Breakthrough At the Lit Lab
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We're an online writing community, made by and for LGBTQ+ writers and our ally friends! 🏳️🌈 We also commit to mutual aid 💖💪
Check out our zine and more about mutual aid at
https://www.breakthrough-at-the-lit-lab.com/
Check out our zine and more about mutual aid at
https://www.breakthrough-at-the-lit-lab.com/
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Hello Bluesky! We're Breakthrough at the Lit Lab, an online-based writing group. We're queer, and happy to be here. If you're trying to find a writing group online, link to our site in bio. From Drabbles to dropping sick beats, we have all kinds of writers with us #writinggroups #writingsky
#WritingPrompt A lot of stories are about someone who is half-human, Blade the sorta-half-vampire who fights vampires, to the more recent, Rumi from #KpopDemonHunters. Write a main character who is half-human, half-something else entirely. Explore the implications and challenges that comes with.
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#WritingPrompt A lot of stories are about someone who is half-human, Blade the sorta-half-vampire who fights vampires, to the more recent, Rumi from #KpopDemonHunters. Write a main character who is half-human, half-something else entirely. Explore the implications and challenges that comes with.
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Thinking a lot about this panel from QC right now
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Thinking a lot about this panel from QC right now
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Recent butch/femme fiction new releases through November 9, 2025.
🌈📚💜💙 | Sapphfic | Lesfic | Sapphic Book | Queer Romance | Butch/Femme Fiction
#romancelandia #booksky #sapphicbooks
#newreleases #butchfemme
🌈📚💜💙 | Sapphfic | Lesfic | Sapphic Book | Queer Romance | Butch/Femme Fiction
#romancelandia #booksky #sapphicbooks
#newreleases #butchfemme
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Recent butch/femme fiction new releases through November 9, 2025.
🌈📚💜💙 | Sapphfic | Lesfic | Sapphic Book | Queer Romance | Butch/Femme Fiction
#romancelandia #booksky #sapphicbooks
#newreleases #butchfemme
🌈📚💜💙 | Sapphfic | Lesfic | Sapphic Book | Queer Romance | Butch/Femme Fiction
#romancelandia #booksky #sapphicbooks
#newreleases #butchfemme
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Free queer books for a short window!! Don't let consorship win!
#author #lgbtqia #lgbtqfamily #writer #ebooks 🌈📚 💙📚 🌈💜
https://books.bookfunnel.com/queerfiction/sxll8c2oli
#author #lgbtqia #lgbtqfamily #writer #ebooks 🌈📚 💙📚 🌈💜
https://books.bookfunnel.com/queerfiction/sxll8c2oli
Free queer books
Searching for a new queer story?
Grab these books for free for a limited time!
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November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Free queer books for a short window!! Don't let consorship win!
#author #lgbtqia #lgbtqfamily #writer #ebooks 🌈📚 💙📚 🌈💜
https://books.bookfunnel.com/queerfiction/sxll8c2oli
#author #lgbtqia #lgbtqfamily #writer #ebooks 🌈📚 💙📚 🌈💜
https://books.bookfunnel.com/queerfiction/sxll8c2oli
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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On Tuesday, 11/18, at 7PM, it's SILENT READING PARTY. Come decompress with us. All ticket proceeds will benefit SF Marin Food Bank because food is a human right. Tickets/info: booksmith.com/event/SRP1125
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
On Tuesday, 11/18, at 7PM, it's SILENT READING PARTY. Come decompress with us. All ticket proceeds will benefit SF Marin Food Bank because food is a human right. Tickets/info: booksmith.com/event/SRP1125
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Former rebel guerillas find their lost beloved friend. From the ashes, they choose hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life.
Also there's banter and pastries.
#Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐
books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...
Also there's banter and pastries.
#Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐
books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Former rebel guerillas find their lost beloved friend. From the ashes, they choose hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life.
Also there's banter and pastries.
#Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐
books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...
Also there's banter and pastries.
#Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐
books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...
This week's #WritingPrompt is...uh...I forgor
Oh yeah, it's about amnesia! Write about a character who loses their memory, either parts of it, or all of it. Question to consider: How did they get amnesia? Who were they before? Who are they now? Do they even want their memories back?
Oh yeah, it's about amnesia! Write about a character who loses their memory, either parts of it, or all of it. Question to consider: How did they get amnesia? Who were they before? Who are they now? Do they even want their memories back?
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This week's #WritingPrompt is...uh...I forgor
Oh yeah, it's about amnesia! Write about a character who loses their memory, either parts of it, or all of it. Question to consider: How did they get amnesia? Who were they before? Who are they now? Do they even want their memories back?
Oh yeah, it's about amnesia! Write about a character who loses their memory, either parts of it, or all of it. Question to consider: How did they get amnesia? Who were they before? Who are they now? Do they even want their memories back?
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Every $1 donation provides 4 or 5 meals from food banks. Even a donation of $5 right now can feed up to two dozen people. No, we shouldn’t have to do this. But we can.
Remember that while food banks welcome donations of food, they prefer $$$$$$$. They have deals with grocery stores and suppliers. You can only buy one dollar's worth of food for one dollar, but they can buy several dollars' worth. So don't, like, buy food to donate it, just give 'em the dough.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Every $1 donation provides 4 or 5 meals from food banks. Even a donation of $5 right now can feed up to two dozen people. No, we shouldn’t have to do this. But we can.
Happy Halloween 🎃 to those who celebrate. Stay safe out there, and have fun.
November 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Happy Halloween 🎃 to those who celebrate. Stay safe out there, and have fun.
This spooky #WritingPrompt deals with dolls. A combination of cute and often creepy, dolls have been around for generations. Try writing a story that utilizes a doll. Either an old Victorian doll, or maybe even a modern plastic doll, plenty of options to choose from.
#Typey #QueerWriters
#Typey #QueerWriters
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This spooky #WritingPrompt deals with dolls. A combination of cute and often creepy, dolls have been around for generations. Try writing a story that utilizes a doll. Either an old Victorian doll, or maybe even a modern plastic doll, plenty of options to choose from.
#Typey #QueerWriters
#Typey #QueerWriters
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Someone in my Discord group is fostering a puppy who was paralyzed by a car earlier this year and needs help with the vet bills. If you have some spare dollars to #donate to a #goodcause #animals
www.spotfund.com/story/d1246c...
www.spotfund.com/story/d1246c...
Click here to show your support to Tait Rounsaville's story *PuppyVetBills
Hello, thank you for looking at our fundraiser. This is Chance. He's estimated at about 6-7 months old. At the end of August he was struck by a car, which fract
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October 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Someone in my Discord group is fostering a puppy who was paralyzed by a car earlier this year and needs help with the vet bills. If you have some spare dollars to #donate to a #goodcause #animals
www.spotfund.com/story/d1246c...
www.spotfund.com/story/d1246c...
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It takes the typical worker at most big companies 175 years to earn the annual salary of their CEO but only 174 years by working weekends and holidays.
October 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It takes the typical worker at most big companies 175 years to earn the annual salary of their CEO but only 174 years by working weekends and holidays.
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At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.
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Food is not a luxury, it’s necessary for survival.
Things will fall apart when folks can’t feed themselves or their families.
Many don’t even know they won’t be receiving their SNAP.
This is a systemic problem. We have to fix it together.
We need to warn people. Scale up food donations. Prepare.
Things will fall apart when folks can’t feed themselves or their families.
Many don’t even know they won’t be receiving their SNAP.
This is a systemic problem. We have to fix it together.
We need to warn people. Scale up food donations. Prepare.
October 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Food is not a luxury, it’s necessary for survival.
Things will fall apart when folks can’t feed themselves or their families.
Many don’t even know they won’t be receiving their SNAP.
This is a systemic problem. We have to fix it together.
We need to warn people. Scale up food donations. Prepare.
Things will fall apart when folks can’t feed themselves or their families.
Many don’t even know they won’t be receiving their SNAP.
This is a systemic problem. We have to fix it together.
We need to warn people. Scale up food donations. Prepare.
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"If you reduce anyone’s suffering, if you make anyone feel defended, or aware that they’re not alone, if you make space for hope, if you engage in acts of solidarity instead of stewing in the rancor and alienation that’s killing us—that matters, and it will always matter."
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"If you reduce anyone’s suffering, if you make anyone feel defended, or aware that they’re not alone, if you make space for hope, if you engage in acts of solidarity instead of stewing in the rancor and alienation that’s killing us—that matters, and it will always matter."
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New pen name, new cover! 💙📚
"Well of Souls" my queer Eurydice and Orpheus reimagining has a new cover to match my new pen name now that the anonymous publishing derby is over.
I will hopefully continue to create historical, Classics-inspired fiction that is oh so very gay under this pen name. 🥰
"Well of Souls" my queer Eurydice and Orpheus reimagining has a new cover to match my new pen name now that the anonymous publishing derby is over.
I will hopefully continue to create historical, Classics-inspired fiction that is oh so very gay under this pen name. 🥰
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New pen name, new cover! 💙📚
"Well of Souls" my queer Eurydice and Orpheus reimagining has a new cover to match my new pen name now that the anonymous publishing derby is over.
I will hopefully continue to create historical, Classics-inspired fiction that is oh so very gay under this pen name. 🥰
"Well of Souls" my queer Eurydice and Orpheus reimagining has a new cover to match my new pen name now that the anonymous publishing derby is over.
I will hopefully continue to create historical, Classics-inspired fiction that is oh so very gay under this pen name. 🥰
#WritingPrompt #Typey Another spooky prompt. This time, we're reanimating the dead. Does the reanimated person/animal retain their personality, or are they mindless trying to eat people? How do they become undead? And other things to consider.
October 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#WritingPrompt #Typey Another spooky prompt. This time, we're reanimating the dead. Does the reanimated person/animal retain their personality, or are they mindless trying to eat people? How do they become undead? And other things to consider.
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99% of the work on a book, for me, is the early chapters. Bringing absolute clarity to a world, establishing characters, motivations, setting up the big peices you'll knock down. The last half is just executing on all the setup.
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
99% of the work on a book, for me, is the early chapters. Bringing absolute clarity to a world, establishing characters, motivations, setting up the big peices you'll knock down. The last half is just executing on all the setup.
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Blank checks for hype.
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Blank checks for hype.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Black LGBTQIA+ Dark fantasy romance & sci-fi action series. Vivid gay romance. Loving lesbian romance. Adrenaline junky candy. The coven embarks on a new mission meeting new Enaphim from Planet Ena. World building, interplanetary, multilingual. A sophisticated story with eclectic MCs. Have a read🫶🏽
October 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Black LGBTQIA+ Dark fantasy romance & sci-fi action series. Vivid gay romance. Loving lesbian romance. Adrenaline junky candy. The coven embarks on a new mission meeting new Enaphim from Planet Ena. World building, interplanetary, multilingual. A sophisticated story with eclectic MCs. Have a read🫶🏽