Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️⚧️ (She/They)
@gothgreenwitch.bsky.social
Writer, poet, editor, reviewer. @anathemamagazine.bsky.social co-founder. Publisher at @huldrahouse.bsky.social. Trans. (She/They)
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Pinned
A bit behind time, but Bound by Blood and Bone is now live!
In which Aoife wanders lost, subject to the whims of a sinister forest's mistress. And a traitor's work bears pernicious fruit.
WLW horrorotica for just $1 USD from:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/bound...
huldrahouse.itch.io/bound-by-blo...
In which Aoife wanders lost, subject to the whims of a sinister forest's mistress. And a traitor's work bears pernicious fruit.
WLW horrorotica for just $1 USD from:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/bound...
huldrahouse.itch.io/bound-by-blo...
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They banned Elatsoe in Florida 😭 My mystery about a girl and her ghost dog!!!
November Is the Month to Celebrate Native American Culture, but the Stories That Do So Are Getting Banned
Here are some #BannedBooks to read this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth https://pen.org/banned-native-american-books/
Here are some #BannedBooks to read this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth https://pen.org/banned-native-american-books/
November is the Month to Celebrate Native American Culture, but the Stories That Do So Are Getting Banned
The list below includes a portion of the books written by or about Indigenous people removed from school libraries and classrooms since 2021.
pen.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
They banned Elatsoe in Florida 😭 My mystery about a girl and her ghost dog!!!
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Have you checked out the latest fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social yet? It's got my complete Harwood Spellbook omnibus as well as 9-11 other fantasy novels from great authors like Victoria Goddard, @jbensonink.bsky.social , @kristadb1.bsky.social & more: storybundle.com/fantasy
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Have you checked out the latest fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social yet? It's got my complete Harwood Spellbook omnibus as well as 9-11 other fantasy novels from great authors like Victoria Goddard, @jbensonink.bsky.social , @kristadb1.bsky.social & more: storybundle.com/fantasy
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
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The time has come! Today is our Table of Content announcement for COMMON BONDS 2!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The time has come! Today is our Table of Content announcement for COMMON BONDS 2!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
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Using “looks almost final” placeholders will also force your project in a more generic direction. Non-artists will get attached to the generic slop placeholder and if you try to exchange it with something more interesting they’ll say it feels bad and force you back to the generic option.
Stop using AI for placeholder assets.
Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else.
If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT
Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else.
If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Using “looks almost final” placeholders will also force your project in a more generic direction. Non-artists will get attached to the generic slop placeholder and if you try to exchange it with something more interesting they’ll say it feels bad and force you back to the generic option.
Bound by Blood and Bone's been live a week, so just one week out from the FINAL episode of Hulderotica Year One!
Taking everything I have not to preview that final spoilery cover. :D
In the meantime, you can catch up here:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/bound...
huldrahouse.itch.io/bound-by-blo...
Taking everything I have not to preview that final spoilery cover. :D
In the meantime, you can catch up here:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/bound...
huldrahouse.itch.io/bound-by-blo...
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bound by Blood and Bone's been live a week, so just one week out from the FINAL episode of Hulderotica Year One!
Taking everything I have not to preview that final spoilery cover. :D
In the meantime, you can catch up here:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/bound...
huldrahouse.itch.io/bound-by-blo...
Taking everything I have not to preview that final spoilery cover. :D
In the meantime, you can catch up here:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/bound...
huldrahouse.itch.io/bound-by-blo...
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Click through to see the star-studded TOC that matches this dazzling cover.
and the issue 99 COVER ✨
Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb
Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Click through to see the star-studded TOC that matches this dazzling cover.
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#Booksky Elliott wrote a brilliant story about Andromache turning pirate after the Trojan Wars for our pirate anthology, SCOURGE OF THE SEAS OF TIME AND SPACE, and this sounds like another fascinating new project! Check it out! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
#Booksky Elliott wrote a brilliant story about Andromache turning pirate after the Trojan Wars for our pirate anthology, SCOURGE OF THE SEAS OF TIME AND SPACE, and this sounds like another fascinating new project! Check it out! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Contrary to popular belief, small press publishers are not air plants and subsist only on air.
People often think it's that easy to set up a small press.
IT IS NOT.
IT IS NOT.
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Contrary to popular belief, small press publishers are not air plants and subsist only on air.
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Thank you to everyone who has bought Skin Thief or Countess, or requested either at the library or written a review about them. You are keeping me writing. Literally. As a new long form writer every single sale matters. I want to write more books for you! I'm writing another right now! 🖤🙏
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Thank you to everyone who has bought Skin Thief or Countess, or requested either at the library or written a review about them. You are keeping me writing. Literally. As a new long form writer every single sale matters. I want to write more books for you! I'm writing another right now! 🖤🙏
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Deadlands fiction subs open in December.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Deadlands fiction subs open in December.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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we are just over a week out from publication of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action I co-edited with @annaleen.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social which means THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREORDER […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
we are just over a week out from publication of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action I co-edited with @annaleen.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social which means THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREORDER […]
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How to make beautiful comics:
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
imgs.xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
How to make beautiful comics:
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
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Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving
The lines are getting clogged from calls and Mastercard is feeling very pressured, they're looking into how to act in response. They're collecting information on callers to have a better understanding of who is calling in re the censorship issue
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving
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We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
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Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you:
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
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We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
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I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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Here's my two cents on the piracy discourse this morning. Reading everything this morning, I remember those old FBI warnings at the start of videos: piracy isn't a victimless crime. 🧵
I have had it with the justifications. The weaponization of poverty, neurodiversity, mental illness, all of it.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Here's my two cents on the piracy discourse this morning. Reading everything this morning, I remember those old FBI warnings at the start of videos: piracy isn't a victimless crime. 🧵
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Authors deserve their royalties, to earn a little for the blood, sweat, & tears they have shed over that book, for the hours they spent writing & revising.
I don't know how to say that you should care about other people, but there it is. You should care about other people.
I don't know how to say that you should care about other people, but there it is. You should care about other people.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Authors deserve their royalties, to earn a little for the blood, sweat, & tears they have shed over that book, for the hours they spent writing & revising.
I don't know how to say that you should care about other people, but there it is. You should care about other people.
I don't know how to say that you should care about other people, but there it is. You should care about other people.
Well that thread was significantly longer than planned.
Who can write short threads? Not this bitch. :D
But seriously though, people want to talk numbers? Let's talk numbers. Because publishing still pays fucking pennies to the vast majority of people working in it. (On all fronts.)
Who can write short threads? Not this bitch. :D
But seriously though, people want to talk numbers? Let's talk numbers. Because publishing still pays fucking pennies to the vast majority of people working in it. (On all fronts.)
Meant to acknowledge since February *cough* that I got a Writers' Reserve grant this year toward producing a poetry collection. And am deeply grateful to the OAC, and Brick Books specifically for the rec.
And I'm spurred to do it now b/c of the talk we're all having around poverty and piracy. ->
And I'm spurred to do it now b/c of the talk we're all having around poverty and piracy. ->
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Well that thread was significantly longer than planned.
Who can write short threads? Not this bitch. :D
But seriously though, people want to talk numbers? Let's talk numbers. Because publishing still pays fucking pennies to the vast majority of people working in it. (On all fronts.)
Who can write short threads? Not this bitch. :D
But seriously though, people want to talk numbers? Let's talk numbers. Because publishing still pays fucking pennies to the vast majority of people working in it. (On all fronts.)
Meant to acknowledge since February *cough* that I got a Writers' Reserve grant this year toward producing a poetry collection. And am deeply grateful to the OAC, and Brick Books specifically for the rec.
And I'm spurred to do it now b/c of the talk we're all having around poverty and piracy. ->
And I'm spurred to do it now b/c of the talk we're all having around poverty and piracy. ->
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Meant to acknowledge since February *cough* that I got a Writers' Reserve grant this year toward producing a poetry collection. And am deeply grateful to the OAC, and Brick Books specifically for the rec.
And I'm spurred to do it now b/c of the talk we're all having around poverty and piracy. ->
And I'm spurred to do it now b/c of the talk we're all having around poverty and piracy. ->
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Huge thread from Tyche Books, a Canadian publisher. Her authors are every day folks, with bills and rent and the physical requirement to eat every day.
Stealing the books she publishes is not a progressive act. It's not activism. It's not punk.
It's just stealing from people trying to live.
Stealing the books she publishes is not a progressive act. It's not activism. It's not punk.
It's just stealing from people trying to live.
Some of my authors are on disability. Some struggle to pay monthly bills. Some are retired & on limited income. Some were laid off in the past couple years & have yet to find new work. Some would love to quit the day job & write full time, but don't earn enough from royalties to do that.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Huge thread from Tyche Books, a Canadian publisher. Her authors are every day folks, with bills and rent and the physical requirement to eat every day.
Stealing the books she publishes is not a progressive act. It's not activism. It's not punk.
It's just stealing from people trying to live.
Stealing the books she publishes is not a progressive act. It's not activism. It's not punk.
It's just stealing from people trying to live.