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R. S. Mot

@motthepaladin.bsky.social

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Author, hobby photographer, voracious reader, and dice collector. NO AI 🚫 Ace | it/them Not-so-secretly a dragon.

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · Aug 26

Speaking of cozy vibes... I was going to wait until September for this but I want it nowwww.
Autumn reading bingo is BACK and this time it's cozy. 📚💙

Cozy autumn reading bingo

Someone bakes, pumpkin on the cover, cozy fantasy, book that contains a recipe, cat in the title
Cozy mystery, Tea or coffee shop, cabin, set in a small town, someone has a hot drink
Set in autumn, blanket on the cover, free space (represented by a picture of a white tea cup), apple picking or orchard, light academia
Leaves on the cover, contains a farm or market, character knits or crochets, cozy horror, bookstore
Witches, cozy romance, mushroom on the cover, someone wears a mask or costume, forest in the title

made by @motthepaladin.bsky.social‬

The background has an arrangement of various gourde shapes and colors around the edge and the whole board is done in yellows and browns.

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Authors Publish | Magazine for Creative Writers @authorspublish.com · 13h

9 new #LitMags to submit to.

Genres accepted include: #shortstories, #essays, #flashfiction, flash creative nonfiction, #horror, #mystery, microfiction, prose, visual #art, tan-renga, tanka #prose, and more.

authorspublish.com/eight-terrif...

» Nine Terrific New Literary Journals (October, 2025)

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 1d

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I need to do one of those too, not touching stuff is soooo hard.

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah, I know it's a ways off but I hope you have an amazing time.

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 1d

And Frodough is my friend's

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 1d

Mine is named Doughpool (after Deadpool, because it regenerates lol)

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Ace Week! I made some ace phone backgrounds for my personal entertainment, please enjoy. 🖤🤍💜

Three dragon silhouettes over a background of black, white, and purple wavy lines.

Ace but still a fungi in white text over a picture of a mushroom in a forest.

Be ace eat cake with a picture of a cake in ace colors.

Be ace do crimes in white text with dragon silhouettes and small hearts with ace flag colors.

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 2d

Sending good vibes ✨️

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TrashxBucket Indie Author @trashxbucket.bsky.social · 2d

I fucking love dungeons and dragons.

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Bowl of beans for caturday.

A white and gray cat asleep in a clear plastic bowl, her feet are pressed against the side so her pink toes are visible.

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 4d

night shades is OPEN for submissions

🛸 pro pay
🛸 500 words max
🛸 all speculative
🛸 quick response/ simul. ok
🛸 looking for 23 stories this time

guest reader for this call is @leilasedai.bsky.social

🛸 beam em to us!

www.nightshadesmag.com

Night Shades

Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 7d

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 3d

Need to be reading at least 3 at a time.

R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 4d

Pro Writing Aid also supports the use of AI so I'm avoiding it.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 4d

Recommending again that writers look for a program or a person to read their work back to them (hopefully a program that does not use their brain child for AI-training).

Hearing it spoken aloud is the most surefire way I have found to catch those pesky missing or extra words and other typos.