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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Eventually, they'll cross paths. That's all the spoilers I think I'll give 😅

Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Here I am, finding myself talking about Alaric again. In this first book, he doesn't know Vera or Mabel. He's on the trail of an emerging pattern of rebellious activity against the Combine & what he considers to be "perfect order". That pattern he's chasing is indirectly related to our protagonists.

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I knew it was gonna be something from Mabel's 1st chapter. I had to reread to figure out which scene. I love it b/c her clay figures say everything about how she sees herself in relation to others. Ever the caregiver; the fixer. It's exactly what lands her in the middle of a galactic revolution.

She opened her jar of softstone, scooping the material out and putting it on her makeshift worktable. It was cold and slightly damp, though it had dried a little after being taken from the mine. She looked over at the other softstone figures she had made that sat on a shelf together. Mabel had crafted each of them after days like this, when she felt like she wasn’t the woman she should be.

One was of Corin, to whom she couldn’t give the life of authenticity he deserved. Another was of her father, who she couldn’t take from the mines and give a softer life in his old age. There were a few now that represented fallen miners; people whose toil for this damned machine had finally killed them. The figures were a way of honoring and caring for them, even if she felt powerless to do anything real for them.

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Aubrey is in the forest byeee 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Okay okay okay—go buy my book about lesbians fighting a dead cosmic god, its got all the classics: ✨chronically-ill chosen one ⚔️trans Valkyrie 💖slow burn, like realllll slow I’m not joking 🌙space mythology?? Space but make it fantasy? 🌑the wailing dead, the horrors, etc the-hallowed.carrd.co

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I have a general direction I want the story to go but I also tend to let stories tell me where exactly they're going to some extent. Relationship beats, reactions, emotional consequences of things that happen in the story (though some are planned). I feel a lot of those things out on the page.

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Finished drafting part 1/8 of book 1 of my planned trilogy. It's slow going, but such is working a day job or two while you write. I've created a couple new side characters and done a massive amount of worldbuilding while writing the first six chapters. I have an outline but I'm also kinda pantsing.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/06/2026

IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING. IT'S REAL. YOU CAN PRE-ORDER NOW!!!! amzn.to/4b2iESb

Killing eve meets die hard, in space. More lesbians! more space! now available for pre-order!

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 25/07/2026

It's Friday and it's time to party with some cool gay Portland magical girls. Fortunately, I have just such a thing for you. The Magica Riot series is full of trans happiness, lesbian feelings, monster fighting, and magical girl anime shenanigans. It'll make you feel things. magicariot.com/buy

The cover artwork of the novels "Magica Riot" and "Magica Riot: Full Bloom," the former featuring protagonist Claire in her purple and black magical girl costume, the latter featuring the characters Iris and Bloom in an orange dress and black dress. These are placed over a blurred photo of a keytar. Artwork of the character Nova, another trans magical girl, is placed by the book covers, and her dialogue bubble reads "It's flammin' gay!" Text above reads:
Read the adventures of Portland's queer magical girl rock band
Trans girls! Music-based magic! Lesbian feelings! Portland weird! Colorful characters! Cool band van! Goopy monsters! Evil villains! Leftist social commentary!

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I'm realizing I said that last part already recently. Woops. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Vera's eyes are a deep green, which is related to her half-Terravik heritage & the nature magic that species uses. Nila, Vera's co-pilot, has stormy grey eyes; typical for the Zephyrax species. She can also see gravitational indicators that others can't, which is something trained Zephyrax can do.

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

600-700 words is when I'm on a roll. 1000 means I was absolutely in the zone. 300-500 is usually what I end up with on a normal day (if I write at all and don't just worldbuild/research/internet rabbithole about my writing instead).

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Stefanie 🏳️‍⚧️ @foxenlock.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

BEHOLD the trans army of Nutcrackers!

A group of Christmas nutcrackers arranged on a shop shelf. They’re coloured in pink, blue and white with a bit of yellow

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

If you feel bad about your writing and creativity just remember a multi-billion dollar company in charge of a franchise worth billions of dollars wrote this line

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a man says " somehow palpatine returned " in front of a crowd

Alt: a man says " somehow palpatine returned " in front of a crowd

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.co.uk · 17/12/2025

Monthly Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share. - Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #TransSky #BookSky

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

In the Special Edition, Darth Vader chokes Admiral Motti for failing to share his pronouns at the beginning of the meeting.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Door opens on Bespin. Vader stands at the end of the table, a "you are safe with me" pin prominently displayed on his lapel.

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Bits and pieces of other people (and myself) end up in my characters; not on purpose but incidentally. Usually I only notice the similarities after I've started really developing a character and I'm like ...woops.

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Mabel, my human miner on a version Earth where it's been terraformed for the purpose of mining amethyst for the Combine (Aetheri use it in their psychic magi-tech), collects softened mineral residue from the mines & molds it into little figurines. She uses a repurposed heating plate to heat them.

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The Aetheri (Alaric's species, I promise I'll talk about a different character eventually) prefer to communicate telepathically, since they can. They even have their own magi-tech that lets them do it over distances.

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

So yeah. My dude has mommy issues. 🤷

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

His mother was the one primarily responsible for indoctrinating him with the Combine's ideology of the Harmonic Directive. It's a system of magical hierarchy, backed by pseudo-science, that positions the Aetheri (and to a lesser extent Luxari) as the "natural" leaders of society.

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Alaric has a pretty tragic relationship with family. His mother was a general in the Internal Stabilization Corps (same enforcement agency he joined) and died during the Combine's failed attempt at annexing a Frontier world. His father is distant, consumed with his career as a Combine bureaucrat.

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Alaric Whitlock, my space cop antagonist POV character, definitely does some physical combat training with his superior officer (who is also his lover). Given that he's very much into his career (and his lover), I would say he enjoys it.

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Rowena Wilder @rowenawilderwrites.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I've got my book 1 outlined chapter by chapter and the bigger plot point ideas across my planned trilogy mapped out but I will blow it all up for these characters.

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