | S&T Rewrite: 144/145k @faindriart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat outtro Just gonna share my pinned post. Thank you for hosting!! bsky.app/profile/fain...

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Cherry Pickett @cherrypickett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat A5: Thanks for the chat, folks! Glad to see we're all here for characters pining. Two Scorpions in a Bottle probably has the most yearning I've written in a bit: a former spy doing "one last job" with his ex and wishing things could be different. www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKK2KXG1

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Two Scorpions in a Bottle (Flirting with the Zodiac Book 7)

Two Scorpions in a Bottle (Flirting with the Zodiac Book 7) - Kindle edition by Pickett, Cherry. Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat I'm taking a short break from editing SL WIP to prevent the dreaded Burnout™️, but I'll be working on that again soon. I'll be boosting others throughout the night. Fun chatting again!

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat I very much like them, yes. I haven't done much romance writing myself to figure out how to write yearning, but it is something to try and get into more someday.

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat There's yearning, but the tone isn't necessarily that. Much of the story is told from Lux's POV, so they get to be an ear for Cara and Emilia as they talk about how much they miss each other.

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat For SL WIP, it's all Cara and Emilia yearning for each other, given their forced separation due to the curse placed upon them. All they want is to see each other again as each other. Lux yearns for stability. They've been on their own for so long and just want people to be with.

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#QueerWritersChat Hello everyone! My name is Sam (they/xe) and I have two projects I'm currently working on: editing for Sapphic Ladyhawke WIP and plotting out a solarpunk story. Happy to chat with everyone again!

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon I'm no good at moodboards - I was never a Pinterest goblin - but I'll take a stab with some collages of what I'm working on. Main project: a queer and sapphic retelling of Ladyhawke, involving road trips, a witch, and falling in love all over again New idea: a solarpunk adventure

A collage of three pictures for Sapphic Ladyhawke WIP. The top photo is from the film with Michele Pfeiffer and Rutger Hauer's characters overlaid with the sapphic pride flag. The bottom left is the Matthew Broderick character overlaid with the nonbinary flag. The bottom left is a Picrew image of two hands holding their pinkies together, the left one darker with brown and red colors tips and nails, the right one lighter, with white tips and talon like nails.

Split image showing key art for Howl's Moving Castle, with the castle walking over a hill, and Dimension 20 Gladlands, showing a billboard with the text "Welcome to Gladlands
"The world might have ended but manners didn't!"

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon Happy October! My name is Sam, a nonbinary/genderfluid bean who likes to write mainly queer fantasy, but also other random queer things. I have two goals for this month: - continue 2nd draft edits for Sapphic Ladyhawke WIP - start writing new solarpunk idea I'm currently plotting

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm glad I don't have access to sports streaming services to watch hockey right now because what the actual fuck Flyers?!

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Conversations with my sister about terrible dancing songs and how white people need directions to effectively dance, a meme

An image of the Matt Bors comic with a medieval person carrying a bundle of wood and the other random person sitting in a well, captioned with:

"I hate the Cha Cha Slide"

"And yet you dance to it all the time. How interesting."

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#queerwriters goals day Goals for the week (all for new idea): - finish up remaining character bios - figure out plot?? - finish watching Dimension 20: Gladlands for inspo

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#queerwriters check in I realized this week that I'm slowly experiencing some form of burnout with Sapphic Ladyhawke WIP so I'm going to put that aside for a couple weeks (been working almost nonstop on it for 10 months now?). I'm at a good spot with it for now, just need to reset on that a bit.

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RJ Webb 🦇🏳️‍🌈 @authorrjwebb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#QueerWritersChat Another fun chat!! Still just have A Vampire’s Lament available at the link below, and In the Hollows will be released on 10/01! linktr.ee/authorrjwebb

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authorrjwebb Official: TikTok, Instagram | Linktree

Romance author 🖤

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#QueerWritersChat Thanks for another great chat tonight! And Happy Autumn! My debut actually takes place in early June (And it was first drafted in June 2020, and released this June 2026!) Lesbian archaeologist turned PI stumbles into a tangle of murder and lies when she tracks a mysterious knife

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#QueerWritersChat Nothing to promote as always, as I'm still writing and editing. Happy to boost others throughout the night!

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#QueerWritersChat The main story takes place over about two weeks in early autumn, so it starts getting gradually colder during the time. There's an extended flashback that touches on all of the seasons, from autumn to summer.

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#QueerWritersChat Emilia is very happy with flower picking when she gets to Cammur, and Cara very much enjoys watching that. They also like the seasonal festivals around the city. Lux doesn't get to enjoy the seasons all too much as they're always moving around.

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#QueerWritersChat Lux is probably spring and late summer, when it's cool and not super hot. Cara is an all season woman. Doesn't matter, she loves it hot or cold. Emilia loves summer, especially when she gets to Cammur. It's always cold in the north at her father's estate.

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#QueerWritersChat Hello! My name is Sam (they/xe). My main project currently is working on edits for a queer and sapphic retelling of Ladyhawke. Pleasure to chat with everyone again!

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Only one animated show? Where's Avatar and Bluey and I'm sure other absolute goldmines of animated greatness? Also, Game of Thrones is #6? A show that botched its ending so horrifically that everyone stopped talking about it? Yeah, not taking this seriously at all.

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SamMe (they/xe) @nerdiesamme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Okay this made me a bubbling mess at the end but it was oh so good! Such a fun and enchanting story about memories and how we respond to them. I got this at a recent signing at Multiverse with @mustachebabs.com and @lazyfishy.bsky.social . Congrats on this incredible work, I loved it!

It's a me, a silly nonbinary disaster wearing a bandana and short dress/long shirt and holding the graphic novel The Library of Memories, with the author Barbara Perez Marquez to my right holding a large frame, and the artist Lissy Marlin to my left holding the other side of the large frame.

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 24/09/2026

What is Zach's SECOND talent? 👀

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can't make it this weekend? Contact Josh Shaprio's Office Phone:717-787-2500 And Mayor Parker's Office Phone Phone: (215) 686-2181 City council is with us. Drexel thinks we're going to give up. Leadership thinks this will just blow over and they can cash out. Do not let that happen.

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 23/09/2026

She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Honestly, this kinda sounds like what this whole September has felt like.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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