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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Which one? There's a thriller, a dark fantasy, a historical speculative, a romcom.... #lgbtqwriteathon

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Sam Peil 🧟😈🤡 @sampeil.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

THE LAST OF US x THE WALKING DEAD in which three bi disasters navigate the zombie apocalypse. #horror, headshots & hookups 🏳️‍🌈 #posterpit #q #h #lgbt #nd

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

#queerwriterschat Long nights: Shard Virat Naadiya Long days: Seth Cody JoJo Daniel Both bc who needs sleep: Felix Rabbit

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

#queerwriterschat Hi, I'm Riv, author and editor. I've got a romantic thriller on sub, and I'm writing a regular thriller as well as a dark fantasy and some poetry.

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

#queerprompts Free Friday? The current sexualities in this WIP draft. Who knows what will change as I go. Trans masc Bisexual Gay Pan Lesbian Demi & ace Aro

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

What secrets do they keep from each other? 🤣🤣😭 Spoilers, sweetie. #queerprompts

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

#queerprompts What food would my characters be? A SNACK *badum-dum ching* Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all month.

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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The Māori word for #autism is takiwatanga, ‘in their own time and space’ I for one think it’s lovely to describe the condition I can relate to this as I find focusing on one thing at a time works better for me.

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Me: Ugh, I wonder why it feels so sticky out. It's not even hot today. Dear Reader....

A Car's digital temperature display stating 96° f

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

So far, action adventure with RPG elements, but within a narrative structure. Visual novel action adventure? 😂 #queerprompts

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

PBS’s official Facebook page posted this. I don’t think they’re going quietly.

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I mean, V has his wheelchair for bad leg days. Seth has patient found family who wait calmly for his anxiety to let him speak. My tism babies embrace it. My ADHDers became hackers bc who can sit in an office and listen to people for eight hours, really? #queerwriterschat #queerwriters

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Oooh yes! Depending on your definition: Butterfly thriller WIP: Ambulatory wheelchair user (peripheral neuropathy) Anxiety Autism ADHD BPD Sociopathy Disordered eating Flies thriller on sub: cPTSD PTSD ADHD Autism Amputee #queerwriterschat #queerwriters

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

#queerwriterschat I'm Riv, author and editor. I'm a witchy enby writing in stolen minutes around three jobs, eeek. I've got a romantic thriller on sub (queernormative) and a thriller WIP (can I get away with a trans MC? I've got at least four drafts left to decide.)

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"Undocumented immigrants pay $100 billion in taxes a year. The rich dodge $170 billion in taxes a year. So if you really want to deport the freeloaders..." ⁻ ᴳⁱᵛᵉ ᴬ ˢʰⁱᵗ ᴬᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᴺᵃᵗᵘʳᵉ

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Shard is here to save her baby and GTFO. But life doesn't always work out. Hell, for her, it never does. Seth is trying to keep his found family together as betrayal and kidnapping and secrets tear them apart. My poor baby. #writingq

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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

We are crowd-funding for our third anthology, the #horror themed OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM! This book features masters of horror fiction from around the world. Scheduled for October 2025 release. Have a look at the authors announced so far: www.indiegogo.com/projects/of-... #horrorbooks

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Of Dread, Decay, and Doom: a Horror Anthology

A horror-themed anthology edited by Jendia Gammon and Gareth L. Powell. | Check out 'Of Dread, Decay, and Doom: a Horror Anthology' on Indiegogo.

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Two chapters back from my alpha reader. Now I can relax and actually work on the next one 😂

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Someone break out the whip and tell me to get writing. Distractions are distractioning today. #writingcommunity

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#latenightwrite I'm not consciously subverting. I just write the characters as they are, like real people--enbies with teal hair and sass, ace hackers, pan con artists, etc. Does writing as an enby cause subconscious subversion? SECRET SUBVERT

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#latenightwrite I'm Riv! I've got a romantic thriller set in Chicago that's out on sub. While I wait, I'm drafting another thriller, this time with a heist 🔥 Bonus round: blue Curacao on the rocks. Don't judge me 😂

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Depends on the story. Shard's fear and guardedness and drive to protect her child make her vulnerable and human Seth (name subject to change) is a walking cinnamon roll so 😂 #queerprompts

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#IAmNonbinary with a queernormative romantic thriller on sub and another queers-out thriller in the works!

Red and black mood board with a woman in a sexy red dress, the same woman hiding with a gun, a broken wine glass, a man's folded hands, the silhouette of high heels, the spines of classic books, a chess scene with a pawn taking out the king, and a woman in a lace blindfold with a finger held to her red lips.
The middle has the opening quote, "Shard settled into today's identity like a second skin.”

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 14/07/2025

For 99% of people, the only advice you need on writing your book is "actually write it." Like, there's loads of advice I can give you on it once you've done that. But for the most part "stop fantasizing about it and put words on a damn page" is the correct answer.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It's Non-binary Day! After years of being "a tomboy" and "androgynous" and "allergic to pink" and "you look like a lesbian" (😂 they're not wrong), I finally tattooed the truth on my ankle. Non-binary flag in the non-binary symbol 🌈 #nonbinary #lgbtq

The non-binary symbol with the circle filled in with the non-binary flag stripes, tattooed on a person's ankle

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JoanHaskins6 @fusciacat.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

ICE is no longer immigration enforcement. It’s a sprawling secret police with a budget bigger than some nations’ armies. No oversight. Questionable training. Just masks, unmarked vans, and executive authority. If you think this stops at the border, you’re not paying attention.

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Ready for something new? Drafting a new thriller. It definitely won't rip out your heart. #writingcommunity

A photo collage of a young woman with long purple hair, a broken camera, headphones and a stuffed bunny, a close-up of her mouth with her tongue out and a lighter flame, and the quote, chill, it's only chaos.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

2021: There is no AI, you're doing your own laundry. 2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry. 2025: There is AI. You're still doing your own laundry. 2027: You're doing the AI's laundry.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Compliance is just sparkling bootlicking.

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Jessica 💫 @jlaurel.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

FRIDAY.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Oof.

Meme image that says “where does it hurt?” and showcases three illustrated bodies. One has the head lit up for headache, another has the stomach lit up for stomach ache, and the last is all lit up entirely with “the realization you have to actually sit down and write your book if you want to have a book out.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 29/01/2025

Just a regular reminder, be punk as fuck

A floral background with butterflies and a crescent moons with the words "In an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as fuck. Be punk as fuck." superimposed on it

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James Sergio Crocker @jamescrocker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The following cities are CONFIRMED to have expected ICE deportation operations starting Tuesday and continuing into next week: - Chicago - Los Angeles - New York - Boston - Miami - Washington, D.C. - Denver - Houston - San Antonio - Dallas Read and Repost this guide to help protect others!!

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How to Protect Your Undocumented Friends from ICE and Trump’s Mass Deportations

An Important and Timely Guide to Supporting Vulnerable Communities

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Shard needs to con a $1 million code from a hacker in 3 days to save her daughter. But someone else is after her target. A shy, curly-haired, mathy someone. Someone with almost as many secrets as she. This is one battle of wits Shard can't afford to lose. #p2ppit #S #T #R

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Lizz Porter @lizzporter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"Oh, that's so MEAN!" -me, out loud, about the plot twist I just created My poor characters.

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River Ari, queer witchy editor/author @riverari.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

#WIPsnips 2024 writing goals: Turn my thriller zero draft into a polished draft, through alpha and beta readers and ready for my agent. Finish the first draft of my dark fantasy and get it to alphas. Zero draft whatever other random idea sticks its head in and refuses to leave. Sub thriller SOLD!

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