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I considered my silly erotic mysteries I write as practice smut, but I already posted whole scenes on AO3 for IndieKinktober.

Instead here is Katie & Kyle finally making love and my attempt focusing more on emotional, romantic aspect of smut writing. Still trying to improve my skills.

#Smutcember

I put a hand on his hip and guide him to the right movement that… “Oh, there!” …that rubs against my clit with every thrust. The physical sensation of him sliding in and out of me, rubbing against me, is amazing. I can feel it building within me, climbing up to that orgasm peak.
More than that is the sensation of Kyle. This beautiful, kind man loving me, pleasuring me, becoming one with me. As much as I am thoroughly enjoying his cock sliding in and out of me — and I absolutely do — but I cannot believe the joy of enjoying him!
His little gasping pant every time he enters me. His hand gripping my shoulder, pulling me against him. His other hand grasping the pillow, squeezing it harder and harder. The warmth and faint sweat on his back under my hands. And that face inches from mine furrowed with his own building pleasure.
Passion and gentleness wrapped together into this amazing man. Our happiness intertwined so my pleasure pleases him. The joy and connection between us is beyond physical to love — a love so strong and raw I want to pull us into each other, our duet a single melody.
His pants grow deeper, more guttural. His face more strained. His whispers, “Oh! So… oh… so close.”
Of course this man would warn me. Let me slow him down, speed him up, make him finish where I tell him to. And I ache to command him to do all that and more.
It is all perfect and too much and not enough at once as love and sex intertwine into a single magical moment more beautiful than I knew possible.
I squeeze my insides tight around him. His face lights up as he gasps and spasms. His warmth fills my core and the warmth of his smile warms my heart cresting me over that climax. Heat fills me. My breath is shuddering. I arch up harder against him. I am light-headed and feeling faint.
Swirls of color fill my vision and I cannot help but giggle. A kaleidoscope of light dances around those intoxicating emerald eyes.

December 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author

@daxaeterna.ink

Finish off the year reading about lesbians doing revolution!

$0.99 for a few days only.

dax.ink/stars

STARS AND SOIL. The prince demands her hand. A duchess claims her heart. Her choice determines the fate of the kingdom. $0.99 A woman holding a dagger stands before a burning castle.

December 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM

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TL Matson

@tlmatson.bsky.social

If you'd like to be added just let me know. :)
go.bsky.app/FLdBEFU

December 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM

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Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them)

@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social

Christmas day can be hectic, frazzling, and exhausting. Family politics, family drama, plus politics at the dinner table. Intolerance and microaggressions.

So remember...

December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Walking in a Harris Wonderland

@walkerharris.net

The band are a bunch of silly goofs. Here they are out to dinner before their first gig.

#WIPSnips

Screenshot of a work-in-progress manuscript with the word 'drink' highlighted.

“No, you won’t. I’m buying.”
Kyle is more strategic, however, and realizes he does not need to win an argument with me. Instead, he turns to Mandy. “If you give me the bill, I assure you, I will give you a very big tip.”
She looks at me and shrugs, “Sorry, hon, he wins.” Then she turns to go print the bill.
If that is how it is going to be, then I am not losing without getting a fun jab in. I wait until Kyle takes a drink of his newly refilled soda and say, “Well, I guess I can’t compete with your ‘big tip’, loverboy.”
Katie and AJ yell in unison, “Rachel!”
Kyle, however, busts out laughing and sputters his drink all over the table. He keeps laughing as he starts to dry up the mess.
I am cracking up at how beautiful that spit take was! It was either perfectly timed or I wonder if Kyle played into it for laughs.

December 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM

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HoliDani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚

@danifinnwrites.bsky.social

If you’re transmasc (define it as you wish), I’d be interested to know what manhood means to you.

Anyone who doesn’t align with transmasculinity in some way, please feel free to boost and read! 🫶

December 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM

Walking in a Harris Wonderland

@walkerharris.net

Describe your WIP in a single word? Or, a single emoji?

Felcrown: ⚔️

Philosopher Queens: 🫂

Shipwrecked Familiars: 🍆

Eliwood S. Gheist @eliwoodsgheist.com · 5d

Describe your WIP in a single word? Or, a single emoji?

👁

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 5d

Describe your WIP in a single word? Or, a single emoji?

💀

December 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM

Walking in a Harris Wonderland

@walkerharris.net

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you.

Who's coming to save you?

Umm... does reality TV count? If so, I'm not sure Australian customs officials will be able to rescue me but they will *definitely* find any food in my suitcase! 😅

A customs official in a blue short-sleeve, uniform shirt is leaning on a counter talking to an arriving passenger. He is a main with a loose white shirt, half-unbuttoned who is desperately trying to remember what is in his luggage before it is searched.

December 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them)

@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social

My roommate: how unhinged a question may I ask?

My wife: very.

Roommate: muppets. Fuck marry kill.

My wife: Sweetums. Fozzie. Sam Eagle.

December 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM

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Marine St. Jean

@marinestjean.bsky.social

#Smutcember
My friends once stole a proof copy and read the spicy bits aloud in the pub while I died.

Another friend told me she took turns reading one aloud with her boyfriend.

My friends are horrible people.

Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 5d

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 11:36 AM

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Jessica Olin is Tired but Still Masks

@olinj.bsky.social

Beyond beta readers who are friends already and people with whom I became friends through the writing community? Two. My favorite clerk at the public library (who just talked about how Rochester it was) and... my mother, who said, "I'm glad you've had good sex in your life." MOM, NO! #Smutcember

Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 5d

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 1:17 PM

Walking in a Harris Wonderland

@walkerharris.net

None.

Only my wife & one of my (adult) kids knows about it, but they don't want to read it, which is fine with me. I came up with this pen name both to avoid others finding out and to change my mindset.

That other guy has a lifetime of expectations on him but Walker is free(r) to express himself.

Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 5d

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 2:19 PM

Walking in a Harris Wonderland

@walkerharris.net

Pyntal is bored enough in this underground city, she actually contemplates partying with politicians and annoying rich people.

From Felcrown, my fantasy adventure serial about a megadungeon that becomes a city and the struggle of that path.
#WIPSnips

Screenshot of a work-in-progress manuscript with the word 'stone' highlighted.

[Digs:] “Oh, also, fair warning, some of the dignitaries will have their own celebrations tonight and invite us to them. I hear they can get pretty wild.”
[Pyntal:] “You’ve never been?”
“No, I’m not much into that. Besides, I’m pretty sure they just invite us as a posturing thing. Like if we attend one of their parties, they can gloat to all the other politicians. It didn’t seem appropriate to get involved in that sort of thing.”
Pyntal shrugged. She didn’t really want to be someone’s political pawn, but a wild party on the other hand could at least break the monotony of this drab stone tomb.

December 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM

Walking in a Harris Wonderland

@walkerharris.net

My oldest is *really* bad but it opened the floodgates to this whole story.

I'm mostly revising, but my most recent new writing might be from Rachel's breakup.

(I also have a bit of spicy from Katie & Rachel's 1st night together but that's "get something down so I can focus elsewhere" very rough.)

Screenshot of a work-in-progress manuscript.

Kyle

[make some nod to the several weeks of practices]
“We’ve got a two and a half hour drive, so plenty of time to drill,” Katie said as they settled into the AJ’s back set. “Don’t tire your hands out, though. It’s only a 45 minute set but you don’t want your hand cramping up.”
Kyle chuckled, “Hey, I used to be able to play longer than that after writing several essays during the day.”
“That was several decades ago, Dad,” AJ said.
Kyle smiled, “Ok, I’ll be mindful of my limits. I just want to make sure I don’t screw you all up.”
Katie said, “Don’t worry, you’ll be fine. If you mess up, AJ will drive through it just fine on the drums, and Rachel and I are flexible enough to cover. Anyway, let’s try the first pattern but make it punchy and in your face, then again but slower for a ballad.”

Screenshot of a work-in-progress manuscript.

Katie leans against me and I wrap my arms around her.
“I am her best friend. We lived together. Why do you know about Shawna? She never… never mentioned her to me.” She starts crying and grabs at my shirt for something to hold on to.
“Rachel has her reasons. I told her she should tell you, but…” I squeeze Katie tight, my brain running at a 100 mph trying to find the words to make the pain stop. But I can’t. “Rachel has her own healing that she needs to do. And… and I wish this wasn’t the case but… but she needs something different in order to heal.”
“But I love her! I love her so much! Why is that not enough? Why is that not enough?” Katie’s crying turns into unrestrained sobs. Her knees give out and I ease her down to sit on the bed.
I break down in tears as well. I want to make it all better but I know it won’t be for a long time. All I can do is to be here for her, for as long as she needs me.
She curls into me and we both cry deep into the night.

December 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

Yes. The fascist politicians and billionaires who are currently ruining the country are massively mediocre thinkers and monumentally uncreative chumps. They have the advantage of a total lack of morals and a willingness to commit any crime imaginable. But they're losers and they will lose.

Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6d

they are not brilliant.

the billionaires and institutions in this country are just more craven than we could have ever imagined, even in our most cynical imaginings.

(don't tell me you could imagine. I won't give you a medal.)

December 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM

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Jessica Olin is Tired but Still Masks

@olinj.bsky.social

#Smutcember I haven't written it, but I did plot out a baseball AU for Leander and Maya. He's the batting coach and she's the brand new head of PR. (It was inspired by @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social writing paranormal AUs for some of her books.)

Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 6d

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 2:23 PM

Walking in a Harris Wonderland

@walkerharris.net

There's two AUs I've toyed with:

A historically inaccurate Wild West where bank robbing gunslinger Katie "Doc" Moon & her partner-in-crime Rarity Rachel are laying low. But when Doc Moon takes a job protecting a cattle ranch, things heat up between her and widowed rancher Kyle Lloyd.

#Smutcember
🧵

Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 6d

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 2:42 PM

Walking in a Harris Wonderland

@walkerharris.net

I love research for writing, and with my rock romance I've learned so many fun bits of music knowledge like the origin of the pause button symbol.

And here, despite overflowing with nervous energy, former music history professor Katie would of course have to clarify which came first. 😅

#WIPSnips

Screenshot of a work-in-progress manuscript with the word 'slanted' highlighted.

I ignore my horn dog’s recommendations about working some energy out and focus on how Katie might think. How she works.
I say, “Think about a lull in music…”
“A caesura?”
“Uh, I’m blanking on that one.”
“It is a silent fermata. A pause.”
“Oh yeah! That one that looks like a slanted pause button.”
Her face scrunches up. “Well… it is actually the other way around, pause buttons look like caesuras, but yes.”
“Got it. But that is not what I’m talking about. I have the feeling you might not be able to get to a full silent fermata.” She shrugs and nods uncomfortably fast at that. “I am thinking like in Beethoven’s 9th. That section where it quietly builds before exploding into the finale.”
Her face lights up. “Yes! That is on my list of the 12 best transitions in all of music. I looove that moment!”

December 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM

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Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them)

@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social

A reminder that all my stuff is free.

It's on the blog: ddwardiswriting.blogspot.com.

It's on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/ddwardiswrit....

And it's on my webpage: ddwardiswriting.com.

No pay wall. No sign up required. Like my stuff? Read my stuff.

D.D. Ward is Writing

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December 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM

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Jessica Olin is Tired but Still Masks

@olinj.bsky.social

Pen and Yan are 1000% platonic besties, espesh since Yan is aro/ace.

“Princess Penlohi Cleatlu, will you please look at me when I’m talking?”
“I’m not a princess anymore and you, of all people, should know that.” Despite her tone, Pen looked down at her one companion from home, Yan, who—despite wearing a human shape—still managed to fill his expression with all the disdain she expected from a minor orc officiant. “What is it?”
“We need to talk about money. Getting the roof fixed took up most of our reserves.”
She gestured to a pile behind him, a pile that wasn’t part of her regular sleeping surface. “We have money. Plenty of it. Just sell some of the gold.”
“Will you please transform so I don’t get a crick in my neck from staring up at you?”
Pen grumbled again, but did as he asked. She spent most of her time lately in human form because of the need for secrecy, but hated to be anything but herself—a full grown dragon—while in her hoard.

December 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM

Walking in a Harris Wonderland

@walkerharris.net

All 4 of them are MCs at varying points as well as various combinations of LIs, platonic besties, not-so-platonic besties that become LIs, etc. 😉

With it raining at their campsite, the band crams together into a too small tent quite comfortable and cozy together.

Screenshot of a work-in-progress manuscript.

After feeling silly texting and shouting between tents 10 feet apart, Katie and Rachel dash over to ours. The tents we borrowed from friends of Rachel are cozy for two but cramped tight with four of us in here.
We could probably arrange ourselves a bit more normally, but no one seems to mind as Katie and Rachel dive into the tent and sprawl over the two of us. AJ lets Rachel settle in resting against his chest and belly.
I try to be casual about Katie sitting in my lap and Rachel’s legs over hers. Katie and I even have to have an arm around each other and my other one resting on Rachel’s legs because there was nowhere else to put them without being awkward.
This is fine. Just a band meeting in a very small tent.
Truth be told, the rain is worrisome, but it is wonderful all piled in together so comfortable with each other on this momentous day. It feels more appropriate for us than politely, and awkwardly, tucked into separate corners.
A cuddle pile of Rachel and Katie across us “Lloyd Boys” feels like the Philosopher Queens way.

December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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HoliDani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚

@danifinnwrites.bsky.social

Happy Solstice everyone! 🌲

HoliDani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 13d

🌲FIRST LIGHT🌲

A Winnie & Crela Solstice Tale

Once a year, after the Longest Night, Crela can watch the weak winter sun rise.

She created a ghoulish but hopeful ritual over the years.

Now, she's going to share it with Winnie.

danifinn.itch.io/first-light

books2read.com/b/mBqj8y

1/

First Light, a Winnie & Crela Solstice Tale by Dani Finn, showing a witchy woman holding a candle in spooky red-tinted woods

December 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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Prof Elfmily & Spoopdolph the Red-Nosed Catdeer

@professoremily.bsky.social

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky

I'm sure nothing will go wrong 🥲

From #Tenement, my dystopian mystery about people living in an infinite building.

He pulled the Nwissy out of his pocket. It dangled from its chain, its tarnished golden surface gleaming in the grimy light of the electric bulbs. He dropped it into my outstretched palm; it was heavier than I expected. The little arrow wobbled as I held it, hovering halfway between the N and the E.
“Noah.” Jon gave me a pleading look. “I think this is a really, really bad idea.”
“It’ll be fine.” I tucked the Nwissy into my pocket and turned back to the doorway. “It’s only twelve paces.”
For a few moments I stood on the threshold, gritting my teeth and building up my courage.
“Here.” Jon reached into the pack he’d been carrying and pulled out a silver flashlight. He handed it to me. “Just in case.”
“Thanks.” I clicked on the flashlight, and the beam speared through the darkness, revealing a long narrow swatch of the floor.
Taking a deep breath, I plunged in.
“One.” I counted each step. “Two... Three...”
Kazuo and Jon, watching breathlessly, began to count with me.
“Four... Five... Six...”

December 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author.

@rjmartinwrites.com

🏃‍♂️ Fast-paced narrative (try and keep up)
💥 Explosions
🔫 Flirting at gunpoint
🗣️ Taunting and banter
💥 More Explosions
🏎️ A flying car chase
🔗 and some kink
🐦 This Is How You Lose the Time War x Cowboy Bebop

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic #PromoSky #SciFiBooks 🪐📚🌶️🌈📚💙📚📢

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · Oct 23

Most women can't keep up with B—until K shows up. K is smart, sexy, dangerous, and came back even after B threw a grenade at her

The problem is K is trying to collect the price on her head

wp.me/Pg9m23-2k

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic 🪐📚🌈📚🌶️📚💙📢📚

- A bounty hunter falls for her bounty
- Collateral damage
- A kick-ass leather jacket
- Handcuffs, a camera and a belt
- Enemies to lovers romance
- Planet-hopping space opera

A drawing of a woman in a leather jacket using her pistol barrel to lift the brim of the cowboy hat of a woman in a tanktop with the following

Title: Do You Know What You're Worth, Bombshell Jones?

Tagline: When the bounty hunter out for your head starts sending nudes

By RJ Martin

October 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM

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Juliet E McKenna

@julietemckenna.bsky.social

A thread to read up and down.

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 7d

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.

Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

December 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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