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Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 1h

Been sick, still sick. Only a couple hundred words written each day but that's still something so I'm happy!

#LGBTQWriteAThon

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 9h

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 11:

Check in day! How was your week?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 11: Check in day.
BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

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constellation reformer @astrophagic.bsky.social · Jul 17

Artfight for @skysealer.bsky.social

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Isaac X Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 20h

#LGBTQWriteAThon

What is making me happy and hopeful today is @conjured.ink's efforts to support decentralized online shops for creatives, as a defense against platform-based discrimination and censorship.

They are taking contributions now if you wish to fund them!
opencollective.com/conjured-ink

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Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 9h

I would wager that, yes, violence is an orientation. At least in fictional characters, it should be considered one!

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

No photos for this and it's not a promo, but something that makes me REALLY happy is being part of communities - here and on Tumblr - where I feel like I actually belong instead of just being a conditionally tolerated exception.

Thank you all for being who you are 💜

🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 10:

It's promo Friday! Today, share something that makes you happy! Don't forget to boost others' posts!

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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Sass Everett @sasseverett.bsky.social · 1d

My novella The Hand That Feeds still makes me very happy! I loved writing these characters so much
books2read.com/u/4APvDq
sasseverett.itch.io/the-hand-tha...
#lgbtqwriteathon

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Sarah Clowder (she/they) @sarah-clowder.bsky.social · 23h

You should check out @pairofclaws.bsky.social and @itsviviactually.bsky.social and @vincentlore.bsky.social and @thebrambler13.bsky.social and @katieaki.bsky.social and @anotherindiewriter.com and @amaralynn.bsky.social and basically anyone I follow + Abra's trans author thread! #LGBTQWriteAThon

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 10:

It's promo Friday! Today, share something that makes you happy! Don't forget to boost others' posts!

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 23h

Something that makes me happy is seeing a queer writing community on here, so I'll go repost a couple of the people's posts in the #LGBTQWriteAThon

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 10:

It's promo Friday! Today, share something that makes you happy! Don't forget to boost others' posts!

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 23h

For my Arthurian WIP: Epic Fantasy, Myth Retelling

For Heliosblade: Adventure Fantasy (maybe also Sci-Fantasy, not quite sure)

For The White Dragon: High Fantasy

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 3d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:

What genre is your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 23h

With my Arthurian WIP I went deep into research on Welsh, Breton and Cornish folklore but I wanna get into my other WIP codenamed The White Dragon, which takes place in a large fantasy world but is set in a Byzantine inspired nation experiencing a Dragonslayer rebellion

#LGBTQWriteAThon

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 4d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 7:

What is the setting and/or time period of your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 1d

Sooo I missed a couple days of #LGBTQWriteAThon because I was/still am a bit under the weather but my plans for this week were and still are to spend some focused writing time getting out some words onto the page so I can edit next week and now catching up with this tag again!

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 5d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 6:

Goals day! What are your goals this week?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · Jul 15

fetching water in the haunted wood (2021)

2021 limited tone fantasy pet portrait

in a dark golden wood, a cat adorned in a cloak and carrying a lantern on his staff dips a vessel into a clear stream. His eyes stare with intent behind the viewer.

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Daryl Marez @darylmarez.bsky.social · 9d

Coven of the Elder Blossom - In 1960s Greenwich Village, a group of queer witches must adapt when a new member joins their ranks. Together, they fight to protect their sanctuary while navigating the dangers of survival, magic, and justice
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🌈✒️ 📚🌎 🌈📚 💙📚 ⏳📚 📢📚

"Coven of the Elder Blossom; Elder Blossom Book One" book cover. The Washington Square Park arch, looping text, and pink peonies

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 6d

📝 And I wait until he falls. And I leave him where he lands. And I walk back down the hall with the flickering lights to the lift with the stubborn door, zipping my coat closed to hide the blood soaking my sweater.

🌃 from WIP Miles From Morning

🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon (line share: fall)

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 6d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 5:

Line share day! Today's theme: fall

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 5d

I am a gay disabled transgender man from the South of Wales, and I write a LOT of fiction across the erotica, fantasy, romance, and horror genres!

Hundreds of short stories and essays are available to read on my website, and here are some eBook bundles to buy!

johannestevans.co.uk/product-cate...

Trans & Gender Feels eBook Bundle
Original price was: £19.85
Current price is: £10.00.

A bundle of 15 eBooks featuring trans characters, intersex characters, and/or characters who are depicted as experiencing difficulties with their gender incongruity or dysphoria.

Neurodiversity eBook Bundle
Original price was: £22.36.Current price is: £10.00.

A grab-bag of 14 eBooks featuring variously neurodivergent characters. Some of these characters are explicitly labelled or reference diagnoses within their stories, but the majorities are written with certain traits and personalities in mind.

Disability eBook Bundle
Original price was: £14.91
Current price is: £7.00.

Bundle containing 10 of my eBooks featuring different forms of representation of physical disabilities, especially those that require canes and other mobility aids.

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Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 5d

"The fall of King Lot would not be the fall of Orkney. Queen Morgause made sure of that. By [REDACTED], she made sure of it."

- from my Arthurian WIP

##LGBTQWriteAThon

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 6d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 5:

Line share day! Today's theme: fall

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Abel Klaer @superstarfighter.bsky.social · 14d

Show off your snake #art

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Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 6d

Eyyy!! That sounds so good!!!

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Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 6d

And you are correct!

Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 7d

Good. Wrote roughly 11k words since October 1st despite having a good amount of family stuff to deal with and spending other days working.

#LGBTQWriteAThon

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 7d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 4:

Check in day. How was your week?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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Michael R.M. ☀️ @heliosblade.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I really need to get Time Stranger ASAP 😮‍💨😮‍💨

Nimadj (comms open) @nimadj.bsky.social · 9d

The Olympos Twelve!

#digimon

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

one final note: you can try to attract a specific type of person with product decisions but at a certain point you have to deal with the userbase you have rather than the userbase you want

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 8d

I'm still very proud of my novella In Want of Miracles from my What Saints Fear collection - a story of occultic addiction and shitty men realising just how shitty they are, pure dark fantasy Cadfael-worship.

Also a dog-demon with a hand for a face. Delightful to write.

#LGBTQWriteAThon

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JD Cadmon @jdcadmon.bsky.social · 8d

#LGBTQWriteAThon #QueerWriters Promo

I am proud of my debut novel, #AFeralSpark (Queer MF, Werewolf, Fire Shifter, a Geneticist using them for his glory)

It was the story I wanted to write if I never wrote anything else. It's on sale on October 19th for only 99 cents to mark its 4th birthday

Against a sandy, blurred background is the book cover for A Feral Spark by JD Cadmon. To the right is the text: 99cent Book Birthday Sale. Below that is a grey box with the text: October 19, 2025 only. https://books2read.com/feralspark

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