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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Blanket apology to anyone who's ever had a conversation with me I just caught myself using the word 'outré' casually

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's FINALLY warm enough to write in the park again, I could cry with joy 😭

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Michelle Harford 🦆 @onesmallduck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reviving some old skills for new stock. Available at Coburg Makers Market this Sunday. #artistsonbs #pyrography #woodburning

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well this funded before I had time to share it here (in just 13 hours!!) so now we're racing to see if we can double our author payments—and how many future anthologies it can secure (there's a poll, if you're curious about the possibilities) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

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Teeth Anthology — Physical Edition!

Teeth is a queer SFF anthology about things that bite. It’s about the startling gleam of a fang in the moonlight, the vulnerability of soft flesh, the sensual pleasure of sinking your teeth into somet...

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

POV you meet him in the woods, wyd?

Photo of a tiny fat crocheted baphomet doll in grey with purple hooves, nub horns, and wings

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Top priority on tomorrow's to-do list

to-do list item which reads: take Baphomet for photos

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm getting "your knee braces can reduce or even eliminate knee pain" tattooed on the backs of my eyelids in the hopes that doing so will remind me to use them

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The trouble with finishing any larger scale creative project is: what now??

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Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

PSA turns out the fastest way to write a short story is by using it to procrastinate on writing a novel

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today's story research: discovery of blood types, Victorian unlicensed theatre, 19th century wheelchairs

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Finished Nigel Cawthorne's Witches: The History of a Persecution last night so this morning, for something much more upbeat and less harrowing, I have started Scott Carney's The Red Market, a book about the human body (part) trade.

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The real adult content is when you message a friend to tell them about your new bathroom cleaner with perfectly sincere excitement

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Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇 “Fealty” WIP 17.5k/100k @theeldervampire.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I've officially opened pre-orders for The Witch of Eden Hollow! 🏳️‍🌈 2 romances 🏳️‍⚧️ T4T Old Man Yaoi 🔮 WitchXHunter 🌿 Plant Magic ⛪ Religion/Cult is an Antagonist 💔 Old, Buried Grief A story of love, trust, & defying the odds stacked against them. Releases October 9th! gt-anthony.itch.io/witch-x-hunter

Background Image: A sparse autumn forest cast in shadow with a fenced open field in the background.

Pitch:
Inquisitor T. Sterling is hired by the pious town of Eden Hollow to hunt down the witch that commands an ancient forest known as the Elder Grove.
Reclusive, guarded, and untrusting, Elias finds with dread that the only way he can save his forest (and himself) from an untimely demise is to work with the hunter that was hired to kill him.
Within Eden Hollow, Avery Miller struggles with the town's restrictive Puritan rules, forced to hide his love for another man and a sudden magical ability that manifests within him.
As their lives intertwine and tensions rise, secrets that were kept locked away seep through the cracks, and what they find very well may destroy them.

170k word novel
2 romance plots
Trans, Gay, and Disability Rep
Themes Surrounding Grief and Religious Trauma

Book cover on the right:
"The Witch of Eden Hollow" by G.T. Anthony
Forest green cover with pale goldenrod font. There is an emblem centerpiece in the middle of the cover depicting a ring made of woven branches with wilting vines wrapped around it. In the middle of it is a brown hare. Behind it is a background of a patch of daisies.

Page 1 of The Witch of Eden Hollow

Excerpt:
Firm knocks upon a wooden door echoed across the town square. The silence that followed made Inquisitor Sterling’s blood boil.

“I know you are there.” His voice was firm, cutting. “Open the door.”

Another heavy rapping. Several officers were waiting behind him, and the air grew charged as more silence passed.

“In the name of God, I demand you open this door.”

No response. She thought she could hide, but he was prepared for that.

Sterling jerked his head to the officers behind him. “Break it down,” he muttered, stepping back.

Steering himself clear of the splintering wood, he brought his hand to the hilt of his sword. The cold iron brought him some comfort for what lay ahead.

Three hard crashes of the ram were all it took to bring the door down. The officers cleared a path for Sterling to enter first. The pitch interior did not deter him as he stepped over the rubble.

“Madame Willow?” The mere name alone brought an acrid taste to Sterling’s mouth as he began to withdraw his blade. “If you come out quietly, I will make it painless.”

He jerked his head to the officers again, a silent command to surround the hut. There would be no escape.

“You have the wrong idea, Inquisitor.” A raspy voice in the darkness got his attention.

Background image: A dense patch of white daisies in a meadow. It's dawn, and the sunrise if peeking through the tree line in the background.

At the center of the image is a book cover. To the left and right are different comps (movies and books on the left, songs on the right)

Book Cover: "The Witch of Eden Hollow" by G.T. Anthony
Forest green cover with pale goldenrod font. There is an emblem centerpiece in the middle of the cover depicting a ring made of woven branches with wilting vines wrapped around it. In the middle of it is a brown hare. Behind it is a background of a patch of daisies.

Lefthand comps: "If you like:"
Slewfoot by Brom or The Witch (2015)
for: "Embrace what they claim you are + Religion is an antagonist"
Midsommar (2019) or Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
for: "Portrayals of Grief"
The Wicker Man (1973)
for: "Outsider vs. Cult"
Strange Magic (2014)
for: "Enemies to Lovers"

Righthand comps (music): "And Also Like:"
1. Excelsis by Ghost
2. In the Woods Somewhere by Hozier
3. Winter Bird by AURORA
4. Isle of Wight (Traditional) from The Witch's soundtrack (composed by Mark Korven, sung by Katherine Hill)

Bottom caption: Releasing 9th October 2026

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Rheumatologist felt every one of my vertebrae individually through three layers of clothing & then told me to lose weight for my knee pain. I weighed 45kg at the time. (At 37kg now you will all be shocked to learn, I'm sure, that my knees still hurt).

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Lalo! @lalowolveralo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In the mood for queer romance? Queer vampire romance, perhaps? Wanna read about a boyfailure trans man falling for his goth vampire roommate? Fill out the Be My Renfield ARC form today! For the low, low price of an honest review, this book can be yours! #indieauthor #queerbooks #booksky #vampire

A graphic that reads "ARC requests now available! Link to form in bio!" While also displaying the cover for Be My Renfield by Carolina Cruz and drawings of the two main chraacters, Valentine (a man with shaggy brown hair and dark eyes wearing a blue flannel, jorts and a Nine Inch Nails shirt) and Pete (a man who is a vampire with fluffy dark hair and goth makeup wearing an 80s goth ensemble complete with a skirt, chunky belt and heels)

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

TKMaxx has their Halloween range in so it must be time to re-share the (free!) witch hat beanie pattern I published in October last year. Have worn it every cold day since, highly rec making yourself one. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

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Basic Witch Beanie pattern by softestpunk

With a cosy oversized silhouette and a subtle pointy crown, Basic Witch is the modern witch’s casual option for chillier days.

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Currently reading A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants and cannot get over this. "Do you have a morphine habit? Kick it with super morphine!"

Screenshot of text which reads: In 1900 the charitable St. James Society offered free heroin through the mail to anyone wishing to kick morphine.

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🩸devil's minion pilled🩸 @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

thou hast been blessed by the ibuprofen knight praise be ⚔️💚

A digital illustration of a knight in black plate armour. They hold out their hand towards you, and floating above them are ibuprofen tablets. They say "let us take ibuprofen together"

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Backerkit campaign for Teeth is in pre-launch & if you follow it you get one of the stories in the anthology for ✨FREE✨ instantly. Teeth is a queer SFF erotica anthology featuring five stories I'm so excited to share with the world because they're so good!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

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Teeth Anthology — Physical Edition!

Get notified when Teeth Anthology — Physical Edition! launches on BackerKit!

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Reframing is a powerful mental tool! For example, I am no longer asking "how many yellow cardigans do I need?" but instead "how many yellow cardigans could I acquire if I really set my mind to it?"

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Wait… since when did the library have merch?” Sweetheart the merch has BEEN in circulation! 📚✨ What IS new, is our white tanks 🌀 So tie-dye, color and decorate to your heart's content, then 🖌️POST and 🎨TAG us so we can all celebrate your creativity! shop.worxprinting.coop/collections/...

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Things I have looked up this morning for a short story which is currently only 900 words long: fish anatomy, 19th century rope, human anatomy, do sharks have red blood.

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There are (unfortunately) many benefits to running but the best one has to be how good it feels to lie down after. Don't know what you've got 'til it's gone type phenomenon.

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Wild & Sweet contains two short stories told from Terran's perspective! 🦌 Today only, free on Ko-Fi and Itch! It will be $1 after that! 💛 Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/fb282f3099 Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/wild-sweet Cover artist: clarylovesbooks.my.canva.site/illustrator-...

The cover of Wild & Sweet by Alex Larkspur
It features two men, Micah and Terran, gazing at each other in a forest. Micah has blond hair, peach skin, and freckles. He's wearing a cream shirt and a straw hat. He's gripping the strap of his bag and blushing as he looks up at Terran. Terran is a tall man with tan skin and a dark brown hair that trails into green. He has pointed ears and antlers. He's wearing a brown shirt and a silver necklace and is crossing his arms as he smiles down at Micah

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

God I wish that were me 😂

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This tastes fine but "contains no real fruit" is an extremely funny marketing claim. Artificial flavours ONLY.

Photo of a can of Celsius energy drink in the flavour Sunset Vibe which claims to contain no real fruit, essential flavours, zero sugar, and green tea extract

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Don't have century but Gloria's been a ghost for almost a hundred years! 👻🎂

Screenshot of text which reads: Next year would be her hundredth deathiversary. I was still trying to figure out what to do for it. Didn’t seem like the kind of thing to celebrate, exactly, but I felt like I ought to acknowledge it somehow.

I would’ve sent flowers to her grave, but she’d been cremated. It was a myth that cremating remains destroyed ghosts. I didn’t know why anyone believed it—they were fundamentally not attached to the bodies they’d had in life anymore. That was how death worked.

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've seen a lot of AI-generated writing for assorted reasons and for a few paragraphs you could be fooled that it was simply not very good human writing but after that it becomes staggeringly obvious it's AI-generated. If people are content with it, they are not and were never my audience.

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's Sweet & Wild's anniversary this week! Tomorrow, it will have been out for an entire year! Ahh! Until August 3rd, both Sweet & Wild and A Taste of Wild Honey are 50% off on Itch and Ko-Fi! 💛🐝🌼 Itch: itch.io/s/196800/swe... Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...

Sweet & Wild Anniversary Sale - 50% off Sweet & Wild and A Taste of Wild Honey on Itch and Ko-Fi
A picture that depicts Terran, a man with tan skin, dark brown and green hair, and antlers lifts Micah, a man with light skin, blonde hair, and a straw hat as they kiss. There are flowers and trees behind them
A pale yellow background and a wildflower border

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You could fill a library with books I haven't written but the one that sticks around in my head is a fantasy pirate trilogy which is all about found family/sticking it to the man/love conquering all/the hot genderfluid protagonist which I have simply never quite felt up to the task of. One day!!

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's unclear how ghosthood works in A Werewolf For Christmas. Augie doesn't think unfinished business quite explains it but on the other hand he can't imagine not being a ghost one day himself. His aunt, however, didn't stick around after her death (much to his dismay).

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

imagine billions of years of crashing planets and amoebas turnin into fish turnin into you and each choice your great great grandparents made then BANG theres GLORIOUS IMPOSSIBLY SPECIAL YOU. can you FATHOM that entities art being anything less then ten out of ten five stars? ridiculous. its perfect

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C.Quince🌈 Author @cquince.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#booksky #specfic What if England never formed? What if by the turn of the 16th Century, Britain was still made up of separate, warring kingdoms? Meanwhile Europe & Asia has already formed the medieval EU & they've had enough of Britain being annoying? Is where my new book begins! *jazz hands*

Text reads "uh did you just write a novel about BREXIT disguised as a medieval fantasy with epic magic battles, a sentient border wall, and sword fights? That's right I did.

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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Honoria: A Runner Owen Short Story Owen is sent by his prince to investigate a housewife's mysterious death... 🔍 Murder mystery 🏰 Gothic Victorian fantasy world 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans man MC 🦇 Vampires ☕ Tea ❤️ MM royal/servant yearning Get it pwyw on itchio: vincentlore.itch.io/honoria

Cover for Honoria A Runner Owen Short Story. It features a woman's silhouette with a red spot behind her, a circle of shadows around the center, and two skull and leaves borders in the same pale golden yellow as the title text and author name, Vincent Lore

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It would be easy to imagine romance novelists as warm fuzzy people who are all sunshine and rainbows and while that is true of me it is also true that I'm sitting here cackling over the breakup scene as I twist the serrated knife I've inserted between this poor man's ribs.

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I absolutely insist on David Attenborough

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Grab the Romance and Erotica bundle on itch! 36 romance or erotica books by 20+ authors, all for only $30.00 USD! Cry Wolf is part of the pack, and it normally sells for $4.99 USD alone! itch.io/b/3779/july-... #booksky 📢📚

"July Romance and Erotica Bundle" promo image. Features the covers of many books from the bundle promoted on itch.io -- https://itch.io/b/3779/july-romance-and-erotica-bundle

Art by Luigiix - extreme close-up of a wolf's eyes. The eye is yellow-gold, surrounded by dirty-blonde fur. At the top is the title 'Cry Wolf' in yellow lettering. At the bottom, in smaller font is 'To a Monster Bound 1' and 'PJC Cahill'
Luigiix's DA page: https://www.deviantart.com/luigiix
Luigiix's Commission Info page: https://www.deviantart.com/luigiix/journal/Commissions-444182461

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Rereading Queen of the Damned and absolutely lost it at "Armand had eight phones." That's him that's my 500-year-old iPad baby 🥰

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Max meeting his tiny nephew for the first time in A Werewolf for Christmas 🥰

Screenshot of text which reads: Alex switched free hands to ruffle Benji’s hair, smiling down at him. “Hey, trouble. Say hi to Uncle Max.”

Benji turned and stared up at me. He was heart-meltingly adorable, just like Flora.

Then he tipped his head back and let out a long, high-pitched howl.

I managed to let him finish before I started laughing. “Awoo to you too, kiddo,” I said, crouching to his level. We’d drawn a few stares, but there was no sense of a threat about them. A few people cooing or laughing to themselves. “That was a pretty good howl. You been practicing?”

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C.Quince🌈 Author @cquince.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tropes, microtropes! e-ARC signups opening this week! 🎉 #booksky #queerbooks #lgbt #gayromance #mmromance #mmfantasy Add it on Goodreads www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... Add it on The Storygraph app.thestorygraph.com/books/7fa07a...

Alt text: two medieval warriors stand back to back, swords drawn, in a dark forest of thorns. One young man is a knight of western origin, pale skin, brunet, one long straight sword, the other young man is west Asian and wearing Turkic clothing, brown skin, brunet, using two shorter curved swords.
Title reads At the Border of Destiny, by C.Quince.
The artist is Kalimpaszmadar.

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Important information: the Macro Mike Golden Gaytime protein powder does in fact taste exactly like a Golden Gaytime.

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Coming July 28th, my slow-burn cozy fantasy in which the new herbalist in town has to break the curse on a reclusive fey lord before summer ends, only he's never broken a curse in his life and there's something not right about everything... Preorder it today! books.earlronove.com/whenyesterda...

a vintage looking graphic promoing WHEN YESTERDAY ENDS. To the left is Ambrose and Renwick in sepia as they stand back to back. Ambrose holds a book in one hand, a potion in the other, and doesn't look the most pleased. Renwick behind him is holding daisies in his raised hand and is smiling. Behind them is a latticed window. To the right is text describing the book. It reads:
An herbalist, a fey lord, and a curse before summer ends...
slow burn cozy fantasy
memories buried beneath magic
running away from your life leaves scars
a curse that isn't what it seems
breaking cycles
mending friendships
and more in...
WHEN YESTERDAY ENDS
books.earlronove.com/whenyesterdayends

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Currently suffering under a very strange and specific curse where half of all sweet potatoes I microwave turn out to be inedibly rotten when I cut them open 😭

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Woodland Park Zoo @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's berry season and you have the tiniest friends. These critically endangered babies are Egyptian tortoises that hatched on July 4 and 6, 2026. Currently, our Egyptian tortoises are living behind the scenes in a warm and cozy habitat with lots of attention from their dedicated animal keepers.

Two small Egyptian tortoises are positioned on either side of a bright red raspberry on a gravel surface.

A small tortoise is on a sandy surface, next to a plump blueberry

An Egyptian tortoise is close to a blueberry on a sandy surface.

Two small tortoises face a large blackberry on a gravel surface.

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Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

the SPEED at which I ran to my drawing tablet-

a cute little robot design that I drew based on the quoted image

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