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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · 23d

Why does everyone in Tacoma park like it's their first day on earth

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · 24d

Working at Amazon is kind of like sisyphus rolling the rock, except it's me (a 5 foot tall dyke) dragging a pallet jack with 900 pounds of pink toddler play kitchens on it

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 1

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 💖
@anthologies4change.bsky.social

BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS was made to showcase queer feminine rage in all its forms. We're looking for fictional stories of any genre that are messy, mean, and beautiful. If this sounds like your thing, consider submitting your work.

More Info⬇️

"An anthology of feminine rage: Bite the Hand That Feeds" written in a pink, grungy style. The graphic features a woman in renaissance style holding a man's head on a platter against a black, grungy background.

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · 24d

Working at Amazon is kind of like sisyphus rolling the rock, except it's me (a 5 foot tall dyke) dragging a pallet jack with 900 pounds of pink toddler play kitchens on it

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · 25d

LOOK AT MY BOYYYYYYYY 🥹

DasStanzy @dasstanzy.bsky.social · 25d

What better way to express how much I love a scene in a book than a Cinderella 3 screenshot redraw.

Feat Orvyc from Tempered in Ash by @willoglenn.bsky.social

a re-draw of a frame from Cinderella 3. Orvyc, a man with grey skin and horns, black hair, and bright cyan eyes, is drawn from the shoulders looking to the side, planning something foolhardy.

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · 27d

I think if I listened to that song gnarly by katseye in the car, I would get arrested. We're talking felony ticket. Impounded car. The works.

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hey Siri, play Cowboy Take Me Away by The Chicks 😩

Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 6

Bloom Town is so good, I've been listening to country music. Do you know how deep in a book's clutches before I start willingly listening to fuckin' Keith Anderson and Gretchen Wilson? Do you know how deep in my roots that is??? Do you have any idea how hard I've tried to bury it???

#booksky

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 6

The actual face my girlfriend made at me when I woke her up trying to pull MY SIDE of the blanket back on to MY SIDE of the bed

(It was one of the funniest and cutest things i've ever seen in my life, and I will be doing it on purpose from now on)

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · Sep 6

There is much venturing and ADventuring in THE HOWLING DARK! 🐺🌗

#FantasyBookFriday

He ventured up a flight of stairs to the right, drawn by the strip of light seeping in under the door at the top. After a couple of tries—the space station handles he was used to weren’t round and didn’t rotate—he managed to crack it open.
Through the gap: more wooden floors and wooden furnishings. The walls were made of wood paneling, too, and everything was bathed in a golden glow. Sunlight. It poured in through a large hazy window at the front of the building, lapping at his toes as he stepped farther out into the entrance hall. The brightest and warmest it had been since their arrival.

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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · Sep 5

#FantasyBookFriday | venture

Fest and Anneke having a wee bit of a fire-related issue in the middle of their magical experimentation

( saranadosfiction.com/2021/07/10/s... )

The water hadn’t helped, of course. They’d emptied three buckets of the stuff over it, and succeeded only in drenching the front of Anneke’s robes and leaving a not insubstantial puddle on the floor under the table, which Fest had then had to go and find a mop to clean up.

Other things that hadn’t helped had included throwing sand on it (once they’d finally managed to find some), smothering it in a blanket (it had, in fact, set the blanket on fire), exorcising it, swearing at it, and, when they’d run out of other options, asking it nicely if it would mind going away.

So they were left with frayed tempers, a laboratory that looked distinctly the worse for wear, and, crucially, a fire still merrily burning in the middle of the table. To Fest’s eyes, it looked distinctly smug about the whole affair.

“I suppose we *could* try banishing it,” Anneke ventured, after a moment. “We’d have to make a new circle, of course, and I don’t know how that would interface with the pieces of the broken one – it’s entirely possible that we’ll cause a power overload and blow up the entire laboratory, or maybe the entire floor of the building. Which would *definitely* upset the High Priest. On the other hand, I can’t think of anything else that we haven’t tried – or, at least, anything else that isn’t infinitely more dangerous – and it would certainly give us more information either way.” They ran a hand distractedly through their curls. “I mean, we won’t be able to make much use out of it if we’re dead, but that’s not permanent, and I’m sure between us we could remember enough that we’d have something approaching a proper writeup of the experiment. If we went and got someone to stand outside the door as an observer, then we could-“

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · Sep 5

A little snippet from Name Her Holy for #FantasyBookFriday

Just some casual campfire conversation

Kye tilted her head down to catch her eye, widening her own ghoulish eyes for good measure. “Look at my face and tell me truly you want to go down the same path I’m on.”
But Jude’s focus didn’t linger long enough to meet her gaze. It slipped, down to Kye’s mouth, below her chin and to the scars peeking out from her high collar.
“Is that how you got those?”
She whispered it. Curiously soft. As though she knew it wrong to ask but ventured a try anyway.

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Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋 @sashakielman.bsky.social · Sep 5

#FantasyBookFriday

“Your first trial, honoring Litha, the summer Solstice, will perhaps be the most deadly of all 8 trials awaiting you. Your goal is this: to hunt. Prove that you have earned the right to call yourself a hunter. You may venture out of the shadow of the trees only when dawn rises."

Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're changing things up a little bit on Fridays from now on, so...

Welcome to Fantasy Book Friday ✨️⚔️

To participate, quote post a snippet from your book or WIP featuring the word "VENTURE" 🌍 and make sure to use the #FantasyBookFriday hashtag when you post!

#authorsky #booksky

Background is a blue to yellow green gradient, with watercolor mountains, watercolor clouds, and watercolor planets.

In blue font, the graphic reads #FantasyBookFriday share a snippet featuring the word "venture"

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here's mine! This is from the second chapter of FORGED BY FATE, the sequel to my debut, TEMPERED IN ASH ✨️⚔️

#authorsky #booksky #FantasyBookFriday

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're changing things up a little bit on Fridays from now on, so...

Welcome to Fantasy Book Friday ✨️⚔️

To participate, quote post a snippet from your book or WIP featuring the word "VENTURE" 🌍 and make sure to use the #FantasyBookFriday hashtag when you post!

#authorsky #booksky

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 4

This just made me laugh so hard OH MY GOD 😭😂

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Girlhood is a spectrum"

And it's an image of me in a sweater and glasses, reading Katabasis by RF Kuang on one end and an image of me in a bedazzled sports bra and cowboy boots, reading Bloom Town: Genesis on the other.

#booksky #booklover #nowreading

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am wearing a shirt that says "Minthussy Muncher" at work tonight, and if I get written up for it, it will be the single most iconic thing I've ever done

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 2

Never underestimate the joy that comes with a big bowl of chorizo and eggs

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you needed to inspire someone to not give up on writing, what would you tell them?

(I will be compiling replies into a post for instagram, so only reply if you're okay with me doing so. I will credit you 💖)

#authorsky #writersky #booksky

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you needed to inspire someone to not give up on writing, what would you tell them?

(I will be compiling replies into a post for instagram, so only reply if you're okay with me doing so. I will credit you 💖)

#authorsky #writersky #booksky

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 1

There's no honorarium or initial payment, but the included authors will have an equal share of royalties from each book sale. We'll be using Draft2Digital to publish and split the royalties accordingly ☺️

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 1

To read the full submission guidelines and terms of publication, visit www.anthologiesforchange.com 💖🗡️

Pink grungy text against a black grungy background that says:

An anthology of feminine rage: Bite the hand that feeds.

Because the goal of anthologies for change is to give back to marginalized communities, Willo Glenn will be donating her first month of royalties from Bite the Hand that Feeds to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. The remaining royalties will be split evenly between the included authors via draft2digital. Contributing authors are also invited to donate, though it is not mandatory.

Pink grungy text against a black grungy background that says:

An anthology of feminine rage: Bite the Hand that Feeds

Interested in submitting?

View our full submission guidelines and the terms of publiscation on our website:

www.anthologiesforchange.com

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Submissions are open NOW through November 3rd, 2025 💖🗡️

We're looking For:
- Short fiction (of any genre)
- 7,000 word limit
- Your interpretation of feminine rage

Pink grungy text against a black grungy background that says:

An anthology of feminine rage: Bite the Hand that Feeds

We're looking for stories of feminine rage from femme and transfemme authors! Sound like your thing? Submissions for this toothsome anthology open september 1st, 2025. Swipe for details.

Pink grungy text against a black grungy background that says:

An anthology of feminine rage: Bite the hand that feeds

Short fiction
7,000 word limit
Your interpretation of feminine rage.

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Willo/Rach 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social · Sep 1

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 💖
@anthologies4change.bsky.social

BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS was made to showcase queer feminine rage in all its forms. We're looking for fictional stories of any genre that are messy, mean, and beautiful. If this sounds like your thing, consider submitting your work.

More Info⬇️

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