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Scarlett Gale

@scarlettgauthor.bsky.social

Author of sexy fantasy books, baker of pies, petter of cats. Sword Bisexual. She/her | HER SUBTLE INVESTIGATIONS out August 16th! http://scarlettgaleauthor.com/shop

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Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 9h ago

If the Pope would like to commission me to continue the fine tradition of plausibly deniable horny Catholic art made by probable queers, I will write 150k words of someone yearning for Jesus (sexually) and then take my huge Vatican paycheck and use half of it to buy some tgirl her bottom surgery.

Dustin A. Chacón@lingdustin.bsky.social · 22h ago

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 22h ago

I am slooooowly darning all my wool socks and I regret to inform you that unfortunately the way that takes the longest is the much better method.

Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 2d ago

i would rather remove my eyeballs than witness an AI tingler cover

The Craetor🍄☕️@craetor.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hello, esteemed mr Tingle... I'd like to inquire, by nature of the times we live in, whether you use AI at all for your covers these days.

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sooooo many spam texts trying to sell me business loans and I look around at my business equipment (a laptop and a desktop for writing, a weird assortment of show supplies for burlesque) and my employees (fellow performers I pay for each one-off show gig) and go... Wheremst would I use a loan???

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d ago

I consider it my duty to remind everyone that JCO is a broken clock if a broken clock had a gun and shot the right person twice a day and the wrong people all the other times

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · last wk.

I am still bisexual and being really visible about it if you would like to buy a book about a really visible bisexual and the small man who adores her!

Scarlett Gale@scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's Bisexual Awareness Week? Then you should probably be aware that both I (the author) and Glory, the female lead in my femdom fantasy duology, are big ol' bisexuals! She says so out loud (in fantasy terms)! We meet her ex-girlfriend! It's F/M that's queer as hell! scarlettgaleauthor.com/shop

The cover of His Secret Illuminations by Scarlett Gale on a bisexual pride flag background. The cover art features a muscular blonde woman with green eyes wearing armor and holding a sword in front of her with both hands, blade-down.

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 3d ago

this fool’s spoon isn’t even runcible

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 3d ago

My wife and I have built a record collection almost entirely from browsing the $1 bins at the architectural salvage shops in town and buying whatever had the funniest cover, and these fucks cannot understand the rapture of bringing home "The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos" for the bit and it KILLING

autumn coded@hoovybaby.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 3d ago

Draft2Digital finish processing my updated manuscript so I can order author copies and restock my website challenge!!!

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 4d ago

Wow, Marshall's Halloween decor section, just @ me next time

A decorative wooden placard that reads "one more chapter won't kill me" with a cartoony illustration of a skeleton reading a book while sitting on a stack of books.

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 4d ago

The film is written, directed, and co-stars Hitoshi Ozawa, a legendary Yakuza actor who is a villain in Yakuza 0, who got his fellow legends involved. This was his passion project inspired by one of his best friends, a trans woman, and he worked with the community for representative casting.

Justin Decloux@declouxj.bsky.social · 8mo ago

THE CLANS HEIR IS A TRANS WOMAN (2013) is like Steven Seagal decided to Write/Direct/Star in a love letter to his trans friends, but it looks and feels like every action movie he's made... except Hitoshi Ozawa is way way way way cooler than Seagal.

⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie)@stinasdemons.com · 5d ago

It's that day again. Use any and all resources available to help you through it. (And, as always, #FuckAI)

Reminder to treat your body like a data center:
1. Consume as much water and literature as possible
2. Upset the local city council with your existence

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 4d ago

This is one of my top three shows of all time. Of. All. Time. Mostly funny, occasionally frightening or revelatory or startling or eerie or poignant or beautiful. It leaves me in awe of the baffling blob of meat and ideas that is humanity. But mostly it’s really, really fucking funny.

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4d ago

Oh my God Taskmaster has hit Hulu. I repeat all seasons of Taskmaster are on Hulu. If you've never watched Taskmaster go start watching it literally right now

Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · last wk.

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

Hope For The Planet@h4tp.bsky.social · last wk.

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · last wk.

I know they say don't meet your heroes, but I think meeting @tkingfisher.com went incredibly well, actually!

Two smiling white women, both wearing glasses because they're authors and that kinda comes with the territory. Scarlett Gale, on the left, has short red hair and is wearing a burgundy hand knit sweater. Ursula Vernon, on the right, is wearing a hat that's kinda cowboy-hat-adjacent and a blue button-up shirt.

The interior title page for Swordheart by T. Kingfisher, signed by T. Kingfisher "For the amazing Scarlett!"

Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm)@scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · last wk.

In addition to the other obvious reasons you should come to my show in West Seattle tomorrow (as shown below), I'm also offering a special local's discount of $10 off GA tickets for the first 20 people to use the code "Hallowestie" on Ticketleap! events.ticketleap.com/tickets/unna...

Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm)@scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · last wk.

What's up I'm trying a new, much shittier advertising technique for my show this Saturday. events.ticketleap.com/tickets/unna...

A written-on google maps screenshot of West Seattle and SoDo. It reads, "West Seattle! Come to Earlyween!" with an arrow pointing toward the approximate location of the show, where a tiny version of the poster has been placed. In green more writing reads, "Free parking" "boobs" "butts" "no traffic" along with blue happy smiley faces. On the other side of the map, it reads "Sounders" "Mariners" "Bad traffic" "expensive parking" in orange, along with red angry unhappy smiley faces.

Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm)@scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · last wk.

What's up I'm trying a new, much shittier advertising technique for my show this Saturday. events.ticketleap.com/tickets/unna...

Yoran @yoranp.bsky.social · last wk.

@scarlettgauthor.bsky.social a heroforge version of lucian and glory. hope u like it

Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm)@scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · last wk.

Are you a West Seattle local? Do you want to pretend to be a West Seattle local? The first 20 people to use the code "Hallowestie" get $10 off their GA tickets for Earlyween! Get award-winning burlesque right in your home neighborhood, then be in bed by 10pm! events.ticketleap.com/tickets/unna...

Earlyween

Earlyween: A striptease celebration of scary season! Halloween. The holiday with everything: Costumes, candy, running around without adult supervision, and generally reveling in the darker side of lif...

events.ticketleap.com

Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm)@scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · 2w ago

Halloween is the only thing keeping Christmas from starting in August. Come celebrate this goth bullwark against the holidays with an amuse-BOO-che for spooky season on September 26th at Earlyween in Seattle, WA! The cast? Incredible. The vibes? Impeccable! 👻🎃🦇 events.ticketleap.com/tickets/unna...

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · last wk.

In an attempt to make it less weird via forewarning, I would like @tkingfisher.com to know that I intend to bring you some fresh fall crop raspberries from my garden at you mycology author talk tomorrow, as a gift from one gardener to another! And also a book to sign, which is very normal!

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · last wk.

I am still bisexual and being really visible about it if you would like to buy a book about a really visible bisexual and the small man who adores her!

Scarlett Gale@scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 2w ago

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm)@scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · 2w ago

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're getting into the perfect season for it, so why not grab a copy and enjoy some fine big lady/small man shimbo/nerd wholesome horny romance? If you don't want to buy it DRM-free directly from my webshop, you can find it at most online retailers via this link: books2read.com/HisSecretIll...

A cozy femdom fantasy for fall! Featuring the cover of His Secret Illuminations by Scarlett Gale.
#pining; #slow-burn; #big buff female protagonist; #small soft male protagonist; #magic; #mystery; #heists; #religious angst; #we love a yoked woman; #huddling for warmth; #oh my god they were roommates; #fealty; #yearning; #more queers than you can shake a stick at; #none of them die.
books2read.com/HisSecretIlluminations
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Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

“My lady?”
She looks up from petting a unicorn, eyebrows raised in acknowledgment.
“Do you—that is—” He takes a deep breath and tries to find the right phrasing. “If it’s not rude of me to ask, do you prefer women?” Why is he asking this?
“Oh,” she says, looks thoughtful for a moment. “Mmm. Not prefer, as such, I’m not a dedicated seeker of flowers. I’m attracted to women and I’m attracted to men and sometimes I’m attracted to people who aren’t either. I don’t care as much about what a person is, I care about who they are. Does that make sense?”
“I think so, my lady,” Lucían says, a terrible, dangerous thread of hope twisting through his insides.

“It took three months before she told me that,” she says with a sly grin. “She must be sweet on you to tell you so early, lucky boy.”
“I don’t—” Lucían starts, then falls silent as he realizes he doesn’t know where he was going with that sentence. He pins up a few garments, thinking, and tries again. “Are you and she—do you—you’ve known her for a long time—”
“We’re not currently fucking,” the Knife tells him bluntly, and Lucían chokes on air, hiding behind a dress as he pins it to the clothesline until he can get his face back under control. “We used to fuck, and it was great,” she continues blithely, completely destroying any composure he’d been able to attain, “but it’s been a long time since we had that kind of relationship. You have no competition from me, kid.”
Lucían covers his head with a wet linen tunic, intensely embarrassed.
“It’s not—” he protests to the inside of the fabric “I don’t—we aren’t—that’s not what I meant!”

@bluematvalley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tlingit wereotters referenced in legal filing:

The Questionable Authority@questauthority.bsky.social · 3w ago

OK. I mentioned this before, won't belabor it, but this paragraph is art. I would wager a not-inconsiderable sum that Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Augustine, and Lon Chaney have never been cited in a single paragraph before. (And hopefully never will again.)

Plaintiff has sued Wizards for $10M because he believes he created and exclusively owns the
idea for a “wereshark” and that Wizards has infringed upon his creation. By way of relevant
background, lycanthropic monsters – werewolves and the like – have been found in folklore and
fiction since antiquity. Hundreds of years before the Common Era, Herodotus wrote of the Neuri, a
tribe northeast of Scythia that would reportedly transform into wolves for several days once a year.
Herodotus, The Histories, 4.105 (circa 440 BCE). Werewolves continued to appear in folklore from
antiquity through modern times, and across a wide range of cultures. See, e.g., Pausanias, Description of
Greece, 8.2 (circa 160-180 CE); Ovid, The Metamorphoses, I 219-239 (circa 8 CE); Pliny the Elder,
Natural History, VIII.34 (circa 77 CE); Augustine, The City of God, XVIII.17 (circa 426 CE); King
Canute, Ecclesiastical Ordinances, c. 26 (circa 1020 CE); Anonymous, The Tale of Igor’s Campaign (circa
late 1100s) (Slavic folklore); Marie de France, Bisclavret (circa 1200); Völsungasaga, ch. 8 (circa 1250
CE) (Nordic folklore). Bram Stoker depicted Dracula as a werewolf in Dracula’s Guest. Werewolves
1 Plaintiff Lap-Sun Chan named “Dungeons and Dragons Wizards of the Coast LLC” as the Defendant, but Dungeons
and Dragons is a game published and owned by Wizards of the Coast, LLC, not a distinct entity.
2 See Chan v. Ramdhaney, Case No. 1:22-cv-03708 (S.D.N.Y 2022) 3 See Eng v. Podolnick, No. 1:14-cv-04675 (S.D.N.Y 2014) (dismissed for failure to comply with order requiring Plaintiff to
“file an amended complaint not containing the stricken portions or any other racist, anti-Semitic, or insulting language”).

Yoran @yoranp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just finished His Secret Illuminations by @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social such a fun read

Scarlett Gale @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

I had to reschedule my massage for next Thursday in order to get tickets to @tkingfisher.com's mycology author event, but fortunately my massage therapist is also a big T. Kingfisher fan and totally understood 😂

Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm)@scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · 2w ago

P.S. Love to do a photoshoot with my wife in the fall of 2021 and then not get around to editing any of the pictures until fall of 2026 😂 Better late than never!

Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm)@scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · 2w ago

Casting a spell to remind all my Seattle-based weirdos to get your tickets to Earlyween on September 26th! We'll have ghouls, goblins, thrills, chills, and all things Halloween! 🎃🦇🐈‍⬛👻🍬 events.ticketleap.com/tickets/unna...

A pale white woman with elaborate silver and black makeup and a silver and black rose headdress on her bald head poses witchily in a black velvet cape and dress.

A pale white woman with elaborate silver and black makeup and a silver and black rose headdress on her bald head poses witchily in a black dress amongst evergreen trees.