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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Apr 8

LENNY BOOKS MASTERPOST (the published ones) #queerbooks #queerauthors

REAL JOBS (2023)
Queer artist flatshare novel. Tragicomedy, or just one of those things, depending on who you ask

AMBROSIA (2025)
Pseudo-dystopian girlgroup novel. Lesbian psychological horror about stardom and Being Looked At

Cover of Real Jobs by Lenia Lenient. A stylized, sharp-limbed figure compressed in a stylized, sharp-angled box. The box is pink, the person is yellow, the background is blue, and all of it is aggressively saturated. The title font (also yellow) is big and squiggly and looks like it's shaking. The sub-header is "A novel about art."

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · 4h

me, ten minutes ago: aw man i dont have that
me, five minutes ago: WAIT

#wipsnips #writesky #booksky #writingcommunity

“So – what?” I said, “You’d just go around decking people every time they brought it up?”
“I also sued my parents when I was fourteen. Or tried to, anyway.” Summer stretched her arms, near boredom as if the last seconds had never happened. “Children are evil. Teens – even worse. Tell me you wouldn’t have come out of there with some juvenile assault and battery charges.”
“I wouldn’t have come out of there with juvenile assault and battery charges.”
“Boo, you hall monitor.”

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · 10d

the way i ran home the moment my time was up so i could play more hades 2... my inner gamer is healing

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · 10d

One of the many joys of First Person Homunculus Perspective is that Alraun's lack of knowledge about... literally anything forces me to refer to a nurse bringing them pudding as "the goo-bearer" (and hence i have something for this #wipsnips prompt)

#writesky #writingcommunity

“Wait,” Janine slips through the door, looking frazzled and a bit wild in the eyes. Janine ushers the goo-bearer aside, and lowers herself to my eye-level in its stead.
She rummages through her bag for a pair of gloves, strips them on, then sticks her hands in one of her pockets, then the other. Out, she pulls the bramble-being's berry and holds it out to me between two fingers.

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · 11d

another AMBROSIA snippie for #wipsnips !!
beware of injury description (or don't if that's your kind of thing)

#writesky #writingcommunity #booksky

“I didn’t know it was this bad,” I said.
A pitch-dark bruise the size of a fist sat proudly in the center of her thigh. From it, a blotchy line trickled down to the back of her knee like someone had spilled ink underneath her skin.
“It’s not a good look,” she said. “Take a picture?”

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · 12d

hello #wipsnips tag i am offering you sapphic activity once again
(don't worry about the blood, it's her own)

#writesky #writingcommunity #booksky

“You’re making that sound an awful lot like an offer, Moira.”
“Oh, make of it what you will.” Summer dropped into an exaggerated shrug. “I wouldn’t think you’re fun like that but who knows? If you ever feel like you need to rage, you know where to find me.”
I watched her carefully, waited for the laughter, the quirk of the mouth, or, alternatively, even a hint of shame. None of that. “You’re unbearable,” I said.
Summer laughed. She tip-toed just close enough and swiftly flicked a streak of blood from my upper lip with her thumb. “You should try it sometime.” She gave my shoulder a pat, and strolled back into the recording studio like nothing ever happened.

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · 13d

#awesomecharacters ok i GOTTA bring Kiwi into this, who is liable to

- gesticulate in big sweeping motions that no one else understands

- speak in vague groans of misfortune

- make a face thats described as a "very close approximation of the grimacing emoji," as pictured here:

A young man in a leather jacket and upwardly styled hair that's bleached and dyed green. His frown is almost a perfect half circle. (This is my own art.)

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · 14d

AMBROSIA deleted scene, if you will
#ocart

Nova, Ambrosia, and Ruby watching footage of their own performance, wherein they are all stanced in power poses, wearing color-coded outfits.

We see them from the front now. None of them look as glamorous as they do on screen, sporting hoodies and tank tops, hair unstyled. They look at each other with unsure faces. Behind them on the wall: a plaque that reads "Remember: Smile lines aren't avoidable - but frown lines are!" and a poster advertising VibeFood yogurt with the tag line "It's next to nothing!"

The last member of the Moxxy group, Summer. She sits by herself, hunched with bad posture, chin resting in her hand, watching the screen impassionately.

Summer announces: "We look like Winx Club."

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · 14d

summary of recent events:

- going off antidepressants makes the muse clobber me over the head with new ideas every 15 seconds
- my days now start at 3am (involuntarily)
- my creative output is unmatched
- there is some sort of medically concerning evil sludge within me

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · 14d

im back and stranger

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · 14d

im back and stranger

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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 14d

#WIPSnips | absorb

Fest facing off against a horrifying Something that emerged out of a ritual circle - because even though he's scared out of his mind, the thing's trying to hurt Anneke and that can't be allowed to stand

( saranadosfiction.com/2020/05/16/b... )

Clearly someone needed to do something. And, in the absence of anyone more qualified, ‘someone’ meant him.

“Hey! Hey, you! How about picking on someone who’s actually conscious, for a change?”

The thing turned its head – or, at least, what passed for its head, since it wasn’t as though it had much of a face to speak of – towards him, the three glowing red orbs which he assumed were its eyes narrowing in what looked almost like confusion.

“Yes, I’m talking to you!” He pushed himself away from the bookcase he’d collided with, grabbing one of the less expensive-looking volumes and holding it in front of him like a shield. It wouldn’t do much against the thing’s tentacles, if it tried to go for him, but it might at least absorb enough of the damage that he could get himself mostly out of the way. ‘Might’ being the operative word. “What’s the matter? Is picking on unconscious priests the best you can do?”

His mouth seemed to be operating completely independently of his brain at this point – the latter being currently employed keeping up a running commentary which went something along the lines of ‘oh gods oh gods oh gods I’m going to die I’m going to die I’m going to die’ – and he found himself listening to the words coming out of it with a sort of horrified fascination. *At least I’m going to die sounding vaguely like I know what I’m doing. Somehow.* “Come and have a go, if you think you’re hard enough!”

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Aug 10

'nother from the apocalypse roadtrip

#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity #booksky

The pre-apocalyptic suburbs are very different from the pre-apocalyptic cities. Curated flower patches and hand-raised tomato plants rear their heads behind the fences. They seem like the only survivors of a quiet, unknown calamity; aside from them, the place is already dead. Frieda’s Hyundai is the only car on the road. No one’s outside. With few exceptions, the lights are out. It is completely, utterly, silent.

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Aug 9

hehe hello 👋👀

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Aug 9

bringing ya the apocalypse roadtrip novel again 🫴

#wipsnips #writesky #booksky #writingprompts

“Do you ever think we’re being defeatist?” asks Vivienne, she brushes her palms over the grass. “Don’t you wonder if we should be finding a bunker or something right now – stocking up on bottled water?”
“Hm,” says Frieda, “I guess preppers are on a real ego trip right now.”
“It’s just… weird.” Vivienne sits up straight. “It feels like, okay, the world is ending – shouldn’t we try to do something?” A few paces away, a group of university kids under a tree wave at them. Vivienne waves back.
“Like what?” says Lowri.
“We’re doing something,” says Frieda, doing their best to fit their whole hand into a Pringles can.

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Aug 8

why are my dreams either me witnessing, in third person, a fully formed revolutionary story premise with three acts and feature film editing or the recurring one i have about misplacing my shoes

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Aug 7

hello #wipsnips, today im presenting only the most tasteful hint of cultural imperialism critique
#writesky #writingprompts #booksky

“Any questions?”
“Yes,” I said, I lifted my chin and steadied my nervous hands. “What do I need to be considered by one of the international labels?”
By international, I obviously meant American.
After a moment of quiet, a man at the end of the reviewer table said: “Good English, for one.” He spoke in English, to stress his point, and to show that it had only the faintest Bulgarian tint. He must’ve had something to do with the foreign communications department.
“I have that.” English lessons at Radar Talent were more intense and frequent than they’d ever been at school. For years, I’d prioritized my ABC over my АБВ and every evening I sat in my room, practicing my th, w, and h sounds. After all, English was the language of music, showbiz, and media.

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Aug 4

this is not "terrible" writing advice by any means but ill get on this soap box every chance i get

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Aug 4

Do NOT write every day. Do NOT have word goals.

First of all: Rest will give your mind the space it needs to be creative. Second of all: Forcing yourself to do the thing when you don't feel like doing the thing will have you crashing head-first into burnout. Every! Time!

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · Aug 4

Alright, share your terrible writing tips that actually work.

Mine is: stop for the day in the middle of a paragraph, a sentence, even in the middle of a word. It feels SO wrong but it makes it 1000x easier to pick up the thread the next day.

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Jul 29

🥹🫶

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Jul 29

you're so right actually

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Jul 29

HOW i am supposed to deal with the fact that every time i log on here i find like 15 new people whose books i want to read when i take 2 months to read a single medium length novel

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Amanda Turek👻Headless Horsewoman @acturek.bsky.social · Jul 29

#WritingPrompt #bones
CW? past injury? I didn’t feel like sharing gore.

I’ve shared this one before (it’s my fave) and I think it’s slammin’!

"What work is this?" she asked.
"It is the work of Kudrum, my lady."
With a brush of her eyes Lady Jannia assessed his
condition. She plumbed the history of his pain, stripped
him naked from the agonies of debridement back to the
teeth of the fire, dragged him rearward in time through
capture and torment, to the real origin of his maiming; and
death's tiny, chill echo bound it all together like an
invisible scar. She left no flesh on him, only bones, and a
small, narrow crease between her brows marred her face
then. She folded her arms. "How is it you survived?"
"I don't know."

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Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Jul 29

ok hey hi this is incredible

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Jul 29

way late but considering this prompt i am legally obliged to introduce you to Vitriol
CW for see-through glass homunculus with visible skeleton and organs 👍
#writingprompt

“And, also, the humans are not listening to a word I say. They will face the other way, or they will stare in horror, or they will evacuate their previous foods. I believe I’d be hurting our perception more than helping it. They do not like, at all, to look at me.” Brain bobbing back and forth in its cerebral fluid behind Vitriol’s entirely see-through glass head, it turns to Janine. “Am I wrong?”
Janine, who has only as much as glanced at Vitriol from the corner of her eye for the past hour, says “Well.”
“No one likes to look at you,” says Sagitta, perched on the chair across Vitriol. “Human or not.”
“All the organs you see are organs you also have,” says Vitriol. It blinks its glass lids – though its big round eyeballs remain visible regardless – and raises one bone-encased-in-glass finger to point at its own brain. “Mostly.”

Lenia "Lenny" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Jul 29

INTERESTING

Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · Jul 25

🔥⚔️🔥BURN UP IN VICTORY🔥⚔️🔥 is OUT NOW in hardcover and ebook (including HOOPLA!)

books2read.com/burnupinvict...

Burn Up in Victory book cover in the center of a black field
above: "why is everybody so obsessed with her?"
clockwise, with an arrow pointing from each item to the book cover:
Society Dinners
magical city (what does it want) (don't worry about it)
lifting a chin with a sword
"I didn't know where else to go"
everybody's sleeping with everybody
too many duels

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Itch has made many of these authors' works impossible to find in search

But you can still find them right here in this bundle & support disabled creatives trying to survive - without giving Itch a dime

Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · Jul 28

We're disabled and queer. 🏳️🌈 We sell our writing to eat.

We launched two book sales — each has 20 books for $30. Itch bowed to conservative pressure, and hid them without warning.

Do you agree this is bullshit? Then help us make them pay.

disabilitypac.carrd.co

#MakeCensorshipCost #BookSky

Disability Pride Against Censorship

We’re Disabled and Queer — Itch.io and the Payment Processors Are Starving Us.

disabilitypac.carrd.co

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