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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One week left on this SFF+ bundle for #AutismMonth! ♾️ itch.io/b/3598/autis...

Autistic SFF (+ a lil romance & more) itch.io bundle.

34 works of fiction by autistic authors, many with autistic main characters & autistic side characters. Other rep includes some queer main characters. There's fantasy, sci-fi, horror, romance, and more. Novels, a few novellas, and short stories.

April 1st - April 14th

https://itch.io/b/3598/autistic-sff-a-lil-romance-more

Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

2025 may be over, but these twenty seven books, published in the last year, represents the best of the year, and offers hope in a world that seems to get harder to live in every day. itch.io/b/3455/the-b...

27 covers of self-published books (listed at the itch link in the original post) with the text "the best of 2025, 27 books for only $15, January 2026 1st - 15th"

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

it's my birthday month and it'd be really cool if people bought my book 🥺 you can even get it at a steal with 63 other fantasy books for only $45! itch.io/b/3409/end-o...

the cover for The Blood Divide by Zan Lowell depicting the sillouhette of a leafless tree with a thin layer of snow on its branches and a mound of snow around the base of the trunk. beneath the snow are cobblestones with blood running through some of the cracks. The background is mottled gray and the title is in red text while the author's name is in white text

green monochrome image depicting a fantasy type character standing on a cliff facing off with a dragon

text: end-of-year indie fantasy mega bundle, 54 books, $45, December 1st-15th

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

funniest part of the night was trying to explain to a lovely ally mom why this was funny

Canvas bag hand decorated with a D20 and text that reads “all of my D&D characters are tieflings”

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I’ve never been more confused by the existence of a bumper sticker

top image is a zoomed in shot of a bumper sticker that just says “Robert Pattinson smokes menthol cigarettes so he doesn’t have to brush his teeth”

Bottom image is a 2-panel comic from Hark A Vagrant depicting Edgar Allan Poe reading a letter and then holding it closer to his face as he squints in confusion

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

thinking about this quote from Andor and how the same tactics can be used in fighting oppression not just in the number/volumes of protests, but in the *variety* of organizing and protest styles when resistance comes in a variety of flavors, it’s harder to paint it as a single, insular bogeyman

The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it… It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

#LGBTQWriteAThon picking a favorite work almost feels like trying to pick a favorite child 😅 but my first published work is certainly one of the most meaningful for me. this book went through so many iterations over 15 years—

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I can’t even imagine how surreal life must be for Eiichiro Oda right now

Photo of a protest with a brown young adult or adolescent wearing a straw hat reminiscent of Luffy’s hat in One Piece and holding up the straw hat pirate flag. Caption on the photo reads “Gen Z protesters, united by an animé pirate flag, topple another government” NBC News

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Ansel is a French-American vampire witch, lawyer, and tired gay dad

a digitally manipulated image (by hand, NOT AI) of a middle-aged white man with medium wavy brown hair and a full beard with a slight bit of graying. He is wearing a maroon long-sleeved t-shirt and looking off to the side. His irises appear completely black.

text above image:
Ansel: I'm not interested in having kids.
Ansel "temporarily" taking in every abandoned child he meets:

Screenshot from Brooklyn 99 of Rosa holding a puppy.
Dialogue caption: I've only had them for a day and a half, but if anything happened to them I would kill everyone in this room and then myself."

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Tashi & Ansel have siblings! Tashi’s forged fam sibs, Tam & Arin, both play prominent roles, while Ansel’s are left to backstory in Book 1 but will make appearances in Book 2 👀 Tashi worries Tam & Arin are too kind-hearted for their own good. She’ll never admit it’s what she loves most about them…

She knew it had to have broken Ansel’s heart to put his foot down with Tam. Tam had been one more stray he had taken to like she was his own child—just like Arin.

As if I have room to talk. Tashi knew she and her adoptive guardian were more alike than she would ever admit out loud. Tam and Arin were as much her siblings as they were her friends. Had Tashi been born a witch, she would have followed in Ansel’s footsteps as a guardian of the coven, regardless of what kind of magic her hypothetical self might have inherited.

Black-and-white moments of his childhood stretched back to the year before they moved to Eavandale, the oldest in Avignon. Ansel was all of five, gripping a three-year-old Luce’s hand, their father with a hand on a shoulder apiece, and their mother cradling Cyrille in her arms, not yet a year. A Gothic fortress-palace loomed behind them—L'Académie des Deux Étoiles. The building itself, along with the cathedral on the left edge of the photograph, was from an era when Christians were more numerous in the sanguine world, though by no means was their population substantial. Reality—and no doubt cost—caught up with them. Their mimicry of its tarra counterpart halted with the Palais Vieux, a scarcely begun addition on the right edge.

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

with friends like this, who needs enemies? 🙃 (context: Katie Porter)

Screenshot of a Facebook comment

being a grouch and lashing
out to anyone nearby after dealing with the absolutely smug, self-centered, greedy, party of Gross Old Pedos who are actively trying to dismantle our democracy all day
WHILE ALSO DOING MATH, is perfectly normal I think. In fact, I'm surprised she isn't ranting and raving like an absolute lunatic all the time, after doing all the math she had on her whiteboard.

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Battle for the Last Brain Cell *Mortal Kombat music on kazoo starts playing*

An orange tabby and a flame point rag doll staring off with a pen between them

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I frickin’ love this dork of a dog 🥰 - video description: brown & white pit bull swallowing a pill after the person pretends to put EZ cheese style treat on it from an empty can captions on video read: time for meds the only time she drools oh no! we’re out of cheese! what if we pretend… yum?

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

saw these yesterday which were a solid 8-10” (20-25cm) across 🍄‍🟫

Large partially torn up mushroom growing in mulch

Two large mushrooms toppled over in the much, one completely upside down

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I may have small hands but this is still a pretty sizable shroom 🍄‍🟫

A hand on top of a large mushroom for size comparison

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

not sure why but I’ve had an uptick in redbubble sales this month. nothing extraordinary, but enough that I’ll get my first payout of the year. been in unemployment hell for over a year, so every little bit helps if you bought something, thank you 🫶🏻 #ArtSky www.redbubble.com/people/NDque...

Screenshot of a Redbubble shop showing 4 designs:

1. two stylized triple A batteries with corresponding words and colors from top to bottom: Autism (red), ADHD (orange), Anxiety (teal). Caption below reads “powered by AAA batteries”

2. goose holding a nonbinary flag in its mouth with the text “just a silly little guy [crossed out] gal [crossed out] goose”

3. Text “practice the art of good enough” set above a level tool where the bubbles are just off center but still within the margins

4. Infinity symbol in rainbow colors with the text “peer reviewed”

Screenshot of a Redbubble shop showing 4 designs:

1. Text “practice the art of good enough” set above a level tool where the bubbles are just off center but still within the margins

2. Bust of a chihuahua wearing a yellow collar that says “give me space” and the text around it reads “respect boundaries big and small”

3. Bust of a brown and white pit bull wearing a black basket muzzle and purple bandana with text that reads “muzzled dogs are good dogs”

4. 5 phases of the moon from waxing crescent to waning crescent colored to correspond with the trans flag (blue, pink, white, pink, blue) with purple text that reads “the moon is still the moon no matter how visible”

Screenshot of a Redbubble shop showing 4 designs:

1. The words “black, native, disabled, queer” stacked vertically and colored in gradients of dark brown to tan, next to it in larger letters colored pinks, oranges, and purples is the word “joy” and beneath both reads “is resistance”

2. A white pit bull with its nose to a gray pit bull’s cheek with the text below: “kiss-a-bull”

3. Blocky letters reading “in love with queer love” colored in a pastel rainbow gradient with the Os in “love” replaced with hearts

4. Costume cat ears and tail colored like an orange tabby with the text “honorary orange cat”

Screenshot of a Redbubble shop showing 4 designs:

1. Venn diagram with two limp wristed hands on the left and one limp wristed hand wearing a rainbow bracelet on the right and a t-Rex holding a trans flag in the middle

2. Blocky letters reading “in love with queer love” colored in a vibrant rainbow gradient with the Os in “love” replaced with hearts

3. A sweater in the graysexual flag colors (purple, gray, white, gray, purple) with text around it that reads “my labels are for my comfort”

4. A joystick with the base covered in the progressive pride flag and the word “gaymer” underneath in rainbow

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | [low activity] @zanwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

looking for ideas for your October reading list? here’s some Black SFF I’ve read in the past year and loved #BookSky Lore of the Wilds (duology) by Analeigh Sbrana The Deep by Rivers Solomon The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope The Shadow Speaker (Desert Magician duology) by Nnedi Okorafor