Pepper, Alex, Valerie, or Sam's Avatar

Pepper, Alex, Valerie, or Sam

@pepperthephoenix.bsky.social

I’m an Aroace, non-binary, autistic writer who loves writing fantasy noir and sci-fantasy stories. Currently working on Say I Slew Them Not about an accused war criminal anthro crocodile and the journalist he’s manipulating

1,656 Followers  |  5,349 Following  |  1,521 Posts  |  Joined: 29.10.2024
Posts Following

Posts by Pepper, Alex, Valerie, or Sam (@pepperthephoenix.bsky.social)

Although rent and the cats are taken care of, I still owe on this month and last month’s utilities.

The gas company is starting to get impatient.

Anything helps.

#HelpSky #HelpFolksLive2026 💕💸

07.03.2026 21:01 — 👍 8    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

I had a real cool trans bonding moment at the conference today. A person came up to buy a book & I glanced at their name tag & told them i loved their name and they said thank you I picked it myself and I said awesome. I picked my name as well! And we had an awesome “ah!!!! That’s so cool!” Moment 😊

06.03.2026 20:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ahhhh!!!! I love this so much!!!

02.03.2026 20:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Colour illustration in purples, pinky oranges and some hints of blue, in horizontal A4 format.
It depicts a cave interior in which appears Adar crouching down at the left of the image, a bonfire before him, extending his hands to recreate shadow-shapes in the wall of a cave before a crowd of young Uruks (from babies to teens), who are sitting before him. They seem to be very invested in the story Adar is telling, supporting it with the shadows he is projecting on the wall. Behind the crowd there is an old Uruk who wears an animal skull over her head painting the wall of the cave with red figures depicting Uruks wielding weapons and accompanied by the blue figures of wargs, under a crescent moon at the top of the painted scene.
The source of light is the bonfire (in bright white) which is releasing star-shaped sparks to the ceiling, one of them placed right where the shadow of the warg-hed projected on the wall would have its eye.

Colour illustration in purples, pinky oranges and some hints of blue, in horizontal A4 format. It depicts a cave interior in which appears Adar crouching down at the left of the image, a bonfire before him, extending his hands to recreate shadow-shapes in the wall of a cave before a crowd of young Uruks (from babies to teens), who are sitting before him. They seem to be very invested in the story Adar is telling, supporting it with the shadows he is projecting on the wall. Behind the crowd there is an old Uruk who wears an animal skull over her head painting the wall of the cave with red figures depicting Uruks wielding weapons and accompanied by the blue figures of wargs, under a crescent moon at the top of the painted scene. The source of light is the bonfire (in bright white) which is releasing star-shaped sparks to the ceiling, one of them placed right where the shadow of the warg-hed projected on the wall would have its eye.

After 'destroying' Sauron in Forodwaith, the Uruks travelled to the South. Many dangers left their numbers diminished, so they took shelter in a cave system inside the Misty Mountains... where they stayed for centuries.

There, Adar made sure to pass the old Uruk stories to the new generations✨🐺🔥

02.03.2026 19:33 — 👍 75    🔁 39    💬 12    📌 4

Yeah, not a great sign that they're just going to be experimenting on trans inmates like this and it's not a big story.

01.03.2026 21:46 — 👍 1263    🔁 494    💬 11    📌 11

and my dogs are good girls (just a bit stubborn and have big personalities) but my anxiety can’t stop imagining the worst possible scenarios.

02.03.2026 18:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m going on a work trip and I have to leave my pups for the first time since I adopted them. I have a dog sitter for the first time as well and I’m super anxious about it. I logically know everything will be ok because this person has been a dog sitter for a while

02.03.2026 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Rob is a bastard man #TheTraitors

27.02.2026 03:41 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

HOW are Johnny and Tara in the final five in the Traitors?

27.02.2026 02:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Is God Is | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios Is God Is | Official Trailer

Just saw the trailer for Is God Is and it looks fucking amazing!

youtu.be/pgtdkuNFoKk?...

23.02.2026 06:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving & homeless in winter under renewed bombing. His mother needs urgent treatment for retinal disease. Bluesky keeps deleting him. Please help bring them some hope during Ramadan:

22.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 10    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 2

Ramadan brings no comfort this year. My friend Sama'a and her two young girls desperately need our help to access food, shelter, and drinkable water amid the cold and privation of the Gazan Winter. Please give what you can.

chuffed.org/project/157569

22.02.2026 18:15 — 👍 122    🔁 231    💬 6    📌 12

Yes! Just a reminder Suozzi is one of the democrats who voted for DHS appropriation bill that would has given even MORE money to Ice.

22.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"Unalive" "grape" "seggs" This has got to stop. Do people hear themselves? Its like talking to a particularly sensitive toddler. We can't remove serious words from our language just because we're afraid some fickle algorithm will show our posts to less people

21.02.2026 19:20 — 👍 6925    🔁 2644    💬 175    📌 185

I have a confession to make. The only reason I know who Johnny Weir is is because he was in an episode of Ghosthunters. I don’t give a shit about the Olympics so I never knew he was a famous figure skater 😅

22.02.2026 03:18 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So I ended up ordering a new charger today cause it's failing a lot more often now and that took quite a bit of my savings so any support is appreciated!

20.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 5    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Donate to Protect Addi From Forced Removal, organized by Holly M On Sunday 15th February, my wife Addison was detained for 21 hours by UK border control at t… Holly M needs your support for Protect Addi From Forced Removal

a trans woman i know is being deported back to the USA due to the Home Office messing up paperwork.

her wife is desperately trying to raise the funds to prevent this. they have 48 hours before she’s put on a plane and might never be able to return.

please, help if you can. they’re both terrified.

20.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 2412    🔁 3068    💬 19    📌 51
Preview
Support The Ferdarian Gazette ❤️ Support the Ferdarian Gazette

I’m sooooo close to being able to afford my meds. I just need $15 dollars. Can you please donate and/or share?

ko-fi.com/theferdarian...

20.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Support The Ferdarian Gazette ❤️ Support the Ferdarian Gazette

I postponed asking for help (again) because I feel like a total shithead needing help all the time but in two days without my meds and I don’t get paid until money. Can you please help me raise 50 dollars so I can buy my depression meds? Thank you so much

ko-fi.com/theferdarian...

19.02.2026 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Support The Ferdarian Gazette ❤️ Support the Ferdarian Gazette

I postponed asking for help (again) because I feel like a total shithead needing help all the time but in two days without my meds and I don’t get paid until money. Can you please help me raise 50 dollars so I can buy my depression meds? Thank you so much

ko-fi.com/theferdarian...

19.02.2026 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t know how you can hate the rings of power when we get an ENTWIFE!!! who is SO angry about the destruction of trees she is ready to kill anyone who even *looks* at a tree the wrong way.

17.02.2026 22:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Say I Slew Them Not: An Adult Queer Fantasy Noir Podcast Science Fiction Podcast · Updated Weekly · Say That I Slew Them Not is an adult queer fantasy noir where Les Miserables meets Peaky Blinders plus anthro crocodiles Kingsley, an anthro crocodile rebel...

Happy #AroAwarenessWeek! Feel like supporting an aroace creator? Then check out my fantasy noir podcast Say I Slew Them Not which features tons of queer characters including aro, ace, and aroace characters!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

15.02.2026 18:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m working on the first episode of season two of my fantasy noir podcast, Say I Slew Them Not, and one of my characters has an emotional support dog who is a pitbull because they are adorable and deserve to be seen as the loving caring dogs they are

14.02.2026 20:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My vet who is a saint and a goddess basically let me give her an IOU since I’ll be getting paid next week and because my dog was cut up so badly just when I lose faith in humanity someone does something really nice for me and makes me cry

13.02.2026 00:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
12.02.2026 22:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Support The Ferdarian Gazette ❤️ Support the Ferdarian Gazette

It feels like every month I’m asking for help but one of my dogs got into a fight with another dog and tore up her ear and I need help paying the vet bill. Can you please donate and/or share?

ko-fi.com/theferdarian...

12.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2

Elmo
@elmo
·
1h
That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰
Based Yankee
@thebasedyankee
You and Bad Bunny should be deported

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

09.02.2026 03:15 — 👍 42736    🔁 7468    💬 991    📌 548
Video thumbnail

the bushes were people 😂

09.02.2026 02:26 — 👍 15867    🔁 2800    💬 660    📌 1415
Preview
What Will You Give: A Story for Lola The Ferdarian Gazette published a post on Ko-fi

I wrote this story, What Will You Give three months after she died. It was inspired in part by Walter Bishop's reckless desire to save his son from the tv show Fringe and the Emir's debate with Anubis in the Gargoyle episode: Grief.

ko-fi.com/post/What-Wi...

07.02.2026 01:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She was my everything. When she died, I wanted to die as well and came pretty close to ending things. I simply couldn't imagine my life w/o her. Thankfully, w/ a LOT of therapy, I survived and now have two wonderful pitbulls in my life, but there isn't a day that goes bye that I don't miss my girl.

07.02.2026 01:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0