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David T./D.T. Brandt - Settler on Stolen Land
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(he/him) PanEnby writer of a variety of tales of queer fantasy romance. 40. I also play a LOT of board games. Banner art by @sheilkuroi. pfp pepperjackets (IG) picrew dtbrandt.com RIP X: Nov 16, 2024
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David T./D.T. Brandt - Settler on Stolen Land @queerpointyears.bsky.social · 13d
If you've been enjoying my #Smutcember posts, why not see what my opinions look like in practice?

My four books at queerpointyears.itch.io are all free~ I just want you to feel seen and have a fun time.
D.T. Brandt
queerpointyears.itch.io
queerpointyears.bsky.social
LRP: I need to find my WIP overlap, because now I have 4 really spicy fantasy romance shorts with... no humans? O.o yes. No humans. If I say I'm working on my "fully nonhuman fantasy romance" it could be any one of 4. lol
December 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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mishiiarts.bsky.social
Fun fact: if I say I'm working on "my kink-centric horror fantasy WIP featuring a sexy priest and monsterfucking" that actually doesn't tell you what I'm working on because I have two of those 😂
December 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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hypercubexl.bsky.social
I'm sure the main goal is kneecapping mail-in voting, but all the other effects as mentioned are going to screw us over too, yay!
abbij1961.bsky.social Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 6h
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
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December 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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telekitnetic.bsky.social
#formline #telekitneticart #indigenousart #paleoart

custom formline commission of a yi qi for @dinosourcepod.bsky.social! thank you so much for commissioning me! 🪶🦖
A black and red formline design on a white background of a yi qi. The design is a side profile showing the yi qi in flight.
December 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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telekitnetic.bsky.social
#formline #telekitneticart #indigenousart

custom formline commission for @talisoundwave.bsky.social! 🏮🐬 thank you for commissioning me!!
A formline design of tali soundwave's character, a creature with a dragon-like head, teardrop-shaped horns, and an eel-like body. The design is coloured in dark blue, yellow, and orange.
December 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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walkerharris.net
I agree with a lot that's already been said, but I wonder if maybe there's something interesting to say about it from my philosophy background.🤷

Two points I want to discuss - Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language & the ethics (& agenda) of category labels like this

1/13

#Smutcember
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 18h
Something of a reflective topic for today's #Smutcember prompt:

What are the differences between porn, smut, and erotica to you? What's something you wish was better understood about these distinctions, or these styles/genres in general?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Smutcember, a Bluesky writing prompt game hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social & @hookandquillpress.com Blurry black & white background that looks like a couple heavily making out. Prompt: 29) What are the differences between porn, smut, and erotica to you?
December 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
It's the first scenes of the movie so it's not a spoiler AT ALL, and this fact is relevant to my interests.
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 10h
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
The 'clobber'ing is very much implied to occur imminently.

Cupid is doing a different type of clobbering via operational security. Dial it back, lady! No wonder "Comet" has a complex. 😡

Pranc- I mean, Pegasatyr/Minotaur
#WIPsnips
Cupid looked Xenon up and down. “And for his holiday hookup this ‘Prancer’ chooses you? It’s too good to be true.” Xenon furrowed his bovine brow at her as he put his cloak on over his armor: ‘Comet’ didn’t need weapons he wasn’t born with. “Y’know what, I thought so too. But he’s earnest.” She folded her arms and sat on the edge of a crate, her bare green-membraned wings folded behind her. “You honestly believe that?” “Honestly?” Fury battled with sadness in Xenon’s chest. “No. But if he’s faking it he’s doing a really good job.” Dasher quietly checked their own daggers and put their cloak on. “As long as Comet is happy, Dasher is happy for Comet.” “And as long as we stay secure, I’m happy,” Cupid said. Xenon pounded his fist into his palm and cracked his knuckles. “Then let’s go make ourselves secure.”
December 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
Definitions: tbh, I have no idea. I have been told by others that I just write "romance because the focus is on the story regardless of how much sex is in it or how detailed" but idk what difference any of it makes. 🤣 I suppose it might make targeting an audience easier/better. 🤔 #Smutcember
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 18h
Something of a reflective topic for today's #Smutcember prompt:

What are the differences between porn, smut, and erotica to you? What's something you wish was better understood about these distinctions, or these styles/genres in general?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Smutcember, a Bluesky writing prompt game hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social & @hookandquillpress.com Blurry black & white background that looks like a couple heavily making out. Prompt: 29) What are the differences between porn, smut, and erotica to you?
December 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
I love foreplay banter~

Caravan Heist WIP, getting some groundwork laid before getting laid. 😆 #WIPsnips
“So, when was your last lover?” Vahn untied the loincloth, separated the ends and loosened the wraps. “Longer than two days ago, I can tell you that.” Vahn unthreaded the loincloth from the swooping blue fabric. “Well, obviously.” The brown layered tights were all that remained, with the bulge hiding beneath. Vahn traced the sizeable lump up Joren’s hip and palmed it with an almost academic curiosity. “No one’s waiting back in Riesse for you?” Joren moaned at the contact. “Nope.” He planted his lower hands on the floor and grunted as he put his weight onto them and lifted his hips as best he could into Vahn’s touch. “Gonna tease me now, starling?” “Nah, everyone has a dry spell now and then,” Vahn quipped. He rubbed his hand back and forth along Joren’s arousal, the soft, tanned pattern of the fabric giving it some extra texture. Joren chuckled. “Not what I meant.” “Sssh. I’m sizing you up.”
December 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
“There’s a responsible way to use AI”

“There’s a responsible way to pay more for electricity, poison Black people, and encourage teens to kill themselves”
December 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
I drew a sexy doodle today AND wrote almost 2k words. What is this? 🤨 2013?
December 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
I'll sometimes be anatomical, but rotating simple slang works best for me. If I start pulling out "third
leg" or "one-eyed soldier" or something please slap me. 🤣 #Smutcember
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 1d
For today's #Smutcember prompt:

Word choice has come up often as tricky territory for style, preference, and squicks. With regards to terminology, do you prefer anatomical terms, euphemisms, or synonyms?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Smutcember, a Bluesky writing prompt game hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social & @hookandquillpress.com Blurry black & white background that looks like a couple heavily making out. Prompt: 28) Naming body parts - do you prefer anatomical terms, euphemisms, or synonyms?
December 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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shayrey.bsky.social
If you showed push back against WOTC for firing artists or getting using AI art, then you better be willing to fight back against it happening through the TTRPG/board game community.

No GenAI in video games, board games, music, art, ANYTHING. GenAI isn't work, GenAI doesn't work.
brotherminggames.bsky.social Brother Ming Games 🔜 Origins Game Fair @brotherminggames.bsky.social · 8d
I wish boardgames got the same backlash for using AI art in final products that Larian Studios and Expedition 33 did for just using it in pre production

Awaken Realms (whose CEO also owns Gamefound) openly admits to it and still raised >$15 MILLION on crowdfunding this year
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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mochizukivt.bsky.social
A screen shot of Michael Scott from The Office telling his coworker Pam "You know what? I'm gonna demonize Gen A I even harder" He is a middle aged white man with brown hair and eyes making a smug, angry expression
December 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
Comfortable? It's all comfortable for me. 🤷😌

And spiciEST? Idk, but this is pretty on-par. From my dragon dude x fishfolk caravan heist wip. Buckle in, and don your ponchos and goggles. Or open up and tongue out, just make sure your eyes are closed. I hear the stuff burns. #Smutcember
Vahn straightened and took hold of the headboard again. He kept his hips pressing back against Joren’s hold, and the longer strokes glanced off his prostate on the way by. The abuse of the gland made pleasure pool in his lower stomach and tingle across his shoulders. “A-amazing!” he huffed. The force of each thrust was now enough to send him thrusting into Joren’s lower hand. “Fuck, it’s so good! H-haah!” The flood was rising higher, meeting with where Joren’s crown peaked in his stomach. His arms were locked as his body started to wind tighter to endure the reaming and what it was doing to him. His cock was drooling with each prod, the heavy drops swinging from his tip and flinging to Joren’s stomach. A warning flare shot down his length and up his spine. “I… I’m gonna come!” he warned. “Oh gods, I’m gonna come!” Joren’s pointed teeth gritted together. “Do it, babe! Come for me!” “Y-yessir!” Vahn replied. He gasped and whimpered, and willed his cock to wait just a little longer, just a little bit! Another wave of warning, and with an explosion of light throughout his body, his ass seized up and pleasure coursed from the tips of his toes to the tips of his wings. “Ohhhhhhhfuck!” The first thrum of seed rushed through him and made his cock throb hard in Joren’s hand, and it shot from his tip and splattered on Joren’s neck.
December 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
Quote is how it started.

How it's going: Cliff (now Clyph) is a nonbinary hybrid elf/deerfolk in Zelimir's canon who defects and the two of them go on a sexy diplomatic/revenge mission to end the ongoing trade war from Cat and the Brat. 😌
queerpointyears.bsky.social David T./D.T. Brandt - Settler on Stolen Land @queerpointyears.bsky.social · 7d
Cliff also probably has a common enemy with Zel, that he has valuable information about that he can share. Until late it's impossible to know for sure if Zel is just using Cliff for his own ends or the words of endearment actually hold weight. It'd be a shame if that enemy forced Zel to reveal it! 😏
December 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
The caravan heist WIP isn't a heist ON a caravan, it's a caravan romance (be gay) followed by a heist (do crimes). 😆 Casing the joint. #WIPsnips
Joren fell into step beside him, both of them now striding through the crowd with their bulky tails and Vahn’s folded but still voluminous wings. “Well?” “It’s pretty secure,” Vahn said. “I’ll need to find a way to break the ward on the shed.” “Or get the keys,” Joren said. “Unless we know the type of ward, what it’s keyed on, that’s a risky ploy.” “What would happen if we tried to break it?” “We don’t know that either.” “Well, it seems like we know a whole lot of nothing we didn’t know before, starling,” Joren said.
December 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
What's a romance without at least a little miscommunication? 😆 But I blame mine on self-defense, being more eager to please than fully understand, or toxic masculinity. Y'know, actual psychological issues that manifest throughout the story and not just a momentary plot contrivance. #Smutcember
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 3d
Hope you're having a restful Friday, #Smutcember! Today's question:

How well do your characters communicate? This could be verbally or non-verbally, and it could be outside of, before, after, or during intimate encounters.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Smutcember, a Bluesky writing prompt game hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social & @hookandquillpress.com Blurry black & white background that looks like a couple heavily making out. Prompt: 26) How well do your characters communicate?
December 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
Mom: So if I come out to Seattle to see the Guardians play will you come down and see them with me?

Me: uhhhh that could be tricky. It'd be way better if you got your passport and came up to Toronto. We could meet you there.

Mom: It's not easier to get to Seattle?

Me: ...

Partner: less red tape.
December 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
Happy holidays, all!

This "taste" comes from Dancing WIP, a first kiss that takes probably two and a half pages from realizing it's about to happen to actual lip-on-lip contact. 🤣 Gio can be a little dramatic at times. And is REALLY dramatic at other times, like this. 😅 #WIPSnips
My fingers fidgeted underneath his, but his hand remained. His fingers squeezed. I wanted to ask him so many questions, but there was no space for words. I leaned closer, and he strained higher. He squeezed my hand tighter, and I felt it tremble. I felt his breath pass his barely parted lips and light on mine, a precursor. A gentle taste, and suddenly there was an acceleration, like lodestones brought too close. It happened so fast, but I felt every tiny shift in our bodies, in our faces, the brush of our noses. We started to close our eyes and trusted each other to finish, and with a final terrifying thump of my heart, I felt the soft warmth of his lips press against mine.
December 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
I've had both!

I didn't know my beefy fishy protag (heistWIP) would like sweat.

I planned Samiel wanting to be voraciously claimed by someone whose desire overcame their will. And Rapuska even has a culturally ingrained consent safeguard so nobody has anything to feel guilty about! 😌 #Smutcember
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 4d
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, #Smutcember! I'm partial to the Yule vibes myself, but any excuse for a little holiday spice. 😏 With that in mind, we ask you:

Do you plan your characters with specific kinks, or do they arise organically?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Smutcember, a Bluesky writing prompt game hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social & @hookandquillpress.com Blurry black & white background that looks like a couple heavily making out. Prompt: 25) Do you plan your characters with specific kinks?
December 25, 2025 at 6:49 AM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
It is time

for that time-honoured holiday tradition

of eating some type of east Asian food

and watching the holiday @pushinguproses.bsky.social movie video. 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
queerpointyears.bsky.social
Pointy ears of any shape and/or fur/fin level. It's my handle, after all!
ddwardiswriting.bsky.social Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 5d
Okay #WritingCommunity, what is a gift you give to yourself in your writing? What tropes or details or motifs do you use simply because you love them?

I love the tiny badass woman trope. I include the trope all the time.

I also love roses, and include them frequently as symbols and motifs.
December 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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ela-bambust.bsky.social
“How can you suddenly dislike art when you find out it’s made by AI?”

For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid.

Because I care about people.

You dipshit.
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM