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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · Feb 27

This is a subskeet of like 6 essays I've read recently but "I'm angry the author wrote about different kinds of experiences and ideas instead of writing a book that reflects my exact feelings and preferences and beliefs back to me" isn't really an interesting critique.

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Feb 28

Guerilla Mail works

evacide @evacide.bsky.social · Feb 27

The Trump administration has launched a portal where you can report DEI in schools, "ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination."

You know what to do: enddei.ed.gov

Department of Education FormLock

enddei.ed.gov

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Feb 26

a man wearing a hat that says sandals is giving the middle finger

ALT: a man wearing a hat that says sandals is giving the middle finger

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Feb 26

Vibrating!

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Feb 26

Do I know what to do if anyone likes it? nope. Never done this before. A babe in the wood!

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Feb 26

preparing to jump in

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · Feb 20

Guidelines for our first ever Author Hype Event

#WSPit

#WIPSnips has always been about growing community.

You all show up everyday (some since day one) sharing pieces of your writing.

Here's the chance to go beyond snips and pitch your work!

More infographics to come, but here's a start

Text: What? #WSPit. Author Hype Event. Industry Participation welcome. When? February 26, 2025, your time zone. Where? Bluesky only.

Authors: Please do your due diligence to vet anyone who requests your materials before sending it.

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General Guidelines: Regular #WIPSnips participation not required. Pitch must fit in single post. All imagines use alt text. No Generative AI. Published works, thread any links or direct to link in bio. Limit three posts per work. Use appropriate hashtags. Be kind. Like, respot, comments Highly encouraged.

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To make indsutry participation easier or help readers find published books, use the special hashtags to note where you are in the process. You can use only #WSPit but it may affect indsutry visibility.

WIPs: #WSPitW, Querying: #WSPitQ, Agented(but not on sub): #WSPitA, On submission: #WSPitS, Published: #WSPitP

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Other hashtags

Age range - please include: Adult - #a, New Adult - #NA, Young Adult - #YA; Middle Grade - #MG; Picture book - #PB

Optional: Crime - #C; Fantasy - #F; Historical - #Hi; Horror - #H; Humor - #Hu, Lit-fic - #L; Memoir - #Me; Mystery - #M; Non-fic - #NF; Paranormal - #P; Poetry - Po; Romance - #R; Sci-fi - #SF; Thriller - #T; Women's Fiction - #WF; 2SLGBTQIA+ - #LGBT; BIPOC - #BIPOC; Creators who are disabled - #Dis

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Feb 26

You have been found by The Smiling Man! You have lost 30,000,000 Smile Points!

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Feb 17

Y'all are about to get sold a lot of Comfy Stories For These Trying Times uwu real hard by a whole lot of the same people who bankrolled the trying times and I beseech thee: resist

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Kahlil @kahlillkasir.bsky.social · Dec 25

Not to be a bitch but the thing that people are missing in discussions in how children’s media doesn’t have help kids have curiosity abt art anymore is that like at least 80% of the young animators I have met don’t read and only watch entertainment for children

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Feb 7

Actually, don't just fuck off: Drop dead.

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Feb 7

lmao I don't need noblebright for romance. Fuck off, you dollar store Reaganite dorks.

🔮 Witchy Willow 🔥🛡️ @willowtree.bsky.social · Feb 7

It's been going for a hot minute but they are getting bolder.

A lot of new authors advertise their romance novels as "clean" and "with actual depth" (lol?) while acting also like they are victims. Making videos with them acting like they are being beaten down by readers for not having sex scenes.

Jeanne (she/they) @fangirljeanne.bsky.social · Feb 5

Anyone doubting that the puritanical wave has already stated in online book communities.

Heads up fellow Aro/Ace folks who complain about having sex and romance in media, these people are not our allies.

This is thinly veiled Christofascist CompHet.

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Feb 4

nashville hot chicken is so choice. hell yeah embrace basically drenching crunchy things in chili oil.

your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Feb 4

I'm alive, baybee. I got a promotion at work and it destroyed my desire to post but now I'm BACK and INSANE.

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nathan makarios @paralogion.bsky.social · Jan 20

I don't have a bro squad. If this ain't the vibe I don't want it

Concept art from Wizards, the Ralph Bakshi film. Five elves confer in a torch-lit cavern, dressed in barbarian pelts and armed with swords and shields.

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Sep 13

my friend robin describing my fave ship dynamic another way

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Sep 25

AFAB Only Queer Housing The Website

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Sep 25

yes

YES

SPREAD HIS WORD

your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Sep 25

#LGBTQWriteAThon

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Sep 25

I thought it was a fucking Trojan helmet guy avatar and was like "Yeah okay that tracks" but it's a furry which also tracks in an "I'm not like THOSE ones..." way. Truly an internet moment.

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merritt @merrittk.com · Sep 25

How dare you speak to me while I am imagining Spike and Angel kissing

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · Sep 25

will always be hilarious to me that we all talk about ‘sexual fantasy’ as standard lexicon but the second someone includes fantastical elements in sexuality the reaction is OH MY GOD SO CRINGE DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY GET OFF TO THIS NO WAY HOW STUPID

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Sep 23

How you liking the sub stack if I might ask

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Sep 23

Is the Kid problematic discourse

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your rotten soldier @astro39.bsky.social · Sep 23

In reading, I have no preference. For writing horror, I default to limited third just because I feel like it gives me more wiggle room than first does.

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