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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON

@bmwillows.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 Bi+ace • lvl 30 • she/her • Comic colorist/publishing assistant. Digital artist, anime trash, gamer. SFF Author of THE CALYSPIS PROJECT, BLOODY SPADE, THE HOWLING DARK (ETA 2026) 🐺🌓 contact ➡️ brittanywillows(@)zohomail(.)com linktr.ee/brittanymwillows

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · Oct 27

Oh shit, hi everybody!! I'm Bri, a self-published author/digital artist. I've published two duologies (space opera and anime-inspired urban fantasy), and am currently working on a standalone post-apoc SFF about fugitive werewolf brothers!

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A promotional graphic featuring THE HOWLING DARK's concept cover against a blurry photo of mountains, surrounded by a list of some tropes/themes that appear in the book. Text reads: Eclipse-born werewolf (i.e, special in fucked-up and beautiful ways); post-nuclear Earth-like setting; were-caracal bounty hunter; fugitive werewolf brother; a dash of M/M spice and romance; messy, messy relationships; corrupt space government; Brother Bear x Wolf's Rain; doomed siblings; ragtag rebels; elements of botanical horror. Cover depicts a young man with soft features in a fur-lined hooded jacket holding a spear, peering through leafless tree branches. He has long slightly wavy hair, white on one side and black on the other. His right eye is blue, left is brown. He has a scar over his left eye.

A promotional graphic featuring 3D mock-ups of Bloody Spade and Bleeding Heart's, surrounded by a list of tropes/themes that appear in the Cardplay Duology. Text reads: Abundant hurt/comfort, inky body horror, hot-tempered fire wielder, bird girl with plant magic, a celestial deity with a penchant for murder, a budding QPR, returned magic, slow-burn romantic subplot, asexual panic, monsters born from malice, softhearted scythe-wielding girl, snarky cat-eared thief. Bloody Spade's cover depicts a black silhouette of a short-haired cat-eared boy with a glowing purple spade in front of him. Bleeding Heart's depicts a white silhouette of a girl with deer antlers and long flowing hair with a glowing heart in front of her.

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 5h

On the bright side, he's about to get a hug right after this scene!!

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Silly 👑 COMMS OPEN @sillychaotic.bsky.social · 2d

implied feelings

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MAF @ MCM London M-14 @velnna.bsky.social · 11h

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 1d

Can I interest anyone in some doomed yuri ♥️♠️

My characters Ophelia and Vy from the BLOODY SPADE prequel story, foreheads touching, somber expressions on their faces. Ophelia is a fair-skinned woman with white deer antlers and crimson hair tied back in a long, thick braid. Vy is a tan woman with short, straight purple-black hair, and cat ears angled downward. Ophelia wears a white cream-colored dress, Vy wears a dark purple-gray bodysuit with black fur draped over the shoulders.

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 14h

mr. burns from the simpsons says excellent

ALT: mr. burns from the simpsons says excellent

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 14h

a man with a serious look on his face says ah i see you 're a person of culture as well

ALT: a man with a serious look on his face says ah i see you 're a person of culture as well

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 14h

THEY ARE COOKIIIING

Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 14h

Excellent 😌

Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 14h

His hood should technically be up. Probably. But also we could just pretend it falls off his head when he whirls around to face Ellen in this scene in the book lmao

Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 14h

Re-sketched a sketch from 2020 ✨

An old sketch of my character Iori (a 17-year-old boy with cat ears) bunching his shirtfront in his fist, yelling in anguish. Black ink smears stain his face below his right eye. Rain drips off his hair. He wears a sweatshirt with the hood up.

Same concept as the previous image, except in this new version, I've drawn his hood down

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 17h

I'M SO READY. Can't wait to listen to another (probably) banger soundtrack on repeat for months

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Miya ☆ @ni053791.bsky.social · Feb 22

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#trigun #trigunstampede #tristamp
#vashthestampede #vash

Painted illustration of Vash the Stampede from Trigun Stampede. The overall palette of the piece focuses on contrasting reds and blues; his coat, his prosthetic arm, and dark blue 'geraniums' stand out against a blurred, dreary red cityscape. Vash is holding his gun in one hand and two geranium flowers in his prosthetic hand, and letting more flowers fall out of his hand to blow away in the wind. The hood of his coat is filled with flowers. He has a subdued expression on his face, watching as the flowers fall and follow the flow of his coat. Behind him, glowing blue lines (the same color as the flowers) that resemble roots/tree branches start from his back and climb towards the top of the illustration. Blue textures that could be interpreted as more geranium flowers or blue flames frame the rest of the illustration.

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 1d

Ahaa yeah, very important since some people are very specific about the kinds of cakes they like 😂

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 1d

Can I interest anyone in some doomed yuri ♥️♠️

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Ros Dando ✨A Gift of Wild available now!✨ @rosdando.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, I'm gonna need readers with tweens and teens who are fully into the autumnal witchy vibes to get on board with my magical books set in October with ravens, a Norse god and found family vibes.

(Written by an anti-AI and gentle queer AuDHD author)

Available here: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

A Gift of Words by Rosalind Dando. Cover image shown against an autumn background. White text reads: BBNYA 2025 finalist!
"Filled with magic and heart"
"Four of my five children read this and loved it"
"Fab blending of everyday life, magic, and Norse mythology."

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 1d

Haha I mean, hey, I'm not opposed to the idea 😂 that's cool I look more like her than anyone else you can find!

Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 2d

And I am listening 👀👂

Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 2d

HE 💗

Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats on putting it out there in spite of the fear. I'm sure it's fantastic!! <3

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 2d

My novella of trans self-discovery is now up for pre-order! You can get Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina (short name Opus) for preorder now. Release date December 12,2025. Ebook $3. Paperback $8.

Thread time.
Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb

Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina by S. Morgan Burbank

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Eva I. @isthiseva.bsky.social · 2d

I've been asked to put some feelers out on behalf of a Palestinian writer who wants to be published. Are there any publishers, small presses, etc. based in Australia that specifically boost Palestinian voices?

If anyone has advice on the indie side, that will also be very welcome. Thanks 💜📚

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 2d

Aw, Edwin 😂

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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 3d

The "can't write by hand" thing is what's stopped me from journaling in more recent years. Digital journaling doesn't seem as satisfying? But more and more I'm wanting to try it anyway because I, too, am appalled by how much I'm forgetting 😂 Hope the typewriter journaling goes well for you!

Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁🔜CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 3d

Happy anniversary!! That cake looks delicious. I'd say you did pretty great 👁️👁️

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Cat Rector @catrector.com · 4d

HUNDREDS OF QUEER BOOKS RIGHT HERE, COME GET EM

AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 4d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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