Athena Kane
@athenakane.bsky.social
🧡🤍🩷 She/They. Writer of adult SFF and horror about unhinged lesbians. Dog person.
Meet my MCs! ⬇️🧵 #litagents #writingcommunity #amquerying #writesky 1st: A Prince(ss) and His Royal Guard 84k MM romantasy Casper is - trans - cursed to die if he speaks against the throne - betrothed to a stranger Darrow is - an elf - cursed to watch Casper 24/7 - really into flowers
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
Free Puppies for Everyone: 49.9% Permanent Diarrhea for Everyone: 50.1%
every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!
Dorian's Guide on Surviving a Horrifying Sentient Labyrinth that Wants to Eat You: 👣 1. Be a 💙-collar butch lesbian 🧡🤍🩷 👣 2. Go on a holy pilgrimage to save ur family from poverty 👣 3. Oh Shit! The Labyrinth is Trying to Eat You!! 👣 4. ???? 👣 5. Profit??? #UnhingedPit #W #A #F #SF #SFF #LGBT
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Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
If you look at Des’s face and think they look like a lovely human being, you are 100% correct. Absolute sweetheart who deserves none of this. None of them do.
A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜
I don’t like the reemergence of the “if you’re homophobic, you’re gay!” It leans into gay as an insult. And some people are just bigoted, y’all.
this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️🌈✨
THE ANGELS’ SUCCUBUS 🌈sapphic polyam Two angels are sent to investigate demonic activities, enlisting a succubus cam worker to help them navigate the digital world; but the veil keeping Hell locked away thins and soon they’ll be fighting more than just their growing feelings #SEAsianPit #A #PR #Q
a sneak peak into what i've been working on this year! CANAL BOYS🌊 #YA #FantasyMystery #SouthAsian #WIP
Dear fellow Democrats: Stop worrying about everything that could go wrong. Stop wringing your hands over worst case scenarios. This doesn't make you look thoughtful. It makes you look weak. It makes you look small. Have some goddamn pride. Have the kind of confidence undecided voters want to see.
Q5 Adult fantasy. I've seen a lot of people comp to this particular author, but this is the first time I've felt like the querier really *gets it,* and that has me excited. I don't see a lot in the query that points to that, but it's a solid QL. #RevPit #10Queries
a glimpse of what the #agentguide will look like for this WIP ... 10+ agents have shown interest so far for WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE, my dark academia "eat the rich" fantasy horror, and here's another sneak peak at what to expect when i start #querying ... #agents #editors
My academic book, ‘JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic,’ is out September 2026. It is my analysis of the moral panic from Edinburgh, the ‘city of JK Rowling,’ where I study and work at JKR’s former university as it became a hub for anti-trans organizing … ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic
Weaves the author’s lived experience as a trans woman with pop culture and media analysis to dissect J. K. Rowling’s emergence as an anti-trans activist within the context of the UK’s anti-trans moral...
ohiostatepress.org
screaming this line into the void: "Entirely too many writers—and a fair amount of readers—think that all you need is two-finger prep, a 'good girl' and a 'you take me so well' and you’re all set."
ICYMI, I wrote a little thing about how the crafting of sex scenes in genre romance has taken a major hit in recent years. #romancelandia romancing-the-stoned.beehiiv.com/p/no-f-ck-is...
My agent's guide to GODCAT, a PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN fantasy/horror (with big 5 editor interest + an award)! I'm #amquerying in a few weeks, so if you've liked a pitch for this, expect mail soon 👀 And if you'd like to see it too, let me know! 🐈⬛🫀🐦⬛ #writingcommunity