Xochilt Avila (they/them)

send me your stories 👀

Seeing so many people lining up for radical horror gives me so much hope for the future!! I'm so happy for you all and I hope you made so much moola today

I’m taking a bit of an income hit right now to focus on activist work around MasterCard-Visa-Stripe-PayPal

If you have some funds to spare, that would be highly appreciated ❤️

ahhh holy shit

Ooohh I love that font design! It's looking great so far

Unpopular publishing opinion but if a short fiction magazine is gonna take longer than a month to respond, have a limited submission period, and/or pay very little, then they have no reasonable right to forbid you from submitting your story to another publication at the same time.

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We’re currently open for general submissions: send us your horrors, up to 6000 words, including flash.

Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don't agonise over your cover letter (really, don’t).

You MUST submit via our Moksha portal (link in reply). We don’t accept email submissions.

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Thanks Talia. This means a lot ;w; <3

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Aaaa thank you!!!

Oohh that looks amazing. Also any tips on how to keep the chai seeds from sinking all to the bottom? Every time I made chia seed pudding they're never spread out evenly 😭

Space Unicorn!

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I'm going to launch a Latine romance imprint, focusing mostly on queer stories, but also special straight ones.

It will be called NEKISSOH—

—Nahuatl for "desirable" or "desired."

Among our publications will be the queer historical romances I'm writing as Aeron Zaldívar.

More details soon!

It's Novel/Novella Submissions Halfway Day!

We're HALFWAY through our subs period: our N/N reading team is high-fiving as 1/2 switch out of the reading queue and 1/2 switch in.

They're hungry to read, so SEND US YOUR NOVEL OR NOVELLA before September 1!

splitlippress.submittable.com

#SaveSpeech

its been a week, and while we cannot let up pressure on making phone calls, we need to start applying pressure elsewhere now as well!

PHASE 2: START MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS

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more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish.

Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each.

Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.

"Stripe has indicated that they hope to be able to support adult content in the future."

Whether Stripe means it or not, getting an actual statement from them is pretty big! If anything, the pressure is working! Don't stop calling! #SaveSpeech

Wouldn’t it be wild if Visa and Mastercard and the rest suffered huge losses because other processors stepped in and quickly became the go-to for anti-censorship consumers?

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PRESSURE PAYPAL!
it's good that visa and mastercard call centers are feeling the pinch, but it's not just on them! put the pins on paypal! every adult artist you know lives in fear of the paypal freeze out--but as customers, you're safe! support us with a call!

No Garfields here

Clickbait article under a photo of Darth Vader's melted helmet: We all missed the real symbolism of Darth Vader's destroyed helmet

It symbolizes how cool and fun it is to set your dad on fire.

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quick drawing for banhana on artfight of their character viola!

#artfight #art

Omg FIASCO is such a cute cat name!?

He's normal.

Anyway, wait until yall meet Oberon Darkblade

One of the things that I find so fun about being an author is I can put my TTRPG OCs into the stories, and none will be the wiser!! Oh, you thought that was Walter the janitor? WRONG that's Walter the werewolf cowboy wearing a janitor costume.

AI "Artists" getting upset when you say their slop sucks is funny, because you can be like "why do you even care, it's not like you actually made it" and get them more wet and red.

That's so cool Mae!! So happy for you I can't wait to hear the podcast :D

Also this might be a stretch but I suspect this is why I'm so drawn to cannibalism in horror. Food is my love language, so to see that twisted is very impactful for me. Or maybe I just really like Hannibal idk