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Jaws Stone - indefinite hiatus @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 8h

Hi #PortfolioDay - I'm Jaws, a depressed mess and a skank. I just wanna draw my little guys, pay my bills and try to get through it all.

🖼️ jawsstone.com
✉️ [email protected]
👛 patreon.com/only_jaws

An illustration of a scarred man kissing a replica of the statue of David

Three character studies of a long haired man in a crop top and hotpants

An illustration of the movie director David Lynch

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John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 2h

Ahem. #Georgia folks. Y’all my people. I’m here in #Atlanta, Fifth District. John Lewis’s turf. Hank makes good points. Listen to him.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

Hey Georgia! @hankgreen.bsky.social has a convincing pitch for why you should vote AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS in the upcoming Georgia Public Service Commission special election! Potentially save consumers money, kick out some Rs, feel good! YOUR VOTE WILL COUNT HUGELY! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 2h

CALL AND RESPONSE: STORIES OF THE FANTASTIC by Christopher Caldwell is out in the world!

If you haven’t pre-ordered already, you can get it directly from us here:

PAPERBACK: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
EBOOK: www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/call-...

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 3h

If you have a story pending with Must Read Media (includes F&SF, Analog, Asimov's, Ellery Queen), definitely check out Ben's contract before you sign anything.

There've been contract shenanigans there and this is useful ammo to bring to negotiations.

Benjamin C. Kinney @benjaminckinney.com · 1d

New neuroscience short story forthcoming in @analogsf.bsky.social! Which also means a story of - ultimately successful - negotiations with their new publisher.

Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.

benjaminckinney.com/analog-negot...

Analog Negotiations & Short Story Sale: Recognition, Memory » Benjamin C. Kinney - still pruning...

Successful negotiations with Must Read Magazines & Analog SF, who will publish my science fiction short story "Recognition, Memory."

benjaminckinney.com

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 7h

Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners.

It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!

Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock

A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....

www.neonhemlock.com

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Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 2h

You’re welcome, and hugs for that. 🫂

It’s not always easy to tell such things through photos, but perhaps that’s a good candidate for kintsugi?

Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks! I connected them manually and I think it worked. It can take up to 48 hours for the connection to update, so I’ll check it again tomorrow night.

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Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 2h

Me: I have uploaded a few products, I’ve got a commission contact form, and I’m decently happy with the site’s appearance. Let’s publish it.

Squarespace domain connect: HA HA. YOU FOOL. YOU ABSOLUTE BOOB. I AM NOT CONNECTED TO YOUR DOMAIN.

Me: Aw, dammit. *goes to read about DNS connections*

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Zi @ziqqix.bsky.social · 2h

#portfolioday still available for work except my October-November is pretty much all booked. Please get in contact if you have a project for December-2026 👇👇👇

Zi @ziqqix.bsky.social · Nov 19

(Redoing my pinned post to include alt text)

My name is Zi and I’m a Clio award-winning freelance illustrator and occasional model/actor. Some of my clients... Disney, Lionsgate, Marvel, Netflix, Universal, Warner Bros., and many, many more

Available for hire!

🎨: zixu.art
✉️: [email protected]

A snapshot of my portfolio, consisting of mostly poster illustrations and cover art for movies, games, and comics

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Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 2h

Oh no!! I’m so sorry that happened!

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Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 4h

He was very nice! I got a couple of different dark chocolate barks for myself. I drove through there with my ABQ friend on our way to Santa Fe.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 6h

I only open my Short Story Cohort applications a handful of times a year. If you apply and are accepted, you'll receive three months of short story coaching and critique with other writers. Applications are open now: maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-...

Short Story Cohort

WRITING, COACHING, CRITIQUE, and COMMUNITY Join Mary Robinette Kowal for a transformative three-month writing experience, designed to help you learn the craft of short stories while also generating…

maryrobinettekowal.com

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Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 4h

I’m trying to get better at it, but damn it’s difficult. And I struggle with accepting care, too. Great Catch-22 of mental health…😅

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 6h

Tomorrow (October 15) is the final day to get a $100-off early bird discount to attend the April 24-27, 2026 Sandia Starforgers writing retreat for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and other spec fic writers in Albuquerque, NM. I'm teaching with @charliejane.bsky.social. More info: starforgers.com/2026

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Laura Blegen @laurablegen.bsky.social · 6h

Finding the little joys in life doesn't mean ignoring the big terrors.

Flowers grow between the cracks of broken sidewalks all the time.

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Jason @jasonlowrey.bsky.social · 4h

Shugarman’s is amazing. It’s the first time I’ve had white chocolate I actually liked. (I much prefer dark.) I brought some turtles home for my mom, too, and she loved them.

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⚧️ Re-Inventing Venus ♀️ @thevenusbunch.bsky.social · 5h

www.shugarmanschocolate.com/shop --- Holidays are RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!!! --- The first 8 items have a piece of my nesting partner in them. The truffles are ALL him. The caramel for the turtles are also him. #chocolate #holidays

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⚧️ Re-Inventing Venus ♀️ @thevenusbunch.bsky.social · 5h

A donation was deposited between the last post & this one, so the amount remaining is higher. Still nowhere close to feeling stable or secure. The $93.91 in savings will soon be less than $30, thanks to my HRT script. Help? Please? ko-fi.com/helmetofwill... OR ko-fi.com/theloveshack... #mutualaid

A screenshot of a person's banking accounts with the account numbers marked out. The top account [checking] has $9.01 available. The bottom account [savings] has $93.31 available & #98.31 in it.

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 11h

We don't tell young writers "You gotta be a huge freakin' weirdo!" often enough.

It's an asset!

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 13h

#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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Isaac X Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 8h

#LGBTQWriteAThon
Alexander! A horrible little fopling burning to prove his honor and manhood, generally with questionably-called-for physical violence.

He's actually warm, intelligent, and charismatic, just also a bit… angery.

Sort of a deconstruction-and-reconstruction of the Hero/White Prince.

Collage of various sketches of a blond, blue-eyed white boy dressed in aristocratic garb of the early 1660s: black fur hat with huge feathers, cape, falling band, short blue doublet worn open with silver embroidery and gold buttons, blue petticoat breeches, ribboned high-heel shoes or boots with lacy lining, golden rapier, lace-lined gloves, fuzzy golden baldric, and huge quantities of silver and pink ribbon everywhere. In all the various doodles his expression is usually some variant of Angry.

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 10h

The best thing you can do for your writing is to take good care of yourself. The work comes easier, faster, and better when you've got full bars.

Corollary: The best thing we can do to get more amazing art from our faves is to take good care of the artists.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 12h

#LGBTQWriteAThon 14. Ashrah is a warrior and an elbhyr with a second skin based on Indonesian women. Freedom is her highest value, and she fights to achieve hers with fierceness and an incredible force of will.

For more, I'm kinda writing a wiki: chronicles-of-the-realms.fandom.com/wiki/Ashrah_...

Ashrah bust, commissioned from Saphnoctis (Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/saphnoctis/). The drawing is a three-quarter view of Ashrah wearing her Balance is a Journey outfit (the golden, Barong-shaped pauldrons, the purple selendang, the white collar of the white kebaya, and the Garuda-shaped pendants tying the kebaya together), her purple eyes looking to the right, and her hair done in her usual, warrior-like topknot.

Artwork by Drafru (@drafru.bsky.social‬) showing Ashrah in her natural, demonic form of an elbhyr (pronounced ele-ruir). She's a tall, thin demon (so thin we can see the bones in most of her body) with purple skin, claws, a long, wild white hair, purple eyes, thin horns, pointy ears, and two husks on each side of her mouth, one pointing up, the other down. She wears metal beacers, a chest armour, and a cloak around her neck. Otherwise, she's naked, and we can see she has no sexual or gender marks in this form.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 11h

Rafe from 🌃Miles From Morning is fucked up with a capital FU. Yes, that's a gun in his pocket, and no, he's not pleased to see you. He's made of scars, anger, unfortunate circumstances, and questionable decision-making. And he doesn't trust anyone, not even himself.

🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon (MC intro)

A run-down looking corridor, grimy and rough, lit with rays of light coming through broken windows. A man with short dark hair stands in the middle weating baggy trousers, a hoodie, and sunglasses. The lighting is shades of pink, blue and purple for cyberpunk vibes.

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 10h

A very sincere happy 48th birthday to the day activist Thom Higgins threw a cream pie at anti-queer hatemonger Anita Bryant. :)

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