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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 20h

I'm placing this here in case anyone wants to help me out as unemployment continues.

www.paypal.me/devyntheauthor

Go to paypal.me/devyntheauthor and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

www.paypal.me

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 1d

I just told my intership group about jawn.

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 4d

This will make my grad school app a bit beefier, which is great because I need to submit it soon.

Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, look at this.

Lahiri and Food in Interpreter of Maladies | The Artifice share.google/VvvIgrV5jPBR...

Lahiri and Food in Interpreter of Maladies

The leading story of Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection tells the story of a disintegration in a marriage. It takes advantage of a familiar set-up. The “bad vibes,...

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, look at this.

Lahiri and Food in Interpreter of Maladies | The Artifice share.google/VvvIgrV5jPBR...

Lahiri and Food in Interpreter of Maladies

The leading story of Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection tells the story of a disintegration in a marriage. It takes advantage of a familiar set-up. The “bad vibes,...

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 5d

Brennan is such a master of his craft.

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 5d

Writing my new project with the idea that sleep is fucking scary all the time and we just pretend otherwise.

Readers, I hope you don't want to sleep soundly again.

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 7d

Now that I am unemployed, my patreon is even more important. If you like my writing or me and can support, please do.

Feel free to tell me what you would like to see. Stories, readings, essays, etc. Lemme know, and I'll give it a go.

www.patreon.com/DevynKennedy...

Get more from Devyn Kennedy on Patreon

creating Queer Fiction

www.patreon.com

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 7d

Now that I am unemployed, my patreon is even more important. If you like my writing or me and can support, please do.

Feel free to tell me what you would like to see. Stories, readings, essays, etc. Lemme know, and I'll give it a go.

www.patreon.com/DevynKennedy...

Get more from Devyn Kennedy on Patreon

creating Queer Fiction

www.patreon.com

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 8d

Me too 🫂

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 8d

I'm gonna grind on doordash as much as I can for a bit but if anyone has any work from home jobs or side hustles they would recommend. Feel free to tell me!

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 8d

🫂

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 8d

I am freshly unemployed now lol

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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hello to BlueSky and my new followers! Please check out my novellas:

THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH is a bittersweet vampire opera in sonnets.

THE GLASS GARDEN is space horror.

Covers designed by @kglyder.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/authorlevai

My two book covers, against a starry background.

STERNENDACH has red bat wings, a book, and fangs.
THE GLASS GARDEN has a kaleidoscope image on it.

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 10d

My back hurts 😫 someone give me love and attention

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Sophia J. Turner 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophiajt.com · 10d

Less than two days left to get this trans lesbian spicy sci-fi goodness for $1!

transistance.itch.io/machines-of-...

Machines of Consent by transistance press

A spicy trans lesbian sci-fi thriller

transistance.itch.io

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 11d

Please help Wylder! #MutualAid #HelpSky

♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 12d

Another shitty thing happened & I found myself hesitant to even post asking for help with it bc nothing came in yesterday & our needs are already so high & urgent with hard deadlines.

We're $150 More overdrawn than we were yesterday. Partially due to fees for the fuck up.

Linktr.ee/Wylder

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 12d

Santa Cruz! I am coming to you!

This Sunday, Oct. 5, I'll be at Bookshop Santa Cruz for the kickoff of Banned Books Week. Fight for your right to read the stories you love <3

Banned Books Night: Read for Your Rights!
OCT. 5TH AT 5:00
BOOKSHOP SANTA CRUZ
SC PL
SANTA CRUZ PUBLIC LIBRARIES
With bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders, Director of Santa Cruz Public Libraries Christopher Platt, and author and bookseller Yves • At Bookshop Santa Cruz
GENSORSHIP is so 1984
FOR YOUR RIGHTS
ALAAmericanLibraryAssociation
©2025 American Library Association ala.org/bbooks

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 12d

Queer folk horror, queer folk horror. That's what I'm writing.

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Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 13d

We continue with more AI Limit over at twitch.tv/vyria_durav! Live now! Come hang out as I make my way closer to the peak of the Hagios Patir and face the rulers of the Church

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Spooky Leia🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @madamephosphorus.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hi my name is Leia. Due to less-than-stellar circumstances, I have no money left for estrogen, which I'm dangerously low on, transportation, writing software, or clothing.

I hate having to do this but mfs fucked me up my ass. Any amount helps.

www.venmo.com/u/thereyofwa...

ko-fi.com/thereyofwater

Venmo | Leia Morales

Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.

www.venmo.com

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 13d

here you go--not all the ones removed are transfem, but most are (and shockingly even more than I thought) and all listed here bsky.app/profile/i.am...

Spooky Spoons @i.am.spooni.sh · 14d

🪐 Sci-Fi 🪐

Blood Bounty (www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...) by Elena Abbott
Beyond Bringers (visceralhit.itch.io) by visceralhit

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 14d

One of the things about this book is that it has repeatedly landed with people the way I wanted it to. I wanted to show that there is no such thing as being unworthy of redemption and love.

I also wanted it to be absolutely horrifying with bug stuff because infestation and colonization is 😬

Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 14d

Then we have Come the Flesh Hive, my gay little nightmare filled with crawling bugs, mad science, and hideous transformations. It is all about the past and the ways it haunts us and is lush and gothic as hell.

Get it here: bookshop.org/a/2770/97983...

Come the Flesh Hive

Check out Come the Flesh Hive - <b>Vestra Mordenroth is in hiding.</b> <p/>An ex-adventure, current professor, and notable crank and mad scientist, Vestra Mordenroth is a teacher at Heathcliff Univers...

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 14d

Happy birthday, friend!

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Devyn Kennedy, Unseen @devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 14d

Okay THIS I can agree on. You are cooking here.

Unlike with certain other food items.

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · Sep 5

The world of UNLIMITED COMBAT DOLLS is not entirely without mercy, but it's a close thing.

Learn a little more here, and find out what it takes to survive it on February 10, 2026.

tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/unlimited-co...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNCDLSDT

Unlimited Combat Dolls setting brief. It features bold red text on a grey backdrop with digital patterns, with each section underlined by a green line that is routed like a PCB.

It is the distant future, year unknown.

Earth is an unrecognizable ruin.

Choked in dust and debris, self-sustaining machine-cities grow tirelessly in nonsensical geometry, and from their bowels emerge legions of ready-made killing machines, designed for wars between nations which no longer exist.

It is into this world that COMBAT DOLLS are born, and in this world that they must survive. Cruel programming forces them into endless conflict with one another, holding subjectivity hostage in case they fail; and in the end, they all do.

But mysteries still remain, scattered among the dirt. Repair systems are still being updated, new blueprints seeming to manifest from the ether. Cameras are everywhere. Who is watching, from behind those countless beady eyes? What future do they see, for the world, and the combat dolls who inhabit it?

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