Megaera Lorenz

First pic: watercolor and pen illustration of three wizard frogs: an Argentine horned frog, a desert rain frog, and a toad, armed with their wizard staffs. Desert rain frog wizard: Back! Back to the shadows, foul creatures! Second pic: rl Portland wizard frog standing up to cowardly ice creeps.

Summon more wizard frogs! Armies of wizard frogs! Any excuse to draw more wizard frogs.

I'm not saying I've got Lists of Queer Adult SFF for Bookshop's free shipping days, but
bookshop.org/shop/queerad...

Commissions open! Beelz, they/them, 18+

Check out more of Beelz’s art here: beelzeebub.tumblr.com

Black and white line drawing of Hermann Goschalk from The Shabti by Beelzeebub, aka Beelzafterdark. Hermann stands in his office holding some sheets of paper, looking worriedly at a shadowy, menacing ghostly entity floating into the room at top left. Hermann’s cat Horatio sits behind him on a desk, also looking up at the ghost. There’s a bookcase behind Hermann and several Egyptian artifacts, including some shabti figurines and a false door. There’s a briefcase on the floor by his feet. Hermann is a short, slightly plump man in his 50s, dressed in 1930s attire, with thick, wavy hair and small eyeglasses.

EEEEE look at this art of Hermann and Horatio (plus a hint of supernatural menace) that I commissioned from Beelzeebub/beelzafterdark on Instagram 🤩🤩🤩 Could he look any more quintessentially Hermannish? (Also, this is ostensibly a “sketch” with a “simple background” but the detail? The linework?!!!)

❤️

I know I share this a lot, but I keep having to remind myself of this, even though I drew this very comic.

Art might not save the world, but it'll certainly make it a more pleasant place to live.

like!!! we KNOW that it is a small number of weirdos with outsized influence who want to ban books, but it's always nice to get a confirmation

Ashley Renee (@ash.renee411) on Threads 🚨 BREAKING: Federal Judge Sara L. Ellis has scheduled an emergency hearing for 2:30 p.m. CT today on a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem et al., a sweepin...

Not a religious person, but I pray to whatever beings are listening that this judge stays safe and kicks this administration right in the posse comititties

Graphic for a Banned Books Week event: "Authors Against Book Illinois Banned Books Week Event Guide! Event name: Ban the Bans (play reading). Location: Women & Children First Bookstore. This event will be held on: 6th October, 2025, 6:15-7pmpm. Address: 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60640"

Event details: "We're excited to welcome our friends at Writers for Democratic Action for a reading of "Ban the Bans," a new one act play that dramatizes the American refusal to accept state forbidden expression and thought. Our featured readers for the evening will be: Rachel DeWoskin Frances de Pontes Peebles Gabrielle Lyon Zayd Dohrn This event will include a brief (20-minute) reading followed by an audience Q&A. Join us!" Free event. Please RSVP.

Here is my (I think) final Banned Books Week guide post for today! Women & Children First is presenting a reading of Ban the Bans tonight in partnership with @writersforda.bsky.social. Stop by and stay for a Q&A w/the readers! RSVP @ womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-1... @authorsabb.bsky.social

Graphic for a Banned Books Week event: "Authors Against Book Illinois Banned Books Week Event Guide! Event name: Banned Books Blackout Poetry. Location: Warren-Newport Public Library. This event will be held on: 6th October, 2025, All Day. Address: Information Desk, 224 O'Plaine Rd., Gurnee, IL 60031."

Event details: "Stop by the Information Desk to pick up your own Banned Books Blackout Poetry kit. Create your own unique poems using existing text on pages taken from various banned or challenged books!" Free event. No registration required.

Gurnee's Warren-Newport Public Library has several Banned Books Week events, but they're kicking off with today's blackout poetry take 'n' make activity. Materials available all day at the Information Desk. @authorsabb.bsky.social

Graphic for a Banned Books Week event: "Authors Against Book Illinois Banned Books Week Event Guide! Event name: Books on the Chopping Block. Location: DePaul Theatre School. This event will be held on: 6th October, 2025, 11:30am-1:30pm. Address: DePaul Theatre School Lobby, 2350 N. Racine Ave., Chicago, IL 60614"

Event details: "Books on the Chopping Block is our annual 60-minute performance of dramatic readings of short excerpts taken from [banned] books. City Lit has teamed up with the ALA in celebration of Banned Books Week since 2006, performing at special events, libraries and bookstores in and around Chicago... and virtually this year.​​" Free event. No registration required.

Here's another Chicago event that's happening pretty much now--a performance by @citylittheater.bsky.social featuring excerpts from banned books. There will be multiple performances this week. See a full schedule + reading list here: www.citylit.org/books-on-the... @authorsabb.bsky.social

Graphic for a Banned Books Week event: "Authors Against Book Illinois Banned Books Week Event Guide! Event name: Banned Books Week: Makers Choice. Location: Woodson Regional Library. This event will be held on: 6th October, 2025, 4-5pm. Address: YOUmedia Room, 9525 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60628."

Event details: "You've got to fight for your right to read! Join us as we celebrate Banned Books Week by creating vision boards, bookmarks, buttons and paint, all in the name of fighting censorship." Event for teens. No registration required.

I'm back with more Banned Books Week events! This one is happening TODAY at Woodson Regional Library in Chicago. Stop by from 4-5pm for a teen-friendly evening of freedom-to-read-themed crafts. @authorsabb.bsky.social

Post by @beelzeebub · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 22  ❤️ 15 · EMERGENCY SKETCH COMMISSIONS - I got kicked out of my apartment ☹️ · Hi everyone! I hate to post this, but I just got kicked out of my apartment and need to cover short-term acco…

I don't think they have an active account over here, but I figured this would be a good place to boost the signal. Beelzeebub, of Goncharov fame, is facing hard times. They are currently open for emergency commissions!

Aaaa I hope you enjoy it!

Thank you! 😊

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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I wrote The Shabti, a spooky supernatural thriller/historical fantasy about a cynical phony medium and a sweet Egyptologist falling in love while they solve the mystery of a haunted artifact! If you crave tender middle-aged MM romance set in Depression-era America w/angry ghosts, check it out:

The Reanimator's heart available in ebook, audio, and paperback, nm romance, food tour of 1890s NYC, forced proximity, a lavender marriage, murder magic and mysteries, everybody's queer, an autistic necromancer, unbury your gays

The Reanimator Mysteries is a 4 book series featuring an autistic necromancer and his undead crush (who he accidentally reanimated, sorry not sorry) solving crimes in 1890s NYC
If you like Pushing Daisies and Sleepy Hollow but wish they were queer, then this series is for you
Books2read.com/trm1

Two drawings and two small photos of the cat, Pyaari. The drawing on the left is wearing a blue dupatta. The drawing on the right is in a gold sari with a dupatta on the head.

Pyaari is so decent 🥺

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

One of our Authors Against Book Bans chapter members put together an event guide for upcoming Banned Books Week events in IL! Please check it out and spread the word. @authorsabb.bsky.social

www.facebook.com/events/17104...

Thank you! ❤️

Thanks, Michael! ❤️

Photo of me standing outside in a blue shirt, holding up the paperback edition of The Shabti.

The paperback version of The Shabti is out in the world today! 🥳 It’s not available on Amazon due to some kind of distribution snafu (well, it is, but the wait time is 1-2 months?!), but you can get it from less evil retailers such as Bookshop.org!

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Banned Books Week is coming! Find the areas hit hardest by book bans & the nearest Little Free Library book-sharing box locations using our 2025 Book Ban Map, created in collab with @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social & @penamerica.bsky.social.

Learn more & try the interactive map! littlefreelibrary.or...

Oooh, a sequel set in the ‘60s could be all kinds of fun! 😄

The Shabti’s Curse may be impacting the release of my paperback. It’s available for preorder with the release date of 9/30 on most websites I’ve checked, but not currently on Amazon. It does seem to be available at Bookshop.org!

This sounds incredible

Yas, dreams are a goldmine of story ideas! I also slapped together a scene at the last minute for my debut in a fit of inspiration while absolutely baked on an edible. My editor declared it the most important moment in my MC’s character arc. Brains can do amazing things when let off the leash.