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Oh! In other spooky season news, may I highly suggest you read the fun, queer, ghost web comic, Into the Smoke!? I gsve been loving it for a while now. intothesmokecomic.com

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Chapter 2 Starts Now!

I’m thinking about it, like: have you seen my fountain pen collection, my quilts I make every 5 years, my studio corner for my oil portraits, my sourdough, my herb garden, my roller skating moves (no you haven’t because I never have photos), my TBR pile, my art collection, my tea collection, my obse

Oh no, I’m calling you IN. 🤝

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Oh, hey, for Spooky Season, can I suggest my queer vampire Pride and Prejudice inspired short story, “A Constant, Fearful Longing,” as found in the @duckprintspress.com anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged?

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 11h

They say you should post about one ‘thing’ other than your writing. Y’know, to show you’re a human person and not a marketing machine. But, y’all, I don’t have 1 thing. I have 50. You will never think, oh yeah, Shea liked Y, because Shea runs through things so frippin’ fast.

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Welp. World’s Greatest made me cry so, that’s an endorsement. ❤️❤️❤️

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 11h

Amazing! He seems a delight.

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 12h

Burning my favorite candle in honor of fall. Thank goodness for fall. Now I just need a vacation.

Photo of hexagonal clock and a small candle by Speculative Wicktion (on Etsy). Top of container is against the clock. It reads, “Statement Begins Sandalwood, Vanilla and Spice,” and has an image of a cassette.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 12h

I cannot think of a single Situation where this is not true.

unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 05/10/2026

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Did you think Pride was over because June has past? Saturday, October 10th is Collar City Pride at Riverfront Park in Troy, New York! See a drag show and local performers hosted by Stella Progress and Lady Seanzia and check out our vendor market from 2 to 6. More info: www.collarcitypride.org/pride

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, I wonder if they think people will self report? Or are they just killing time until they figure out an actual policy? What a mess, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this.

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“May have.” What the actual fuck.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m so tired, thank goodness for the good ppl of the internet. ❤️

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely! It’s not so much a reason as… having it rooted in character. I just found K.J. Charles last year and I am FEASTING. Slowly. 😂

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YES! It took me a while to decide if I ‘liked’ it and I thought, that’s a sign! It’s clearly doing its job if I’m still thinking about it and trying to categorize and quantify it. Oof. It has stuck with me for sure!

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love writing into why a character is into a thing I’m not into. I’ve been sold on a great many kinks that way! 😂 and I love K.J Charles but haven’t read that one… it’s going on my list!

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yelen and Yelena by @cmrosens.com was on the shortlist for me! 🤝

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I want sex that moves the plot and provides insight into character. Most erotica i read does that. But Docile by K.M. Sparza uses sex in such an incredible way - it is both intensely erotic and incredibly disturbing. It demands a lot of a reader, and I love that.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m still contemplating my answer, but my DPP folks will be all over this! :)

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hate how cheerfully viruses just take you down. It’s rude, really.

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A little poem for a Monday: Cubicle View I feed myself to the machine. I feed myself to the machine. I feed the machine. The machine. Machine. Machine. Machine. Machine.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gremlins didn’t scare me but it made me SOOO sad. Like, her dad got stuck in the chimney? He was trying to do something nice???

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh, fuck, yes. I'm glad I've been using it for years.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Right? Not so smart after all, are ya, phone? 🤦

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just tried to zoom in by turning up the volume on my phone. So, that’s how my day is going. How ‘bout you?

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Rob Cameron @brklyndragon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wait until they get to the pretentious copy edited draft.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I just read a fic that made me reassess my dog’s mystifying behavior (he’s terrified of everything, including long grass, anything that moves, and many noises I can’t hear.)

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

😂 I think we might be attributing AI to the wrong things.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I used my weed whacker for the first time and that thing is a DREAM. This is how I imagine it is, to use a perfectly balanced blade.

Rascal Hartley @rascalhartley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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You quite simply must experience these for yourself. I'm biting at the release date bars.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most of what I read is new. I’m trying to mix it up a little. So, I started reading Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, Crush by Richard Siken, and I have a new translation of Gilgamesh waiting for me to get freed up.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 1 prompts for them that have time! It’s not me, unfortunately, but I’ll be cheering from the sidelines! Kink. Your. TOBER!

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m taking a fiction class right now 3 hrs a week, plus reviews and assignments. It’s too much and it’s wearing my down, even though I like it (MS, you bitch). BUT I did just see that a person I really like in the teaching space is offering a more intensive class in January and…

Kombucha girl meme: girl sips; girl grimaces in an ‘absolutely not’ way; girl raises eyebrows and looks to one side as if reconsidering.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah-mazing. Thank you for the lore!

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My sweet shifter boys, Clovis and Kyle, meet at a coffee shop in my story from Add Magic to Taste.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am afraid to ask and yet I must. The milk fic?

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve missed a few weeks, but got back to roller skating tonight and… I almost didn’t go because I was exhausted and depressed but it was absolutely the right thing to do. Skating is always the right thing to do.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. Normative = the norm. That’s how I always took it.

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes I listen to financial podcasts while I work. I know, I know. But the quickest way to lose me is to mention that “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” was an inspiration. Right, just take advantage of people and pretend they’ve asked for it. 🤬 This mentality is the definition of what is wrong with the US.

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He was quirky and very lovable. Thanks! ❤️❤️❤️

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s been a busy and taxing series of weeks. BUT, I’ve got three stories I’m really pleased with, one of which already has a home with @duckprintspress.com. Taking this writing class is, frankly, too much. But I can’t be sorry, even as my body makes me pay.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just finished reading The Mystery of the Bitten Peach by Cecilia Tan, and what a fun, thought provoking romp through time and relationship and identity. I still can’t believe how much was packed into 131 pages.

Book cover reads: Cecilia Tan, The Mystery of the Bitten Peach. Features a Chinese person in Chinese garments holding a dragon mask that covers one eye in one hand, and a large jade peach in the other.

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, exactly. Like… can we just lift each other up? And like, he was trying not to come across judgey but he was CLEARLY feeling very judgey. 😂 and look, I have my biases as well, but… every genre has its bangers and clunkers. And we generally can’t agree on which is which, so…

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And then he said genre writing is predictable, basically, and not lesser (but kinda lesser) than literary work. *sigh* I mean, to each their own, man, but you clearly aren’t reading the speculative stuff I’m reading.

Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just heard Yann Martel describe using AI to write as being like hiring someone to have sex for you. Amen. Pry my pen from my cold, dead hands.