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tana w (she/they)
@asolathi.bsky.social
✨🔮 just a dreamer and maker of imaginary worlds 🌻👽
🛸 freebie queer scifi romance AFTERLIGHT out now 💫
https://tanawelsummer-links.carrd.co
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Afterlight has made its galactic debut! It's free, queer, spicy, and has SO many aliens. What's not to love? ✨👽🌶️🌈
asolathi.itch.io/afterlight

#amwriting #mmromance #scifiromance #bookrelease #booksky #romancereads
🎨 femkeneriart; cover design my own
A reminder that Afterlight is available as a free download! It sits at around 191k words or about 450 pages of fun sci-fi goodness. It's queer, spicy, and has SO many aliens. What's not to love? ✨👽🌶️🌈
asolathi.itch.io/afterlight

#amwriting #mmromance #scifiromance #bookrelease #booksky #romancereads
January 11, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
My Own Inner Elba
Let me start by saying that the news is incredibly awful. I’m very aware of this, in the way you’re aware of, say, a ninety-seven degree day with one hundred...
buttondown.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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My cat Aki is having severe dental and gum problems. We’ve tried treatment before, but it didn't work, and she needs to see a specialist soon. I'm taking commissions to cover her medical bills

🐾 3 Sketch portraits
🐾 2 Half body (rendered)

Shares are greatly appreciated! 🙏
linish.carrd.co
January 9, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Northern elves
Digital illustration 2026
January 4, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
January 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Afterlight has made its galactic debut! It's free, queer, spicy, and has SO many aliens. What's not to love? ✨👽🌶️🌈
asolathi.itch.io/afterlight

#amwriting #mmromance #scifiromance #bookrelease #booksky #romancereads
🎨 femkeneriart; cover design my own
January 4, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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#OnThisDay in AD 192, Emperor Commodus was murdered in his bath by a wrestler named Narcissus after an attempt to poison him failed. Commodus’s death ended his tyrannical rule and ushered in the so-called Year of the Five Emperors, a period of chaos and power struggles in the Roman Empire.
December 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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5000+ years old, and it still precisely captures my mood entering 2026.
December 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Caleb and Essek dyad 💜

Sometimes people sponsor fan art - like this Essek! - and it makes my little doodly heart happy ☺️

#CriticalRole #fanart
November 11, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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As is now tradition, we celebrate the day after Christmas with free books, more than 1700 free books in this particular go round. Just visit www.romancebookworms.com to browse the incredible selection.
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
AFTERLIGHT Ch. 10, Reverie, is out today, which puts us at more than 65k out in the world ✨ Full eBook available for free starting January 1/26, but I love biweekly+ updates too so will keep those up! Read on AO3, Inkitt & more -- links in bio 🎄👽🩶

#amwriting #mmromance #scifiromance #queerromance
December 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

#blueskyartchallenge #art #paintings
Day 1:
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Well, it’s 20 December, so… it’s the 93rd anniversary of a police raid on “Lady Austin’s camp boys” at 27 Holland Park Avenue, in which 60 men were arrested – including Austin Salmon, for conspiracy to corrupt morals, and keeping a disorderly house
December 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
@femkeneri.bsky.social absolutely nailed the character design and retro sci-fi clinch cover vibe for Afterlight. Just brilliant 🥹
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Wally Wood.
December 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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You ever think how Star-nosed moles are just out there existing without permission, all the time, even while you’re sleeping.
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
After tomorrow's update, I'll have over 40k of Afterlight posted for your reading pleasure ✨ Updates at least biweekly (I'm impatient!) with the whole ebook available for free on Jan 1/26. Come join me in space! 👽💫💕

#amwriting #mmromance #scifiromance
🎨 femkeneriart; cover design my own
December 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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me, a person who can't read SFF while drafting, surfacing from finishing a rough draft
a woman in a blue dress is reaching for a book on a ladder
Alt: belle from beauty and the beast sliding down a bookcase on a ladder
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately… 🧵👇
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It’s been so exciting to see the enthusiasm for the Afterlight illustration @femkeneri.bsky.social made (& the cover in general), because I have been OBSESSING over here 🩶👽
Now updating biweekly on AO3 because I was too excited to wait for January ✨

#amwriting #mmromance #scifiromance
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Like an action scene, there are a LOT of things going on and the way to make those things feel emotionally real is little details that convey everything from danger to intimacy.

Like an action scene, they can be well or poorly written.
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Re: LRT

A sex scene is an action scene.

Like an action scene, it is primarily about what is happening to the characters. Like an action scene, it will be boring as fuck if we have no idea what the stakes are or who we care about.
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Me when I'm writing: wow I love this, I wish I could do this all the time
Me when I'm not writing: I am a hack, a fraud, an impostor, how did I ever have the hubris to believe I could be a writer
December 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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When your depression and autism collide and end you end up with an 80000 word fanfic, whomst can relate
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM