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Author Danielle Forrest
@danielleforrest.bsky.social
Neurodivergent and queer author writing alien romance.
There will be spice. There will be action. There will be cursing.

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My new #alienromance, Fated Mates of the Drakoan Season 1 is now live basically everywhere!  

Care for a little knotty adventure?

www.theeternalscribe.com/shop/fated-mates-of-the-drakoan-season-1/ 

#booksky 📚🌶️
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as a thirty year old who draws weird shit and does whatever she wants i have some advice to ppl who gotta hear it. it's literally impossible to please everyone. it's literally impossible to create and engage with things that won't bother *somebody*.
February 5, 2026 at 7:11 PM
When I started writing Fated Mates of the Drakoan Season 2, it really didn't occur to me that it was weird to write an MF and an MM romance in the same series.  

Until someone brought it up.

Then again, my whole shtick is about normalizing all experiences, so it works for me.

🌶️📚 #alienromance 🌈📚
February 5, 2026 at 11:54 PM
I just spent an hour posting a review to vent my frustration with a book I've been trying to finish for a while now. I ended up giving up only a few pages before the end.

It wasn't worth my sanity.

Holy crap.

#booksky #readersky
February 5, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."

A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.

Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Made me burst out laughing. 🤣
February 4, 2026 at 12:47 AM
I love how Jess and Davin have to navigate the implications of fated mates together; they are a great match. There is wonderful adventure and the supporting cast are vibrant characters. I can't wait to read more of their stories.

-M. Purcell on Amazon

🌶️📚 #alienromance #booksky

February 4, 2026 at 12:40 AM
What if he comes home?

What if he sees me walking down the street?

What will he say?

What will he do?

Every panicked thought sent her heart racing, creating threats where there were none.

🌶️📚 #alienromance #booksky

Matched to the Alien Prince
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January 31, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Alien romance readers:
Do you want someone else to find the good stuff for you?
Because that’s what the SFRSwoon is.
➡️ https://sfrswoon.com/

#AlienRomance #SciFiRomance #BookDiscovery
January 30, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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Art feels so frivolous right now, but art feels so necessary right now.
January 30, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Do one of the things that makes you feel better, because if you aren't doing any of that, you will run down. Today I did some writing. I'm a writer, & if I don't write, I run down. It's very easy for me to forget this, despite decades of knowing it. And so I am here to remind you to do your things.
January 30, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Why am I not surprised?

Anyway, please share and send a message using the link (or by other means) stating this is not okay.

#ice

action.aclu.org/send-message...
January 30, 2026 at 11:11 PM
As an author, I used to not talk politics... then I realized my entire first series was just me bashing on conservative politics and policies and most of my books have queer characters in them so fuck it.  

I figure my readers probably feels the same as me, so who am I trying to not scare away?

🌈📚
January 29, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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January 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I don’t usually do this type of stuff but why not?

1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/published works
I'll give this a shot!

1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/published works
Alright let’s go.

1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
January 29, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Gratuitous Spaceballs references in today's writing.

#amwriting #writer #booksky📚🌶️
January 28, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Fae: "Pray, good maiden, come my way. My forest is merry, and I bid thee welcome."

Me: "Nice try. I know better than that."

Fae: "Fair enough, kind mortal. You are wise, far too knowledgeable of our tricks. My long nails shant scritch your head this day."

Me, walking to the woods: "Fucking hell."
January 27, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Sometimes I just want an Ellio’s pizza. Man I haven’t had one of those in a while…

But I’m just as likely to eat Parmesan crusted salmon and tortellini with spinach in a garlic cream sauce (I shouldn’t because garlic doesn’t agree with me but it was good).

I’m a “however I can feed myself type”.
I never get why some people have such an attitude about what others eat. Sometimes, you just want that cheap, fast, processed hamburger because it hits the spot, but wanting it doesn't make you trashy. Other times, you want that perfect crust artisanal pizza, but that doesn't make you a food snob.
January 28, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Low-budget, under-researched colonization of foreign planet goes seriously sideways who saw that coming? OK, maybe you think you've read this one - but not like this! 

-Marjorie on Amazon

https://f.mtr.cool/kkcjzlmhno 

🌶️📚 #alienromance #booksky
Shifting Sides
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January 28, 2026 at 12:41 AM
I need to get a #snow blower…
January 26, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Conversation washed over her, but she froze at the word “shifter” drifting on the wind.

A haughty feminine voice sneered and Mila caught the woman lifting a cup to her lips, so full of her own superiority. “They should all be shot.”

🌶️📚 #booksky

Mila’s Shift
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January 24, 2026 at 11:36 PM
You can’t take the emotion out of decision making. It’s literally neuroscience. Without emotion, we have no impulse to make a decision at all.

It’s why some types of depression can come with apathy and lack of motivation as symptoms.

The two are linked.
I've ranted about this before but I actually *hate* the (disturbingly common!) idea that we should take emotions out of decisionmaking.

You feel your emotions for a reason, they are as relevant to making decisions as every other factor and denial of them is a refusal of your humanity.
January 24, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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it feels a lot like today's murder is in response to the mass protests yesterday, as if to tell us we're powerless, that our solidarity won't protect us.
January 24, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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I cannot, during these horrific times, recommend enough the importance of making pockets of time to just do things that are not related to anything but the joy of being alive and playing. You need it. You do. It will keep you whole. Which we need. We need you whole.
February 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM