Bendi Barrett
@bendibarrett.bsky.social
spec fic writer, sfwa member, assistant editor @ baffling mag, queer weirdo, etc.
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Bendi Barrett
@bendibarrett.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Empire of the Feast by Bendi Barrett — neon hemlock
Publication date: Fall 2922. An 8” x 5” novella. 98 pages. Has very NSFW interior cover illustrations. 🖤 Ebook version is here . In Empire of the Feast , we awaken with Riverson, 32nd ruler of...
www.neonhemlock.com
Hiya,
Some of you have followed me! It occurs to me that you might have very little idea who I am. Here's a novella I wrote: Empire of the Feast. It's a little weird, a little horny, queer (natch!) and it's got big space-opera vibes. What's not to love?
www.neonhemlock.com/books/empire...
Some of you have followed me! It occurs to me that you might have very little idea who I am. Here's a novella I wrote: Empire of the Feast. It's a little weird, a little horny, queer (natch!) and it's got big space-opera vibes. What's not to love?
www.neonhemlock.com/books/empire...
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This afternoon!
Tomorrow at 1pm EDT at twitch.tv/turbotango I'm going to share some in-progress Daggerheart-compatible classes I've been working on and talk about how I approach building new classes and subclasses for use with the Daggerheart rules.
August 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This afternoon!
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Book 92: really enjoyed this novella! Sex magic AND a ravenous manifestation of a thing living in a sun showing up and bothering somebody?! I'd read more of this world and story, but sometimes it's the purpose of a novella to leave you hungry.
July 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Book 92: really enjoyed this novella! Sex magic AND a ravenous manifestation of a thing living in a sun showing up and bothering somebody?! I'd read more of this world and story, but sometimes it's the purpose of a novella to leave you hungry.
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my FUCKING GOD
I was going to take my time with this roll-out, however, a bitch needs to go to urgent care !!
in place of itch, we have two new store fronts to support me directly:
digital works: payhip.com/ladz
signed copies (US only for now): ladz-merch.square.site/shop/books/I...
I was going to take my time with this roll-out, however, a bitch needs to go to urgent care !!
in place of itch, we have two new store fronts to support me directly:
digital works: payhip.com/ladz
signed copies (US only for now): ladz-merch.square.site/shop/books/I...
July 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
my FUCKING GOD
I was going to take my time with this roll-out, however, a bitch needs to go to urgent care !!
in place of itch, we have two new store fronts to support me directly:
digital works: payhip.com/ladz
signed copies (US only for now): ladz-merch.square.site/shop/books/I...
I was going to take my time with this roll-out, however, a bitch needs to go to urgent care !!
in place of itch, we have two new store fronts to support me directly:
digital works: payhip.com/ladz
signed copies (US only for now): ladz-merch.square.site/shop/books/I...
My loves, if the market you're submitting to caps word count, please don't submit something that's twice as long.
We'll both end up heartbroken. 🥺
We'll both end up heartbroken. 🥺
July 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My loves, if the market you're submitting to caps word count, please don't submit something that's twice as long.
We'll both end up heartbroken. 🥺
We'll both end up heartbroken. 🥺
HAPPY PRIDE, Y'ALL 🌈 🥹😤
We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book!
We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! 💜
We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! 💜
June 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
HAPPY PRIDE, Y'ALL 🌈 🥹😤
Shoutout to the guy on the street corner raving "you're an abomination" at the intersection of the queer health clinic... in boot cut jeans with a 2006 blink-182 haircut.
Glass houses, bro.
Glass houses, bro.
June 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Shoutout to the guy on the street corner raving "you're an abomination" at the intersection of the queer health clinic... in boot cut jeans with a 2006 blink-182 haircut.
Glass houses, bro.
Glass houses, bro.
Any day that someone mentions me in the same breath as the effortlessly formidable @haileypiperfights.bsky.social it's a good day.
3/7: By contributors @bendibarrett.bsky.social & @haileypiperfights.bsky.social respectively, Empire of the Feast (@neonhemlock.bsky.social) www.neonhemlock.com/books/empire... & Teenage Girls Can Be Demons (@titanbooks.bsky.social)
titanbooks.com/72298-teenag... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
titanbooks.com/72298-teenag... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
June 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Any day that someone mentions me in the same breath as the effortlessly formidable @haileypiperfights.bsky.social it's a good day.
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1/7 daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: The Crawling Moon edited by @davering.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social)
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
June 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1/7 daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: The Crawling Moon edited by @davering.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social)
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
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A vital and necessary anthology! AMPLITUDES is timely, at moments painfully so, rooted in persistent determination, and powerful in its hard-won perseverance. We have always been here and we will always be here, come flood and famine, beyond the atmosphere and in the heart of memory. A must read.
June 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A vital and necessary anthology! AMPLITUDES is timely, at moments painfully so, rooted in persistent determination, and powerful in its hard-won perseverance. We have always been here and we will always be here, come flood and famine, beyond the atmosphere and in the heart of memory. A must read.
Help us punch (also smooch, maybe????) some giant monsters!
Baffling Magazine is open for submissions of queer speculative science fiction and fantasy until June 15th for an upcoming issue on the theme Mecha vs. Kaiju. (Unthemed submissions are also welcome!)
For more info: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
For more info: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
June 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Help us punch (also smooch, maybe????) some giant monsters!
Stoked about all the metallic fisticuffs and nuclear breath weapons we're about to read.
spoke with @bendibarrett.bsky.social about what we’re looking for in the upcoming submission period for the mecha vs. kaiju issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social !
mark your calendars! june 1-15th, i’ll be looking out for all your giant robots and monsters!
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mark your calendars! june 1-15th, i’ll be looking out for all your giant robots and monsters!
www.patreon.com/posts/129380...
About the Theme: MECHA VS. KAIJU | Neon Hemlock Press
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May 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Stoked about all the metallic fisticuffs and nuclear breath weapons we're about to read.
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We'll be open soon for submissions of queer speculative SFF. Stand by for some thoughts on the Mecha vs. Kaiju call by Associate Editor D. A. Vorobyov, who'll be editing this particular theme issue.
More info: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
More info: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
May 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We'll be open soon for submissions of queer speculative SFF. Stand by for some thoughts on the Mecha vs. Kaiju call by Associate Editor D. A. Vorobyov, who'll be editing this particular theme issue.
More info: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
More info: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
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Tagging contributors to spread the word! 💜
@sentencebender.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social @bendibarrett.bsky.social @domsdickey.bsky.social @margaret.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social @megelison.bsky.social @katharineduckett.bsky.social @itsneonyang.bsky.social!
@sentencebender.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social @bendibarrett.bsky.social @domsdickey.bsky.social @margaret.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social @megelison.bsky.social @katharineduckett.bsky.social @itsneonyang.bsky.social!
Anthos aren't always an easy sell but @leemandelo.bsky.social has worked MAGIC into each page of AMPLITUDES & I'm so proud. Out 5/27.
Kirkus - "A radically queer anthology of trans joy and suffering." ⭐
LJ - "A must have." ⭐
Booklist - "Overflowing with raw emotions."
22 stories for only $18.95!
Kirkus - "A radically queer anthology of trans joy and suffering." ⭐
LJ - "A must have." ⭐
Booklist - "Overflowing with raw emotions."
22 stories for only $18.95!
May 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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ICYMI! I wrote a @criticalrole.bsky.social book with some pretty amazing people, and I can't wait for you all to enjoy it!!!
THRILLED to announce Critical Role: Armory of Heroes!
Written by me & illustrated by @anafi.bsky.social, thx so much to @incandescaent.bsky.social, @itsdanicarr.bsky.social, & @criticalrole.bsky.social for trusting me with these heroes & Exandria's history 💜🎲
www.polygon.com/critical-rol...
Written by me & illustrated by @anafi.bsky.social, thx so much to @incandescaent.bsky.social, @itsdanicarr.bsky.social, & @criticalrole.bsky.social for trusting me with these heroes & Exandria's history 💜🎲
www.polygon.com/critical-rol...
Take an exclusive sneak peek at Critical Role’s new Armory of Heroes artbook
For all your Vox Machina and Mighty Nein-derived D&D campaign needs
www.polygon.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
ICYMI! I wrote a @criticalrole.bsky.social book with some pretty amazing people, and I can't wait for you all to enjoy it!!!
My story for this is so weird. 🫣
We have @bendibarrett.bsky.social and Tara Betts and @priyachand.bsky.social and Sandra Jackson-Opoku (the writer of my favorite novel by a living author) and @laurenemilywrites.bsky.social and I am so freaking excited about this book.
March 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My story for this is so weird. 🫣
The best training I ever got was doing writing sprints with my mentor in high school. He'd assign me a prompt and time me; I'd just write. It became second nature to be limber enough to live in a new idea on the fly.
And it broke me out of the habit of being precious about ideas.
And it broke me out of the habit of being precious about ideas.
Where did you really learn to write? Did you go through a BFA program? The school of fanfiction? Tell me where you really started to hone your craft! #WritingPrompt
March 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The best training I ever got was doing writing sprints with my mentor in high school. He'd assign me a prompt and time me; I'd just write. It became second nature to be limber enough to live in a new idea on the fly.
And it broke me out of the habit of being precious about ideas.
And it broke me out of the habit of being precious about ideas.
Dom/sub is OVER. Start writing sub/sub. Or are you a spineless coward??
March 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Dom/sub is OVER. Start writing sub/sub. Or are you a spineless coward??
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Stories are allowed to resolve with failure.
Characters are allowed to do wrong.
Bad consequences are better than convenient ones.
Characters are allowed to do wrong.
Bad consequences are better than convenient ones.
if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)
February 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Stories are allowed to resolve with failure.
Characters are allowed to do wrong.
Bad consequences are better than convenient ones.
Characters are allowed to do wrong.
Bad consequences are better than convenient ones.
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Lovely to see EMPIRE OF THE FEAST by @bendibarrett.bsky.social on this rad list (alongside a few other favs ✨)
(cheers to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for the rec)
reactormag.com/backlist-bon...
(cheers to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for the rec)
reactormag.com/backlist-bon...
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Black Speculative Books - Reactor
Here are a few titles that deserve to be on your TBR
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February 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Lovely to see EMPIRE OF THE FEAST by @bendibarrett.bsky.social on this rad list (alongside a few other favs ✨)
(cheers to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for the rec)
reactormag.com/backlist-bon...
(cheers to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for the rec)
reactormag.com/backlist-bon...
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Need to make some fucked up art so I can at least filter out the people who think they can divine morality through somebody's creative output
January 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Need to make some fucked up art so I can at least filter out the people who think they can divine morality through somebody's creative output
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I hope this cover art by yours truly may be the last piece of art you see this year 🍆🐙
Kick off the new year with @bafflingmag.bsky.social's Sex Issue!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighteen
Stories from j ambrose, Louis Evans, K-Ming Chang, Bastian Hart, J. Kosakowski, Anya Markov & Jason M. Harley 🪶
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighteen
Stories from j ambrose, Louis Evans, K-Ming Chang, Bastian Hart, J. Kosakowski, Anya Markov & Jason M. Harley 🪶
January 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I hope this cover art by yours truly may be the last piece of art you see this year 🍆🐙
Some real all-stars in this one, folks! Auspiciously, it was the first issue I read for. Destiny!
Kick off the new year with @bafflingmag.bsky.social's Sex Issue!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighteen
Stories from j ambrose, Louis Evans, K-Ming Chang, Bastian Hart, J. Kosakowski, Anya Markov & Jason M. Harley 🪶
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighteen
Stories from j ambrose, Louis Evans, K-Ming Chang, Bastian Hart, J. Kosakowski, Anya Markov & Jason M. Harley 🪶
January 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Some real all-stars in this one, folks! Auspiciously, it was the first issue I read for. Destiny!
Make jiggle physics for fat stomachs too, you fucking cowards.
December 24, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Make jiggle physics for fat stomachs too, you fucking cowards.
Sentences you never imagine yourself saying until you say them:
"Oh my God, these fucking baseboards. What the fuck is happening here, dude?"
"Oh my God, these fucking baseboards. What the fuck is happening here, dude?"
December 21, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Sentences you never imagine yourself saying until you say them:
"Oh my God, these fucking baseboards. What the fuck is happening here, dude?"
"Oh my God, these fucking baseboards. What the fuck is happening here, dude?"
Random quotes from my partner:
"... I wish Daft Punk had a Christmas album."
"... I wish Daft Punk had a Christmas album."
December 19, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Random quotes from my partner:
"... I wish Daft Punk had a Christmas album."
"... I wish Daft Punk had a Christmas album."