Karsyn
@karsynwrites.bsky.social
Writer and reader of romance. Cries at a good meal. Has too many strong opinions. Can’t say no to a waffle cone. She/hers
It's a great day to call your reps and support trans people ❤️
Kara Jorgensen@authorkaraj.bsky.social · last yr.More democratic senators are saying they haven't seen the part of the bill outlawing gender affirming care for trans people on medicaid/medicare. HERE'S A SCRIPT FOR YOU WITH SPECIFICS ON WHERE IT IS. Call your reps and point their eyeballs directly to SECTION 71117
Pounded in the butt by the handsome lesbian manifestation of my ADHD while I learn that refusing to accommodate myself is unkind OR I'm gay for my sentient toolbelt
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last yr.#LGBTQWriteAThon June 17: Make your book's title into a tingler today! A Tingler, made infamous by Chuck Tingle, goes something like this: Pounded in the butt by... #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity
Me, watching Tropic Thunder for the first time: oh man, it just drops you in en media res? DH: Yup! Me: oh no, not sure I'll be able to keep up with the worldbuilding
Role Playing by Cathy Yardley (demi and bi rep) Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick (who you are was always meant to happen 🥲) The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (OCD and ace rep)
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last yr.#LGBTQWriteAThon June 12: Share a book(s) with rep important to you! #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity
All of it 😈 I want all the queer and disabled and BIPOC experiences so everyone can see themselves in what they're reading! I want every marginalized community to get to write every trope until we're all sick of seeing our specific combo of labels fake date or fight demon crocodiles or what have you
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last yr.#LGBTQWriteAThon June 11: Share some rep you'd like more of in books! #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity
Jen's struggles with ADHD mirror my own--the "why can't I just do this," the shoulding, the shame and frustration around all of that--and I want anyone who reads it to know that it's okay to accommodate their brain and there's nothing wrong with needing a different path
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last yr.#LGBTQWriteAThon June 10: Why is the rep in your book important to you? #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity
Hmmm like a few others I haven't done as much comp searching yet but I'd say the AuDHD pairing of Cleat Cute meets a butch4butch HGTV's Home Town?
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last yr.#LGBTQWriteAThon June 4: Share your book's comps today! #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity
It was a few things but one of the biggest inspirations was the lack of butch/butch sapphic pairings in trad contemporary romance!
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last yr.#LGBTQWriteAThon June 3: What was the inspiration for your WIP? #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity
This week: write something! Anything! This month: get back into my writing routine I'm setting the bar low, my executive function is at an all time low 😬
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last yr.#LGBTQWriteAThon June 2: What are your goals this week, and this month? #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity
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Hey #LGBTQWriteAThon! I'm Karsyn, a bi and ace-spec author of all sorts of romance but lately anything sapphic! I'm in early days of a new draft but this is my first line, courtesy of my MC Jen: I should’ve known I’d overdick this.
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · last yr.#LGBTQWriteAThon June 1: Welcome to LGBTQWriteAThon! Introduce yourself & share your first line! #QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity
I'm only three episodes in but do yourself a favor and watch Laid with Stephanie Hsu?!? It's hilarious and dark and deeply compelling to watch
Playing Pokémon Snap for the first time and it's basically making this face 🥹🥹🥹 at every single Pokémon and going "awhhhhhhhhh," basically a dream come true
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.FDA Commissioner Makary: "By the way, America doesn't want covid boosters."
those evil assholes passed their big death bill in the house, but it is not over. please call your reps & senators (esp gop!) today and tell them how pissed off you are and let them know that you are paying attention. reps.fyi
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I need cis people to understand that if this bill passes, thousands of trans people will die. That's not hyperbole. That's not sensationalism. That's fact. You know the genocide of trans people in the United States you refuse to acknowledge? It's here.
I needed to be much clearer in my now-escaped thread (see below) and so should have the OP that the FDA has announced PLANS. It has not carried out those plans yet. We can push back. We can try to get a shot. Don't close the window for them. bsky.app/profile/alys...
Alyssa Harad@alyssaharad.bsky.social · last yr.It is not too late to push back on the FDA’s attempts to limit vaccine access. Believe me, you want to fight for this even if you think Covid is over. They do not plan to stop here. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
They're literally trying to keep people from getting the COVID vaccine. Commenting here is an easy and quick way to push back.
Kara Jorgensen@authorkaraj.bsky.social · last yr.The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
#romancelandia help me! I'm trying to pick my next read bc lots of Libby holds arrived at once 😂😭 what should be first: - A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell - All That They Desire by Zoe York - Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde - Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa - Her Husband's Harlot by Grace Callaway
I don't have a problem watching movies with other people *unless* they're just fucking talking constantly and complaining about the conventions of THE GENRE OF THE MOVIE
If I am elected, I will make every professional sports commentating duo be comprised of two rivals who also a little bit want to kiss #romancelandia
I've seen Bull Durham in the #romcombracket that @romeverafter.bsky.social puts on for about three years and now I'm finally watching it! We've got banter crackling between the leads, we've got yearning already starting, we've got what appears to be a proudly slutty female lead?! 🥰🥰🥰
I wrote 2500 words yesterday 🥲 I've been in revision purgatory on two separate projects for almost a year, drafting feels so weird