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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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#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...
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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 💀
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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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
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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
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...
December 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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No swords
No violence
No kings
No monsters

Gentle high fantasy with a transfemme lead & scorching-hot romance
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
December 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Sketch for another watercolor painting I'm going to attempt. It feels nice working on things for myself again 😊
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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CW // Teratophilia

Catch of the Day
August 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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 👀😂
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.

📷🌿🪶🦉
December 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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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
December 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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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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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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

💙📚
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
#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...
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
December 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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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
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 🧪🔭
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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…
apocalypse-confidential.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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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...
July 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
#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...
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
December 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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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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🎧 Sylva and the Velvet Underground - A modern retelling of a well-loved fairytale

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips #shortstory #Prague #fairytale
December 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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11 years old and your uncle is on some bullshit. Wouldn't be a fantasy story otherwise, really. #wipsnips #booksky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
December 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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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
December 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
#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.
December 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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