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unforth's account, for blorbo posting and DPP things (we're an indie press publishing original works by fancreators. duckprintspress.com.) fandoms: danmei, c-novels, a smattering of others such as Supernatural. 日本語 ✔️ | 汉语 ✔️

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 14d

psst don't consider this, like, official, buuut the KS pre-launch page for MONSTEROTICA: TALES OF UNUSUAL COURTSHIP AND COUPLING (a courtship + monsterfucking queer erotic anthology!) is now live so if that's something you wanna read, maybe give us a follow www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

Coming soon: Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling

A collection of 15 erotica tales about monsters and the partner(s) of their choice engaging in courtship and then getting together!

www.kickstarter.com

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 9h

We’re coming out a day early with our favorite reads for National Coming Out Day! Remember: whether to come out is a personal choice; only you know when if it’s an appropriate one to make for yourself – be careful and take care of yourself!

List in text format: duckprintspress.com/2025/10/10/1...

Graphic 1 of 2. Text, four book covers, and a graphic of two women holding a rainbow flag together on a light blue background. The text reads: 14 Reads for National Coming Out Day. The books are: Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu; I Think Our Son Is Gay by Okura; Flamer by Mike Curato; Roll for Love by M.K. England.

Graphic 2 of 2. Ten book covers on a light blue background. The books are: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli; Love, Misha by Askel Aden; Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo; Acting the Part by Z.R. Ellor; Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli; Bingo Love by Tee Franklin; Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle; The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen; Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie; The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes.

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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 1d

For newer users of BlueSky, please alt-text your images. It helps people who use screen-readers or who have slow internet connections understand the image you've uploaded. Make the web accessible.

I rarely reshare images without alt-text & I know others do the same. Alt-text your images for reach

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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · 10h

kickstarter in live!!
I'm in it! go check it out!

🔞 #hardcover | NOW LIVE ON KS! @hardcoverart.com · 11h

We are LIVE! Tell your friends! :)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/har...

#hardcover2025 | art for adults 18+ | Retro

The fifth book of the series. This time with the topic: Retro!

www.kickstarter.com

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Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 25

Hey if you hate censorship and want to do more than just doompost online, you can actually do something: Being annoying!

Hoards of people have been blowing up the phones of payment processing companies to pressure them not to bend to the whims of puritan groups.

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Cartoon monster lady, Sue, in a "Don't Stop Calling T-shirt, pointing at a personification of "puritan activist groups" looming over a personification of "payment processor"

Sue's Dialogue: YOOHOO! These motherfuckers think they can pick and choose what you do with your own money. You wouldn't let them do that, would you?

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 12h

blah the changes the later episodes of Cherry Magic LA made are dumb

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Sanne (fpwoper) | Wee Con @fpwoper.bsky.social · 15h

misbehavin' | Explicit | Rhys/Rosie/Taika

A fill for Kinktober 2025 (on tumblr) for the prompts Oral sex, CNC, and Punishment, and for @duckprintspress.com's Kink-your-tober for Overstimulation.

#rpffic

A banner image with a photo of outer space, text reading "misbehavin', Kinktober 2025 RPF edition, by FPwoper"

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 1d

lmaooo

I started with the manga (I virtually always start with manga).

Kurosawa is marginally less hinged in the second episode, so at least we're moving in the right direction 🤣. But man, losing his absolutely ridic "omg I'm losing my mind" first time Adachi gets to touch him post powers. Tragic.

unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 1d

doing work that lets me watch something subtitled provided I'm already decently familiar with it, so I'm watching the Cherry Magic live action (I've read the manga and seen the anime) and I feel like I'm getting cheated with how much more hinged they've made Kurosawa compared to the other versions.

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🪱Niq @guoldu.bsky.social · 1d

i am not immune to sns month *tosses nart sketch at you and runs*

#naruto #guolduart

sketch of modern au naruto thinking about ramen

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 7d

It's that time of year again! A reminder that the clit is not a ball and that the clit hood is a really important detail a lot of art misses. I'm thinking I might need to do a whole anatomy break down or step-by-step guide soon because I see so many folks making this mistake. 😳

A small art tutorial about how to draw the clitoris and tdicks.

Various sketches of tdicks based on photos from around the web. (Mostly Reddit)

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LisyaMoska \ artist @lisyamoska.bsky.social · 2d

День 8 - безумный ~~~
Как-то больше грустный вышел и... Шёл восьмой день, а Лиса только добралась до туши))))

#inktober2025 #inktober #qiye #lordseventh #jingbeiyuan #jingji #reckless #art #sketch

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 1d

Text version of our list: duckprintspress.com/2025/10/09/r...

Read (Queer) Banned Books: Our Recommendations – Duck Prints Press

duckprintspress.com

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 1d

Banned Book Week 2025 is from Oct 5 - Oct 11. We've compiled a list of 7 of our fave oft-banned books that include queer characters.

Also: vote for how many you've read in our Tumblr poll: www.tumblr.com/duckprintspr...

Bookshop.org has 20% off banned books this week: bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Text and six book covers on a background of the Rainbow Flag. The text reads: Queer Banned Books We Recommend. The word “Banned” is stylized to look like a big, red stamp. The books are: Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe; Flamer by Mike Curato; The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall; May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor; Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thursdays are for Translators!

If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other

#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚

alt text please

an icon showing a circular translation from one language to another

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · May 2

Not comprehensive, but here’s a small Starter Pack of creators, journalists and critics of generative AI, who support human creativity.

A dash of anti-NFT people thrown in. Gotta keep an eye on that grift too.
#CreateDontScrape #NoAI

go.bsky.app/QuGNV54

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Mimitari @mimitari.bsky.social · 2d

Tada~ I drew this for the start of fall, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and to celebrate 150+ followers! 🎉💕
I never dreamed I'd have so many. It's surprising, but I'm so thankful to everyone for the support~ 😭🫶🩷
I tried playing with light on this, and I think it came out okay~

#TGCF #hualian #天官賜福 #花怜

A drawing of Xie Lian and Hua Cheng from TGCF under some Maple trees.
HC has his arms around XL's waist, and XL is cupping HC's face, both wearing smiles on their faces.
There's light peaking through the branches and Maple leaves falling around them.

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notoart.bsky.social @notoart.bsky.social · 2d

Wife Wen's unlimited wardrobe 🎨
#tyk #wenzhou

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

All of this. For folks in tech: If you think keeping your head down and playing along with the fascist tycoons is somehow going to let you "just get through this"... I got real bad news for you. And worse news for your kids.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com · 1d

If you're looking for new books, why not check out this hidden gem bundle on itch, 63 DRM-free indie books for only $38!

🔗 itch.io/b/3305/under...

💙📚 🌈📚🌎 📢📚

Multiple covers cover the outer edge of the promo image. In the center, there is the following text:
Itch.io
Under-Rated Bundle
Oct 9th - 13th
Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of"

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 1d

KINK-YOUR-TOBER DAY 9!!

heat/rut

and-or

sex toys under clothing

and-or

scent kink

unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 29d

October is almost here, and we've made a prompt list to help you kink your tober to the max!!! Learn more about our low-key Kinktober event on our website (duckprintspress.com/2025/09/11/d...) or by visiting our AO3 collection (archiveofourown.org/collections/...). I hope you'll come create with us!

Graphic overlaid with text. It's entitled Kink Your Tober Challenge! And is followed by a chart with four columns - one for the day, one for Prompt 1, one for Prompt 2, and one for Prompt 3. The text reads: Oct. 1: somnophilia/generational age gap or cross-gen/choking Oct. 2: pony play/solo play and masturbation/scarification Oct. 3: bathing/bitching and studding/exhibitionism Oct. 4: shibari/fighting as foreplay/circle jerk Oct. 5: war prize/horns as an erogenous zone/impact play Oct. 6: blood play/outdoor sex/forced orgasms Oct. 7: dacryphilia/gillplay or gillfucking/harem Oct. 8: reunion sex/phone sex or sexting/mind control Oct. 9: heats and ruts/sex toys under clothing/scent kink Oct. 10: role reversal/dendrophilia/silence kink Oct. 11: vore/sentient creature bestiality/cock cages Oct. 12: marking/intimate object gains sentience/breeding kink Oct. 13: voyeurism/sensation sharing/sounding Oct. 14: free use/power imbalance/biting Oct. 15: overstimulation/friends with benefits/sex while clothed Oct. 16: knotting/daddy or mommy kink/leather Oct. 17: proxyfucking/hand and finger kink/edging Oct. 18: stalking/stuffing or feeding kink/fisting Oct. 19: chastity belts/sensory deprivation/tentacles Oct. 20: kidnapping/non-sexual kink/gags Oct. 21: nipple clamps/object insertion/tattooing Oct. 22: wing kink/doing chores naked/wedding night Oct. 23: medical kink/higher being toys with a human/triple penetration Oct. 24: incest/public claiming/wound fucking Oct. 25: throat fucking/captor x captive/collaring Oct. 26: piss kink/consensual non-consent/lactation kink Oct. 27: fuck or die/cock-and-ball torture/pregnancy kink Oct. 28: deathbed sex/body worship/monsterfucking Oct. 29: ruined orgasm/coming untouched/oral sex Oct. 30: bodyswap/oviposition and egg laying/sex slave Oct. 31: infidelity kink/electrostim/mating hunts

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Sanne (fpwoper) | Wee Con @fpwoper.bsky.social · 1d

trussed up and displayed (like he should be) | Explicit | Rhys/Taika/Rita

A fill for Kinktober 2025 (on tumblr) for the prompts Shibari and Exhibitionism and for @duckprintspress.com's Kink-your-tober for Sex toys under clothing.

#rpffic

A banner image with a photo of outer space, text reading "trussed up and displayed (like he should be), Kinktober 2025 RPF edition, by FPwoper"

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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 2d

We are committed to standing up for the freedom to read alongside these dedicated partners. @penamerica.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @everylibrary.bsky.social @ncacensorship.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social act.pen.org/a/standing-t...

I Stand with PEN America Against Book Bans and Censorship

We must all fight against the forces that are attacking our fundamental freedoms – including our freedom to read.

act.pen.org

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 2d

It's Banned Books Week. If you are an author, please join @authorsabb.bsky.social! If you work in the publishing industry, please join @pubprosabb.bsky.social! Canadian authors, you can now join Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book bans: linktr.ee/caiabb. Working together feels good! 📚✍️👏

The black and white cover of a zine titled Do you make books? Yes? I want YOU to join Authors Against Book Bans! By Maia Kobabe. The image shows author Maia Kobabe holding a stack of books and pointing at the reader

WHAT IS AABB?
A coalition of writers, illustrators, editors & other book creators, standing united against the unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We support the availability of diverse voices in our libraries, in our schools, & in our culture. We pledge to band together against the oppression of literature, to speak when our voices are silenced, to go where our bodies are needed, & to fight to ensure this freedom.

Our concern is not only for the books, but for the children, families, educators,
librarians, & communities who suffer when the freedom to read is challenged and taken away.

WHAT CAN AABB OFFER YOU?
- Regional groups working on legislation to protect authors & the freedom to read state-by-state
- Online trainings on digital security, public speaking, & how to counter book challenges in your community
-Affinity groups for BIPOC authors, queer authors, authors with disabilities, indie, nonfiction, romance writers & more
-Support if your book is challenged or your school visit is canceled!
-A very active discord community

Maia: I’ve been facing intense challenges to my book since 2021. Knowing that I am not alone in the fight against censorship is what keeps my spirits up!

Watching the folks in AABB share information, co-write legislation, show up to library & school board meetings, & speak up to publishers about the need to protect diverse books & minority authors has been amazing!

This is a weird & scary time to be an author, but you are not alone! Join thousands of us fighting for the freedom to read, the freedom to write, the freedom to teach, the freedom to learn, & the freedom to share our stories!
-Maia Kobabe, 2025

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 2d

Houston

Colonie

Schaghticoke

Lots of other place names...

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?