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Ares J Benoit
@aresjb.bsky.social
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Poet and writer of weird stories
Queer nb chronically ill neurodivergent. The glow-in-the-dark rodent is me.
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sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social
If you're looking for small gifts/stocking stuffers that do some good, what about some bookmarks from my shop? They're $5 for doodle bookmarks, no shipping cost, and the full $5 gets donated to the Transgender Law Center. www.sarahgracetuttle.com/shop
Bookmark with hand drawn doodles in pink and blue on a white background, with a pink, blue, and purple sticker of waves crashing in a room against a window with a view of mountains. It has a pink tassel. Bookmark with hand drawn polkadots in pink and blue and the words “Write your truth” on a white background. It has a pink tassel.
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
aresjb.bsky.social
Beautiful piece 💓
ashvalewrites.bsky.social ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 5d
on this trans day of remembrance my poem "live" at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social feels very fitting

"you have to live to hold your own failures in cupped palms, drink them up like gin and fire. to spit blood on burnt earth. to bind your chest wrong the first time."
“live” by Ash Vale
you have to live to hold your own failures in cupped palms, drink them up like gin and fire. to spit blood on burnt earth. to bind your chest wrong the first time. to feel the blunt pain of it and …
moistpoetryjournal.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
aresjb.bsky.social
Transparency ftw!
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 6d
Transparency is a core value for us at OTHERSIDE... and with that in mind, we now have sample contracts available on our website! We believe in supporting and protecting authors: no AI, no rights grabs, quick payment. Let us know if you have questions!

othersidespec.com/sample-contr...
Sample Contracts - OTHERSIDE
Sample contracts for OTHERSIDE, including the language for nonfiction, reprints, original fiction and poetry.
othersidespec.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
aresjb.bsky.social
Woah
shonnathewhite.bsky.social Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 27d
This is what I want to see! It’s a start, but these conversations and laws and ethics around AI need to happen. And more.
I’m not anti-AI, but it is massively problematic.
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
aresjb.bsky.social
Read this piece by @valeriesirenko.bsky.social if you like magic, and being okay with not being okay. #grief
www.orions-belt.net/archives/jus...
Just Listed: Hardwood Floors and a Generous Curse — Orion's Belt
The other noises are less trivial.
www.orions-belt.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
aresjb.bsky.social
Get 'em in there!!
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 15d
Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.

📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines." Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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ellatholmes.bsky.social
Disabled & chronically ill folks: I NEED YOUR HELP. YES YOU!

The disability in Dystopia Anthology is coming along, and...

It needs a title! ✨️

Have any ideas? Let me know!
We're #CrippingDystopia 😈
a black background with dark smudges, featuring white distorted text that reads "you wouldn't crip a dystopia"
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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astridoverthere.bsky.social
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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ellatholmes.bsky.social
I offer short story editing & feedback for $10AUD per 1000 words
📌For DISABLED, CHRONICALLY ILL, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and otherwise MARGINALISED writers ONLY.
I want to do what I can to try and uplift those of us who are most often excluded, erased, and left behind! 💖
A mid blue background with an illustration of a wizard with bob-length orange hair and blue starry robes with knee-high bright pink socks laying on their stomach across the bottom. Along the top is a white banner with blue text that says "comprehensive & actionable". Beneath that in large white gothic font reads "SHORT STORY EDITING & FEEDBACK". In the bottom right beside the wizard is smaller white text that says "$10 AUD / 1000 words". A pink speech bubble sits atop that, with dark pink handwriting that says "I am nice and honest!! Promise!!"
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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phenomenapress.bsky.social
Open call for submissions!

Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters

Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻

Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th

paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co
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Image reads: Open call for submissions. Seeking aro/ace paranormal short stories for an upcoming anthology project! Submission period: September 15 - November 30 2025 There is a website link: paranormal-aspecs.carrdd.co/ There are three photos, one of a smoky figure, one of a hand against a pane of glass, and a foggy forest Image reads: What we're looking for Stories that centre asexual and aromantic characters (or identities that fall under those umbrellas) in a paranormal context. Give us your ghosts and ghouls, your werewolf packs and vampire covens, the things that hide beneath the bed and between the trees. Image reads: Submission Guidelines Word Count: 2,000-7,500 words Submission Period: Sept 15-Nov 30 Stories must feature aspec characters and contain some aspect of paranormal or speculative fiction Submission Guidelines: Please email your submission to phenomenapress@gmail.com with '[STORY TITLE] - Aspec Paranormal Anthology' in the subject line Include: name, email address, WIP title, word count and short synopsis For more info: paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co/
September 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
aresjb.bsky.social
100%
jordankurella.com Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 21d
fact: transphobia is for losers
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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lawrencekstimes.com
Local author R.B. Lemberg has won a World Fantasy Award —one of the most prestigious awards for science fiction, fantasy and speculative titles — for a novella in their ongoing speculative fiction series. lawrenceks.news/47Ctig1
Lawrence author wins World Fantasy Award for best novella
Local author R.B. Lemberg has won a World Fantasy Award —one of the most prestigious awards for science fiction, fantasy and speculative titles — for a novella in their ongoing speculative fiction ser...
lawrenceks.news
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
aresjb.bsky.social
What a cool tool!
yvonneseale.bsky.social Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social · Oct 24
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.

#medievalsky

www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
Screenshot of the Viabundus website.
October 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
aresjb.bsky.social
!! Feelings!
October 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
There's only 5 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we just unlocked our 80% goal! 🎉

@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!

Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
80% UNLOCKED! Lesley will be reading “The Monster Fucker Club” by A.V. Greene live on the Apex YouTube channel. “The Monster Fucker Club” was published in Apex Magazine issue 139 and was a finalist for the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction in 2023. Cow getting sucked into UFO tractor beam. "Kickstarter Countdown: T-Minus 5 DAYS Needed for Liftoff: $3,085 $16,915/$20,000 Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!"
October 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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mindcite.bsky.social
Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"

Older veteran: “87.”

Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”

Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”

🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
October 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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undertow.bsky.social
Reminder we have 5 of our titles at just $2 each for the eBook for October. Get some ghostly weirdness.

undertowpublications.com/ebooks
October 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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briankeene.bsky.social
A thousand times this.
jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social Jennifer de Guzman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · Oct 3
Horror doesn't have to be about violence and gore, and there's nothing wrong with preferring ghost stories or weird, eerie stuff. I have very good reasons for avoiding violent stories when I feel like I can't handle them. I still love horror.
October 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.
September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
aresjb.bsky.social
My 5yo: why do we have toothbrushes in the city?

Also my 5yo: if we don't have teeth we can't have candy, it'll have to be soup candy
September 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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clmporg.bsky.social
Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the Literary Magazine Incubator Project!
chillsubs.bsky.social Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · Sep 10
About 3 months ago, we launched a lit mag incubator to give $1000 to 5 mags willing to try something new, serve underrepresented communities, and prove ethical publishing can actually work.

Today we picked our 5 (okay, and 10 finalists) and it’s time to CELEBRATE THEM✨
15 Lit Mags That Are About to Change Everything Chill Subs Incubator Winners & Finalists Winners • Folly • NWF Journal • Dreamworldgirl Zine • Notch Magazine • Space and Time Finalists • Paratextos • Gather • OTHERSIDE • OyeDrum • Ubwali Literary Magazine • Pafuera • Silly Goose Press • Zine Machine • Chabutra • Stanchion CHILL SUBS®
September 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
aresjb.bsky.social
I think I've met a robot I love almost as much as Murderbot ... Almost! Amazing story from Augur 8.1 @augursociety.bsky.social by @graceseybold.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
aresjb.bsky.social
100% here for this!
annaleen.bsky.social Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · Sep 8
I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM