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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁

@sollizyy.bsky.social

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Roasty toasty shitposty Pansexual Trans man(he/him ONLY unless we're friends, then he/she)/Ukrainian-Canadian/31/local gremlin artist/author of The Value of a Heartbeat/Lead editor and artist of Phosphor Press. email: [email protected]

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · Jul 2

Boop! Updating my blog to have all my links and info in one place! you can find a directory of my work, reviews/deep dives, ways to support me, videos etc... solomonskalozub.blogspot.com

Solomon Skalozub's Ramblings

solomonskalozub.blogspot.com

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 10m

Aspec Books 📚🌈♠️ by @cara.ink

"For asexual and aromantic spectrum books.
Use 🌈📚♠️ to appear in both Queer Bookworms and Aspec Books.

Other working tags: #aspecBooks #aceBooks #aroBooks"

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 16m

Queer SFFH 🌈📚🪐

Use 🌈📚🪐 OR 🌈📚😱 to put your posts on it.

OR Fantasy/ SciFi/ SpecFic/ Horror (caps or not)
AND book/books
AND queer/ LGBTQIA/ trans/ nonbinary/ aro/ ace/ aro-ace/ gay/ lesbian/ sapphic

(Alas, 'bi'/ 'pan'/ bisexual etc hit major tech issues I haven't overcome yet.)

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 30m

Disabled & Neurodiverse Books ♿📚

Use ♿📚 OR ♿📚🧠 OR neurodiverse/ neurodivergent/ autistic/ ADHD/ depression/ anxiety/ disabled/ chronically ill AND book/books to put your posts on this feed.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 33m

Black Booksky
Use 📚🖤 OR 'Black'/'BlackSky' WITH 'book(s)'/'BookSky' & more to get your posts on this feed.

Moderation: mostly relevance, plus one misogynistic against black women press.

Queer Black Bookworms 🌈📚🖤
Use 🌈📚🖤 (same as above) AND queer/ LGBTQIA to put posts on
bsky.app/profile/elis...

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 35m

I've made some new Diverse Book feeds.
-Trans & Nonbinary Books 📚💙💕
-Black Booksky 📚🖤
-Black Queer Bookworms 🌈📚🖤
-Disabled & Neurodiverse Books ♿📚

They're linked with emojis & or keywords they pick up/to put your posts on them, in this thread🧵👇

Also in thread: Queer SFFH 🌈📚🪐. Aro & or Ace Books

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! I...don't do anything special to it lol

Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 1h

And no, I don't want an undercut again. I'll post short short hair Sol here but it's not coming back. I like having length

A photo of Solomon in a car, his hair is short and bleached, the sunlight is strong

Solomon with short messy hair drinking milk from a skull cup

Solomon with bleached hair that is more or less an overgrown undercut

Solomon with his hair styled as a pompadour, the top is bleached, the sides are not

Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 1h

I'm debating if I want to let my hair grow out for like 2 years before chopping it again, or get it chopped next spring again. I liked the long long hair, but the chin/shoulder length suits me and is easier to keep healthy

Decisions decisions

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Lu Ka-Yun Dawkins| Indie Animator @crashtako.bsky.social · 11d

Transmasc knight 🏳️‍⚧️🗡️

(Louis Lunachor)
#OCsky #DND #trans

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 1h

Tired

A photo of Solomon laying next to a stuffed Llama. His face is neutral and his hair is slightly wet

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 2h

I figured lol

Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 2h

Also I've published 4 books through Ingram, and I did the formatting for them, so if you are having trouble with that you can just dm me, ik Ingram is a pain in the ass

Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 2h

Also you can make it cheaper on direct links, so for your American readership they will get a cheaper price

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 2h

I typically just go through Ingram for print rn, but I want to look into a Canadian pod, bc 1) we won't need to buy isbns, and it will be cheaper, and I can't order author copies from Ingram to Canada :/

If you have to raise the price, do it, I try to set it so that I make about 4 dollars per sale

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 3h

If you see this, QTP with a sword

Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 3h

And also "this character isn't transmasc syndrome" from authors in response to readers when they interpret a character that way bc he presents masc/chest binds/transitions away from womanhood

It's just very fascinating imo

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 3h

Dubbing a phenomenon "trans guy side character syndrome" to reflect the staggeringly high amount of times I get recced something or someone asking me to read their work bc there's a trans guy in it, and he only has a pinch of pagetime

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 3h

I'll get to Calyx Charm for sure, I'm about halfway through Lord of the Last Heartbeat

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance looks interesting

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 3h

Oh I'll have to grab em when they come out 💖

Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 4h

They don't *need* to ft. transmasc characters but that will uh, obviously bump them up on my tbr

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 4h

Hm, what are your favourite romantasy books? I struggle a lot with this hybrid genre bc I often find the books struggle with balancing a romance focus and an in depth fantasy world, but it has a lot of potential, so I'm always willing to try

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Mac Goatman! 🐐 @macxi.bsky.social · 4h

On top of this, I really don’t see what people hope to gain by gatekeeping nonbinary or other GNC folks from the trans community. Or any flavor of queer from the queer community, really. Gatekeeping” I think is the term they’re looking for.

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 4h

before you post theory-brained (derogatory) slop, it's probably important to make sure the words you're using are being used correctly, op (the person in the screenshot) posting this with this terminology when we have multiple instances of colonial and imperialist violence ongoing is diabolical TBH

Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 4h

The rhetoric that purposes to be against "watering down the term transgender" is watering down the term colonization. Labels being fluid and used differently by different queer people is not the same thing as a people invading another people and stealing their land/condemning their way of life

Luis @loosf.bsky.social · 12h

"the transgender community has been colonized by cissexual nonbinaries"

Jesus fuck what

the concept of being transgender has largely been colonized by cissexual nonbinary people. the concept of polyamory has largely been colonized by swingers. is there anything you people won't take over and make about yourselves.

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Solomon Skalozub🌻🔱🍁 @sollizyy.bsky.social · 6h

and ig if you count serially publishing a novel online as indie publishing (debatable, I suppose, valid) I had my first novel out when I was like 26/27. But I'm looking forward to the re edit, and print release, that'll be cool