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she/they lesbian Canadian author really no idea what I'm doing "Unlit Sun" out 2025. Profile pic by @3nthien.bsky.social
I really like the new frankenstein movie but I also think its a massive missed opportunity to make the monster a woman it would have fit the themes gdt was going for very well.
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The pain of the suprise 4 hour layover.
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Also happt littgle goody two shoes anni i'm really eyeing that art book.
November 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Happy Halloween! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Happy halloween everyone. I'm deep editing my vampire novella so sadly nothing to share but by next halloween i should have a lot more to share.
November 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
an approach I'm gonna take with every story I'm writing and will write in the future is just ask myself "can I include a trans woman in this"
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hell maiden is feeding me yuri I didn't even know I wanted.
October 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'm already loving hell maiden. Divine comedy yuri is such a good concept.
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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The Poets of Limbo are very chatty! 💬✨

You'll have new dialogues available after every run — the more Poets you rescue, the more chatty they'll get!

#HellMaiden's demo is coming out October 13th! 🗓️❤️🔥

#screenshotsaturday | #indiegame | #gamedev | #indiedev | #SteamNextFest
October 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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お知らせ ❶

˗ˏˋ✧ 書影公開 ✧ˎˊ˗
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『 踊り場にスカートが鳴る 』6巻
┈┈ 🌸 𝟙𝟘.𝟙𝟠 𝕠𝕟 𝕤𝕒𝕝𝕖 🌸┈┈
少女達の社交ダンス・ラブストーリー 完結です!

www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4758029792
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
happy #internationalLesbianday I'm Gertrude a lesbian writer that writes about lesbians. I'm working on a bunch of things atm but a couple months ago my friends and I released our first vn aletheia. Of course it also has lesbians as well.

#lesbian #indiegame
baron-buddies.itch.io/aletheia
Aletheia by Baron Buddies
You wake from stasis 100 years too early; two women present very different stories
baron-buddies.itch.io
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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It's so puzzling to me how bigots got so much into Signalis to the point of trying to take over a great part of the fandom and try to erase its queerness.

Sure Signalis' story is so vague, I hardly call it a story, but you'd need to be blind to not realize the game made by two queer women is gay
October 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I really wanna how what is probably a whole team of people thought garlic mayo ink was a good marketing idea.
no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask
October 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I think the problem with "sapphic books" is that it doesn't separate genre identity from personal identity and it gets a lot of people mixed up because of it so when people say a book isn't a "sapphic book" it gets people upset cause they view it as a personal attack. 1/x

#sapphic #sapphicbook #wlw
October 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I just wanted to post a sorta mini reflection for Aletheia since its been a couple months since it's been released www.patreon.com/posts/140049... My patreon is fully free atm its just posted there cause its to long for here.

baron-buddies.itch.io/aletheia
#yuri #yurivn #lesbian #wlw #toxicyuri
September 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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With the #toxicyurivnjam now wrapped up and the winners declared, I am proud to say that we did not win. 😌 However; if you're looking for a game about women doomed on a spaceship and the choices they make; with reviews like: "super amazing" and: "it stressed me tf out" Aletheia is the game for you!
September 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
another 10 years of edelgard discourse.
September 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
my goal for sapphic September is to finish to the tomes and teas series.
September 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Not really sure since I thought I was gonna focus more on fluffier more light hearted stories and I have those in my production line which would count as leaning heavily towards queer joy but also ummmmm Aletheia is very much not that. So for my it just depends on what I'm going for in something.
On the subject of queer joy & queer suffering in fiction, I think of it as a spectrum, and each writer and each reader has a comfort zone on that spectrum, for whatever reason.

My sweet spot as an author is about 70% joy and 30% suffering, give or take 20% for either.

What’s yours?
September 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sighing deeply as I add jester yuri to my ever growing pile of yuri concepts that I want to write after I mentioned it in a drunk discord call, and now its stuck in my head. #lesbian #lesbianauthors #wlwauthors #wlwbooks #wlw #yuri
September 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I really wish the way people used it didn't turn me off from using sapphic as a way to market stories. It's such a shame since it could have been a way to have a clear way to advertise generally wlw stories but its become clear people can't not use it to bait in people searching for those stories.
August 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM
So it's been over a month since Aletheia's release and we'll probs make a bigger post on our group page but it still feels surreal to me that we actually completed it even if it wasn't the most ambitious project it was really a first for a lot of us.

#yurivn #indiegamedev
August 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I hate how completely not shocking this is given how people tend to view wlw art. my groups game for the game jam wasn't affected but it still pisses me off to know others were especially since theirs so little celebration of wlw stories and art in the first place.
August 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM