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Straith 🍉

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D.A. Straith (they/them) - fiction person - nonbinary trans & queer settler - work in FFO, Augur and On Spec - writing hallucinatory Gawain bullshit for the Clarion West Novel Workshop '25 - www.straith.ca

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 18h

GREY GARDENS in space:

A fledgling documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station.

He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience.

#DVpit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 14h

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

kotowych.com

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 8h

Yes mr baseball man I too know about the art of pitching

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 8h

My partner has the MLB playoffs on the TV and I heard a commentator mention “the art of pitching” and reflexively went to check my notifications lmao

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 9h

Will 😭 THANK U... this project is kind of a weird little guy so I really appreciate the vote of confidence!

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 9h

they are SO INTERESTING!!

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 9h

thank you so much cass omg 😭 you are simply the SWEETEST

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 9h

GREY GARDENS in space:

An aspiring documentarian boards a squalid old space station to film a former prince desperate for a new life and his mom, a deposed princess stuck in the old.

Will he tell the truth of what he witnesses or shield these two exiles from scrutiny?

#DVPit #A #SF #LGBT #novella

Public domain image of a toroidal space station (illustration by Don Davis of construction taking place on the torus' rim, courtesy of Public Domain Review) rendered in black and white, with red spray paint markings overlaid on top.

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 11h

YOU KNOW IT… I’ve been talking about it for a good long while… let’s see what I can do with it 😤💪🏻

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 11h

quote reskeeting to boost!!

Sophia Zhang @storytellersophia.bsky.social · 11h

THE GOOD PLACE x TRUMAN SHOW

Alora’s so done with her snowy rural town. But supernatural forces keep her and the rest of the townsfolk from leaving. To break the spell, she must outwit a trickster’s riddles – before the mysterious town traps her for good.

#DVpit #A #F #Mys #Asian #POC #WOC

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 11h

“It’s better to be a spectacle than to be forgotten, isn’t it?”

Aboard a squalid Gothic space station, a documentarian films career-defining footage of a disgraced prince and his deposed cosmic horror of a mother. When they battle for the limelight, chaos ensues.

#DVPit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 13h

quote reskeeting to boost!!

Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 13h

12 y/o con artist Robin resents the rich in Sky City. When she wins a scholarship to their boarding school, she hopes to get them to help her struggling community. Nope. Now she's gotta con em all, but the rich are all magically lucky... and her own luck's about to run out.

#DVPit #F #MG

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14h

lets gooo! 💪🏻

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14h

Thank you!! 💜

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14h

👀👀👀👀!!!

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14h

thank you Thenmozhi 💜🙏🏻😭 Im so fond of this weird little idea

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14h

Thank you!! 🙏🏻💜

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 15h

This MOTHER DARLING's got everything:

🌑 an opulent space station in deep decay
🌑 a filmmaker looking for his big break
🌑 a former prince desperate to finally live in his own skin
🌑 his controlling cosmic horror of a mother
🌑 an art exhibition gone lethally wrong

#DVPit #A #SF #LGBT #TR #novella

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 16h

of course! pitch is sick as hell (in the best way possible)!!!

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 17h

HELLOOOOOOO I need this stat

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 17h

quote posting to boost this because JUST LOOK

Damian is ✨️drafting✨️ @d-s-saavedra.bsky.social · 17h

HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X THE WOODS ALL BLACK

As the lies of his religious order begin to unravel, Thay must rely on the stranger Elio to find a cure to the curse that will turn him into a Beast.

🐑Trans MC
🫀Cannibalism
🐑Poly monster romance
🫀Trans rage

#DvPit #TV #OWN #A #H

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 17h

MOTHER DARLING (GREY GARDENS in space)

A documentarian follows the daily lives of an exiled Imperial leader and her son aboard a decrepit space station.

He starts to sympathize with them despite his politics—but then a disastrous party exposes their true colours.

#DVpit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella

View of the southern aurora, luminous bands or streamers of green light skipping across the surface of Earth's atmosphere. NASA ID: sl3-130-3130. See the original public domain image at images-assets.nasa.gov/image/sl3-130-3130/sl3-130-3130~orig.jpg

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 17h

agents pick this book up please so more ppl can read it👀👀👀👀👀

Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 17h

WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE 85,000 Word #Spaceopera
🛸 Nesamma Abbas, a washed-up alien musician,
🎸 joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire
✨with a martial art of sound ⚡🎶
.😢She must confront her pain,
🧘‍♀️ Master her powers
⚔️ & choose: revolution
❤️ or redemption
#WOC #Asian #SFF #DVpit

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 17h

HELL yeah this sounds great!

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 17h

booooost!!!! this looks rad!

Becky (they/them) @beckytext.bsky.social · 17h

PRIORY 🍊 TREE x GLADIATOR
Branna enters a tournament for a chance to kill her mother’s killer, but she’ll need the killer’s help to survive… and to uncover a deadly secret below the colosseum.
🔥 Slow burn enemies to lovers
🔨 Smashing the patriarchy
👯‍♀️ Lesbian gladiators
Bonus: 🐉
#DVpit #F #A #LGBT

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 17h

this looks incredible!!!!

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 18h

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM

A disabled mecha dragonrider struggles in an ableist society. When a hivemind of corrupted dragons threatens her people's very existence, she must team up with 3 riders—her lying would-be lover included—to save the solar system.

#DVpit #A #SF #DIS #LGBT #Latine

A moodboard with 9 tiles. The first row has purple spacescape streaks of light like hyperspace, a dragon egg, and a Latina staring at the egg. The second row has purple crystals and middle text that has crossed out "star-scarred, dragonrider, etli's claw, wave rider" then, underlined "me", followed by a person underwater. The third and final row has a closeup of a snake's eye to represent a dragon's eye, a solar system, and scale pattern to represent mecha dragon scales.

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