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August Haver

@writeraugust.bsky.social
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A writer who makes things with words. Can sometimes be found in the internet spaces. Can sometimes be found working on those open wips on their computer. Works in a library! He/they, queer

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Onagadori Rooster. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, 85 × 132 mm, 2022.
Drawing in black ink, primarily in silhouette, of an Onagadori rooster with long flowing tail covert feathers on a plum blossom branch. The rooster's comb and wattle are the only spots of red. The piece is smaller than a postcard and is photographed with the traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with.
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
People who use AI instead of creating make me angry. People who think using AI *is* creating make me sad.
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s weird to me when people are like, “I’ll use AI for book covers or research or videos but not my *writing*!” Like, the fact that you’re making that distinction at all shows that you do actually understand why AI is bad.
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey, you are enough. Don't believe anything contrary to that.
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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I feel this sometimes, too. It's burnout from so much scary shit happening, a traumatized reaction. You're scared, freezing up in self-defense. But remembering it's not all bad is important. Despair and defeat are easy. Hope and collective action is work. Rest up, we have this, together.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so Nobody actually knows exactly WHY the great stock market crash of 1929 happened, leading to the Great Depression But most folks agree "Low level participants started betting with borrowed money" probably didn't help matters
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Writers, If you're sick of bots/ gen ai trying to spam/ scam you as a 'beta-reader' (under the delusion we're wealthy enough to be worth scamming 🙃), this could help.👇
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I was writer in residence at my local library this year. I got a message once from someone saying she had read my book through her library and then went out and bought 2 copies for the academic institution she works for. Libraries pay for books an introduce people to reading which helps writers.
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August Haver @writeraugust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Things do get better, at least in the vague outline in my head
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Quickly moving from folks claiming no Gen AI usage in games is acceptable to well... so long as no Gen AI is used in the final game that's okay. Next step is limited Gen AI in the final game is fine to just never talking about Gen AI use again. www.ign.com/articles/the...
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The Blood of Dawnwalker Devs Use AI, but There’s No AI Assets in the Final Game, and It’s Used To ‘Avoid’ Pressure on Staff
Rebel Wolves' CEO has explained the developer's stance on AI, saying it has been used in early stages of development of The Blood of Dawnwalker to "avoid" putting pressure on staff.
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 19/09/2026
weeee
Photo of a colored pencil doodle of a cute little pug riding a cute little dragon. The colors are a dark red, peach, and cream. Colored pencils are laid next to the doodle.
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August Haver @writeraugust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But having to live through a groundhog day at the behest of a livid god and forced to kill aer crush to get free was definitely worse (tho things are semi-fixed in a not exactly happy ending way tho)
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August Haver @writeraugust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was going to parade Fulcinea out again but I realized *a lot* of my main characters have traumaric backstories that have trauma stacked on from the story itself lol So let's talk about Aldith, whose story I haven't revised in forever. Ae thought killer aer father was *the worst moment*
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August Haver @writeraugust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It will be fun to turn her whole persona on its head once I properly write the possession arc. She just has a bad time for a long time lol
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August Haver @writeraugust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
is *aware* and learning and very often not doing anything about it because of the fear of the consequences, or something akin to fear. The root of it is definitely her controlling brother but. I like the shape of what's brewing with her, especially with how I need to marry it to how she is later
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August Haver @writeraugust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Had no idea what she was walking into, didn't know someone was trying to spare her from being murdered in a ritual this person was helping set up. And as I write her more she'll likely change and her strengths and weaknesses will morph and refine. I will say I am intrigued by someone who
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August Haver @writeraugust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Like she endures *a lot* from her brother and then after she baits him she emotionally retreats and basically let's someone else take the worse of the fall, and the first time she really takes action to try and immediately rectify a dangerous situation her life goes to hell in a handbasket because
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August Haver @writeraugust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've actually been turning this over in my head for one of my charactee's, Fulcinea for a bit because I finally started writing her story this past year. Anyway, I think her strength and weakness are bonded, because she's really observant and a good learner but she never *acts* on what she sees
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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 09/07/2026
The "creatives" who use genAI at any part of their process need to understand I'm not desperate for new media. There is such a backlog of arts, movies, books, and games WITHOUT genAI that if nothing new was made again, I'd still need a hundred lifetimes to consume even a fraction of it.
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J Edward Neill @jedwardneill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I wish I could be a part of this conversation... 'Top Shelf Trio' Prints and the original are available.
Top Shelf Trio - Original Canvas Painting - Three Tipsy Crows Gossiping at Treetop Bar
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It should be obvious, but talks about adapting to climate change or colonizing another planet often ignore that humans (and animals/plants that we love and love to eat) evolved to live on Earth in the climate we have today, and we built our infrastructure for today's climate. Everything else sucks.
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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hey. If a small press wants to give you a digital-only, royalty-based multibook deal for books that haven't yet been written, run. Lots of small presses use this royalty structure because they have no assets, and this allows them to offload nearly all risk to you.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sorry to say pointing to the same few hit books that have been published in lesbian SFF by trad publishers over the past TEN YEARS is not a way of proving that big trad publishing is open to sapphic/lesbian authors or stories. But it does prove we can write excellent books when given the chance.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Notice the concern of parents who feel their trans children are being victimized never get listened to. It's only bigots. "Respect the parents" is a shell game.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026
we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
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Aowna @aowna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The little arty thing I said I'd post! It's an IRL friend's D&D OC, painted on one layer with just one oil-y brush because why not ⛈️
Digital painting of a fantasy character (air genasi with blue skin and white hair). He's pointing an enchanted gun. The background is an abstract mess of dark blue brush-strokes.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This technology needs to be regulated, and if its creators keep claiming it *can’t* be regulated, they don’t get to do business with it. Why should an industry this powerful be allowed to operate without taking responsibility when we hold others responsible for their products and services?
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Did you know Hercules half-horse instructor Chiron was also a doctor? You might say he was the centaur for disease control.
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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Be cringe, be free.
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Leila Green Little @ifightforbooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is THE BEST! I am so stinking happy for all my The Librarians friends!!! Hoping this gets even more people to see the film. 😍🤩
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I had never heard of Flock cameras in my goddamned life and then one day I woke up and every town council everywhere had just unhinged their jaws months back and excitedly horfed down a full surveillance state.
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QTori 🍣 @qtori.art · 04/09/2026
I will add pressure to this by saying that any company that claims to not hold onto your personal data after verifying you? They're lying. Ive been nitro free since the first time they tried this, voice how you feel with your wallet people. Make them really feel that squeeze.
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 02/09/2026
Just added 12 more artists to HireHumanArtists.com! 🌟 We're 12 artists away from 600 who have pledged to NEVER use gen AI! #hha
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Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists
Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.
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Julie March @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#WIPSnips God, I love this woman. Leecie may have ended up with a stereotypical YA parent scenario but at least I gave her a nice adoptive one
“Sounds delicious.” I took the knife offered to me and tried to banish the memory of Ross’s switchblade sinking into Leecie’s stomach. A clamp wrapped around my throat. I started chopping. “I’m not all that hungry, anyway.”

“Don’t you try to be a martyr with me.” A glimpse of the real Amy Davison flashed behind her grief for a second. “When was the last time you had a proper meal? And I don’t mean a handful of chips. No matter what Leecie says, that’s not lunch.”

I half-smiled in the dark. “You probably don’t wanna know.”
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Cery @cerylune.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
[oc] Demi-gods and Hungry Ghosts #art #ocsky #ocart
An older sketch of my character, Charivari, I touched up and colored because I still liked it. As Chari is a character who is very polarizing to people she meets, I wanted to express how some other characters feel about her while keeping her saint-like vibe.

A bust portrait of a woman mid-length burnette hair and fiery-colored wings. She wears a red dress with purple transparent sleeves and is covered in ornate golden jewelry. There are 5 hands interacting with her:
An ink-stained hand (Mirari) and a delicate hand with a gold pinky ring (Camille) place a crown of red roses around her head.
A hand with burn scars and a gold pinky ring (Morion) gently touches her cheek underneath her eye where she has a single mole.
Another hand with a gold pinky ring (Arasia) is placed around her neck.
A single hand holds a pair of scissors (Rhea) to cut a lock of her hair.
The last hand is dark and clawed (Eclair) and wrapped loosely twined between her fingers.
There is a heart with two daggers pierced through motif below her. The background is an ornate gold frame with purple star and flower decorations, a purple mist, with white wings and swans.
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 29/08/2026
Not bad. Not bad.
Close up of very red sunset with some bands of cloud in front
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 26/08/2026
FYI for journalists reporting on Dolly: not being publicly party political ≠ not being political. She was very political.
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Astra 🔜 NebrasKon @astrawitch.com · 26/08/2026
Campfire Jig 🧩
Banjo and Kazooie sitting around a small campfire with their instruments out, singing and having a good time while various easter eggs from the games are scattered about
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Today is an excellent day to hate gen AI and not support a single one of its users. 🥰
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.
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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Feeling perpetually behind, holding it together and making art despite the state of the world. Taking a moment to put something a bit nicer in the feed tonight. I've always thought of owls as guardian type birds, what do you think? #watercolor #gouache #owls #birds
Watercolor and gouache painting of two owls perched on a tree on top of a mountain, the last light of sunset staining the sky with deep orange in the distance. A glowing rune stone with swirls sits near the tree, casting blue light on the tree and owls. Signed Katie Croonenberghs, 2021 www.kamakru.com
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
‘The book lady’ 🥹 Rest well, sweet soul. Thank you for the books, for Buffy, and for being such a kind, giving light for us all. 💙
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One thing about Dolly Parton's passing that strikes me is that unlike some others, she experienced a lot of praise before passing. It wasn't saved for obituaries. There were regular (warranted) love-fests for Parton. I wish that for everyone. It's a good day to tell people you appreciate them.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Smol. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Faded color photo of a tiny tuxedo tabby kitten curled up on top of a blue low top sneaker. The pair of sneakers is on a linoleum floor inside. The kitten just looks very small and round and plump and adorable. 
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
queen of hearts 💔
a stylized 3d render of dolly parton playing the banjo. the queen herself.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum
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