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H.S. Kallinger (he/they)
@xakana.bsky.social
#LGBTQIA+ Author: Lost & Found Humanity series, disabled, queer SFF writer, geek, gamer. Trans♂️ enby. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

http://patreon.com/xakana
https://hskallinger.weebly.com
https://linktr.ee/hskallinger
https://ko-fi.com/hskallinger

E pulvis vitae noster ad astra.
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Hi! I'm H.S. Kallinger, a disabled, queer author of queer SFF. I have a complete, published psych/urban fantasy series available at multiple online retailers, & I'm working on a new one. My works are character-driven, blend real science with fantasy, and I like to kick tropes in the face.
I love the found family trope. I think a big reason is that I grew up without a reliable biological family, so I had to build my own. That's probably also why I'm drawn to writing polyam stories and QPRs. I love building a community with all sorts of love but especially familial.

I'm not alone!
"Blood is the answer to everything" -- except family. The best family is the one you make yourself.

From today until Nov 21st, snag 'A Demon to Save Me', along with 24 other books with found families for $20!

itch.io/b/3334/not-a...
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Do I start focusing on book 2 in writer games now that 'A Demon to Save Me' is published?
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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THE TIPPING WORLD IS FINISHED
and it has everything you want in an epic

✨political intrigue
✨big battle sequences
✨new heroes coming into their own
✨morally gray ancient adepts
✨unique magic system
✨complex plot
✨vivid worldbuilding
✨terrifying villains

🌈📚🪐 #Booksky
books2read.com/Symbols-End
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I had the dentist today for a deep cleaning.

Ugh. I can feel my mouth again, and my jaw is soooo sore
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Hey #booksky we have a fully searchable Indie Book Directory! You can search by Title, Author, Genre and Trope! It’s super easy to use and authors can submit their books for free. Come check us out!
September 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Yeah, I love bingo cards, too XD
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

It's "perfect" in the sense that I loved every song on it and listened obsessively... even if I didn't discover it until 1997, when my BFF loaned me her CD after I fell in love with the song 'What Do I Have to Do in the movie "Masterminds."
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Two of my standalone romantic fantasy books are in this bundle! Both books feature queer main characters. 💖

'The blood of the covenant is stronger than the water of birth.' #foundfamily #bookbundle 📚📦
"Blood is the answer to everything" -- except family. The best family is the one you make yourself.

From today until Nov 21st, snag 'A Demon to Save Me', along with 24 other books with found families for $20!

itch.io/b/3334/not-a...
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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The "Not All Family Is Blood" Itchio book bundle sale is LIVE and it includes my murder mystery book, "Winner Takes All!" 📚🫂

#booksky #writesky #readers #booksale #sale
"Blood is the answer to everything" -- except family. The best family is the one you make yourself.

From today until Nov 21st, snag 'A Demon to Save Me', along with 24 other books with found families for $20!

itch.io/b/3334/not-a...
November 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Also includes my book An Uncommon Curse!
"Blood is the answer to everything" -- except family. The best family is the one you make yourself.

From today until Nov 21st, snag 'A Demon to Save Me', along with 24 other books with found families for $20!

itch.io/b/3334/not-a...
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"Blood is the answer to everything" -- except family. The best family is the one you make yourself.

From today until Nov 21st, snag 'A Demon to Save Me', along with 24 other books with found families for $20!

itch.io/b/3334/not-a...
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I meowed at them.
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
All right. I should get ready for bed now.

My thirdborn turns 14 today! It doesn't feel like it's been that long.
November 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Copyright page train? Huh. Okay. Here's my most recent.
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
"It doesn’t look real, at first glance. There must be a green screen right behind the shadowed silhouette of a falling man. It must be AI-generated. But it’s real: a snapshot of a man in freefall, eclipsing the high-resolution surface of the Sun behind him."

This is really neat, though
How This 'Preposterous But Real' Photo of a Skydiver in Front of the Sun Was Taken » Explorersweb
ExplorersWeb's resident astrophysicist explains how a solar photographer set up and took an astonishing shot of a skydiver against the sun.
explorersweb.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Me: has a whole, gorgeous scene playing in my head. Goes to type it.

My brain: I've never had a thought in my life.
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Also, no, not everywhere makes them wait until 18. And the ones who start earlier? Yeah, they do great.
Trans kiddos deserve normative puberty experiences. That should be our goal.

And not getting to start estrogens or androgens until they are 18+ is the result of transphobic policies. Not the result of the science that repeatedly tells us that trans kids absolutely know their own genders.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
To everyone who celebrates!
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming by the perimeter fence day to all who celebrate. A solemn 30 second screaming before vanishing will take place at 11am.
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I can't be the only one who likes mm faerie romantasy...

🌈📚🌶️ #Romancelandia
jeremyrayne.itch.io
books2read.com/jeremyrayne
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Without downloading new pics, describe your gender:
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Heh. Heheheheh. Heh.

Asking for help? Like... putting myself out there and hoping I don't just get cold wind blowing cricket chirps at me in response?

I'm totally normal about asking for help. Really. I have done it. It's happened!

#SpoonieAuthChat

(I opened this yesterday and forgot to post it)
Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), November 12, 2025:

As a writer, do you ever feel uncomfortable asking for help?

(Please quote-post and add
#SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Tired of lying awake at 3 am raging about how shit everything is? Like to have something to read instead?

How about a bundle of great fiction about authoritarian regimes and heroes who stick knives in evil systems?

📚🪐 #Booksky
itch.io/b/3348/burn-...
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
CN: kink talk

Gabby is a kinkster right out the gate, which is the opposite of Zack, who started his series as vanilla as a milkshake. Zack mostly found interest through Sarah. Gabby's gf Vicky brought it to him originally, but he was immediately interested.
Gabby's got a praise kink, is an exhibitionist, a masochist, and both a service dom and sub.

He talks about how he's into the whole BDSM acronym, and he practices RACK.

I'm probably forgetting something, but I think that's his list?
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I'm running an Itchio sale for Nonbinary November💛🤍💜🖤

Grab a bundle of 3 novels & 1 novelette for $8.50, normally valued at $17. All of them have a nonbinary character in them, either as a main character or side character. (You can also purchase individually)

Running for a week🙌🏻 #discountbooks 💙📚
Nonbinary November by Shane Blackheart
A bundle by Shane Blackheart, $8.50 for 4 games
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November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Men of a certain age thread. 40+ besties drop a (non nude) selfie.

45 🖖
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM