Polly Liticat
@polly-liticat.bsky.social
nerdy, feminist erotica, usually queer some way, they/them. www.pollyliticat.com — pollyliticat.itch.io/ — medium.com/@polly.liticat — www.smashwords.com/profile/view/pollyliticat — www.amazon.com/stores/Polly-Liticat/author/B0CD494CR7
I’ve learned that scifi writer John Varley has passed away. His “Eight Worlds” stories, in which characters could change gender on a whim, as often as they liked, was a profound influence on the probably-too-young-to-read-them person who’d eventually grow up and adopt the pseudonym Polly Liticat.
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I’ve learned that scifi writer John Varley has passed away. His “Eight Worlds” stories, in which characters could change gender on a whim, as often as they liked, was a profound influence on the probably-too-young-to-read-them person who’d eventually grow up and adopt the pseudonym Polly Liticat.
#Smutcember I like to have my cake and eat it too. 😈 I almost always feature a new relationship; maybe that’s a bit lazy, but I think having something novel for my characters helps keep things novel for my readers. BUT I have a lot of fun bringing new partners to established relationships, too!
Happy Friday, #Smutcember folks!
Do you prefer to write sex scenes for a new relationship, or in an established one? What appeals to you the most about your preference?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Do you prefer to write sex scenes for a new relationship, or in an established one? What appeals to you the most about your preference?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
#Smutcember I like to have my cake and eat it too. 😈 I almost always feature a new relationship; maybe that’s a bit lazy, but I think having something novel for my characters helps keep things novel for my readers. BUT I have a lot of fun bringing new partners to established relationships, too!
#Smutcember “corrupted innocence” doesn’t really count does it? 👿 I do love a good enemies-to-lovers. I have a literal “probably kill you in the morning” vibe in “To Stone Turned,” business rivals in “Frozen Conflict,” and a Santa/Krampus matchup (also grumpy/sunshine!) in “Kramping, His Style.”
#Smutcember prompt for today:
Share your favorite self-indulgent pairing or dynamic! Grumpy/sunshine? Battle couple? Something more niche and specific? If you like, tell us about how you've employed it in your work!
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Share your favorite self-indulgent pairing or dynamic! Grumpy/sunshine? Battle couple? Something more niche and specific? If you like, tell us about how you've employed it in your work!
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#Smutcember “corrupted innocence” doesn’t really count does it? 👿 I do love a good enemies-to-lovers. I have a literal “probably kill you in the morning” vibe in “To Stone Turned,” business rivals in “Frozen Conflict,” and a Santa/Krampus matchup (also grumpy/sunshine!) in “Kramping, His Style.”
#Smutcember I’ve been fortunate to find several supportive communities & editors to help me improve my writing. If I have any advice, I’d say do whatever you need to to make a firewall between your “real” life and your writer self, because I think the most important thing is sharing with people /1
#Smutcember for Hump Day asks:
Do you struggle with sharing your smutty writing? If so, what internal or external obstacles have been the most challenging? If not, what advice would you give someone who's struggling but wants to share their work?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Do you struggle with sharing your smutty writing? If so, what internal or external obstacles have been the most challenging? If not, what advice would you give someone who's struggling but wants to share their work?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
#Smutcember I’ve been fortunate to find several supportive communities & editors to help me improve my writing. If I have any advice, I’d say do whatever you need to to make a firewall between your “real” life and your writer self, because I think the most important thing is sharing with people /1
#Smutcember YES. Sometimes I like to linger over build up, and sometimes I like to dive right in, depending on the tone. I think aftercare is often given short shrift in erotica, but I think it’s a great opportunity to define it as romantic (especially if there was kink/roleplay involved).
Our #Smutcember prompt for today asks:
When writing sex in your stories, do you prefer to write the build up, the act itself, the aftercare, or all of the above?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
When writing sex in your stories, do you prefer to write the build up, the act itself, the aftercare, or all of the above?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
#Smutcember YES. Sometimes I like to linger over build up, and sometimes I like to dive right in, depending on the tone. I think aftercare is often given short shrift in erotica, but I think it’s a great opportunity to define it as romantic (especially if there was kink/roleplay involved).
LOL #Smutcember by erotica standards, I often write slow burns, which is to say 4-5 pages before things get smexy. ;-> But I work mostly in novelette/long short story territory, so very fast indeed compared to a novel’s pace. (Some of my characters have already been pre-pining when we meet them tho)
Merry Monday, #Smutcember!
In your stories, do you prefer a slow burn or fast feelings? What appeals to you the most about writing your preferred pacing?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
In your stories, do you prefer a slow burn or fast feelings? What appeals to you the most about writing your preferred pacing?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
LOL #Smutcember by erotica standards, I often write slow burns, which is to say 4-5 pages before things get smexy. ;-> But I work mostly in novelette/long short story territory, so very fast indeed compared to a novel’s pace. (Some of my characters have already been pre-pining when we meet them tho)
#Smutcember it’s situational, but I’ll admit to having several characters whose eyes might initially be caught by legs or a butt. But not the SAME legs/butt. I’m aware of the trend to not describe physical attributes too exactly so readers can project themselves into the story and I rebel against it
To wrap our first week of #Smutcember, tell us:
What do your characters find *physically* attractive about each other? (We'll get into the more intangible traits later.)
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
What do your characters find *physically* attractive about each other? (We'll get into the more intangible traits later.)
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#Smutcember it’s situational, but I’ll admit to having several characters whose eyes might initially be caught by legs or a butt. But not the SAME legs/butt. I’m aware of the trend to not describe physical attributes too exactly so readers can project themselves into the story and I rebel against it
#Smutcember 1st kiss context: Mary and Delia, co-workers committed to pretending to hate each other, have shared an unexpected dinner and now are on an unexpected red-eye flight. They’ve been dozing. Mary woke from an erotic dream, and in the restroom chewed “a couple breath mints. Just in case.”
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#Smutcember 1st kiss context: Mary and Delia, co-workers committed to pretending to hate each other, have shared an unexpected dinner and now are on an unexpected red-eye flight. They’ve been dozing. Mary woke from an erotic dream, and in the restroom chewed “a couple breath mints. Just in case.”
Reposted by Polly Liticat
Here's a bunch of spicy Christmas-themed books to warm up your holidays. Includes Naughty & Spice, Season's Teasings, and Season's Spice: A Sexy Holidays Collection
#smutsky #spicybooks🌶️📚 #eroticwriterslift #booksky💙📚 #romancelandia #booktok ✍️🔥 ✒️🔞
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#smutsky #spicybooks🌶️📚 #eroticwriterslift #booksky💙📚 #romancelandia #booktok ✍️🔥 ✒️🔞
books.bookfunnel.com/christmas-er...
December 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Here's a bunch of spicy Christmas-themed books to warm up your holidays. Includes Naughty & Spice, Season's Teasings, and Season's Spice: A Sexy Holidays Collection
#smutsky #spicybooks🌶️📚 #eroticwriterslift #booksky💙📚 #romancelandia #booktok ✍️🔥 ✒️🔞
books.bookfunnel.com/christmas-er...
#smutsky #spicybooks🌶️📚 #eroticwriterslift #booksky💙📚 #romancelandia #booktok ✍️🔥 ✒️🔞
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#SmutCember 5 as an erotica author I think I’m focused less on banter and more on getting right to arousal or something adjacent. I think “Frozen Conflict” is one of my most romantic stories, and that is kicked off by the unwitting lovers sharing sensory details of a meal they share and getting /1
#Smutcember, it's time to talk about our work! To start off:
How do you build chemistry between your characters? You can speak in general terms or give specific examples, whichever you prefer.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
How do you build chemistry between your characters? You can speak in general terms or give specific examples, whichever you prefer.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
#SmutCember 5 as an erotica author I think I’m focused less on banter and more on getting right to arousal or something adjacent. I think “Frozen Conflict” is one of my most romantic stories, and that is kicked off by the unwitting lovers sharing sensory details of a meal they share and getting /1
#SmutCember 4 - there’s a whole separate circle of things I read where I can’t authentically portray the experiences, and then there’s “what I write” which overlaps with “things that outside my comfort zone that I can enjoy reading.” In one early story, my human MCs had grown up in Japan and 1/3?
Last establishing question, #Smutcember:
Do you read different kinds of smut than you write, or is that Venn diagram a circle?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Do you read different kinds of smut than you write, or is that Venn diagram a circle?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
#SmutCember 4 - there’s a whole separate circle of things I read where I can’t authentically portray the experiences, and then there’s “what I write” which overlaps with “things that outside my comfort zone that I can enjoy reading.” In one early story, my human MCs had grown up in Japan and 1/3?
👀‼️ My first time in a Book Funnel! I have a story in both Season’s Teasings and Season’s Spice! #spicybooks #romancelandia
Here's a bunch of spicy Christmas-themed books to warm up your holidays. Includes Naughty & Spice, Season's Teasings, and Season's Spice: A Sexy Holidays Collection
#smutsky #spicybooks🌶️📚 #eroticwriterslift #booksky💙📚 #romancelandia #booktok ✍️🔥 ✒️🔞
books.bookfunnel.com/christmas-er...
#smutsky #spicybooks🌶️📚 #eroticwriterslift #booksky💙📚 #romancelandia #booktok ✍️🔥 ✒️🔞
books.bookfunnel.com/christmas-er...
December 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
👀‼️ My first time in a Book Funnel! I have a story in both Season’s Teasings and Season’s Spice! #spicybooks #romancelandia
Reposted by Polly Liticat
Here's a bunch of spicy Christmas-themed books to warm up your holidays. Includes Naughty & Spice, Season's Teasings, and Season's Spice: A Sexy Holidays Collection
#smutsky #spicybooks🌶️📚 #eroticwriterslift #booksky💙📚 #romancelandia #booktok ✍️🔥 ✒️🔞
books.bookfunnel.com/christmas-er...
#smutsky #spicybooks🌶️📚 #eroticwriterslift #booksky💙📚 #romancelandia #booktok ✍️🔥 ✒️🔞
books.bookfunnel.com/christmas-er...
December 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Here's a bunch of spicy Christmas-themed books to warm up your holidays. Includes Naughty & Spice, Season's Teasings, and Season's Spice: A Sexy Holidays Collection
#smutsky #spicybooks🌶️📚 #eroticwriterslift #booksky💙📚 #romancelandia #booktok ✍️🔥 ✒️🔞
books.bookfunnel.com/christmas-er...
#smutsky #spicybooks🌶️📚 #eroticwriterslift #booksky💙📚 #romancelandia #booktok ✍️🔥 ✒️🔞
books.bookfunnel.com/christmas-er...
Reposted by Polly Liticat
#Smutcember 3 asks, “Do [I] prefer to read or write smut?”
Yes.
...but they’re totally different? Reading is more vicarious. When I think I’m writing my best, it’s because the stories are demanding that I tell them.
Yes.
...but they’re totally different? Reading is more vicarious. When I think I’m writing my best, it’s because the stories are demanding that I tell them.
Continuing our #Smutcember setup:
Do you have a preference between reading smut or writing it, or perhaps engaging with it in a different form of media entirely? If so, what about that form of engagement appeals to you the most?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Do you have a preference between reading smut or writing it, or perhaps engaging with it in a different form of media entirely? If so, what about that form of engagement appeals to you the most?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
#Smutcember 3 asks, “Do [I] prefer to read or write smut?”
Yes.
...but they’re totally different? Reading is more vicarious. When I think I’m writing my best, it’s because the stories are demanding that I tell them.
Yes.
...but they’re totally different? Reading is more vicarious. When I think I’m writing my best, it’s because the stories are demanding that I tell them.
#Smutcember High spice is my stock in trade, and I’ve written characters that push beyond my “real life” comfort levels. (Theirs too, sometimes.) My boundaries are around anything where anybody gets hurt, physically or psychologically in any lasting way—so for me, non-consent is off the table. 1/2
As we continue into #Smutcember, it's important to know:
What is your spice comfort level? Does it vary between what you enjoy privately and what you're willing to share? Do you have hard boundaries for what you engage with?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
What is your spice comfort level? Does it vary between what you enjoy privately and what you're willing to share? Do you have hard boundaries for what you engage with?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
#Smutcember High spice is my stock in trade, and I’ve written characters that push beyond my “real life” comfort levels. (Theirs too, sometimes.) My boundaries are around anything where anybody gets hurt, physically or psychologically in any lasting way—so for me, non-consent is off the table. 1/2
HI #Smutcember! I’m Polly (they/them) and my lane is nerdy, feminist erotica, usually queer some way, often romantic. Most of my fiction is novella length or shorter, and a lot of it has fantasy or sf elements. (My main WIPs at the moment involve demons, clones, and (completely different) demons.)
Welcome to #Smutcember, folks!
To start things off, introduce yourself and the work(s) or characters you plan on discussing this month. You can focus on one relationship or several, it's up to you!
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
To start things off, introduce yourself and the work(s) or characters you plan on discussing this month. You can focus on one relationship or several, it's up to you!
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
HI #Smutcember! I’m Polly (they/them) and my lane is nerdy, feminist erotica, usually queer some way, often romantic. Most of my fiction is novella length or shorter, and a lot of it has fantasy or sf elements. (My main WIPs at the moment involve demons, clones, and (completely different) demons.)
(deep breath) I’m in a book, I’m in a book, I’m in a book! Spicy/sweet holiday tales with @saddletramp1956.bsky.social, @luxindulgences.bsky.social, @iandsmith.bsky.social , J. TIffany Noore, and ME! Mine crashes someone from a “kisses only” universe into an xxx one.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HW5XCK/
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HW5XCK/
Announcing A New Christmas Collection Live on Amazon: Season’s Spice
I am thrilled to announce that a new Christmas holiday collection by the Erotica Consortium is now live on Amazon, four days earlier than I had initially anticipated. Season's Spice: A Sexy Holidays Collection is now available in…
I am thrilled to announce that a new Christmas holiday collection by the Erotica Consortium is now live on Amazon, four days earlier than I had initially anticipated. Season's Spice: A Sexy Holidays Collection is now available in…
Announcing A New Christmas Collection Live on Amazon: Season’s Spice
I am thrilled to announce that a new Christmas holiday collection by the Erotica Consortium is now live on Amazon, four days earlier than I had initially anticipated. Season's Spice: A Sexy Holidays Collection is now available in e-book format on Amazon here. A paperback version is coming soon. According to the Amazon description: When the holidays heat up, the real magic happens after dark.
saddletramp1956.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
(deep breath) I’m in a book, I’m in a book, I’m in a book! Spicy/sweet holiday tales with @saddletramp1956.bsky.social, @luxindulgences.bsky.social, @iandsmith.bsky.social , J. TIffany Noore, and ME! Mine crashes someone from a “kisses only” universe into an xxx one.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HW5XCK/
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HW5XCK/
Feeling naughty? Polly has something nice for you—a quartet of seasonal erotic tales, from tender to kinky, with snowed-in sapphics reaching an accommodation, gonzo Santa and the world’s horniest virgin, a dominant Krampus, and an electrifying spin on A Christmas Carol
books2read.com/b/bzNqZE
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November 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Feeling naughty? Polly has something nice for you—a quartet of seasonal erotic tales, from tender to kinky, with snowed-in sapphics reaching an accommodation, gonzo Santa and the world’s horniest virgin, a dominant Krampus, and an electrifying spin on A Christmas Carol
books2read.com/b/bzNqZE
books2read.com/b/bzNqZE
Chuck Tingle has forever changed the way I see images like this. Not gonna write a story inspired by it tho. (Or am I?)
Portable Music for the 1950s Thanksgiving kitchen
#Thanksgiving
#Thanksgiving
November 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Chuck Tingle has forever changed the way I see images like this. Not gonna write a story inspired by it tho. (Or am I?)
Reposted by Polly Liticat
Chsale is still going on 💪
Chace Verity's Christmas Chsale! 50% off books!
Spouse's car died unexpectedly. We need a new car and will be ok on the car front! But I look forward to buying Christmas gifts for the whole family every year, and I now won't have the funds for it.
Unless *you* can help!
itch.io/s/167653/cha...
Spouse's car died unexpectedly. We need a new car and will be ok on the car front! But I look forward to buying Christmas gifts for the whole family every year, and I now won't have the funds for it.
Unless *you* can help!
itch.io/s/167653/cha...
Chace Verity's Christmas Chsale by Chace Verity
A bundle by Chace Verity, $17.00 for 17 games
itch.io
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Chsale is still going on 💪
NEW CRYPTID JUST DROPPED
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
NEW CRYPTID JUST DROPPED
(Every time someone shares this illustration I need to take a moment.)
I would like to offer my alt text for this illustration, “Does the Bicycle Make Women Cruel,” originally published in the Los Angeles Herald, July 13, 1897.
I would like to offer my alt text for this illustration, “Does the Bicycle Make Women Cruel,” originally published in the Los Angeles Herald, July 13, 1897.
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
(Every time someone shares this illustration I need to take a moment.)
I would like to offer my alt text for this illustration, “Does the Bicycle Make Women Cruel,” originally published in the Los Angeles Herald, July 13, 1897.
I would like to offer my alt text for this illustration, “Does the Bicycle Make Women Cruel,” originally published in the Los Angeles Herald, July 13, 1897.
A very quick State of the Polly:
Saucy holiday story - in edit/revision rounds, and TBA, like, imminently
All-new monster short - needs a final pass before going to editor
#AmWriting #AmWritingQuiteALotActually
Saucy holiday story - in edit/revision rounds, and TBA, like, imminently
All-new monster short - needs a final pass before going to editor
#AmWriting #AmWritingQuiteALotActually
State of the Polly update:
Saucy holiday story - ready for edits, TBA soon!
All-new monster short - draft almost done
Steampunky MM - rough outline okay-ed by editor
Sexy supernaturals - concept submitted to editor
Saucy holiday story - ready for edits, TBA soon!
All-new monster short - draft almost done
Steampunky MM - rough outline okay-ed by editor
Sexy supernaturals - concept submitted to editor
And upcoming:
* A saucy winter holiday tale TBA soon
* Some steampunkish man on monster fun TBA later
* Sexy shenanigans with salacious supernaturals (hopefully, if the Kickstarter I have been ceaselessly hyping comes through)
* A saucy winter holiday tale TBA soon
* Some steampunkish man on monster fun TBA later
* Sexy shenanigans with salacious supernaturals (hopefully, if the Kickstarter I have been ceaselessly hyping comes through)
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A very quick State of the Polly:
Saucy holiday story - in edit/revision rounds, and TBA, like, imminently
All-new monster short - needs a final pass before going to editor
#AmWriting #AmWritingQuiteALotActually
Saucy holiday story - in edit/revision rounds, and TBA, like, imminently
All-new monster short - needs a final pass before going to editor
#AmWriting #AmWritingQuiteALotActually
I do?? (I can’t see myself as a blonde. But I CAN see myself in Gay Paree)
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I do?? (I can’t see myself as a blonde. But I CAN see myself in Gay Paree)