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Aven McVie 📚✍️

@avenmcvie.bsky.social

aven is: 26, michigan-based, 🏳️‍🌈 likes: moon phases, astrophotography, coffee, aliens wip: TANDEM - a sapphic sci-fi romance about two minds that can’t lie to each other Icon by HinakoKanna! updates: avenmcvie.com

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Obi Wan Kenoblerone @somewelshmook.bsky.social · 3d ago

My kid told me today that when she was younger she used to think that a brothel was a restaurant that only sold soup

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · 3d ago

We are SO back

A screenshot of Scrivener, showing:
Writing days: 42
Average Words Written Per Day -
In Draft: 1,615
Elsewhere: 330
Total: 1,945
And, By Date -
August Total: 4,427
August 2, 2026: 2,279
August 1, 2026: 2,149

Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 4d ago

OK, humbling problem to have, but due to overwhelming demand (seriously!) subs are RE-OPENED on the website for The Monstrous & The Divine for one week only! If you missed the deadline due to timezones or any other reason, get it in by Friday AUG 7th! www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology-su...

Scylla Publishing Anthology Submission Form | Submit Your Story Today — Scylla

Submit your story for the Scylla Anthology with our easy online form. Include a bio, pronouns, and attach your story to be considered for publication.

scyllapublishing.com

Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 7d ago

I suspect no one who doesn’t already have a submission underway is starting now, but just as a reminder, our subs close midnight July 31! For everyone who has already submitted, we are so grateful. The range and depth of stories is amazing, and we ticked off almost everything on our bucket list!

Scylla Publishing@scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is NOT a drill. We have less than 2 weeks left in our submission period for The Monstrous & The Divine! Hit us with your re-imagined sapphic goddesses and monsters from existing mythology! Go wild :) #sapphicwriting #submissions #mythology www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology

A graphic says "Goddesses & Monsters - UNFAMILIAR in stylised writing down the edge. Statues war in the background. There's a heading that says "The Monstrous & The Divine, Sapphic Anthology".

Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈@clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 7d ago

Okay okay okay—go buy my book about lesbians fighting a dead cosmic god, its got all the classics: ✨chronically-ill chosen one ⚔️trans Valkyrie 💖slow burn, like realllll slow I’m not joking 🌙space mythology?? Space but make it fantasy? 🌑the wailing dead, the horrors, etc the-hallowed.carrd.co

Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Author & Narrator@autumnwolff.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m calling everyone out.

Moth Mouth @placecalledbliss.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm super broke right now so if you'd like me to make you a weird guy I can do it for like $20 +shipping. No you don't get to choose what he looks like, you give me your address and I'll send you whatever weird guy I happen to make.

Moth Mouth@placecalledbliss.bsky.social · last wk.

Little guy I made for my wife. Rare is his name, he's a meat angel

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · last wk.

K.E.'s in search of more ARC readers! Looking forward to starting my copy :)

Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸@kebartlet.com · 3w ago

12 years ago today, I started to live my life as my true, authentic self. To celebrate that, today I'm releasing the Advance Reader Copy of Shall We Play A Game? Get your copy for free while supplies last! swpag-reviewer.kebartlet.com #arcreader #booksky #writesky #author #sapphfic #readsky

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · last wk.

drafting my "All is Lost" moment today... the vibe is as follows

Prude Losers Falling To Knees

Alt: An animated gif of a man, falling to his knees, running his hands over his face in despair.

static.klipy.com

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · last wk.

Oooh!! Is this finally my chance to share? Art of my character, Vic, by Anita Efosa on Fiverr - she did an amazing job and I'm waiting on the matching art for my alien lead next 🩷 #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Illustrated art of a brunette with spiraling curls, slightly falling out of a low ponytail. She has tan skin and warm brown eyes and looks forward with a neutral expression. She wears a taupe-gray uniform with a blue name badge on her left chest which reads her last name, 'KOHLER'.

Kayleigh Diaz 🫜@kayleighdiaz.com · 2w ago

26 | Share your character art and/or character inspiration! I was lucky enough to be able to comm two *incredible* artists here: @professoremily.bsky.social and @nushdeco.bsky.social. ♥️♥️ (See below 😁) #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt

#SummerOfStories

26. Share your character art and/or character inspiration!

Don't forget ALT text for images & hashtag #SummerOfStories

A #WritingPrompt game hosted by @kayleighdiaz.com

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anora is a slick city gangster with stolen hyperspace treasure maps burning a hole in her pocket Jayro is a mouthy interstellar smuggler and the only pilot who can get her off Hecate IV before space witches catch up Two bad-at-feelings bisexuals find love on the run #QuestPit #AG #OS #A #SF #R

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi #PretendPanel! I'm definitely a fan of limited releases/special editions. I usually try to only get the special edition of books I really enjoyed so I can donate or give away the old copy if I have it on hand :) With that said, though, I definitely have more than I need right now lol

Lizzie Blackwood@lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy Saturday, #PretendPanel! With special limited edition print releases being something of an industry staple these days, how do YOU feel about special artistic embellishments on book exteriors? This can be alternate covers, special finishes, sprayed edges, anything above and beyond in print.

#pretendpanel
a daily prompt tag hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social
JULY 25th: How do you feel about artistic embellishments on book exteriors? (ex. sprayed edges, illustrated end papers, foils/spot UV, etc.)
Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts
New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!

Val @ BOOM Goes the Bride!!@valwrites.ca · 2w ago

I have 5k followers here, & whether you be human, bot, or a collective of mycellic threads that have commandeered an ambulatory organism, i want to celebrate! With a GIVEAWAY This will run until i hit 200 followers on insta cos i want to try trial reels damnit! instagram.com/castlestation

Prizes: 1st draw: a full bundle with boombride paperback, prints, and stickers! 2nd draw: half the stuff! 3rd draw: a print or a six pack of stickers! Every winner gets an ebook!

🏳️‍🌈Mandy Olivieri, Writer~ Josephine is out!🌈📚@mandyolivieri.bsky.social · 2w ago

(i always forget the tags!) Also, I just changed the price so if it's not switched yet where you shop, check back :-) 🌈📚 💙📚 #writerswrite #ebooksonsale #lesfic #sapphicbooks

🏳️‍🌈Mandy Olivieri, Writer~ Josephine is out!🌈📚@mandyolivieri.bsky.social · 2w ago

2 months ago, I gave notice at work. Decided to give the writer/potter dream a try. Still figuring out what all that entails, but in the mean time, I put Josephine on sale for 1.99 at B&N, Kobo, apple, etc. 'zon 2.99. Craving a love story with some grit, travel, HEA? books2read.com/u/bz0aG2

Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸@kebartlet.com · 2w ago

Since Bluesky's the other platform I mention in the article, makes sense to post this here too, right? This is specific to Substack, but the issue could be occurring elsewhere too, so Bluesky-ers, check your links! kebartlet.substack.com/p/urgent-psa... #author #writer #writesky #substack

Victoria Lurie is querying @vic-and-twisted.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE FRONTMAN (She’s the Man x Almost Famous) Lolly's lying to the nation, and it may kill her twin brother. She's finishing his 1983 tour. He's secretly in rehab. When rehab fails, Lolly must choose: save her twin or save his legacy, even if the truth ruins both their lives. #questpit #Q #A #U

A mood board of 1983, featuring Walkmans, jeans tucked into socks, cassette tapes, Jon Bongiovi, Peter Wabbit via The Guardian, and photos by Bruno Guerrero and Sebastian Ervi. The board promotes THE FRONTMAN, a work of upmarket fiction by Victoria Lurie, 100k words, where a rock band replaces their lead singer with his twin sister so they can finish their tour while he’s in rehab.

J.C. Medeiros @jcmedwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

CONFORM x THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS When Maree moves to desert city Abacria as a gatekeeper to Elevation—the only way to rewrite one's fate, she starts doubting reality under Abacria's oppression and her surreal attraction for two men from clashing worlds. Status: Final edits! #questpit #W #D #S

Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 2w ago

ARRIVAL X PARKS & REC A burnt-out lawyer escapes Earth expecting to build humanity's future, only to discover first contact is just another office job—with stranger coworkers, messier politics, and exponentially more paperwork ✨ Monet Inspired Planet ✨ Flirty Bi Alien ML #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #R

An Agent’s Guide to MEETING OF HONESTY by Florrie Auclair

A 100K romantic science-fiction novel

Title slide shows two characters in a romantic dip: an angry human woman in modern clothes and an alien man with flowing, iridescent hair against a soft pink gradient

Pitch Slide:
First contact has more paperwork than Gloria ever imagined.

When aliens arrive on the same planet Gloria's crew intend to colonize, of course they want the same land: the Sunny Spot, the only area with enough light to grow crops with a unique biome. But their territory dispute is moot if a toxic moss ravages it first. Gloria must now facilitate first contact and work with Emeric, the charming alien leader, to manage their shared collaboration.

From alien strangers to bickering rivals, Gloria finds herself developing feelings for Emeric. Until secrets shatter their growing bond. Now she must weaponize bureaucratic red tape and enlist the help of her crew to negotiate—but it means coming clean about her own secrets. At the risk of losing the only people she cares about (including the alien causing her problems), Gloria must be honest with them—and herself—to ensure humanity has a home and its autonomy.

Comp Slide:
The Left Hand of Darkness
Arrival
Parks & Recreation
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Translation State
Overruled

With the text: diverse cast, examination of cultural values, alien diplomacy & communication, bureaucratic satire, lush colony planet, legal conflicts, workplace rivals-to-lovers, and prickly FMC

Excerpt Slide

Image of Gloria, a human woman wearing business clothes with a clipboard obscuring the bottom half of her face

Text:
His other hand pointed to their adjoined palms. Beginning at their pinkie fingers, he bounced to the next digit and enunciated a new, unintelligible word. Each finger anointed until reaching her thumb. This was the oddest difference between their hands; his was longer with an extra joint. Clarity crashed into her. Her inhale sharpened.

Five fingers.

Across the universe, she met a new lifeform and they both had five fingers on each hand.

"Oh my god," Gloria breathed. Ironically, it was their shared features that overwhelmed her. Comfort should accompany commonality, but instead, it made this fever dream of an experience harder to deny. It was tangible that she was standing here with a bipedal humanoid with five fingers, even if his skin was blue and he had rainbow hair and feathery moth antennae. Either she was going to start laughing hysterically or throw up.

Warble, the alien agreed (she had no idea if that was an affirmative).

Alissa is Querying ✨🔥🧪@alissalindemann.bsky.social · 2w ago

Local Heavens X Fahrenheit 451 🖥️ Chronic Illness Rep 🎙️ Mind Control ❤️‍🔥 Rivals to Lovers 💖 Sapphic Romance 🎚️ Art as Resistance #questpit #A #SF #D #W

Text in the center of an old analog television reads "An Agent's Guide to Hell or Hardwire." It is bordered on two sides by rainbow electronic glitch background art. Along the side is binary code which translates to "Free your mind." The top border has musical notes in treble cleft on a staff. To the right are grayscale bars of TV static, the words "Adult Dystopian Sci-Fi" with a white glowing wolf's head outline between it and a final text of "80k Words" at the bottom.

Top and bottom of the image are bordered with rainbow electronic interference graphics and black and white TV interference. The title text reads "Loading Additional Media" and it features books "Local Heavens" by K.M. Fajardo, "Seek the Traitor's Son" by Veronica Roth and "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. There is also an image of the electronic music artist Daft Punk and the album cover for My Chemical Romance's album "Danger Days." The same binary code from the cover borders the image on the right.

Title text reads "Mission Status (Pitch)." It then has a white paper like box with the text, "When a digital music artist interrupts a heist, she becomes entangled in an underground Robin Hood style crime syndicate bent on destroying the corporite elite. Their leader, an infuriatingly likable rogue, and their plan to free the city from technocratic mind control clash with her own elaborate plot. As her body modifications slowly make her sick, she'll need to trust the rebels she once wrote off or risk time running out on both their plans." Below this is a box of black and white tv static with the faint outline of "Nero Relies on You," but the R and E in "Relies" is in black while the other words are in pink so it can be read as "Nero Lies on You." A text box to the right lists tropes: Chronic Illness Rep, Rivals to Lovers, Music and Fandom as Resistance, Sapphic Romance, and Feminine Rage." The right of the image is bordered by a black and gold circuit board.

Right border has glitched rainbow and black bars from a TV screen error. The title reads "Sample Code (Snippet)." On the right are antique images of Charles Babbage's brain with a diagram of a brain chip over the left lobe. Text reads: "Chapter 1: Stage lights crackle to life with a wave of electricity before rotating to illuminate my metallic form. I feel the crowd's frenzy, the way it lifts me, the way they yearn to rip this armor off and find the soft core of me inside. No one knows who I am, but they all love THE MACHINE GIRL. I star at the blank mass of shadow bodies, whose vocal cords swell with a name I chose for myself but isn't mine. Their response isn't biologically impressive. As the bassline of the track floods into the theatre, people twist and gyrate, but so too does a corpse dance post-mortem after succumbing to a knife wound. I would know.

Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️)@addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

MATE X TENTACLES & TRIATHLONS After Noah, a hard of hearing thief, moves in with siren Jasper, their accidental, corrupted mating bond must be severed before it kills them. 🧜‍♂️ Siren x The Surfer Immune to His Song 🌊 Fantasy Set in San Diego 🏄‍♂️ Standalone w/ Series Potential #QuestPit #Q #A #PR

A man on a surfboard turns away from the camera to look at a siren who is perched on rocks. Text reads: “The Deaf Man’s Guide to Seducing A Siren” and “An adult paranormal romance complete at 72k words”

The siren is back with a text block that reads: Determined to stay in affluent Sunset Cliffs, hard of hearing surfer Noah strikes a sugar agreement with standoffish siren Jasper,

The surfer returns with a text block that reads: “Tropes:billionaire/thief, Fast heat, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, Reformed playboy, monster fucking, Touch him and die, He wears his sweater

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · 2w ago

When pulled into a weapons program, Vic expects routine - not a neural link wiring her mind with an alien officer's. No thought unshared. No feeling hidden... not even the ones growing between them. Vic has a way out. Naev doesn’t. Falling in love was never part of the program. #QuestPit #W #R #SF

Moodboard for TANDEM, a sapphic sci-fi romance, in blue and violet shades.
Top row: A person in a dim blue lighting wears a headset with glowing red lenses; a surgical room with lights shining down overhead; a close-up of dark snake scales; a moon against the sky with clouds.
Middle row: a purple sky with two galaxies; a glowing title card that reads "tandem: a sapphic sci-fi romance".
Bottom row: a photo of a blue circuit board; two silhouettes of women facing each other, close, against the sky; a round spaceship observation window.

When Vic Kohler is pulled into a high-visibility new weapons program, she expects it to be a fairly standard assignment - not a neural link wiring her mind with Naev, a Vamath officer.

The pair learns quickly that this new connection offers no privacy: no thoughts are left unshared, no feelings are left unhidden... not even the feelings that are growing between them. The institution must never find out, because the program’s exit procedure is safe for a human and lethal for a Vamath. Vic has a way out. Naev doesn’t. Falling in love was never part of the program.

TANDEM is an ~87,000-word sapphic sci-fi romance - military SF tension meets speculative fiction interiority, for readers who want yearning with total transparency.

Tropes: Space travel, Human/alien romance, Forbidden love, Mind link, Interstellar politics, Slow burn, Forced proximity, Sapphic yearning.

Comp Titles. For readers who loved: This is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone; Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell; The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin.

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · 2w ago

QTP with a gif from one of your favorite comfort shows 📺

Utena from Revolutionary Girl Utena Drinking Tea

Alt: Utena from Revolutionary Girl Utena Drinking Tea

static.klipy.com

Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻@applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 2w ago

QTP with a gif from one of your favorite comfort shows 📺

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · 2w ago

I want to start a new thread for "scenes I wrote today with no context".

Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ethical art is art that treats everyone involved in the process (from materials to production to creative labor) fairly and with respect—not art that adheres to a specific set of content guidelines. Don't confuse genre trappings or marketing buzzwords with the real obligations we have to each other.

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · 2w ago

new icon by HinakoKanna on vgen!!

Aven McVie 📚✍️@avenmcvie.bsky.social · 2w ago

the urge to edit while I'm still working on my first draft

A cartoon illustration of Mr. Krabs, a bright red crab character from Spongebob, with an offset smile and one eye half-open, indicating an eye-twitch.

KeyCheyn @keycheyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

@tokwagyu.bsky.social doesn't have a VGen code yet but they have an account. If you have a spare, let me know! vgen.co/tokwagyu/req... #VGenCode

toto (@tokwagyu)

curdrawerist 🌱 multifandom

vgen.co

KeyCheyn@keycheyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hello! Do anyone here have a spare VGen code? My friend @tokwagyu.bsky.social is planning to open their commissions. Thank you! #VGen

Barrows @barrows.itch.io · 2w ago

Hey y'all, so if you know me, you know that my finances are, uh, nonexistent. So to mitigate that, I'm opening fiction writing commissions. 2 slots! If you like the kind of prose I write, and would like me to write something for you, please check my comm info here: danfbispo.carrd.co#services

This guy will write weird/cool/sexy/scary fiction for you (if you pay him).

Details in link above.

In the top right corner: (graphic design is not my passion) (but writing is) (for you) (for money)

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3w ago

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hubble's Lagoon in Visible & Near-Infrared - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/25KNrPV

Another version of the anniversary dataset, this time with visible and near-infrared imagery combined into a single image. The pinks and cyans in the visible light version give way for near-infrared wavelengths by shifting into greens and deep blues. Now the near-infrared wavelengths comprise all the reds and oranges of the image. The gas and dust fade like ghosts, becoming nearly transparent, revealing many hundreds of stars once hidden from view.

One of my favorite things to do is to combine unusual or complicated datasets together.

ps - The original news release for the near-infrared only image is here, just in case you missed it. hubblesite.org/image/4151/news_release/2018-21

Data from the following proposal comprises this image:
ptical and infrared imaging of the Lagoon Nebula (M8)

There is also a WOW page providing direct access to data:
STScI Outreach Imaging of M8 (Lagoon Nebula) - April 2018

Red: WFC3/IR F160W
Orange: WFC3/IR F125W
Yellow-Green: WFC3/UVIS F658N
Green-Blue: WFC3/UVIS F656N
Cyan: WFC3/UVIS F547M
Blue: WFC3/UVIS F502N

North is NOT up. It is 133.99° clockwise from up.