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Johannes T. Evans

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gay dandy. white & welsh. he/him. 18+. check pinned for fantasy fiction, queer romance, and erotica. cymru am byth. my website: https://johannestevans.co.uk/

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · Dec 2

New pinned thread for keeping track of my work!

General links in this tweet, look in the replies for ThreadFic posted here on Bluesky!

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 30m

Authors - need a cover artist? This pack has you covered (lol) and is a great starting point for getting human made arts for your writing!

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 6h

As discord suffers a massive data breach of people's personal data and ID documents congrats to the UK Government for bringing in the undercooked law that made it absolutely inevitable this would happen, repeatedly

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 12h

Myrtle has decided it's cold enough at night that she needs to be in bed with us at night time and she's currently lying on my chest and purring

She just reached out her paw to warm her toes against my cheek 😭

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone should get to see themself in fiction. But I often can't find as much neurodiverse rep as I'd like, especially in SFF.

So for ADHD Awareness Month, I've gathered 22 mainly ADHD authors & their fantasy/ other books with main/significant ADHD chars in this bundle

🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...

Adhd Awareness Month Fiction.
By mostly ADHD authors, most with 1+ significant ADHD character(s)
22 Book. Oct 1st-15th

Covers:
The Lady and the List, Elizabeth Briars
Side Tracked, S.K. Kelly
The Harmony of Falling Snow, Andora Brokaw
Bestiary Beas
The Players Act 1, Amy Sparks
The Weight of Her Gaze, RJ Martin
He of the Trees, Rob Macwolf
Song of the Wolf, T.C. Smith
Tales of Yamato, Odessa Silver
The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, Steve Hugh Westenra
Manipulator's War, Elise Carlson
A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger
Heart of Stone, Johannes T. Evans
Lantern, Burgundy Athena Pendragon
Wizard's Debt, Niranjan
Blood, D.C. Hart
Ancient as the Stars, Maya Darjani
A Dark Hole Darly, Drew Melbourne
Translucent, Wayward Spark
War of the Space Dargons, L'Poni Baldwin
Ants Waking, R.J. Huneke
Rage in a Cage, Joachim Heijndermans

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Elizabeth Briars @elizabethbriars.bsky.social · 1d

There's no time like the present to snag the ADHD Awareness Month bundle featuring 22 great works either by authors with ADHD or featuring characters with it!

itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...

📚💙 #adhdawareness #indiebooks #booksale

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 16h

JOYCE MESSIER - “Indeed. There is a term of endearment they coined for it. In the Dolorian century, when humanity was *high* on this world, discovering more and more of it -- these archipelagos included...”

YOU - “What is it?”

JOYCE MESSIER - “Elysium.”

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🍷🕯️Caemi🕯️🩸 @caemiel.bsky.social · 16h

🌩

[ #caemidraws #dnd #mars ]

Tower tarot card featuring Mars in the middle of a field under a stormy sky. He's turning back, a hand holding his old zweihander, a look of surprise and disbelief on his face. Out of the frame, Will's hand reaches for him. In the background, a dark tower shows part of the party stopping Mars from leaving.

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shelby wilson @shheeelllbby.bsky.social · 18h

we want to publish your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, graphic storytelling, and experiments that utilize the web as a medium! send your pitch to [email protected] for the next issue of the html review

thehtml.review/about

the html review — about

the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

thehtml.review

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 16h

Went to see new Knives Out at the Pictureville cinema and it was super fun

They had free little glasses of wine and a big mystery box that you reached in and got a prize out of and they had a slightly smaller than life size cut out of daniel craig

A photo of me, a white man in glasses, grinning next to a slightly smaller than me cardboard cut out of daniel craig in a pink suit jacket and black bowtie. I am wearing a black tuxedo jacket cropped high over a blue and sea green paisley waistcoat and a black lace jabot with a large black gem at the collar, and a dark green beret.

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Roo 🔞 Pervert @frictionpress.bsky.social · 1d

happy halloween, support the freaks you enjoy because i promise you, we are all struggling for any kind of income right now

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 2d

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 1d

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY
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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky are resharing this after they revealed yesterday that every photo uploaded here is sent to an external company that is selling GenAI services.

Note that none of them are actually confirming that none of these images are being used by that external company to train their systems.

Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.

None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

And it's just nice bc it obviously is one of the things I'm most insecure about and like. Especially outside of the home, makes me feel the most vulnerable and unsafe bc it's one of the symptoms random people will get angriest and most impatient with bc it takes time lmfao

Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

To make sure she's understood

No frustration, no annoyance, but also no like. Condescension or treating me as if I'm a child or something, just understanding it's a symptom of pain and illness rather than a lack of comprehension or ability to express my ideas

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

It's frustrating as hell bc i generally know what it is i want to express and if i was writing it out I'd be decently quick, but i struggle so much with expressing a lot of things out loud with any kind of alacrity or eloquence so it's slow and clumsy

But she just listens then repeats back

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

Started hiring a cleaner and she comes in every two weeks to basically get on top of the deeper tasks i can't do and lmao. A lot of house cleaners work w disabled people a lot bc of course you would, and she's so patient even when I'm taking like 5 minutes to express a single idea through brain fog

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

it's gonna be much cosier as well, bc these are nice soft curtains and quite warm, but the main thing i'm looking forward to is their creating a bit of a sound barrier too, so that when we're entertaining and one of us goes to bed, the sound doesn't carry straight upstairs in the same way

Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

so instead we're going to lay the track on the ceiling just inside the balcony railing, and that way when we draw the curtains we'll be creating a curtain wall

whoever is downstairs can choose to draw or open the roll blind and get as much light as they want, and upstairs can still be dark

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

because my flat has a mezzanine floor with the bedroom above the living room and kitchen, and the two share one 12' high window, it would obviously be expensive to get long enough curtains, but also like. what a fucking ballache it would be leaning across the gap to put up a new rail or track

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

because our blinds were ugly and shit even before the cats got to them, i've ordered some curtain track and some curtains to have instead, and lmfao

it comes in a coiled spool, so this is how we're straightening it out

a roll of plastic curtain track extended across our living room floor, held flat by some of our heaviest objects, including books, a pasta machine, and my badge maker

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 1d

Myrtle loves to sit on the leather benches in front of the sofa which we use to put our feet on. I just tried to put my laptop desk tray down and didn't realise she was there so she just squeaked a complaint while it was on top of her and continued to NOT MOVE as i apologised and put it to one side

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 1d

Nonbinary author here! I write monster romance featuring a variety of queer neurodivergent characters with lots of queer joy, magic, worldbuilding, and smut that manages to be both heartwarming and filthy at the same time.

You can find all my books at sylviehelstaff.com
💜😱 🌈💜 💙📚

Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 15d

Artists! Writers! Quote with your queer characters!

I've got mermaids, witches, demons, shadow elementals, humans and they're all queer.

Text: Sylvie Helstaff. Swim with me, Darling. A sapphic Horrormance
Image: illustration of a siren with green hair and huge black eyes mostly submerged in dark blue water and looking at the viewer. Her hair swirls on the surface forming the word Swim. Fireflies float in the air above the water which has hot pink light reflections on it. Framed by ferns in the foreground.

Stained glass style illustration of a non-binary person in the center with a purple tail wrapped over their shoulder, they are standing in a garden of flowers with two demons behind them. Author name Sylvie Helstaff appears at the top of the frame and book title "Lust and Found" in gold text at the bottom

Cover art for Shadow & Flame by Sylvie Helstaff. A brunette man in colonial american clothing holds an open book in one hand and glowing light in the other. A shadow demon stands behind him with a hand on his shoulder. both are surrounded by purple flames.

Cover art for Shadow's Light by Sylvie Helstaff. A blonde woman stands in a dark hallway with a shadow demon floating overhead. Gold Filigree frame with title text.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

Hi @aaron.bsky.team / @moderation.bsky.app

Thank you for removing the Adult Content (Explicit Sexual Images) label from images of a person with prosthetics.

I hope you explain to your moderators with acrotomophilia that depictions of disabled ppl are not “explicit sexual imagery”

Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

I could name a few but for disability reason and the Halloween season I am m going with In / Spectre

It’s got a very weird but cool metaplot with one of the coolest “action” scene culminations and it’s so openly & fearlessly blunt about disability … especially the reality of Kotoko‘s prosthetics.

Kotoko standing on a bed without her prosthetic leg

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 1d

I would like an explanation as to why a system designed to detect 'adult content' pings off of prosthetics. Like I'm not being hostile here, but the technology making this error "surprisingly often" points to some connection the tech is making between visibility disability and 'adult' content

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 2d

It's an automated system, so unfortunately this is an error that gets made surprisingly often with prosthetics.

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