Author T.G. Joye
@authortgjoye.bsky.social
Trans man, cat dad, author, and occasional solo ttrpg designer. https://linktr.ee/author.tgjoye Sword of the Voivode released 10/19/2024 Last Wolves of Paris out 10/26/25
A lot of my autistic online experience is working up the courage to be open about my struggles with the portions I find disabling only to be wildly misunderstood. 🙃 I want to be open about my experiences, but I feel very stuck and therapy didn't help much.
Now announcing: the first annual Trans Masc Protag Jam~🏳️⚧️ From August 8 to September 30, we're inviting you to make a project (games, books, comics, etc.) with a trans masculine protagonist and offering limited cash prizes to the judge's favorites (that's us!). Jam with us~🏳️⚧️ 🎨@nommedeploom.itch.io
This is going to sound really small, but is a problem I run into OFTEN: If someone is asking for clarification on something, just answer the question. More often than not I've left groups b/c people struggle to answer clarifying questions when I ask them. #SpoonieAuthChat
Spoonie Authors Network@spoonieauthnet.bsky.social · last wk.Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), July 27, 2026: In this final week of Disability Pride Month, what would you like to happen so we're included more in writerly spaces? (Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat to your replies.)
Vended at Rehoboth Beach Pride this weekend. I also saw my book on the shelf at Browseabout Books for the first time. As a trans person, selling my books in person is important to me b/c its not something a lot of trans authors can do or feel comfortable with.
Here are the #WIPSnips words for July 20th through July 26th. As always, synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine, please include Alt Text on graphics with the snip text, Trigger/Content warnings if necessary, and no unsolicited editing on posts. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Join us at 1pm PDT! "Grant-Writing for All: Unlocking Funding Pathways" is a recorded session (double back later, World Cup watchers!) to support uncertain applicants for *any* grant or similar funding model. THANK YOU to everyone who's supported the Givers Fund to date! sfwa.org/events/?even...
I didn't think of myself in gendered terms as a kid (which can also be a thing with Autism) and I was legit shocked when I started going thru female puberty at 12/13. I didn't even know being transgender was an option until I was almost 30. While I didn't have the words, I knew I didn't fit my agab.
✨💜 king 💜✨@king-reinhardt.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm always so curious about when trans and nonbinary folks realized what they were. Like, my wife didn't realize she was genderfluid until well into her twenties, but I knew I wasn't a girl or a boy before I was even ten years old.
#BluePitHype Sword of the Voivode is inspired by a LOT of things in little ways, but the Final Fantasy games and anime of the 1990's, books like The Last Unicorn, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Discworld and Dragonlance all have impacted how I'm writing Heirs of Finndrigair as a series.
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype The first image is an early drawing of Cyril (left) and Daumantas(right), the other two are of Cyril. I tend to sketch or draw character concepts before writing descriptions.
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the third day of #BluePitHype! It's only 3 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is Art Share Day and also our #AltTextHelp day! Add the hashtag and the community will help you write some! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
I'll be vending at Rehoboth Pride next weekend, July 18th, 9am to 3 pm. I'll have copies of Sword of the Voivode, Last Wolves of Paris, my remaining zine stock, some stickers, bookmarks and pony bead pride flag bracelet feebies!
#BluePitHype Hi! I'm Zeke Caliban, and I write queer fantasy erotica. My inspiration is being bi/demisexual and not realizing it for 20 plus years. I'm here to write what I want to read, which is gentledom Ace people, teasy gay boys, and a lot of fluffy kinks. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the first day of #BluePitHype! It's only 5 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A. Today is Introduction Day! Tell us who you are! Make some new friends! We can't wait to meet you and your stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic #AmQuerying #Writers
#BluePitHype Howdy, I'm Roan, a ND trans artist & writer working on an queer epic fantasy series with a trans man protagonist. 🐺 Nice to meet you!
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the first day of #BluePitHype! It's only 5 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A. Today is Introduction Day! Tell us who you are! Make some new friends! We can't wait to meet you and your stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic #AmQuerying #Writers
#BluePitHype Laurentius, and Ruslan in the first book represent unhealthy relationships with masculenity and power, and I wanted Cyril to be the foil to typical male - led fantasy stereotypes, while also just being cool. I don't feel like trans characters get to be cool very often
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the second day of #BluePitHype! It's only 4 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is Character Q&A Day! Question 3/3 - You! Join us tomorrow for our first ever ALT Text Help/Art Share day! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
The series over-arching protagonist is Laurentius the Magnificent, a lich chasing former glory. He wants to finish conquering the north, but at the expense of the new nations that now occupy the former Finndrigarian Empire's territory.
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the second day of #BluePitHype! It's only 4 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is Character Q&A Day! Question 2/3 - Antagonist(s)! Final question will be posted in 30 minutes! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
Cyril Valentin is the primary pov character for Heirs of Finndrigair b/c unhappy circumstances pull him into the limelight. #BluePitHype
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the second day of #BluePitHype! It's only 4 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! ts Today is Character Q&A Day! Question 1/3 - Protagonist(s)! Next will be posted in 30 minutes! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
I'm T.G. Joye and I write queer and often trans-focused Fantasy. I started writing b/c there's very little fiction with trans characters over 25. I started my transition at 31, and wanted to create something older trans people might relate to. #BluePitHype
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the first day of #BluePitHype! It's only 5 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A. Today is Introduction Day! Tell us who you are! Make some new friends! We can't wait to meet you and your stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic #AmQuerying #Writers
I had a group of people who wanted me to re-write my first novel, about an adult trans man, to be a YA novel even though only one person even read any of it. The reason? They said adult fiction about centered around an adult trans person would never sell.
S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social · last mo.If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.
Self-Care Checkpoint Body Check Don't forget to take care of yourself. Have you brushed your teeth today? Walked outside for some fresh air? Changed your clothes? #SelfCare #SelfCareCheckpoint #ADHDLife #ActuallyADHD #ADHDTools #ADHD
Cyril has his agency over his gender taken away from him in his youth. Leaving home to reclaim autonomy over his body and identity is a big part of his story in Sword of the Voivode. Bodily and personal autonomy play a big role in all the books planned for the series as well.
🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · last mo.#QueerPrompts July 4: Independence Day: What role does independence play in your story?
Pride month may be over, but if you have the means, please support Margie’s Hope which runs a trans-affirming clothing store in my area! They’re only 45% of their goal right now. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/06/22/w...
'We’re broke, but determined.' Ohio trans-affirming organization makes plea for support to keep their doors open
Margie’s Hope was founded in 2011 and opened Margie's Closet, a trans-affirming Cleveland clothing store, in 2021.
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Please, please, if you're eligible to vote, please vote. I'd rather lose because people voted for other things than because no one voted at all. And please, consider October Daye for Best Series. The poor woman's been through enough. Make me explain her from the Hugo stage.
Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards voting is still open until Sunday, August 8 at 8 pm Pacific! Don't forget to submit your ballots if you're an Attending, Virtual, or WSFS member. If you don't have a membership yet, you can sign up through the #LAconV site now: lacon.org/register
YouTube just offered me up a video called “Bigfoot Watches Witches Near Boston” and that’s about as good a description of my grad school dating experience as you’re going to get.
Unfortunately, it's that time again. :( My disability claim was denied (we're appealing, obviously), but in the meantime I have rent due, as well as my other bills. I'm not even sure if I'll have a place to live after August, so if you have extra to give this month, it would go a long way.
Gabriel Hargrave (he/him)@ghargravewrites.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy therapist finally convinced me to do one of these to help keep me housed while I work towards getting on disability. I HATE asking for help in any capacity, but I also recognize that I can't get well if I don't have a place to live. Any and all help is appreciated! gofund.me/a192a7989
I have a deeply complicated relationship with my disability (even though I logically know I'm disabled) and I haven't really figured that out yet.
Spoonie Authors Network@spoonieauthnet.bsky.social · last mo.Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), July 2, 2026 What does Disability Pride mean to you? (Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)
Surprised myself because I do, in fact qualify for SFWA membership at this point. I didn't think I'd earned that much on my books, but my earnings through IngramSpark alone are almost enough by themselves. It isn't much, but if I can grow my catalogue anything is possible.
