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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 3d

Yooo! I'm in a new bundle put together by @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social for under-rated books! For just $38, you can get 63 books from underrated independent authors! itch.io/b/3305/under...

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 12h

Please consider reading Mermaid's Blood! bsky.app/profile/spsh...

SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Does she seek revenge, or something deeper?"

🏴‍☠️Pirate/Mermaid wlw
🪸 The same person haunts them both
🐍Mermaids & other monsters
🖤Lots of angst
💀Dark cave setting
💔Estranged families

📖Universal link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9YWNQMQ
📧Itch link: spshade.itch.io/mermaids-blood
📚GR: shorturl.at/aGDIJ

#💙📚

SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 12h

Aashirya and Beatrix have a bit of a complicated relationship starting out, since Beatrix killed Aashirya's adopted dad (in self defense) and is now taking care of her after an accident.

But, being stuck together, they learn more about each other and help each other come to terms with their trauma

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me about the Romance you’ve written! What is the pair/polycule like? What made them right for each other? How did they get there? #WritingPrompt

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 12h

I've been struggling to not make these characters female, cuz it seems I've developed an allergy to writing male characters lskdjgtuieowwoere

SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 12h

Men I've written this year (they're all from the same story)

1. Traumatized weirdo who goes through the edgy teenager to flamboyant extrovert pipeline
2. Reclusive weeb who can't hold a conversation to save his life
3. MCR reject
4. Evil shadow guy

Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 1d

Men I've written this year
(WIP, When Morning Comes, edition)
1. Struggling & grieving new King/ adoring father & husband
2. Grieving older brother/Uncle
3. Star-crossed lover trying to fulfill his dead love's final wish
4. Father reuniting with his children
5. Carpenter who chooses family over work

Joharra Harper @joharraharper.bsky.social · 1d

Men I've written this year.

1. Yearning bisexual.
2. Wholesome cinnamon roll.
3. Edgy but has heart.
4. Shy but masculine bisexual.
5. Do anything for his wife kind of husband.
6. Heart of gold Asexual.
7. Sweetheart.
8. Protective older brother gay dude.

#WritingCommunity.

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 14h

Orpheus by Sara Bareilles always reminds me of Clary in Where the Heart Is:
🎶 If the bottom drops out
I hope my love was someone else's solid ground 🎶

Song: youtu.be/weOOrdN3sDY?...
Book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJWSGDTL/

#WritingLifeMonthly #booksky

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graphite_the_dragon @graphitedragon.bsky.social · 18h

#InkedUpOct Day 9 is "rescue"

Been missing those PMD games recently- I hope they do a remake of Darkness/Time/Sky

#graphitedraws #Pokemonart #InkedUpOct2025 #inktober #inktoberalternative

A grayscale ink drawing of a Pikachu and a Chikorita from the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games. Chikorita looks to be about to cry with an exclamation mark over its head, indicating low HP. Pikachu is looking back at Chikorita and pointing in the opposite direction trying to tell it there's food and the stairs in that direction.

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 19h

Is this story still open for beta reads?

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Apr 9

"My Captain's Ghost"

Even 16 years after his death, Aashirya still hears her captain's voice.

#booksky #💙📚 #art #indie

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Jun 21

Finally got out a drawing of Aashirya for pride month!

#indie #booksky #💙📚 #amwriting #queerauthors

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Jun 25

Now one for Beatrix!
#indie #booksky #💙📚 #amwriting #queerauthors

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Jul 21

So I'm... a month late, but I got out a pride drawing for Ishmael (who I still need to draw more lol).

#art #indie

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Does she seek revenge, or something deeper?"

🏴‍☠️Pirate/Mermaid wlw
🪸 The same person haunts them both
🐍Mermaids & other monsters
🖤Lots of angst
💀Dark cave setting
💔Estranged families

📖Universal link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9YWNQMQ
📧Itch link: spshade.itch.io/mermaids-blood
📚GR: shorturl.at/aGDIJ

#💙📚

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Sep 3

🧚Fairy tale creatures in the real world
🧜‍♀️What if the little mermaid didn't want to be human?
🥹 Nostalgia
🍵Fantasy/Slice of Life
🌤️Rediscovery
❌No romance

📖Universal link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPGLS6KQ
💌 itch link: spshade.itch.io/the-lost-magic
📚GoodReads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

#indie

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Angelique (Commissions open here & on Ko-fi) @amvcartoons.bsky.social · 2d

Fender's parents Pete & Lauren on their wedding night

Based on a "Redraw this with your OCs" challenge by @ocsbase2 on Twitter
#originalcharacters #artistonbsky

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Venom @venomsnowfloof.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Lesbian Day! 💕

Have a cute cheetah/tiger couple. 🥰

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in this image and I don't like it.

SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 1d

Me when writing Mermaid's Blood: Is it kind of problematic that my protagonist falls in love with her father figure's murderer?

Everyone I've shared it to: No, her dad was a douche.

#indie #booksky #💙📚

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 3d

Yooo! I'm in a new bundle put together by @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social for under-rated books! For just $38, you can get 63 books from underrated independent authors! itch.io/b/3305/under...

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Feb 21

Happy (late) Valentine's day!

(She/her for both characters ⚢)

#indie #oc #yuri

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 20d

🧚Fairy tale creatures in the real world
🧜‍♀️What if the little mermaid didn't want to be human?
🥹 Nostalgia
🍵Fantasy/Slice of Life
🌤️Rediscovery
❌No romance

📖Universal link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPGLS6KQ
💌 itch link: spshade.itch.io/the-lost-magic
📚GoodReads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 20d

"Does she seek revenge, or something deeper?"

🏴‍☠️Pirate/Mermaid wlw
🪸 The same person haunts them both
🐍Mermaids & other monsters
🖤Lots of angst
💀Dark cave setting
💔Estranged families

📖Universal link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9YWNQMQ
📧Itch link: spshade.itch.io/mermaids-blood
📚GR: shorturl.at/aGDIJ

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, peeps! I've got beta reading commissions open over on Fiverr! Afraid I'm only accepting short stories up to 10k words right now. More information is available at the link!

#booksky #indie

www.fiverr.com/s/DBj8o5N

www.fiverr.com

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🔥 Gurepyon 🔥 @gurepyon.bsky.social · 5d

[oc] big boi in suit

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Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 7d

Art vs Artist 💚

A young woman with reddish blond hair in a Victorian updo sits in an intricately carved stone throne. She looks with a mocking smirk at the viewer, and an elegant silver crown dangles from one hand. Monstrous hands with long black nails reach from behind the throne, and are scoring deep gouges into the stone.

It's me, a white person with shoulder length wavy brown hair, red framed glasses, and orange lipstick.

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