Tabitha (misinformation hater)

i only just discovered yesterday that "sweet summer child" is a game of thrones thing lol

Alright. Sharing this again before I head to bed. Support our lovely group of indie authors, please.

AI industry horrified to learn there might actually be consequences for its rampant theft

ahh that's a good idea too! and might actually be better because it's more discoverable

screenshot from a webpage. text reads: Purchase Get this novella and 15 more for $25.00 USD We Don't Need an Excuse to Celebrate Authors

i now have an answer to this! the co-op bundle takes precedence

Three sales! What's the perfect gift for a third sale? Why it's clay tables so that you can complain about subpar copper merchants. Nova is so happy!

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Gives You Hell 🤝 My Kink is Karma

current mood: resentful and sad at seeing AI continuing to encroach more and more into my small online hobby communities 😔

sepia-tone photo of a person sitting on a bench hunched in a coat with the hood up on a barren mountain

me all alone on my hill

Plot Twist Café A cozy, independent bookstore + coffee shop coming to Maryville, Missouri.

Rough couple of days but I got a chance to sit down and draw a tiefling book store owner. I was inspired by Plot Twist Cafe’s kickstarter. The next 5 people who donate will get some art made by me as a special little treat.

#art #kickstarter #bookstore #lgbtq

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yeah, i don't think i am wrong? www.grammarly.com/blog/grammar...

the "we don't need an excuse to celebrate authors with a bundle" bundle: 16 books for $25. August 8-10, only on itchio. Shows the covers for the included books.

Today's the day! Grab our bundle of 16 rad indie books for just $25. No occasion, but we don't need one!

And given the recent dumpster fire with itch, they will not receive a cut of the profits from bundle sales.

https://itch.io/b/3217/we-dont-need-an-excuse-to-celebrate-authors-with-a-bundle

I know and personally endorse every single author in this bundle. Some of my favorite books that I highly recommend to people OFTEN are in here, so if I were you I'd snatch them up asap!

My two horror novellas are in this!! I haven’t had time to scream about it due to helping a friend move into my house and dealing with Emi’s post op healing, but it’s gonna be super fun!!

The bundle has a variety of fantastic books included and celebrates a bunch of lovely authors just because 💙📚

BLOODY SPADE & BLEEDING HEART are in this! This is a great chance to pick them up if you haven't yet, and you get a whole collection of other fantastic stories to go along with them 😊✨

itch.io/b/3217/we-dont-need-an-excuse-to-celebrate-authors-with-a-bundle

THE WE DON'T NEED AN EXCUSE TO CELEBRATE AUTHORS WITH A BUNDLE®® BUNDLE Featuring covers of the books: - Because You Asked by A.E. Bennett - Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows - Bleeding Heart by Brittany M. Willows - Tempered in Ash by Willo Glenn - Silver Blood by T. L. Morgan - Sweet Sorrow by T. L. Morgan - Structural Integrity by Tabitha O’Connell - Structural Strain by Tabitha O’Connell - The Modern Mythos Anomaly by Juniper Lake Fitzgerald - Metanoia by Juniper Lake Fitzgerald - Kotov Syndrome by S. Morgan Burbank - Woodpusher by S. Morgan Burbank - Pane by Bailey Elizabeth - I Know You’re Still In There by Bailey Elizabeth - Family Dinner by W. Payne Sullivan - She Slipped Through the Cracks by W. Payne Sillivan

An MS Paint drawing of a baby with a sad face and a curly-q of ginger hair on her head. She has a clip art chainsaw

It is time. August 8-10.

Support 9 indie authors. Get 16 books for $25. All our Itch rev share is at 0%. And, for every 5 bundles bought, Nova the baby gets a present. I'll even spot you her first one.

🧡🧡 Baby's first chainsaw 🧡🧡

#writingcommunity 🌈🚀💫 #booksky #authors 🌈📚

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Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard with complaints and sharing the titles of delisted NSFW games to support developers.

As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard with complaints and sharing the titles of delisted NSFW games to support developers. www.wired.com/story/gamers...

"Collective Shout’s statement on Itch’s mass deindexing states that, 'thousands of games glorifying rape, torture, and sexual violence against women and girls were delisted from gaming platform itch.' [This] equates every deindexed game to No Mercy, regardless of whether they resemble it or not."

Itch And Steam's New Policies Reflect A Larger Battle On Free Speech Collective Shout's campaign--and censorship in general--will only make video games worse.

www.gamespot.com/articles/itc...

i'm taking it now and feeling very called out by it 😅

A lot of the moral panic around stranger danger resulted in this idea that your family and parents are always safe. And therefore that means you must be supervised by them at all times. Which can open the door to some insane levels of control and abuse if (as is commonly the case) family abuses you

Among the Glimmering Flowers by S.L. Dove Cooper "A YA cosy fantasy between a demisexual princess and an allosexual stable boy. Also there are fairies and kelpies that like to cause trouble." Available wide Direct via Itch and Payhip

Among the Glimmering Flowers

🍓Demisexual MC
🐎Arospec LI
🍓Children sneaking out
🐎Class differences
🍓Royals deciding to implement democracy

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Payhip: payhip.com/b/5t7lr

📚💙 #booksky #IndieAuthor #specfic #sff

ahhh thank you Polygon for the clear and accurate language around the deindexing situation!

You can start getting Nova gifts tonight! The first bundle purchase will cause Nova to get gift #1

Just a little over one week left to send us your stories !

Prompt: stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness

give me input for my @gcapconf.bsky.social talk this year! it's going to be FUN and DEPRESSING, the core tenets of VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT.

thank you

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June 2025. LGBTQIA+ Fiction Books. Hosted by MJ James. Background image displays a rainbow flag hanging off of shelves with plants and stacked books.

The Thirteenth Key, Seraphine's Chosen #1 by Cara Nox book cover surrounded by tropes, rep, and teasers over a dark blue starry vector background. Clockwise, it reads: persona 5 meets final fantasy 15, found family, sweet ace boy x spicy bi girl, futuristic fantasy, slow burn romantic sub-plots, humor as a coping mechanism, traveling heist adventure, disability rep, chaotic chosen one(s), and hurt/comfort. At the bottom, it reads: The Thirteenth Key, Seraphine's Chosen #1, caranox.com/t13k

🌈📚 FREE QUEER FICTION

Last chance to get a copy of my FF15 meets PERSONA 5 inspired scifi fantasy, THE THIRTEENTH KEY, along with some other LGBTQ+ books for ✨ free ✨

This ends today!!

Get your free copies:
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🌈🚀💫 ♿️♾️📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 🌈📚♠️

An MS Paint drawing of a baby with a sad face and a curly-q of ginger hair on her head

Two days until the We Don't Need an Excuse to Celebrate Authors With a Bundle...Bundle. You're able to get 16 books for $25 and support indie authors while doing it.

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What happens if you support us?

Meet Nova. Nova is a baby. With every 5 bundles we sell Nova gets a present

so this listing is still open (even though in their email to me they said they received an overwhelming number of applications...). no closing date given.

i applied to another the same day, which i haven't yet heard back from. also no closing date, and the listing is still up on the website.