🐸 Vernalis the Writer

Digital painting of a twilight sky, medium blue, with deep blue clouds coiled around a small waxing moon crescent.

We report: the moon is in the sky again, only just dipping into the chilly night before it sets in a few hours. The clouds are spreading out along invisible patterns, like a flock of birds scouring the horizon. The air is redolent with damp wood, and the deep scent of the mire.

Awww yiss if my talk about Inix got you interested in what I'm working on, you can follow along and even get a copy come November using this link! TheLuckyMachine.com

#TBBChat

Open Call: Radon Journal February 2026 Issue ( @radonjournal.bsky.social‬ )
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Due: Dec 31
Pay: Fiction: 2¢/word, Poetry: $20. Art: $110/cover, $50/back cover, & $20 for website art
Theme: Stories & poetry containing elements of scifi/anarchism/transhumanism/dystopia

The evil that men do lives after them

A colorful image titled "Official Zine Name Announcement". The background has stripes in various rainbow-esque colors, with a rounded white text box that reads: "We are finally ready to reveal our zine's official name: We've Always Been Here. We aim to show that LGBTQ+ people have always been a part of history: in ancient Greece, precolonial Indigenous cultures, Victorian England, and more. We've always been here, and we always will be." To the left of the text box is an image of two women from the Korean movie The Handmaiden, where one girl holds a parasol over the other's head.

We are happy to announce our first zine's official title: "We've Always Been Here" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Through different characters in various time periods and cultures, we aim to show that queer people have always existed, and always will.

Artist applications will be opening next week!

#Zine #QueerZine #LGBTQ

A simple but important way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. A helpful list is in the link below but please do explore @arablit.bsky.social more widely as well as publishers like @commapress.bsky.social

「 AEGRI SOMNIA 」

#Art ▪︎ #VHS ▪︎ #Angel ▪︎ #Horror

The incorporated states: trans dystopian sci-fi, showing 3 trans-colored book covers: user not found, iris, and May you wear me like a shell, all by dani finn.

🚔The Incorporated States🚔

The US incorporated in the mid 21st century.

Internet access was restricted to text-based CorpNet terminals for a time until their stranglehold was complete.

Advances in AI allowed for mass control through technology.

There were some who resisted.

🔗 👇

Oh, hey.

Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".

Let that sink in.

Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

So far, most of the aliens are relatively humanoid. But that could change 👀✨️ #eternacode is intended to be a trilogy, so there are plenty of chances to make it Weird

To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior.

These are inextricably linked.

Purple background, white text, which says trauma then has a revealing relationship with time. Since it is not part of the individual's life / world narrative, it exists "outside of time." "Critical Choices: Time Travel and Identity" -- Rjurik Davidson

This time last year, we published a fabulous essay from Rjurik Davidson about the connection between time travel and trauma. It made me think very deep thoughts and it's still available to read over here:
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/critical-choices

The text "Trans author? Share your work below!" with some background in the colours of the trans pride flag.

Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost

- Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below.
- Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share.
- Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter!

NSFW and erotica welcome.

#WriteSky #BookSky

Graphic labeled "Trans books by a nonbinary author". Three books by Tabitha O'Connell are depicted: "Structural Integrity" has an illustrated cover with a young man walking toward an ornate wooden door looking back over his shoulder and holding out his hand to a man who stands in the lower left corner, his head and shoulders visible from the back. “Structural Strain” has an illustration in the same style of two men standing in front of an archway with a building in the background. One, wearing a green robe, stands right at the edge of the arch with a nervous expression, holding a suitcase in front of him. The other is in the foreground, only visible from the waist up, and is facing the first man with his hand held out. text beside these two reads "Trans man x cis man, dual POV". the third book is "Dirt-Stained Hands, Thorn-Pierced Skin", which has a border of leaves and red roses, with the title text in a decorative font taking up most of the space. The title is overlaid on a castle with a blue sky behind it. in the foreground is the back of a person with short hair in a plain shirt standing facing the castle. text beside this one reads "Nonbinary MC (ey/em pronouns)". text with arrows pointing to all three reads "Strong character arcs, Cozy domestic moments, Dose of angst"

My books! All queer fantasy romance novellas.

Structural Integrity & Structural Strain: A couple navigates life & their relationship in a city with a sharp class divide

Dirt-Stained Hands, Thorn-Pierced Skin: Loose Beauty & the Beast retelling

Full blurbs and purchase links at tabithaoconnell.com

"You attract what you fear."

Oh my god nooooo, unlimited free time to write my weird little stories in a secluded forest cabin, AHHHHH, get away from meeeeee

This probably won't be the last I say about this, but: If you're counting on your underground resources to sustain the trans community while the government strips away rights, you need to answer the question of how people not currently connected or in-the-know will be able to access them.

Yes to both!

#eternacode takes place across multiple galaxies so there will be other forms of intelligent life beyond humans. Establishing connection with other societies is what one of the mc's, Cassandra Kaye's, parents do!

Extremely annoyed at the management at my new job. One is very strict about everyone having fully open availability despite always taking the same day off every week himself. Another uses chat/gpt to write stories. That one and another don't use my proper pronouns. I hate them all.

🎃 more details later but we we will re-open for GHOULISH TALES submissions September 15 - October 15. nothing longer than 5k words. payment 10c per word. an emphasis on "fun horror"—however you interpret that. let's get spooky, ghouls. 🎃

Do not let these milquetoast white men content creators convince you that we are doomed. They are selling fear and profiting off of it. His health is failing. The cult has lost its momentum. The Epstein victims are actively making their case and trials will be happening, worldwide. The GOP is fighting amongst themselves about everything. Dems are winning their elections at federal and state levels. The military is being sent to cities to then stand around and get mocked. Judges have ruled it's illegal to be sent to blue cities in the first place. Alligator Alcatraz got shut down. They're desperate to hire people for ICE because people keep quitting. Protests are happening every week, everywhere. We are in a very scary and very chaotic time. Project 2025 is terrifying. People are being emboldened to be violent, and people are being traumatized and harmed. The country has been divided and damaged, but not beyond repair and rebuild. We will get through this, we can't just give up and comply in advance. Don't let the bastards get you down.

required reading

select box interface element. options: female, male, and angel

I wish every company who only displays legal names with no option for chosen/preferred names a very burn down immediately (yes this is a complaint about my new job)

Strength tarot card. a red skinned (literal red) devil lady in a Cranach dress gently keeping a dragon's snout closed in front of a yellow sky and a lush green landscape

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the pet-parent's card #tarot #illustration #artsky

antifa harpy sticker

Landsknecht lino print

bleeding moon sticker

black unicorn print

Help an artist pay his bills, take a look at my shop! ✨👁️ i got prints, stickers and original art! #artsky #blueskynightmarket #art ko-fi.com/scarycircus/...

this is why we don't read the Golden Age anymore. There are so many histories of the future. Spinning through timespace, studying this apocalypse, a key part of my undercover mission is studying stories about the future. When and where and how were ...

I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...

BEING ARO is a multi-genre collection of short fiction that shines a light on aromantic relationships and experiences, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it!

Also, you can get it 25% off if you pre-order through Barnes & Noble during the next 3 days! 💚

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/being-aro-...

Oh yeah. It's very normal and common. #eternacode takes place across multiple galaxies, so the characters need to get very far very quickly. I probably won't bother trying to science it out in the book. Plenty of other sci-fi media have, so just use your imagination for how it works ✨️

"Even as people experience the violence of poverty, the torture of imprisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, &...other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace...When state actors refer to “peace,” they are really talking about order." 👀

roses are red
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you

Me: Is the natural state of the soul quiet or chaos? Taco Bell cashier: Look buddy, it’s transient, shifting like water

The best philosophical work of our age