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Rico Reachthorne
@ricoreachthorne.bsky.social
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He/him, middle-aged Latine, pan and polyam. Spouse, Co-creator and editor of @coricatchthorne 💖 18+.
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b-saxon.femfactory.tech
“I asked ChatGPT”

Oh yeah well I asked a tree and it made a weird clicking noise and added a bit of bark to my gender
Cover of my book, Song Of The Dryads cover! Tree woman holding what looks like a lute or something similar standing in a grassy field with some faded trees in the background and butterflies flying around her.
February 16, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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charliedeltawrites.bsky.social
Fox doesn't usually allow herself to indulge her anger like this, but here she takes a moment to fantasize, and it gets a little bit too real.
The obnoxious, spoiled jackass didn’t even know what suffering was. And part of her was dying to demonstrate for him. It wasn’t like he didn’t deserve it. He had poisoned her. Who would blame her? For a moment, Fox allowed the fantasy, stoked the righteous fury that had kindled in her blood. Unbidden, or at least unconsciously bidden, flames began to dance across her clenched fists, bright in the dim tunnels. And for just an instant, she could see what she would do to him, so clear that she could taste it, feel it, smell it. It was the smell that stopped her cold. She would never forget the sickly-sweet stench of burning flesh, never forget the first time… Tendrils of fear constricted her heart like a vice, strangling the anger, crushing it into nothingness. The flames died instantly. Whatever progress she had made, Fox still feared herself more than anything else. She likely always would.
February 17, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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valwrites.ca
Hey so this is important. Amazon is removing ALL erotica and new queer books from its Amazon associates program, which seems to be a first step towards delisting these books a la itchio.

This includes my book, your books, and the books you like to buy.

This is bad news, and we can expect worse
February 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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popiel.bsky.social
old art, BG3 dark urge + ketheric, orin, gortash
September 7, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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popiel.bsky.social
go play fledgeling manor!!! it has vampires and art by my friend and honestly what more could you want from a game
insecretplaces.com In Secret Places 🦇🏰FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW⚰️🖤 @insecretplaces.com · Dec 11
Fledgling Manor is available now with a special launch discount! Please enjoy our funny, sexy, weird game about vampires, reality TV, and a metalhead from upstate New York store.steampowered.com/app/3238510/...
December 12, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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popiel.bsky.social
if you are a Complainer Supreme about AAA slop (like me), go grip a sink, stare into the mirror, remind yourself the games you want to play are made by your peers, and play an indie
December 12, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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cxorlando.bsky.social
everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr
yeeeerika.bsky.social erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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sayaashrah.bsky.social
#WIPSnips 15. "Never"

Nitara compares Ashrah to Datusha's previous wielder...

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms #CaptainNitara #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters
Purple eyes, darkened with hate disguised as salvation. As mercy. Praise Datusha, fiend, for I would never be so merciful. The demon’s faith rivalled that of many Shadow Priestesses and was as distorted as Karil’s belief that, by wielding Datusha, he would expunge the sickness that had infected nensii blood. His desire to save his people led them straight to the precipice of extinction. That wasn’t what Dionic meant, though. Karil had been a gifted weapon master. His ability to turn any ore into splendid weapons became famous across the realm, and he equipped the ships of House Coliary with artillery that was, to this day, unrivalled. But while he built incredible weapons, he only ever wielded the forging hammer. Though many called his creations fantastical, he had never dabbled in magic until Nitara’s grandmother ordered him to learn haemomancy along with the other high-ranking members of House Coliary. More than a warrior, this demon enjoyed the adrenaline of combat. Took pleasure in the violence and cruelty of it, if the manner in which she slaughtered Nitara’s crew members was any clue. The captain squeezed her eyes shut, banishing the images of dismembered nensiis and their blood dripping from the demon’s hands and blade.
February 15, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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aluino.blacksky.app
🥹
February 15, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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karamoonauthor.com
You are not ready. Prepare your eyes...

@nushdeco.bsky.social you are amazing. Thanks so much for bringing Kallista and Geni into visual form in such stunning fashion.

At long last, here's Captain Kallista Audax and Doctor Eugenia 'Geni' Philistos from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️
A woman in a red dress with auburn hair blushes and looks very pleased as another woman with short light brown hair receives the gift of a fine blue coat. They sit on a bench which combines Greek and Polynesian design elements. Behind them, there is a thematic collage of a sailing ship, a compass, and a pink serpentine dragon.
February 15, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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potzerthevengeful.bsky.social
the AuDHD urge to put additional context in parentheses in texts so others know there’s more than one thought happening at the same time
February 14, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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tristangrayford.scot
Everything they're doing right now is trying to bed-in anti-trans hatred so thoroughly into our laws and institutions that it becomes the standard.

They haven't accepted how swiftly the tide will move against them in the next decade.

But it's coming. Everything they built will fall.
February 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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tristangrayford.scot
And the thing is?

We know that this is generational. That there is a cliff-edge in anti-trans hostility across generations that means that when the current over-45s age-out of power so does the vast majority of anti-trans hatred.

This is the death throes of that hate. Their last gasp.
February 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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sayaashrah.bsky.social
All of this, really.
pjccahill.bsky.social PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 3d
It's really simple for me: Trad-publishing offers almost no benefit by comparison to self-pub NOW. Unless you're already a marquee name, you don't get help. With anything. At all. So I self-pub so I 1) control my content, 2) own my content, 3) don't need to worry about arbitrary gatekeeping. (1/3)
susansavagelee.bsky.social Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 3d
Do you think there are more pros than cons when self-publishing? I can’t get past the marketing and the worry that the story is flawed #writingq #WritingCommunity
February 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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vaspider.gay
Hello.

If you're a trans writer & your book is a) available in paperback & b) can be shipped directly from penguin, harper collins, simon & schuster, hachette, macmillion, bloomsbury, sureshot, tyndale, lockdown, remnant, penny, barbour, dover, scholastic, kensington, harelequin, redwheel/weiser:
February 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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coricatchthorne.bsky.social
Chapter 2.12 of Europa University: Admissions is out, free on my website: www.coricatchthorne.com/admissions-2..., AO3 archiveofourown.org/works/700126..., and Tumblr www.tumblr.com/coricatchtho... ! In which a number of people and emotions move from one place to another.
#EuropaUniAdmissions
Screenshotted text: She dressed and retrieved her already-packed suitcase, checking its contents one last time. Latching it shut, she stole a glance at the potted fern in the corner of her bedroom, wondering again what would happen to the plants she’d tended so carefully. Perhaps the only unambiguously beautiful things she would leave behind. Rolling the bag to her entry, Saoirse put on her shoes, took a deep breath, and left the home she’d occupied for over thirty years. She did not look back. ----- Emile woke with a start, flopped facedown on his bed. He grabbed for his comm in a panic, then sagged with relief. Still half an hour before Mother’s call. He’d only intended to rest his eyes for a moment, but fallen into a surreal dream of explaining to Mother how his prototype stag had gotten into the pantry and eaten all the ingredients they needed for the family meal.
February 13, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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stevewestenra.bsky.social
#WIPSnips - "Serious"

I've shared this one before, for "sorry," but it works here as well & it's a part I think I remember others resonating with!

From The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle
Usually when I’m confronted with serious moments I shut up and walk away. When I do try to say anything, it comes out wrong and I make it worse. Better to run, leave everyone in healthier emotional shape. That typically means leaving a public space to head home, or saying goodbye at someone’s house a little early, or your best friend calling you to say his grandma died and all you can think to say is, “That’s rough man. I’m sorry,” and you can feel the need and disappointment brimming on the other end of the line like a stream during a monsoon, but you don’t know what to say, and how do some people always know what to say? How do people not run? I’m a coward, really. I always run. Sometimes, I run away to a weird culty experiment island where it turns out I have magic powers.
February 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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gors.bsky.social
If you care about pixel art as a medium and want to learn more about how to detect if it is genuine or AI-generated, please refer to this writeup that I created with the help of the community. Read, download, share and support real creators.
February 11, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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yamino.bsky.social
Sony stop shooting itself repeatedly in the dick challenge
cartoonbrew.bsky.social Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 6d
Sony, the company that sold 'KPop Demon Hunters' for a song, has scrapped a Thai folklore-inspired feature from 'Amphibia' creator Matt Braly and 'Steven Universe' creator Rebecca Sugar two years into development, calling it “not commercial enough.”
www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
Sony Scraps Thai Folklore Feature From Matt Braly, Rebeca Sugar
After two years in development, Sony has pulled the plug on the culturally rooted animated feature, calling it “not commercial enough.”
www.cartoonbrew.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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katemckean.bsky.social
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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paultobin.bsky.social
Just ran across a tumblr thread of Slutty Boy 15/16th century mercenaries. Historically accurate costuming! The past was alive, y'all, and it was fabulous.
February 10, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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sylessae.bsky.social
Throwback to something worth repeating.
A screenshot of a tweet that says: Your art will betray you. It will look better in your head than on paper. It will make you feel untalented some days. Love it anyway. Because one day, it will also surprise you, fulfill you, and remind you why you started.
February 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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pedroiniguez.bsky.social
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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legendofnerd.bsky.social
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
Cretaceous seas were inhabited by several Mosasaurus species, not all of them giants.

This is one of the medium-sized Mosasaurus, M. missouriensis, an exceptional specimen found in Alberta. Lizardfish bones were in its gut contents. The prey had been bitten into swallowable chunks. 🧪
The articulated skeleton of a seagoing lizard from the Cretaceous, Mosasaurus. Brown bone on gray shale.
February 10, 2026 at 1:10 PM