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Alex the Headless Wordsman

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Queer autistic fantasy author. They/them/theirs. Hellenic Polytheist. Dark Souls 2 defender. ASMLP || 2024 TDBSaS || #amquerying https://linktr.ee/authoralexharvey

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 11d

HEY YOU! Do you like free paperbacks? Do you like chronically ill baddies? Do you like magic schools that weren't invented by a TERF? I'm hosting a giveaway for my sapphic fantasy dark academia novel RIGHT NOW!

2 winners announced October 10th!

A celebratory image featuring balloons, candy confetti, and a cupcake. Over top is "Rules" followed by a list reading as follows:

-Must be a US resident
-Follow this account
-Comment which school of magic you would choose to study at Voterique (see next slide)
-Bonus entry: share to stories or tag a friend!

A celebratory image featuring balloons, candy confetti, and a cupcake. Over top is "Schools of magic" followed by a list reading as follows:

-Abjuration
-Conjugation
-Corpomation
-Divination
-Enchantment
-Evocation
-Illusion
-Transmutation

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Cara Nox 🖤🩸 FAMILIAR OCT.28 @cara.ink · 9d

If you're finally ready to ditch Kindle Unlimited for a service that's cheaper and pays indie authors more, you should try Kobo Plus!

I got a list of some Fantasy and Scifi books included with a Kobo Plus subscription!

books.bookfunnel.com/koboplusless...

🌈🚀💫 💙📚👀 📢📚 🌈📚🪐 📚🌈♠️

Oct 2025 - Fantasy + Sci fi on Kobo Plus with a lit book in the background and covers for The Thirteenth Key, Trick, and A Hunt of Blood & Iron, all by Cara Nox, at the bottom.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 15h

🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this October? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of? 🧵

A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white square with a thin outline and text that reads "318 queer books coming out in October!". The 318 is in matching horizontal rainbow stripes and October is in orange text. Text between the number and month are all caps black font.

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 42m

Ah yes, my favorite time of year. Time to play "is this allergies or am I getting sick" lmao

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 1h

Boosting for anyone interested in Diverse Books.

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 7h

I've made some new Diverse Book feeds.
-Trans & Nonbinary Books 📚💙💕
-Black Booksky 📚🖤
-Black Queer Bookworms 🌈📚🖤
-Disabled & Neurodiverse Books ♿📚

They're linked with emojis & or keywords they pick up/to put your posts on them, in this thread🧵👇

Also in thread: Queer SFFH 🌈📚🪐. Aro & or Ace Books

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 57m

I beleaf in you 💕

Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 9h

It's also not lost on me that erotica writers and artists are being banklocked at every opportunity to "protect children" and "keep investors happy" but AI is TOTALLY okay to just waltz in and do it. Makes perfect sense /s

Maybe support REAL creators and not murderous theft machines.

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 9h

I expect this to go about as well as its mental health services, which *checks headlines* is already going about as horrifically as can be expected. Safeguards have been circumvented to aid in kids killing themselves and people devoting AI psychosis. But sure! What could go wrong here??

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 20h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 19h

Feeling the need to remind myself of this Ursula K LeGuin quote today:

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

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SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · 15h

i bring more women kissing to your TL

an illustration by Spindle of the characters Asimov (on the right), a half-elf with white hair tied up in a bun, and wearing a blue dress (with yellow accents and a red stripe on the bottom), sitting and kissing Ottilie (on the left), a human with short brown hair tied up in a small bun, wearing a green cardigan (with orange circles print, and white trim), white underwear, and black thighhighs (appearing green due to the tones of the art). She's in front of Asi and leaning on her, kissing back. The kiss is tongue-style

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 10h

MA friends

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kitt kogut @himdianajones.bsky.social · 21h

Let them know what you think.

Gov. Healey: 617-725-4005
AG Campbell: 617-727-2200
Fenway: 617-267-0900

cis Bostonians specifically, we need you to step up. I'm already seeing my local trans circles raise hell about this, but we need you, too. I wrote a phone script. Use it and spread it:

Hello, my name is [name] and I'm a [transgender] constituent living in [City], Massachusetts. I'm calling to bring to Gov. Healey's attention the deeply alarming development coming from Fenway Health, in which they've recently announced they will no longer provide gender affirming healthcare to patients under the age of 19 in order to retain their federally recognized status. This is in utter direct violation of our state constitution, specifically Chapter 127, in which quote, "Access to reproductive health care services and gender-affirming health care services is a right secured by the constitution and laws of the commonwealth. Interference with this right, whether or not under the color of law, is against the public policy of the commonwealth." This is also in contradiction of Boston declaring itself a sanctuary city for transgender people, the resolution which states Boston has, quote, "a specific commitment to protecting transgender and gender-diverse individuals. Taxpayer-funded agencies shall not comply with federal efforts to strip resources that safeguard their rights. Boston will not cooperate with federal or state policies that harm transgender and gender-diverse people and remains committed to ensuring their access to healthcare...without fear or discrimination."

As Massachusetts' first openly gay Governor, I'm aware that this past August Gov. Healey signed updated Shield laws protecting gender affirming healthcare in Massachusetts. Jordina Shanks, the CEO of Fenway Health herself, said these protections are quote, "a landmark victory for health care, human dignity... and that Massachusetts stands as a national beacon of equity and compassion." I am in complete and utter disgust, yet unsurprised, that a leading institution in gender affirming healthcare is capitulating to federal threats that are not law, and acting in direct opposition to the city of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This is a deep betrayal of their transgender patients. I urge Gov. Healey to bring all powers of the state to investigate and reverse this gross over-compliance on the part of Fenway Health.

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boney🔞💖 @boneyhag.bsky.social · 16h

reminder that free speech is a privilege and not a right—those in power will challenge your right to free speech at every turn if you do not stand up for yourself and those around you

make your calls!! in the US, KOSA is back on the floor. use the 5calls app to contact your state reps!

boney🔞💖 @boneyhag.bsky.social · Aug 5

he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵

how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org

info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

drawing of a man laying on bed with an old school phone in hand. he has a speech bubble that says "I'm so confused~ is what i'm buying illegal?" the text on the page says "keep calling and writing until payment processor censorship is reversed. one call a day makes a difference! mastercard and visa's statements aren't good enough. let's keep up the pressure together!"

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 12h

Strim time lesgo!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytgR...

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 17h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 20h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 12h

Stream in five minutes, and I even did audio tests beforehand so the mixing isn't total ass. Not that it will help much with the mic, but what can you do.

Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 16h

Stream tonight? Stream tonight. Let's outline a book, perchance.

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Lu Ka-Yun Dawkins| Indie Animator @crashtako.bsky.social · 13h

Keep making queer art 🏳️‍⚧️✨❤️

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 16h

Stream tonight? Stream tonight. Let's outline a book, perchance.

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 17h

Hell yeah absolutely! I promise not to put away dishes during recording next time lmao

Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you so much for having me on eeee I had a blast 💕💕

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 19h

HEY LOOKS DATS ME!!!

SaFic & Chill Podcast @safic-chill.bsky.social · 19h

Episode 4 of SaFic & Chill: Inspiration & Chaotic Planning ft @authoralexharvey.bsky.social Alex Harvey-Rivas is now live! Listen to us yap about the shows/games/movies that inspire us, to the methods of plotting, and why censorship is dangerous. open.spotify.com/episode/6CT5...

Spotify – Web Player

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 20h

I'm only 50 pages in and already METAL FROM HEAVEN is one of the gayest, most class concious spec-fic books ive ever read. Never before have I felt so seen and reached to by an author.

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Reiko Murakami @reikomurakami.bsky.social · 22h

Hi #PortfolioDay !

I do book covers and comic covers, working on both full color digital and traditional media using graphite and ink.

Cover art for Black Sun be Rebecca Roanhorse, The Broken Binding

Minor Arcana #2 variant cover,
Boom! Studios

Cover art for The Black Phone by Joe Hill,
Suntup Editions

Personal work from my exhibition last year.
“Identity” 11x15 inches, Graphite mixed media
Available at Keep Contrmporary

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 23h

#PortfolioDay again! I'm a West Coast artist named Samantha and I specialize in editorials, publishing (mostly book covers), and branding

✉️[email protected]
🧡samanthamash.com
🧡samanthamash.etsy.com
🧡inprnt.com/gallery/samanthamash
🧡patreon.com/samanthamash

Illustration of woman with short hair kneeling back on the ground and pulling the string of a bow tight. She is holding a white arrow and prepared to let go. Around her is the Sagittarius constellation that is made of orange and pale yellow stars. The background is a pale peach, the woman is made up of oranges and reds.

Illustration of a pale antelope on a dark background with orange plants around it

Five herons, two black, three white are circled around one of the black herons holding an orb of light

Pale woman with dark hair in periwinkle one piece swimsuit swimming with fish and other sea life in a dark ocean with a pink sky and peach sun

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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 1d

A Phan confirmation wasnt on my bingo card. My feelings are. Complex. I'm happy for them. It was kind of obvious. It's sad they didnt feel comfortable enough to say it before now. I think the parasocial fan base is a big reason why. Also? If they never had confirmed it? Still none of our business.

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Eva I. @isthiseva.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Eva, a South Asian illustrator and designer, mainly looking for publishing opportunities from mid-2026.

I also have 2 urgent comms open for a good cause. See next post for details.

🎨 isthiseva.carrd.co
✉️ [email protected]

#GraphicDesign #Illustration #BookCovers 📚💙

A full wraparound book cover for Stories from the Deep, The Chronicles of Nerezia – 4 by Claudie Arseneault. The cover depicts a massive yellow-and-teal kraken locked in battle at sea with someone with water powers. Along the shoreline is a wagon, from which two people are bursting out to view the battle.

Book cover for The Distance Between Stars and Salt by Alex Harvey-Rivas. It's a dark blue graphical cover, framed by an hourglass motif composed of stars. The top half of the cover is taken up by the title, which is drawn to include the Maltese cross motif. The bottom half depicts a luzzu tossing on a turbulent sea, below which is the author's name. In the background are subtle constellations.

Portrait of a Black woman smiling as she gazes into the distance, her lips slightly parted to reveal two sharp fangs. She has dark skin, dark hair styled in an undercut and twists, and pointed, elfin ears.

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 1d

So

👉🏻 www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQVR7L63

Now on Kindle Unlimited - dark romantic fantasy novel GARNER FOR GOLD, edwardian era demon summoning romantasy MERE FLESH, cottagecore romantasy novel A TURN OF THE WHEEL, & urban romantasy LONG GROWS THE DARK all by Catherine Labadie

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