Verati
@verati404.bsky.social
Friend of spiders. Raccoon at heart. Bad at hydrating & sitting in a chair. Author and artist of your undiscovered favorite SFF! NO AI. T4T He/They 🏳️⚧️ #EchoSight #TaintedFaculties #SingularityHiccup Find Me Elsewhere! https://www.cianverati.com/
I’m still looking to book. My phone is due today, and my rent is overdue because I haven’t gotten any takers yet. I really don’t want to have to rely on the GFM every month. Get in touch with me ASAP if you need an editor.
Gabriel Hargrave (he/him)@ghargravewrites.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm looking to book clients for the rest of 2026 and the beginning of 2027. I'd love to help bring your book baby to the world, so DM me today to snag a slot!
Hey, all! I just posted my latest #art print. Join my paid tiers to see posts before they become public & with more time to vote in polls! (The tiers are undergoing some reconstruction just like the BackerKit campaign, though I'm almost done with them.) #Patreon #phoenixes #fantasy #💙📚 #🪐📚 #🌈📚
Sneak Peak: Art Print | VeratiArt
Hi, all! As my BackerKit efforts continue apace, I can at least show my Patrons here what I've been working on. After all, you've been with
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HERE'S YOUR REMINDER to review your recent reads! Indie authors rely on your reviews to connect with new readers. You can just go give a star rating! Every little bit helps. Thank you @sambeawesome.bsky.social for the idea! #5Star5th #Writing #IndieAuthor #Books #BookReview #Booksky
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Remember, kids: always check your shoes. Sometimes there's a #spider who decided that your hiking boots make a good nesting place. Pucture of a large, cool wolf spider in comments. (Didn't want to trigger anyone by putting it here.)
I'm so stoked. Only four more followers to my campaign needed so it can launch! Get your #art print & short story! And #dragons! And #fungal #horror! And your queer, neurodivergent bird-people, (one leg sold separately). #TBB #BookBazaar2026 #💙📚 #🌈📚 #🪐📚 #amwriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Verati@verati404.bsky.social · 5d ago#QueerWritersChat I need 9 more followers before BackerKit will give me a chance to print my #book! You can get #stickers when you pledge later this year! A bookmark! (Probably a never-before-seen short story :3.) And a physical copy of a really cool fantasy! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🌲 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]
#AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky #TaintedFaculties Me & every adult in the room immediately ask where Cavid is & Theso goes to look (to make sure he's okay). We assume worry until further evidence. If the child is in the room & the crash is elsewhere, it's still concerning more than infuriating.
🌱 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 20h agoTell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters You and all your characters are staying together somewhere! You hear a loud crash, then silence. Which one do you immediately suspect, and what do you think just happened? Are you worried or mad? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
All art & writing should belong to the person that made them, not some thieving techbro parasite. Like damn, didn't even exploit you like a proper employee. Everyone deserves the fruits of their own labors. Anything else is theft. And no amount of prompt-savviness will make someone a real artist.
Emily J. Edwards@msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 23h agoI hate how I used to be able to post little snippets of what I was writing or working on and now I know AI will scrape every last thing and feed it to someone else.
#AwesomeCharacters Well, the 1st Person POV in #TaintedFaculties is literally Enaka leaving behind a record for a few choice people in case they die. Hence the footnote asides & everything being as diagetic as possible. To that end, Enaka is pretty honest. Just plays up the humor & noticeably
🌱 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d agoTell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Your character is writing their memoirs! How honest are they being? Are they playing up their heroism and the drama? Are they leaving anything out? Why? What tone will it have? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
My editor Gabe needs clients, & I can't be the only one out here who wants to make sure their book is ready for the world.
Gabriel Hargrave (he/him)@ghargravewrites.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm looking to book clients for the rest of 2026 and the beginning of 2027. I'd love to help bring your book baby to the world, so DM me today to snag a slot!
Special thanks to the fine person that grabbed this painting last night, I'll be shipping it out shortly! Thank you so much!
ShiftyPumpkin@shiftypumpkin.com · 3d agoGoing to continue this 50% sale through the month of August! #bsnm #supportartists #art #tradart #oilpainting
If anyone can throw me a little money I'd appreciate it! My account is really low and I need some gas! #mutualaid #helpneeded #writesky #artsky
AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 5d agoCommissions open! (Help me catch up on bills and feed my cats) ko-fi.com/amarajlynn #commissions #artsky #writesky #design
I didn't do any shouting this weekend, but now I'm back on it! I had to sleep. A lot. I still need more, but it's the work week now. Anyways, got poetry? no? this is a good place to staaaaaart #BookBazaar26 #Poetry #BookSky #Writesky #Books www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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Verati, weren't you JUST posting six hours ago about how you should sleep? Shhhh don't look at it. It's morning now.
Authors: show me the #book covers you made yourself, without AI. (I drew this myself in a fever craze of 40 hours in a single week. It was the most ambitious art I'd ever done & I was SO anxious about how it would turn out.) #WriteSky #💙📚
Jeb 🏳️⚧️ Time Paradox: Exposition@jebdarsh.bsky.social · 2d agoAuthors: show me the book covers you made yourself, without AI. I drew this with my own fingies!!
It's that time of night when I really don't want to sleep but it's too late to do anything else & I SHOULD sleep. My bed is right there. If I go to sleep, I won't be tired in the morning & I can wake up early like my body has the natural impulse to. I make myself depressed when I sleep in. And yet.
My editor Gabe needs clients, & I can't be the only one out here who wants to make sure their book is ready for the world.
Gabriel Hargrave (he/him)@ghargravewrites.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm looking to book clients for the rest of 2026 and the beginning of 2027. I'd love to help bring your book baby to the world, so DM me today to snag a slot!
Bored of tidy, sensible romances in your fantasy? Want a love affair that's confusing, tumultuous, and sometimes unpleasant? No worries, mate: I've got your bad choices and saying the worst thing right here! The Exile and His Fool, a new novel 🌶️📚🌈 buy.bookfunnel.com/v3pfssfj6m
Hating it any harder would give me an aneurysm, but I believe that other people still have room for vitriol in their hearts.✨️🫡 I believe you, too, can summon your inner League player. We are a species capable of motivational spite like no other.
Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3d agoPlease hate gen AI even harder. You can do it. I believe in you. Do it for the planet. Hate the lazy, slop producing, environment killing, water draining, participation trophy seeking, poser creating, loser machine. Do it for humanity.
I was playing around with a t4t cyberpunk retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice before I got too sick last year. This was my favorite doodle of Orpheus.
This has always been one of my most popular art posts so I thought I'd share a glimpse of the actual process video. I cant upload the video for the full page because it's too long sadly. You can view the finished page in my pinned post. The actual panel only took i think a couple hours
c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics@portaltohades.bsky.social · 2y agoand here's the finished panel!
Note to self: when asking niece-child "did you do the chore?" please double-check said child to make sure she did the WHOLE chore and not half of it. UUUghhhhh. That's on me. [lays facedown on the floor]
I'm pretty good about not overusing it now, but it takes effort to avoid "I" natually in a lot of sentences, considering I prefer to write in 1st person POV. There are legitimate times & reasons to use it, but varying sentence structure for proper flow is important & easy to mess up. #writing
Susan Savage Lee@susansavagelee.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat’s a word or phrase you overuse when writing? “That” is a big one for me, though I’m getting better at avoiding it #writingq #WritingCommunity #writers
