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✬Communiggty Centric✬

@urbanaudacity.blacksky.app

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I write speculative fiction short stories, novels, and comics. Don’t take what I say too seriously. Yes, I am neurodivergent. How could you tell?

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7d

It’s Black Speculative Fiction month, so it’s only right that I have [finally] made issue #1 of my comic, UNDEAD DUO, available to read online for FREE.

Please, give it a read!

globalcomix.com/read/d501429...

The cover of Undead Duo #1.

It depicts a Black woman, ERA, in a tattered dress, holding a curved blade that resembles an Ethiopian Shotel. Directly behind her is the title, UNDEAD DUO, in all caps, with a red line that looks like a life plus running through the text. A little further behind Era is the wreckage of a red car.

At the top is the name of the contributors to this comic: BA Spann (me), Khalid Johnson (artist), Jamesia Bly (styling).

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 5h

😂 A younger me might’ve lied to em

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7h

Limes

Antifascist Carebear (she/her/ela) @essadms.bsky.social · 7h

Lemons or limes?

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7h

Ginger

Antifascist Carebear (she/her/ela) @essadms.bsky.social · 7h

Ginger or Turmeric?

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7h

This question has a built in bias 😭 …but the answer is definitely honey crisp

Antifascist Carebear (she/her/ela) @essadms.bsky.social · 7h

Green, Red, or the queen supreme Honey Crisp Apple?

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7h

Mangoes

Antifascist Carebear (she/her/ela) @essadms.bsky.social · 7h

Pineapples or Mangoes?

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7h

Cherries

Antifascist Carebear (she/her/ela) @essadms.bsky.social · 7h

Cherries or Strawberries?

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7h

Lavender

10|24 bugs hunny 🐰: sydney shaw @chelleeeee.blacksky.app · 7h

People over the age of 29+. Quick question: Eucalyptus, Lemon or Lavender?

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7h

I learn a lot on here, but more often than not, I am cursed by the knowledge I receive.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 18h

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7h

It’s definitely this 😭

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 7h

ADHD? More like H8MEHD!

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 8h

I have not, but I’ve seen a Whopper Jr, and I imagine they’re just as bad!

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 8h

Large eggs not even large no more

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 8h

I would assume you were kidnapped

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💕Pinkie Soulaan-READ the PINNED💕 @theepinklady.bsky.social · 25d

Links to my c*sh*pp and v*enmo.

Censoring for bot avoidance.

Please donate, boost and share! Any help is deeply appreciated! 🥹💕💕💕💕

venmo.com/u/pinkapinka

cash.app/$vvitchbitch

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 8h

You basically took the words right out of my brain!

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Mozelle Baitise Delacroix’s only son. @wanderingdruid3300.bsky.social · 9h

characters, queer and trans characters…shit, characters of all backgrounds! Embracing different cultures, colors, and identities ultimately creates a richer fantasy realm.

Sorry for the rant. A lot of folks think that I would be a big fan of his, but I just feel like his works are stale

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Mozelle Baitise Delacroix’s only son. @wanderingdruid3300.bsky.social · 9h

The gage is, their insistence to have high fantasy look a certain way i.e. white, and European, undermines the very essence of fantasy,which absolutely celebrates diversity and inclusivity.In worlds full of dragons, magic, and unimaginable realms, there should absolutely be room for Black, and brown

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Mozelle Baitise Delacroix’s only son. @wanderingdruid3300.bsky.social · 9h

Too many of his fanboys cling to his narrow interpretations, insisting that Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs look and behave a certain way.These modes of thought are rooted in outdated, racist stereotypes.When this outdated as thinking is regurgitated by his fanboys, it creates an insufferable environment.

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

What do you feel annoys you most? It seems like Tolkien would typically be right up your alley!

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Mozelle Baitise Delacroix’s only son. @wanderingdruid3300.bsky.social · 9h

Can we talk about it!? as a black person who plays dungeons and dragons, as a black person who loves high fantasy, and as a black person who goes to a Renaissance fair… When I tell you, I am Tolkiens biggest hater

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

Honestly, this was more true at some point, but it feels less true these days! They sure as Hell don’t promote non-traditional fantasy as much, but they publish and release them.

Many have won the major genre awards like Hugos, Nebulas, etc, but not enough ppl know about them usually bc less white

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

This isn’t unhinged as much as it is literally true

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Winnie Madikizela’s boo @dre-withwithout.blacksky.app · 9h

Twilight is Mormon erotica and should be classified as such.

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 9h

Sentiments like this are exactly why I’m a Tolkien hater 😐

(I don’t think this person is bad because their opinion is bad; that’s why I did all this scribbling)

A screenshot of a post. Somebody I redacted says, “Pound for pound, fantasy still hasn’t improved on The Lord of the Rings.”

It is quoting a post that says, “Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat”

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · Apr 12

As a black fantasy writer, I really do be so sick of people talking to me about Tolkien when I talk about my genre. I truly do not give a fuck.

Please talk to me about N.K. Jemisin, or somebody whose work I find relevant to my own.

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