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Joachim Heijndermans
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Writer, artist, filmmaker, designer, comic book letterer, SFWA member and collector of toys. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jheijndermans.
http://www.joachimheijndermans.com
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · Apr 30
Presenting: the Beautiful Beasts imprint, a series of erotic horror, science fiction and fantasy novellas by author Joachim Heijndermans. Each a self contained story of lust with monsters ranging from the fantastical, the macabre and the eldritch.
Books 1, 2 and 3 are out now!
Art Man Carot
Beautiful Beasts logo, depicting of Venetian mask of an animal in a circle with two cursive Bs, colored black, white and red Cover to return the rose, the first Beautiful Beasts book. Colored in monochrome purple, a large beast with a lion-like face and stag antlers embraces a partially undressed woman with long flowing hair. She clutches onto his antlers, wistfully looking at her lover, the beast. Cover to Cove of the Fisherman's wife. Colored in monochrome blue, a Japanese woman looks upon the encroaching octopus arms. Her yukata is partially removed, as a lone tear runs down her cheek. Cover to Beautiful Beasts 3, The Nightstalker’s Mark, by Joahim Heijndermans. Two women coated in a red colored hue hold each other in embrace, looking at one another. One a short haired blind woman with a tank top. The other is a vampiric creature who is nude, her ears pointed and the pupils in her eyes are narrow slits like those of a serpent. Her open mouth reveals a set of fangs, her intent implied to be nefarious. The title of the book is colored with a yellow gradient, with the ‘M’ in Mark similar to a set of fangs. Small dots of Braille writing repeat the title, a reference to the one woman’s blindness.
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michellefranklin.bsky.social
Because when you understand what it is to be othered and ostracised, empathy and compassion crown your sense of affection.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Oh, fun, a short story file hadn't saved that paragraph I wrote.
Bye work on it...
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
The sale ends this week, so if you want to pick up 3 short story collections for $10, now's your chance.
#sciencefiction #sffh #shortstories #ebook #booksky
jheijndermans.bsky.social Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 16d
So to alleviate some medical costs, I've put my three short story collection up for sale on Itch in a bundle. Get all three #scifi, #horror and #fantasy collections on #ebook for $10!!!

Find the bundle here: itch.io/s/163297/hei...
Cover to All Through the House and other tales from a Random place by JoachimHeijndermans. Black and white art in boxes symbolizing the short stories within. It inclused a dives accosted by tentacles, a bee, an alien eating noodles, a pig, a round drone, a clock with an omega symbol, a mech suit, a digital smiling face, a pod in space and a ouroboros with arms reaching out. In the center, a set of claws pick up a cookie on a plate for santa. Tropes list: weird Santa claus, 26 short stories, worlds last pig, mindfuck prison, apocalyptic zookeeper, kaiju death cult, Christmas in space, televised deathmatches, bored Eldritch god, udon addicted aliens, superhero speeddating Cover to Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans. A power button symbol in the center is surrounded by a collection of small circles with symbols for the short stories within. Topes list: 18 short stories, literate puffins, kaiju survivors guilt, raccoon, imsane orca, sentient bomb, war tourist meets soldier, poison ocean, space travel podcast, poison ocean, owl griffin Cover for the short story collection Rage from a Cage by Joachim Heijndermans, the title in thick bold lettering. On a white background, marred with scratches and damage, is a set of black shapes of triangles and trapazoids, who together form a broken pentagon. Within the middle shapes is the skull from a sabre-toothed cat, its maw open and the broken pentagon appearing as the bar of a cage. The animal is snarling for freedom. Tropes list: 30 short stories, apocalypse parties, desolate worlds, lonely undead, norse god roommates, cat trials, clockwork gunslinger, vengeful robots, sentient zombie viruses, superhero violence, weird experiments
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
My Beautiful Beasts sale bundle ends this week, so if you want to get the first three books in my series of erotic novellas for $8, now's your chance!
#monsterromance #novella #booksky #smut #monsterfucker

Find the bundle on Itch here: itch.io/s/163776/bea...
Cover to return the rose, the first Beautiful Beasts book. Colored in monochrome purple, a large beast with a lion-like face and stag antlers embraces a partially undressed woman with long flowing hair. She clutches onto his antlers, wistfully looking at her lover, the beast. Tropes: beauty and the beast, romance in the rain, preferring the beast, broken beds, romantic scars, prisoner to lover, magical genetalia, predator role play, sapphic experiment. Cover to Cove of the Fisherman's wife. Colored in monochrome blue, a Japanese woman looks upon the encroaching octopus arms. Her yukata is partially removed, as a lone tear runs down her cheek. Tropes: consensual tentacles, sengoku jidai era japan, octopus yokai, literal foxy lady, brutal revenge, evil ronin, slightly benevolent monster, secret sex worker, protective surrogate mother. Cover to Beautiful Beasts 3, The Nightstalker’s Mark, by Joahim Heijndermans. Two women coated in a red colored hue hold each other in embrace, looking at one another. One a short haired blind woman with a tank top. The other is a vampiric creature who is nude, her ears pointed and the pupils in her eyes are narrow slits like those of a serpent. Her open mouth reveals a set of fangs, her intent implied to be nefarious. The title of the book is colored with a yellow gradient, with the ‘M’ in Mark similar to a set of fangs. Small dots of Braille writing repeat the title, a reference to the one woman’s blindness. Tropes: vampire smut, blood drinking, mind control, shape changing, lgbtq romance, emotional abuse, vampire violence, disability & blindness
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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wolfskulljack.bsky.social
I’m trying to pass portfolios of other artists to clients I can’t take and the amount of you that don’t have your contact details readily available! I want to give you woooorrrkk!
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
Want some tentacle romance with trans, anti-capitalist, and environmental themes?

DisposableMagic has you covered.

danifinn.itch.io/disposable-magic

books2read.com/u/mvJXa8

Paperback on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1960173154

Or order it from your favorite online or brick & mortar bookstore!
Book graphic for disposable magic by dani finn, showing a large octopus and a small one in an underwater bubble. CEPHALOPOD ROMANCE If there was anything humans were known for, it was exhausting nature's bounty, then finding new ways to exploit it, new realms to conquer and despoil. Disposable magic. ECO-TERRORISM
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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catcoded.lol
Found this on TikTok and it made me emotional ❤️

Artists create universes from nothing.

Being an animator is an intimate understanding of life, environments, physics, what it MEANS to be alive, and the ability to convey the beauty within our world in seconds.
July 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Shin Godzilla
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Not needed. She has her father's tentacles.
coreyjwhite.com Corey Jae White 🏳️‍⚧️ @coreyjwhite.com · 15h
for sale: baby shoes, never worn. she came out already talking and said "barefoot is legal"
sashabrown.bsky.social Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 22h
for sale baby shoes never worn she's not dead or anything she's just a pain in the ass
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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susannashore.bsky.social
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Relative: "Hey, you write and draw, right? I have an idea for a children's book. How about—?"

Me: "Shhhhh. shush. shush. shut your beautiful stupid face. shush. don't you fucking dare. quiet. shush now."
a cartoon of a girl and a boy from the cartoon the grim adventures of billy and mandy
ALT: a cartoon of a girl and a boy from the cartoon the grim adventures of billy and mandy
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
🤍 estranged husbands
🥺 close brothers x2
🗡️ an mc who is 100% done
🐺 a love interest ready to grovel
🏫 a haunted, gothic school
🔍 buried secrets
❄️ snowy setting

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-strange-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. Text is gold and greyish-white.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
On behalf of all self-published authors, I authorize you to reach out & tell us if you really enjoyed something we wrote.

We’re all dog-paddling in a sea of self-doubt & impostor syndrome & those little messages mean a lot.

Unless stated otherwise, our DMs/inboxes are always open for kind words 💞
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Oh snap, I made a joke on how terrible Funko's are, and now it turns out the company is going down the tubes.

I mean, imagine a world where there were no Funko toys?
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Having a shitty memory is writing, having an issue with headers in your file, looking up how to fix the issue, being called away, forgetting about the whole thing, coming back to go 'oh, yeah, I was writing this thing', and then finding the issue you forgot to resolve...
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
For research purposes, I need to take a deep dive into Jack Chick tracts...

Strap in folks. This is gonna get nuts!
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
I went from have no ideas for a short story I needed to write to THREE short stories Imma do.

Yeah, not like I wasn't busy already.
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Pax has moved on to his Billy Idol look.
A yellow and green budgie with a head full of pin feathers as he's mid-molt.
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
I'm going to need to research crab anatomy for…reasons.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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monstermashzine.bsky.social
It's day two of Artist Previews, and we're excited to share @ghostteaart.bsky.social's highlight for 30 Days of Night!
There is so much in such a small section; we know it's going to leave you wanting more. If you haven't yet, preorders are available until Dec. 12th!
monstermashzine.bigcartel.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Got a message from a friend: "Hey, I saw this aliens toy you might not have."
Me: "OH!!! Please show!"
*sends me a pic of a Funko toy.*
Me: "…………"
two men hugging each other and one of them says you broke my heart .
Alt: two men hugging each other and one of them says you broke my heart .
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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monsterfucker.bsky.social
#LoSShares
jheijndermans.bsky.social Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks for the share. Always fun!
I'm Joachim, mostly smutty writer, sometimes smutty artists. I commissioned the cover art to my smutty books (art by Man Carot), and I hope to put together a smutty comic one day, so I'm always here peeking for potential hires.
Cover to return the rose, the first Beautiful Beasts book. Colored in monochrome purple, a large beast with a lion-like face and stag antlers embraces a partially undressed woman with long flowing hair. She clutches onto his antlers, wistfully looking at her lover, the beast. Cover to Cove of the Fisherman's wife. Colored in monochrome blue, a Japanese woman looks upon the encroaching octopus arms. Her yukata is partially removed, as a lone tear runs down her cheek. Cover to Beautiful Beasts 3, The Nightstalker’s Mark, by Joahim Heijndermans. Two women coated in a red colored hue hold each other in embrace, looking at one another. One a short haired blind woman with a tank top. The other is a vampiric creature who is nude, her ears pointed and the pupils in her eyes are narrow slits like those of a serpent. Her open mouth reveals a set of fangs, her intent implied to be nefarious. The title of the book is colored with a yellow gradient, with the ‘M’ in Mark similar to a set of fangs. Small dots of Braille writing repeat the title, a reference to the one woman’s blindness. Beautiful Beasts logo, depicting of Venetian mask of an animal in a circle with two cursive Bs, colored black, white and red
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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beastsoul.bsky.social
❄️☃️BACK FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!! ☃️❄️

I am finally back from my move/multiple trips and conventions, if you need to grab yourself or a loved one some cool and spooky gifts for the season, consider swinging by my shop for all your trinkets and wares!
beastsoul.bsky.social 🔱 𝔹𝔼𝔸𝕊𝕋 🔱 @MFF prep! @beastsoul.bsky.social · Sep 16
Heyyy y'all so I just had to pay nearly $3k in car repairs prepping it for my move halfway across the country next week OTL

if y'all could please boost this to help sales before I need to close up shop, I'd really appreciate it ;; 🤍
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
The sale will end soon. So if you want to pick up all three of my short story collections for only $10, come check them out at the link on Itch.
#booksky #shortstory #collections #sciencefiction
jheijndermans.bsky.social Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 16d
So to alleviate some medical costs, I've put my three short story collection up for sale on Itch in a bundle. Get all three #scifi, #horror and #fantasy collections on #ebook for $10!!!

Find the bundle here: itch.io/s/163297/hei...
Cover to All Through the House and other tales from a Random place by JoachimHeijndermans. Black and white art in boxes symbolizing the short stories within. It inclused a dives accosted by tentacles, a bee, an alien eating noodles, a pig, a round drone, a clock with an omega symbol, a mech suit, a digital smiling face, a pod in space and a ouroboros with arms reaching out. In the center, a set of claws pick up a cookie on a plate for santa. Tropes list: weird Santa claus, 26 short stories, worlds last pig, mindfuck prison, apocalyptic zookeeper, kaiju death cult, Christmas in space, televised deathmatches, bored Eldritch god, udon addicted aliens, superhero speeddating Cover to Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans. A power button symbol in the center is surrounded by a collection of small circles with symbols for the short stories within. Topes list: 18 short stories, literate puffins, kaiju survivors guilt, raccoon, imsane orca, sentient bomb, war tourist meets soldier, poison ocean, space travel podcast, poison ocean, owl griffin Cover for the short story collection Rage from a Cage by Joachim Heijndermans, the title in thick bold lettering. On a white background, marred with scratches and damage, is a set of black shapes of triangles and trapazoids, who together form a broken pentagon. Within the middle shapes is the skull from a sabre-toothed cat, its maw open and the broken pentagon appearing as the bar of a cage. The animal is snarling for freedom. Tropes list: 30 short stories, apocalypse parties, desolate worlds, lonely undead, norse god roommates, cat trials, clockwork gunslinger, vengeful robots, sentient zombie viruses, superhero violence, weird experiments
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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havenspec.bsky.social
ICYMI, our general submission window is open this entire month!

We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!

Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM