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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 1d

it's been pretty easy so far tbh like half of my upcoming projects have major trans fem characters in them.

gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 1d

an approach I'm gonna take with every story I'm writing and will write in the future is just ask myself "can I include a trans woman in this"

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 5d

white house has joined bluesky
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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Hell maiden is feeding me yuri I didn't even know I wanted.

gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 8d

I'm already loving hell maiden. Divine comedy yuri is such a good concept.

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Hell Maiden @hellmaidengame.astralshiftpro.com · 18d

The Poets of Limbo are very chatty! 💬✨

You'll have new dialogues available after every run — the more Poets you rescue, the more chatty they'll get!

#HellMaiden's demo is coming out October 13th! 🗓️❤️🔥

#screenshotsaturday | #indiegame | #gamedev | #indiedev | #SteamNextFest

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うたたね游◆踊り場6巻は10月18日 @uttnyuu.bsky.social · 10d

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少女達の社交ダンス・ラブストーリー完結です！

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john granule @bogbird.bsky.social · 14d

image titled Halloween.

there are 4 trick or treaters dressed up in various costumes holding receptacles for candy. they’re all saying something (in speech bubbles)

vampire: girls kissing candy please
ghost: wlw chocolate?
witch: toxic yuri caramel?
pirate: do you have yuri treats

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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 14d

happy #internationalLesbianday I'm Gertrude a lesbian writer that writes about lesbians. I'm working on a bunch of things atm but a couple months ago my friends and I released our first vn aletheia. Of course it also has lesbians as well.

#lesbian #indiegame
baron-buddies.itch.io/aletheia

Aletheia by Baron Buddies

You wake from stasis 100 years too early; two women present very different stories

baron-buddies.itch.io

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Punk Rock Loser @grs22.bsky.social · 15d

It's so puzzling to me how bigots got so much into Signalis to the point of trying to take over a great part of the fandom and try to erase its queerness.

Sure Signalis' story is so vague, I hardly call it a story, but you'd need to be blind to not realize the game made by two queer women is gay

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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 20d

I really wanna how what is probably a whole team of people thought garlic mayo ink was a good marketing idea.

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 20d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 20d

I can't blame people for taking everything as an attack on their identity I 100% get why, but I think it's important to look and understand why people want sapphic to not be about character identity but about the type of story being told and if it centers a wlw relationship.

#sapphicbooks #sapphic

gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 20d

Their getting from a story the same way other genre tags do. Since for many it's not about the characters you can have sapphic characters in every story even ones not labeled or marketed as queer in any way but instead its about the content of the story itself, and that should be what matters most.

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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 20d

Cause it doe suck to have to dig through reviews to see if a book being hyped up and marketed as sapphic actually centers a wlw relationship, and idk if its just a me thing but how people throw sapphic on just about everything has eroded my trust in what should be a way for readers to know what. 5/

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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 20d

they don't mean it as a personal attack on you or your characters. Instead it comes from the desire to have a word that makes wlw stories easy for readers to find that they can have trust in. So when they pick it up they know its gonna be a wlw story, and I think that's a completely fair want. 4/

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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 20d

People have with "sapphic books" is that when people use it a lot of the times they are referring to is a a genre of story where a wlw relationship is front and center to the plot and one of those characters is the protagonist. They are treating it the same way yuri/gl is treat in asia as a genre 3/

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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 20d

Please bare with me on this and follow along I know my first post probably made people mad, but hear me out. Would you recommend or call a series like naruto a romance? No right cause it doesn't match the criteria of the genre even if characters in it do get together. This is the same issue 2/x

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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 20d

I think the problem with "sapphic books" is that it doesn't separate genre identity from personal identity and it gets a lot of people mixed up because of it so when people say a book isn't a "sapphic book" it gets people upset cause they view it as a personal attack. 1/x

#sapphic #sapphicbook #wlw

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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · 23d

I just wanted to post a sorta mini reflection for Aletheia since its been a couple months since it's been released www.patreon.com/posts/140049... My patreon is fully free atm its just posted there cause its to long for here.

baron-buddies.itch.io/aletheia
#yuri #yurivn #lesbian #wlw #toxicyuri

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Baron Buddies @baronbuddies.bsky.social · 25d

With the #toxicyurivnjam now wrapped up and the winners declared, I am proud to say that we did not win. 😌 However; if you're looking for a game about women doomed on a spaceship and the choices they make; with reviews like: "super amazing" and: "it stressed me tf out" Aletheia is the game for you!

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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · Sep 12

another 10 years of edelgard discourse.

gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · Sep 9

my goal for sapphic September is to finish to the tomes and teas series.

gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · Sep 2

Not really sure since I thought I was gonna focus more on fluffier more light hearted stories and I have those in my production line which would count as leaning heavily towards queer joy but also ummmmm Aletheia is very much not that. So for my it just depends on what I'm going for in something.

Dani Fiend 🧟‍♀️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · Sep 2

On the subject of queer joy & queer suffering in fiction, I think of it as a spectrum, and each writer and each reader has a comfort zone on that spectrum, for whatever reason.

My sweet spot as an author is about 70% joy and 30% suffering, give or take 20% for either.

What’s yours?

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gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sighing deeply as I add jester yuri to my ever growing pile of yuri concepts that I want to write after I mentioned it in a drunk discord call, and now its stuck in my head. #lesbian #lesbianauthors #wlwauthors #wlwbooks #wlw #yuri

gertrude g @gertrudegbooks.bsky.social · Aug 31

while not actually providing it to them. Like I'm sorry if you market a book as sapphic I think it's completely fair for people to be expecting a story where a sapphic relationship is central to the story.