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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Favourite view in the new house Being at my desk working and looking out at just GREEN is going to be so great The pattern for the wall was chosen by virtue of being the Least Bad option the store had but it's really growing on me

Picture of a cluttered house undergoing renovation with a wall with geomatric wallpaper in the background, a window in the middle of the wall showing only greenery

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Entered new realms of running problems because tell me why I'm going on a run at 9pm on a Sunday just to avoid losing my 10 weeks activity streak on Strava. Who am I

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Good morning from a hot Canadian east coast. It seems y'all are speedrunning towards our first stretch goal and getting our authors better pay!! We have about 6 hours to get the last ~ C$ 750, something I wouldn't have thought possible 24h ago but now.. 👀 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

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Common Bonds 3 - An Anthology of Aromantic SFF

Common Bonds 3 is an anthology of 18 SFFH short stories and poetry with aromantic main characters and a central platonic bond.

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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Tell Me I’m Pretty - 18x24” acrylic on canvas. Available.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

psst, hey, let's get Jeb to a shiny 2k!

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Reupping the bundles by other authors because I adore their works and everyone should go get them

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 27/06/2026

Calling all artists! We don't reshare our older stuff enough, so here's an excuse to do so I'll be busy in July drawing things I can't share publicly just yet, so I'm gonna repost some of my faves following these approximate themes (interpreted broadly!) Join me? #art #ArtChallenge #ArtRepostJuly

#ArtRepostJuly
Casual art challenge to repost your art! Use the list for inspiration. Interpret as you will! Alt text: yes, please. AI: no, thank you.

1 light
2 dark
3 red
4 wing
5 wet
6 dry
7 eerie
8 lovely
9 orange
10 above
11 below
12 pattern
13 colorful
14 bone
15 green
16 joy
17 melancholy
18 invertebrate
19 eye
20 whimsical
21 blue
22 small
23 large
24 plant
25 surreal
26 realistic
27 purple
28 animal
29 environment
30 black and white
31 favorite

List by Helen Whistberry

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

We are past the All or Nothing part of this! Our authors currently have 0.06 USD / words, but the more I gather, the more easily I can inch up. With ~C$ 750 more, I can probably give 0.07 / words, for example. Our production costs are covered (yay) so this goes directly to paying our people!

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

There are 48 hours left to get Common Bonds 3's authors the same pay as the Common Bonds and Common Bonds 2 crews. Please please please help me reach new backers? One last sprint of putting our aromantic sffh antho in front of as many queer sff readers as we can? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

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Common Bonds 3 - An Anthology of Aromantic SFF

Common Bonds 3 is an anthology of 18 SFFH short stories and poetry with aromantic main characters and a central platonic bond.

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It's meee! And my aromantic horror short story about hanging to amatonormativity by a thread (by feeding yourself to your zombie ex) 🧟‍♂️💚 A little under 2 days to back the anthology (and get us to the first stretch goal ☆)

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The countdown switched to hours. 69 hours. Can we get another C$ 2000 ?

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The clock says June 26 so it's my birthday!! To no one's surprise, all I want for it is more money in Common Bonds 3 💚 We only have five days left, and every new pledge is going into writers' pay! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

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Common Bonds 3 - An Anthology of Aromantic SFF

Common Bonds 3 is an anthology of 18 SFFH short stories and poetry with aromantic main characters and a central platonic bond.

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Life is worth living again it's the end of the school year and I got a handmade gift (Student drew these, and I quote, "ugly hamsters in her notebook and I complimented/joked about them so I got a full canvas of them now)

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

What if you could support cool aromantic fiction AND aromantic indie SFF authors? As part of our campaign for Common Bonds 3, you can grab this bundle of four stories by previous Common Bonds authors! Authors get a cut of the sale, too <3 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... 🌈📚️ #PrideMonth

Grab a bundle of aromantic SFF. 4 stories from previous Common Bonds contributors, available for CA$ 15 (US$ 11).

The stories are: Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver, Werecockroach by Polenth Blake, Create My Own Perfection by E.H. Timms and Natural Outlaws and Fractured Sovereignty by S. M. Pearce

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Finished a short story ON the deadline day, and I suddenly realized it really should be a novella instead of short. Sent it anyway. If I get rejected I'll probably deserve it, but you never know! 😭

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I have a story in Common Bonds 3 :) So excited to be a part of this antho series. On Why You Shouldn't Bring Your Ex Back From The Dead is about Leo, a necromancy student, who brings back his ex from the dead and immediately regrets it OR what if a zombie was the amatonormativity you can't let go

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's that delightful time of the year, for which I have waited so eagerly: the COMMON BONDS 3 Table of Content Reveal 💙 This aromantic anthology will have a crowdfunding campaign during Pride, so please follow us on BackerKit! But for now: a thread! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... 💙📚️

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Went to a drag bingo with friends (most of the room was old people actually here for the bingo, lol) & was picked out to do the noodle scene with a sausage and publicly called a sauage eater multiple times, then went on to win 5 free theatre tickets in the bingo. I have never been as Main Character

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Being a teacher really is 30% getting yourself out of Situations(tm) I really had a 16yo girl pull me aside at the end of our class with a "Can I ask you a question sir?" And the question literally was: "Do you agree this guy is hot?"

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 09/01/2026

Our FINAL (😭) teaser for Issue 04 is here! If you love this snippet from Solstice Lammarre's (@sollylamarre.bsky.social) flash fiction piece, "Stolen Skin," you can read the full thing now at the link in our bio!

Blue ocean background with a stream of bubbles in the background. To the left of center, white text reads: “He looks down at his hands, pale and tinged blue, the color of a drowned corpse, with webbing linking his fingers together. He despises his hands, just like he despises her.” The quote is from the flash fiction story “Stolen Skin” by Solstice Lamarre.

Blue ocean background with a stream of bubbles in the background. A dark square with white text covers the center that reads: “Solstice Lamarre (they/them) is a French, non-binary aroace writer. They write queer, neurodivergent stories in various genres, but always come back to themes of monstrosity, found family, and all sorts of queer love. Their work has previously appeared in Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology. When they’re not writing, they work as an English teacher for French teens, read an unholy number of books, play video games they never finish, and cuddle with their cat.”

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Also hitting that second puberty as a high school teacher is WILD Had a student fully tell me "huh, your acne's back! *enthusiastically* One of us, one of us!" And I was too stunned to speak

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Baby's first passing dilemma *I* don't think I pass but I get mister'd 50% of the time because of The Voice now and women are starting to look at me weird in the gym locker room and idk if that means it's time to switch or not cause it's still 50/50

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

It's my first year having so many students telling me I'm their fave teacher and I fear that I will never know an emotional high this good ever again

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

We hope these will make you laugh, and tense, and cry, that they will make you feel seen and loved, that they will give you the strength to love in your own way, on your own terms, in all the queer glory you desire. Here is our full list of authors and stories! (ALT text to have it written down)

An autumnal leafy background titled Common Bonds 2 Title of Contents Page 1/2 and the following list:
“At the end of forever” - Aiste Grice, “Black Box” - Alistair Robinson, “Will Lamplight Illuminate Your Face?” - M.A. Acosta, “Screw Everybody” - Anna Stein, “Sap and Marrow” - Cyrus Amelia Fisher, “Witchcraft is Not a Love Story” - Emmanuel Kibet, “Love Hungry” - Hannah Baxter, “venante umbras” - JD rivers, “Well-Worn Pockets” - K.J. Isley, “Wish, Wish” - Lisobel Tang

An autumnal leafy background titled Common Bonds 2 Title of Contents Page 2/2 and the following list:
“Behold! These are the Pastries that Were Prophesied!” - Matthew Taber-Hanson, “The Woman in the Snow” - Nico Martinez Nocito, “The Husband Stitch” - R.F. Daniels, “The Hunger Who Wears His Skin” - Ren Oliveira, “Sowing Constellations” - S.H. Marr, “Terra secunda” - S.M. Pearce, “Flurries and Flames” - Sophie a. Katz, “Anise, Lozenge, Sugarplum” - Tunvey Mou, “PastPort to Franchesca and Luna of Brooklyn” - Yelena Crane

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The time has come! Today is our Table of Content announcement for COMMON BONDS 2! You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla... But I'll also thread them below!

An autumnal leafy background with a mockup of Common Bonds 2, and the title “Common Bonds 2 – table of contents announcement”

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Socializing with cool people I like: great The autistic crash out right after, where I beat myself up for every social misstep I made during that conversation: less great

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It's my first year being out as transmasc at work and it's really stressful in some ways but sooo liberating in others. Did not realize how much self-censorship was happening on a day to day basis, to students and colleagues alike

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I will have a story in this YA queer horror anthology 🪱

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

2 gender related things happening at work that are kind of out of my control and stress me out This is not going to be a chill back to school season let me tell you

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Just ran my first 3km without breaks! I wanted to register for a 3km race near where I live but turns out everything under 10km is exclusively for CHILDREN Anyways we'll see if I get to 10km before March but I doubt it 😭

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Desperately trying to make friends in this city but getting coworkers I like together in the same place at the same time is worse than finding a date for my next D&D session everyone agrees on

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 24/08/2025

follow us here on bsky if: BONES you have them + like / RT if deep down, underneath it all you are SKELETON or a future ghost

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Finished another short story for a submission call and I really like it but at the same time if it's not picked up... it could mayhaps work even better as a longer work

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Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

prints are 25% off :-) www.inprnt.com/gallery/evan...

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will @yungajsoprano.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The Kurt Vonnegut letter to those high school kids is never wrong -

Letter from Kurt Vonnegut to high school students -

"Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!
Kurt Vonnegut"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

“AI is great because the process of becoming good at drawing or writing or making music is so miserable” …No?

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Autistic inherent dislike for change and difficulty understanding what I'm feeling vs. trans need to transform my body and recent testosterone changes, FIGHT!

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S. A. Chant 🏳️‍⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery @essaychant.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

If someone tells you you're not naturally gifted at something, the appropriate response is to become unnaturally gifted at it, which is even cooler

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The first thing you need to do if you want to be an ally to trans people is realize that transphobia is an almost entirely socially acceptable form of bigotry, to the point that even seeing it AS bigotry is controversial almost everywhere.

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CRITTER 🍀🏝️ @fourleafisland.art · 17/08/2025

thank you everyone who still makes art despite everything

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Shawna Mackenzie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @littlemsunderstood.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It can be hidden, joked about, and used to gaslight trans people and seen as the "normal way" to do things. And for us to speak up, or out, about it is unnatural. It's like the cis are doing us a favour by letting us exist within their world. How *nice* of them.

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lacha @azolitmin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

⋅˚₊‧ 🪼⋆｡𖦹° An illustration I did for Teekyo~

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Good news: I have a story that got accepted somewhere Bad news: realized I kinda botched another submission that I really liked by somehow missing a major guideline You win some you lose some 😭

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Solstice "Solly" Lamarre ✨️💫🌻 @sollylamarre.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Sometimes I wish I was taller (easier to find masc clothes that fit) and then I remember I am Neil Josten height and I immediately feel better

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