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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'll be participating in #artfight this year again. This time I have three OCs! Meet Elodie, my death domain cleric with Auril as her Deity:

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Art Fight @artfight.net · 15/03/2026

WE'RE BAAAAACK! It's... SPROUT FIGHT TIME!! Create artwork that follows one of our prompts or palettes (or both, if you fancy!) and submit it to the form below to receive an on-site achievement for participating in Sprout Fight! 🌷🐸 Share your work by using the #SproutFight2026 tag!

A pale, olive-green board with the title 'Sprout Fight' in the top centre. Beneath this, '2026' can be seen in smaller text towards the right-hand side of the image.

15 prompts are listed below:
1. Awakening
2. Frost
3. Forest Trail
4. Sunshine
5. Greenhouse
6. Wind Chime
7. Splash
8. Metamorphosis
9. Picnic
10. Rainy Day
11. Leaf
12. Surprise
13. Cherry Blossoms
14. Meadow
15. Equinox

A small, pale green-white circle can be seen towards the bottom right-hand corner of the page. Within it, text reads: "Share your art with us on social media!" and lists some of Art Fight's other social media handles.

At the bottom of the image, Wormston (one of Art Fight's mini mascots) can be seen curled up, sleeping, on a colourful grassy field. He has small plants sprouting from his blue fur.

Graphics made by: https://artfight.net/~Scribedhearts
Mascot artwork made by: https://artfight.net/~woime

A pale green board with the title 'Sprout Fight' displayed at the top. Four varying palettes are displayed beneath, each individually named.

Palette names are as follows:
1) Tulip Blooms
2) Macarons
3) Wishful Wisteria
4) Frog Pond

Graphics made by: https://artfight.net/~Scribedhearts

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I've not written as much as I wished this month either. Meaning nothing, aha... ha

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Hello! I'm Aurora, a fantasy writer writing a series. Current WIP is set in a high fantasy world with three friends going on an adventure. This is the 1st draft a 2nd time because I'm re-writing it in English. It's difficult but I persist #FirstDraftFall #WeeknightWriters

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#QueerPrompts It depends on the reader's take. The narrator is like 1, the friends are a 10, so it depends on what you take from it. It is part of a series, so it won't have a satisfying ending for the characters,

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A setting #moodboard for my #WIP. Trollbyn is where we start our adventure. It's a village in the woods near the mountains in the east of Birke, a land inspired by Nordic folk tales.

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Dua Ceren @duaceren.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

On an island quietly haunted by ghosts of grieving women, a depressed chocolatier teams up with five strangers—with scars of their own—to find their killer. Of the six, only five are really alive. Spirited Away x Shutter Island #QuestPit #W #A #F #T #PR

“She makes death taste like chocolate.” Picture of a girl in a white dress in a dark lake with her arm over her chest and white roses over her torso. “Grave of flowers by Dua Ceren Ay”

Grave of Flowers by Dua Ceren Ay Opening Lines: Every sane person knows better than to paint their walls eggshell white, but electric blue? That had to be a crime. Like whoever decided on the color scheme of this place was avoiding the topic altogether; yes, we were all crazy in here, and yes, we all knew they wanted to avoid the clichés.
So, no straitjackets, no padded rooms, no dull hospital gowns, just rooms and rooms and rooms of color until we bored ourselves to sleep or knocked ourselves out from the overstimulation.
We had Kelsie the high schooler folks who had become regulars around here liked to call Iron Fist—to thank for that demonstration.
It was just that the windows didn't open from the bottom, everything had a soft edge or lock, and the nurses had a way of always smiling at us as if we birthed their children. It was the little things that poked me.
So it was even more ridiculous that the early morning hour made the place seem... peaceful.

Comps. A Flicker in The Dark by Stacy Willingham: past repeats itself, small town, investigation. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: Depressed MC, Magical Realism, Healing and new beginnings. Anxious people by Fredrik Backman: dysfunctional group of friends, social isolation, hope

Tropes: found family, unreliable narrator, treasure hunt/investigation, lost memories, small town. Themes: second coming-of-age, feminism, identity, overcoming trauma, friendship

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Art Fight @artfight.net · 02/10/2025

Who's ready for ART FRIGHT?? WE AREEEE! Create artwork that follows one of our prompts or palettes (or both, if you fancy!) and submit it to the Tally form below to receive an on-site achievement for participating in Art Fright! 🎃🍁 Share your work by using the #ArtFright2025 tag!

A dark grey-brown board with the title: 'Art Fright' displayed at the top. Five varying palettes are displayed beneath the title, each individually named.

Palette names are as follows:
1) Autumn Afternoon
2) Quilted Comforts
3) Apple Orchard
4) Cauldron Contents
5) Halloween Hijinks

At the bottom centre of the board, a small drawing featuring one of Art Fight's mascots can be seen, wearing a ghost costume.

Graphics made by: https://artfight.net/~Scribedhearts
Mascot artwork made by: https://artfight.net/~hanuh

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

#QueerPrompts Hello! I'm Ninni, an ace queer fantasy writer working on a fantasy series. Bonds that aren't romantic are important to me and I love writing different dynamics displaying these bonds with other people like friends, family, pets, but also to yourself.

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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🌈 Hi #QueerWriters! #QueerPrompts is your chance to talk about your WIP/story/book, meet other queer authors, and have fun! 🏳️‍🌈 📚 While focussed on queer fiction, any writers are welcome to use these prompts! Include the tag #QueerPrompts and join at any time and on any days you want. 🎃

1. Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book
2. LGBTQ History Month: Any queer history mentioned in your story?
3. Free Friday or National Body Language Day: Do you add body language when writing conversations between characters?
4. National Cinnamon Roll Day: Any cinnamon roll character?
5. Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having?
6. National Coaches Day: Any coaches in your story? (fitness, life coach, etc.)
7. National Inner Beauty Day: Does your story address outer vs inner beauty?
8. International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of personality of a favorite lesbian character
9. Curses or bad luck in story?
10. Free Friday or World Mental Health Day: Has positive queer rep in books helped your mental health?
11. National Coming Out Day: Do any of your characters come out in your story?
12. Astrology/horoscopes in story?
13. Indigenous People's Day: What people would be indigenous to where your story takes place?
14. Ghosts or spirits in story?
15. International Pronoun Day: GIF/Audio or description of how easily your character(s) adjust(s) to new pronouns
16. Dictionary Day: What word in the dictionary would have your MC's face next to it?
17. Free Friday or pitch your story as a horror novel
18. Line that foreshadows danger or scary scene/snippet
19. National LGBT Center Awareness Day: Where do your characters go to feel safe?
20. National Day on Writing: Favorite/least favorite part of the writing process
21. Asexual Awareness Week: Ace rep in story?
22. GIF/Audio or description of what emotion(s) you want/expect your story to make readers feel?
23. Does your MC/characters like being scared?
24. Free Friday or spooky queer reading recs
25. International Artist Day: Art share or role of art in your story
26. Intersex Awareness Day: Intersex or non-traditional gendered character(s)?
27. MC/character's worst nightmare
28. Rate your MC's and/or villain's scariness level from 1-10
29. National Cat Day: GIF/Audio or descrip

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

#QueerPrompts I wrote one chapter in wbw. That's one more chapter than existed before! My disney/fairy tales inspired D&D campaign is going swell. Group is great and engaged, Creative wise, a good month!

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

#QueerPrompts "Don't think too much about it, or it will break."

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

#QueerPrompts In WBW, schools aren't too common. Our MCs live in a small village where it's common one inherits their craft. A family of blacksmiths, cobblers, witches, etc, with some travelling outliers.

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

#QueerPrompts That would be Jake with the most crushes. He's one of the few characters who's not aro and will have two crushes throughout the series. Most other characters are both ace and aro, so there's little of that.

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#QueerPrompts I'm very loose with goals due to easily being burnt out, but I hope to build a consistent writing habit. Maybe once every other day or once a week? I'd love to finish wbw within a year. First draft! I'd love to finish the first draft within a year!

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

#QueerPrompts Birke has five seasons, and the story starts in the season between Winter and Spring. The five seasons are from old norse with two winter seasons.

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

#QueerPrompts Wendy has had peace her whole life and longs for adventure. She grew up hearing about the life her aunt had and wants the same. Adina is from another land and doesn't live in the village, but visits whenever her travels bring her there. Oliver is just. There

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

#QueerPrompts WBW is set in a land where nature is sacred, so they all would. Oliver would be keen on helping animals, Wendy would help the fauna, and Adina would drive out what is hurting them.

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

#QueerPrompts I grew up a girl and I like feminine things but don't like gender roles and shiver at being referred to as a woman. I want to be a dad not a mum, I want to be a bride not a groom. Found ace at 18. Thought I was lesbian at 25; was not. Thus, ace queer. #longstoryshort

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

#QueerPrompts Adina's biggest love is herself. She knows her worth and won't allow anyone to step over her. She stands by her principles, bails when she isn't treated right, won't allow anything to stop her from achieving what she wants, and will murder anyone attacking what she holds dear: friends

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Hello! If you followed me for a #steddie post I recommend my tumblr where I post short scenes and have a tag for my #steddiefanfic pluttskutt.tumblr.com/tagged/ninni...

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Posts on pluttskutt tagged as ninni writes steddie

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

#QueerPrompts My book has a main cast of ace and aro characters, so this rep can not be found in my series.

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I apologies for changing pfp every time I come on here. It will happen again

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#QueerPrompts WBW starts in Birke, a land inspired by old Norse culture and legends. Two of the MC's are part of that culture. One of them is descendant from a bloodline of blacksmiths, and the other is from a bloodline of witches.

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

can't decide on a pfp for the life of me. every time i go on here i wanna switch it up

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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 13/09/2025

A Study on Magic and Crystals is coming out October 24th and you can get it now on pre-order! Or, request an eARC and read early! Talita must travel to the fairy city to learn magic and count on Marcela and Solis for help Preorder: maybarros.com.br/a-study-on-m... eARCs: forms.gle/MpadTKhTshki...

Aesthetics - A collection of 9 images. From left to right, top to bottom: 1 - Photo of people dancing in a night club a mid strobing lights; 2 - Photo of a black woman with afro hair in a wintery landscape, whearing a crown and silver jewelry, with a gorgeous intricate ballgown; 3 - Image of fairy wings; 4 - Photo of a white woman with dark hair, dark brown eyes, pink eyeshadow holding a skull and looking down on you; 5 - Photo of a paper surrounded by flowers, with the words "do small things with great love" on it; 6 - Photo of a white femme-presenting person with pink short hair, light eyes looking straight at the viewer; 7 - Photo of the woods, with a beam of light coming from the right, illuminating the area in a really pretty way; 8 - Photo fo a castle with high towers, surronded by trees with mountains in the background; 9 - Close-up photo of amethysts;

Cover of A Study on Magic and Crystals by May Barros. Shows the main characters: a fairy with short pink hair, white skin and pink wings; a black human princess with afro hair, wearing a pearly crown and a yellow ballgown, while she makes crystals float between her hands; and a human necromancer with white skin, black chanel hair and a skeletal cat on her shoulder.

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#QueerPrompts "That's everything, huh? No weapons... no friends... no hope... Take all that away and what's left?" "Me."

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

#QueerPrompts I published the last chapter of my 100k #steddie project this April, and bought an artwork of them as a cover for it (my header). I've asked the artist and will be printing it out this winter to display in my home!

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

#QueerPrompts Biggest change is to a character named "Alis" who I wanted to be in too much. Her personality was all over the place, her plot relevance was too much, and I ended up splitting her into two separate characters. Adina and Alis are two well fleshed out characters now.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 01/09/2025

Duck Prints Press, indie publisher founded by fancreators to help fancreators publish their original LGBTQIA+ work, needs YOU! 🫵 Seeking: new backers for our Patreon! People who boost our post about it a chance to win a book! Learn all the many details on our webpage: tinyurl.com/mus57v48 🌈📚 📚💙

Graphic with a pale blue background. It features a white duck looking with a smirk toward the viewer, his winges spread behind him; the wings have a rainbow gradient. Text on the gaphic reads "Support Duck Prints Press on Patreon, Receive a Backer Exclusive Freebie or any merch item up to $5."

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

#QueerPrompts i don't write with lessons intended, I'm only writing for a cool fantasy story. Friendship? Adventure is neat? Leaving your comfort zone is neat?

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

#QueerPrompts Not more respectful towards elders than others.

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

#QueerPrompts For "Free Friday" I present this moodboard with child vs adult Oliver:

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AdorkaStock @adorkastock.com · 04/09/2025

It's not even a bat, anyway. This was the Early Days and I didn't have props or a budget or anything so it's just part of my vacuum cleaner. 😭✨ The sandals were my response to people asking me to stop wearing high heels all the time haha

thin white female model holding a bat over her shoulders

thin white female model holding a bat by her side, chin up

thin white female model holding a bat as if to swing it

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

#QueerPrompts Before my characters go off on their adventure, they go to the village witch Inga. She pushes them to go. They also find their friend who's known to wander. No one even knows where she's from. She goes with them on this adventure.

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

#QueerPrompts I would say that the most difficult decision is to keep going or retreat. It's safer to retreat, but what about the one counting on them to keep going?

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

900 words written today ✍️

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I have a character named "Wendy" I created about 10 years ago, but now when I write this wip I feel the name is out of place. It takes place in a land inspired by old norse culture, and I feel a different name would suit her much better

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

#QueerPrompts I'm Ninni, an ace queer fantasy author. Bonds like friendships, family, and to yourself are a big focus in my writing. "Witches be Witchin'" is the second novel in my series. It's a high fantasy adventure following three friends returning a strange egg to where it belongs.

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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

#FantasyIndiesSeptember, #SeptemberThrills, & #QueerPrompts September 1: Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book 🙋🏼‍♂️ I'm CJ, queer romantasy author and artist! I write stories about the (sometimes literal) magic of queer love and friendships, often with a slice of humor. linktr.ee/cjaralore

Space background with the text on top: "Explore the magic of first love..."
Center is five covers and descriptions:
Gravity's Fire: A runaway teen discovers magic is real when he meets the boy he's dreamed of all his life in this YA fantasy romcom that's perfect for fans of Jason June & F.T. Lukens.
Gravity's Rise: Max tells Nix a story about two boys and the magic that unites them.
Rise (Lucky Chance): Lucky is a walking disaster until they meet Chance and their luck changes.
Like Stars on the Wind: Acum hides from the dangerous burning his feelings for Tarax bring.
Ash's Burning Heart: Ash feels hopeless until a handsome stranger saves him from a dragon.
Bottom image: A cartoon version of CJ and his partner next to the signature "CJ Aralore" with the text "Queer Romantasy Author & Artist" and "@cjaralore | linktr.ee/cjaralore."

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

#QueerPrompts - Published a short story - Began 2nd draft on a book in my series - Saw improvement on my drawing skill

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

#QueerPrompts My corrupt government is called Siruna, and they're referred to as "The army" too in my series. Lucy is one of the top soldiers, and her story touches this subject. It's no spoiler Siruna is corrupt, but I won't spoil how far Lucy would go, or if she'd even try.

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Aurora Swan @pluttskutt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

#QueerPrompts #FreeFriday I just published a short story I wrote about 10 years ago and it's boosted up my will to write my series. My first story will be high fantasy. The first draft is in my native tongue, so my first step will be translating it to English.

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