val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
@spacevalkyries.bsky.social
📝sci-fi/fantasy writer V.M. Ayala (she/they) 🎮streamer, indie games, TTRPGs ✨anxiety/ADHD, chronic pain 🏳️🌈queer biracial Mexican American 🪐🗡️co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social
🌈 https://www.spacevalkyries.com/
💌 [email protected]
🌈 https://www.spacevalkyries.com/
💌 [email protected]
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it's award nomination season! here is my award eligibility post for 2025. I had one short story out, and I'm so proud of this queer cyberpunk/anti-corporation piece.
🌆"To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" by V.M. Ayala - Lightspeed, Aug 2025 (Issue 183)
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a...
🌆"To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" by V.M. Ayala - Lightspeed, Aug 2025 (Issue 183)
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a...
Thanksgiving is complicated for me. my partner’s family has basically adopted me because mine is not ideal, and it always makes me grateful for where I’m at in life. I like my writing, wish there were better prospects income-wise—but I’m happy and my health has been cooperating. that’s something 💜
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Thanksgiving is complicated for me. my partner’s family has basically adopted me because mine is not ideal, and it always makes me grateful for where I’m at in life. I like my writing, wish there were better prospects income-wise—but I’m happy and my health has been cooperating. that’s something 💜
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![A float of Goku from Dragon Ball Z, smiling and holding his hand to his head with two fingers extended. There is a caption that says [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] overlaid on top of him.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r3jz2av542vhxbsouxvzrwe2/bafkreigoci7n3zt72bjp6xhr7g7g7h5gbte2bovkgomwmd5ircmjersx4m@jpeg)
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
I think the winner is Chaos, Casts, and Chats! because then I can do fun C3 or C cubed alliterative acronym things. it also allows me to vary the TTRPG or game type if I ever choose to occasionally do something different with it! 🎲✨
potential names for this solo/GMless/2 player TTRPG with chat streaming series I wish to start:
Chaos and Chat
Dice and Disasters
Rolls and Rambles
Dice, Cards, and Chaos
AS YOU CAN SEE I am bad at naming things...am amazingly open to suggestions 😂
Chaos and Chat
Dice and Disasters
Rolls and Rambles
Dice, Cards, and Chaos
AS YOU CAN SEE I am bad at naming things...am amazingly open to suggestions 😂
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I think the winner is Chaos, Casts, and Chats! because then I can do fun C3 or C cubed alliterative acronym things. it also allows me to vary the TTRPG or game type if I ever choose to occasionally do something different with it! 🎲✨
thank you for hanging out—I rambled for 2 hours about PAXU rather than 1.5 hours, we all know I'm a liar about times at this point.
📆next for-sure stream: Fri, Dec 5th with Dispatch (I have been promised it's very very good and I loved the demo)
👀POSSIBLY also a Thur, Dec 4th stream with a TTRPG!
📆next for-sure stream: Fri, Dec 5th with Dispatch (I have been promised it's very very good and I loved the demo)
👀POSSIBLY also a Thur, Dec 4th stream with a TTRPG!
it's time for a quick just chatting stream after PAX Unplugged! wherein I talk PAXU and show off the plushies I bought, the dice and dice jewelry, and just catch up before the holidays really kick in 💜
come hang out, it'll be very chill chatty vibes today ✨
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
come hang out, it'll be very chill chatty vibes today ✨
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
spacevalkyries - Twitch
Hi, I'm Val (she/they)! I'm an anxious queer biracial Mexican American variety streamer with ADHD and chronic pain/fatigue. I also write sci-fi/fantasy as V.M. Ayala! I hope you enjoy this spaaace!🔴LI...
www.twitch.tv
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
thank you for hanging out—I rambled for 2 hours about PAXU rather than 1.5 hours, we all know I'm a liar about times at this point.
📆next for-sure stream: Fri, Dec 5th with Dispatch (I have been promised it's very very good and I loved the demo)
👀POSSIBLY also a Thur, Dec 4th stream with a TTRPG!
📆next for-sure stream: Fri, Dec 5th with Dispatch (I have been promised it's very very good and I loved the demo)
👀POSSIBLY also a Thur, Dec 4th stream with a TTRPG!
it's time for a quick just chatting stream after PAX Unplugged! wherein I talk PAXU and show off the plushies I bought, the dice and dice jewelry, and just catch up before the holidays really kick in 💜
come hang out, it'll be very chill chatty vibes today ✨
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
come hang out, it'll be very chill chatty vibes today ✨
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
spacevalkyries - Twitch
Hi, I'm Val (she/they)! I'm an anxious queer biracial Mexican American variety streamer with ADHD and chronic pain/fatigue. I also write sci-fi/fantasy as V.M. Ayala! I hope you enjoy this spaaace!🔴LI...
www.twitch.tv
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
it's time for a quick just chatting stream after PAX Unplugged! wherein I talk PAXU and show off the plushies I bought, the dice and dice jewelry, and just catch up before the holidays really kick in 💜
come hang out, it'll be very chill chatty vibes today ✨
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
come hang out, it'll be very chill chatty vibes today ✨
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
hi yes it's been a million years since my last Mini-Space but here are the like 42 things that've happened in my life since I last updated!!
cute pet pics include our cat Bella and the A train, which is definitely also a cat.
✨ www.patreon.com/posts/mini-s... ✨
(PAXU blog posts coming soon!!)
cute pet pics include our cat Bella and the A train, which is definitely also a cat.
✨ www.patreon.com/posts/mini-s... ✨
(PAXU blog posts coming soon!!)
Mini-Space #34: Home From PAX Unplugged 2025 + Some Changes in Patreon Structure | spacevalkyries - V.M. Ayala
Get more from spacevalkyries - V.M. Ayala on Patreon
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November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
hi yes it's been a million years since my last Mini-Space but here are the like 42 things that've happened in my life since I last updated!!
cute pet pics include our cat Bella and the A train, which is definitely also a cat.
✨ www.patreon.com/posts/mini-s... ✨
(PAXU blog posts coming soon!!)
cute pet pics include our cat Bella and the A train, which is definitely also a cat.
✨ www.patreon.com/posts/mini-s... ✨
(PAXU blog posts coming soon!!)
potential names for this solo/GMless/2 player TTRPG with chat streaming series I wish to start:
Chaos and Chat
Dice and Disasters
Rolls and Rambles
Dice, Cards, and Chaos
AS YOU CAN SEE I am bad at naming things...am amazingly open to suggestions 😂
Chaos and Chat
Dice and Disasters
Rolls and Rambles
Dice, Cards, and Chaos
AS YOU CAN SEE I am bad at naming things...am amazingly open to suggestions 😂
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
potential names for this solo/GMless/2 player TTRPG with chat streaming series I wish to start:
Chaos and Chat
Dice and Disasters
Rolls and Rambles
Dice, Cards, and Chaos
AS YOU CAN SEE I am bad at naming things...am amazingly open to suggestions 😂
Chaos and Chat
Dice and Disasters
Rolls and Rambles
Dice, Cards, and Chaos
AS YOU CAN SEE I am bad at naming things...am amazingly open to suggestions 😂
Made a little vlog style video of my wandering through the PAXU expo hall (my first attempt at this format and style!) looking for solo/GMless/ general TTRPGs to stream with my chat!
I hope bsky doesn’t eat the quality but #PAXUnplugged was great this year and I met so many lovely TTRPG creators 💜
I hope bsky doesn’t eat the quality but #PAXUnplugged was great this year and I met so many lovely TTRPG creators 💜
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Made a little vlog style video of my wandering through the PAXU expo hall (my first attempt at this format and style!) looking for solo/GMless/ general TTRPGs to stream with my chat!
I hope bsky doesn’t eat the quality but #PAXUnplugged was great this year and I met so many lovely TTRPG creators 💜
I hope bsky doesn’t eat the quality but #PAXUnplugged was great this year and I met so many lovely TTRPG creators 💜
I know I've been yelling about PAXU a lot (and am about to some more! AND I'D DO IT AGAIN!!) but if you're a queer writer please go submit your fiction reprints and nonfiction to OTHERSIDE thank youuu!
but please read the guidelines first. then, you know, gimme your reprints and your nonfiction ✨
but please read the guidelines first. then, you know, gimme your reprints and your nonfiction ✨
We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I know I've been yelling about PAXU a lot (and am about to some more! AND I'D DO IT AGAIN!!) but if you're a queer writer please go submit your fiction reprints and nonfiction to OTHERSIDE thank youuu!
but please read the guidelines first. then, you know, gimme your reprints and your nonfiction ✨
but please read the guidelines first. then, you know, gimme your reprints and your nonfiction ✨
I'm home (we met some local-to-PA friends on the way back!) and it has been SUCH a journey—I forgot the adrenaline crash from a convention is so much. I also forgot to take photos with most people 😭
BUT!! PAXU 2026 is Dec 4-6 which is the day after my birthday SO maybe I stay til Monday next time 👀
BUT!! PAXU 2026 is Dec 4-6 which is the day after my birthday SO maybe I stay til Monday next time 👀
Leaving early Sunday always gives me emotions, and the marathon making it very difficult to get over to the convention from my hotel just makes it worse 😭
This PAXU was a delight, I’m sorry to so many folks I didn’t get to say hi to—hopefully next year! Will have photos and blog posts up soooon 💜
This PAXU was a delight, I’m sorry to so many folks I didn’t get to say hi to—hopefully next year! Will have photos and blog posts up soooon 💜
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I'm home (we met some local-to-PA friends on the way back!) and it has been SUCH a journey—I forgot the adrenaline crash from a convention is so much. I also forgot to take photos with most people 😭
BUT!! PAXU 2026 is Dec 4-6 which is the day after my birthday SO maybe I stay til Monday next time 👀
BUT!! PAXU 2026 is Dec 4-6 which is the day after my birthday SO maybe I stay til Monday next time 👀
Leaving early Sunday always gives me emotions, and the marathon making it very difficult to get over to the convention from my hotel just makes it worse 😭
This PAXU was a delight, I’m sorry to so many folks I didn’t get to say hi to—hopefully next year! Will have photos and blog posts up soooon 💜
This PAXU was a delight, I’m sorry to so many folks I didn’t get to say hi to—hopefully next year! Will have photos and blog posts up soooon 💜
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Leaving early Sunday always gives me emotions, and the marathon making it very difficult to get over to the convention from my hotel just makes it worse 😭
This PAXU was a delight, I’m sorry to so many folks I didn’t get to say hi to—hopefully next year! Will have photos and blog posts up soooon 💜
This PAXU was a delight, I’m sorry to so many folks I didn’t get to say hi to—hopefully next year! Will have photos and blog posts up soooon 💜
Some assorted photos from PAXU so far! I tried to also get video for a cute vlog but we’ll see how that worked out 😂
Feels like this PAX Unplugged I’ve been running around the expo hall a bunch! If you briefly saw me I’m glad—sometimes I’m too shy to say hi long but I always cherish the meeting 💜
Feels like this PAX Unplugged I’ve been running around the expo hall a bunch! If you briefly saw me I’m glad—sometimes I’m too shy to say hi long but I always cherish the meeting 💜
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Some assorted photos from PAXU so far! I tried to also get video for a cute vlog but we’ll see how that worked out 😂
Feels like this PAX Unplugged I’ve been running around the expo hall a bunch! If you briefly saw me I’m glad—sometimes I’m too shy to say hi long but I always cherish the meeting 💜
Feels like this PAX Unplugged I’ve been running around the expo hall a bunch! If you briefly saw me I’m glad—sometimes I’m too shy to say hi long but I always cherish the meeting 💜
Saturday wandering the expo hall of PAXU! If you spot me or my new fun goose pin, yell VAL and wave!!
Also if you have any solo, two player or GMless 1-2 playable TTRPGs, I’m hunting around for some for streaming potential 👀
Also if you have any solo, two player or GMless 1-2 playable TTRPGs, I’m hunting around for some for streaming potential 👀
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Saturday wandering the expo hall of PAXU! If you spot me or my new fun goose pin, yell VAL and wave!!
Also if you have any solo, two player or GMless 1-2 playable TTRPGs, I’m hunting around for some for streaming potential 👀
Also if you have any solo, two player or GMless 1-2 playable TTRPGs, I’m hunting around for some for streaming potential 👀
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Just hit the expo floor at #PAXU #PAXUnplugged and wandering around, being trolled on cam by @spacevalkyries.bsky.social and roasting them in return! 💖
(Also testing the limits of upload speeds and signal inside the hall.) 😂
(Also testing the limits of upload speeds and signal inside the hall.) 😂
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Just hit the expo floor at #PAXU #PAXUnplugged and wandering around, being trolled on cam by @spacevalkyries.bsky.social and roasting them in return! 💖
(Also testing the limits of upload speeds and signal inside the hall.) 😂
(Also testing the limits of upload speeds and signal inside the hall.) 😂
IT’S DAY 1 OF PAXU!!
If you spot me in the expo hall yell VAL!! and I will maybe not hear you so please just come up and wave if that doesn’t work 😂 EXCITED FOR DAY 1 OF PAX UNPLUGGED!!
If you spot me in the expo hall yell VAL!! and I will maybe not hear you so please just come up and wave if that doesn’t work 😂 EXCITED FOR DAY 1 OF PAX UNPLUGGED!!
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
IT’S DAY 1 OF PAXU!!
If you spot me in the expo hall yell VAL!! and I will maybe not hear you so please just come up and wave if that doesn’t work 😂 EXCITED FOR DAY 1 OF PAX UNPLUGGED!!
If you spot me in the expo hall yell VAL!! and I will maybe not hear you so please just come up and wave if that doesn’t work 😂 EXCITED FOR DAY 1 OF PAX UNPLUGGED!!
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For what remains of Puerto Rican Heritage Month, I wanted to share work by other Puerto Rican authors
Today, I wanted to shout out @boriscrito.bsky.social whose novella, Sordidez holds up Taínofuturism as a corrective against imperialism
www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
Today, I wanted to shout out @boriscrito.bsky.social whose novella, Sordidez holds up Taínofuturism as a corrective against imperialism
www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
Sordidez by E.G. Condé ⋆ Stelliform Press
Learn about SORDIDEZ by E.G. Condé, an indigenous futurist science fiction novella set in Puerto Rico and the Yucatan named a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book.
www.stelliform.press
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
For what remains of Puerto Rican Heritage Month, I wanted to share work by other Puerto Rican authors
Today, I wanted to shout out @boriscrito.bsky.social whose novella, Sordidez holds up Taínofuturism as a corrective against imperialism
www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
Today, I wanted to shout out @boriscrito.bsky.social whose novella, Sordidez holds up Taínofuturism as a corrective against imperialism
www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
I finally updated both OBS and my Steam Deck right before I leave for PAXU, nothing bad can happen with that. nope!! not at all!! when I get back there will be zero errors, zero issues.
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I finally updated both OBS and my Steam Deck right before I leave for PAXU, nothing bad can happen with that. nope!! not at all!! when I get back there will be zero errors, zero issues.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
am I avoiding packing for PAXU? maybe so. I'm so good at this 😂
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
am I avoiding packing for PAXU? maybe so. I'm so good at this 😂
got to attend an event that had a reading (streamed online, yay) of "Wilayat in Seven Saints" by Tanvir Ahmed and also had an awesome presentation by @jennahanchey.bsky.social!
absolutely in awe of this piece AND Jenna's presentation, and I'm going to be chewing on both for a good long while!
absolutely in awe of this piece AND Jenna's presentation, and I'm going to be chewing on both for a good long while!
There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
got to attend an event that had a reading (streamed online, yay) of "Wilayat in Seven Saints" by Tanvir Ahmed and also had an awesome presentation by @jennahanchey.bsky.social!
absolutely in awe of this piece AND Jenna's presentation, and I'm going to be chewing on both for a good long while!
absolutely in awe of this piece AND Jenna's presentation, and I'm going to be chewing on both for a good long while!
Reposted by val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
"The story is tense, the danger and the anticipation mixing deliciously... The piece is heavy with denied justice and the promise that the bigger a corporation is, the more satisfying its fall."
Thank you @cypayseur.bsky.social for the recommendation of "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" 😭
Thank you @cypayseur.bsky.social for the recommendation of "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" 😭
“Bloody Muddy Water” by @jduckwriter.bsky.social from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, “To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter” by @spacevalkyries.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social
Small Wonders, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Lightspeed: Review by Charles Payseur
Small Wonders 7/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 8/7/25, 8/21/25 Lightspeed 8/25 The July Small Wonders features some great poetry, including Courtney Floyd’s “Renfield at His Windowsill”, which captures…
locusmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"The story is tense, the danger and the anticipation mixing deliciously... The piece is heavy with denied justice and the promise that the bigger a corporation is, the more satisfying its fall."
Thank you @cypayseur.bsky.social for the recommendation of "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" 😭
Thank you @cypayseur.bsky.social for the recommendation of "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" 😭
raise your hand if you're surprised I, in fact, did no coworking and just yapped for 3 hours. good none of you raised your hand 😂
NEXT STREAM: Wednesday, Nov 26 @ 10:30am Eastern! will do a brief 1-1.5 hour PAXU recap (I leave tomorrowww!!)!
games return Friday, Dec 5 with some Dispatch!
NEXT STREAM: Wednesday, Nov 26 @ 10:30am Eastern! will do a brief 1-1.5 hour PAXU recap (I leave tomorrowww!!)!
games return Friday, Dec 5 with some Dispatch!
hi yes would you like to come chat with me and then maybe do a little coworking/cowriting? I say maybe because last time I just chatted for 3 hours BUT... MAYBE SOME WRITING TODAY AS A TREAT?
let's find out 👀
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
let's find out 👀
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
spacevalkyries - Twitch
✨let's just chat and maybe cowork before PAXU!!✨
www.twitch.tv
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
raise your hand if you're surprised I, in fact, did no coworking and just yapped for 3 hours. good none of you raised your hand 😂
NEXT STREAM: Wednesday, Nov 26 @ 10:30am Eastern! will do a brief 1-1.5 hour PAXU recap (I leave tomorrowww!!)!
games return Friday, Dec 5 with some Dispatch!
NEXT STREAM: Wednesday, Nov 26 @ 10:30am Eastern! will do a brief 1-1.5 hour PAXU recap (I leave tomorrowww!!)!
games return Friday, Dec 5 with some Dispatch!
hi yes would you like to come chat with me and then maybe do a little coworking/cowriting? I say maybe because last time I just chatted for 3 hours BUT... MAYBE SOME WRITING TODAY AS A TREAT?
let's find out 👀
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
let's find out 👀
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
spacevalkyries - Twitch
✨let's just chat and maybe cowork before PAXU!!✨
www.twitch.tv
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
hi yes would you like to come chat with me and then maybe do a little coworking/cowriting? I say maybe because last time I just chatted for 3 hours BUT... MAYBE SOME WRITING TODAY AS A TREAT?
let's find out 👀
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
let's find out 👀
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries