Christian Chiakulas
@christianchiakulas.bsky.social
Person who does stuff, including writing Debut novel Seed of the Black Oak out now!!! They/them
This is true, but also, every single human rights issue deserves an unabashedly maximalist approach, full stop. How is this even a question
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2d agoOne of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.
no realistic way to get the other funny number so this'll have to do. nice
ppl defending Sheeran like "it's the venues' fault he can't control them!" literally do you hear yourself? it's Ed Sheeran there literally is no tour without him. He can get any venue he wants, or he could postpone the tour in solidarity because he does not need the money
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d agoRapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month
I wonder if like half of all Democratic Party politicians were "flaky" on whether or not busted white men with faces that look like Meltman from Action League Now deserve human rights, if W*ll St*ncil would still say it's foolish and short-sighted not to support them
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4d agoI'll confess I'm shocked by this: seeing a respected progressive voice openly argue that it's better to defeat Democrats who have been flaky on trans rights than to secure Democratic control of the US Senate and US House. Unbelievably foolish, short-sighted, self-sabotaging nonsense.
Shamefully, I can't help but electoralism-post, so here goes: I think it's ghoulish, no exception, to be smug about people not wanting to vote for a person or party that keeps showing its infinite capacity to neglect others as some kind of "strategy."
Amazon is no longer saying the book is out of stock!!! Yay!
Christian Chiakulas@christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's finally here! Epi thought her best friend and first love was dead. Now that she knows Aly is alive, she will burn down a kingdom to get her back. Grab Seed of the Black Oak wherever books are sold! 🌈🚀💫 #sapphicromance #romantasy #swordandsorcery #fantasynovels
at a certain point we're gonna need to move past the idea that we have to cater to and tiptoe around murderous sociopathic freaks so they don't get somehow even worse. abuse-apologetics logic. these people need to be systemically disempowered
Foucault's Pudendum@kaitave.bsky.social · last wk.It's real funny seeing the whole "we can't mock MAHA or we'll push them further to the right" thing espoused like it should just be accepted common knowledge, was there ever a similar outpouring of sympathy for sovereign citizens, or do you only get this courtesy when you rack up a body count?
Will never understand "there is no place for political violence in our country" from liberals. Brother this entire place was founded on political violence, it's in our DNA
Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · last wk.There is no place for political violence in our country. I’m grateful that Amy Acton is safe and thankful for the law enforcement officers who acted swiftly today. Attacks like this cannot just be the price you pay for running for office. This must never become normal.
Good evening to this random drummer playing Sk8r Boi with Avril Lavigne at the 2003 BRIT awards and only this random drummer playing Sk8r Boi with Avril Lavigne at the 2003 BRIT awards
Struggling to write supporting characters in your #WIP? It's something I've dealt with a lot recently, so I wrote a little guide to what I think about when approaching it. #writingadvice 🌈🚀💫 christianchiakulas.com/2026/09/04/h...
How to Write Supporting Characters (ft. Seed of the Black Oak)
Ah, characters. We all love characters, right? I mean, you’ve got your protagonist. Every story needs a protagonist! Ideally they’re interesting, motivated, active, flawed in a way that…
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I'm not old enough to remember when the CIA deposed the democratically-elected prime minister of Iran to install a brutal monarchist dictator friendly to western oil interests but I know about it anyways because I actually study history and read books
greytdog@greytdog.bsky.social · 2w agoThe GOP has always cheated...and harmed Americans in order to gain and hold power.
Evergreen reminder that if you're not using ALT text on your images (yes, your promo images for your writing count), you are excluding a whole swath of people who might otherwise get to know you (and your work) better. Inclusion is always the better option.
Epi and Aly live in an Iron Age-type world so they don't have the language to describe their identities. Both are bisexual but without the cultural framework to understand themselves that way (and in a patriarchal society) they understand their love as basically transcendental
Black Cat Book Nook@blackcatbooknook.bsky.social · 2w ago#QueerCharChat | September 2, 2026 Let's talk identity. What does your character identify as within the Queer Community? Do they share an identity with you to be an #OwnVoice character? #WritingCommunity #QueerWriting #OwnVoice
Amazon is glitching out and telling people my book is out of stock/6 months delivery time lol I can't imagine a worse glitch to have during my release week. Bezos is politically repressing me #Writerlife #author #booksky #Amazon
that's why Robert Patrick is the GOAT (also because he's in both The Sopranos and The X-Files)
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 2w agoJust got outta the TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY 35th anniversary rerelease and Jesus Christ, man. What a movie. They had to do all that shit for real. They had to fly that helicopter under an overpass. They had to blow up that building. They had to find an actor who could turn into liquid metal.
Half of my 4th period had to go downstairs for this workshop thing and the rest of us had the best class of the year so far. Small class sizes are so important and it's shameful that legislators and school boards don't get it
Explain your book using only emojis! (Plot or just tropes!) Here's Seed of the Black Oak! 👭⚔️👺🧙♂️🗡️✨🏠🧙♂️💀👩❤️💋👩 🌈🚀💫
It's finally here! Epi thought her best friend and first love was dead. Now that she knows Aly is alive, she will burn down a kingdom to get her back. Grab Seed of the Black Oak wherever books are sold! 🌈🚀💫 #sapphicromance #romantasy #swordandsorcery #fantasynovels
it's actually really simple: none of these problems affect the daily lives of national-level politicians. Not a single one. They do not have the same problems you or I do. All of this shit, the concentration camps, gas prices, dead soldiers, food safety, they're purely abstract to our ruling class
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2w agowe have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer
genuinely, he may as well be talking about solving climate change with genies and fairies and wizards. it'd be exactly as realistic as this bullshit
My debut adult novel Seed of the Black Oak comes out tomorrow and I am so nervous you guys, I have craaazy jitters. Anyways please buy my book and tell me (and other people) if you like it 🥺
Got asked on another site how to actually finish a book, and I hate to admit it but the best way is to write short stories. I prefer novels but I never finished one until after I forced myself to write, and complete, some shorter things!
man why the fuck are we even having this conversation. Gotta be a CIA psyop
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 3w agoSlurs derive their injurious force from a history of violence and dehumanization that folks are at least implicitly aware of. YOU CANNOT DEHUMANIZE A MACHINE IN THIS WAY. THERE IS NO HISTORY OF VIOLENCE THAT ENABLES "CLANKER" TO FUNCTION IN THIS WAY.
Damn that’s crazy but you can’t be racist against the computer. Yeah. No I hear you but. Yeah it’s because it’s not a person it’s the computer.