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Sylvie Helstaff

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They/Them 💖💜💙 🔞 Monster Romance author/artist. 100% human-made art and writing only. 🚫NO GenAI🚫 Latest novel: Lust and Found, ebook and paperback NOW AVAILABLE! https://sylviehelstaff.com/

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · Sep 17

It's Sapphic September and also my birthday month!

What a lovely time to add some hot queer cannibal mermaids to your TBR 💜😱 🌈💜 💙📚

Did I mention there's body horror IN the smut?
#monsterromance #sapphicseptember

Direct from me: helstaffbooks.com
Your fav book retailer: books2read.com/u/m2AQE7

Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · Sep 12

Need an Eat the Rich, Good for Her, Supporting Women's Wrongs horrormance novelette with man-eating lesbian mermaids to add to your TBR?

Then I have good news!

SWIM WITH ME, DARLING releases 9/14 and you can preorder it now! sylviehelstaff.com/swim-with-me...

💜😱 🌈💜 💙📚 #monsterromance #sapphic

Trope map text: Sapphic Monster Polycule, Yearning, Body Horror, Snackrifice, Cursed Lake, Supporting Women’s Wrongs, Man-Eating Sirens, Horror Romance, ebook and Paperback available now! Visit Sylviehelstaff.com for details
Image: background of underwater cave entrance. Image of an illustrated book cover with a half submerged siren with green hair and large unsettling eyes in midnight purple water with pink reflections. Fireflies hover above and the scene is framed by greenery.

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☀Hyde Angelus☀ ➡️ GGC #134 @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 3h

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 8h

#MondayMotivation

Block letter print on notebook paper, pinned to wall

YOU LOOK GREAT.
YOUR TEETH ARE SHARP.
YOUR EYES ARE LUMINOUS.
THE TOWN FOLK WHISPER YOUR NAME IN HUSHED
TONES

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 8h

To whoever shared my sapphic, cannibal mermaid horrormance: thank you! I hope your beverages are the perfect temperature today!

I've been struggling to do book marketing lately due to the state of things and waking up to a bunch of unexpected sales really made my day 💖

📚 tinyurl.com/sh-swim
💜😱 🌈💜

Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · Sep 14

Don't just lounge around the catacomb with your tits out, today is the day!
Or do
But you could ALSO treat yourself to a novelette about a small town lesbian who goes to great lengths to woo the man-eating sirens in a cursed lake.
tinyurl.com/swimwithmeda...
books2read.com/swimwithmeda...
💜😱 🌈💜 💙📚

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 4d

Prints now available in my shop!

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✯ An Anxious Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #PortfolioDay!

I’m Nicole and I specialize in fantasy portraits, commission work. I also dabble in comics.

Email: [email protected]

Portfolio: aorticinkwell.wixsite.com/nicoleellison

#Art #Commission #Illustration

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R. Riekkinen ✦ @artvaris.bsky.social · 6d

Hello #PortfolioDay!
I’m Runo, a freelance fantasy artist specializing in characters ✦🌿

A black and white drawing of a character with curly horns and long dark hair worn in two loose braids, surrounded by a forest background and a decorative frame. There's a scar running across their mid chest and ribs. The character is gently holding their hands over the scar, with a calm expression on their face, eyes closed.

A black and white drawing of a long-haired character with antlers and fluffy ears, portrayed against a forest background. A circular shape frames their face from behind, and multiple sparkly shapes decorate the portrait.

A black and white drawing of a character with long dark hair and curly horns, surrounded by stylized foliage. A symbolic dagger seems to be piercing their throat. The character has a calm expression - eyes closed and a subtle smile on their lips.

A decorative and detailed black and white portrait of a long-haired character with pointy ears. They are dressed in fancy clothing and wear jewelry. Their eyes seem to be slightly glowing as they gaze at the viewer.

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Lich Juliorra @lichjuliorra.bsky.social · 6d

Hi #PortfolioDay 💞
l'm Lich, digital and watercolor artist. I love creating an atmosphere of calm with a touch of anxiety, nature backgrounds and graceful characters. I specialize in book and comic book illustration and character design

More inform ✨ lichjuliorra.carrd.co ✨

#ukrart #украрт

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Maahri ~ Open for Work! @maahri.bsky.social · 6d

Hark! #PortfolioDay

Hi, I’m Mahri, and I’m looking for work in figurative illustration - be it in TTRPG spaces or otherwise! I’ve got a soft spot for gothic imagery and fantastical fashion, and a love of all things arcane.

Email - [email protected]

Commission - forms.gle/SvU1hwEVmd6D...

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 6d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · Sep 13

if you see this, post a Knight!

how about two knights?

Always and gladly!

Digital artwork in the style of antique fairy tales with detailed frame. It's Hansry fanart with Hans and Henry standing in the middle of it, Hans's head on Henry's shoulder.
It also has a quote from a medieval love poem woven into a frame

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, so excited for you. Have a great time!! 🤘

Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 9d

They were amazing. Such a good show!

Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 9d

I SAW SLEEP TOKEN WITH MY OWN HUMAN EYES 👁️👄👁️

Photo of Sleep Token on stage with blue light and lasers

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it 💖

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 12d

It's Lesbian Visibility Day, and I see that Bookshop is having FREE SHIPPING until the day's over, so it's clearly time for some lesbian horror 🌈😈

bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Showing the following Hailey Piper book covers: A Game in Yellow, Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow
Around a banner that says free shipping

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 13d

Artist! Quote with your strong woman art!💪

My Dnd GM gave me a beautiful orc NPC girlfriend for my astral elf druid, so I had to draw him absolutely delighted at being carted off to get wrecked by her 😂

Her name is Zorugh Backbreaker, she works for the God of Death and I love her

#OC #ocart

A muscular green orc woman with a long braid and small tusks wearing loose pants, trousers, and an armored crop top carries a caked up elf man over one shoulder. He wears a sheer long sleeve crop top with a sparkly leaf pattern, matching pants with a slit up the sides, and too much jewelry. Hearts and sparkles surround his gleeful, blushing face and he has one foot kicked up with pointed toes.

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Anya Chalina @anyachalina.bsky.social · Sep 5

The House We Built

The image shows a scene inside an old house with two repeating characters and their story. The house is decorated with wooden patterns and has three floors with stairs leading to each floor. In the foreground the couple is hugging each other; in the middle ground the man is sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper and the woman is walking up the stairs looking at the room below. On the second room the woman is facing the direction of her partner's study. She looks frozen and is standing next to a dresser with a clock on it. On the left side the man is sitting at his desk looking behind his shoulder. On the third floor the same woman is looking in the mirror and sees her reflection as a skeleton. The artwork is decorated with patterns and tiles and is mostly mustard, brown and green.

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 12d

This is my #OC Rowan, main character of my monster romance novel Lust and Found.
Fun facts:
-transmasc nb bartender
-can wield hellfire (mostly on purpose)
-accidentally summoned an archdemon
-went through an exorcism (unsuccessful) and then a wedding (successful!)

tinyurl.com/lustandfound
💙📚 💙🌈

Text Reads: "Rowan. A twenty-six year old bartender, Rowan Bell recently moved to Brightworth after inheriting their eccentric great aunt’s home. There they accidentally complete a dormant ritual left by the late witch, which summons a demon and opens their eyes to the magical abilities they never knew they had. With the help of their aunt’s former coven, an amorous archdemon, and a growing crew of queer friends, maybe they’ll finally find the sense of belonging they’ve always craved."
Illustratrion of a transmasc nonbinary person with medium length dark hair and blue highlights, smokey eye makeup, wearing a black button up shirt, silver necklaces, and a gold cuff bracelet

Stained glass style illustration of a non-binary person in the center with a purple tail wrapped over their shoulder, they are standing in a garden of flowers with two demons behind them. Author name Sylvie Helstaff appears at the top of the frame and book title "Lust and Found" in gold text at the bottom

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 12d

It's INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY, you say??

Celebrate with a short, sweet horrormance novelette about a lesbian who falls in love with a polycule of man-eating sapphic mermaids who live in the cursed lake of her scenic mountain town!

📚 sylviehelstaff.com/swim-with-me...

💜😱 🌈💜 💙📚 #monsterromance

Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Frost Llamzon @frostllamzon.bsky.social · 19d

Weretober: Wolf

Artwork by Illustrator Frost Llamzon depicting a half body portrait of a werewolf

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 13d

If you haven't read Mercy yet, I highly recommend it! It's one of my favorite queer love stories with gorgeous worldbuilding, folklore elements, a sarcastic angel, a boob window priest... what more do you want?

Already own it? Re-read it on KU when it comes back next month!

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 13d

Yep, MERCY's going back into KU next month. It's something I've been considering since itch turned its back on nsfw creators, but since KU now has library support, it's helped make the decision. Other platforms didn't perform as I'd like, which kind of became the nail in the coffin of it all.

Returning to Kindle Unlimited November 1st

The main reason for leaving KU was to attempt to accommodate more platforms for readers. This was to be done via library support and through the DRM-free platform, itch.io. Unfortunately, itch has become unusable for me since cracking down on adult material, despite being legal to sell. On top of this, readers simply didn't utilize other platforms. Apple, Kobo, Google, and many others severely underperformed.

KU now has built in library support, so my main qualm with it has been eliminated entirely. I'm not happy to have the ebook return to Amazon, but I would also prefer to actually make money off of my work. With things as hard as they are for a queer author right now, sometimes I must choose what will help keep me afloat.

As ever, though, if you'd like to obtain it directly from me, for payment or not, you need only ask. I would still like to accommodate you.

So what does this mean for the future of MERCY? November 1st (assuming Amazon doesn't lag), the book will be obtainable via Kindle Unlimited again.

The anniversary of its release is coming up, and I will likely have it on sale for the week surrounding that anniversary proper, and free on the day. The book hasn't been on sale for a while, so I hope this will somewhat make up for this change.

Thank you for sticking with me all this time, and thank you for your understanding as we shift back.

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 14d

CALIFORNIANS!

you can help make our state better and safer for trans people RIGHT NOW by telling Newsom he needs to sign these bills!

We need you!

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 13d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 13d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 13d

Nonbinary author here! I write monster romance featuring a variety of queer neurodivergent characters with lots of queer joy, magic, worldbuilding, and smut that manages to be both heartwarming and filthy at the same time.

You can find all my books at sylviehelstaff.com
💜😱 🌈💜 💙📚

Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 27d

Artists! Writers! Quote with your queer characters!

I've got mermaids, witches, demons, shadow elementals, humans and they're all queer.

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