The Artist Formerly Known as Happy Guy with Red Shirt?
15.02.2026 00:03 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@faerytaleonfire.bsky.social
Author of queer sci-fi, fantasy, and romance. Secretly just a collection of loosely-related stories dressed up in a meat suit. https://linktr.ee/faerytaleonfire
The Artist Formerly Known as Happy Guy with Red Shirt?
15.02.2026 00:03 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A banner with a cobblestoned street in black-and-white at night as the background. It's entitled The Twinned Trilogy by Tris Lawrence, and shows three books covers: Book 1, Commit to the Kick, featuring a muscular man in a purple and white football uniform with a roaring bear and dragon behind him; Book 2, Missed Fortunes, with two people in casual modern clothing falling from a tower as the twoer burns and explodes, cards falling about them; and Book 3: Into the Split, showing two people from behind as they look toward three gnarled, dark trees in a heavily shadowed forest. The Duck Prints Press logo is in the upper right corner.
Happy Launch Day for our awesome queer trilogy of modern-with-magic novels by Tris Lawrence! These college students have magical Talents, and they've learned about a threat that could end the world! And they still have exams!! Learn more on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...
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A graphic made over a background of a photograph of deep space showing stars and a gas cloud. Text on the graphic reads: Recruitment for authors to write stories for Duck Prints Press's next anthology "Beyond the Galactic Tide" featuring stories starring asexual characters in outer space settings is open NOW through January 31st 2026!
Are you a fanfiction author? Have you been wanting to break into publishing your original fiction? We're looking for contributors to BEYOND THE GALACTIC TIDE, our next anthology. What's it about? TL:DR... ACE IN SPACE! For the long version, visit our website: duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-g...
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Details remain unclear: on the one hand, there's a video showing thugs murdering a woman in cold blood. On the other hand, the New York Times is a propaganda arm of the fascist state.
07.01.2026 19:32 β π 359 π 61 π¬ 9 π 0Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
01.01.2026 11:26 β π 1078 π 1163 π¬ 33 π 169A graphic with black text over stripes in the color of the aromantic pride flag. The text reads, Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week 2026 will be from February 15 to 21! To celebrate, we are thrilled to announce an itch.io bundle of works starring aromantic characters. Who is contributing? Maybe YOU! Visit our sign-up form to read all the details and rules and to submit your works with aromantic main characters for inclusion in the bundle!
Do you sells works on itch.io? Do you have a work starring one or more characters on the aromantic spectrum?
Then we want YOU! to submit your works to a bundle of works starring arospec characters to run during Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week!
Deets: duckprintspress.com/resources/du...
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An advertising graphic for His Secret Illuminations, His Sacred Incantations, and Her Subtle Investigations, all by author Scarlett Gale. It has a blurry festive background and says: Scarlett's Big HOLIDAY Sale! Use code GAYAPPAREL for 25% off all books! scarlettgaleauthor.com/shop
Hello, Bluesky! I had a VERY busy start of December so I didn't have time to get this going earlier:
Welcome to Scarlett's (Slightly Belated) Big Holiday Sale! Use the code GAYAPPAREL25 on my website thru Jan 15 for 25% off ALL books, including audiobooks and ebooks!
scarlettgaleauthor.com/shop
Text and seven book covers on the bluebackground with blue snowflakes. The text reads: Our Favorite Queer Holiday Books. The books are: The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch; To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh; Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake; The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow; No Better Than Beasts by Z.R. Ellor; Don't Stop Believing by Gwen Hayes.
It's our 2nd-annual Queer Holiday Book list! This yearβs list leans a bit on Christmas - sorry! Whatever holiday or holidays you celebrate in December, we hope you have a good one (or more)!
See last year's list and learn more about these books on our blog: duckprintspress.com/2025/12/14/7...
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A simple graphic on a blue background with a snowflake motif. Text reads 2025 Holiday Marketplace December 16 - 18th 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Empire State Plaza Concourse
Next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Iβll be among 40 vendors with our wares laid out on the Concourse at Empire State Plaza! This is a great chance to shop local this December and do some lunch-time browsing. I hope to see you there! empirestateplaza.ny.gov/2025-holiday...
11.12.2025 14:50 β π 6 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0A graphic entitled A Big Gay Market, with the logo for the Common Roots Brewing Company beside it. In the middle is a badge that says "I'm a vendor" and a phorograph of a table set up with merchandise and books, a Duck Prints Press logo banner in the front. Below this, text reads: Pop-Up Market: Satruday Dec 13th at 19 Quackenbush Square Albany NY. Beneath this it reads, Our beneficiary: The Albany Rock Project. Our parking Sponsor, which is followed by a circular logo with a yellow P in the middle. Finally, at the bottom it says learn more www.abiggaymarket.com accompanied by two QR codes.
Weβre vending again with @abiggaymarket.bsky.social this Saturday, Dec 13, from 12 to 4 at Common Roots Brewing Co. Check out the 30 awesome queer vendors, do some holiday shopping, enjoy some local brew and grub, and make a day of it! I hope to see you there. www.abiggaymarket.com/pop-up-markets
09.12.2025 17:34 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 0 π 2Yeah, things are tough, but it's not all bad. Ancient Egyptian treasure boat found off Alexandria coast, okay?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Oh good*
*extremely terrible, can we just give up this idea already, I wrote a sci-fi horror story about this called QUIETUS and half of the POV is from one of the test subjects the scientists are experimenting on trying to get this to work
This is New York, friends.
07.12.2025 04:34 β π 197 π 77 π¬ 1 π 2I will never understand the compulsion some people seem to have to shit talk others who are known for being kind. Stop trying to make everyone else as miserable and petty as you are, ya big weirdo!
Also, I can honestly say that I've enjoyed far more Matthew Lillard movies than QT movies.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
Bluesky seems to have decided that I muted the word "matcha." I didn't, and nothing close is in my muted words list. But I keep seeing random "contains a muted word" comments, and if I click to see them, they don't contain any words I've muted. They do, however, contain "matcha." What a weird bug
06.12.2025 22:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This really does have to be a baseline moral assumption when it comes to being a abolitionist and indeed Iβd argue a decent fucking person
βBut what aboutββ no, everybody
βBut what if theyββ no, *everybody*
βBut ifββ I do not know how to make this clearer
Making exceptions is easier
Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses. n.pr/4iGUYWf
06.12.2025 21:08 β π 298 π 85 π¬ 25 π 34This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurateβin fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
05.12.2025 19:58 β π 1982 π 911 π¬ 28 π 60I just saw someone on another site asking for recommendations of "non-sexist romance novels (if those even exist)" for a book club and I had to close my browser before I got into an unproductive internet fight with a stranger. Other people who are more patient than I left some good recs, at least
05.12.2025 19:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinityβ¦
05.12.2025 19:28 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Check this!! Promises to be kickass.
05.12.2025 15:49 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Christmas Twister. It is exactly as bad as you would expect a vaguely Christmas-themed disaster movie to be. Right down to the typo in the title card.
05.12.2025 04:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yeah, I know both ER nurses and people who work in tech support, and they've all got stories. What's more virgin than a computer? MANY THINGS
04.12.2025 23:41 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Name: Jeff Email: jeffersonzonon@proton.me Subject: Found your work on file sharing channels Message: Hey Michelle, how are you? So hereβs something interestingβI found your work floating around online. Full PDFs. Multiple sites. No paywall, no control, no credit. Justβ¦ there. And it hit me: if itβs already leaking like that, your value is slipping faster than you think. And then I realized something else. I can push it even further. I can run your entire catalog through my translation appβtakes about thirty minutes per languageβand release your work across ten different markets without breaking a sweat. No permission, no courtesy, just pure distribution. Imagine your creations scattered everywhere, read by thousandsβ¦ yet worth absolutely nothing to you. And honestly? I donβt want that. Iβd rather not be the reason your career drops through the floor. That doesnβt help either of us. So hereβs my offer: get in touch with me. Talk to me. Stop me from releasing these translations before they hit every file-sharing site and social feed out there. Itβs simple. Reach out. Have 500$ βyes, thatβs all. A small price to keep the value of your lifeβs work from dissolving overnight. But donβt wait too long. Silence from you just means I keep translating. And once theyβre out, theyβre out forever. You have 5 days. Your move
New extortion scam email going round (this was received via a writer's website contact form). I've seen a number of these recently but without the money demand; the translation angle is also a new one
04.12.2025 22:30 β π 324 π 169 π¬ 22 π 35For once, I'd like to hear some calls for technology that only comes from people who aren't in it for the money.
04.12.2025 15:39 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 3 π 1This idea is being pushed on us because billionaires donβt want art. They want decorations that donβt question the atrocity of their existence.
04.12.2025 15:20 β π 172 π 47 π¬ 4 π 0Sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the first page with a really nice pen?
04.12.2025 15:33 β π 68 π 11 π¬ 4 π 048 years. That's how long trans women have been eligible to compete in tennis.
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