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EmmyKtz 🐙 The Pink Hydra
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Emmylou Kotzé 🇿🇦 (she/her), demi-bi writer of SF, F, ⛓️🖤romance, and poetry. Editor of The Pink Hydra, Africa's newest and weirdest webzine. Work in Solarpunk, Dirty Magick, and Twenty-two Twenty-eight. Links at linktr.ee/emmyktz. Check out my Feeds! ⚔️✨
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EmmyKtz 🐙 The Pink Hydra @thepinkhydra.com · 6d
#QueerWritersChat The first two books in the trilogy are 50% off in the Smashwords end-of-year sale at the moment:

www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...

Or grab a standalone romantic fantasy, The Broken Knight, for free just before the holidays!

www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
Cover of Forest of the Morning by Emmylou Kotzé featuring artwork of two ghostly faces against green foliage Cover of the Broken Knight by Emmylou Kotzé featuring artwork of a battered shield against a red background
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kim-hu.com
really the only advice I can give both new and old users is don’t sub to blocklists, because people use them for revenge and trolling and you’ll end up blocking people you like 💀
kim-hu.com Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 4h
Why tf? Were you added to one of these revenge blocklists? I have a bunch of folks blocking me because of those. Alas :///
December 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
NARROW WAY (1984)
Acrylic on Canvas - 30” x 20”

The greatest measure of my satisfaction as an illustrator comes when I produce an artwork that reflects my artistic concerns just as much as it illustrates the book. This painting is one of the best examples of that happy condition. 1/3
A dark skinned man with blank eyes and white hair sits primly against the smooth face of rock with a tree casting soft shadows across it. The hood of his pristine white robes is drawn up and his hands rest penitently in his lap. He holds a black metal rod, topped with an owl, angled back toward him. On the path leading up to him, a human skull rests on a pebble strewn ground. Beyond, a tall set of stairs leads up to a set of double doors, part of a large paneled arch four times its height.
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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shanicetjn.bsky.social
Raffle prizes for @kitbeary.bsky.social, @jackzarts.bsky.social, @leaphia.bsky.social and @jayprawn.bsky.social, of their gorgeous OCs -- Yueying, Balance, Tristan and Albus.

Hope you guys like it!! I enjoyed drawing them so SO much. 💖

#MiscArt
A digital portrait raffle prize of kitbeary's OC -- Yueying 月映. She is smirking and looking to her right. A digital portrait raffle prize of jackzarts's OC -- Balance. They are smiling and looking straight at the viewer. A digital portrait raffle prize of leaphia's OC -- Tristan. He is looking warily at something off-screen that is to his left. A digital portrait raffle prize of jayprawn's OC -- Albus. He is staring at something off-screen that is to his right.
January 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
The cover for Small Wonders issue 31. A person with long purple hair floats in space, their body curves to cup a solar system in their lap. The issue’s pieces are by Gwendolyn M. Hicks, Julia Rios, Wendy Nikel, Adrian Ward, Michelle Koubek, Guan Un, Eliza Dermendzhiyska, Eva Papasoulioto, and Katherine Quevedo. Art is by Anastasia Rzyhkova.
December 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
No swords
No violence
No kings
No monsters

Gentle high fantasy with a transfemme lead & scorching-hot romance
danifinnwrites.bsky.social HoliDani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 15d
Lila’s outside has never matched her inside, but she makes it work.

Business is booming; her baths, spa, & sex shop are a hit.

Meet-cute over a crate of alchemical vibrators!

The World Within is about to be turned inside out.

danifinn.itch.io/the-world-wi...

books2read.com/b/md2L8W
Book cover of The World Within, a weirdwater romance by Dani Finn, showing an ethereal woman in a blue dress spinning above a temple pool. Words all around the graphic: Femme trans mc & Butch cis single mother LI Trans sapphic fantasy romance Set in a wellness center & sex shop Magical vibrators Meditation magic A mystic portal verdiater Romance DANI FINN Cozy & steamy What are you waiting for?
December 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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juliedillon.bsky.social
Sketch for another watercolor painting I'm going to attempt. It feels nice working on things for myself again 😊
A pencil drawing of a woman with her eyes closed and arms crossed over her chest. Mushrooms grown on her limbs, and slime mold tendrils spread outwards from her body.
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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churchofpossum.bsky.social
CW // Teratophilia

Catch of the Day
An illustration of a pleasantly surprised seaman on his back being pressed against the rock by his catch, a much bigger merman wearing an old divers helmet. The sun is cutting through the fog, illuminating the mermans translucent dick.
August 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
thepinkhydra.com
I just started drawing digitally & really wanna improve! so here's your local feral eldritch anime boy (Fish) mid battle 😀 #TrueRefDT011

Did he lose half his shirt in a Goku style power battle... or did Nico rip it off him while "sparring"? You decide 👀😂
Digital sketch of a man reaching for a weapon behind his back while grinning and bleeding, and he has scars which are glowing blue
December 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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A snowy owl pulling off both #BirdOfTheDay themes of #contrast and #faceoff because he's fancy like that.

📷🌿🪶🦉
A photo of a male snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) perched on a thick bare branch in a dimly-lit enclosure with a dark background behind him. He is a very white owl covered in feathers from his rounded head all the way to the tips of his toes, and he is looking into the camera with large golden-yellow eyes.
December 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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thepoetjean.bsky.social
A24. Yes, smut is an idealized, fantasy version of sex & sexual experiences.
STILL-- sex education is essential in and out of fiction.

Research is important because every body is diff.

Authenticity makes better smut.

S/O to @/ingloriousgigi.bsky.social for their recs on Threads.
#Smutcember
TEXT ID: Threads Conversation: @ingloriousgigi > Author Threads The best money I ever spent is on my collection of sex education books. I had to flip through the blow job one and the prost@te one. @kaylathebookowl Do you have a rec list for them? @ingloriousgigi The Ultimate Guide series - The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure by Charlie Glickman - The Ultimate Guide to F*llatio by Violet Blue (Honestly any book by Violet Blue is amazing). - The Ultimate Guide to C**nnilingus by Violet Blue - The Whole Lesbian Sex Book by Felice Newman Trans S*x by Kevin Sparks (the best trans s*x ed book I have read). On my tbr is the V*gina Bible too. I am on the hunt for more books about polyam s*x, gay s*x, and asexual s*x,
December 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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kercoby.bsky.social
It is more important to create than submit work

to submit work than worry about being published

to publish at all than be too precious about where or when

to have work read than get awards

to be nominated at all than win—

And it is more important to make what you love than never risk failing.
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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kaleidotrope.bsky.social
Speaking, you know, *as a market*, writing to what you think my tastes are as an editor is a bad idea. What I want most are the stories I don’t yet know that I want.
December 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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leeburton.bsky.social
Looking to pad your "books read in 2025" stats before the year ends? My #HistoricalFantasy novel, The Lion, full of #magic and bad gods, is a quick #read at just over 42,000 words, and is on sale at #Smashwords and #Itch this week:

www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

lsb337.itch.io/the-lion

💙📚
Cover of The Lion by Lee Burton, showing a silhouette of a lion, with the silhouette of a boy carrying a spear walking toward a village on a hillside.
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
thepinkhydra.com
#Smutcember I've had universally bad experiences sharing writing with irl friends b/c the majority of non-writer folks don't understand the concept of "first draft."

Snippy critique & hurt feelings usually result.

My partner had such a bad reaction to an early sex scene in my first novel...
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 3d
Considering that many of you may be spending time with loved ones this month, #Smutcember:

Who among your friends and family has read your smut? Has it been a positive experience sharing it with them?

#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: 23) Who of your friends & family has read your smut?
December 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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starbuds-and-roses.bsky.social
have a summer kiss scene, as the light begins to return in my slice of the world ☀️ ✨

(ik I’ve used the phrase, “Finally, Cecyl withdrew,” in other kiss scenes, but shhh, I like it atm)
#WIPSnips #writesky
a screenshot of white text against a black background, the word “stone” digitally underlined in grey. it reads: Before Bazyli could fully step back, Cecyl pulled him close, tucked him just out of the sun's reach with a quick half-turn, and kissed him like a man starved. Bazyli's yelp died against those soft lips he was helpless to give in to: melting with a teasing brush of his tongue, sighing as those fingers splayed against his back dug in—the bite of his nails dampened by his shirt. Finally, Cecyl withdrew. Grey eyes catching a stray sparkle here and there as the evening light shifted. The freckles that danced along the bridge of his nose deeper in color on tender, sun-kissed-pink skin. A soft breeze and a breath later, the cluster of leaves overhead fluttered, dangling down from the stone archway. And they were breaking into twin smiles, laughing, Cecyl's hand on his cheek as if holding the sun's glow there.
December 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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1/n

2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express

This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris

Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
A wide view of the planet Mars fills the frame, shown as a curved, rust-colored world against black space. The bottom edge fades into darkness, marking the planet’s night side, while the upper portion is brightly lit by sunlight. Near the right side are three large, round volcanic mountains of the Tharsis region, each with a wide circular base and a darker central caldera, resembling shallow craters pressed into the surface. North of these volcanoes, stretching almost vertically across the upper right half of the planet, lies Noctis Labyrinthus and Valles Marineris: an immense system of deep canyons and fractured terrain that appears as pale, branching scars and cracks, partly softened by hazy, cloud-like atmospheric features. Near the center of the image, positioned between the volcanoes and the canyon system, a small dark oval appears against Mars’s surface. This is Phobos, one of Mars’s satellites. Its tiny size stands out sharply against the vast scale of the planet below.
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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element115.bsky.social
Read my newest short story "Darkness Gathers Her Lambs" — some First Contact mayhem — in Apocalypse Confidential's giallo-themed CLOAK & DAGGER special. Now out.

apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/12/21/a...
A SPECIAL PRESENTATION: CLOAK & DAGGER
There is a locked room. You have the key, if only your mind could recall where you hid it. Your mind is a locked room as well, and the possessor of its key lurks behind you. The key is a knife. Thi…
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December 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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fergus.oolong.co.uk
Really excited to have a chapter in the UK edition of Someone Like Me, an anthology of writing by autistic women and gender minorities (me being nonbinary/genderqueer).

My chapter is titled 'Growing up with Monotropism and Weird Pride'.

The book is out 2025-09-25.
vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php...
Image of the book cover (scraps of photos, with the title 'Someone Like Me', edited by Clem Bastow & Jo Case, subtitled 'an anthology of non-fiction by autistic writers'). Image also shows the release date, 25/09/2025, and says 'PRE-ORDER NOW'. 'With new contributions from... Fergus Murray Ivy Lin Julie Farrell Lucy Rose Naoise Dolan Sarah Cook'
July 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
thepinkhydra.com
#Smutcember I actually have a bunch of sexy AUs that live rent free in my head. Sometimes they come out and get turned into standalone stories of their own.

One such is "What Happens in Camp," my dubcon yaoi romance. 😬

It's "what if Nico & Fish get together way too early?" When they're both...
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 4d
Here's a fun exercise to start your week, #Smutcember:

If you were to write a sexy AU for any of your characters, what’s the setup, and who’s hooking up? If you HAVE written (or drawn!) such an AU already, feel free to share it!

#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: 22) If you were to write a sexy AU for any of your characters, what’s the set up, and who’s hooking up?
December 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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sasseverett.bsky.social
She found a green gown, also loosely fitted and cut to show off the clothing beneath. Embroidered silver patterns subtly shone beneath certain lights, like water running over her skin and clothes. #wipsnips
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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prahajess.bsky.social
🎧 Sylva and the Velvet Underground - A modern retelling of a well-loved fairytale

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips #shortstory #Prague #fairytale
Images: a city passage, a DJ with headphones silhouetted against smoke, close up of silver ankle boots, a deserted Prague street; text: Just before the escalator heading down to the tracks, a man paced behind a blanket laden with glittering items for sale: lace gloves, bracelets, CDs, sunglasses, and one shimmering pair of silver ankle boots. Sylva slowed, her eyes locked on the mosaic of tiny mirrors that covered the low-heeled boots. She pulled herself out of the river of people and paused in front of the vendor. “Oh, a lady with good taste!” He wore acid wash jeans and red suede cowboy boots. His oiled moustache screamed untrustworthy. Sylva attempted a derisive laugh, but it came out more nervous than mocking. Turn around and go. Her legs would not obey. “Come on, lady. These shoes were made for you!” She shrugged one shoulder. “How much?” No way was she going to buy anything from this man. “Cheap! For you, one hundred koruna! They’ll take you where you need to go.”
December 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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gaydadappreciator.bsky.social
11 years old and your uncle is on some bullshit. Wouldn't be a fantasy story otherwise, really. #wipsnips #booksky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
An older man has silver scars on his hands that have silvered with age. He is taking his nephew into the basement to show him his birthright.
December 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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taplingzines.bsky.social
Get ready for some gay medieval knights with Wortel's ( @/worteltje7 on Instagram ) illustration for the We've Always Been Here queer history zine! The piece will likely be based around a jousting match, set either just before or just afterward.

#Knights #MedievalArt #QueerHistory #Zines
An illustration of two people laying side by side on a bed placed in a field of grass. One is wearing casual, modern clothing with a large red t-shirt, and the other is wearing a suit of armor, pointing upward at the sky. At the top is a colorful banner that says "We've Always Been Here" and at the bottom is a small box that says "Page artist."
December 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
thepinkhydra.com
#WIPSnips Dec 21 - "Silver"

This metal gets mentioned a LOT in Forest of the Morning, b/c it's such an important part of the lore. Silver is the only known substance to nullify the effects of magic. Therefore, armour and weapons are often plated or edged with it.
Snippet: Nico took a pause, buckling his sword to his belt, then grabbed his boots and started to pull them on as Korak continued to speak. He had slept in full armour, and felt stiff and scratchy, yet he was glad to have had the respite before it came to real fighting. His chainmail felt heavy underneath solid plates of iron. Nico adjusted silver-edged vambrace and pauldrons, shifting his shoulders to make sure everything felt right. Apprehension welled unbidden inside him. This armour wouldn’t protect from cannonballs nor the smaller balls of handheld muskets at anything approaching close range, but it was excellent against stray arrows, necrome teeth and claws, spears, axes, swords—and magic.
December 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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jameswrights.bsky.social
3 things I wish I was better at as a writer:
- Character Art
- ARC Readers & Promotion
- Digestible Prose & plot progression

3 things I rock at as a writer:
- Realistic engaging dialogue
- Fleshed out characters
- Fun premises & unpredictable stories

#writersky #booksky #authorsky
December 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM