Nico Silver | Nik Sylvan
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🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Writer of queer urban fantasy, epic romantic fantasy, and UF romance as Nico Silver. Illustrator, bookbinder, printer, printmaker, folklorist as Nik Sylvan. They/them.🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Anyway, once I’m done with this craft fair you can expect some super queerie queer art, more short stories, and probably hot naked people and monsters in both.
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Anyway, once I’m done with this craft fair you can expect some super queerie queer art, more short stories, and probably hot naked people and monsters in both.
I make art for queer people. If you’re not queer and you like it anyway, that’s cool, too.
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I make art for queer people. If you’re not queer and you like it anyway, that’s cool, too.
I’m a bit late to the party, probably, but did you know you could nominate my books for the Indie Ink Awards? The Silence of Storms has a very pretty cover, nonbinary rep, and lots of other goodness. I think Waking Pan is eligible, too.
Anyway, it would be very cool to be nominated. 😁😁
Anyway, it would be very cool to be nominated. 😁😁
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I’m a bit late to the party, probably, but did you know you could nominate my books for the Indie Ink Awards? The Silence of Storms has a very pretty cover, nonbinary rep, and lots of other goodness. I think Waking Pan is eligible, too.
Anyway, it would be very cool to be nominated. 😁😁
Anyway, it would be very cool to be nominated. 😁😁
Hey, so, if you’re into gen eh-eye, please don’t like my posts. In fact, don’t even look at my posts. Fuck right off and keep fucking off because my work is not for you.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Hey, so, if you’re into gen eh-eye, please don’t like my posts. In fact, don’t even look at my posts. Fuck right off and keep fucking off because my work is not for you.
Anyway, today I had an idea for a linocut of a naked person with many tentacles (including *there*) and I did a really terrible sketch that’s so bad I’m not going to post it, but I might work on it and do that after my next satyr linocut.
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Anyway, today I had an idea for a linocut of a naked person with many tentacles (including *there*) and I did a really terrible sketch that’s so bad I’m not going to post it, but I might work on it and do that after my next satyr linocut.
Yeah, fuck it, I’m gonna make banana bread. With chocolate chips in.
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Yeah, fuck it, I’m gonna make banana bread. With chocolate chips in.
The urge to draw hot naked monsters when I’m supposed to be prepping for a craft fair that’s coming up way too fast.
Oh, and finishing this novel.
Oh, and finishing this novel.
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The urge to draw hot naked monsters when I’m supposed to be prepping for a craft fair that’s coming up way too fast.
Oh, and finishing this novel.
Oh, and finishing this novel.
I’ve been thinking a lot about making erotic linocuts, but I have no idea where I’d sell them. Like, I could get away with a certain level at the gallery where I work, probably, but I don’t think any of the local arts councils would be particularly accepting of sexy monster boink pictures.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I’ve been thinking a lot about making erotic linocuts, but I have no idea where I’d sell them. Like, I could get away with a certain level at the gallery where I work, probably, but I don’t think any of the local arts councils would be particularly accepting of sexy monster boink pictures.
Anyway, I’m officially an X now. Next: wait for my name change to go through while also waiting for top surgery.
In the meantime, make queer art and write queer books.
In the meantime, make queer art and write queer books.
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Anyway, I’m officially an X now. Next: wait for my name change to go through while also waiting for top surgery.
In the meantime, make queer art and write queer books.
In the meantime, make queer art and write queer books.
“Pan Waiting for Daphnis” was sold to a regular at the gallery as a birthday gift for himself, and he told me that fifty years ago today he was in Italy drinking wine with his first lover, who fancied himself a faun. He customer showed me a photo, and the man did very much look like a faun.
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Pan Waiting for Daphnis” was sold to a regular at the gallery as a birthday gift for himself, and he told me that fifty years ago today he was in Italy drinking wine with his first lover, who fancied himself a faun. He customer showed me a photo, and the man did very much look like a faun.
Welp, I just paid the balance on my table for the Xmas craft fair I’m in, so I guess I better get more stuff made.
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Welp, I just paid the balance on my table for the Xmas craft fair I’m in, so I guess I better get more stuff made.
Oh, right, I’ve got some tiny linocuts in a show right now… these wee things are in the Cowichan Valley Arts Council’s Teeny Tiny show in Duncan, here on Vancouver Island. (Unlike the ones in the pictures, they’re framed, but I forgot to photograph them in the frames.)
October 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Oh, right, I’ve got some tiny linocuts in a show right now… these wee things are in the Cowichan Valley Arts Council’s Teeny Tiny show in Duncan, here on Vancouver Island. (Unlike the ones in the pictures, they’re framed, but I forgot to photograph them in the frames.)
I applied for three craft fairs on Thursday evening. On Friday I found out I got into two of them (one in December and one in April). This is good. Except I have very little stock because I’ve been focusing on writing. So now I have to finish a novel and make a LOT of stuff in the next two months.
September 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I applied for three craft fairs on Thursday evening. On Friday I found out I got into two of them (one in December and one in April). This is good. Except I have very little stock because I’ve been focusing on writing. So now I have to finish a novel and make a LOT of stuff in the next two months.
If you’re looking for an autumnal read, may I suggest my urban fantasy romance novel (with touches of folk horror) Waking Pan? The climax happens (in more ways than one) on the fall equinox.
September 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you’re looking for an autumnal read, may I suggest my urban fantasy romance novel (with touches of folk horror) Waking Pan? The climax happens (in more ways than one) on the fall equinox.
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Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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@acvalens.net
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
New (used) type in the shop.
September 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
New (used) type in the shop.
At 77% funded at six days left. This is an amazing collection of stories (never mind that I have a story and an illustration in it) and there are some nice bonuses for backers.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jak...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jak...
Remnants of Relics: An Anthology of Loss & Gain
An anthology combining over 16 queer stories and poems.
www.kickstarter.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
At 77% funded at six days left. This is an amazing collection of stories (never mind that I have a story and an illustration in it) and there are some nice bonuses for backers.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jak...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jak...
I framed up two copies of my latest linocut—the simple black one is for an upcoming art show, and the ridiculously fancy one is for me. 😁
August 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I framed up two copies of my latest linocut—the simple black one is for an upcoming art show, and the ridiculously fancy one is for me. 😁
“Pan Waiting for Daphnis” linocut, 12 by 18 inches. The edition is 13 plus 2 artist’s proofs.
August 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“Pan Waiting for Daphnis” linocut, 12 by 18 inches. The edition is 13 plus 2 artist’s proofs.
Done. Time to rest. Phew!
August 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Done. Time to rest. Phew!
The proof looks good! Time to print the edition. The only question is: how many?
August 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The proof looks good! Time to print the edition. The only question is: how many?
Soooo close to 50% funded. Every bit over the goal goes towards paying contributors more.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jak...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jak...
Remnants of Relics: An Anthology of Loss & Gain
An anthology combining over 16 queer stories and poems.
www.kickstarter.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Soooo close to 50% funded. Every bit over the goal goes towards paying contributors more.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jak...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jak...
Piles of fairytale linocut prints drying after yesterday’s all-day print session. Next up is editioning the big (for me) hot satyr.
August 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Piles of fairytale linocut prints drying after yesterday’s all-day print session. Next up is editioning the big (for me) hot satyr.
