Emery 🏳️⚧️
@mishiiarts.bsky.social
Award-winning author. Artist. Drinker of boba. Fighter of otters. 🔞 Do not tag me in KidLit stuff. This is an 18+ account.
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Emery 🏳️⚧️
@mishiiarts.bsky.social
· Aug 14
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Forget Me Knot by Emery Lee
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Casual reminder that you can get ebook copies of my books pretty much everywhere
Don't Drag This Out: books2read.com/u/bwEBWP
Forget Me Knot: books2read.com/u/3L2r00
Don't Drag This Out: books2read.com/u/bwEBWP
Forget Me Knot: books2read.com/u/3L2r00
That whole thread was longer than I meant it to be, but I've been thinking on this a lot. It's hard to say "I don't want this anymore" when you've spent 8 years with your world orbiting around it and 90% of your friends think it's the absolute dream everyone should chase.
But like...I don't want it
But like...I don't want it
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
That whole thread was longer than I meant it to be, but I've been thinking on this a lot. It's hard to say "I don't want this anymore" when you've spent 8 years with your world orbiting around it and 90% of your friends think it's the absolute dream everyone should chase.
But like...I don't want it
But like...I don't want it
The hardest skill you have to master if you want to be a successful trad author is being able to look around at everyone around you getting mistreated and not show your discomfort because the people mistreating them are the same people you need to kiss ass to if you want to sell another book.
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The hardest skill you have to master if you want to be a successful trad author is being able to look around at everyone around you getting mistreated and not show your discomfort because the people mistreating them are the same people you need to kiss ass to if you want to sell another book.
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Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
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For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 🩷
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
Vote for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards!
Voting is open now for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! Vote by Dec. 26th.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 🩷
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
Idk, man. It's cool that whales can talk and all, but I don't think I want to talk to whales. I don't love the idea of people trying to talk to whales.
I just don't think we need to open the door to people evangelizing whales. Whales don't need to be hit with beauty standards and marketing jingles.
I just don't think we need to open the door to people evangelizing whales. Whales don't need to be hit with beauty standards and marketing jingles.
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Idk, man. It's cool that whales can talk and all, but I don't think I want to talk to whales. I don't love the idea of people trying to talk to whales.
I just don't think we need to open the door to people evangelizing whales. Whales don't need to be hit with beauty standards and marketing jingles.
I just don't think we need to open the door to people evangelizing whales. Whales don't need to be hit with beauty standards and marketing jingles.
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I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories.
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories.
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
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Finally getting a blog going on the site, and I'm starting it off with a FYC for any potential award nominations (or just folks who wanna look back!) of all the stuff I released this year 🥰 blog.magicariot.com/for-your-con...
For Your Consideration: What I've Published in 2025
2025 has been my first full year as an author, after launching on November 1st, 2024. I have to say, this year has been a wild ride, to say the least!
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blog.magicariot.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Finally getting a blog going on the site, and I'm starting it off with a FYC for any potential award nominations (or just folks who wanna look back!) of all the stuff I released this year 🥰 blog.magicariot.com/for-your-con...
For an author:
"Oh, do I know any of your stuff?"
"Oh, do I know any of your stuff?"
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
For an author:
"Oh, do I know any of your stuff?"
"Oh, do I know any of your stuff?"
One of my biggest regrets of being offline for so long is that I read Hello Sunshine in that time and could not scream about it.
Not only is it probably the best book I read this hear, one of the best YA I've read ever, but it also healed something in me I thought publishing had irreparably broken.
Not only is it probably the best book I read this hear, one of the best YA I've read ever, but it also healed something in me I thought publishing had irreparably broken.
Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics
Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...
Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
One of my biggest regrets of being offline for so long is that I read Hello Sunshine in that time and could not scream about it.
Not only is it probably the best book I read this hear, one of the best YA I've read ever, but it also healed something in me I thought publishing had irreparably broken.
Not only is it probably the best book I read this hear, one of the best YA I've read ever, but it also healed something in me I thought publishing had irreparably broken.
For me it's:
- Anticapitalism
- Individualism will kill us all
- People are not Good or Evil, we are shades of Morally Grey
- Moms/women in general are not inherently sweet & loving
- Labels are not limits, they're fallable attempts at communication
- Being horny is good, actually
- Anticapitalism
- Individualism will kill us all
- People are not Good or Evil, we are shades of Morally Grey
- Moms/women in general are not inherently sweet & loving
- Labels are not limits, they're fallable attempts at communication
- Being horny is good, actually
no, you don't understand. That's my emotional support theme I almost always have some version of in my writing.
December 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
For me it's:
- Anticapitalism
- Individualism will kill us all
- People are not Good or Evil, we are shades of Morally Grey
- Moms/women in general are not inherently sweet & loving
- Labels are not limits, they're fallable attempts at communication
- Being horny is good, actually
- Anticapitalism
- Individualism will kill us all
- People are not Good or Evil, we are shades of Morally Grey
- Moms/women in general are not inherently sweet & loving
- Labels are not limits, they're fallable attempts at communication
- Being horny is good, actually
Hey, you goofy goobers! Bet you thought you'd seen the last of me, but after 3 months, I have returned!
I cannot deny that spending 90% of my time offline was actually amazing in almost every way, so I won't be as Here(TM) as before, but my account exists again haha
I cannot deny that spending 90% of my time offline was actually amazing in almost every way, so I won't be as Here(TM) as before, but my account exists again haha
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Hey, you goofy goobers! Bet you thought you'd seen the last of me, but after 3 months, I have returned!
I cannot deny that spending 90% of my time offline was actually amazing in almost every way, so I won't be as Here(TM) as before, but my account exists again haha
I cannot deny that spending 90% of my time offline was actually amazing in almost every way, so I won't be as Here(TM) as before, but my account exists again haha
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Hello, friends.
I am deactivating this account until I figure out how to make peace with feeling like not-a-person in internet spaces.
If you'd like to keep in touch, pls follow me on Patreon or shoot me an email. If you want to keep up with my writing, pls subscribe to my newsletter.
I am deactivating this account until I figure out how to make peace with feeling like not-a-person in internet spaces.
If you'd like to keep in touch, pls follow me on Patreon or shoot me an email. If you want to keep up with my writing, pls subscribe to my newsletter.
August 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Hello, friends.
I am deactivating this account until I figure out how to make peace with feeling like not-a-person in internet spaces.
If you'd like to keep in touch, pls follow me on Patreon or shoot me an email. If you want to keep up with my writing, pls subscribe to my newsletter.
I am deactivating this account until I figure out how to make peace with feeling like not-a-person in internet spaces.
If you'd like to keep in touch, pls follow me on Patreon or shoot me an email. If you want to keep up with my writing, pls subscribe to my newsletter.
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“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
August 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
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When I see people on here unknowingly join moral panics around child safety and technology, I think about how the future of this very platform hangs in the balance of this legislation that is designed to force us back onto big tech platforms. It’s not about the kids. It’s about all of us
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
When I see people on here unknowingly join moral panics around child safety and technology, I think about how the future of this very platform hangs in the balance of this legislation that is designed to force us back onto big tech platforms. It’s not about the kids. It’s about all of us
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You gotta keep talking about the issue! Paypros havent reversed their policies on Itch or Steam yet! Keep talking about it, keep contacting influencers, news outlets and legislators about the issue! Keep it in the public consciousness!
Reading through hundreds of games journalism headlines from major outlets and revealing the gaming press has effectively stopped covering the paypro issue made me visibly mad on stream
August 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
You gotta keep talking about the issue! Paypros havent reversed their policies on Itch or Steam yet! Keep talking about it, keep contacting influencers, news outlets and legislators about the issue! Keep it in the public consciousness!
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People in our space need to start listening to Asian people when they tell you why media and games like Obojima are orientalist. And I don’t just mean white people.
Because a lot of my fellow POC are just as guilty about gleefully supporting culturally appropriative media as white people.
Because a lot of my fellow POC are just as guilty about gleefully supporting culturally appropriative media as white people.
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
People in our space need to start listening to Asian people when they tell you why media and games like Obojima are orientalist. And I don’t just mean white people.
Because a lot of my fellow POC are just as guilty about gleefully supporting culturally appropriative media as white people.
Because a lot of my fellow POC are just as guilty about gleefully supporting culturally appropriative media as white people.
Hello, friends.
I am deactivating this account until I figure out how to make peace with feeling like not-a-person in internet spaces.
If you'd like to keep in touch, pls follow me on Patreon or shoot me an email. If you want to keep up with my writing, pls subscribe to my newsletter.
I am deactivating this account until I figure out how to make peace with feeling like not-a-person in internet spaces.
If you'd like to keep in touch, pls follow me on Patreon or shoot me an email. If you want to keep up with my writing, pls subscribe to my newsletter.
August 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Hello, friends.
I am deactivating this account until I figure out how to make peace with feeling like not-a-person in internet spaces.
If you'd like to keep in touch, pls follow me on Patreon or shoot me an email. If you want to keep up with my writing, pls subscribe to my newsletter.
I am deactivating this account until I figure out how to make peace with feeling like not-a-person in internet spaces.
If you'd like to keep in touch, pls follow me on Patreon or shoot me an email. If you want to keep up with my writing, pls subscribe to my newsletter.
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Don't Drag This Out, my bisexual awakening romcom about a guy who realizes he's not straight when he falls in love with Sexy Totoro at a drag show, is now *also* up on my Ko-fi for free/pay what you want.
Don't Drag This Out (eBook) - Emery Lee's Ko-fi Shop
Thomas Mori is running away.
A new job, a new drag persona, and a new community means he can hopefully leave the scars of his past behind him and wor...
ko-fi.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Don't Drag This Out, my bisexual awakening romcom about a guy who realizes he's not straight when he falls in love with Sexy Totoro at a drag show, is now *also* up on my Ko-fi for free/pay what you want.
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Forget Me Knot is now up on my Ko-Fi page for free/pay what you want. I may wise up and change that in the future, but right now, I'm too tired to care.
If you'd like to read my queer Japanese romantasy that's part fairytale, part exploration of queerness as existed in pre-modern Japan, here ya go
If you'd like to read my queer Japanese romantasy that's part fairytale, part exploration of queerness as existed in pre-modern Japan, here ya go
Forget Me Knot (eBook) - Emery Lee's Ko-fi Shop
To make amends for his soulmate’s downfall, Toa is cursed to an immortal life spent unknotting strangers’ Red String of Fate, helping them connect wit...
ko-fi.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Forget Me Knot is now up on my Ko-Fi page for free/pay what you want. I may wise up and change that in the future, but right now, I'm too tired to care.
If you'd like to read my queer Japanese romantasy that's part fairytale, part exploration of queerness as existed in pre-modern Japan, here ya go
If you'd like to read my queer Japanese romantasy that's part fairytale, part exploration of queerness as existed in pre-modern Japan, here ya go
If you grab a free copy of either book, can you *please* leave a review on Amazon or B&N or some other retailer site? I currently have 0 for both books.
Goodreads & Itch reviews are nice but they don't aid in discovery. You *need* reviews on Amazon for your book to be discoverable.
Goodreads & Itch reviews are nice but they don't aid in discovery. You *need* reviews on Amazon for your book to be discoverable.
Don't Drag This Out, my bisexual awakening romcom about a guy who realizes he's not straight when he falls in love with Sexy Totoro at a drag show, is now *also* up on my Ko-fi for free/pay what you want.
Don't Drag This Out (eBook) - Emery Lee's Ko-fi Shop
Thomas Mori is running away.
A new job, a new drag persona, and a new community means he can hopefully leave the scars of his past behind him and wor...
ko-fi.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If you grab a free copy of either book, can you *please* leave a review on Amazon or B&N or some other retailer site? I currently have 0 for both books.
Goodreads & Itch reviews are nice but they don't aid in discovery. You *need* reviews on Amazon for your book to be discoverable.
Goodreads & Itch reviews are nice but they don't aid in discovery. You *need* reviews on Amazon for your book to be discoverable.
Don't Drag This Out, my bisexual awakening romcom about a guy who realizes he's not straight when he falls in love with Sexy Totoro at a drag show, is now *also* up on my Ko-fi for free/pay what you want.
Don't Drag This Out (eBook) - Emery Lee's Ko-fi Shop
Thomas Mori is running away.
A new job, a new drag persona, and a new community means he can hopefully leave the scars of his past behind him and wor...
ko-fi.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Don't Drag This Out, my bisexual awakening romcom about a guy who realizes he's not straight when he falls in love with Sexy Totoro at a drag show, is now *also* up on my Ko-fi for free/pay what you want.
Forget Me Knot is now up on my Ko-Fi page for free/pay what you want. I may wise up and change that in the future, but right now, I'm too tired to care.
If you'd like to read my queer Japanese romantasy that's part fairytale, part exploration of queerness as existed in pre-modern Japan, here ya go
If you'd like to read my queer Japanese romantasy that's part fairytale, part exploration of queerness as existed in pre-modern Japan, here ya go
Forget Me Knot (eBook) - Emery Lee's Ko-fi Shop
To make amends for his soulmate’s downfall, Toa is cursed to an immortal life spent unknotting strangers’ Red String of Fate, helping them connect wit...
ko-fi.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Forget Me Knot is now up on my Ko-Fi page for free/pay what you want. I may wise up and change that in the future, but right now, I'm too tired to care.
If you'd like to read my queer Japanese romantasy that's part fairytale, part exploration of queerness as existed in pre-modern Japan, here ya go
If you'd like to read my queer Japanese romantasy that's part fairytale, part exploration of queerness as existed in pre-modern Japan, here ya go
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No don’t get me wrong I think I am a much better person than you are for not running to ChatGPT for everything but that said I still think you deserve basic human rights. That’s nonnegotiable it’s not a respect thing. Because I don’t respect you
August 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
No don’t get me wrong I think I am a much better person than you are for not running to ChatGPT for everything but that said I still think you deserve basic human rights. That’s nonnegotiable it’s not a respect thing. Because I don’t respect you
This whole push from Webtoons to animate their originals makes me so painfully uncomfortable, partially because they're obviously using AI to do it but also because it defeats the whole point.
Comics are their own medium, not a gateway to easier animation.
Comics are their own medium, not a gateway to easier animation.
August 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This whole push from Webtoons to animate their originals makes me so painfully uncomfortable, partially because they're obviously using AI to do it but also because it defeats the whole point.
Comics are their own medium, not a gateway to easier animation.
Comics are their own medium, not a gateway to easier animation.
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Every artist deserves to be able to paywall all their art in a setup that would earn them a living wage, from an ideally financially-healthy supporter-base.
But we love art and communication and sharing so much we do it for free. Which has caused society (especially tech) to devalue art as labor.
But we love art and communication and sharing so much we do it for free. Which has caused society (especially tech) to devalue art as labor.
August 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Every artist deserves to be able to paywall all their art in a setup that would earn them a living wage, from an ideally financially-healthy supporter-base.
But we love art and communication and sharing so much we do it for free. Which has caused society (especially tech) to devalue art as labor.
But we love art and communication and sharing so much we do it for free. Which has caused society (especially tech) to devalue art as labor.