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birdko🦇🎃 @birdko.art · 12h

commission for a first-time client of their lovely moon druid elf character 🌿🌙

[ #art #artcommission #OCart #DnDart #TTRPG ]

Digital illustration of Mira, a woman with elven features, medium-brown skin, hazel eyes and wavy dark-brown hair, wearing a green gown with leaf embellishments and translucent sleeves, sits on a moon overgrown with ivy vines, amid a field of glowing golden blossoms beneath a starry night sky. She is calling forth magic from a glowing blossom floating between her hands. Mira belongs to swetha.duggi on Instagram.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · Oct 22

saint elidibus
#ffxiv

a depiction of elidibus from final fantasy fourteen as a christian saint

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💕Regan Schell💕 @reganiswriting.bsky.social · 19h

I'll be reading at the evening Gather In, alongside other authors from @crayfishmag.bsky.social's inaugural issue.

Come see us this Thursday, 10/16, at 7 pm in the McDonough Museum of Art! 💙📚

Lit Youngstown @lityoungstown.bsky.social · Jun 8

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! A close look at writer intent
Writing for the Stage w/ Lilace Mellin Guignard, Judith Sornberger
What the Writer Thinks They Wrote w/ Cherise Benton
@ShantiArts @WilkesUWriting
#WritingCommmunity #amwriting #writesky
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Festival Details | Lit Youngstown

Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

www.lityoungstown.org

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · Aug 29

My commissions are still open! Use this link to get 50% off any editing or beta reading service!

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 14h

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 · 17h

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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Ram Lightly @ramlightly.bsky.social · Jun 25

A Long Night

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 19h

Casual reminder that I'm the first self-published author to win a Nebula Award and I'm available for podcasts, guest blogging, con panels and GOH, interviews in general, translations, agents, book deals, movie deals and large sums of no strings attached money 😅

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 15h

bonus: here's a picrew I just made! lol

Imagine a rounder face and you've got Selba in all her glory. She wears headscarves sometimes, mostly when she needs to keep the rain or wind off her hair.

a picrew template made by K_pupu. it depicts a large-eyed, dark skinned woman with curly black hair swept back from her face. she has hazel eyes and is wearing a pale green dress with tiny white flowers on it, as well as a sheer, slightly darker green shawl

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 18h

#LGBTQWriteAThon

(1/2) Selba Gatebird is 27, the only child of a single mom. She's 5'6" with curly black hair, dark skin, & hazel eyes. Her favorite activities are drinking tea, spilling tea, stirring the pot, & gardening. She has the Sight, a rare talent that grants her glimpses of the future.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 23h

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 14:

Introduce us to your MC today!

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 14: Introduce your MC. BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 18h

I'm back and the highschool kids were fabulous. They brainstormed ideas with pencil and paper and talked abt story ideas, had insightful questions, asked me abt writers block, asked me how to write the middle of books asked what exactly do publishers do? Lol 💀
Girl writing/reading is not dead yet.

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 23h

Every day I see articles here about gen Z and Alpha using chatgpt to write and now today I'm off to talk to a grade 12 creative writing class. I think they might let some younger grades watch.
This will probably be my most discerning audience and one of my most important.
Never write off the kids🖤

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Spoukee PD 🏳️‍⚧️ Resident Evil is my hyperfixation @pdloupee.blog · 19h

I'm still looking for WORK! I can either write your comic books, or draw your OCs, but do have experience with prose, screenplays and editing—DM me for anything not listed!

PD Loupee's Commissions

Commissions Open! Click to see PD Loupee's commission menu.

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 18h

Hey im so sorry but I need to take bo to the emergency vet and I absolutely do not have enough to cover x rays as my wellness plan only covers the office visit. If you were ever interested in a book, now is a great time!

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨NOVELLA NEWS🚨

Veteran hunter Nadine accepts a high-paying bounty to capture a crafty art forger, expecting an easy job... but one look at her mark tells her she's in over her head. 💙📚🪐

Now priced at $2.99... forever! Available on Amazon, Ko-fi, Itch, & Payhip! elizamares.carrd.co#catmouse

The CAT/MOUSE cover on a dark purple background. Surrounding it are arrows and the phrases: “Sapphic science fiction with a noir twist!”; “heisting on a space station”; “far-flung future”; “steamy nightclub encounter”; “all the yearning”; “supporting women’s rights and wrongs”; “femme alien art thief”; “butch human bounty hunter”. The ebooks are $2.99 and they are available on Amazon, Itch, Ko-fi, and Payhip.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 18h

(2/2) The Sight is unpredictable; Selba never knows when a vision is coming or what it will depict. Some visions are so abstract as to be meaningless.

Despite this, her neighbors come to her for answers & reassurances, & she provides as best she can w/out lying. Selba hates lying.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 18h

#LGBTQWriteAThon

(1/2) Selba Gatebird is 27, the only child of a single mom. She's 5'6" with curly black hair, dark skin, & hazel eyes. Her favorite activities are drinking tea, spilling tea, stirring the pot, & gardening. She has the Sight, a rare talent that grants her glimpses of the future.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 23h

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 14:

Introduce us to your MC today!

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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(V)Ladz The Impaler @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 20h

this is especially true for indies for whom things like sending free physical copies - ARCs or otherwise - is very cost prohibitive so if you own those books, it helps to show them off

Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 22h

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Many thanks for the review! ❤️

Grimoire Ink Reviews @grimoireinkreviews.bsky.social · 19h

And to round off our #SFINC3 posts today, we have @andresstein.bsky.social's review of Cat/Mouse by @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social

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Cat/Mouse by Eliza Mares

Reviewed by Andrés da Silveira Stein ★★★½ Cat/Mouse is a very impressive short novella (roughly 65 pages). Within its short page count, Eliza Mares crafted a very cohesive story of a Bountyhu…

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Julie. W 🍂 @owlyjules.bsky.social · 1d

Wisptober Day 7 - Comrade

"A soldier was always followed by his most faithful comrade; Death."

#wisptober #wisptober2025 #illustration

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vert ⚡️🪶 open to work @subvertebra.bsky.social · 1d

happy indigenous peoples' day! 🧡 rather than a new post, i'm reupping this one—still open to work, and gladly accepting tips to meet bills this month!

please consider supporting me and the other indigenous friends in your life, today and every day. every repost, dollar, and inquiry helps.

vert ⚡️🪶 open to work @subvertebra.bsky.social · 4d

hey it's me again telling you that i am ✨ open to work ✨ and also need to cover bills this month. :)

hire me for:
⚡ comms (writing, graphics, book formatting)
⚡ self-pub services (editing, book formatting)

or support me via:
⚡ tip jar
⚡ patreon

book portfolio here! bring me your weird fiction.

Buy subvertebra a Coffee

Become a supporter of subvertebra today!

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Two more hours!!!!!!!

✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 8d

Introducing the Under-Rated Book Bundle! 💙📚

Over 60 indie books, each with under 15 reviews on Goodreads or the 'Zon, bundled for only $38 on Itch! Mark your calendars and enjoy 83% off a collection of the best books you've never heard of.

LINK: itch.io/b/3305/under...

A collage of indie books for sale in the Itch.io Under-Rated Bundle. Runs 10/9 to10/13, bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon

I’d love to work my way through chapter 8 of DeadGirlsWIP and maybe get started on chapter 9.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 13:

Goals day! What are your goals this week?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPSnips

A short snip from chapter seven of DeadGirlsWIP 💙📚

All the air hissed out of Selba’s lungs in one long push. She hadn’t expected him to come; why did it hurt so badly to be correct? A tear fell as she ordered her horse forward, but she dashed it away with the hem of her sleeve.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPSnips

A short snip from chapter seven of DeadGirlsWIP 💙📚

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! If you want to get into the Halloween spirit and want to support Indigenous people, may I suggest you pick up Never Whistle At Night, edited by Shawn Hawk with an introduction by Stephen Graham Jones.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/75...

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