Ziggy Schutz
@ziggyschutz.bsky.social
she/he, I write about queer hope and disabled joy. Genderfucking butch. BRCA2+ and flat about it. You can find a bunch of my writing free to read over at https://linktr.ee/ziggyschutz .
Hey, know who is a cool small business? @meerkatpress.bsky.social
Meerkat bought a short story of mine in 2017 — my first ever sale. Since then, they’ve supported my every win. They expressed interest in a novella from me, and 5(?) YEARS LATER, i sent them twice spent comet.
They loved it. 💫
Meerkat bought a short story of mine in 2017 — my first ever sale. Since then, they’ve supported my every win. They expressed interest in a novella from me, and 5(?) YEARS LATER, i sent them twice spent comet.
They loved it. 💫
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hey, know who is a cool small business? @meerkatpress.bsky.social
Meerkat bought a short story of mine in 2017 — my first ever sale. Since then, they’ve supported my every win. They expressed interest in a novella from me, and 5(?) YEARS LATER, i sent them twice spent comet.
They loved it. 💫
Meerkat bought a short story of mine in 2017 — my first ever sale. Since then, they’ve supported my every win. They expressed interest in a novella from me, and 5(?) YEARS LATER, i sent them twice spent comet.
They loved it. 💫
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to —
Grateful Dead
Billy Talent
Rise Against
Metric
Indigo Girls
Grateful Dead
Billy Talent
Rise Against
Metric
Indigo Girls
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to
Monster Magnet
B.B. King
Fiona Apple
Guitar Wolf
P.O.S.
Monster Magnet
B.B. King
Fiona Apple
Guitar Wolf
P.O.S.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to
R.E.M.
Tori Amos
The Beastie Boys
The Monkees
Iron & Wine
R.E.M.
Tori Amos
The Beastie Boys
The Monkees
Iron & Wine
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to —
Grateful Dead
Billy Talent
Rise Against
Metric
Indigo Girls
Grateful Dead
Billy Talent
Rise Against
Metric
Indigo Girls
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
I work at a warehouse bookstore combo that is just for librarians and teachers. If we see a few teachers order a book, we bring it in. I’ve seen books go from new release to reading circle standard. Because a few people ordered it so it ended up on our shelves, and a district worker saw it.
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I work at a warehouse bookstore combo that is just for librarians and teachers. If we see a few teachers order a book, we bring it in. I’ve seen books go from new release to reading circle standard. Because a few people ordered it so it ended up on our shelves, and a district worker saw it.
Gonna be real vulnerable for a sec but like.
My novella is a year old next week.
And the fact that some of my closest people haven’t read it yet occasionally just guts me.
I understand. I don’t want anyone to feel forced to read my stuff, friend or no.
But fuck, it makes me sad.
My novella is a year old next week.
And the fact that some of my closest people haven’t read it yet occasionally just guts me.
I understand. I don’t want anyone to feel forced to read my stuff, friend or no.
But fuck, it makes me sad.
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Gonna be real vulnerable for a sec but like.
My novella is a year old next week.
And the fact that some of my closest people haven’t read it yet occasionally just guts me.
I understand. I don’t want anyone to feel forced to read my stuff, friend or no.
But fuck, it makes me sad.
My novella is a year old next week.
And the fact that some of my closest people haven’t read it yet occasionally just guts me.
I understand. I don’t want anyone to feel forced to read my stuff, friend or no.
But fuck, it makes me sad.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Imagine being on a panel about oral storytelling and making a comment afterwards about it getting a bit ‘off topic’ with the ‘political talk’. To the trans disabled co panelist.
Bro what
Bro what
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Imagine being on a panel about oral storytelling and making a comment afterwards about it getting a bit ‘off topic’ with the ‘political talk’. To the trans disabled co panelist.
Bro what
Bro what
Lost my godfather this week. Feeling adrift. Hadn’t seen him in way too long and now we’re here.
I miss him. I missed him before and I miss him even more now.
I miss him. I missed him before and I miss him even more now.
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Lost my godfather this week. Feeling adrift. Hadn’t seen him in way too long and now we’re here.
I miss him. I missed him before and I miss him even more now.
I miss him. I missed him before and I miss him even more now.
I’ve come out of stage managing retirement to work on a production of cabaret and I missed a lot of theatre stuff… and honestly, sending out emails is one of them. I wish author emails and submissions were as easy as stage managing ones.
October 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’ve come out of stage managing retirement to work on a production of cabaret and I missed a lot of theatre stuff… and honestly, sending out emails is one of them. I wish author emails and submissions were as easy as stage managing ones.
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Announcing our Best of the Net nominees! Congratulations to @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @marysoonlee.bsky.social @salempaige.bsky.social @ianli.bsky.social @ziggyschutz.bsky.social @clarissagrunwald.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Announcing our Best of the Net nominees! Congratulations to @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @marysoonlee.bsky.social @salempaige.bsky.social @ianli.bsky.social @ziggyschutz.bsky.social @clarissagrunwald.bsky.social
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This thread is related to ICE in the USA, but I think this also needs to apply to the 'MapleMAGA' in Canada.
Traitors, all of them. And we need to freeze them out, or we'll be facing our own ethnic cleansing squads here 😕
Traitors, all of them. And we need to freeze them out, or we'll be facing our own ethnic cleansing squads here 😕
Disinvite them from the tailgate. Do not go to the baby shower. Call out their bullshit on Facebook. Do not just purse your lips and nod politely.
Ostracize the living shit out of them. Leave their church potluck casserole untouched. These people are extremely vulnerable to social shame.
Ostracize the living shit out of them. Leave their church potluck casserole untouched. These people are extremely vulnerable to social shame.
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This thread is related to ICE in the USA, but I think this also needs to apply to the 'MapleMAGA' in Canada.
Traitors, all of them. And we need to freeze them out, or we'll be facing our own ethnic cleansing squads here 😕
Traitors, all of them. And we need to freeze them out, or we'll be facing our own ethnic cleansing squads here 😕
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Like this place isn’t really anywhere at all, but instead between two real places.
Mirrors like in-betweens, after all.
from "Through Glass" by Ziggy Schutz
www.lunastationquart...
#ShortStories #WomenWriters #Fantasy #SciFi #Reading #Writing
Mirrors like in-betweens, after all.
from "Through Glass" by Ziggy Schutz
www.lunastationquart...
#ShortStories #WomenWriters #Fantasy #SciFi #Reading #Writing
June 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Like this place isn’t really anywhere at all, but instead between two real places.
Mirrors like in-betweens, after all.
from "Through Glass" by Ziggy Schutz
www.lunastationquart...
#ShortStories #WomenWriters #Fantasy #SciFi #Reading #Writing
Mirrors like in-betweens, after all.
from "Through Glass" by Ziggy Schutz
www.lunastationquart...
#ShortStories #WomenWriters #Fantasy #SciFi #Reading #Writing
The best way to describe how I’m doing right now is that when my dad called me to tell me of a family member passing, he referenced how these calls will be a bit of a trend for a while.
(Just real bad health news x 4 this month)
(Just real bad health news x 4 this month)
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The best way to describe how I’m doing right now is that when my dad called me to tell me of a family member passing, he referenced how these calls will be a bit of a trend for a while.
(Just real bad health news x 4 this month)
(Just real bad health news x 4 this month)
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Was saving up for more than a year for my teeth to be fixed and get implants but I lost nearly all my savings because I had a cancer scare (ti-rads 4 nodules) and needed surgery to get it removed and now am in constant pain again and cant even close my mouth properly 💯 please buy my art. Please!
September 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Was saving up for more than a year for my teeth to be fixed and get implants but I lost nearly all my savings because I had a cancer scare (ti-rads 4 nodules) and needed surgery to get it removed and now am in constant pain again and cant even close my mouth properly 💯 please buy my art. Please!
Fantastic thread.
So let's talk about why this sucks. I am so angry and so disappointed, but I also know that a lot of people might not understand why I and my queer friends are feeling this way. Read on for an explanation 🧵(1/14)
September 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Fantastic thread.
Every once in a while I get the itch to put the stuff I know about a certain someone with 50 alternate accounts into a doc or something.
There’s stuff that I witnessed that hasn’t really come up in the conversations about them?
None of it surprising, but potentially important elements.
There’s stuff that I witnessed that hasn’t really come up in the conversations about them?
None of it surprising, but potentially important elements.
September 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Every once in a while I get the itch to put the stuff I know about a certain someone with 50 alternate accounts into a doc or something.
There’s stuff that I witnessed that hasn’t really come up in the conversations about them?
None of it surprising, but potentially important elements.
There’s stuff that I witnessed that hasn’t really come up in the conversations about them?
None of it surprising, but potentially important elements.
I thought it was just quiet over here… nope! Forgot to sign in with my new phone. Oops!
September 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I thought it was just quiet over here… nope! Forgot to sign in with my new phone. Oops!
Edmonton SD book ban when I get you book ban—
August 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Edmonton SD book ban when I get you book ban—
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Do I not even have a pinned post of my work. What am I doing
(Aside from making some very good comic edits)
(Aside from making some very good comic edits)
August 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Do I not even have a pinned post of my work. What am I doing
(Aside from making some very good comic edits)
(Aside from making some very good comic edits)
I went to try to make some funny promo thing and this wouldn’t leave my head so
August 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I went to try to make some funny promo thing and this wouldn’t leave my head so
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Mo Salah is asking the right questions
August 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Mo Salah is asking the right questions
Might fuck around and write a novella by the end of the month (a dream market is open for novellas and I just found out)
August 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Might fuck around and write a novella by the end of the month (a dream market is open for novellas and I just found out)
I turn thirty two on Friday! Feels big, although still not the magic coming of age for hobbits number (33).
Wanna get something for a queer, disabled creator on her birthday?
Buy my trans fairytale, my space mermaid novella debut, Twice-Spent Comet!
Or ask your local library to bring it in~
Wanna get something for a queer, disabled creator on her birthday?
Buy my trans fairytale, my space mermaid novella debut, Twice-Spent Comet!
Or ask your local library to bring it in~
July 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I turn thirty two on Friday! Feels big, although still not the magic coming of age for hobbits number (33).
Wanna get something for a queer, disabled creator on her birthday?
Buy my trans fairytale, my space mermaid novella debut, Twice-Spent Comet!
Or ask your local library to bring it in~
Wanna get something for a queer, disabled creator on her birthday?
Buy my trans fairytale, my space mermaid novella debut, Twice-Spent Comet!
Or ask your local library to bring it in~