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River Flynn┃transmasc writer 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @riverflynnn.bsky.social · 1d

If everything goes according to plan, there will be paperback copies available in November 👀

River Flynn┃transmasc writer 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @riverflynnn.bsky.social · Sep 5

👑 A GAZE SO LONGING 👑 IS OUT TODAY!

Grab it on Smashwords, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon/Kindle.
Paperbacks will be coming later this year!

A Gaze So Longing is a 92k-word historical servant x prince-overthrowing-the-monarchy romance and the first book in the Fall of Livenza duology.

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Revon || TheMythicBunny @themythicbunny.bsky.social · 3d

✨CHIBI COMMISSIONS OPEN! ✨

I'm offering quick chibi commissions!

Each $20 CAD, flat colours & beanified, to help get some cushioning for food/other bills before payday. Complicated designs will be simplified. DM for details!

#commissions #opencommissions #chibi #digitalart

A very squishy chibi version of a character. Imagine the head as a big soft plushie head and the body a squishy bean bag. The character is brown skinned, brown hair in a bun, blue eyed, with a yellow headband. The character wears an oversized faded red sweater and grey skirt with a grey tank top peaking beneath the sweater.

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elka 🌾 commissions open! @saintsbeware.bsky.social · 10d

❤️‍🔥Book Cover Request Form❤️‍🔥

for my indie authors out there, my new listing for book covers is officially live!!

If you need a cover for your ebook, itch listing, or a print-ready full cover spread, consider working with me! I'd love to help you! 🖤
#indieauthor #sff #artsky

vgen.co/saintsbeware

picture of a vgen listing for a Book Cover Request Form, 5 slots open starting at $200

photo of a book covers mockup featuring an illustration of a ranger sitting on a tree in the woods with the title A CONSORT FOR THE WOODEN GOD, Elka Marsden

an illustration of a book covers mockup featuring mock up featuring a man holding a knife to another man's throat with a decorated illuminated manuscript adjacent border with the title DO KNIGHT NOT YEARN, M.R. Santua

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bird 🔞 \(⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · Aug 31

Consider adding HALLOWED BE HER FLESH to your #SapphicSeptember TBR if the following interests you:

✝︎ ineffable visions of the cosmos
✝︎ the divine calling out Catholic guilt
✝︎ weird worms & cannibalism
✝︎ tender yet terrifying love interests
✝︎ literal monsterfucking

emrynbird.neocities.org/hallowed

cover of HALLOWED BE HER FLESH by Emryn Bird featuring a woman with scars on her back and clutching a rosary is held by a monstrous angelic creature

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🐣 Migi ➡️ SKIAMAKHIA drops 10/31! @tdcloud.bsky.social · 25d

Your Next Toxic Yaoi Read And Why It Should Be INFAUST:

🔥 Enemies to Enemies that Fuck Unhealthily
🔥 Dark Romance, Dark Fantasy, Dark Fairytale
🔥 Pied Piper x Faust
🔥 Fuckhead Blond Villain LI
🔥 Cursed AF Protag
🔥 Protagonist Corruption, the Book

💀 tdcloudofficial.com/books

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Wolfe 🪳 @wolfehorror.itch.io · 27d

Introducing #wolfetober
Prompts for October for ARTISTS and AUTHORS

I personally plan to use this to practice micro / flash fiction and warm up sketches, I invite anyone who would like to to join me.

💜💙 RULES
- there really aren’t any! Skip, mix and match, and have fun!

THE PROMPTS
1-2 moist and slimy
3-4 off the leash
5-6 infestation
7-8 rotted meats
9-10 restrained restricted
11-12 soaked through
13-14 unfulfilled wishes
15-16 sharp gills sharper teeth
17-18 caged hound
19-20 pulp and fungus
21-22 cracked molars
23-24 abducted
25-26 stuck in the drain
27-28 transparent wings
29-30 provoked bite
31 unlucky vending machin

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Alan Capes ✨ @seealandraw.bsky.social · 29d

Part of Catscratch's anniversary is also the release of Catscratch's bonus issue, made for @monstermanor.org's #hotwetqueersummer dash! Ruby and Paris have some sweet summer fun at the local pool and get a little naughty in the process! #catscratch

A cover reading 'Catscratch. A trans erotica comic, Bonus issue, Hot Wet Queer Summer.' There is a unicorn and a cat boy floating in a pool. The unicorn wears a big sunhat, and is sucking on a lollipop, while the cay boy is between their legs looking utterly pleased.

Four panels. There is an establishing shot of a local pool, the group in the foreground of a cat girl, a cat boy hiding behind her, a hamster girl on her phone, and a frog girl looking pleased. The cat girl exclaims 'Damn! I know how to schedule a pool day!' The next three panels show off women, their breasts, their butt, their lips sucking on a lollipop as the cat girls yells 'Goddamn I know how to schedule, look at all these babes!'

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Royal W. Isaac @r-wi.bsky.social · Sep 11

Please help your fellow queer disabled artist to make it through their uni in a new country until i find a job and can focus back on my writing and art (along with my studies)

ko-fi.com/rwiii/goal?g=0

Support Royal

ko-fi.com

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elka 🌾 commissions open! @saintsbeware.bsky.social · Sep 9

new commission sheet who this?

with illustrations starting at $85 and sketches as low at $40, you can get your character design, portrait, or book cover done in my style!

ko-fi.com/elkamarsden

consider supporting a queer artist!
shares and likes appreciated ❤️‍🔥
#commsopen #ocsky #art #sff

commission sheet featuring multiple works of mine found on my page with windows looking labels saying: portraits & ref sheets, character design & book covers, and illustrations starting at $85, sketches for $40

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Wolfe 🪳 @wolfehorror.itch.io · Sep 9

I’m raffling off these premade covers & a couple other things to help fund the purchase of a wheelchair 👩‍🦽‍➡️

🎟️ ko-fi.com/werewolfpres...

Raffle for disability aid

A RAFFLE TO HELP AUTHOR HS WOLFE PURCHASE A WHEELCHAIR FOR AID IN THEIR LUPUS AND ENDOMETRIOSIS

$1 PUPPY TICKET
$3 WOLF TICKET
$5 ALPHA TICKET

WIN A PREMADE HAND PAINTED COVER, A CUSTOM CHIBI COMMISSION OR ONE DIGITALLY ANNOTATED STORY

For an extra entry in the puppy tier, you can follow me, reshare, and tag a friend who likes weird horror in the comments.

ONLY APPLICABLE TO PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE PURCHASED A TICKET IN ONE OF THE THREE TIERS

A premade hand painting cover of intestines coming out of pomegranates

A hand painted premade cover of weird little guys circling a radio tower in crying of a purpling sky

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · Sep 7

It's the best time of the year! #SapphicSeptember is here and one of this year's themes is sapphic knights, which is one of my favorite things to both write and read about.

You can get this lesbian-centered, trans-inclusive, high heat Arthuriana series direct at my shop: riengray.shop ⚔️

Several women in the forest reach out to a knight with a heart on their tabard. It is the illustration The Fairy of the Dawn (1906) by Henry Justice Ford. Overlaid in orange text is Sapphic Knights for Sapphic September.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Valerin the Fair overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Martis the Brazen overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Seure the Tempered overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

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River Flynn┃transmasc writer 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @riverflynnn.bsky.social · Sep 5

👑 A GAZE SO LONGING 👑 IS OUT TODAY!

Grab it on Smashwords, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon/Kindle.
Paperbacks will be coming later this year!

A Gaze So Longing is a 92k-word historical servant x prince-overthrowing-the-monarchy romance and the first book in the Fall of Livenza duology.

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River Flynn┃transmasc writer 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @riverflynnn.bsky.social · Sep 3

Are you ever just scrolling around queer bookish account, leaving likes to support your fellow creators, just to spot a HP reference and go back to delete all your likes 🫠🫠🫠

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Alan Capes ✨ @seealandraw.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm happy to announce my comic, Death is Not the End, has finished publishing its first chapter!! If you've been around, you know I've been in a small slump so chapter 2 isn't done yet, but there's still comic to read! Go check it out :) #sada
🔗 deathisnotthend.thecomicseries.com

Death is Not the End

Death is Not the End cover

deathisnotthend.thecomicseries.com

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Bard Nolan 😸 @bardnolanvo.bsky.social · Aug 26

Both Flori and I are still sick. We need to pick up either more safe food that's easy to make or order something we don't have to cook because of the Covid+Disabled+Heat Wave combo. +Bills/Rent

Opening 1 Portrait comm slot for $300. $500 for 2 subjects.
#MutualAid #CommissionsOpen

A digital oil painting of Sam Lake from Yötön Yö. He is a fair-skinned man with short hair drinking from a small bottle of clear liquor set against a dark background.

A slightly stylized digital oil painting of an OC from Art Fight. He is a tired looking man with glasses and a lit clove cigarette held in hand near his face a thoughtful, troubled expression. He is set against a red background and lighting.

A digital oil painting of Mr Door from Alan Wake 2. He has his glasses off and looks at the viewer with a mysterious, intense gaze.

A digital oil painting of Xena and Gabrielle from Xena. They are shown dancing together in an intimate fashion, with Gabrielle cradling Xena's chin upon the knuckles of her elegantly posed hand, palm facing downward and fingers relaxed. Their eyes are both closed as they focus on the feeling of each other in this moment.

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vert ⚡️🪶 open to work @subvertebra.bsky.social · Aug 24

hey! i have a week to make $850 so i can pay our bills on time. you can:

⚡ book me for self-pub services
⚡ hire me for stream/website graphics and writing comms
⚡ toss me a few dollars on kofi

i also have a patreon if you want to support me monthly!

likes + reposts appreciated! wado, thank you! 💜

Buy subvertebra a Coffee

Become a supporter of subvertebra today!

ko-fi.com

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AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · Aug 23

Happy #indieaugust and also, my debut Masks turns 8 years old today, wow.

You can get the ENTIRE Masks collection - 3 books, 6 shorts, for .99!!

Or grab the itchio bundle with more fantasy books!

indiebook.sale

#booksky #writesky #indieauthor #queerwriters

A graphic with 23 covers with text "Narratess Indie Book Sale August 2025. Fantasy Bundle #2”

Masks: Legacy Edition by Amara Lynn
Shadow of a Dead God by Patrick Samphire
Office Maxi by Aaron Frale
Like a Bullet to the Head by Claude Hamesh
Journey Home by May Barros
Running with the Wolf by Bryony Rosehurst
Obsidian Island by Arden Powell
Child of the Sun by Audrey Simmons
Riyati Rebirth by Kai Zeal
Non-Player Character by Veo Corva
Chai and Cat-tales by Lynn Strong
Prince Ewald the Brave by Dylan Madeley
No Land for Heroes by Cal Black
A Bitter Drink by Azalea Forrest
Over the Dragon’s Gate by Juliana Jones
Lost Blades by Liz Sauco
Sidetracked Part 1x by S.K. Kelley
Once Upon A Wave of Witches by Helen Whisberry (and Eli Belt)
Lantern by Burgundy Athena Pendragon
Shadows Dark and Deadly by Andrea Marie Johnson
Og-Grim-Dog: The Three-Headed Ogre by Jamie Edmundson
Imbued by Helyna L. Clove
How to Soothe a Fallen Hero by Jeremy Rayne

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River Flynn┃transmasc writer 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @riverflynnn.bsky.social · Aug 22

My debut novel 👑 A Gaze So Longing 👑 releases in 14 days, on September 5, 2025!
Available on Smashwords (where I get the highest royalties), Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Amazon/Kindle.
Paperbacks tba

Beautiful character art by the incredibly talented @paintedpages.zt on insta

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On the same foggy forest image background, the book cover and its surrounding trope map. The following tropes and themes are listed around the cover: servant x prince, forbidden romance, an entire bottle of angst, ptsd, slow-ish burn, lots of queers, opposites attract (introvert x extrovert), yearning, couples that dismantle the monarchy together stay together, lots of gazing, hurt/comfort, trauma bonding, 1st book in a duology.

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On the same foggy forest image background, a bigger version of the book cover and text. The text above the cover reads: "ebook release." the text below it reads: "smashwords, barnes & noble, kobo, amazon/kindle.

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spicy-wrenegade 🔞 @spicy-wrenegade.bsky.social · Jul 31

some tailfuckery for y’all~

#NSFWart #wlw #yuri #sapphicsmut #oc

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River Flynn┃transmasc writer 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @riverflynnn.bsky.social · Aug 14

I feel like I should use bluesky more considering how many creators are here but not on insta, but I have never used twitter in my life either and have no idea how this kind of platform really works?

@fellow indie authors: what kind of stuff do you usually share on bluesky?

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River Flynn┃transmasc writer 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @riverflynnn.bsky.social · Aug 14

You can read more about it here
bsky.app/profile/rive... or on my instagram @river.flynnn

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River Flynn┃transmasc writer 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @riverflynnn.bsky.social · Aug 14

FYI, because of the current situation at itch A Gaze So Longing will no longer be published there. I'm looking into alternatives.

River Flynn┃transmasc writer 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @riverflynnn.bsky.social · Aug 14

My historical romance A Gaze So Longing about a cis male servant and a genderqueer prince dismantling the monarchy (it's book 1 of a duology) will release in early September!
Once it's finished I'd be happy to provide you with a free copy for a review!

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉 @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · Aug 11

THE PROTECTOR AND THE ANNIHILATION KICKSTARTER HAS BEGUN...! www.kickstarter.com/projects/blu...

THE PROTECTOR AND THE ANNIHILATION KICKSTARTER HAS BEGUN...!

Specifics via artwork: "THE PROTECTOR AND THE ANNIHILATION" EPIC SCIENCE ROMANTASY SPECIAL EDITIONS, 3 COUPLE ACRYLIC CHARMS, 3 COUPLE ENAMEL PINS, 7 TAROT CARDS, "THE PROTECTOR'S MEMORY OF THEM UNDER THE SUNLIGHT" SIDE NOVELLA SPECIAL EDITIONS, UP TO 29 KICKSTARTER-EXCLUSIVE SHORT STORIES, AND UP TO 6 COMICS.

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bird 🔞 \(⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · Aug 12

Their story is OUT in digital formats🐊👅✨
Payhip: payhip.com/b/vSn9W
Itchio: emrynbird.itch.io/to-wallow-with-tongues

#shortstory #monsterromance #darkfantasy

CWs: emrynbird.tumblr.com/cws

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