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🛤️ CAT SEBASTIAN's historical queer domesticity
🛤️ KRISTIN HANNAH's poignant Americana setting
🛤️ PEAKY BLINDERS's complex family + criminal enterprise
🛤️ SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION's layered portrayal of incarceration
🛤️ HOZIER, MUMFORD & SONS, & MITSKI's lyricism

#DVpit #A #HF #LGBT #ND

you want a commission from me so much 👀✨

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Man, last week Tok was going for a jog in the woods. Now people expect him to fight in a war and lead people?! He's not even qualified to be a barista! I do not know that the True Mother is thinking!!
'A Sword in the Snow'

#UnhingedPit #A #F #Q

Queen

a print screen of the commission types and their base prices. Sketch commissions, $50+. Half-body commissions, $100+. Full Colour illustrations $600+

Commission example

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As I reach the end of my backlog, I've opened a couple of commission slots for October!

ko-fi.com/vashtheartis...

"We're going to destroy access to useful, factual information and use a water-destroying electricity hog that screws up all the time."

people: that sounds bad. why?

"It'll make a ton of money for my underground bunker once I've drained all you rubes dry"

people: oh. can I write a novel with it?

If you're screaming about TOS changes and haven't screamed into the feedback form yet, you should do that!

Headshot of woman with short, blonde hair and glasses.

Hello! I'm a writer of gothic horror & sci-fi. I'm a neurodivergent, Genderfluid goth who is absolutely obsessed with vampires. I live by the sea & I’m a dog mum (staffy cross rescue).
Please check out my linktree in my bio.

#writer #welsh #dogmom #goth #introvert #genderfluid #gothic

This is absolutely BRILLIANT

They didn't listen to our feedback, now we need to ESCALATE

Bsky is at 3.4⭐ - let's see how quick we can tank that!

Don't know what to write?

Copy/paste mine or use it as a starting point!

#SaveSpeech #BskyCensorship

Exactly. This is the time to bitch and moan about the issue. Don’t tell me you don’t know how to complain about crappy policies because we know that’s not true

Yeah, I’m not going to silence myself when the issue is being silenced—I’m going to take time every freaking day on my vacation to fill in another feedback report pointing out the flaws in the new terms and how it’ll be weaponized especially against queerfolk.

I think in this case, noise is better.

smut saves people from grooming, pressured sex, abuse, and a lifetime of believing that they are broken or weird. don't let the puritans win.

Smut is important.

Through well-written and drawn and acted smut, we learn what we like, what we don't like, and what is expected to keep us safe and consensual...

it's not surprising pals of epstein and diddy want smut off the internet.

smut makes grooming, abuse, and pressure more difficult.

Background: an island superimposed with a woman pressing money to her face with a blackened hand Title: An agent's guide to THE BOOKMAKER OF PELLMELL by P. A. Cochran Subtitle: Dystopian urban fantasy / 75k words

Background: a male fighter's back pressed against a chain-link cage For fans of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab, Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Peaky Blinders, and The Last of Us The pitch: Trapped in a bleak world, a cynical young woman with the ability to glimpse future possibilities grudgingly takes over running a cage fighting ring to save her sick friend--and is horrified to find that she's excellent at it.

Images: (1) a hand holding burning money (2) a figure walking down a city street filled with litter (3) an albatross flying across an orange sky (4) a crumbling hotel (5) a woman sitting at a red-lit bar (6) a fighter's back against a cage Text: gritty neo-noir vibes | grounded fantasy | lyrical prose | FMC w/ "Breaking Bad" arc | found family | romantic subplot | cost of talent & obsession | hope's ability to save & corrupt

Opening lines: It was the beginning of storm season, and Tremmel City was glossy and slick as a bloodied fist. Arin didn’t mind. The wet paths up the caldera wall were dicey, but at least the rain muted the stench of trash and mule excrement. She pulled her jacket closed, the same black leather jacket she always wore. A relic of the past she couldn’t part with that swallowed her whole. She crossed her arms over her chest and climbed up the stone steps. PENTA OR BUST BLESS THE BRICKERS CURB THE COGS The graffiti was so repetitive it had long ago taken a melody in Arin’s head. She used to argue internally with each one: Don’t put your faith in the Pentathlon—only a fool would trust those odds. Don’t glorify the brickers—they only saved us once. Don’t demonize the cogs—some of us exercise self-control. But eventually the arguments petered out until all that was left was a bleak refrain.

THE BOOKMAKER OF PELLMELL
A cynical woman who can see the future grudgingly takes over a cage fighting ring to save her sick friend—and is horrified to find that she’s excellent at it.
🌘dystopian grounded fantasy
⚖️morally gray FMC
🔥romantic subplot
🫶found family
🌈diverse cast
#QuestPit #W #A #SFF

"I'm fine," she said plastering on a customer service smile even as she fought tears, figured out what she'd wear to work today, realized she didn't have time for coffee, & hoped a car would have the good grace to run a red as she was crossing the intersection.
"I'm fine."
#microfic #writesky

#WIPSnips *obvious*
There's a joke in here, somewhere.
#lesfic #sapphic

Some weeks it feels like a flex, some weeks a curse, but still here...

"This is NOT what America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping through pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

Mike Farwell like "people should work in the office because socializing is good for them" like I'm not too exhausted to go out with folks I actually like in my city after I have to be in the office making nice with people I don't really like all day

*looks up from folding bread dough* lol, what the fuck??

Happy #Septopolis 18!

Many of the caverns in Cascada were naturally formed and physically or magically enhanced, but still with a natural cave-formation aesthetic.
There are individual units for families, but there are communal spaces; a meeting hall, storefronts, schools.
And of course, the Well.

I've seen some reactions from struggling artists along the lines of 'I give up' and I feel your pain—but please do not.

Most people don't want to live in a world where artists are automated away, art production is captured by AI firms. Most people hate this idea.

Organize. Build solidarity. Fight.

This place sounds incredible. I can't seem to stop looking at that first reference image! And the hall of mirrors at places of power sounds fascinating. So cool!

#Septopolis 17: Lovilay

it's French as fuck.

Depending on the age of a section, it'll range from French Gothic to French Baroque, but much heavier leaning on the Baroque with its symmetry and formality.

Towards the coast, a bit more... Dubrovnik vibes. I know that's not France anymore.

🧵1/3

Middle Town mostly steel and glass. It is inspired by Blade Runner for vibes; this is the art that inspired the book cover which is also my pfp! The weather is like that all the time because of the altitude and post-Ice Age 2.0 climate. +
#Septopolis

I wanted to save reading through this for when I could devote an appropriate amount of time to it, and it did not disappoint! This is so incredibly, wonderfully thought out. I love the things like the perches for neighbours to speak, & the open air art displays. This was brilliant, thank you!

#Septopolis 17. This will be a long one, so I apologise and thanks in advance anyone who braves the thread 😬

Right, architecture. Our focus is Orasan, but a lot of it applies to nensii architecture in general. As I've noted before, Orasan begun with the Cathedral of Night, which was built (1/27)

#Septopolis 17

West Harewood architecture is a mix of old, overgrown British village buildings and post-apocalyptic shelters kitbashed together with whatever was available (but in, like, a cozy, cheery way).

Photo of both the paperback and hardcover of Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis. The paperback features art of the two main characters, Kye and Jude, with a sword in Jude’s hand and a black blue flame in Kye’s. Framed by flowers and set against a twilight sky. The hardcover is of a dark swirling void, framed by mirrored big flowers against a dark background. Behind them, above my bookcase is a framed print of artwork by Ksenia (tagged below) of Kye and Jude sitting together under a starry night sky.

I’ve been delinquent and haven’t photographed them together but— LOOK HOW PRETTY ✨🌸👁️

#Septopolis

The space elevator is the only real architectural landmark we see besides the Hermitage itself.
A silver ribbon descending from the false star of the orbital, touching down in the middle of the city. You can see the crawler moving up and down.