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

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I had the dentist today for a deep cleaning.

Ugh. I can feel my mouth again, and my jaw is soooo sore
White dude in a black n95 mask with pastel yellow, pink, and teal hair in a stripe between his leopard print cat ears. Some auburn beard is visible running from the mask to temple. Visible ear has multiple piercings. He's wearing a black shirt, black rectangular wire-rim glasses, and black and red over-the-ear padded headphones
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Blank!

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Indie Book Directory 2025 Bingo (blank). Cross off what you have achieved so far in 2025 and tag @indiebookdirectory. want to read more indie books? Check out www.indiebooksdirectory.com bingo squares: read a book with a pretty cover, found a new fave indie author, listened to an audiobook, read a book that stressed you out, finished a book series, read past midnight, read multiple books at the same time, read a book over 500 pages, read a romantasy book, followed an indie author, borrowed a book from a friend, read an indie book, used indie book directory, checked out a library book, dnf'd a book, added an indie author to your tbr, read a non-fiction book, finished a book in one day, didnt buy a book on impulse, cried because of a book, read a book under 200 pages, read a banned book, read a thriller, neglected your tbr pile, read a book outside your comfort zone.
November 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Yeah, I love bingo cards, too XD
Indie Book Directory 2025 Bingo (filled). Cross off what you have achieved so far in 2025 and tag @indiebookdirectory. want to read more indie books? Check out www.indiebooksdirectory.com bingo squares: read a book with a pretty cover (starred), found a new fave indie author, listened to an audiobook, read a book that stressed you out, finished a book series (starred), read past midnight (starred), read multiple books at the same time (starred), read a book over 500 pages, read a romantasy book, followed an indie author (starred), borrowed a book from a friend (starred), read an indie book (starred), used indie book directory, checked out a library book (starred), dnf'd a book (starred), added an indie author to your tbr (starred), read a non-fiction book, finished a book in one day (starred), didnt buy a book on impulse, cried because of a book (starred), read a book under 200 pages (starred), read a banned book (starred), read a thriller (starred), neglected your tbr pile (starred), read a book outside your comfort zone (starred).
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
xakana.bsky.social
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."
What looks like a wooden jewelry box frame full of miscellaneous items, including a rosary floating in red, an elaborate cross on a tangled beaded necklace (another rosary?), a do you light candle with a partially melted holographic exterior, a leaf, a seashell, and a tiny bust of what might have been a cherub in crumpled purple fabric. The band name reads Stabbing Westward in white, stylized lettering, and written in a small center compartment at the bottom is the album name: Wither Blister Burn & Peel, with a cross ampersand in place of the word "and."
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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"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!

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Pale purple, blue, and pink palate knife blotches with black text that reads: Not all family is blood an itchi-io bundle with found families/friendship November 17 to 21 https://itch.io/b/3334/not-all-family-is-blood
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I meowed at them.
Two orange tabbies on the back of a recliner with a black and flower print cover, their mouths open as they meow back. The cat on the left is long haired and his very fluffy tail is hanging down in front of the chair, while the cat on the right is a darker orange, tubby shorthair.
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Copyright page train? Huh. Okay. Here's my most recent.
Text on a yellow-cream background: Copyright © 2025 by H.S. Kallinger All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), nor may artificial intelligence models be trained on it or the cover art without the prior written permission of the copyright owner of this book. H.S. Kallinger has asserted their moral right to be identified as the author of this book. This is a work of fiction (in this universe). The names, characters, places and events—even those based on real people, places and events—are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, places or events, living or deceased, is entirely coincidental. This eBook was first published in October, 2025 by H.S. Kallinger. Kallinger, H.S., 1980- A Demon to Save Me: Book One of the Found Humanity Series/H.S. Kallinger https://hskallinger.weebly.com/
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Without downloading new pics, describe your gender:
Magic: the Gathering art for Opulent Palace: Fallout set. A grey, cloudy night scene in Appalachia with a tall lighthouse glowing dimly next to damp ground, but no great body of water. Fireflies are scattered around the scene as nuclear green glowing orbs. Next to the lighthouse sits a giant, fluffy black moth, a vengeful mothman, with glowing pink-red eyes while another hovers in the air a ways away, wings splayed in flight.
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Oh, I saw you mentioned monsterfucking in your own character talk, and Gabby is a monsterfucker XD

One of my favorite quotes revolves around that:
'Monster fucking isn't like Pokémon. You don't need to fuck 'em all,' Lex sent to me mentally, and I choked on my laughter. I could feel that they were teasing, and I wanted to joke back, but that joke hit me hard. When I was able to catch my breath, I finally replied. “You may have just given me a new goal in life,” I told Lex, and they snorted. [Next line is scribbled out]
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Men of a certain age thread. 40+ besties drop a (non nude) selfie.

45 🖖
White nonbinary trans guy with pink cheeks leaning against a chair with a fuzzy, dark red blanket on it. He has blue eyes, auburn eyebrows, beard, and mustache, short, colorful hair (yellow, blue, teal, pink, and purple), six earrings in the visible ear, a purple lip ring, and a space-themed black t-shirt.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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New batch of photos. The sky has gone from pink to red, and it's even easier to see ❤️

I forgot to mention, but these are all 3 second exposure.

Location: Kansas
Aurora in the bruised night sky full of stars with the shadows of trees bordering the bottom and sides. The left half of the image shows lights from bottom to top: a deep bright, green into a teal into a pink red with a "ball" of bright pink at the right edge in the right. Aurora bands in red-pink and neon green striped across the night sky with trees and house lights in the foreground. Stars in the dark pink-purple top left third of the image. Shocking pink-red sky above nuclear green band of aurora lights split by grey-blue, all behind various trees.
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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The best of the original aurora photos I took in my back yard.
A photo of the night sky blanketed in an aurora. The majority of the sky is mauve, shades of pink and bruised purple. At the bottom is a pale green above, a neon green. Some stripes of cloud Are present on the right of the image under dotted stars. This all serves as a backdrop for the shadows of trees and a power line pole. A large tree with a split trunk that branches numerous times upward shows bits of green at the leaves towards the top but is mostly a shadow with the silhouettes of more trees alongside it in the background. Behind it is a glowing sky, the bottom fifth a bright and pale green into a light pink that darkens, as it goes higher until it's a rich, dark pink at the top. A landscape photo. Of a starry night sky with an aurora coloring it. Yellow white clouds draw lines above the faintest shadows of power lines across the center of the pink upper majority of the sky. To the left are the leafy branches of a deciduous tree, and to the right, the packed, fluffy silhouette of a conifer. At the bottom is the top of a distant forest, backlit in green.
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Took 9 out on my back. The colors had shifted so the whole bottom of the sky was green-green, and I took this picture bent over with them just sitting on my back like a cat 🤣
The night sky bordered by black silhouettes of trees, power line, and a cross-shaped pole. The top 2/3rds of the sky is mauve, from a light pink to darker wine. The lower third is a nuclear green, with a bright, yellow-green stripe through the middle.
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Calibrations are finished!
Black and white photo of a silver 3D model of Garrus Vakarian on the back of a couch.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Husband finally fixed the 3D printer*, found some filament that isn't borked**, and printed a thing for me. Anyone recognize what's under the support trees?

*it's been a year or two
**apparently, it can absorb moisture from the air and become useless
A mass of silver plastic abstract trees encase a 3D printed statue in front of a blurry shelf of rainbow Funko pop dolls (one is almost clearly harley quinn) and a little colorful pastel print by Laura Siadak done mostly in blues mounted to a white wall. A mass of silver plastic abstract trees encase a 3D printed statue with what might be a rifle to the left in front of a blurry shelf of rainbow Funko pop dolls (one is almost clearly harley quinn) and a little colorful pastel print by Laura Siadak done mostly in blues mounted to a white wall.
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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If you see this, post your bird art 🦜

#birds
Colored pencil drawing of a bright green hummingbird with wings extended and a green background, gripping a branch with yellow flowers. It appears to be getting comfortable on the branch.
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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My lap last night when 9 needed me to go get them something XD
A picture of a person wearing a blue space shirt and black pajama pants with three cats sleeping in his lap. On top of a little black tabby with a pink collar is a calico tabby with a darker collar who is looking forward at something while curled into a tight ball. On the leg rest and leaning against the human's crossed legs and the other two cats is a much larger orange tabby, stretched out and looking comfy.
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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We're snailposting, post your snails!
A close-up photo of a group of four snails gathering to eat tree frog poop. Two are large, grown garden snails, and two are very tiny little baby snails. Shells are mottled tan and brown, and bodies are grey.
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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eepy Birthday Dovah (he's 11 today!)
Fluffy orange tabby half-asleep on a fuzzy grey-blue couch, his fur a little flattened. In the background on either side are partial views of sleeping darker-colored tabbies and a crocheted nyan-cat inspired TARDIS banner. Sleepy face of a long-haired senior orange tabby.
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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The #IndieInkAwards are back, and their nomination phase is open until the end of November!

If you read and enjoyed A Demon to Save Me, it would be cool if you tossed it a nomination 💙

indiestorygeek.com/story/10295
Bottom of graphic is a spacesuit with a tether leading to the bottom of the image against a blue-dusty spacescape. This fades above into star-speckled black space with an image of a book surrounded by a blue-violet glow. The top of the graphic shows the book A Demon to Save Me by H.S. Kallinger and reads: (in orange) Possible Categories: (in white) Writing the Future We Need: Bisexual or Biromantic Representation, LGBTQ+ Representation, Mental Health Representation, Neurodivergent Representation by a Neurodivergent author, Trans or Nonbinary Representation. Each option has a pink star outline next to it as as bullet point. The bottom of the graphic reads: #IndieInkAwards, The Indie Ink Awards, in collaboration with inked in gray and indie story geek, Writing the Future We Need. Nominations Open. In the bottom corner is a black circuit on an orange honeycomb that has white text over the box: Write Hive. The cover art for the book: A Demon to Save Me by H.S. Kallinger. Title letters are rendered in fire inside a blood circle, with a bloody pentagram drawn with a finger on a hardwood floor. Some blood is scattered around it. A pair of amber eyes with thick, black eyelashes are just visible on the floor above the circle. Rainbow circles fade in and out around the image. Author name is in pink, blue, and white in the lower right corner. In white lettering at the top is "Book One of the Found Humanity series"
November 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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For our anniversary, my husband gave me these additions to my Care Bear collection (the main goal is to get all the ones with rainbows XD but everyone is welcome!)
A line of 5 colorful Care Bears with the center bear twice the size of the other 4. From left to right, the Care Bears are: Hopeful Heart Bear, Share Bear, Togetherness Bear, Grumpy Bear, and Funshine Bear. A different angle of the line of 5 colorful Care Bears with the center bear twice the size of the other 4. From left to right, the Care Bears are: Hopeful Heart Bear, Share Bear, Togetherness Bear, Grumpy Bear, and Funshine Bear.
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Our oldest baked and made the frosting on our anniversary cake (almond wedding cake with almond buttercream), and 16 decorated. They, uh, ran out of the white 😂

My husband and I were married 21 years ago, and we've been together for 24 years total! ^_^
Round cake, photo taken from above. The base layer is a thin layer of off-white frosting, and it is decorated with aqua blue frosting in bumpy flowers around a squiggle circle around the number 21 with a heart above it. It's sitting on a black marble counter.
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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💕QRP with your cover + first page + link 💕

Kindle: a.co/d/0eA3YO6
Itch: hs-kallinger.itch.io/adtsm
B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-demon-to...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
More: books2read.com/u/385akw
A Demon to Save Me by H.S. Kallinger. Title letters are rendered in fire inside a blood circle, with a bloody pentagram drawn with a finger on a hardwood floor. Some blood is scattered around it. A pair of amber eyes with thick, black eyelashes are just visible on the floor above the circle. Rainbow circles fade in and out around the image. Author name is in pink, blue, and white in the lower right corner. In white lettering at the top is "Book One of the Found Humanity series" H.S. Kallinger Chapter One My blood was all over the floor. It smelled like metal and meat. I'd once read a ridiculous vampire book that claimed humans couldn't smell blood. I guess that was true for some? I wasn't human, so I couldn't speak for them as a whole, but my mom had complained about the smell of blood when I'd gashed my head open falling off my bike as a little kid. I liked the smell, always had. Today was no different. The wound on my thigh matched a few dozen nearly healed scars around it. They were almost invisible unless you had better than human vision. It's why I didn't just use the same spot every time. I use to, and I had a very visible scar from it on my other leg. My dad wasn't ever going to see this part of my legs, so I wasn't worried about anyone finding out about this. I used the back of my nail to scrape off the last of the blood and rubbed it on the underside of my tongue. The effect was immediate when I pulled my tongue back into my mouth. I wished that it didn't make me hard every time, but I loved the floating and the electric feelings. I'd discovered this by accident when I was fourteen and cut myself instead of the sandwich I'd just made and stuck my finger in my mouth. My parents had always jumped to prevent me from getting blood in my mouth. Lost teeth got paper towels stuck in the gap right away. Bloody lips and noses were treated with care. I appreciated that I'd never been exposed to it when I was younger. Honestly, I wished I hadn't let curiosity win when I was fourteen. I was already a horny mess. The blood high made it worse. 6
November 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Trans main characters tackle themes including self-discovery, love & friendship, trauma & healing, literal and/or metaphorical demons, magic, war, or even the world itself in this multi-genre set of 32 books by trans authors!

Queernormative worlds! Found family! Trans joy!

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Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 on Itchio. Image: 32 Book covers on a a sunset photo background by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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My costume!
Me in a red and black Mothman costume with a steel-spiked black pleather N95-shaped mask, standing outside. Me in a red and black Mothman costume with a steel-spiked black pleather N95-shaped mask, standing outside. I've spread the wings here, revealing the full pattern that includes eye mimics like on a real moth, and my black pants with black knee braces over them. Me in a red and black Mothman costume with a steel-spiked black pleather N95-shaped mask. I'm standing over the camera with my wings spread, taking up most of the field of view, with some tree branches and sky behind. A close up of my face in a red and black Mothman costume with a steel-spiked black pleather N95-shaped mask and glasses, standing outside in front of trees that are mostly still green but some foliage has turned autumn colors.
November 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM