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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them)

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🪐 Humor Sci-fi Writer & Artist 🌈 Space hippie mystic 💕LGBTQ+ and BLM 👽 Agender (They/Them) 30 😍 Married to @straysongdog.com Books and comics at: CarmenLoup.com 🖖 Afterdark: @solaraflair.bsky.social

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · Apr 24

✨The Audacity ✨ is a queer as in weird and queer as in gay existential multimedia space adventure series!

The novel Audacity 4: Significantly Other just released. Check it out and find lots of other fun stuff like a space-themed tarot deck and comic book adaption at CarmenLoup.com

Tarot Illustrator | Author | Carmen Loup | Savannah GA

Carmen Laura Loup is an illustrator and author in Savannah, GA with a degree from SCAD. She has published Tarot in Space and The Audacity Humor Sci-fi Book Series

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 10m

To celebrate The Audacity 2 Audiobook launch on Audible, I’m giving away 5 free copies of The Audacity 1 audiobook! To enter…

1) Re-post this
2) Follow me so I can DM you the code if you win!
3) Opt: Tag a friend in the comments (every tag is +1 entry!)

5 random winners chosen Oct 17 at midnight!

Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 4h

I recently bought a TV series with English subtitles from a guy online and then discovered it was clearly AI generated translations. AI translation doesn't maintain the spirit of the original work well at all. Human translators matter.

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 1d

a cat is standing on a purple guitar .

ALT: a cat is standing on a purple guitar .

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 1d

You and I must have very different definitions of the word "good"! It's weird as hell. you never know what's coming next or why, and there's cats there. They've got their own strange little culture! That's all I need 😂

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 1d

But like... Cats though. Cats!

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 1d

Books can do so many things visual media can't and should absolutely always take advantage of that. If it could be easily translated into a movie/show, why write a book about it? (I feel the same about animation. If it could easily be live action, you're not having enough fun with the medium!)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 1d

The mutually exclusive concept of “trick-or-treat” is very confusing for dogs who often work in the tricks business and get paid exclusively in treats.

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 1d

Hellloooo internet! I sincerely need 1 more beta reader who hasn't read The Audacity to read just the first ~9,000 words of "Aliens in New Florida" (you can read more, but the rest is fine apparently) and tell me your thoughts and opinions.

It's weird post-apocalyptic Florida sapphic alien romance.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 10d

Part of me wants to write a scene at the end of my book where the characters hang out and have a laugh just to show the book was fiction and they're just acting. No one got hurt, really! They're all pals in real life. Everyone consented and signed a contract.

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 11d

#QueerPrompts

Xan is an alien cinnamon roll with a deep passion for “I Love Lucy”, languages, and of course May.

Xan making May dance with him in the Audacity.

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 11d

Ey!!

a man with long hair and a beard is giving a thumbs up and saying `` many thanks '' .

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

It’s a commentary on the absurd nature of life clearly

Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

I was so freaking grumpy this morning and then I held the door for someone at the cafe I went to and I tipped 25% and now I feel like the world is good again 😂

Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

I really had a blast with the Audacity audiobook and the sequel should be live any day now! www.audible.com/series/The-A... #lgbtqwriteathon

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

Me, who is once again obsessing over Red Dwarf which first aired in 1988: “Wow I can’t believe people are still into Our Flag Means Death” 🫠

Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

Let there be color! 🌈

Blue alien with mushroom antlers in a psychedelic world

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

Wikipedia to the rescue! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

Long s - Wikipedia

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

Are there any indie/self pub writers out there who have published literary fiction? My most recent favorite reads have been Remarkably Bright Creatures and Piranesi so I think I’m in my literary era 😅 Post what you’ve got!

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

I don’t really have any genre affiliations, I usually read literary fiction and non-fiction actually, but if it’s funny I’m very in!

Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

I think this is a common thing among smut peddlers. Every re-read reduces the thrill 😅 Also, reading for copywriting and clarity is about as sexy as a cold shower

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

Ohhh, I’m there!

a man in a suit is sitting at a desk with his mouth open in an office .

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

This is not supporting my statement that this show is oddly deep 😂

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

Jefus fucking Chrift.

Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · 12d

I don’t think I read that one! Is it just called red dwarf?

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