Chris M Hill
@romantasychris.bsky.social
Just a dumb flamboyant disaster queer, writing queer love stories with magic and adventure in fantastical worlds. (trans & polyamory inclusive narratives!)
https://chrismhill.com/
https://ko-fi.com/romantasychris/shop
ECRW Member 💚📚
https://chrismhill.com/
https://ko-fi.com/romantasychris/shop
ECRW Member 💚📚
Yo. Not dead.
Just too busy to write right now - Ren Faire opens in (checks watch) 11 days 😬😬😬😂😵💫☠️
Just too busy to write right now - Ren Faire opens in (checks watch) 11 days 😬😬😬😂😵💫☠️
September 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Yo. Not dead.
Just too busy to write right now - Ren Faire opens in (checks watch) 11 days 😬😬😬😂😵💫☠️
Just too busy to write right now - Ren Faire opens in (checks watch) 11 days 😬😬😬😂😵💫☠️
Reposted by Chris M Hill
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Surprising no one who follows me, the RELIC series by @mazmaddox.bsky.social
Just absolutely no contest, dinosaurs shifters and mafia, and a wild romp of the BEST kind of fun.
Just absolutely no contest, dinosaurs shifters and mafia, and a wild romp of the BEST kind of fun.
I know all my people are bucking this trend.
What's the most fun read you had in the past year?
What's the most fun read you had in the past year?
There has been a steady decline in reading for fun. From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend, according to a study published on Wednesday.
August 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Surprising no one who follows me, the RELIC series by @mazmaddox.bsky.social
Just absolutely no contest, dinosaurs shifters and mafia, and a wild romp of the BEST kind of fun.
Just absolutely no contest, dinosaurs shifters and mafia, and a wild romp of the BEST kind of fun.
Y'all worried about Obergefell and I'm just wondering how long it takes us to back track and overturn Lawrence v Texas.
Consensual, private, same sex relationships have only been legal since 2003. 🙈🙉🙊
Consensual, private, same sex relationships have only been legal since 2003. 🙈🙉🙊
August 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Y'all worried about Obergefell and I'm just wondering how long it takes us to back track and overturn Lawrence v Texas.
Consensual, private, same sex relationships have only been legal since 2003. 🙈🙉🙊
Consensual, private, same sex relationships have only been legal since 2003. 🙈🙉🙊
Indy Publishing Cult stickers came in today!!
And they have ~・°˖✧ SPOT HOLO ✧˖°・~
(You can grab one through my ko-fi.com/s/e3dec6f156 )
((reposte because I fucked up the link ☠️))
And they have ~・°˖✧ SPOT HOLO ✧˖°・~
(You can grab one through my ko-fi.com/s/e3dec6f156 )
((reposte because I fucked up the link ☠️))
August 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Indy Publishing Cult stickers came in today!!
And they have ~・°˖✧ SPOT HOLO ✧˖°・~
(You can grab one through my ko-fi.com/s/e3dec6f156 )
((reposte because I fucked up the link ☠️))
And they have ~・°˖✧ SPOT HOLO ✧˖°・~
(You can grab one through my ko-fi.com/s/e3dec6f156 )
((reposte because I fucked up the link ☠️))
Reposted by Chris M Hill
Hey.
Hey, you.
Yeah, you. The person reading this. You, specifically.
Be messier and weirder. Fuck up more. And cut people a break when they're messy and weird and fuck up, if you can.
Queerness is about being messy.
Hey, you.
Yeah, you. The person reading this. You, specifically.
Be messier and weirder. Fuck up more. And cut people a break when they're messy and weird and fuck up, if you can.
Queerness is about being messy.
August 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Hey.
Hey, you.
Yeah, you. The person reading this. You, specifically.
Be messier and weirder. Fuck up more. And cut people a break when they're messy and weird and fuck up, if you can.
Queerness is about being messy.
Hey, you.
Yeah, you. The person reading this. You, specifically.
Be messier and weirder. Fuck up more. And cut people a break when they're messy and weird and fuck up, if you can.
Queerness is about being messy.
Reposted by Chris M Hill
Since we don't have polls here on Bluesky yet...
In the replies here you will find two posts. Like the post you agree with most.
We are pitting hardcover books against paperbacks.
I wanna know who reads what!
In the replies here you will find two posts. Like the post you agree with most.
We are pitting hardcover books against paperbacks.
I wanna know who reads what!
July 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Since we don't have polls here on Bluesky yet...
In the replies here you will find two posts. Like the post you agree with most.
We are pitting hardcover books against paperbacks.
I wanna know who reads what!
In the replies here you will find two posts. Like the post you agree with most.
We are pitting hardcover books against paperbacks.
I wanna know who reads what!
Reposted by Chris M Hill
I am a reclamation kind of bitch. 😌🔥
(I will probably retool this a bit and print some stickers)
(I will probably retool this a bit and print some stickers)
July 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I am a reclamation kind of bitch. 😌🔥
(I will probably retool this a bit and print some stickers)
(I will probably retool this a bit and print some stickers)
So, I used to work at a call center in the fraud department for a financial institution. I dealt with porn claims for maybe a good third of my calls.
The problem with explicit content for payment processors isn't actually porn:
It's free trial scams.
🧵
The problem with explicit content for payment processors isn't actually porn:
It's free trial scams.
🧵
July 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
So, I used to work at a call center in the fraud department for a financial institution. I dealt with porn claims for maybe a good third of my calls.
The problem with explicit content for payment processors isn't actually porn:
It's free trial scams.
🧵
The problem with explicit content for payment processors isn't actually porn:
It's free trial scams.
🧵
I dont understand the appeal of a kilt, but the author of this Ren Faire romance series seems to REALLY like them. I can instantly tell a man introduced is going to be a hunky beefcake if he is wearing a kilt. The Kilt is instant shorthand for Irresistible Sex Appeal. 😆 #romancelandia
July 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I dont understand the appeal of a kilt, but the author of this Ren Faire romance series seems to REALLY like them. I can instantly tell a man introduced is going to be a hunky beefcake if he is wearing a kilt. The Kilt is instant shorthand for Irresistible Sex Appeal. 😆 #romancelandia
Saw this, needed this, delighted to find the first ebook is available from my local library via Libby 🙌✨️
Get your high fantasy politics all in a single city of towers and bridges, an all queer cast, and a refusal to abandon kindness as a central value <3
Completed series, too!
claudiearseneault.com/city-of-spir...
🌈📚 🌈🚀💫
Completed series, too!
claudiearseneault.com/city-of-spir...
🌈📚 🌈🚀💫
July 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Saw this, needed this, delighted to find the first ebook is available from my local library via Libby 🙌✨️
Every time I run into "The primary text is held in private collection." MY BLOOD BOILS, and @mazmaddox.bsky.social I deeply envy the ability to just turn into a dinosaur and eat the history hoarding dipshits.
July 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Every time I run into "The primary text is held in private collection." MY BLOOD BOILS, and @mazmaddox.bsky.social I deeply envy the ability to just turn into a dinosaur and eat the history hoarding dipshits.
Come for the gays and dragons, stay for my strong opinions about 18th century trans femme celebrity, diplomat, spy, professional duelist Chevalière d'Éon
July 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Come for the gays and dragons, stay for my strong opinions about 18th century trans femme celebrity, diplomat, spy, professional duelist Chevalière d'Éon
One of the many problems with academics who only read historians without ever pulling up the original primary texts is that it renders them COMPLETELY UNABLE TO RECOGNIZE BLARING POLITICAL SATIRE!!!
July 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
One of the many problems with academics who only read historians without ever pulling up the original primary texts is that it renders them COMPLETELY UNABLE TO RECOGNIZE BLARING POLITICAL SATIRE!!!
The countdown clock is in hours and the backing progress bar is nail-bitingly close to fully backed -
Lets punt this one across the finish line, and grab some cool queer dragon books from an award winning indy author all in one 😎 🐲 🔥
Lets punt this one across the finish line, and grab some cool queer dragon books from an award winning indy author all in one 😎 🐲 🔥
i'm just a girl standing in front of the apocalypse asking you to fund my kickstarter so i can publish my silly little book about queer firebenders on dragons. ✨ #pride #QueerSFF #booksky #ReadersOfBluesky
Favour Fire: Fireborn Series Conclusion
The epic conclusion to your favourite HTTYD-inspired series. Join the fireborn women & some new friends on one last explosive adventure
www.kickstarter.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The countdown clock is in hours and the backing progress bar is nail-bitingly close to fully backed -
Lets punt this one across the finish line, and grab some cool queer dragon books from an award winning indy author all in one 😎 🐲 🔥
Lets punt this one across the finish line, and grab some cool queer dragon books from an award winning indy author all in one 😎 🐲 🔥
This is such a cool thread to glance through processes - here are some of mine:
July 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is such a cool thread to glance through processes - here are some of mine:
Reposted by Chris M Hill
youtu.be/lYNM9RRsmec the video is ready
July 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
youtu.be/lYNM9RRsmec the video is ready
Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible.
These pirates spend more time looking for snails than looking for dragons. 😔🐌
These pirates spend more time looking for snails than looking for dragons. 😔🐌
Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible.
Army of dead animals kills all the humans 🤷🏻♂️
Army of dead animals kills all the humans 🤷🏻♂️
Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible.
Girl undergoes identity crisis because of a single bad date.
#HostageSituation #YA
Girl undergoes identity crisis because of a single bad date.
#HostageSituation #YA
July 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible.
These pirates spend more time looking for snails than looking for dragons. 😔🐌
These pirates spend more time looking for snails than looking for dragons. 😔🐌
Reposted by Chris M Hill
anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :
July 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :
If you live (most places) in Washington State you can also get a card for Sno-Isle for free, which has the fourth largest Libby/Overdrive collection in the nation.
They tend to have all the queer books that QLL has and then some, with shorter wait times.
www.sno-isle.org/get-a-librar...
They tend to have all the queer books that QLL has and then some, with shorter wait times.
www.sno-isle.org/get-a-librar...
June 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If you live (most places) in Washington State you can also get a card for Sno-Isle for free, which has the fourth largest Libby/Overdrive collection in the nation.
They tend to have all the queer books that QLL has and then some, with shorter wait times.
www.sno-isle.org/get-a-librar...
They tend to have all the queer books that QLL has and then some, with shorter wait times.
www.sno-isle.org/get-a-librar...
It is TOTALLY WILD that I can email a professor on the opposite side of the planet asking for a copy of their journal article deconstructing gender roles in politics in 17th century Europe & they will just SEND IT TO ME, FOR FREE, LESS THAN 24 HOURS LATER!!!
IT FEELS LIKE. FUCKING. MAGIC. 🤯✨️⭐️💖👏⭐️💖✨️🎉
IT FEELS LIKE. FUCKING. MAGIC. 🤯✨️⭐️💖👏⭐️💖✨️🎉
June 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It is TOTALLY WILD that I can email a professor on the opposite side of the planet asking for a copy of their journal article deconstructing gender roles in politics in 17th century Europe & they will just SEND IT TO ME, FOR FREE, LESS THAN 24 HOURS LATER!!!
IT FEELS LIKE. FUCKING. MAGIC. 🤯✨️⭐️💖👏⭐️💖✨️🎉
IT FEELS LIKE. FUCKING. MAGIC. 🤯✨️⭐️💖👏⭐️💖✨️🎉
This letter from my Orlesian Bard to the Inquisitor (both player characters) proclaiming the love he knows to be deeply one-sided, given just before the final battle of our 5-year-long Dragon Age: The Roleplaying Game campaign, remains the most romantic thing I've ever written in my god damn life
June 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This letter from my Orlesian Bard to the Inquisitor (both player characters) proclaiming the love he knows to be deeply one-sided, given just before the final battle of our 5-year-long Dragon Age: The Roleplaying Game campaign, remains the most romantic thing I've ever written in my god damn life
Gender affirming care IS life saving care.
I agree that our message to young people should be "there are ways to survive this," but that doesn't mean we should deny the actual literal truth, because that will only give the Alt-Right more ammo to take it all away.
I agree that our message to young people should be "there are ways to survive this," but that doesn't mean we should deny the actual literal truth, because that will only give the Alt-Right more ammo to take it all away.
And the non-profit industrial complex invariably describes gender-affirming care for young people as "life-saving" because the subtext is "if trans young people can't get puberty blockers they WILL kill themselves."
June 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Gender affirming care IS life saving care.
I agree that our message to young people should be "there are ways to survive this," but that doesn't mean we should deny the actual literal truth, because that will only give the Alt-Right more ammo to take it all away.
I agree that our message to young people should be "there are ways to survive this," but that doesn't mean we should deny the actual literal truth, because that will only give the Alt-Right more ammo to take it all away.
Fan conventions exist through the labor of unpaid volunteers - many working 40-60 hour weeks for months at a time (on top of their real paying jobs).
Commonly events with 15,000+ attendees will have zero paid employees.
Even shows that pay a few staff members rely on many, many more unpaid ones.
Commonly events with 15,000+ attendees will have zero paid employees.
Even shows that pay a few staff members rely on many, many more unpaid ones.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Convention tables/booths can cost anywhere from $75 all the way up to $5000, depending on the show. If someone is behind a table at a con, they probably paid a lot of money to be there.
Convention tables/booths can cost anywhere from $75 all the way up to $5000, depending on the show. If someone is behind a table at a con, they probably paid a lot of money to be there.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
June 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Fan conventions exist through the labor of unpaid volunteers - many working 40-60 hour weeks for months at a time (on top of their real paying jobs).
Commonly events with 15,000+ attendees will have zero paid employees.
Even shows that pay a few staff members rely on many, many more unpaid ones.
Commonly events with 15,000+ attendees will have zero paid employees.
Even shows that pay a few staff members rely on many, many more unpaid ones.
Banning transition healthcare will effectively ban *all* health care for trans patients. You know how long it took me to find a doctor who would see me for routine *antibiotics* when I lived in a state that allowed doctors to opt out of trans health care?
Three. Months.
Three. Months.
i know a lot else is going on, but US folks PLEASE call your senators - they are actively set on trying to ban trans healthcare on Medicaid entirely which trans people like me who are on Medicaid actively depend on for life-saving healthcare
The Senate reconciliation bill retains the trans healthcare Medicaid/CHIP ban.
Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision.
Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.
Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision.
Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.
June 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Banning transition healthcare will effectively ban *all* health care for trans patients. You know how long it took me to find a doctor who would see me for routine *antibiotics* when I lived in a state that allowed doctors to opt out of trans health care?
Three. Months.
Three. Months.