@sashasways.bsky.social
musician she/her
Before I dive into internship work, here is my paypal if anyone can afford to give me a little support, keeping a roof over my head.
If I can make 300 extra dollars in 3 weeks, I'll be golden. Please help if you can.
www.paypal.me/devyntheauthor
Or if you prefer cash app cash.app/$devyntheaut...
A rotund brown and cream rat sits on a windowsill on a cold autumn night smoking a pipe and wearing a little hat made of a red poppy. She's watching a baby in a cradle, whose chubby toes wiggle just in view. Bundles of woad leaves hang from an open shutter, alongside dyed cloth in red, yellow, and blue. Through the open shutters trees covered in fall leaves and the first few twinkling stars are visible. The light is bright on the rat, as though someone off-frame has just come upon her with a candle.
"When that bone and sinew memory awakens, the child changes to a beast..."
A new letter from Áine has arrived!
#LettersFromÁine
www.patreon.com/posts/letter...
Swarnim is an Indian trans woman who has recently experienced transphobic workplace harassment and is dealing with health issues plus eviction. She's offering coding classes that she hopes will interest women and especially queer people. Boost if you can. docs.google.com/forms/d/1vR8...
17.11.2025 14:39 — 👍 103 🔁 100 💬 0 📌 1
Please help a refugee afford gender-affirming surgery🙏
#helpsky #mutualaid
gofund.me/25003d6e4
Thinking about it, our bundle is pretty good value: for $15, big publishers will give you one (1) ebook. With ours, you get 24 titles.
17.11.2025 07:56 — 👍 67 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 4
A sketch of a wych on a boat
Party 🎉
16.11.2025 19:04 — 👍 185 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 0No donations in the night so we are pushing it this morning.
Please share. Anything helps.
My top 2025 reads, one of them is kind of cheating because Confessions came out in 2008, but the rest are 2025 releases. Featuring @trishusband.itch.io @callistokhan.bsky.social @ciricegray.itch.io @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io
16.11.2025 16:14 — 👍 67 🔁 30 💬 3 📌 2
Such a pretty... collar. 🤍
16.11.2025 15:47 — 👍 542 🔁 116 💬 3 📌 1
Please help a nonbinary person and their family eat and pay rent in America.
www.paypal.me/devyntheauthor
#mutualaid
#helpsky
Reminder that I am in a bad spot and could use help surviving it
gofund.me/ec6aa5fac
A little late, but here are the book releases from transfem authors from September - October 2025. medium.com/@soverybee/s... A good spread of genres and mix of big trade publishers, small presses, and selfpub.
14.11.2025 19:34 — 👍 69 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 0
Please help a refugee afford surgery💜
#helpsky #mutualaid
gofund.me/25003d6e4
Hello. I need help. I lost my job last month after a medical emergency in my family, and we are hanging on by a thread. I started a Go Fund Me to try and start raising what we need to keep a roof over our heads and eat. Any help at all means the world to me right now.
gofund.me/a842a5fdc
People have the opportunity to do something VERY funny.
13.11.2025 20:02 — 👍 47 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 0We had better not hit $6969.69.
Continue right past it, please.
itch.io/b/3364/poiso...
I am going to bed without any money to my name at all.
Please help. We need food.
#mutualaid
#helpsky
please help Devyn if you can!
gofund.me/43e6eb154
Due to being a refugee, I only get invited to interviews for menial and service jobs. Because of my disability, I can't work those. I live on modest and sporadic freelance earnings and can't afford surgical expenses. Please help if you can 🙏
#HelpSky #MutualAid
gofund.me/25003d6e4
Promo graphic for Toxic Yuri November. A woman stands in a moonlit street, eyes closed, and a gun in her hands, pensively raised. Text reads: 'Danger. Obsession. Deadly lesbians. 24 Novels, novellas, and visual novels'
80% of the way to our third goal of $7k!
Once we hit 100%, I'll release the first chapter of Unlimited Combat Dolls for free, maybe even the first two if I'm feeling nice, I think they're better together :3
Live vicariously through some violent lesbians here:
itch.io/b/3364/poiso...
It's my birthday, please help me be out of debt!!!!!
gofund.me/219b7d67c
We're 79% through our *third* goal! Not bad at all.
10.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 39 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0Continuing with my read-through of @jemma.bsky.social 's "The Brute of Greengrave" from this bundle! Just finished "The Witch of Artemisia's Doll Boutique," a cute and hot boss/assistant romance that intriguingly dips into some tantalising (and uncomfortable!) questions about the worldbuilding
10.11.2025 12:27 — 👍 25 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
TOXIC YURI NOVEMBER (photoshopped as VENOMBER) DANGER. OBSESSION. DEADLY LESBIANS. 24 NOVELS, NOVELLAS, AND VISUAL NOVELS
[🎵 Sarah McLachlan music]
Every day, a toxic yuri author can spend hours staring into space thinking about a lady with cruel silver knives. Or maybe a mutual poisoning, as euphoric as it is deadly.
But you can help!
Buy the bundle, and distract both them and you.
itch.io/b/3364/poiso...
I currently don't have the money to pay for gas right now.
Anything you can spare to help us stay afloat right now means the world 💜
www.paypal.me/devyntheauthor
There's a poll on my Patreon where anyone can vote on what Áine's patron should ask her in his response.
In the future, voting will be for $5 patrons on up, but the actual letters and main illustrations will always be available for everyone to enjoy for free.
A cartoon illustration of rats on a rat-sized wooden boardwalk outside of rat-sized wattle and daub buildings. Two of the rats are using a tiny saw to divide up a plump turnip, while a young rat behind them uses a tiny broom to sweep the stoop of a cozy little shop. Golden light streams out of the windows to the shop, illuminating blackberries on a table outside and a pile of acorns. Dappled autumn light filters through the bowing thyme plants above the rats as one of the rats looks up towards a little moth flitting through the plants.
Let me tell you of where I came from. I don't know how I would spell my family's name for our village, because they speak no language you know. My friend Onri, who taught me to speak like you, said to simply call it Baile Beag or Little Town to outsiders. I could tell you exactly where it is, even draw you a map, but you would never be able to find Baile Beag. How Onri found it in the first place, I don’t know. I asked him once and he merely smiled. Our little village is on a rocky peninsula, too rough and small for farming with no good harbors for fishing boats. Over the years the trees have wound their roots in between the rocks, cracking them apart to make space for life. That’s how my parents and their parents before them lived, worming into the little cracks where no one else could go. They can garden and they can tend their orchards, but there is no plow strong enough to work this land. That they were able to grow enough food to feed me and not starve themselves while I was growing astounds me. When the big folk try to find Little Town, they get turned around. They walk the same path over and over, which seems to turn back on itself. They look up through the trees for the sun, but cannot find it. The sound of the sea is everywhere and also miles away, so they cannot follow it to shore. If they take a bit of twine to mark their way and stay straight and true until they reach the very end of the peninsula, somehow they still never find the village. That’s a bit of magic I’m told that all the feral folk have, which only grows stronger the more of them there are, and our little village has nearly five hundred villagers.
Five hundred! I imagine you crying out. What sort of little village could that be? How could that many people simply be invisible on a peninsula, which only has one way in and out? But you see, it’s the people who are small, not the number of them. I know my skin has no fur and I stand as tall as any other young woman you’ve met, but I was born to rats. Rats, the vermin I’m told your people kill on sight. That’s why feral folk magic is so important, so that outsiders struggle to focus their eyes on the them if they don’t want to be seen. Don’t confuse my rats with their wild kin, for they are as clever and industrious as anyone in your grand cities. Their gardens are richer in life than your sterile fields and they love to tinker and build. You would think their lack of thumbs would be a hindrance, but I told you they were clever and industrious. They build themselves gauntlets to strap to their wrists, which have a little false thumb to help them grasp and hold onto things. They’re also less shy about using their teeth as tools than you might be. At this time of year, they gather the acorns to blanch in the stream and roast alongside chestnuts. They dig up fresh roots like turnips and carrots for immediate eating and, because they’re unable to make root cellars deep enough for storage, they pile up all the grasses they can atop their gardens to insulate what remains through winter. Blackberry season is dwindling now and it’s getting too cool to dry them effectively, so what remains must be eaten before it turns to mold and mush. I can never have enough of them, loving them with all my heart but knowing my size and appetite could make others go hungry. They keep no livestock, though maintain friendly relations with the bees and butterflies.
They don’t have much capacity for working iron at their size, so must take bits from the big folk for their tools. They don’t think of stealing the way that you do, because they don’t think of ownership the way that you do. Their tools are what they need and use. If they do not need it or use it, someone else can. There is so much that the big folk cast aside or ignore or forget about that little clever paws can find use for. It was not my first time venturing into a big folks’ village when we met, but nearly so. I told you then that my family could no longer feed me, but I was literate and could make myself of use. There was no lie in anything I said. My own garden had to be ten times the size of my family’s and I had grown too big to safely walk the streets of Baile Beag, which are only slightly wider than my feet. I can write to you of wonders that you have never seen in exchange for your generosity. Your patronage will allow me to live and my family to prosper. Yours Faithfully, Áine
Here's an interactive project I'm working on right now!
It's an epistolary novel with accompanying illustrations by our narrator as she travels across a fantasy world, writing to a boy who is too ill to go on adventures himself but can pay her to adventure for him.
#LettersfromÁine
This blog seeks to highlight what we think of as “sicko lesbian” literature, a category that’s not defined by genres or tropes but by the catharsis of strong passion, strong deeds, and lack of restraint. This doesn’t mean it’s all blood, guts, and gore (though sometimes it can be that), rather that we’re looking to talk about books that prioritize emotional intensity and ruthlessness. The protagonists tend to be a little agnostic to conventional morality, characters that might have well been antagonists in another work. The endings of these books run the gamut: neutral, ambiguous, fatally tragic, or ardently triumphant. “Sicko” isn’t about good representation; instead, it’s the idea that lesbians—like everyone else—deserve art that doesn’t function solely as representative but explores a large range of concepts, stories, and fictional behaviors. We reject the idea that if a fictional lesbian is a little too obsessive, she must be “bad representation” because she fits the stereotype of the “psycho lesbian”; art is contextual and very case-by-case. A homophobic stereotype is easy enough to distinguish from a queer author looking to explore the idea of, say, a queer woman serial killer. You know it when you see it. Stories about straight female serial killers are plenty. Prescribing lists of do’s and don’ts in good representation or building strict paint-by-the-numbers traits is neither possible nor desirable in pursuit of good art.
For me, this is the essential heart of it and why it can encompass a big range. It's about not just exploring strange, bloody subjects, but about having access to full humanity like any cishet reader. lesbianwithteeth.wordpress.com/about/
08.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 107 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 1Let's talk a bit about toxic yuri. :) Definition is tricky: for some people it's just women being a little mean, for some it's women carving a hole into another and digging her fist inside to find her dead wife (I've written this).
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www.patreon.com/posts/alya-1... New Patreon Post - Alya (+ NSFW sketch)
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