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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 5d

you’re a brilliant beautiful princess and i love u

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MJ Marlowe 🕸️ @mjmarlowe.bsky.social · 10d

📢💥SUBMISSION CALL📢💥

Subs are anon.
Full guidelines are posted in a carousel on my instagram, but if you need info (or don’t have insta) email us and we’ll be happy to provide you with it!!

You DON’T have to have experience to submit!

www.instagram.com/mj.marlowe

#bluesky #booksky #anthology

Background is varying shades of gray. In black and white magazine letters the words BUTCH BAIT are spelled and underneath is gray, large text says A BUTCH4BUTCH ANTHOLOGY.

All other text on the graphic is as follows:
Art, poetry, fiction, erotica, photography

NSFW art and contributors must be 18+

Sub window open Oct. 1st, 2025-Jan.1st, 2025
No reprints
Sim subs and multiple subs are fine
Submissions edited and finalized to the best of your ability
Subgenre doesn’t matter. We encourage erotica, pulp, horror, dead dove, taboo, romance, western, speculative—as long as it features butch4butch!
Transgressive work is encouraged but NO: SA/Noncon, snuff, or b*astiality

submissions are open to anyone, but we’re prioritizing creators who identify as butch, stud, masc or trans masc

Going for the vintage zine feel

THE TIME HAS COME! after long lamenting the lack of butch4butch content out there, we (@bloodinkbonewriting and @mj.marlowe ) decided to take matters into our own sticky dirty little butch hands and launch an anthology.

Introducing Butch Bait: a collection of fiction art and photography celebrating butch4butch, stud4stud, and masc4masc desire.

We cannot wait to make this happen for you all!!
(And for ourselves). In the meantime, subs are open! We want your work! Sensual portraits, nasty erotica, odes to butch love and gnc lesbian culture, you name it. If it’s celebrating butch4butch it belongs. Subs open until Jan— we can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Feel free to hit us up with any questions!

Contact us: butch.bait.anthology@gmail.com

Phoenix Mendoza: email is bloodinkbonewriting@gmail.com
IG @bloodinkbonewriting
Pronouns she/her

MJ Marlowe: email is authormjmarlowe@gmail.com
IG @mj.marlowe
Pronouns they/them

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 12d

hi! i’m visually impaired and have significant experience as a sensitivity reader. feel free to send me a dm <3

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 18d

not a perfect fit (i’m bi but nonbinary) but otherwise have tons of experience sensitivity reading + have lots of experience too with historical fiction and have dated trans men 💛 shoot me a dm in case you’re interested, though!

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · Aug 23

So happy to announce that my latest short story, HEARTS AND HALF-MEASURES, about a t-girl manananggal eating transphobes and sex tourists while solving the serial killings of her manananggal sisters, is out now with @pseudopod.org 🫀

PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · Aug 22

“You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one.”

PseudoPod 990: Hearts and Half-Measures, by Cassiopeia Gatmaitan

Narrator: Jess Lewis
Host: Scott Campbell
Audio: Chelsea Davis

C/W: murder, transphobia
(see show notes for more)

PseudoPod 990: Hearts and Half-Measures

You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one. You think it’s all bull. Anyone in their right mind would. But he watches you like a hawk…

pseudopod.org

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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · Aug 22

“You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one.”

PseudoPod 990: Hearts and Half-Measures, by Cassiopeia Gatmaitan

Narrator: Jess Lewis
Host: Scott Campbell
Audio: Chelsea Davis

C/W: murder, transphobia
(see show notes for more)

PseudoPod 990: Hearts and Half-Measures

You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one. You think it’s all bull. Anyone in their right mind would. But he watches you like a hawk…

pseudopod.org

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · Aug 3

happy birthday!

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · Jul 18

good luck!

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · Jul 18

you can check out my page on Salt & Sage, though my reading areas aren’t updated! you can message me on here for further info or to request my email (and we can talk there!)

www.saltandsagebooks.com/profiles/cat...

Cassiopeia Gatmaitan ("Cath") - Salt and Sage Books

Cassiopeia (“Cath”, they/them) is a historical and literary fiction writer who has been lost in books since they could hold them. Aside from writing, they’re also working towards a degree in archaeol...

www.saltandsagebooks.com

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · Jul 18

hi! my specialty as a sensitivity reader is historical novels! i read for disability issues in general but not specifically Down’s syndrome. would still love to help if i can, though. just let me know!

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · May 19

contract signed!

if you like trans rage and folkloric filipino horror, then you might wanna stay tuned for HEARTS AND HALF-MEASURES, my blood-soaked story featuring a trans girl solving the serial killings of her fellow manananggals 🫀

coming soon from @pseudopod.org!

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · May 14

does anyone have any tips for writing body horror 👀

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fae ⚔ 🏴[Gubi Bana Woerk] @lntpblk.bsky.social · May 6

BTW if you guys haven't heard yet, folk singer and ethnomusicologist Grace Nono has a book called Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans, Voice, Gender, and Place

If you are curious about the traditions of the spiritualists of our isles and how it survives this age, you guys should read it :D

An excerpt from Grace Nono's book, talking about the different terminologies used for a spiritualist

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · May 7

🌌🎪 x Sapphic Moulin Rouge

Raised on war and lost love, Carina acts out revolutionary stage plays in colonial Manila. Dissent is a death sentence, but she’s willing to risk it all when a familiar face from her past sits down one night to watch her perform

#QuestPit #WIP #novella

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · May 4

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IDOL!!!!!!!!!

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Arthur Riel @artiodaktyl.bsky.social · May 4

I heard it's tradition around here to share your art on your birthday? 🌸🍃

digital painting of the resurrected Christ as a brown trans man

digital painting of the Four of Wands tarot card as a queer inter-abled couple in precolonial Southeast Asia

digital painting of my OCs Joey and Tristan on a pickup truck with a white dragon perched in the back.

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Arthur Riel @artiodaktyl.bsky.social · Mar 10

Hello! Taking more #commissions while I'm still looking for a day job. If you need some OC art (mechas, furries, and creatures ok!), then I'd love to work with you! 🎸✨

It's also my HRT anniversary this month, so comms will really help me cover upcoming medical transition needs. 🫡🏳️‍⚧️ Thanks!

Sample commissioned art of Al Acevedo’s characters Zylix and Xolotl with fiery purple powers, beside the header “Commissions Open.” Portfolio link “artiodaktyl.carrd.co” and email “ganicabz.art@gmail.com” are listed below.

Graphic labeled “Character art: Bust - 30 USD, Half body - 40 USD, Full body - 60 USD.” Comic style artworks of various characters include mecha and humanoid and anthro characters.

Graphic labeled “Illustrations, starts at 100 USD,” followed by samples of six illustrations of mine in various art styles.

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · Mar 5

Pokemon fanfiction when I was 7 years old 😭

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · Mar 5

Where did you really learn to write? Did you go through a BFA program? The school of fanfiction? Tell me where you really started to hone your craft! #WritingPrompt

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · Mar 3

AND IT'S HERE

The gorgeous cover for LORD OF RUIN with art direction by Ella Garrett and artwork by @superstarfighter.bsky.social

Isn't he just stunning? Isaac will be coming to you this August from Orbit! Pre-orders are available now!

Cover for LORD OF RUIN by K. M. Enright. Black cover, with a dark haired Filipino man in a Gothic style embodied suit jacket in shades of blue and gold. Black wings with a similar gold embroidered design stretch behind him against a background of blue with white flowers. His hands are tipped in black talons and he holds a bright red anatomical heart. Blurb from Thea Guanzon — ”K. M. Enright is definitely one to watch.”

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · Mar 4

Need Isaac in ways I can’t describe in public,,,,,,, also HELL YES THIS COVER IS STUNNING. I LOVEEEEEEE THE FLOURISHES ON THE MANANANGGAL WINGS I AM SOOOOOOOOO FUCKING EXCITED

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · Mar 3

Announcing the official preorder campaign for THE STARVING SAINTS!

Order through @copperdogbooks.bsky.social and you’ll get an extremely cool pin designed by @missdaisydee.bsky.social and a gorgeously gory art print by @miavern.bsky.social 👀

www.copperdogbooks.com/starvingsaints

A graphic promoting a preorder campaign for THE STARVING SAINTS by Caitlin Starling. The book, an art print showing an ethereal woman holding three decapitated heads on a platter, and a mock up of an enamel pin showing a pomegranate with lung shaped sections and a bee larva as a heart, with an adult bee perched on the side, are all on a gilded background. The art is by Mia Minnis, the pin by Miss Daisy Dee. You can preorder through Copper Dog Books.

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · Feb 28

YESSSSSSSSSS SO EXCITED

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · Feb 21

CONGRATULATIONS

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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · Feb 21

hi! i can’t message you for some reason but i have a potential submission + would love to know more!

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