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Straith🍉
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D.A. Straith (they/them) - Toronto-adjacent fiction person and friend of kaiju - nonbinary trans & queer settler - work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, On Spec - Clarion West Novel Workshop '25 - straith.carrd.co
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It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!!

I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜
(me, looking up squinting from the book on horses I’m reading) AI? what, you mean artificial insemination?
January 15, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I told myself I would obtain no new plants in 2026 HOWEVER I am wondering whether that might in fact make plants a good incentive

specifically I only get new (less expensive) plants when I complete projects or hit major milestones

I’m gonna WORK for those rewards!!!
January 14, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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Wednesday is TRANSPHOBES ARE TRASH DAY!

Congratulations to those who celebrate this wonderful day.

Also, every other day is also Transphobes are Trash Day, I forgot to mention that.
January 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
some of yall need a journal to put your inside thoughts in and it shows (not a subpost, just me reflecting on my urge to post hither and thither about things)
January 14, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Thank you to @mattzilla85.bsky.social for drawing this picture, but also for giving me permission to colorize it. I used Godzilla 1999 as the base color, and a Cybertruck panel for the ICE Mecha.
Coloring this really took me out of my comfort zone.
#Godzilla
January 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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The work at Spark Space is ongoing & urgent: internet and electricity are a vital lifeline for families to connect to remote jobs and earn income...to EAT and secure other survival essentials as aid remains at a critical low.

Keep the lights on: chuffed.org/project/spar...
🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…
chuffed.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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serving brunt
January 13, 2026 at 2:23 AM
good morning
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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GREY GARDENS in space, a novella:

A documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station.

He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience.

#bluepit📖 #A #SF #LGBT #TR #novella
January 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
listen sometimes when your partner has a serious cancer situation it behooves you both to watch all of Breaking Bad to cope
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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2 donations in 6 days. Please help Mithqal's family survive Israel's genocide in Gaza:
January 13, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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'The cold is killing us... 🥶💔
The cold is killing us... 🥶💔
The cold is killing us... 🥶💔
Heavy rain, no warmth, bodies shifted, hearts exhausted.🙏
We need € 250 for a tent and warm clothes for my family.💔🥶
Please share and donate, even a little
Verified:
@mommunism.bsky.social '
January 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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*slaps cover of EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER* this one's got everything:

💞MFM triad romance
😢sad wet bi trans man MC
⛈️climate change=horror
😶‍🌫️the fae are invisible & unknowable
🦌weird AF deer
🌌hallucinatory time loop bullshit

GREEN KNIGHT x THE EVERLASTING, querying Feb 2026.

#bluepit📖 #A #F #W #TR #LGBT
January 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
GROUNDHOG DAY x THE GREEN KNIGHT x THE EVERLASTING

“You insist on tragedy even in the midst of your greatest season of joy. The mark of a certain kind of hero. Fortunately for you, my husband & I both seem to like that kind of thing in a man. It’s an absolute disease.”

#bluepit📖 #A #F #W #TR #LGBT
January 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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THE GREEN KNIGHT x THE EVERLASTING

Sir Gavin, a listless knight locked in a time loop by his oath to Camelot’s immortal court, has to break from his calcified morality—or witness the collapse of reality itself.

How? By being as bi as possible 🏳️‍🌈✨

Querying Feb 2026!

#bluepit📖 #A #F #W #TR #LGBT
January 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
agents please pick up my sad depressed DAMP sir gawain. he is turning into a sludge and someone needs to put him in a bucket :(
January 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
back at it. I understand why we do this exercise but it really does feel like running a marathon in order to travel 100m
you know I'm getting REAL close to having a finished manuscript because I'm procrastinating by writing a synopsis
January 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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LOKI x IN THE DREAM HOUSE

Reeling from a bad relationship, Rorey tries some new-age weirdness only to learn a.) they're really time traveling, b.) which is illegal, because c.) they resemble a temporal dictator. Can they (& 2 other selves) save the timeline & heal all at once?

#BluePit📖 #A #SF #W
January 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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America’s sweetheart joins a queer dating show to save his career—then falls for the sharp-tongued “villain” producers kept for chaos.
Fake chemistry, real feelings, and one kiss that blows the edit apart.

[ALT: two men holding hands in a Polaroid-style collage]

#bluepit📖 #A #R #Q #OV #lgbt
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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What do you do when the fling you ghosted shows up at training camp with the power to destroy your career?

Heated Rivary x Ted Lasso meets rugby and messy feelings

🌈 bi & demi discovery
🥺 yearning
🎤 mm athlete x journalist
🏉 forced to work with your crush

#BluePit📖 #lgbt #A #R #W
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS

When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.

#Bluepit #Bluepit📖 #A #F
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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CONAN x LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS

VAYAL THE HUNTER is a sword and sorcery novella about a guy who hunts a demonic shapeshifter.

🐸genderless communist frog-people
🌳trees the size of mountains
⚔️plenty of battles/monsters
🐛giant centipedes
🪦grief
👬power of friendship
👑ambitious protag

#BluePit📖
#A #W #F
January 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Third of the way through draft of new Scottish folk horror novel, with reluctant forced return to small town, forest shenanigans, religious horrors, strange insects, dark folklore, sleep terrors, family secrets, a charismatic minister, and something is *really off* about his congregation...👀🐝
January 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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ERIC LAROCCA x GIRL INTERRUPTED

Ash doesn't believe in curses--not really--but when she recklessly casts one, people who have hurt her start ending up dead. If she can't find the countercurse, it will strike down everyone she loves--and she may never recover from her depression.

#BluePit #A #H #ND
January 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM