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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.bsky.social · 2h

Ash lives in endless cycles and doesn’t trust herself - fitting for a werecreature. But does her reality truly follow the tropes?

55 days left until The Claws of the Ounce is out! Come preorder it! #UrbanFantasy #DarkFantasy #shapeshifter

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parisvivian.itch.io/the-claws-of-the-ounce

The Claws of the Ounce by Paris Vivian

Werefelines and vicious cycles

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 8h

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Wylder needs HELP @wylder.bsky.social · 7h

Struggling with system decline due to abscess & inability to maintain costly treatments.

Many basic survival needs are unfilled & partner's care-giving job ending in a few days as his client is moving for safety.

We're desperate:
PayPal.me/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Cash.app/$WishMage

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Samaa❤❤ @samaa0181.bsky.social · 18h

This is my daughter who suffers daily, simply because she is from Gaza, without committing any crime. Does she deserve all this suffering? For the sake of humanity, don't leave her alone. If you're browsing, please donate to my family. She is humanity.
gofund.me/db56c7ce3
@mommunism.bsky.social

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Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · 3d

I need 152 sign-ups to make rent and cover bills this month.

You get literally 1000s of posts, over 900 recipes for £5 and more added every day.

16% off if you sign up annually!

Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.

Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm a black trans woman fighting poverty and homelessness.

To support myself, I set up a patreon where you can get access to all my recipes, poetry, artwork and photography for just £5.

Something new EVERY SINGLE DAY. You won't regret it.

http://patreon.com/fightingpride93

Hot dog with caramelised onions and cheese

Pasta with sliced hot dogs in a tomato sauce

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 1d

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.bsky.social · 1d

1889: The Michelson-Morley Experiment gives a positive result.
1918: First use of a deaetherizing apparatus.
1926: The Erebus Project begins.
1932: One of its mechanics decides to end it.

Kobo: kobo.com/ebook/when-in-erebus
Itch: parisvivian.itch.io/when-in-erebus

#IndieAuthor #BookSky

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A graphic. In the centre is the cover for When In Erebus by me. It shows some gold designs in an Art Deco-ish style: on the top is a partly hidden Sun with several stars, in the middle are three bottle-like machines sucking light into themselves in front of metal pipes, and at the bottom are a pair of wire cutters over a diagram on a table. At the edges of the designs there is what looks like black mist. Surrounding the cover are five arrows with text: Light-sucking machines. Actually punk decopunk. Art is political! Internal sabotage. Alternate 1930s NYC.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.bsky.social · 1d

A reclusive immortal.
His mysteriously wilting crop of telephone-flowers.
A biology student determined to find the cause.
A very busy summer awaits…

Kobo: kobo.com/ebook/a-summer-with-the-immortal
Itch: parisvivian.itch.io/a-summer-with-the-immortal

#BookSky #IndieAuthor #Sapphic

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A graphic featuring the cover of A Summer with the Immortal with labeled arrows around it. The cover is mostly light green. In the centre is a red lily with a long stamen shaped like a three-pronged radio antenna. Labels read:
Mutagenic phenomenon.
F/F with a meet-cute.
Autistic MC and LI.
Fantastical biotech.
Environmental politics.
Ancient ruins with strange secrets.
Library love.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.bsky.social · 1d

Currently working on the cover for The Claws of the Ounce. Things to note:

1. I worked so hard on drawing the moon phases.
2. Ash looks *really* uncanny in snow leopard form.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

The world must hold Israel accountable for genocide.

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Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · 1d

Chicken handi
www.patreon.com/posts/chicke...

Chunks of chicken in a curry sauce on a bed of rice

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makana yamaghosto @makana-yama.bsky.social · 2d

I am always surprised by international lesbian day lol

I'm Makana! I'm a mixed race nonbinary lesbian who writes science fiction full of mixed race nonbinary lesbians! my debut cyberpunk space heist novel HAMMAJANG LUCK is out now, and it's standalone sequel THE OBAKE CODE will be out Feb 17th!

trope graphic for the obake code but oops it's all lesbians. the cover is in the center of the graphic, showing malia, a black woman in a white shirt, black pants, black boots, and her long hair in green dip-dyed locs. she is looking up at a futuristic sky, with skyscrapers with pink and purple windows and a flying car whizzing overhead. the cover is on a background of the lesbian flag in spattered paint. the arrows read "lesbians," "so many lesbians," "butch lesbians," "chapstick lesbians," "femme lesbians," "aro/ace lesbians," "lesbians of color," "indigenous lesbians," "black lesbians," "they/them lesbians," and "he/him lesbians."

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charles @genkibutch.bsky.social · 1d

happy international lesbian day 😤

charles @genkibutch.bsky.social · Aug 18

happy #ButchAppreciationDay! i’m charles, a butch lesbian (fan)artist.

a lot of my #art is fanart- including butch redesigns!- but i draw OC art, too.

i’m also the creator of the procreate brushes and CSP brush & assets feeds and have my own art feed all on my profile!

🌐 genkibutch.carrd.co

A portrait illustration of a woman, Michelle from the indie game, Sorry We’re Closed. She has long neon blue hair placed into curled sidetails. She is wearing a white t-shirt with a blue border with the words “Fish Fight” written in orange on the front, with a fuzzy, neon pink jacket on her. She is wearing green star earrings and a solid purple-black collar necklace as an accessory.

An illustration of a woman, Athena Cykes from Ace Attorney, with long orange hair tied into a low ponytail and wearing a yellow suit, white dress shirt, black suspenders, white and grey boots, a yellow crescent moon earring, a grey and blue necklace with a spherical shape and smiley face on it, and a black and blue glove on her right hand. She is standing and holding up both her hands in peace signs while looking towards the viewer with an open-mouth smile and winking with her right eye.

She is placed in front of a dark grey background with a purple abstract shape overlayed with the same illustration from a different angle with filter effects, including halftone textures. The text “genkibutch” is placed on top of the illustration near the center and in the bottom right corner of the piece as a watermark.

A fanart of Sayori, a female video game character from the game, Doki Doki Literature Club.

There is a full body art on the right with Sayori with short, pink hair, blue eyes, and a masculine school uniform with a grey blazer, a white dress shirt with a red bow tie, and orange vest, blue pants, and grey shoes as she is smiling and standing with her left arm and hand over her head.

On the left is a portrait of the same character with only the dress shirt and red bowtie on and she is winking. All parts of this artwork are placed upon a multi-color purple, green, orange, and black triangle placed upon a dark grey background.

Two illustrations of Toriko Nishina from the light novel/manga/anime series, Otherside Picnic. She is wearing a white dress shirt, a blue bow, and a long, blue skirt. The left side of the illustration is a bust of Toriko looking towards the viewer with a smile, and the right side includes a 3/4 body where she is standing and holding up a white sunhat while winking. Toriko is portrayed with blonde, curly hair, a button nose, and bigger lips in this portrayal to reflect on the artist’s headcanons of her being mixed race Black/Japanese.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.bsky.social · 1d

October 8

🫀: 114,007 (+3,099 new, just like last week) | 98%, Draft 3

🌇: 63,187 (+250 new) | 66%, Draft 2

🦋: 31,470 (+155 new, +588 copy-pasted from Draft 0.5) | 44%, Draft 1

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #IndieAuthor

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Joharra Harper @joharraharper.bsky.social · 2d

PLEASE HELP! We are low on food and starving and could use some money. Anything will help! ko-fi.com/joharraharpe...

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 2d

FALL SHOP UPDATE! 🍁
New enamel pins, stickers, prints, and so much more will be added to my site this Friday 10/10 @ 11 am PDT!
You can preview everything here!
🛒🐛: shop.fossilforager.art

A mockup image with white bubbled text that reads “Shop Update! October 10th @ 11 am PDT” with a link url below (shop.fossilforager.art). There is a collage of sticker sheets and enamel pins around the text, featuring insects and deep sea marine creatures on a whale skeleton. The sticker sheets have weevils and sea creatures. They are placed on a yellow-orange gradient.

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Khangi 🪶 @khangi.bsky.social · 2d

We need $75 to secure the apartment! This is needed Now! Please help!

Khangi 🪶 @khangi.bsky.social · Aug 18

My spouse and I are both disabled, queer, and native. We are beyond behind and need help badly. We need rent for August paid ASAP. Any help is appreciated. Rent with late fees is $2200.

www.paypal.me/jnwampler
V: KajiW
C: $kajiw

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Charisma | Romance Author | Nigerian Characters @charismawilliams.bsky.social · 2d

SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE x LOVE ISLAND
My ex (27M) & I (27F) haven’t spoken in a decade. But now we’re on our publisher's version of Love Island & we're a pair. I hate him, he’s begging for a 2nd chance. AITA if I give him the second chance despite keeping our daughter a secret?
#DVpit #A #R #BVM #POC

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Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.bsky.social · Aug 31

#Texas friends, I know many of y’all love the Hill Country and our gorgeous rivers. There’s a plan to put huge transmission lines directly through some of the most wonderful, fragile ecosystems in our state, to supply power to the Permian basin. Please consider signing this petition against it.

Sign the Petition

Stop AEP/CPS Transmission Line Project in the Edwards Plateau Region Texas Hill Country

www.change.org

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.bsky.social · 2d

I finished the penultimate chapter of the penultimate draft of The Claws of the Ounce! 🥳 It’s the longest one, at over 5K.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #IndieAuthor #UrbanFantasy

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Sonia Spookyman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 3d

Thursday of the Dead is a short visual novel piece based on Palestinian folklore, featuring branching narrative, hand drawn art, and multiple endings.

soniasulaiman.itch.io/thursday-of-...

Thursday of the Dead (Demo) by SoniaSulaiman

inspired by Palestinian folklore

soniasulaiman.itch.io

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Shane💀Blackheart (they/them) @shaneblackheart.com · 4d

It's my birthday this month. I'd love to sell some books 💙📚
You can find all my work on my books page.
There's queer rage, polyamory, kinky horror, & a lot of short stories.
Free support helps too 💜 You can sub to my free newsletter, leave reviews on my books, or share my posts about my work.

Shane Blackheart | Author

Agender author of dark queer speculative fiction.

shaneblackheart.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3d

If you have a few bucks to spare or can at least RT, a friend of a friend is in need of some financial support. Their service dog is sick with hemorrhagic gastroenterits, and they need help paying for the vet bills.
www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...

Donate to Emergency vet bills for service dog Milo VII, organized by Karen Lohr

I have been matched with my service dog Milo VII for almost 3 years; he turns … Karen Lohr needs your support for Emergency vet bills for service dog Milo VII

www.gofundme.com

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Joharra Harper @joharraharper.bsky.social · 3d

PLEASE HELP! We are low on food and starving and could use some money. Anything will help! ko-fi.com/joharraharpe...

Buy Joharra Harper a Coffee

Become a supporter of Joharra Harper today!

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