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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 21h

I'm trying to fake feeling a bit more human in hopes that it'll feel real if I try hard enough. Stress has been burning my candle at both ends and the middle the last few weeks.

Selfie style photo of a white woman with brown, pink, and purple hair, wearing a mauve sweater and a silver tone necklace

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Henn, known robot kisser @iwriterobots.com · 2d

This is your monthly reminder: if you like a piece of writing, a piece if art, etc-- TELL THE PERSON WHO MADE IT!!! Leave a comment, tell them with *words* that you like it.
Seriously, it goes *such* a long way.

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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday!

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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 3d

Ashley ran from her pack at 21 after finding her mate with someone else. When she returns at 25 with a child, it’s hard to avoid the Alpha as he tries to set her up with one of his sons, both sick from bond-rot, not knowing that one is the father and both are mated to her.

#DVpit #NA #PR #CI

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 3d

#DVpit 2025 has officially begun!
Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors!
Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts!
Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co

#DVPit Rules
-#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors
-Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025
between 8AM ET - 8PM ET
-Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project)
-Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio.
-Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag)
-A like from an agent = a query request
-A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
-A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
-Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or
quote-reposting their pitches
-Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.

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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 3d

Dear Lupus,
Please behave this week.
I know my sleep schedule and stress levels are so far from optimal that I'm asking a lot of you, but I need to not flare myself into bed until next Monday.
I will sleep Sunday afternoon until Monday evening with only getting up for dog walks and bathroom; okay?

Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 3d

💖 I thought I was just writing a plain ol' rescue/love story for a plus-sized blackberry faerie. Nope. She gets all three grumpy mages, including one who is ace but teaches her that love can have many varieties and intimacy doesn't always mean sex.

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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 3d

Exiled to a dying planet for having magic she was unaware of, Rosalyn finds herself rescued from orcs only to end up with three mages who want to harvest her magic.
The Wardens of the Bramble are oathbound to sacrifice all magical beings, but what happens if they love her?

#DVpit #A #PR #CI MMFM

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🎃 Xero Reynolds 🎃 @artificerind.bsky.social · 4d

If you'd like to do me a birthday solid this week, join my Patreon or Ko-fi!

Helping me do what I love is an amazing gift. 💙🤘💙

patreon.com/artificerind

Artificer Industries | Patreon

Streaming, and Maker YouTube videos

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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 5d

Hubby's car (formerly my late father's car) died on the side of the road a few mins from home. We are grateful he & kiddo could walk home from her work and it hadn't died yesterday while in the middle of nowhere on the hour drive home from vending. But, this is the 3rd major car fix in 2 months.

Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for making me giggle so hard the dogs came running to check on me.

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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 7d

We had an absolutely gorgeous view of Lake Geneva for day one of Dragon Days.

photo from inside a purple vending tent looking out at a lake with boats floating on it on a very sunny day. between the tent and the lake is a small strip of grass and sidewalk. A very full table of figurines is visible over on the right along with gridwalls full of jewelry

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Siobhan Muir @siobhanmuir.bsky.social · 9d

It's all fun and games until the world goes furry in @davidaludwig.bsky.social's #ThursThreads tale. What kind of tale can you tie on? #FlashFiction #WriteSky #WritingPrompt siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads...

#ThursThreads – Tying Tales Together – Week 678 – Siobhan Muir

siobhanmuir.com

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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 9d

"I need you all to go take care of Evera for me. Can you do that?”
“On my honor.”
“You don’t have any honor, Locrian,” Hunter says on a laugh.
I grab my mate around the waist and hug him close. “On Roland’s honor then.”
#WIP #RealityCheck #AmWriting

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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 10d

The twins bought me a countertop dishwasher for my bday. It didn't work. Replaced it with same model. It also doesn't work...
Should I make a re-boxing video— like an unboxing video but way less cheerful?

Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 11d

I found out last night that a writing friend had passed. May the stories he wrote, memories shared, & worlds created live on in the hearts and minds that hold them.
May all the stories still unwritten when his creative spark rejoined the collective bardic fire find new hearts and hands to pen them.

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Saum Haas she/her @nsomniasaum.bsky.social · 13d

Please enjoy this picture of a Spicebush swallowtail / green-clouded butterfly, Papilio troilus, on Eastern Purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, and share this post because my friend needs a kidney.

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Photo description: a black butterfly with blue-green markings and white spots along its wings, perched on a purple-pink flower. Background is blurry grass and yellow flowers.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16d

More on the fence: bsky.app/profile/katm...

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16d

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down.

Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 16d

Be extra nice to kids today.

They don’t really know what’s going on but they may sense that something big is not right in the world.

Show them that joy and hope remain. Make them laugh. Tell them they’re doing a good job. Push them to keep striving.

Love them.

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 16d

Today is the day!

www.amazon.com/Queen-Thorns...

Book cover for Queen of Thorns by Joel C. Flanagan-Grannemann.
Across the top is a banner announcing "Book Five of Servants of the Moon and Sun" in a clean silvery white font.
Against a deep red background with ominous dark thorny trees and fog, an armored knight dressed all in black and wearing a silver helm and breastplate rides a black horse, which is also armored at the head and body. The knight holds a crossbow loaded with a bright silver bolt in his right hand. The book's title is placed under the mounted knight in large silver letters in a fantasy font with thorn serifs. The author's name is centered below that over two lines in a smaller clean silvery white font.

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Nix~🍉 @punklenix.bsky.social · 16d

Gonna be streaming a bit as I get a little work done. Chatting about life n stuff. Probably gonna get overly excited about my new love for canning veggies 😅 Afterwards maybe some games for a bit?

twitch.tv/punklenix

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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 16d

support ticket submitted. It uses a water tank instead of an inlet hose, and even with the tank full, it isn't getting the water into the actual washer/arms to do anything, just gives the dreaded e1 error.

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A Couple of Drakes @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social · 16d

Them: So what have y'all been up to?
Me: Haha, you know. The usual.

The Usual:

A wizard ponders five blue crystal orbs labeled WIP

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Miya Kressin @miyakressin.bsky.social · 17d

My 17yo twins bought me a countertop dishwasher as a birthday gift so I can have less time standing on pain days and "not use all my spoons to wash the spoons."

Today I have to fight with it to make it work.

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