K.B. Diaz

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds Alt: Michael Scott saying he is dead inside

I love submitting a short story for an anthology only to realize I f’ed up their submission guidelines

The "this is fine" dog meme comic, but he's saying "so I have a book coming out".

*sigh*

> @covie93.bsky.social

Insane stuff, what appears to be an intercepted Khaybar Shekan MRBM next to an SM-3 Third Stage Recket Motor (TSRM). I wonder the intercept geometry was. This was in Quneitra province (Syria).

Wow I can actually say

There is a cover-shaped THING in my inbox

The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option.

Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of my own stupidity

Slavic fantasy and horror writers

Slavic Supernatural Volume 2 is open for original stories rooted in Slavic folklore and mythology

1,500 to 7,500 words
35 dollars plus contributor copy
Deadline Feb 28 2026

Guidelines:
horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#OpenSubmissions #Horror #Fantasy #AmWriting

モココとハクリュー

A chart that shows the number of Google searches for each Pokémon. The text says: In honor of Pokémon Day, ACE.com, the free-to-play social gaming website, has analyzed Pokémon-related Google search data across the United States over the last 36 months to determine fans' favorite characters. Rank Name Generation Monthly searches 1 Pikachu Generation 1 685,100 2 Flamigo Generation 9 374,600 3 Charizard Generation 1 310,900 4 Charmeleon Generation 1 250,400 5 Squirtle Generation 1 215,800 6 Eevee Generation 1 214,500 7 Mewtwo Generation 1 209,100 8 Snorlax Generation 1 207,600 9 Gengar Generation 1 192,100 10 Ditto Generation 1 175,500 11 Bulbasaur Generation 1 171,600 12 Charmander Generation 1 169,400 13 Grafaiai Generation 9 166,900 14 Gardevoir Generation 3 149,800 15 Lopunny Generation 4 144,900

“Hey boss, are you sure Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, and people aren’t just misspelling ‘Flamingo’ on Google?”

“Don’t be ridiculous. Of course Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, Mewtwo, Eevee, and Snorlax. Send the email.”

A doodle titled “yeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a “werk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

Back at it again in the mines

Infinity Duo
Small acrylic paintings I made last year.

[ #traditionalart #painting #creature ]

image of a book titled, 'Sword of the Voivode, by T.G. Joye. To the right is a picture of a man with long hair and a sword in his hand. On the left side is a list of bullet point that read: Trans man main character, setting based on Eastern Europe and Central Eurasia, Personal stakes and intimate story, Two dumbasses struggle to say, 'I love you', Soft magic and sacred body autonomy.

Cyril Valentin believed he'd left his old life behind when he ran away to live freely as a New Man. When a former suitor attempts to murder the entire ruling family of Vodomeria, including Cyril, he must choose whether to return to the safety of self-imposed exile or journey home to face both his would-be murderer and his estranged family. Concerned for his young half-brother despite the years apart, Cyril undertakes the journey into the heart of his former homeland with his lover Daumantas: an ogre with secrets of his own. Dodging agents of the rival house Zhupensken, the two men have their fledgling romance tested as they navigate a realm in disarray along with the secrets they've kept from one another. In order to restore peace to the realm, Cyril must come to terms with his past as the Dueling Princess of Vodomeria and face the men who saw him as a prize to be won. Can Cyril set aside his complex feelings and locate his family before the Zhupensken agents who wish to do them harm? Will his relationship with Daumantas endure as both men reveal hidden sides of themselves?

A princess who became his own man, a father with deep regrets, and the bitter men who want to conquer them both.

Sword of the Voivode is a high fantasy about a trans man rescuing his estranged family from former suitors seeking revenge. #WSPit #A #F #LGBT #ND

Art cms for March/April are open!
I do character illustrations from DnD, Bg3, FFXIV and other fantasy settings (not-fantasy is fine too!)
vgen.co/dudkaart or linktr.ee/dudkaart

For tarot custom illustration, use google form, VGen is too formal for that 😭
Pls, share, it helps a lot 🙏

An illustration of a vampire man with black hair and a red suit gazing wistfully offscreen while sitting in a tree. Beside him on the tree is a wooden sign reading TURN BACK NOW.

3x3 moodboard with dark romantic and gothic imagery

Have you been listening to EGO RENEGADE BOY and wishing it had more vampires?

THE NIGHT TERRORS is a gothic fantasy starring Renwick, a trans fledgling vampire who must save a realm of eternal night from the conspiracy that seeks to plunge it into war

#WSPit #W #A #F #LGBT

A Queer horror comedy by a trans author. "Is it possible to queerbait yourself?" A cryptid-hunting YouTuber. His missing mom. An isolated island that may house the monsters he swears aren't real.

Tyler Kyle: * Reluctant YouTube cryptid hunter, musical theatre performer, bi-sexual ADHD chatterbox, mom = basically Elvira, too smart for his own good, vegan, kind of an asshole (but not really)

A clawed hand holds a copy of The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle. Surrounding images include: a full moon with trees, a taxidermied squirrel, a belipsticked mouth with a flaming match in front of it (but in a sexy way), trees, a microphone, a camera, a nightingale in a tree, and the logo for something called "Discovery Bang" that features Bigfoot. Everything is coloured a pink tint

" It never stops being weird, someone being there and then suddenly not, like you could step into yesterday and find them walking to the corner store, or if you tilt your head at exactly the right angle you’ll see them in your living room watching The Day the Earth Stood Still. They pat the seat beside them, like they caught your reflection in the screen, but it was just a shadow, and you snap out of each other’s worlds the way we forget even our most vivid dreams in the haze of morning. It feels like they’ve existed longer than they haven’t, though the reverse is true. Sometimes, it happens even with people who are still alive, and the pull inside you when you glimpse a stranger who looks like them, almost, until they turn around or speak or crook their elbow all wrong is like a hand clasped and then severed at the wrist." -The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle

#WSPit

Reader's guide to TETK! Featuring a brief description, a mood board, character bio, & an excerpt to prove the writing doesn't totally suck. 🤣

Check it out if you like:

the gays
cryptids
found fiction
isolated settings
the woods

Grady Hendrix x Audition

#A #P #H #Hu #LGBT #ND #OWN #IN

#WSPitWIPs #W #SF #F #NA #A #In
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Dragon's Liberty: An Epic Political Fantasy Amazon.com: Dragon's Liberty: An Epic Political Fantasy eBook : Diaz, K.B.: Kindle Store

I forgot the preorder and Goodreads/Storygraph links 🧍

Amazon: a.co/d/fINQ0D9
Goodreads: shorturl.at/MdnmY
Storygraph: shorturl.at/ilDMz

Text against a Forest Background that says, "A Reader's Guide to Dragon's Liberty - An Epic Fantasy" with pictures of Stach and Wanda in the corners

The Blurb Wanda was never meant to rule. After the death of her older brother, her father has forbidden her to leave the castle for the last seven years. When rumors spread of a sorcerer with the power to overthrow her family, Wanda runs away to capture them to prove to her father that she is worthy of being sovereign. But when she forges a friendship in an unlikely place, Wanda sees the cruelty in her father's love—and cracks in the foundation of her family's rule. Stach's contented life is shaken when a diplomat is found dead under mysterious circumstances. He traverses the perilous world of court politics to investigate their death, forced to reckon with the nobility's corruption in every coin embezzled and every law circumvented. As a disaster brings him to his knees, he comes face-to-face with the restrictions of royal authority—and questions if there should be any limits. When their land descends into war, Wanda and Stach must ask how to save their nation when its system is irredeemably broken.

Art of Wanda and Audra from DRAGON'S LIBERTY with text from top clockwise: "The TROPES" "house of the dragon but make it 17th-18th century poland-lithuania" "'you don't annoy me. i like you." "" "death might as well be a main character" "there's no way this wholesome sibling-like relationship can go bad, right?" "oops! all international politics" "have you considered not having anxiety?" "a royal family that desperately needs therapy"

COMPS Arcane, His Majesty's Dragon, A Game of Thrones, The Priory of the Orange Tree, and Of Blood and Fire

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON and ARCANE meet 18th-century Poland-Lithuania

When a revolt threatens their family's rule, two royal cousins and their dragons must ask how best to save their country—or burn it down.

Coming this August!

#WSPit #W #A #F #In #CS

Yup. Clogged sinuses do that

Comment by @Adino1 on YouTube that says, "This once great series suffered the same fate as Old Valyria."

I'm rewatching clips of GoT when it was good because I hate myself, and this comment is sending me

The problem with the whole 'post a woman author you've read 5 books by' is how many women don't get a second book, let alone five.

Anyway, carry on.

Dunk and Egg has truly reawakened something in me the other day at work I was telling a Teamster all about my Varys-Serra-Illyrio-Young Griff Blackfyre Pretender / Mummer’s Dragon theory like it was 2014 again

drawing of figure skater Alysa Liu, with the outfit she wore to win olympic gold in 2026, filled with joy, skating

bliss

ash ketchum and his partner pikachu from the pokémon walking through grass with a dramatic sunset sky of purples and reds. ash is looking forward, midstep and gripping the strap of his backpack, wearing the classic original outfit of a red and white sport cap, blue vest jacket with white short sleeves, dark green undershirt, and light denim jeans. his head is tilted up towards the sky, with a face of determination fit for a kid aiming to be a pokémon master. pikachu meanwhile is stopped in place and turned around, looking at the part of the sky behind ash and reacting with an exclamation mark. following pikachu's path of vision you can see the mythical pokémon mew way above the two, joyfully floating away in a protective pink bubble this drawing is heavily inspired by the first pokémon movie and its ending song in japanese "kaze to issho ni", or "together with the wind" 🎨

"how far will you go when you continue to walk?

the wind asks me that, and i look to the sky"

a gray and white mini australian shepherd with icy blue eyes sits in a field of grass with sun shining directly on her. her mouth is open, exposing her pink tongue, and she's wearing a pink bandana. her eyes seem as if they're looking straight past the camera.

Maggie's brain scan is compared to that of a "normal dog." on the left, Maggie's brain cavity is full of white fluid. on the right, another dog has clear brain matter and folds.

the aussie lays in some grass with her front paws spread out. she is staring directly into the camera with her blue eyes. she's older now and seems very content to rest out here in the yard.

A woman discovered her dog had almost no brain after taking her to the vet for a seizure. This is Maggie. She had hydrocephalus, a fluid buildup in the brain cavity that filled 95% of her skull. Low sodium levels kept the disease at bay and allowed her to live to the ripe old age of 12. 13/10

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

24.2.2026 Berlin. #Ukraine

The sad Oompah Loompah.

Happy Willy Wonka Experience Anniversary to all who are celebrating.