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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · 1d

NEW FIC ALERT

A Hideous Carrion
SVSSS Post-Canon Daemon AU

Luo Binghe wakes from a nightmare to find his horrible daemon far too close to his shizun's delicate soul.

An emotional hurt/comfort oneshot written for the SVSSS Gotcha for Gaza!
archiveofourown.org/works/72790561

#Bingqiu

A Hideous Carrion
by Boomchick.
Summary: She is strong, Binghe's daemon. She is strong. She tore apart the monsters of the abyss with her claws, and her teeth. She started to like it, though she didn't like anything else. Binghe certainly didn't enjoy it. He isn't a beast. He isn't. But the abyss made Zheng Yang sick. It made her into Xin Mo, and he hated her. He hated her even before she turned her claws on him, and he turned his on her in turn.
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Luo Binghe wakes from a nightmare to their room in tatters, and Shen Qingqiu's delicate daemon dangerously close to Xin Mo.

Shen Qingqiu and Xiu Ya refuse to be afraid.

(Love, comfort, & daemon touching, written for an anonymous donor to the SVSSS Gotcha for Gaza)

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JD Rivers | OUT NOW: Wish of a Dragon @jd-rivers.com · 10d

🐺 A downtrodden ex-soldier.
🦭 A lost inn-owner.
❤️ Blossoming feelings.
🗡️ A dead body.
🏝️ An island, where justice is deadly.

Selkie x werewolf
Urban fantasy!

Buy direct: tinyurl.com/DPPSalt
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The front cover of a book entitled The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers. Stylized artwork shows two men in a loose embrace, one shorter, light-skinned, and pale-haired, the taller one dark haired and darker skinned, both in casual modern-esque clothes. The taller one kisses the shorter one on the forehead, his hand clasping the shorter one's cheek. They stand before a blood-red circle with a star on it, and a brilliant blue wave surges behind them.
Illustration by: planetsandmagic
Typesetting by: Hermits Writes

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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · 8d

ooooOOOO VERY EXCITING!!!

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🌈miski🌦️ @miski.bsky.social · 9d

WHAT'S THE STORY, WISHBONE?

Spice 💕 @spicedyde.bsky.social · 10d

🐶: “Very spooky! A corpse is a dead body.”

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Roz 🏳️‍⚧️ @rosenkranz.bsky.social · 12d

Old Gods of Appalachia art for the spooky season

two panels drawn with a black fountain pen with some orange accents. the first one depicts a girl with red braided hair. behind her, there's a forest. in the foreground, there's a dark silhouette of a big stag. the girl says "hail, spirit". in the second panel, the girl and the stag stand face to face, the stag's antlers are amber. he says: hail, witch

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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · 13d

If you are really a wolf, then
slow down. Your elders should lead the pack,
so you do not go too fast for them.
There are no alphas,
but
the pack is real.

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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · 15d

My wife knows how much this bothers me, and now every time we hear a red tailed hawk while out and about she looks me dead in the eye and goes 'AN EAGLE!' like a JERK

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · 27d

I'm running behind on #SpiteJiu, but you better BELIEVE I'm working on it!!!

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Sep 18

We're running a poll to pick our next anthology theme RIGHT NOW! And, anyone who becomes a backer during September will get a freebie. So, there's no better time to support a queer indie press - we get help picking the theme, you get freebies, everyone wins! www.patreon.com/posts/vote-f...

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A screen capture of a blog post on Patreon. Text reads: Vote for the Theme of the Next General Imprint Anthology! It's that time again: staff has considered a bunch of options to be the theme of our next general imprint anthology, and we've narrowed it down to four, and now y'all get to pick!!!

Based on requests people have made when we've vended in person, we thought it'd be nice to focus this anthology on either asexual character or bisexual characters, and then we picked some settings we thought might be fun to toss those characters in to.

I will close this survey on September 23, 2025, so get your votes in before then!
The poll choices are: -ace characters + settings in outerspace (ace! in! spaaaaace!)
-bi characters + sports settings (more than just hockey!)
-ace characters + solarpunk (hopeful ace-punk!)
-bi characters + sword and sorcery (bi knights! and more!)

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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · Sep 17

YESSSSS, ENJOYYYYYY, ITS SO AMAZING!!!

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · Sep 16

I mean this in all seriousness: this is the point of being alive

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · Sep 16

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)

Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Sep 14

@abiggaymarket.bsky.social is at Kaleidoscope Cafe in Saratoga Springs today! For my Capital District and Saratoga County peeps, I hope you'll come say hi! We're here til 4 p.m.

A photogtaph of a booth set up before a woodsy area, a tent overhead. Two tables are loaded with merchandise and books. A banner on one table reads Duck Prints Press We Print Diversity.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Sep 9

We're currently $29/month in backing from my being able to give our authors and artists a raise on pieces they make for Patreon.

That's only 10 people backing at the $3/month level, or 6 at the $5, or 3 at the $10. That's like. hardly any people at all!

So please help by sharing this. <3

unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Sep 1

Duck Prints Press, indie publisher founded by fancreators to help fancreators publish their original LGBTQIA+ work, needs YOU! 🫵

Seeking: new backers for our Patreon! People who boost our post about it a chance to win a book! Learn all the many details on our webpage: tinyurl.com/mus57v48

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Graphic with a pale blue background. It features a white duck looking with a smirk toward the viewer, his winges spread behind him; the wings have a rainbow gradient. Text on the gaphic reads "Support Duck Prints Press on Patreon, Receive a Backer Exclusive Freebie or any merch item up to $5."

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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · Sep 10

Freeform Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan for an anonymous donor to
the SVSSS Gotcha for Gaza! This time it's an outsider POV, with poor Shen Meimei walking into her big brother's apartment to find he has a surprise guest ;)

archiveofourown.org/works/70554621

Burned Eyes, Clear View - Boomchick - 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Sep 1

Duck Prints Press, indie publisher founded by fancreators to help fancreators publish their original LGBTQIA+ work, needs YOU! 🫵

Seeking: new backers for our Patreon! People who boost our post about it a chance to win a book! Learn all the many details on our webpage: tinyurl.com/mus57v48

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Aug 31

Missed the campaign to buy Xianyu Zhou's Fannish Safety Signs stickers? Back it but realize you just gotta get more? Well, we gotchu! Fannish Safety Sign Stickers – 39 designs in all! – are now available in the Duck Prints Press webstore! duckprintspress.com/product-tag/...

A mosaic of 17 similar but non-identical graphics in black and white with simple graphics. Text on each varies from a basic "Be Alert For..." format, and each has art to go with the theme. The 17 are: Be Alert for Cats, featuring a cat silhouette; Be Alert for Dogs, featuring a dog silhouette; Be Alert for Hanahaki Disease, featuring a figure spitting out two flowers; Be Alert for Idiots in love, featuring two people with question marks over their head passing a heart between them; Be Alert for Knives featuring a knife; Be Alert for Little Goobers featuring a little alienish blob with big staring eyes and tendrils coming from it; Be Alert for New Blorbos featuring a figure emerging from a box; Be Alert For New Books featuring a stack of three books; Be Alert for Plot Bunnies featuring an open book with a bunny leaping across it; Be Alert for Plot Holes featuring a person sinking into a black hole with an exclamation point over their head; Be Alert for Poor Little Meow-Meows featuring a person with devil horns who is crying; Be Alert for Porn With Plot featuring two figures, one standing, one sitting crosslegged in a chair; Be Alert for Porn Without Plot, featuring two figures, one atop the other in a bed, mostly covered by a blanket; Be Alert for Redemption Arcs featuring a figuring holding a U Turn sign; Be Alert for Submission Deadlines, featuring a stack of papers with a timer over it; Be Alert for Transmigration Risks featuring a person falling into a book; and Be Alert for Unreliable Narrators, featuring a smirking figuring surrounded by text bubbles.

A mosaic of 16 similar but non-identical CAUTION stickers in yellow and black. Each design features the word CAUTION, text, and an image that matches the text. The sixteen designs are: Caution Angst, with a bandaged anatomical heart; Caution Dead Dover: Do Not Eat featuring a bird lying on its side, with an x for an eye, with a fork and knife on either side of it; Caution Enemies to Lovers with two swords crossed, a heart over them; Caution Fake Dating, showing two hands clasped in a handshake; Caution Fluff featuring a fluffy sheep; Caution Mutual Pining with a stand of three pine trees; Caution OMG They are Roommates featuring two figures sitting side by side on a couch; Caution One-Night Stand beside a nightstand with a lamp on it; Caution Shelf Nearing Capacity showing a full bookshelf; Caution Slippery When Wet with three tentacles emerging from waves; Caution Slow Burn beside a lit candle; Caution There's Only One Bed with a neatly made bed; Caution To-Be-Read Towers with three big stacks of books; Caution Whump, featuring a person with their arm in a sling, their leg bandaged, and a crutch; Caution WIP Longer than Expected featuring a document page so long it's folded back on itself three times; and Caution Work in Progress showing a stack of papers with a partially filled progress bar over it.

A mosaic of three blue and white signs that are similar but not identical. The first is a blue and white sign with a list of five items, each with a small illustration. The five are: color palette; reference materials; pen; ...pen; are you sure you have your pen?. Text at the bottom reads, "The required focus aids above must be prepared before a drawing session. The second is a blue and white sign with a list of five items, each with a small illustration. The five are: preferred website; suitable timeslot; cozy blanket; imminent schedule; and comfort blorbos. Text at the bottom reads: the required focus aids above must be prepared before a fanfic-reading session. The third is a sign with a list of five items, each with a small illustration. The five are: beverage; ergonomic support; background noise; suitable strategy; involuntary distraction. Text at the bottom reads "the required focus aids above must be prepared before a writing session."

Two sticker designs in the diamond shape of warning signs. One has text that reads "WRITER AT WORK," the other "ARTIST AT WORK." They have multihued shiny-looking backgrounds.

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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · Aug 28

CHAPTER 3 OF THE MDZS DONKEY AU IS LIVE!

Some trivia:
🫏 The Jins are Ponies because i misread peony a few times in the novel!
🫏 This fic implies that i think Lan An was a donkey!

For more trivia & delights read The Grandmaster of Donkeyic Cultivation!

archiveofourown.org/works/698117...

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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · Aug 28

The best non-spite portions of this fic were inspired by the very fun @sleepeyhorsey.bsky.social's gorgeous artwork--Please give 'em a follow!

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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · Aug 28

You know what your day's missing? A spite-written #MDZS fic where everyone is a donkey except for Little Apple. Fortunately for you, you can start reading it NOW!

archiveofourown.org/works/698117...

The Grandmaster of Donkeyic Cultivation - Chapter 1 - Boomchick - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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SVSSSkinZine @svssskinzine.bsky.social · Aug 25

Preorders are Live! go get your wrinkly bundles!
svssskinzine.bigcartel.com

#atozines #zines #SVSSSEvents

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · Aug 24

Related (or maybe the same) is that "I'm going to trick the reader haha" is not a good path to reader investment, but "I am going to delight the reader, haha!" is. They look the same on the surface but they're not. I always advise being generous to readers, not adversarial.

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starsnores🔞 @starsnores.bsky.social · Aug 18

to listen to him play

a drawing of yqy standing behind bamboo and listening to shen jiu play a qin in a pavilion far behind him.

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#ficwip @ficwip.bsky.social · Aug 21

happy fanfiction writers appreciation day!

the Colonel Toad meme, an elegant toad in a suit coat. he says Beautiful writers, it is with great pleasure that I wish you happy fanfiction writers appreciation day

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Boomchick || E-ming Target @boomfanfic.bsky.social · Aug 21

Come on down to GA and we can catch it together--that's not TOO far, right? 😂

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