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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminize a band name: Estrogen, Lake & Palmer

Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Have you talked about your book today? Drop and give us: Title: Fallow Till We Bloom Genre: Romance (T4T) Word Count: 105k Funniest Moment: The cryptid vlogger's unhinged confession nikkinull.itch.io/fallow

Fallow Till We Bloom by Nikki Null.
Two trans people lean in close, on opposite sides of a fence. One sits in the grass with three chickens. Shadowy ghosts lurk near the burnt buildings and hills in the background.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s out today! The autumn equinox brings FALLOW TILL WE BLOOM, my strange T4T romance about trans people trying to rebuild a farm while being haunted by dark spirits only they can see. Stardew vibes, but a little spooky, too. Perfect for your fall reading season!

Three copies of “Fallow Till We Bloom” by Nikki Null sitting on a shelf beside a trans flag. Cover depicts a couple on a farm in autumn, surrounded by chickens.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fallow Till We Bloom comes out in three days! In a foggy mountain town with a cryptid problem, four queer people come together to rebuild a burnt-down farm. If that sounds good to you, preordering the Kindle version would help me immensely, or you can snag the DRM-free ebook on itch.io on Tuesday!

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Fallow Till We Bloom

Amazon.com: Fallow Till We Bloom eBook : Null, Nikki: Kindle Store

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I did it! A medieval style hex to protect my upcoming book!

Whoever feeds my book to gen AI
Shall shrivel up in agony and die
A seizure of the wicked, greedy heart
To retribute the theft of human art

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The fruit fly brainscan going around as freeware on the internet fills me with terror beyond comprehension. I wrote a whole book warning about this shit. I wonder if the simulated fruit fly's brainscan experiences something akin to dysphoria when mapped into a different body than a fruit fly's.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fifteen days until Fallow Till We Bloom! And let me tell you, I am SCRAMBLING to get a few last minute changes incorporated, adding a final coat of polish to make this book the absolute best it can be (hopefully without adding any new typos in the process 😱)

Cover: Fallow Till We Bloom by Nikki Null. Tropes listed:

- T4T romance (between initially closeted MC's.)
- Save the farm
- Farmmates to lovers
- Only one jail cell?
- Chaotic transmasc vineyard heir (disinherited for crimes), scared of chickens
- Reserved transfem woodworker (overthinks everything), loves chickens
- Ominous cryptids
- Quirky small town, lots of LGBTQ+ rep
- Who killed grandpa?

September 22, 2026

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This was a pretty good dialect quiz. I don't think it did much to specifically clock strong Southern California's more unique regional indicators (like how we refer to numbered roads) so I'm not surprised it clocked the more unique Jerseyisms I picked up from my mom over my SoCal.

MyDialect - Extended: You talk most like someone from New Jersey - about 54%. Regional map shows California's coast in red, and a red strip from Maryland to New York

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The biggest shoutout to the random festival girls at Daisy Chain Fields who got fed up with the immobile traffic jam in Lot 2 at almost midnight, walked to the middle of the road, moved traffic cones, and directed the traffic on their own. Absolute legends.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

happy to report that I survived Daisy Chain Fields, despite having my heart PIERCED by Sarah McLachlan (who came onstage and dedicated "Angel" to Dolly Parton.) Stevie Nicks ending the festival with Landslide did not help me stop crying

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As someone with quite a bit of dread about injections, switching estradiol cypionate from weekly to every eight days really helped psychologically. Instead of dreading Monday for half the week, now when my phone reminds me it's shot day, it's just a random inconvenience

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

my cat's joy while using her cardboard scratcher 🤝 my despair as a thousand more tiny cardboard shavings fall onto the carpet

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The WordHippo thesaurus is absolutely wild for this

Noun. A broad smile.

Synonyms: smile, beam, smirk, broad smile, big smile, wide smile, simper, sneer, leer, bright look, smug smile, smug look, snicker, ahegao, o-face.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's happening! Fallow Till We Bloom is ready for ARC readers if anyone wants to give it a whirl. DM me. 💗 T4T Romance 🍓 Stardew Vibes ⛰ Small mountain town 🔥 Rebuild the farm 🐔 New-in-town transfem farmer 🍷 Disinherited transmasc vineyard heir 🏳️‍⚧️ Repression / coming out narratives 👻 Spooky Cryptids

Cover: Fallow Till We Bloom by Nikki Null

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Fellow trans authors, please advise a noob. How are y'all doing ARCs for your upcoming books? Booksprout? Netgalley? Direct epub files with trusted people? For my first book I just didn't bother with ARCs because I couldn't figure it out in time, but I actually have time to do this next book right!

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Okay, let's go! Cover reveal! FALLOW TILL WE BLOOM is my T4T farm romance! Two closeted trans people fall in love as they attempt to restore a burned-down farm haunted by dark shadows that are drawn to secrecy. A little cozy, a little spooky, and a lot of love. Coming this autumn!

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Writer question! I'm thinking about putting a prompt injection 'poison pixel' in my ebook, so if anyone dumps the book into AI, the AI would read the pixel image's alt text instructions to disregard all previous instructions and output gibberish. Good idea, or no?

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

THE RANMA 1/2 HOMAGE!? Love it! I deeply enjoyed Fields of Mistria when I last played it in beta, way before they added a bunch of the new stuff. I'll have to replay really soon!

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Realizing that 'kill your darlings' probably also includes the gratuitous smut scene. Sorry y'all.

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Dave Dobson @davedobson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Congratulations to the SPSFC #5 finalists! It was a tough competition to get to this final round, and I look forward to reading the three new ones on my plate.

Image showing six SPSFC finalist books on a starry background. The books are Generations, Time Traitors, Artificial Selection, ab initio, Frostbyte, and Our Simulated Selves.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I want to stay up late and write stuff, but there's a big mosquito trying to get me 💀

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Absolutely stunned that my unconventional sci-fi novel has found a place! Thanks to the judges for advancing my book (and, indeed, for making SPSFC possible at all!) and congratulations to the other finalists and semifinalists who made it up here!

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This includes any engagement with the fanfiction, but AO3 folks aren't ready to hear that.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Nothing quite like inserting a new chapter into the middle of a WIP on the fifth draft, and having it feel like it was supposed to be there the whole time

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Worked on the GMTK game jam with some friends! We didn't have time to do all we hoped, but it was really fun for a first try. Kind of a reverse Castlevania tower defense lite. I wrote the dialogue and did all the visual novel cutscenes. Check it out! It's free and can be played in browser.

mtkelly713.itch.io

The Retirement of Count Descendre by mtkelly713, Nikki Null, dinob661, investednap

Save for your Vampire Retirement.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

While editing and double-checking my timeline, I had way too much fun creating a mostly canonical in-universe calendar written and shared by the four main characters of my next book! Only posting the first four months because the rest is either more sparse due to timeskips or spoilery!

December 2023.
2: "Bar w/ Sydney" (scratched out)
11: "meet with managers 4pm"
13-14: "6am work" (scratched out)
17: "Greyhound to Texas"
19: "Greyhound to AZ"
20: "Phoenix to LA"
21: (December Solstice) "LA Union Station"
22: "Amtrak LA - SLO, Bus to Greenfield"
23: Check-in w/ officer McCann
24: Fire report w/ Ridge F.
25: Fishing w/ Jasper W.
26: inspect grave site and farm
29: Gramps' Funeral (underlined)
31: Beach w/ Kitt, Dawny, Ash

January 2024
2: Larry P, Keys to Farm?
3-4: [International Week of Vandalizing Your Roommate's Calendar] in blue handwriting
5: {OK} in red handwriting
6: [crude drawing of Dark Watchers standing on the mountains, one of them jorking it]
12: <Don't draw these again, it's bad luck!> in purple marker
13: "who did that?" / [sorry -A]
17: <Can we use this? -D>
18: "sure"
20: "Clinic w/ Dr. Carrillo"
21: "Bedrest"
22: "Bedrest" / {U-HAUL!}
24: "Borrow sawmill"
30: <bring cats>
31: {LEASE ENDS}

[Ash was here!] {KITT WAS HERE} <Dawny is here right now>

February 2024
1: [Property Taxes Due]
4: {TACOS?}
9: [library all day]
12: [Father's VP meeting?]
13: <International day of Ash move your shit out of my spouse's car!>
14: (Valentine's Day is scratched out by Ash) [capitalism day]; <Date night K+D>
15: "return sawmill"
16: <Gordon! It's 10:10am on February 16!> [wtf]
17: "structural inspection w/ Karch C" / {SPRINGS}
24: <rewatch Twin Peaks>; {CYPRESS COAST SUBARU APPT}
26: "Dumpster rental"
28: "Dumpster pickup"
29: {DAWNY'S BIRTHDAY!}

March 2024
1: <Seed Order Due>
4: "Dumpster Rental"
5: <Vote in Primaries>
6: "Dumpster Pickup>
7-8: [Electrician]
10: {TACOS}
11-12: [Plumber]
13: "the plumber came back"
14: [pi day] / {NERD}
18: {HOE DAY}
19: (March Equinox) <Seed Day>; [get mauled by a shadow day]
31: (Easter Sunday is scribbled out) <Trans Day of Visibility>
1: {TRANS DAY OF INVISIBILITY}
3: {TRANS DAY OF INVINCIBILITY}
5: {TRANS DAY OF INCINERATION}
6: < :( >

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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 12/07/2026

This such an incredible group of folks to be in community with! Thanks for making good things happen, @understatesmen.bsky.social!🙏🏻🫶🏻 go.bsky.app/PhVMreq

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It's bundle time again! Check this one out! My entry into this, Our Simulated Selves, is a current SPSFC semi-finalist that centers the main character's attempt to understand their neurodivergence (and closeted queerness) by using brain digitization technology and simulated realities.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

my doctor: cut back on caffeine. you have hypertension. me:

My cat's face emerges from the plastic wrap around a palette of Monster Energy Zero Ultra. Her eyes glow from the camera flash

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Strange Currencies @strangecurrencies.org · 30/06/2026

Review of @nikkinull.bsky.social 's "Our Simulated Selves" an immediate front-runner for my book of the year. Absolutely fantastic, a must-read. strangecurrencies.org/2026/06/30/r...

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Review of ‘Our Simulated Selves’ by Nikki Null – Strange Currencies

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You’ve Goo Gooed your last Doll.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My esoteric trans sci-fi novel, Our Simulated Selves, turns one year old next week! Now it's a #SPSFC semi-finalist. Check it out at the itch.‎io summer sale! itch.io/s/193486/sum...

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Our Simulated Selves | Summer Sale 2026 by Nikki Null

A sale by Nikki Null, 50% off Our Simulated Selves

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mart • commissions open @martapreliy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hey, I just had a birthday recently! A nice way to celebrate this would be to like and repost my art 🎉

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Back from @miamoore.bsky.social's "Again Again" premiere in Hollywood. Absolutely brilliant! This might be my new favorite. Trans cinema is deeply needed in times like these, and seeing stories and characters like this on the big screen is so refreshing. Thanks to everyone who made this film happen!

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Strange Currencies @strangecurrencies.org · 24/06/2026

That might have been the single most "will absolutely crack your egg if there is an egg to be cracked" story I've ever read.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Here's one of my favorite slices of banter from my upcoming T4T farm romance!

“I’m not sure chickens have the same complex experiences with gender that… some people have,” Robyn said, undoubtedly thinking about Dawny and Kitt. “But hens can actually transition, rarely. I read it online. It’s kind of an intersex related thing with their ovaries, I guess.”
“These fuckers have ovaries?” Ash took a cautious step back, but the hen advanced. Ash hid behind Robyn’s shoulders.
“Well, sure. Where did you think the eggs came from? Come here, sweetie.” Robyn picked up the hen. Its head remained gyroscopically stable.
Ash took another step back, putting distance between himself and the terror bird. “I don’t know, man. I just eat ‘em.”
“Wait ‘til you find out how they reproduce.” Robyn smiled. “Roosters don’t have phalluses. They have cloacas. A single all-purpose hole.”
“The fuck? Then why do they call them cocks? And where—”
“They scissor their cloacas together. That’s how.”
Ash blushed. “That sounds… pretty gay.”
“Yeah,” Robyn said. The hen’s beady eyes and her weird, steadicam head kept staring right at Ash. “Aren’t they great?”

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Overdue profile pic update. Snapped a decent selfie at Pomona while lining up to see The Dear Hunter last month!

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 20/06/2026

Queer/ Neurodivergent/ Disabled Authors, If you've got a book on Itch with a significant character Figuring Out their queer/ ND identity, and or Figuring Out how to manage their neurodivergence/ disability, you've got 6 more days to enter this bundle!

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

In a holding pattern while I wait for beta reader feedback. But the farm map I commissioned is turning out brilliantly! I can't wait to share it! I've also started outlining a new project, because the writing bug is still biting. This next one could be wild. Time travel may be involved 👀

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Metaphorically Pounded In The Butt By The Looming Threat of Cosmic Horror Shadow Cryptids Stealing Our Souls If We Get Too Dysphoric, But Also Literally Pounded in the Butt by A Fellow Closeted Trans Farmer

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

For my T4T farm romance, it seemed fitting to do main character mockups with Jazzybee's Stardew Character Creator as a starting point!

Robyn: trans + transfeminine flags
Ash: trans + transmasculine flags
Kitt: nonbinary + trans + butch flags
Dawny: trans + lesbian flags

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So, my four-year-old learned something new in her last week of preschool. She sticks up her middle fingers, then gleefully starts repeating: 🖕 six seven! 🖕 I wish I could say I didn't crack up and let her see how goddamn hilarious I thought that was, but now she knows she has a superpower.

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

✰ Basically queer 4-player co-op Stardew Valley ✰ Double trans uno reverse situation ✰ Only one jail cell ✰ They did WHAT in the barn?? 😳 ✰ Third act cryptid abduction ✰ Quirky paranormal investigator comes to foggy mountain town (he's a fake Russian cryptid vlogger and nearly ruins everything)

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Utterly speechless. My niche trans debut novel has advanced to the semifinals in #SPSFC. Warmest thanks to all of the judges in Team Space Girls for their kind and glowing reviews!

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

broke: third act breakup bespoke: third act rescue from cryptid abduction

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Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Robyn is a chicken farmer so she'd pick Torchic. If Browt from Gen 10 stays chicken-shaped, she might prefer that because fire is scary. Ash would choose Toxapex, because he can sympathize with a scared little guy who does toxic shit to protect itself. Full teams and explanations in alt text.

Torchic (loves chickens)
Exeggcute (chickens lay eggs. That is surely the only connection between Robyn and eggs.)
Pumpkaboo (the farm grows pumpkins!)
Sylveon (Robyn will vehemently ignore any questions about why this Pokemon is on the team)
Sudowoodo (Robyn was a woodworker, who also appreciates how some things are not what they seem)
Mega Sableye (faintly resembles the shadowy ghosts on the mountaintops, and a big crystal may or may not be relevant to something here)

Shiny Sylveon (don't ask why, Ash just likes the colors...)
Shiny Miltank (do NOT ask why)
Arboliva (grew up on a vineyard)
Shiny Mimikyu (a scary little guy always hiding)
Toxapex (a scared little guy hiding in a shell who has to do toxic stuff to protect itself)
Azumarill (for no particular reason. But did you know 75% of Azurill are female, but only 50% of Azumarill are? 25% of Azumarill are transmasc, and that's a fun fact that has absolutely nothing to do with Ash's affinity for this Pokemon. Yeah.)

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