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Shea Sullivan
@sheasullivan.bsky.social
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I write character-driven stories, often about monsters and the hidden layers of monstrosity.
Queer. Writer and editor with Duck Prints Press. Figurative artist. Spoonie.
NO Gen A.I.
www.Sheasullivanwrites.com
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sheasullivan.bsky.social
The Chair with Sandra Oh (my beloved) is worth the watch.
October 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
Kink your tober with DPP! I haven’t written in… whoo boy. A while. But I might manage some fic this month with some of these spicy prompts. ;)
duckprintspress.com unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Oct 4
DAY 4!

shibari

and/or

fighting as foreplay

and/or

circle jerk
duckprintspress.com unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Sep 11
October is almost here, and we've made a prompt list to help you kink your tober to the max!!! Learn more about our low-key Kinktober event on our website (duckprintspress.com/2025/09/11/d...) or by visiting our AO3 collection (archiveofourown.org/collections/...). I hope you'll come create with us!
October 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
I read one book in September, A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft, a sapphic, academia, enemies-to-lovers.

Does anyone else go in ‘seasons’? I’m moving from reading into work & hibernation mode. Some of this might be due to needing my next dose of Ocrevus, but this is also just how I work.
October 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
Have you actually kissed/been kissed where there was anyone’s tongue tracing the seam of anyone’s lips? I don’t think that’s ever happened to me, ever. It’s generally a two mouths open situation.
September 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
I’d recommend Hermann Hesse. My favorites are: Demian, Gertrude, and Steppenwolf.
adrianharley.bsky.social Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · Sep 18
I’ve been trying to avoid doomscrolling by reading the Sherlock Holmes stories. What other public domain books do folks recommend? I’d love recommendations outside the standard USian English Literature path.
bbolander.bsky.social Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · Sep 18
if you must be online may i point out that project gutenberg is still around and still has basically every book written before 1910 for free
September 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
Note to self: live music is an INTENSE power-up! Do more of that!!
September 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
Congrats, Dei! I’ll keep my eyes peeled for it!
dei2dei.bsky.social Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · Sep 12
I am delighted to announce that in the 12/25 edition of Dirty Magick Magazine, I will have a short story (THE EXILE'S PYRE) where Jórunn makes her first appearance! There are two more sword-and-norsery stories with her on submission now, but @cdbrown.bsky.social will have the first one!
art by @kerfuffle.bsky.social of a Caucasian woman dressed in black and grey 8-900s Norse clothing with white streaks on her face like cat whiskers, holding a tall metal staff with a twisted knob at the end.
September 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
Oh, hey! It me! I’ve been much more in a visual art mode of late (as opposed to the writing sort), and this piece was so fun to work on. I’m very proud of these lovely ladies!
duckprintspress.com unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Sep 13
Pre-orders for art prints of any of 12 different artworks, or the 2026 calendar including um all, ends at midnight on Sept 15!. Meet our last artist Shea Sullivan, and her monster/human wlw piece, THE RIDDLE! You can pre-order your own here: duckprintspress.com/2025/09/13/a...
Artwork of an elderly woman and a sphinx touch noses in a stony landscape.
September 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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duckprintspress.com
We're currently $29/month in backing from my being able to give our authors and artists a raise on pieces they make for Patreon.

That's only 10 people backing at the $3/month level, or 6 at the $5, or 3 at the $10. That's like. hardly any people at all!

So please help by sharing this. <3
duckprintspress.com unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Sep 1
Duck Prints Press, indie publisher founded by fancreators to help fancreators publish their original LGBTQIA+ work, needs YOU! 🫵

Seeking: new backers for our Patreon! People who boost our post about it a chance to win a book! Learn all the many details on our webpage: tinyurl.com/mus57v48

🌈📚
📚💙
Graphic with a pale blue background. It features a white duck looking with a smirk toward the viewer, his winges spread behind him; the wings have a rainbow gradient. Text on the gaphic reads "Support Duck Prints Press on Patreon, Receive a Backer Exclusive Freebie or any merch item up to $5." A graphic over a pale blue background. It says "Spread the word!" with a heart and a share symbol below that, then the words "to enter the giveaway." Below that is the art from the front cover of the book "Add Magic to Taste," showing a dragon brewing a potion, beside which is the text "of a print copy of our first anthology Add Magic to Taste."
September 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
Just want to say thank you to Bluesky for recognizing that sometimes adults want to see or read things that are not for kids, and we’re allowed to do that, actually. (This brought to you by a link from tumblr, where they don’t feel this way, despite being the freaksxfreaks site.)
September 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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qospress.bsky.social
#Booksky So we were going to do a book announcement today but the cool award news took precedence, so we’ll announce tomorrow. In the meantime, it’s #SapphicSeptember and you can find our sapphic titles everywhere from our website to Bookshop to Kobo and Bella! queenofswordspress.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
Apparently I’ve finished 0 books in August. It’s been a black hole month - lots of in, no out. But there is fermenting happening. Some kind of caterpillar thing. See you next month, maybe.
September 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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duckprintspress.com
Get your 2026 calendar of queer art, featuring 12 gorgeous now through Sept 15. We're also offering art prints of each individual piece. Forget Christmas - the holidays on this holiday are queer, such as Bi Day of Visibility. Learn more and get yours: duckprintspress.com/2026-queer-a...
A mosaic of twelve art pieces, each in a different style and palette. They are in three rows of four across. Top left corner: two women, one spectral, surrounded by a ring of flames. Top left-center: A person with blue hair wearing an orange draws touches noses with a cat dragon; the whole thing is in the colors of the aroace flag. Top center-right: A lineart piece of a person lounging in a forest, reaching toward a pond before them. Top right: Two women standing side by side, both white, one in a leather jacket the other in a t-shirt; both are blushing, and they look with nervous affection toward each other. Middle left: two mermaids, one pink the other turquoise, sing in a dark sea, one reaching for a rainbow seahorse. Middle center-left: Two men, one black and one white, shown from the back. Both wear cowboy outfits, and they have their arms around each other. Middle center-right: Two older men sit together on the deck of a boat floating in a lake. Middle right: Two men in button-up shirts and cowboy hats stand shoulder to shoulder before a fence. Bottom left: a woman in the colors of the bi pride flag holds a flame-like fairy in her raised hands. Bottom center-left: Two epople, gender ambiguous, dressed in leaf-crowns and robes conduct a handfasting before gourds and candles. Bottom center-right: an elderly woman and a sphinx touch noses in a stony landscape. Bottom right: Two people, one black, one white, in fantasy winter garb hold hands, Magic sparks rise from where they hold hands.
September 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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duckprintspress.com
Duck Prints Press, indie publisher founded by fancreators to help fancreators publish their original LGBTQIA+ work, needs YOU! 🫵

Seeking: new backers for our Patreon! People who boost our post about it a chance to win a book! Learn all the many details on our webpage: tinyurl.com/mus57v48

🌈📚
📚💙
Graphic with a pale blue background. It features a white duck looking with a smirk toward the viewer, his winges spread behind him; the wings have a rainbow gradient. Text on the gaphic reads "Support Duck Prints Press on Patreon, Receive a Backer Exclusive Freebie or any merch item up to $5." A graphic over a pale blue background. It says "Spread the word!" with a heart and a share symbol below that, then the words "to enter the giveaway." Below that is the art from the front cover of the book "Add Magic to Taste," showing a dragon brewing a potion, beside which is the text "of a print copy of our first anthology Add Magic to Taste."
September 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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duckprintspress.com
Today is National Aviation Day in the US! We asked our contributors to recommend their favorite queer books that prominently feature aviation, expanded to include all sorts of piloting. Yes, we did get a lot of dragons. This list as a blog post: duckprintspress.com/2025/08/19/f...
Text and black silhouettes of a flying dragon and a biplane on the background of a Rainbow Flag. The text reads: 12 Queer Books for Aviation Day. 12 book covers on the background of a Rainbow Flag. The books are: Brooms by Jasmine Walls; The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui; Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard; Stars of Chaos by priest; The Flying Ship by Jem Milton; The Dragon by Tai Yangjun; Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone; Dragon Falls by Davis Lavender; The Angel's Cut by Elizabeth Knox; On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden; All Systems Red by Martha Wells; Temeraire by Naomi Novik; Havemercy by Danielle Bennett & Jaida Jones.
August 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
Today I learned that I’m not deathly allergic to Yellowjacket stings, and that they sometimes have nests in the ground. Yay, knowledge. 🫠
August 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
I did not paint today, but I did go buy art supplies, so that kinda counts, right?
August 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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cjhenderson.bsky.social
Just signed this - keep reposting, everyone!
August 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
I GOT MY BAT STICKERS!!! 🙏🙌🏻❤️ go get this awesome, very popular anthology of cozy academia. You have…13 minutes! 😂
duckprintspress.com unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Aug 12
We just hit the stretch goal with a mere 17 minutes to go!!!!

A huge thank you to the folks on here, and everywhere else, who helped. :D

Now is probably not the moment for me to announce another stretch goal, right? 🤣
duckprintspress.com unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Aug 12
$402 from the stretch goal as of when I'm typing this!

Authors get a raise, backers with physical Stuff get a sticker!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...
August 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
Stretch goal time, bb!!
duckprintspress.com unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Aug 4
🎉 🎉 WE'VE HIT OUR FUNDING GOAL!!! 🎉 🎉

Now we aim for stretch goals, which let us get our backers more Stuff and raise author pay!

Learn more about the campaign for SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES and meet 2 our authors today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...
A simple graphic with a background of a shelf of jars and a crystal ball. Text reads "Meet the Scholarly Pursuits Authors Lyonel, Lucy K. R."
August 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
It might be a little early to get excited about the bat sticker (stretch goal, bb!) but I’m excited about it anyway.
dei2dei.bsky.social Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · Aug 1
We are so close ($1.2k) from funding! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... A whole book full of cozy queer academia stories, and to get it to print we just need you! (and if you really want to make our day, help us toward that milestone of 2x author pay). Also, add-on stickers. So many stickers!
Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Cozy Academia Anthology
A collection of 22 delightfully queer, charmingly cozy stories that put a fluffy LGBTQIA+ spin on the dark academia genre.
www.kickstarter.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
I actually read things in July! I wholeheartedly recommend all the fiction, and The War of Art was a kick in the pants I needed!
A storygraph cover collage of books I read in July. They are: The Tainted Cup, A Master of Djinn, Bad Cree, The War of Art, Looking for Smoke.
August 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
YES! The wind is sometimes either rudely absent or exuberant in several directions. Who can know?? I feel so understood.
dandylion867.bsky.social Dandylion @dandylion867.bsky.social · Jul 31
Relatable. I dabble in different modalities sometimes out of curiosity, sometimes inspiration, I’ve been calling myself a tumbleweed because I go where the most prevailing wind blows me. Sometimes there are so many ideas there is a traffic jam. Other times I have to wait for inspiration. 🤷🏼‍♀️
July 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
sheasullivan.bsky.social
FRIEND. Yes, this, exactly. It takes so loooonnnggg!
robin-s-writes.bsky.social Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · Jul 31
This is far too relatable. I've kind of just embraced "do whatever I want to do at the moment and some things will get finished eventually", but I feel like I should have been born an elf with a lifespan of thousands of years so they could ALL get finished eventually.
July 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM