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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1h

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 54m

8 was so hard. I easily could have listed more. Like Placebo...I've seen them live more than almost any band, but not in about 15 years.

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 1h

#SapphicBooks check out my novels TURNING POINT and TURN FOR HOME and so many other fiction and romance books by sapphic authors. books.bookfunnel.com/bfhostffsloc...

Several images: Two women kissing, two book covers TURNING POINT and TURN FOR HOME and a Pride Rainbow. Overlaid are the words "Sapphic Fiction Promo" and "Sapphic Romance Books"

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 1h

I feel you. I get these anxious feelings in my gut just thinking about having to write the chapter I outlined. 😖

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Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 5h

Line editing and retyping are both so mentally taxing, and yet I do those steps one after another. 😭 #pretendpanel

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 10h

#pretendpanel I once again must catch up with your responses tomorrow. I'm at another all-day writing event. For now, tell me...

October 18th: Is there anything about the writing process or about any of your writing projects that drains you?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#pretendpanel
a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social
October 18th: Is there anything about the writing process or about any of your writing projects that drains you?
Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts
New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 2h

months, or that Terminator Dark Fate fanfic that I have 50k words written on and do still intend to finish, one of these days...

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 2h

of killing a beloved supporting character while trying to plot out the ending of FiaVLT. 😂

As for NOT staying dead, I mean, it's gotta be Gwen, being literally undead.

From an outside standpoint, I dunno...probably either my political fantasy WIP, coming up on 6 years working on it, every few

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 2h

Hi #PretendPanel, trying to get back in the swing of posting with one of my fave games.

I am famously terrible at killing my darlings. My 1st completed manuscript I originally killed 2 supporting characters, then cried & just made them wounded. The Kronkers will tell you I agonized about the idea

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #pretenpanel! Dropping this before a busy day tomorrow, so I will be delayed in responding, but I am keen to know...

October 17th: They say sometimes you have to kill your darlings. Which of your darlings just don't stay dead?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#pretendpanel
a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social
October 17th: They say sometimes you have to kill your darlings. Which of your darlings just don't stay dead?
Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts
New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!

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Joe Humphrey | Writer and Artist @joehumphrey.bsky.social · 2h

If you have trouble telling the difference between Paul McCartney and John Lennon's singing voices, remember that if it sounds angelic and sweet and has no discernible edge, then it's Paul. If it's nasally and spouting nonsense or, weirdly, hateful things about women, then it's John.
Hope that helps

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 2h

@sayaashrah.bsky.social will always be a fave on this app. Same goes for @reaper-man.bsky.social, @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social & @kiraofthewind.com

@coricatchthorne.bsky.social thank you for the questions about things I didn't even think to ponder!

@greethewriter.bsky.social thanks for the love!

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 2h

To my fellow beloved Kronkers: @professoremily.bsky.social, @gunsmile.bsky.social, @carska36.bsky.social, @eliwoodsgheist.com, @dimreaper.bsky.social, @woodenvelt.bsky.social, @hiriadunning.bsky.social ❤️

Y'all are some of my favourite people on Earth.

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 2h

#Septopolis 29

Things have been...not good, so this is almost a month late, but I've been looking at this prompt for weeks because I didn't want to NOT acknowledge the amazingly creative people involved in this game.

Firstly, of course, worlds of props to @khonri.com for this amazing game.

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · 19d

#Septopolis 29

It takes a village! Or floating city, underground hideout, star fleet...

Anyways, a single person isn't running a show by themselves, nor do we create alone. So, today, give some acknowledgement to those who inspired you in some way on your journey.

#WritingCommunity #Writesky

A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 29: Give a shout out! Whether it be another participant, a motivator for your work, or your inspiration for getting into worldbuilding from the start.

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 12h

Oooo, great list!

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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 1d

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 2d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Nina Fairweather @ninafairweather.com · 8d

#SapphicLineShare 10 Oct: Claws/ Nails

From a NaNo novel that might see the light one day. My MC's business partner gets a bit elemental when she's upset.

I forced my attention back to the brawl around me each time it wandered. Violent shivers began to subside even before I realized they were mine and not those of the world around me. I should have called for help but speech seemed too arduous with a floor so cold and inviting.

My partner passed, a snarl in slow motion. Her eyes were dark pits. Smoke trailed behind her. Crimson dripped from fingers that looked more like claws. Surely she would mop up the rest.

Then I remembered Anna hiding under the desk in the corner and tried to turn my head.

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Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 5d

#sapphiclineshare 'nail' from Before Queens and Saints ⚓️💜🕊

Poor Geni 😅🥲

Astraia had almost felt like a sister. Until she hadn't.

Until she really, truly hadn't.

Geni had nothing else to take the thoughts away but to dig a fingernail into the back of her wrist and hurry away, letting the cool air whip her hair around with abandon until she was well away from all that, the leaves, the school, the memories. Her reflection in a street-level window showed her a glimpse of the extent of the damage. Of course her hair would be a mess going to dinner. Nothing could ever be perfect. Who cared anyway? She was thirty-two, and already done. Just like the constant need for raking the leaves at this time of year, there was only so much salvaging even possible now. Maintenance mode. That was all that was left. None of that heady rush of youth and untested dreams of what love could be.

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Nina Fairweather @ninafairweather.com · 1d

#SapphicLineShare 17 Oct: Fear/ Excited

Meet Wisteria, the second best mechanic on Izu station

The other wore a patchwork frame with bulky, jagged lower legs similar to the void mechs who helped dock my ship. Her primary arms and thighs appeared to be smaller versions of the armored security bots, but clearly fused into a frame that can host a human mind. Two additional delicate limbs on each of her sides extended whole suites of tools, lights, and sensors. Cables in different hues of purple fell from her skull in a loose braid down her back all the way to her hips.

She turned her head and I felt my Shen swell with emotion. Hers was the first fully articulated face I’d seen since I arrived. The first I’d seen like mine other than Lily’s in more than six hundred years.

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Adam Reisinger @adamreisinger.com · 1d

#SapphicLineShare - Fear/Excited

Time for readers to get excited, because the enemies are started to become lovers (despite Chloé’s fears)

She grabs my right arm and lifts it triumphantly in the air.
"Did you hear that everyone?! Chloé LaFleur is officially a show girlie!" The rest of the cast starts laughing and applauding and my cheeks are as flushed as they've ever been.
"I hate you," I say to Freja, trying my best to stifle my own laugh.
"Oh, you know you love me," she says. And, fuck, my heart starts racing again and the bees in my stomach go into overdrive, and I can feel my fear response kicking in. At the start of the season, my biggest fear was joining this show. Now, though, I’m more afraid she might be right.

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 1d

#SapphicLineShare "Fear"

Ashrah won't rest until she finds her crush—I mean, her archenemy!

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms #QueerWriters

“Nitara…” She showed no fear in the face of the necromancer, her sword aimed at his heart—and if the absurd claims of his ghoulish nature were true, he would have a heart—, her expression a testament to her readiness to fight.

And fight she did. The spectral image trembled, Moloch grabbing nensiis out of the air, Kia unleashing the magic of her bloodline, the rest of the cohort swarming the ship. And Nitara… Ashrah looked and looked, but those spirits had been nowhere near the captain during the skirmish.

“Amudava!” she cursed the captain and the useless demons. Not that any of the wretches could ever kill Nitara, no one but Ashrah had the right, but they could have at least provided some—

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Blue Sonja @licoricemint.bsky.social · 23h

#SapphicLineShare #lesficfri #licoriceandmint #QueerWriters #sapphic #lesfic

From One Bad Tuesday: Chapter 5 - Rigor and Rote

archiveofourown.org/series/3436765

“And I trust you.” Vola squeezed her close, the muscles contracting around Nat like a warm protective cage. She’d always known how much taller and broader Vola was, but being held close like this made an odd feeling skate down the length of her spine. Was this how her friend saw her? Delicate and small like a baby bird? Because that was how she felt right now, wrapped in the safety of Vola’s arms.

Snap. Out of it. Dear gods, what was up with her? She hadn’t had sex since that hookup with Ceres, and had been too stressed between work and the apartment situation to even masturbate in a couple weeks. Somehow, Vola being there at the same time as her seemed to strip away all the anxiety and fear, letting the other emotions she’d been repressing shine through. Yes, of course. That made sense. That had to be it.

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 23h

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Warpaint
Torres
Miya Folick
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Marika Hackman
PVRIS
Linkin Park (Old & new)
Santigold

Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio Narrator 🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Nomi Ruiz
Sludge Bunny (rip)
Faggot Band (also rip 😭)
Ekko Astral
Flummox
Galactikraken
Pretty Bitter
Evelyn Gray

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

the mountain goats
jeff rosenstock (and associated projects)
100 gecs
underscores
lady gaga
david bowie
sophie
guns n' roses

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Issy Waldrom @iwaldrom.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #lesficfri (since it's well into Friday here). How about a little flirting between Miyako and Odette, where the walking may or may not have delayed it a little?

From Best Friends' Promise, a trans sapphic vampire romance (because vampires are awesome ^^)

www.amazon.com/Best-Friends...

Excerpt from Best Friends' Promise, by Issy Waldrom and Mackenzie Sutton

Miyako blushed yet again as she tried to force herself to not look away. “So, gifts?” Had she completely missed Odette’s answer?
“That I can, little vampire.”
“Say that too much, and I’ll end up becoming your little vampire,” Miyako retorted before she had a chance to catch the words.
“Hmm. Perhaps?” Odette gave a little laugh before stepping back and walking to the middle of the gym. “Shall we get started then? Since you did come, after all.”

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Nina Fairweather @ninafairweather.com · 1d

#LesFicFri 17 Oct: (side)walk(s)

University Place and Waverly was a mess of humans at that hour. Cyclists, skateboarders, pedestrians, a few hired cars, and the occasional professor with trailing entourage clogged streets and sidewalks alike. College students flirted with traffic and each other.

Ocean @oceanwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Thur #lesficfri Friends
🤗
Tomorrow's theme is ****WALK****

Such a simple word but WALKING or watching someone WALK can be full of interesting meaning!

Let's share some WALKING action!
🚶‍♀️🩰🥾👠🦶

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Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social · 1d

I am so sorry that you're going through that. All the best in this incredibly hard time.

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Eliwood S. Gheist @eliwoodsgheist.com · 1d

Happy #PretendPanel!

I've mentioned this before, but I have a trilogy around a son of a warlord who was raised by peaceful adoptive parents who has to come to terms with the dark power the warlord passed to him, thanks to the father's connection to an ancient demon.
There's also an ancient angel +

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #pretenpanel! Dropping this before a busy day tomorrow, so I will be delayed in responding, but I am keen to know...

October 17th: They say sometimes you have to kill your darlings. Which of your darlings just don't stay dead?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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