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Ceph the Ghost Writer
@spookyceph.bsky.social
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Tales of trans vampires, gay ghost hunters, and other diverse horrors. they/them

Currently writing Apophenia, Book 1 of the Dysthanasia series, a queer paranormal fantasy.

Patreon: patreon.com/WritingSpook
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spookyceph.bsky.social
Isaac's arc: Revenge won't heal your scars from the past, only destroy your future.

Ollie and Tilda's arcs: Revenge will solve some problems actually, and you deserve it as a little treat maybe. <3
July 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Just subscribed for the year because both @alexsteed.bsky.social and my dear pal Samuel James are amazing, thoughtful, talented super-beings. This made me love this amazing move even more. @youaregood.bsky.social
youaregood.bsky.social You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · Jul 1
Guess what? Sinners bonus just dropped.
BONUS EPISODE: Special Guest: Samuel James
July 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
spookyceph.bsky.social
For someone who just scrapped the novel they've been working on for, like, a year, I feel pretty optimistic.
June 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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cara.ink
🖤🩸 FAMILIAR ✦ OCT 28, 2025

Want to help beta read? Nab an ARC? Or do you want to get an early look at the cover and share it around? Good news! Applications are open!

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A Vampiric Mystery, Familiar, Oct. 28, 2025; Mystery Urban Fantasy - caranox.com/familiar Familiar: A Vampiric Mystery by Cara Nox, placeholder book cover surrounded by tropes, rep, and teasers on a bright red background. Clockwise, it reads: errand boy for vampire hunters, awkward gay mc x goth bi li, coffee shop meet-cute turned disaster, mistakes™ were made, hunters with ulterior motives, don't be suspicious, chaotic first person narration, vampires, werewolves, & witches. At the bottom, it reads: Familiar, Mystery Urban Fantasy, caranox.com/familiar
May 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
Authors, are your books on Itch.io? And are they Queer SFF?
Or do they have neurodiverse, disabled or BIPOC MC's?
Or nonbinary, asexual or aromantic MC's?

I'd like to make some Bsky Author Lists of all the above!
(And yes, feel free to drop book links & blurbs while we're at it 😉).
May 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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winterandwords.bsky.social
📝 You didn't call it a #vision, not to them. You said it was like a dream, but you were awake. Maybe it was one of your migraines. Maybe it was your imagination. But it wasn't. You saw the calendar flip to tomorrow's date. You saw the house and the flames. And I believe you.

🏷️ #vss365 (vision)
May 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Here is the updated starter pack! Trying to fill it before Pride Month!! Let me know if you’d like to be added, there are about 75 spots left! 🫶🏽
May 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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winterandwords.bsky.social
📝 It’s started to rain and the colours of the streetlights and flickering signs are dripping down the glass. She follows a raindrop with her fingertip and turns around, blinking tears away, frowning.

✂️ from Name From Nowhere

🏷️ #QueerWriters (line share: turn:
May 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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May 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
spookyceph.bsky.social
Always impressive when a book is full of flawed characters who do awful things but 1) I'm still having fun, and 2) I'm kinda rooting for the bastards to succeed regardless.
May 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
spookyceph.bsky.social
Finally read a book that was recommended to me, like...12 years ago? Turned out to be worth it, and honestly, I might not have thought so if I hadn't waited.

Anyone else ever do that? Procrastinate reading/watching something only to find out it really was up your alley? Or reassess an opinion?
May 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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isaacxisaac.bsky.social
Gay crimes!
Trans wrongs!
Enemies to enemies!

It's me again with my #OWN #LGBT #swashbuckler for #WIPPit!! A romp through a colorful, heightened #His torical playground.

Can one defeat the patriarchs with the very weapons of masculinity? Well, one angry trans boy can sure try stabbing them a lot.
"L'entrée du prince de Ligne à Londres 1660", painted by François Duchatel in 1660, depicting the arrival of a great procession of ambassadors walking in fine clothes and riding in coaches, watched by a huge crowd of Londoners. Text over it reads: THE DUEL IN 1660: a queer swashbuckling farce. "The arrival of King Charles II of England in Rotterdam, may 24 1660" by Lieve Verschuier, showing many ships with the Flag of Holland/States Flag. The grand ship bearing Charles II has his royal arms carven on the stern. Text over it reads: England, 1660: the restoration of the monarchy. In Charles II's triumphant wake, a Royalist family quietly returns, but not with their single daughter—instead, with their single son. 15-year-old Alexander—vain, hot-tempered, and warm of heart—expects to strut in as an aristocratic peacock. But when his ambitions are frustrated, he's sucked instead into intrigues of questionable honour and forced to reckon with what it really means to be a man. "Man Writing a Letter" by Gabriël Metsu, painted around 1665. A Dutch young man, beautiful and androgynous with long blond hair, wears black doublet, breeches, and stockings and a luxurious white shirt and falling band. His expression is tranquil and far-off as he writes a letter on a table draped with an imported carpet. Text over it reads: Pray enjoy this tempest in a teapot, crafted of the purest tropes and set in the Age of the Rakehells, featuring: glamour and grime of 17th century Westminster. goofy action punctuated by primal screams of rage. problematic characters for miles. petticoat breeches parkour. queer mentorship. romantic friendship (or maybe 'tis just gay, oops). boys who cry. a lot. and somehow, everything turning out all right in the end. Detail of "View from the Mussel Pier in Amsterdam", painted by Ludolf Bakhuizen in 1673, showing a peaceful sky over a ship with two gulls. Text over it reads: Alexander stood at the edge of the deck, one hand clutching the railing, the other fastened tight on the brim of his hat as he leaned out over the waves. He was not much afraid of falling in, though he had never swum anything choppier than a pond. Rather, he was afraid that his Acadian fur hat, the most expensive for sale in the shop on the Kalverstraat, might fly off his small crown and flap with its feathers all the way to water—which, like the sky, could not quite decide between blue and grey. There was no one to see him aside from the sailors and now Klein, climbing up from below. Still, he had meticulously dressed that morning, down to every last ribbon. He’d had a very specific vision of himself when the suit was being ordered: the azure he’d picked was not just brighter than everything around him on the fluyt but even the true sky itself, and he sparkled with silver, when the wind tugged his doublet and loose breeches, and gold, when the little light managed to catch on his sword’s hilt. It was imperative, one must understand, that he look extremely stylish doing battle, should pirates suddenly appear to satisfy his fantasies. And indeed, at fifteen, he thought himself quite the dashing young man—not the boy he was.
May 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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smoking-gnu.bsky.social
Good Afternoon #WIPPIT!

Today I present to you, for your consideration, an #agentsguide to...

Tides of Sourcery! #A #F #SFF #FBW
On a background of a starry night sky, a dark forest canopy and a shooting star, text reading: Proudly Presenting TIDES OF SOURCERY A very early stage fantasy currently at 110K words. On a background of a dark, spooky forest at night, text reading: THE PITCH Ten years ago the world we knew changed, flooding with magic and monsters we thought were mere stories. Now Gracelynn, one of those afflicted with magic powers during that terrible day, must take a dangerous mission to find her long lost brother, with the hope of asking forgiveness for that terrible day. But is the quest for old family worth risking her new one?" On a background of a wizard casting magic in a glowing enchanted forest, text reading: PRELIMINARY COMPS The Witcher X Dresden Files Tropes • Magical Outcast FMC • A new magical Earth, Guns meet Elves • A multitude of magic portals • elves and Orcs, Robes and Cloaks and so much more • Mythical creatures • A forbidden forest • A Quest! On a background of our planet earth surrounded by a glowing cloud of magic and a parson looking at it while standing on a cliff, text reading: EXCERPT: “The Celestial Council has decided. A world has been chosen, and the process has already begun,” a female voice said.
May 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
spookyceph.bsky.social
Today's Apophenia Snippet:

"So, you got some random human chained up out in the desert and not much else is what I’m hearing.”

The fact Renato couldn't do shit about the smirk creeping across Kinslayer's face made it even more galling. "I'm working with what I have."
May 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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cara.ink
11 SFF books featuring mental health for $13.75!! Only on itch!

🌈🚀💫 💙📚👀 📢📚 🌈📚
cara.ink Cara Nox 🗡️🍂 is writing @cara.ink · May 1
📗 May is Mental Health Awareness Month

You can find THE THIRTEENTH KEY, which features main characters with mental illness who embrace each other for support, along with other SFF books that feature mental health in this Itch bundle 💚

itch.io/b/2997/scifi...

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May 2025; Mental Health Awareness Month; Science Fiction & Fantasy Bundle (No Spice) on Itch.io; image features tiled covers of books under a green ribbon for mental health awareness on a near-black background.
May 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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probablyacryptid.bsky.social
Did you know I offer poetry commissions on my Ko-fi? Short poems, 20 lines or less, are $10. Long poems, 20 lines or more, are $20. And for an additional $2 you can even choose the kind of poem I write (ie: rhyming, free form, sestina, reverse, etc.)

Also, I have a shop. Feel free to grab a book!
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May 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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The King in Yellow.

#illustration
November 19, 2024 at 2:38 AM
spookyceph.bsky.social
Made a meese in Aseprite.

#pixelart
Pixel art of a brown mouse with pink paws, nose, and tail. Its holding a small piece of yellow cheese.
August 20, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Bluesky it has come to my attention that you like becoming horrifying to men and also rethinking classical stories about feminine monstrosity (harpies, sirens, gorgons, etc.) and wow GREAT news
Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman: 9780807055540 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
August 8, 2024 at 10:07 PM
spookyceph.bsky.social
*remembers I have an account here*
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August 7, 2024 at 7:43 PM
spookyceph.bsky.social
Today's Internet searches included: history of aquariums, pre-colonized South Africa, 10th century India, Ganges River.

This is about weresharks btw.

#amwriting #fantasy
July 11, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Hello friends! Are you bad at promo graphics? I can help!

I take moodboard/aesthetic commissions, and I’m also now open for TROPE MAP commissions!

For only $3 you can get either thing!

All imagery sourced from stock!

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#writers #writingcommunity #queerwriters
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July 11, 2024 at 12:54 AM
spookyceph.bsky.social
Planning POVs for a series of shorts starring my major villains.

-Corporate Vampire Jerk: 1st person
-Snooty Necromancer: 3rd limited
-Old Money Werewolf: 3rd omniscient
-Cheerful psychic vampire: Diary entries? + 3rd limited?
-Passive aggressive poltergeist: 2nd/choose your own adventure style
July 8, 2024 at 12:07 PM
spookyceph.bsky.social
Local man still not having fun after being kidnapped by vampire.
#30Days30Lines
A screenshot of a Microsoft Word document containing an excerpt of a story. The text reads: “Don’t,” the human said, eyes showing white all around. Renato did. Like a hooded hawk, once the blindfold was strapped into place and locked the fight drained out of his guest. His hands slid off of Renato’s forearms to curl protectively against his own chest.
July 7, 2024 at 6:49 AM
spookyceph.bsky.social
Finally finished the latest pocket field guide for Patreon. This time it's on bloodborn feeding, fact vs. fiction.
#fantasy
A screenshot of a page from a trifold brochure. There's a gradient blue to magenta background, with a city silhouette and stylized sun or moon at the bottom. Neon images of an eye, cartoon bats in front of a moon, and hands clasped in prayer decorate the top, right above a paragraph of text. It reads: As always, the first step to understanding the supernatural is identifying what are facts and what are elements of folklore entangled in the popular imagination. In other words: separating romance from reality. The words "separating romance from reality" are done in a futuristic font. "Romance" is inside a pink arrow made of neon light pointing left. "Reality" is inside an arrow of yellow neon light pointing right.
July 7, 2024 at 6:45 AM