When people ask for shipping supplies recommendations I do not hesitate to link refuseuline.com Quite literally I just reference this, there are so many options that are better and not evil.

Refuse Uline

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Queen_Potato@queenpotato.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.

COVER REVEAL! My next novel, The Animals We Became, retells the medieval Welsh tale 'Math fab Mathonwy'. It's a book about gender, trauma, and compulsory heterosexuality expressed through non-consensual animal transformations and some deeply unreliable narration... finnlongman.com/books/the-an...

if folks thought the men in R&V were "too progressive" for their time... ... i'm going to need everybody to hang onto their butts for D'Arcy's book. and it won't even be unrealistic! :D

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

public service announcement: YES

Jennifer Prokop@jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 3d ago

THERE IS A NEW ELIA WINTERS BOOK?????????

Every writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.

THIS. People educated enough in the specific subject to pull the data together don’t need LLMs; people without the knowledge to weed data from the bullshit are at the mercy of the LLM. They’re obsequious Dunning-Kruger machines. Designed to flatter midwits and the technologically obsolete.

Ophie Dokie 🌻@ophiedokie.bsky.social · 5d ago

So, ok, a thing about telling yr audience "i use AI for my info gathering/research but then I look over it and fix any errors" is that you unfortunately told me youve outsourced your knowledge base on this subject to the machine, and therefore I have no reason to believe you CAN catch those errors

I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...

Another Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your Writing

Back in February I did a long post about “AI” and why I wouldn’t use it for my own writing, and one of the reasons I gave was “the fact that ‘AI’-generated text …

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this owl has just about had it with the bullshit and me too

wait...is this a meditation on how fictional men are better than real ones?

fangirlish@fangirlish.bsky.social · 6d ago

A good man is hard to find in the first official trailer for Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård's upcoming movie Wicker. Watch the trailer below! https://fangirlish.me/3TJNFED

Not only is he a smoking hot abolitionist who was assassinated for refusing orders to massacre indigenous folks, he "befriended Walt Whitman" according to his Wikipedia page which ABSOLUTELY means they fucked

Patrick McCray@patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...

really unfair to get the post-cry headache when the crying hasn't... yet... happened anyway this is a vaguepost but it is firmly "i shall INCREASE THE FUCKING THING" related

i didn't realize how many cups of tea i drink in a day... until we lost power for ~30 hours and the electric kettle couldn't be run on the generator. 💀

Crunchyroll uploaded the full Yuri on Ice series for free on Youtube for 30 days in all dubs and subs because of the 10th anniversary! youtu.be/RHcNvcqX024?...

Yuri!!! on ICE Full Series 10th Anniversary Marathon | Available for 30 Days

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One week left for this!!

eri (e.m. caro)@authoremcaro.com · last mo.

bsky! my book is on sale at Smashwords for their big summer/winter sale, if you want to get the book for significantly cheaper than usual: $2.99! through the end of July! www.smashwords.com/books/view/2...

WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

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i love these books GO BUY THEM

Kit Walker@inferiorwit.at.app.wafrn.net · 2w ago

it's the last week of the smashwords summer/winter sale -- if you like con and heist stories starring problematic queers, you have until the end of the month to get a bunch of my books either free or really, really cheap: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/astraldireparrot

neon hemlock's novella kickstarter is like $4 away from the 50% mark SOMEONE GET IN THERE www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven

Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly

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It's paperback day! You can now get my melancholy medieval book in a more pocket sized format!

Bookish Scifi & Fantasy@bookishsff.bsky.social · 2w ago

As we're all excited about retellings at the moment, I must recommend The Wolf and His King by @finnlongman.com, newly out in paperback: An excellent queer retelling of Bisclavret the werewolf, beautifully written, set in medieval Brittany following a man who longs to be a knight to the king... 💙📚🪐

phew. dropbox just about bricked my mac by holding hostage fileproviderd making it impossible to read or write any files *anywhere.* couldn't even open scriv to change my backup location. husband had to go into recovery mode and yoink dropbox's access to fileproviderd before ANYthing could be moved.

Circling right back around to my thread from the other day about how you can't really write consent until you have unpacked it so completely you know which parts of which tropes are the actual problem, and aren't just doing clumsy wholesale subversion that bumbles into other issues.

jladkfjd final proofs of BAM are done at last. i am so tired. never again doing production on three books in the same 12-month period. haha 😵‍💫 💀

My gastroenterologist's office is admirably accommodating to time travelers from the Middle Ages, many of whom probably do have gastroenterological issues

one simply cannot get through a book draft without doing the (endless) rounds of TVtropes... well if you're me, anyway

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

Dalí could never.

MiMi Aye@meemalee.bsky.social · 3w ago

Why would they do this to me?

New release day! 💙📚🌈 If Oli chooses to stay in his tiny hometown he can’t be unhappy, right? Even if nobody knows he’s gay, and he has to sneak to the city for hookups. But a disastrous reunion with Flynn, the childhood best friend who left Oli behind, starts a love affair neither may be ready for.

"All That History" by Alex Pendragon - Alex Pendragon

All That History Oli could leave his tiny, claustrophobic home town any time he wants. So if he stays, he can’t be unhappy, right? Even though nobody knows he’s gay, not even his family.Even though th...

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could also be spoofing. i haven't opened these emails to verify the email signature (mailed-by, signed-by) and i don't recommend it!

Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · 3w ago

Just fyi I’ve gotten 2 scam “You’re Invited!” type emails in the last few days from the hacked gmail accounts of SFF folks with whom I’m acquainted but not in regular contact; these arrive with a paperless envelope link to click. idk if it’s the FB-style messages-your-contacts or more insidious

Hi, SFF Apex, Bona Books, Agita Publishing, And all the others who have gotten tricked by AI, Let's have a nice talk.

A Little Chat: Genre Fic in the Age of Slop | Dorian Dawes

There is a scene in Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V For Vendetta that is very different from how it was adapted in the 2005 film. Our eponymo

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Hey #PortfolioDay I'm Jan, a cover and character artist for Achillean stories that need quality visuals. I can create quality art for both your book or ttrpg campaign. 🔗: www.thistle-arts.com 📧: thistlearts@proton.me #publishing #tabletop #ttrpg #booksky #mmromance #queerromance