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I painted a cat in a drawer. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#SaveSpeech

starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!

stop-paypros.neocities.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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My sapphic space fantasy is still on sale for ✨🌸$1 on my kofi🌸✨

Come get your cosmic lesbians holding hands while the horrors persist 🫶🏻

ko-fi.com/s/748ece637a
October 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Okay well ONE of them is in focus idk (I must get this year's so that I can pay the ferryman) (don't want to not pay the ferryman) (and leave a substantial tip)
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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There's a lot of stupid shit happening in the world but we still decided to start a small press. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
Homeward Books: The home for books without a home
Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.
www.kickstarter.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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be nice to sex workers
October 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.
October 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar
September 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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If you're tired and need a hug today, I'd like to offer this story of mine. It's about a haunted house so lonely that it promises it'll behave if anyone will just live in it.
DP FICTION #64A: “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell – Diabolical Plots
www.diabolicalplots.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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This baby flamingo is so adorable… 🥰
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July 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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‼️STOP! Do the thing and help me spread the word about my trad publishing debut Dot Slash Magic. Spicy urban fantasy about a coder who invents magic AI. Coming August #booksky #bookish #fyp #urbanfantasy #romantasyreaders #fantasyreadersoftiktok #dotslashmagic
July 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Hey hey hey! Disability Pride Month, which means disability pride bundles over on itch.io - and, this time, you can get your hands on both Blood on the Snow and Silver in the Ashes as part of this bundle of works featuring disabled characters and/or by disabled authors!

itch.io/b/3169/disab...
Disability Pride Month Bundle by Andromeda Ruins and 9 others
Disability Pride Month Bundle: 14 items for $15.00
itch.io
July 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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We’ve Just opened our first open submissions window for working-class writers.

We’re looking for stories that capture something about being working class in Britain in 2025. Can be fiction or non-fiction, & 500-3000 words long.

Please pitch us.

Details here:
thebeemagazine.com/open-call-fo...
Open Call for Submissions
Send us your ideas for stories you’d like to write for the Bee.
thebeemagazine.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Classic Small Press Day! Saturday, July 19th, 2025. (Well, you know it will be)

Spread the word on the day with the simple hashtag #SmallPressDay chums. And let's see if we can get this trending. :-)
July 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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July 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Smut isn't introducing anything I'm not periodically giggling about through the day because I thought a billboard said something it didn't.
June 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This D-Script isn't just written for authors, but also to help people in their day to day lives. It's an in depth plunge into all things consent, including how to keep it spicy.
Portraying Consent When Writing Novels.

Consent isn't boring, but finding the words and descriptions without breaking the scene can be harder than your MMC!

Learn to write with consent but also learn the huge red flags to avoid.

descriptionary.wordpress.com/2023/11/22/p...
Portraying Consent When Writing Novels
TRIGGER WARNINGThis D-Script discusses subjects that may be triggering to some people (abuse, grooming, sexual assault) Nowadays, people generally understand what consent is. In this D-Script we&#8…
descriptionary.wordpress.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Tessa Thompson at the #MetGala

She always understands the assignment
May 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The only person I look for every year has dropped
LETS FUCKIN GOOO
Janelle Monáe
May 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Jodie Turner-Smith at the Met Gala. 📷
May 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Some huge news for Aotearoa's trans/non-binary community: a new grant has been announced to cover costs of name changes! If you need this, check it out, and if you don't, spread the word!

rainbownzcharitabletrust.org.nz/cpg/

#nz #rainbow
Confirmation of Payee Grant – Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust
rainbownzcharitabletrust.org.nz
May 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM