River Flynn┃transmasc writer 🏳️‍⚧️✨

Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio 32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits

It's Trans Awareness Month, and trans people are under siege. So we're fighting back, and you can help!

Grab these 32 stories of Trans People Taking On The World, by mainly trans authors

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$35 for 32 books is a great deal!

🌈📚💙💕📚🪐📚♿

#booksky #lgbtqbooksky #queerlit #readers

A Gaze So Longing would smell like pine trees after a storm, honey, and roasted sunflower seeds

Some things to consider adding to your Accessibility section for your event and/or your venue, from a disabled man. "The venue is semi-wheelchair accessible" is a good place to start, but then planning a night out, more information is better than less! Accessibility is the most basic thing I look for in a venue, especially for events.

Here's an in-depth exploration of information you might wish to include in your Accessibility info for your venue or event, written by a disabled man!

Free to read.

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#LGBTQWriteAThon
"Unable to suppress the beam of elation on his face, he picked the lily. He brought the wet petals to his face, smelled the pendant blossoms, and took in all the sweetness the rain had not yet washed away."

- 👑 A Gaze So Longing 👑 (out now!)

If everything goes according to plan, there will be paperback copies available in November 👀

A very squishy chibi version of a character. Imagine the head as a big soft plushie head and the body a squishy bean bag. The character is brown skinned, brown hair in a bun, blue eyed, with a yellow headband. The character wears an oversized faded red sweater and grey skirt with a grey tank top peaking beneath the sweater.

✨CHIBI COMMISSIONS OPEN! ✨

I'm offering quick chibi commissions!

Each $20 CAD, flat colours & beanified, to help get some cushioning for food/other bills before payday. Complicated designs will be simplified. DM for details!

#commissions #opencommissions #chibi #digitalart

picture of a vgen listing for a Book Cover Request Form, 5 slots open starting at $200

photo of a book covers mockup featuring an illustration of a ranger sitting on a tree in the woods with the title A CONSORT FOR THE WOODEN GOD, Elka Marsden

an illustration of a book covers mockup featuring mock up featuring a man holding a knife to another man's throat with a decorated illuminated manuscript adjacent border with the title DO KNIGHT NOT YEARN, M.R. Santua

❤️‍🔥Book Cover Request Form❤️‍🔥

for my indie authors out there, my new listing for book covers is officially live!!

If you need a cover for your ebook, itch listing, or a print-ready full cover spread, consider working with me! I'd love to help you! 🖤
#indieauthor #sff #artsky

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cover of HALLOWED BE HER FLESH by Emryn Bird featuring a woman with scars on her back and clutching a rosary is held by a monstrous angelic creature

Consider adding HALLOWED BE HER FLESH to your #SapphicSeptember TBR if the following interests you:

✝︎ ineffable visions of the cosmos
✝︎ the divine calling out Catholic guilt
✝︎ weird worms & cannibalism
✝︎ tender yet terrifying love interests
✝︎ literal monsterfucking

emrynbird.neocities.org/hallowed

Your Next Toxic Yaoi Read And Why It Should Be INFAUST:

🔥 Enemies to Enemies that Fuck Unhealthily
🔥 Dark Romance, Dark Fantasy, Dark Fairytale
🔥 Pied Piper x Faust
🔥 Fuckhead Blond Villain LI
🔥 Cursed AF Protag
🔥 Protagonist Corruption, the Book

💀 tdcloudofficial.com/books

THE PROMPTS 1-2 moist and slimy 3-4 off the leash 5-6 infestation 7-8 rotted meats 9-10 restrained restricted 11-12 soaked through 13-14 unfulfilled wishes 15-16 sharp gills sharper teeth 17-18 caged hound 19-20 pulp and fungus 21-22 cracked molars 23-24 abducted 25-26 stuck in the drain 27-28 transparent wings 29-30 provoked bite 31 unlucky vending machin

Introducing #wolfetober
Prompts for October for ARTISTS and AUTHORS

I personally plan to use this to practice micro / flash fiction and warm up sketches, I invite anyone who would like to to join me.

💜💙 RULES
- there really aren’t any! Skip, mix and match, and have fun!

A cover reading 'Catscratch. A trans erotica comic, Bonus issue, Hot Wet Queer Summer.' There is a unicorn and a cat boy floating in a pool. The unicorn wears a big sunhat, and is sucking on a lollipop, while the cay boy is between their legs looking utterly pleased.

Four panels. There is an establishing shot of a local pool, the group in the foreground of a cat girl, a cat boy hiding behind her, a hamster girl on her phone, and a frog girl looking pleased. The cat girl exclaims 'Damn! I know how to schedule a pool day!' The next three panels show off women, their breasts, their butt, their lips sucking on a lollipop as the cat girls yells 'Goddamn I know how to schedule, look at all these babes!'

Part of Catscratch's anniversary is also the release of Catscratch's bonus issue, made for @monstermanor.org's #hotwetqueersummer dash! Ruby and Paris have some sweet summer fun at the local pool and get a little naughty in the process! #catscratch

Support Royal Support Royal

Please help your fellow queer disabled artist to make it through their uni in a new country until i find a job and can focus back on my writing and art (along with my studies)

ko-fi.com/rwiii/goal?g=0

commission sheet featuring multiple works of mine found on my page with windows looking labels saying: portraits & ref sheets, character design & book covers, and illustrations starting at $85, sketches for $40

new commission sheet who this?

with illustrations starting at $85 and sketches as low at $40, you can get your character design, portrait, or book cover done in my style!

ko-fi.com/elkamarsden

consider supporting a queer artist!
shares and likes appreciated ❤️‍🔥
#commsopen #ocsky #art #sff

Raffle for disability aid A RAFFLE TO HELP AUTHOR HS WOLFE PURCHASE A WHEELCHAIR FOR AID IN THEIR LUPUS AND ENDOMETRIOSIS $1 PUPPY TICKET $3 WOLF TICKET $5 ALPHA TICKET WIN A PREMADE HAND PAINTED COVER, A CUSTOM CHIBI COMMISSION OR ONE DIGITALLY ANNOTATED STORY

For an extra entry in the puppy tier, you can follow me, reshare, and tag a friend who likes weird horror in the comments. ONLY APPLICABLE TO PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE PURCHASED A TICKET IN ONE OF THE THREE TIERS

A premade hand painting cover of intestines coming out of pomegranates

A hand painted premade cover of weird little guys circling a radio tower in crying of a purpling sky

I’m raffling off these premade covers & a couple other things to help fund the purchase of a wheelchair 👩‍🦽‍➡️

🎟️ ko-fi.com/werewolfpres...

Several women in the forest reach out to a knight with a heart on their tabard. It is the illustration The Fairy of the Dawn (1906) by Henry Justice Ford. Overlaid in orange text is Sapphic Knights for Sapphic September.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Valerin the Fair overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Martis the Brazen overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Seure the Tempered overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.

It's the best time of the year! #SapphicSeptember is here and one of this year's themes is sapphic knights, which is one of my favorite things to both write and read about.

You can get this lesbian-centered, trans-inclusive, high heat Arthuriana series direct at my shop: riengray.shop ⚔️

👑 A GAZE SO LONGING 👑 IS OUT TODAY!

Grab it on Smashwords, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon/Kindle.
Paperbacks will be coming later this year!

A Gaze So Longing is a 92k-word historical servant x prince-overthrowing-the-monarchy romance and the first book in the Fall of Livenza duology.

Are you ever just scrolling around queer bookish account, leaving likes to support your fellow creators, just to spot a HP reference and go back to delete all your likes 🫠🫠🫠

Death is Not the End Death is Not the End cover

I'm happy to announce my comic, Death is Not the End, has finished publishing its first chapter!! If you've been around, you know I've been in a small slump so chapter 2 isn't done yet, but there's still comic to read! Go check it out :) #sada
🔗 deathisnotthend.thecomicseries.com

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hey! i have a week to make $850 so i can pay our bills on time. you can:

⚡ book me for self-pub services
⚡ hire me for stream/website graphics and writing comms
⚡ toss me a few dollars on kofi

i also have a patreon if you want to support me monthly!

likes + reposts appreciated! wado, thank you! 💜

A graphic with 23 covers with text "Narratess Indie Book Sale August 2025. Fantasy Bundle #2” Masks: Legacy Edition by Amara Lynn Shadow of a Dead God by Patrick Samphire Office Maxi by Aaron Frale Like a Bullet to the Head by Claude Hamesh Journey Home by May Barros Running with the Wolf by Bryony Rosehurst Obsidian Island by Arden Powell Child of the Sun by Audrey Simmons Riyati Rebirth by Kai Zeal Non-Player Character by Veo Corva Chai and Cat-tales by Lynn Strong Prince Ewald the Brave by Dylan Madeley No Land for Heroes by Cal Black A Bitter Drink by Azalea Forrest Over the Dragon’s Gate by Juliana Jones Lost Blades by Liz Sauco Sidetracked Part 1x by S.K. Kelley Once Upon A Wave of Witches by Helen Whisberry (and Eli Belt) Lantern by Burgundy Athena Pendragon Shadows Dark and Deadly by Andrea Marie Johnson Og-Grim-Dog: The Three-Headed Ogre by Jamie Edmundson Imbued by Helyna L. Clove How to Soothe a Fallen Hero by Jeremy Rayne

Happy #indieaugust and also, my debut Masks turns 8 years old today, wow.

You can get the ENTIRE Masks collection - 3 books, 6 shorts, for .99!!

Or grab the itchio bundle with more fantasy books!

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#booksky #writesky #indieauthor #queerwriters

Slide 1: Text, a book cover, and character art on a foggy forest background. The book cover for "A Gaze So Longing" by River Flynn is centered. Above it: "14 days until release." Below it: "Sept 5 2025". On the left side of the slide, a side profile of Leonardo looking to the right, at Favian. We see Leonardo upwards from his upper arm. Leonardo has flowy brown curls that are a little longer than his shoulders. His eyes are brown, his skin a bronze brown, and he has freckles and dimples. Leonardo wears a ruffled blouse and a green jacket with golden embroidery, earrings, and a golden crown with red gemstones on his head. His chin is slightly tilted up at Favian, who is taller than him, and he looks flirtatious, a little sultry, and like he's challenging Favian. On the right side of the slide, a side profile of Favian looking to the left, at Leonardo. We see Favian upwards from his upper arm. Favian has beige skin, his hair is ashy blonde and a little shaggy, and his eyes blue. Favian wears a beige tunic that is tied together in the front. His chin is slightly turned town, his eyebrows drawn together. Favian looks soft and sorrowful.

Slide 3: On the same foggy forest image background, the book cover and its surrounding trope map. The following tropes and themes are listed around the cover: servant x prince, forbidden romance, an entire bottle of angst, ptsd, slow-ish burn, lots of queers, opposites attract (introvert x extrovert), yearning, couples that dismantle the monarchy together stay together, lots of gazing, hurt/comfort, trauma bonding, 1st book in a duology.

Slide 4: On the same foggy forest image background, a bigger version of the book cover and text. The text above the cover reads: "ebook release." the text below it reads: "smashwords, barnes & noble, kobo, amazon/kindle.

A larger version of the character art on the same foggy forest background. On the left side of the slide, a side profile of Leonardo looking to the right, at Favian. We see Leonardo upwards from his upper arm. Leonardo has flowy brown curls that are a little longer than his shoulders. His eyes are brown, his skin a bronze brown, and he has freckles and dimples. Leonardo wears a ruffled blouse and a green jacket with golden embroidery, earrings, and a golden crown with red gemstones on his head. His chin is slightly tilted up at Favian, who is taller than him, and he looks flirtatious, a little sultry, and like he's challenging Favian. On the right side of the slide, a side profile of Favian looking to the left, at Leonardo. We see Favian upwards from his upper arm. Favian has beige skin, his hair is ashy blonde and a little shaggy, and his eyes blue. Favian wears a beige tunic that is tied together in the front. His chin is slightly turned town, his eyebrows drawn together. Favian looks soft and sorrowful.

My debut novel 👑 A Gaze So Longing 👑 releases in 14 days, on September 5, 2025!
Available on Smashwords (where I get the highest royalties), Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Amazon/Kindle.
Paperbacks tba

Beautiful character art by the incredibly talented @paintedpages.zt on insta

some tailfuckery for y’all~

#NSFWart #wlw #yuri #sapphicsmut #oc

I feel like I should use bluesky more considering how many creators are here but not on insta, but I have never used twitter in my life either and have no idea how this kind of platform really works?

@fellow indie authors: what kind of stuff do you usually share on bluesky?

You can read more about it here
bsky.app/profile/rive... or on my instagram @river.flynnn

FYI, because of the current situation at itch A Gaze So Longing will no longer be published there. I'm looking into alternatives.

My historical romance A Gaze So Longing about a cis male servant and a genderqueer prince dismantling the monarchy (it's book 1 of a duology) will release in early September!
Once it's finished I'd be happy to provide you with a free copy for a review!

THE PROTECTOR AND THE ANNIHILATION KICKSTARTER HAS BEGUN...! Specifics via artwork: "THE PROTECTOR AND THE ANNIHILATION" EPIC SCIENCE ROMANTASY SPECIAL EDITIONS, 3 COUPLE ACRYLIC CHARMS, 3 COUPLE ENAMEL PINS, 7 TAROT CARDS, "THE PROTECTOR'S MEMORY OF THEM UNDER THE SUNLIGHT" SIDE NOVELLA SPECIAL EDITIONS, UP TO 29 KICKSTARTER-EXCLUSIVE SHORT STORIES, AND UP TO 6 COMICS.

THE PROTECTOR AND THE ANNIHILATION KICKSTARTER HAS BEGUN...! www.kickstarter.com/projects/blu...

Their story is OUT in digital formats🐊👅✨
Payhip: payhip.com/b/vSn9W
Itchio: emrynbird.itch.io/to-wallow-with-tongues

#shortstory #monsterromance #darkfantasy

CWs: emrynbird.tumblr.com/cws

and, sure, I could use KDPs free ISBN, but I so so badly don't want my book to be ONLY available on amazon