Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️⚧️
@eliseswritings.bsky.social
I'm an SFF author & Aussie on Wurundjeri country.
Living my best ADHD, autistic, chronically ill, enby, aro-ace life!
🚫gen ai. Human rights fan. 🌐 https://elisecarlson.com/
🏳️🌈🧠✍️ Blog: https://elisecarlson.com/blog/elise-carlson-blogs-by-image/
Living my best ADHD, autistic, chronically ill, enby, aro-ace life!
🚫gen ai. Human rights fan. 🌐 https://elisecarlson.com/
🏳️🌈🧠✍️ Blog: https://elisecarlson.com/blog/elise-carlson-blogs-by-image/
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Hi Folks!
I'm an Aussie author of friendship-centred SFF.
I write enby/aro/ace & more queer characters who pool (& sometimes battle) their autism/ADHD to understand mysterious enemy's motives.
📚 My Direct Store: payhip.com/EliseCarlson...
✨Epic Fantasy Trilogy: elisecarlson.com/ruarnon-tril... 1/2
I'm an Aussie author of friendship-centred SFF.
I write enby/aro/ace & more queer characters who pool (& sometimes battle) their autism/ADHD to understand mysterious enemy's motives.
📚 My Direct Store: payhip.com/EliseCarlson...
✨Epic Fantasy Trilogy: elisecarlson.com/ruarnon-tril... 1/2
With the exception of posts about the Aro-Spec Book Bundle, there seems to be an insufficient amount of posts containing the word 'aro' on day 1 of Aromantic Awareness Week...
Where are my fellow aros? (I'll come back tomorrow to find out 😉.)
Good day to you/ goodnight as its bedtime Down Under!
Where are my fellow aros? (I'll come back tomorrow to find out 😉.)
Good day to you/ goodnight as its bedtime Down Under!
I'm the kind of aro who can find romance interesting while two (ideally queer) people get to know each other. But when they start kissing/ dating, I tend to lose interest. (Same 4 ace & sex scenes 😉.)
I can't imagine having a partner. This aro-ace finds friends, family, self & the world enough. 💜🖤💚
I can't imagine having a partner. This aro-ace finds friends, family, self & the world enough. 💜🖤💚
February 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
With the exception of posts about the Aro-Spec Book Bundle, there seems to be an insufficient amount of posts containing the word 'aro' on day 1 of Aromantic Awareness Week...
Where are my fellow aros? (I'll come back tomorrow to find out 😉.)
Good day to you/ goodnight as its bedtime Down Under!
Where are my fellow aros? (I'll come back tomorrow to find out 😉.)
Good day to you/ goodnight as its bedtime Down Under!
I'm the kind of aro who can find romance interesting while two (ideally queer) people get to know each other. But when they start kissing/ dating, I tend to lose interest. (Same 4 ace & sex scenes 😉.)
I can't imagine having a partner. This aro-ace finds friends, family, self & the world enough. 💜🖤💚
I can't imagine having a partner. This aro-ace finds friends, family, self & the world enough. 💜🖤💚
February 15, 2026 at 1:21 PM
I'm the kind of aro who can find romance interesting while two (ideally queer) people get to know each other. But when they start kissing/ dating, I tend to lose interest. (Same 4 ace & sex scenes 😉.)
I can't imagine having a partner. This aro-ace finds friends, family, self & the world enough. 💜🖤💚
I can't imagine having a partner. This aro-ace finds friends, family, self & the world enough. 💜🖤💚
It's Aro Awareness Week! Shout out to my fellow Aros!
If you like fiction about aromantic characters -with partners and or friends- 23 of us (mostly aro ourselves) have put a book in this bundle.
The aro(aces) in my book, Manipulator's War, are building friendships.
♠️🌈📚💙 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...
If you like fiction about aromantic characters -with partners and or friends- 23 of us (mostly aro ourselves) have put a book in this bundle.
The aro(aces) in my book, Manipulator's War, are building friendships.
♠️🌈📚💙 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...
February 15, 2026 at 1:03 PM
It's Aro Awareness Week! Shout out to my fellow Aros!
If you like fiction about aromantic characters -with partners and or friends- 23 of us (mostly aro ourselves) have put a book in this bundle.
The aro(aces) in my book, Manipulator's War, are building friendships.
♠️🌈📚💙 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...
If you like fiction about aromantic characters -with partners and or friends- 23 of us (mostly aro ourselves) have put a book in this bundle.
The aro(aces) in my book, Manipulator's War, are building friendships.
♠️🌈📚💙 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...
In the evening, I often meet rainbow lorikeets feasting on a tree near the supermarket. They chirp and chatter to me and each other, and study me right back.
They're my favourite Aussie birds, because they zip around, screeching like maniacs, with little consideration for personal space.
They're my favourite Aussie birds, because they zip around, screeching like maniacs, with little consideration for personal space.
February 15, 2026 at 12:42 PM
In the evening, I often meet rainbow lorikeets feasting on a tree near the supermarket. They chirp and chatter to me and each other, and study me right back.
They're my favourite Aussie birds, because they zip around, screeching like maniacs, with little consideration for personal space.
They're my favourite Aussie birds, because they zip around, screeching like maniacs, with little consideration for personal space.
In much better news; Aussie flotilla preparing for Gaza
Anny Mokotow: “I’m joining the Flotilla because I cannot stand by while Palestinian children die from starvation, homes & hospitals are bombed, and aid is blocked. As a child of Holocaust survivors, I believe “never again” means for everyone."
Anny Mokotow: “I’m joining the Flotilla because I cannot stand by while Palestinian children die from starvation, homes & hospitals are bombed, and aid is blocked. As a child of Holocaust survivors, I believe “never again” means for everyone."
February 15, 2026 at 7:21 AM
In much better news; Aussie flotilla preparing for Gaza
Anny Mokotow: “I’m joining the Flotilla because I cannot stand by while Palestinian children die from starvation, homes & hospitals are bombed, and aid is blocked. As a child of Holocaust survivors, I believe “never again” means for everyone."
Anny Mokotow: “I’m joining the Flotilla because I cannot stand by while Palestinian children die from starvation, homes & hospitals are bombed, and aid is blocked. As a child of Holocaust survivors, I believe “never again” means for everyone."
CW: US supplying fucked up weapons to Israel, for use in Gaza genocide.
Al Jazeera reported this in 2024. This is the first I've heard of it. Zionist cover up, anyone?
Al Jazeera reported this in 2024. This is the first I've heard of it. Zionist cover up, anyone?
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:12 AM
CW: US supplying fucked up weapons to Israel, for use in Gaza genocide.
Al Jazeera reported this in 2024. This is the first I've heard of it. Zionist cover up, anyone?
Al Jazeera reported this in 2024. This is the first I've heard of it. Zionist cover up, anyone?
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#ALBO we are walking, blindfolded into danger with Palantir!
Please watch this real and pay attention to the MONSTER who now has access to all of our most sensitive data.
@albomp.bsky.social it is your responsibility to keep Australia safe.
Get Palantir OUT!
🇭🇲🦘🤠
#auspol
Please watch this real and pay attention to the MONSTER who now has access to all of our most sensitive data.
@albomp.bsky.social it is your responsibility to keep Australia safe.
Get Palantir OUT!
🇭🇲🦘🤠
#auspol
For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.
Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel.
February 15, 2026 at 6:17 AM
#ALBO we are walking, blindfolded into danger with Palantir!
Please watch this real and pay attention to the MONSTER who now has access to all of our most sensitive data.
@albomp.bsky.social it is your responsibility to keep Australia safe.
Get Palantir OUT!
🇭🇲🦘🤠
#auspol
Please watch this real and pay attention to the MONSTER who now has access to all of our most sensitive data.
@albomp.bsky.social it is your responsibility to keep Australia safe.
Get Palantir OUT!
🇭🇲🦘🤠
#auspol
No, I don't have any interest in wrestling.
But listening to its Sydney fans shouting "Fuck ICE" on repeat?
Music to my ears 😄
But listening to its Sydney fans shouting "Fuck ICE" on repeat?
Music to my ears 😄
more justified “FUCK ICE” chants #AEWGrandSlam
February 15, 2026 at 6:28 AM
No, I don't have any interest in wrestling.
But listening to its Sydney fans shouting "Fuck ICE" on repeat?
Music to my ears 😄
But listening to its Sydney fans shouting "Fuck ICE" on repeat?
Music to my ears 😄
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Be part of the first-ever book exploring transness in cyberpunk
Your support is an act of resistance in a time of surveillance & censorship
What’s more punk than that?
Not-for-profit crowdfund runs until March
Let’s chronicle the new cyberpunk canon together!
🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Your support is an act of resistance in a time of surveillance & censorship
What’s more punk than that?
Not-for-profit crowdfund runs until March
Let’s chronicle the new cyberpunk canon together!
🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
February 9, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Be part of the first-ever book exploring transness in cyberpunk
Your support is an act of resistance in a time of surveillance & censorship
What’s more punk than that?
Not-for-profit crowdfund runs until March
Let’s chronicle the new cyberpunk canon together!
🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Your support is an act of resistance in a time of surveillance & censorship
What’s more punk than that?
Not-for-profit crowdfund runs until March
Let’s chronicle the new cyberpunk canon together!
🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Slovakia is openly challenging EU law and human rights. The EU must act, and public pressure works. Add your name. 👇
Defend equality and LGBTI+ lives in Slovakia
Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and reject international human rights protections. The EU has opened an infringement procedure – but stronger action depends on us.…
action.allout.org
February 14, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Slovakia is openly challenging EU law and human rights. The EU must act, and public pressure works. Add your name. 👇
Dear Early Writer Self,
As you were. You'll get there.
Learning to develop plots & characters with undiagnosed, unmanaged ADHD & autism took years. As did identifying mine & thus my chars sexualities, & neurodivergent status. While finding betas required joining the #WritingCommunity
#PretendPanel
As you were. You'll get there.
Learning to develop plots & characters with undiagnosed, unmanaged ADHD & autism took years. As did identifying mine & thus my chars sexualities, & neurodivergent status. While finding betas required joining the #WritingCommunity
#PretendPanel
See, I told you I wouldn't make it about romance, #pretendpanel 😜 so tell me...
February 14th: If you could send a kind, loving message to your earlier writer self, what would it be?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
February 14th: If you could send a kind, loving message to your earlier writer self, what would it be?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
February 14, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Dear Early Writer Self,
As you were. You'll get there.
Learning to develop plots & characters with undiagnosed, unmanaged ADHD & autism took years. As did identifying mine & thus my chars sexualities, & neurodivergent status. While finding betas required joining the #WritingCommunity
#PretendPanel
As you were. You'll get there.
Learning to develop plots & characters with undiagnosed, unmanaged ADHD & autism took years. As did identifying mine & thus my chars sexualities, & neurodivergent status. While finding betas required joining the #WritingCommunity
#PretendPanel
I see we have a Draft Post function on Bsky now. 😄
a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt that says finally on it
Alt: Nerdy looking man pumps fist. Text: FINALLY
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:53 AM
I see we have a Draft Post function on Bsky now. 😄
If you like Fantasy, SciFi, or any SpecFic genre therein, there's 2 more days left to grab this book bundle!
(Confused Aussies, it runs till US 15th, not our 😉.)
(Confused Aussies, it runs till US 15th, not our 😉.)
February 14, 2026 at 4:51 AM
If you like Fantasy, SciFi, or any SpecFic genre therein, there's 2 more days left to grab this book bundle!
(Confused Aussies, it runs till US 15th, not our 😉.)
(Confused Aussies, it runs till US 15th, not our 😉.)
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Just got an official email from @draft2digital.bsky.social.
"Distribution of mainstream erotica titles to Bookshop. org is expected by the end of the second quarter, 2026."
"Distribution of mainstream erotica titles to Bookshop. org is expected by the end of the second quarter, 2026."
IN THIS ISSUE:
authoremail.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Just got an official email from @draft2digital.bsky.social.
"Distribution of mainstream erotica titles to Bookshop. org is expected by the end of the second quarter, 2026."
"Distribution of mainstream erotica titles to Bookshop. org is expected by the end of the second quarter, 2026."
Thanks #QueerWritersChat!
Its already Valentine's Day in Australia, and yes I will be promoting a Friendship-Centred SFF Itch Bundle, because that's the one the book I've talked about (Sythe Series #1) is in, and its the bundle I'm hosting 😂.
Happy Valentine's Day/ Happy Saturday!
Its already Valentine's Day in Australia, and yes I will be promoting a Friendship-Centred SFF Itch Bundle, because that's the one the book I've talked about (Sythe Series #1) is in, and its the bundle I'm hosting 😂.
Happy Valentine's Day/ Happy Saturday!
February 14, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Thanks #QueerWritersChat!
Its already Valentine's Day in Australia, and yes I will be promoting a Friendship-Centred SFF Itch Bundle, because that's the one the book I've talked about (Sythe Series #1) is in, and its the bundle I'm hosting 😂.
Happy Valentine's Day/ Happy Saturday!
Its already Valentine's Day in Australia, and yes I will be promoting a Friendship-Centred SFF Itch Bundle, because that's the one the book I've talked about (Sythe Series #1) is in, and its the bundle I'm hosting 😂.
Happy Valentine's Day/ Happy Saturday!
For my core group of characters in Sythe Series;
Rarkin; hasn't figured out the nature of attraction he experiences, or which genders it applies to.
Amon: panromantic
Rinth: aro/ no romantic orientation
Miona: lesbian
Her girlfriend Merin: pan
#QueerWritersChat
Rarkin; hasn't figured out the nature of attraction he experiences, or which genders it applies to.
Amon: panromantic
Rinth: aro/ no romantic orientation
Miona: lesbian
Her girlfriend Merin: pan
#QueerWritersChat
#QueerWritersChat
Question Four:
What are the romantic orientations of your primary characters?
Last question at :45!
@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers
Question Four:
What are the romantic orientations of your primary characters?
Last question at :45!
@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers
February 14, 2026 at 2:32 AM
For my core group of characters in Sythe Series;
Rarkin; hasn't figured out the nature of attraction he experiences, or which genders it applies to.
Amon: panromantic
Rinth: aro/ no romantic orientation
Miona: lesbian
Her girlfriend Merin: pan
#QueerWritersChat
Rarkin; hasn't figured out the nature of attraction he experiences, or which genders it applies to.
Amon: panromantic
Rinth: aro/ no romantic orientation
Miona: lesbian
Her girlfriend Merin: pan
#QueerWritersChat
The hardest part of writing romance is having no lived experience of it, so I'm totally winging it -part of why only my side characters engage in it 😉.
Not writing it and centering friendships instead is super easy. Marketing it without a friendship-focused genre is harder.
#QueerWritersChat
Not writing it and centering friendships instead is super easy. Marketing it without a friendship-focused genre is harder.
#QueerWritersChat
#QueerWritersChat
Question Three:
What’s the hardest part of writing romance, or choosing not to?
Next question at :35!
@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers
Question Three:
What’s the hardest part of writing romance, or choosing not to?
Next question at :35!
@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers
February 14, 2026 at 2:25 AM
The hardest part of writing romance is having no lived experience of it, so I'm totally winging it -part of why only my side characters engage in it 😉.
Not writing it and centering friendships instead is super easy. Marketing it without a friendship-focused genre is harder.
#QueerWritersChat
Not writing it and centering friendships instead is super easy. Marketing it without a friendship-focused genre is harder.
#QueerWritersChat
Nope; friendship is a central theme in all of my books, specifically characters making friends and friendship groups forming and tackling SFF plots together.
Sometimes side chars get romance arcs coz they insist, but as a happily single aro-ace myself, romance is never central.
#QueerWritersChat
Sometimes side chars get romance arcs coz they insist, but as a happily single aro-ace myself, romance is never central.
#QueerWritersChat
#QueerWritersChat
Question Two:
Is romance a central theme in any of your work?
Next question at :25!
@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers
Question Two:
Is romance a central theme in any of your work?
Next question at :25!
@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers
February 14, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Nope; friendship is a central theme in all of my books, specifically characters making friends and friendship groups forming and tackling SFF plots together.
Sometimes side chars get romance arcs coz they insist, but as a happily single aro-ace myself, romance is never central.
#QueerWritersChat
Sometimes side chars get romance arcs coz they insist, but as a happily single aro-ace myself, romance is never central.
#QueerWritersChat
Hi #QueerWritersChat!
(I'm late coz everyone doing this on my feed is 😆).
Aro-ace enby author of epic fantasy & SciFi-Fantasy here.
I'm currently revising Rarkin's therapy, relationship arcs, queer awakenings and who at school is organised crime's boss's kid? arcs for Countering the Hands of Crime.
(I'm late coz everyone doing this on my feed is 😆).
Aro-ace enby author of epic fantasy & SciFi-Fantasy here.
I'm currently revising Rarkin's therapy, relationship arcs, queer awakenings and who at school is organised crime's boss's kid? arcs for Countering the Hands of Crime.
Welcome to #QueerWritersChat!
To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on! No links, please!
Next question at :15!
@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers
To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on! No links, please!
Next question at :15!
@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers
February 14, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Hi #QueerWritersChat!
(I'm late coz everyone doing this on my feed is 😆).
Aro-ace enby author of epic fantasy & SciFi-Fantasy here.
I'm currently revising Rarkin's therapy, relationship arcs, queer awakenings and who at school is organised crime's boss's kid? arcs for Countering the Hands of Crime.
(I'm late coz everyone doing this on my feed is 😆).
Aro-ace enby author of epic fantasy & SciFi-Fantasy here.
I'm currently revising Rarkin's therapy, relationship arcs, queer awakenings and who at school is organised crime's boss's kid? arcs for Countering the Hands of Crime.
Only 327 people in NSW think Minns should resign?
After he defended the violence NSW police did to peaceful protestors in Sydney on Monday?
I think this petition is missing signatures! #auspol
After he defended the violence NSW police did to peaceful protestors in Sydney on Monday?
I think this petition is missing signatures! #auspol
After the police violence: I agree, the NSW premier should resign.
Sign the Petition
Call for the Resignation of NSW Premier Chris Minns Following Police Violence at Recent Pr
c.org
February 14, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Only 327 people in NSW think Minns should resign?
After he defended the violence NSW police did to peaceful protestors in Sydney on Monday?
I think this petition is missing signatures! #auspol
After he defended the violence NSW police did to peaceful protestors in Sydney on Monday?
I think this petition is missing signatures! #auspol
Have to say I feel the same about being sick of Australian Labour as the lesser evil, pretending-to-sound-good party.
Enough double-speak. Social cohesion my arse. Give me actual good!
Enough double-speak. Social cohesion my arse. Give me actual good!
The reason trans people aren't buying this "you have to vote for fascism lite so we can get power and then we'll do something about your rights" is we've heard this song and dance before, and talk is fucking cheap.
I'm done with lesser evil. We want actual good. And Plastic Gavin Newsom ain't it.
I'm done with lesser evil. We want actual good. And Plastic Gavin Newsom ain't it.
February 14, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Have to say I feel the same about being sick of Australian Labour as the lesser evil, pretending-to-sound-good party.
Enough double-speak. Social cohesion my arse. Give me actual good!
Enough double-speak. Social cohesion my arse. Give me actual good!
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From the archive...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
February 13, 2026 at 6:24 AM
From the archive...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...
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"If only it wasn't on Substack" really is evergreen, isn't it? [sigh]
February 13, 2026 at 6:49 AM
"If only it wasn't on Substack" really is evergreen, isn't it? [sigh]
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All your girl wants for Valentine's Day is everyone in the Epstein Files prosecuted.
February 13, 2026 at 3:32 AM
All your girl wants for Valentine's Day is everyone in the Epstein Files prosecuted.
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If you like Fantasy, SciFi, or any SpecFic genre therein, there's 3 more days left to grab this book bundle!
(Yes, some 'found family' books in it are queer found family 😉.)
🌈📚🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3486/frien...
(Yes, some 'found family' books in it are queer found family 😉.)
🌈📚🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3486/frien...
If you like stories about;
-friendships in space/ between automatons/ angels & humans
-friendship groups tackling a kingdom in crisis/ corporate control/ conspiracy/ crime/ their own trauma
-friends rescuing an elf/ a vampire/ solving cold cases via reincarnation
See👇😉
🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3486/frien...
-friendships in space/ between automatons/ angels & humans
-friendship groups tackling a kingdom in crisis/ corporate control/ conspiracy/ crime/ their own trauma
-friends rescuing an elf/ a vampire/ solving cold cases via reincarnation
See👇😉
🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3486/frien...
February 13, 2026 at 1:03 AM
If you like Fantasy, SciFi, or any SpecFic genre therein, there's 3 more days left to grab this book bundle!
(Yes, some 'found family' books in it are queer found family 😉.)
🌈📚🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3486/frien...
(Yes, some 'found family' books in it are queer found family 😉.)
🌈📚🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3486/frien...