Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now!

don’t forget to grab this bundle while you still can!

#Aro #AroWeek #Aromantic #QueerSFF

5 things I like, and leaving it untagged for anyone who wants to participate 😛

1. my dog
2. my cat
3. writing
4. my fuzzy blanket
5. learning and teaching about dog behavior

don’t forget to grab this bundle while you still can!

#Aro #AroWeek #Aromantic #QueerSFF

Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

Porn performer Siri Dahl’s personal information, including her full legal name and birthday, was publicly exposed earlier this month by Grok. Dahl told 404 Media she wanted to reclaim the situation, and her name, and asked that it be published in this piece.
www.404media.co/grok-doxing-...

the cover for The Blood Divide by Zan Lowell depicting the sillouhette of a leafless tree with a thin layer of snow on its branches and a mound of snow around the base of the trunk. beneath the snow are cobblestones with blood running through some of the cracks. The background is mottled gray and the title is in red text while the author's name is in white text

🌆 urban fantasy
🔮 witches & shifters & vampires (oh my!)
🩸 original lore
🪞 parallel world
⚔️ enemy of my enemy
🌈 everyone is queer (and a disaster)

📖 universal link: buy.bookfunnel.com/ypxhg00vsn

#BookSky #WriteSky

Introducing monthly sales So I was thinking, wouldn’t it be neat to have themed sales? Instead of a single broad promotion, we could have very narrow sales with just a few books, curated to match a specific theme.

I had this idea a while back, and the only way to see if it works is to try it.

The idea is monthly mini-sales on a theme, like a book bundle, except that readers can browse and pick what interests them.

The biggest obstacle is my small reach, so share this around!

sheilajenne.com/2026/02/11/i...

A graphic featuring 23 covers in a ring around center text that reads "Aro-Spec Bundle. Celebrate Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week with a Bundle of 23 Works Starring Aromantic Characters. February 15th - 22nd. $23!"

Happy discount candy day (Feb edition)! If you're looking for something to enjoy with your discount candy, check out the aro-spec itch bundle -- with 23 different aro-highlighed stories, there's sure to be something for you 👀

🔗 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...

#BookSky #QueerSFF #QueerAdultSFF

Happy Aro day. Today's aro mood is: sleepy.

💚🩶🤍🖤🤍🩶💚

A graphic featuring 23 covers in a ring around center text that reads "Aro-Spec Bundle. Celebrate Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week with a Bundle of 23 Works Starring Aromantic Characters. February 15th - 22nd. $23!" The covers are listed in the text version of the post.

In honor of Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, we’ve organized an itch.io bundle featuring 23 books, graphic novels, visual novels, and audiobooks starring aromantic characters! List of included works: duckprintspress.com/2026/02/15/a...

itch link! itch.io/b/3517/aroma...

🌈📚

DO YOU LOVE RELATIONSHIPS??

Because there are two bundles on itchio right now for you!

One for romance: itch.io/b/3515/valen...

One for friendship (SFF): itch.io/b/3486/frien...

I just think it's neat :3 (I'm in the friendship one obviously)

stunned but thrilled to see this from Leander

a good thread on how insidious these book banners are

That's the insidious chilling effect of these book bans. The defenders have to pick their battles.

This seems to be especially true of comics. Hard to believe this whole thing began as an old-fashioned Comic Book Witvch Hunt!

Dr. Wertham is cackling from the grave!

The cover of the comic Time Wars the Adventures of Ash Grey & Saturn Olympus Issue #1: Gunfight at the KO Corral!

In the 1880s, Vampires seek to rule Washington Territory.

A small group of queer superheroes stand in their way: informed by the future, armed with alien tech, and bound by queer joy and solidarity.

The comic is on Kickstarter March 1st!

Join us!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

the way i stay indoors, i'm slowly becoming furniture

Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.

Remember:

- Action is the antidote to despair.

- You must engage in solidarity with your community, not just your friends.

- Illness is a tool used by fascists to harm vulnerable groups & weaken resistance. Wear an n95 mask. Give/get mutual aid at link below.

- Rest, reengage, repeat.

Blocking the construction of ICE detention centers is much easier than closing them once they're built! If you're in this county, follow the OP for some ways to support; if you're not, keep an ear out for proposed detention facilities in your zone

In a positive development, I’m hearing that Hanover County Board of Supervisors are planning to vote NO on the I.C.E. request to build or lease a detention facility in the county near Bass Pro. And, that they are consulting with the county attorney on legal options for fighting it!

Have some new followers so sharing this list. If you consider yourself queer and neurodiverse and are a writer at any stage from beginner to published writer, comment on this post and I'll add you. If you're not, show some support for marginalised authors by following ; )

go.bsky.app/9mmijHX

much obliged!

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Amber Glenn wearing her gold medal after winning the US National Championship Women’s Singles Competition. She is dressed in a black short sequined gown and proudly holding a progress pride flag behind her. There is a gaggle of photographers in front of her.

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

when a question is also a poem

27 covers of self-published books (listed at the itch link in the original post) with the text "the best of 2025, 27 books for only $15, January 2026 1st - 15th"

2025 may be over, but these twenty seven books, published in the last year, represents the best of the year, and offers hope in a world that seems to get harder to live in every day.

itch.io/b/3455/the-b...

vital* not viral 🙄

my brain was extremely unhelpful by immediately supplying “wecessary” 🤦🏻

as for real word suggestions:
crucial
viral
paramount
essential

Looking for a word. If necessary means need, what would be another word for want? It's necessary because you yearn for it, you desire it. Not sexually, but there's an emotional pull toward the thing or person. It's necessary for your soul. Does that make sense? Is there an English word for that?

Hook probably got the most airtime at our place. Or the live action TMNT.

They're not even gonna acknowledge her wife in death, Renee Nicole Good was murdered and people are pretending like she wasn't married to a woman when an ICE terrorist murdered her, that her wife didn't hold her in her arms as she died, and on fucking camera...

I'm so sick of it all

What is her name?