Elise (they/them)🇦🇺
@eliseswritings.bsky.social
I'm an Epic Fantasy author & Aussie on Wurundjeri country.
Living my best ADHD, autistic, chronically ill, enby, aro-ace life!
(Blog & Discords in 📌 post 🧵)
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All🔗's: https://elisecarlson.com/
Living my best ADHD, autistic, chronically ill, enby, aro-ace life!
(Blog & Discords in 📌 post 🧵)
📚's Direct: https://payhip.com/EliseCarlsonFantasyAuthor
All🔗's: https://elisecarlson.com/
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There's no such thing as #1 Pinned Post🧵 to rule them all, but I shall post it nonetheless. It'll be gay, neurodiverse & beyond the binary.
For those who wander but are not lost & ponder "what if"?
It'll contain my books of the above, Final Fantasy +Narnia inspired, &invite All Writers to Discord👇
For those who wander but are not lost & ponder "what if"?
It'll contain my books of the above, Final Fantasy +Narnia inspired, &invite All Writers to Discord👇
If anyone's got a moment to give indie authors feedback on what does/ doesn't work for you as a reader re. Itch book bundles, please answer these 9 questions.
(They're mostly multiple choice 😉).
(They're mostly multiple choice 😉).
Book Bundle Questionnaire
Help organizers improve indie book bundles!
If you've ever considered buying a book bundle on itch.io, but decided NOT to, let us know why!
docs.google.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If anyone's got a moment to give indie authors feedback on what does/ doesn't work for you as a reader re. Itch book bundles, please answer these 9 questions.
(They're mostly multiple choice 😉).
(They're mostly multiple choice 😉).
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If you are an educator or a parent, feel free to download the teaching guides for all these amazing books. :)
www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org/read_discuss
www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org/read_discuss
Read & Discuss
www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
If you are an educator or a parent, feel free to download the teaching guides for all these amazing books. :)
www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org/read_discuss
www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org/read_discuss
I browsed this as a teacher, but it makes for a good reading list from families to adults too.
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I browsed this as a teacher, but it makes for a good reading list from families to adults too.
Me: concerned about the designated area in Melbourne's CBD permitting police to pat down search ANYONE, and search bags -subjecting our streets to airport levels of security- for 6 MONTHS, being vulnerable to racial profiling.
Pauline Hanson: ban burqa's!
Me:🤦
Correction: she's a politician.
Pauline Hanson: ban burqa's!
Me:🤦
Correction: she's a politician.
Australia’s senate on Tuesday suspended the right-wing lawmaker Pauline Hanson for wearing a burqa in Parliament, a political stunt she staged for a second time to push for a national law banning the garment from public spaces.
Australian Senator Suspended for Stunt of Wearing a Burqa in Parliament
Pauline Hanson, the head of the far-right One Nation party, wore the garment as a prop to push legislation to bar the garment in public places.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Me: concerned about the designated area in Melbourne's CBD permitting police to pat down search ANYONE, and search bags -subjecting our streets to airport levels of security- for 6 MONTHS, being vulnerable to racial profiling.
Pauline Hanson: ban burqa's!
Me:🤦
Correction: she's a politician.
Pauline Hanson: ban burqa's!
Me:🤦
Correction: she's a politician.
Fred trains his humans well 😉
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Fred trains his humans well 😉
FYI Melbourne peeps. 'Designated area' is what the cops did when nazis were parading around the CBD trying to recruit racists to join the NSN during the 'March for Australia' rally.
Granting this for six months to 'stop knife crime' sounds like trying to open a jammed door with dynamite.
Granting this for six months to 'stop knife crime' sounds like trying to open a jammed door with dynamite.
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in move criticised by human rights groups
Victoria police will have the power to conduct warrant-less pat-downs, search cars and move people on in Melbourne’s CBD for six months, in a move human rights and legal groups have described as a “vast overreach”.
Police on Tuesday declared the CBD, Docklands, Southbank, the sporting and entertainment precinct and parts of East Melbourne and South Melbourne as a “designated area” from Sunday, until 29 May 2026. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
FYI Melbourne peeps. 'Designated area' is what the cops did when nazis were parading around the CBD trying to recruit racists to join the NSN during the 'March for Australia' rally.
Granting this for six months to 'stop knife crime' sounds like trying to open a jammed door with dynamite.
Granting this for six months to 'stop knife crime' sounds like trying to open a jammed door with dynamite.
Yeah, I think I did better with; wine, friend, travel!
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Yeah, I think I did better with; wine, friend, travel!
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With the upcoming itch creator day, I've been collecting sales/bundles with trans books and/or by trans creators that will happen on the 28th so you can get nice books cheaper and the authors get more of your cash. If you have any more recs, please feel free to let me know! #samreads
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
With the upcoming itch creator day, I've been collecting sales/bundles with trans books and/or by trans creators that will happen on the 28th so you can get nice books cheaper and the authors get more of your cash. If you have any more recs, please feel free to let me know! #samreads
Felt like the first hot day I've taught this summer. Students came in from play time with red faces, sat slumped, and two classes needed the aircon on to cool them down enough to focus. It was only 25 degrees in Melbourne 🫠
We'll adjust 😉. It hasn't been warm much yet!
We'll adjust 😉. It hasn't been warm much yet!
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Felt like the first hot day I've taught this summer. Students came in from play time with red faces, sat slumped, and two classes needed the aircon on to cool them down enough to focus. It was only 25 degrees in Melbourne 🫠
We'll adjust 😉. It hasn't been warm much yet!
We'll adjust 😉. It hasn't been warm much yet!
My housemates and I don't own any cats, so both of mum's get plenty of my attention when I visit. As do some neighbourhood cats, the kind that walk up to you and meow at you for homage in the street.
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My housemates and I don't own any cats, so both of mum's get plenty of my attention when I visit. As do some neighbourhood cats, the kind that walk up to you and meow at you for homage in the street.
Had a nice weekend with family. We caught up, had dinner with & admired extended family's new home. Went on some nice walks together, then chilled at mum's, watching her cats chomp flies, play in boxes or lie in an elegant 'look at me' fashion, summoning humans to fuss over him on the ironing board.
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Had a nice weekend with family. We caught up, had dinner with & admired extended family's new home. Went on some nice walks together, then chilled at mum's, watching her cats chomp flies, play in boxes or lie in an elegant 'look at me' fashion, summoning humans to fuss over him on the ironing board.
Hope you got to take a break.
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Hope you got to take a break.
For my last newsletter of 2025, I recap my adventures moving to, teaching in England & travelling -with photos. I share a blog on ADHD and my experience of its impact on relationships, a Diverse Bsky Guide, and some big tech switch recs.
You can read it here👉 eocampaign1.com/web-version
You can read it here👉 eocampaign1.com/web-version
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
For my last newsletter of 2025, I recap my adventures moving to, teaching in England & travelling -with photos. I share a blog on ADHD and my experience of its impact on relationships, a Diverse Bsky Guide, and some big tech switch recs.
You can read it here👉 eocampaign1.com/web-version
You can read it here👉 eocampaign1.com/web-version
There are plenty of things I think (Aussie) Labour & our Prime Minister can & need to do better. But the PM telling The Assembly, a group of autistic journalists (& ABC tv series) they can address him however they're comfortable while interviewing him, including 'Albo'; he gets points for that.
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
There are plenty of things I think (Aussie) Labour & our Prime Minister can & need to do better. But the PM telling The Assembly, a group of autistic journalists (& ABC tv series) they can address him however they're comfortable while interviewing him, including 'Albo'; he gets points for that.
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The newest #sci-fi and #fantasy anthology from worldstonepublishing.com/ - Winter of Sci-fi & Fantasy, volume 1 - featuring my short One Star is Ours alongside twelve other amazing authors! Check out the Kickstarter for your copy (plus other amazing rewards): www.kickstarter.com/projects/sci...
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The newest #sci-fi and #fantasy anthology from worldstonepublishing.com/ - Winter of Sci-fi & Fantasy, volume 1 - featuring my short One Star is Ours alongside twelve other amazing authors! Check out the Kickstarter for your copy (plus other amazing rewards): www.kickstarter.com/projects/sci...
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It's A Month of Rain & Reads, and we have this weekend's first guest post. In it, Cat Rector ( @catrector.com ) talks about how to get your books into libraries and why you should.
www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-g...
#AMoRaR #WriteSky
www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-g...
#AMoRaR #WriteSky
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
It's A Month of Rain & Reads, and we have this weekend's first guest post. In it, Cat Rector ( @catrector.com ) talks about how to get your books into libraries and why you should.
www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-g...
#AMoRaR #WriteSky
www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-g...
#AMoRaR #WriteSky
Fair call.
I seem to be that one person who hits a wall no one else hits, and no one else understands why. Or I stuff it up because I overlooked factors a/ b/ c, which my ADHD is really good at 'helping' me with.
I seem to be that one person who hits a wall no one else hits, and no one else understands why. Or I stuff it up because I overlooked factors a/ b/ c, which my ADHD is really good at 'helping' me with.
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Fair call.
I seem to be that one person who hits a wall no one else hits, and no one else understands why. Or I stuff it up because I overlooked factors a/ b/ c, which my ADHD is really good at 'helping' me with.
I seem to be that one person who hits a wall no one else hits, and no one else understands why. Or I stuff it up because I overlooked factors a/ b/ c, which my ADHD is really good at 'helping' me with.
Probably the same law that when the photocopier isn't working and you ask someone to help, its suddenly fine 😉
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Probably the same law that when the photocopier isn't working and you ask someone to help, its suddenly fine 😉
I've just had yet another case of tech thing that absolutely refused to work the first day I tried it, but today I swear I did the exact same thing and it randomly worked.
I don't know if this is an ADHD thing, or a tech randomly hates/ likes me thing. Anyone else find tech like this?
I don't know if this is an ADHD thing, or a tech randomly hates/ likes me thing. Anyone else find tech like this?
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I've just had yet another case of tech thing that absolutely refused to work the first day I tried it, but today I swear I did the exact same thing and it randomly worked.
I don't know if this is an ADHD thing, or a tech randomly hates/ likes me thing. Anyone else find tech like this?
I don't know if this is an ADHD thing, or a tech randomly hates/ likes me thing. Anyone else find tech like this?
We sure can. With any luck there'll be a CEO change in the near future 🤞. (For Proton. For here, I'll jump to NorthSky as soon they open 😉).
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
We sure can. With any luck there'll be a CEO change in the near future 🤞. (For Proton. For here, I'll jump to NorthSky as soon they open 😉).
That was my second choice, though having now changed my email address for all 50+ log ins, I wouldn't switch again unless proton mail fuck up.
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
That was my second choice, though having now changed my email address for all 50+ log ins, I wouldn't switch again unless proton mail fuck up.
Oh yay. Still preferable to Google, but that's not saying much.
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Oh yay. Still preferable to Google, but that's not saying much.
P.S. looks like my Google Form alternative for the Itchio bundles I host will be Tally Form. They're not quite as pretty, but similar to create forms with, and are European based and under European privacy laws, which I trust more.
Free Online Form Builder | Tally
The simplest way to create forms. Say goodbye to boring forms. Meet Tally — the free, intuitive form builder you've been looking for.
tally.so
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
P.S. looks like my Google Form alternative for the Itchio bundles I host will be Tally Form. They're not quite as pretty, but similar to create forms with, and are European based and under European privacy laws, which I trust more.