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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 3h

I'm in this image and I don't like it.

SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 14h

Me when writing Mermaid's Blood: Is it kind of problematic that my protagonist falls in love with her father figure's murderer?

Everyone I've shared it to: No, her dad was a douche.

#indie #booksky #💙📚

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 2d

Yooo! I'm in a new bundle put together by @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social for under-rated books! For just $38, you can get 63 books from underrated independent authors! itch.io/b/3305/under...

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 2d

Yooo! I'm in a new bundle put together by @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social for under-rated books! For just $38, you can get 63 books from underrated independent authors! itch.io/b/3305/under...

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Feb 21

Happy (late) Valentine's day!

(She/her for both characters ⚢)

#indie #oc #yuri

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Apr 9

"My Captain's Ghost"

Even 16 years after his death, Aashirya still hears her captain's voice.

#booksky #💙📚 #art #indie

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Jun 21

Finally got out a drawing of Aashirya for pride month!

#indie #booksky #💙📚 #amwriting #queerauthors

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Jun 25

Now one for Beatrix!
#indie #booksky #💙📚 #amwriting #queerauthors

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Jul 21

So I'm... a month late, but I got out a pride drawing for Ishmael (who I still need to draw more lol).

#art #indie

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 19d

🧚Fairy tale creatures in the real world
🧜‍♀️What if the little mermaid didn't want to be human?
🥹 Nostalgia
🍵Fantasy/Slice of Life
🌤️Rediscovery
❌No romance

📖Universal link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPGLS6KQ
💌 itch link: spshade.itch.io/the-lost-magic
📚GoodReads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 19d

"Does she seek revenge, or something deeper?"

🏴‍☠️Pirate/Mermaid wlw
🪸 The same person haunts them both
🐍Mermaids & other monsters
🖤Lots of angst
💀Dark cave setting
💔Estranged families

📖Universal link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9YWNQMQ
📧Itch link: spshade.itch.io/mermaids-blood
📚GR: shorturl.at/aGDIJ

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Sep 3

🧚Fairy tale creatures in the real world
🧜‍♀️What if the little mermaid didn't want to be human?
🥹 Nostalgia
🍵Fantasy/Slice of Life
🌤️Rediscovery
❌No romance

📖Universal link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPGLS6KQ
💌 itch link: spshade.itch.io/the-lost-magic
📚GoodReads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

#indie

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, peeps! I've got beta reading commissions open over on Fiverr! Afraid I'm only accepting short stories up to 10k words right now. More information is available at the link!

#booksky #indie

www.fiverr.com/s/DBj8o5N

www.fiverr.com

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🔥 Gurepyon 🔥 @gurepyon.bsky.social · 4d

[oc] big boi in suit

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Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 6d

Art vs Artist 💚

A young woman with reddish blond hair in a Victorian updo sits in an intricately carved stone throne. She looks with a mocking smirk at the viewer, and an elegant silver crown dangles from one hand. Monstrous hands with long black nails reach from behind the throne, and are scoring deep gouges into the stone.

It's me, a white person with shoulder length wavy brown hair, red framed glasses, and orange lipstick.

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graphite_the_dragon @graphitedragon.bsky.social · 7d

Day 1 of #InkedUpOct is "restless"

Was thinking about how the ability insomnia would be more of a curse in the wild

#graphitedraws #Pokemonart #InkedUpOct2025 #inktober #inktoberalternative

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 7d

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 12d

Only one day left!

SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 17d

Heyoooo, The Lost Magic is featured in The Cozy Equinox Bundle by @amweald.com !

If you wanna support me and other indie authors, please check it out! Only $30 for 30 books!

#indie #booksky #💙📚

itch.io/b/3282/cozy-...

Cozy Equinox Bundle by A.M. Weald and 24 others

Cozy Equinox Bundle: 30 items for $30.00

itch.io

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R. A. Meenan (Sammie) @zyearth.com · 14d

If you see this, post a girl with glasses.

Here's Leah, my favorite girl with glasses. ;)

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 15d

Only four days left!!

SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 17d

Heyoooo, The Lost Magic is featured in The Cozy Equinox Bundle by @amweald.com !

If you wanna support me and other indie authors, please check it out! Only $30 for 30 books!

#indie #booksky #💙📚

itch.io/b/3282/cozy-...

Cozy Equinox Bundle by A.M. Weald and 24 others

Cozy Equinox Bundle: 30 items for $30.00

itch.io

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · Nov 14

So, this is basically the plot of Mermaid's Blood.
(Both characters go by she/her)

#queerwriters #ocs #amwriting #ocart

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 29d

I still like this scene.

#booksky #indie

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 19d

Hey, folks. Some financial stuff has come up for me and I could use a little extra cash.

I AM OKAY.

But if you would like to support me at all, even if it's just a dollar, please consider checking out my books, listed below.

#indie #booksky #💙📚

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MeowgicalMelody ♥︎Comissions Open♥︎ @meowgicalmelody.bsky.social · 15d

Gonna post an old old Rue from a few years ago for bisexual visibility day

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SP Shade ✨New Release✨ @spshade.bsky.social · 16d

Same.

I just wanna write books...

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 16d

very tired :|

Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 16d

tired :(