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Sirius

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32 ♋️ They / Them Proprietor of The Laughing Man House Writer at Curious Corvid Publishing Call me Rev ❤️‍🔥 Horror, Dark Fantasy, Queer, Disabled and proud

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Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hey y’all, I have some limited slots available for interior book formatting! 🫶 I’ve fallen into a little space of time between releases where I can take on some extra work! #BookSky📚🩵

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Interior Fiction Formatting

Commission available on Ko-fi.com

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Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 1d

The televangelist who died during his final broadcast >>> the devil who puppets him 🎙️ 🔥

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 2d

*twirling my hair at fictional men* you're like soooooo second son-coded usurper core scheming courtier slay

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Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 3d

Thank youuuu I can never stop staring at it! 😭🖤

Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 4d

#BookSky 📚🩵 Gets first shot at these! I have some older editions that I am clearing out. If you want them individually just message me about it. It will most likely just be $2-$3 + cost of shipping.

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Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much!

Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!! It is by moe_machine on Instagram! 🤩

Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 4d

My contribution to #sludgepit is Feb 2026’s release, ON AIR WITH THE DEVIL!

📺 1970’s Texas setting

📺 Undead Televangelist

📺 Body Horror

📺 Trans protag AND antag

📺 Parallel dimensions / The Lamp Gives it Away

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Mouse @mallowtonmouse.bsky.social · 5d

Alastor: Damn, boy, who hurt you?
Vox: YOU!!!! YOU!!!!!!! YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 14d

Hello, yes, my Southern gothic retelling of Frankenstein is out today! 🥰💚 🐊 that is all 🫶

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 16d

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 18d

i need to go to sleep but there are women in my phone. Does anyone know about this. There are women on the internet and you can talk to them through your cellular device. Science is amazinh

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 21d

I am getting very tired of living in a world where it seems like all the very worst people in the world are the only ones who prosper and everyone else is constantly being harmed by those same people.

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✨️ mars 🪽 is writing @marsadler.bsky.social · 21d

So uh. Yeah. Got this done ✅️

Do you like remote cabin horror and feeling really bad? This is the book for you!

Out on payhip now and coming soon to smashwords instead of amazon (bc it's taboo, tread cautiously and check CWs!!!)

payhip.com/b/aAUSq

A trope map for Fulgurite

t4t taboo relationship
Folk horror
Isolated cabin in the woods
Grief horror
ACAB
Storms & lightning
Complicated family dynamics
Weird (horny) dreams
Non-sequential storytelling
Uncle x nibling
Lichtenburg figure scars

The summer hikaru died x old gods of Appalachia

How far are you willing to go for the ones you love?

Luce Sullivan makes his yearly trip up to the isolated cabin he and his brother Michael bought decades before. He’s alone, and drowning in grief, and prepares to spend the time drunk to avoid thinking about the accident five years ago that took his brother from him and drove Michael’s child away after they survived a lightning strike. Jasper hasn’t made an effort to contact him once in all the years since they left, and Luce is afraid he lost both of them to that storm.

To his surprise, Jasper shows up in the middle of the night out of the blue. At first, Luce is elated. Is this finally the reconciliation he’s been yearning for all these years? But things turn more sinister as Luce realizes that Jasper isn’t quite right.

He grapples fear, isolation, and strange new feelings for Jasper, as a storm looms closer and closer, threatening a grand finale that neither of them are quite prepared for.

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Rebecca Kling @rebeccakling.bsky.social · 22d

“there’s no real difference between an acetaminophen scaremonger like RFK Jr. and an anti-trans obsessive like J.K. Rowling. Neither are doctors, both have been poisoned by a steady stream of online propaganda and disinformation”

When science is thrown out the window, everyone suffers.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 23d

For @truthout.org yesterday I wrote about how the government's lies about tylenol and autism reminds me a lot of the government's lies about trans people.

truthout.org/articles/ant...

Anti-Trans Policy Deserves Same Scrutiny as Trump’s Tylenol Disinformation

As a trans journalist, I see corporate media outlets as inconsistent in their treatment of right-wing disinformation.

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Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 21d

Latest drawing, Ramsey Abernathy from “Abernathy: A Frankenstein Retelling” 🐊 📖

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Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 21d

We're going LIVE! Come have a listen to Oliver question me on: who this Steve guy is and what is he doing? 🤣

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 22d

🖥️TONIGHT 7pm EST🎙️
In the final livestream our head editor chats with @stevewestenra.bsky.social about the more cosmic & mysterious of our four novellas, ⚔️THE BARBARIAN AT DREAM'S END🪐...
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Youtube thumbnail graphic. Caption reads: INTERVIEW WITH STEVE HUGH WESTENRA. The actual graphic is split between the cover art by Matt Spencer and an author portrait of Steve.

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Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 22d

I tried three times to make some new graphics and I just don’t have any thoughts. I wish I could just pay for advertising on content I’ve already *made* instead of constantly working on new material.

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Ellen Forkin @ellenforkin.bsky.social · 24d

It’s dream-come-true time! The lovely Orcadian are publishing my collection of Orkney folklore inspired short stories - the book will be out for Autumn 2026! I can’t wait and I’m super busy creating the colour illustrations for it! #BookSky #Orkney #WritingCommunity #Folklore #ShortStories

A painting of a raven flying on a bright blue sky. Dark purple words read: Exciting news! The Orcadian are publishing my book! Ellen Forkin.

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Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 23d

My ex used to make fun of me for being genuinely and outwardly supportive of other artists’ work (especially other drag artists) to the point where I’ve realized it’s made me very self-conscious. Please know I’m being genuine, lol. I want us all to win.

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Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 24d

My #SFINCS review for J. P. Relph and Mathew Gostelow's Watcher is up on Before We Go Blog!

An excellent start to my reads. (: I'll thread my reviews here for ease of access.

beforewegoblog.com/sfincs-revie...

#SFINCS3

SFINCS Review: Watcher by J. P. Relph and Mathew Gostelow

"The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship (SFINCS, pronounced “sphinx”) is a yearly competition to recognize, honor, and celebrate the t

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Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 23d

When you owe Bill Sykes money

Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 24d

you might be wondering why we asked you here

two black and rust Dobermans sitting side by side on the front corner of a rectangular dog bed, with a closed door behind them. They are looking intently at the camera.

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 24d

throwing queer erotica authors under the bus when queer sex has been stigmatized for decades and continues to be stigmatized as another queer author is loser shit and you should stop doing that. "but payment processors-" are a problem i agree, blame them instead of your peers making legal material!

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Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · 23d

Preparing for a #coverreveal that I am VERY excited for! Let me know if you want to join the street team! 📺 🎙️ 🔥 #BookSky 📚🩵

Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · Sep 15

Launching this into the stratosphere again! If you’re in need of some interior formatting, I am super open for work currently 🫶💓

Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social · Jul 24

Interior Fiction Formatting

Commission available on Ko-fi.com

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𝖄𝖚𝖓𝖊 🪼commissions open ⭐️ @heavenlyystar.bsky.social · Sep 13

some sketches !!!!

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