🐸 Vernalis the Writer
@frogwithapen.bsky.social
27 ☆ they/it ☆ neurodivergent ☆ aspiring sci-fi writer ☆ working on #eternacode
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We report: the moon is in the sky again, only just dipping into the chilly night before it sets in a few hours. The clouds are spreading out along invisible patterns, like a flock of birds scouring the horizon. The air is redolent with damp wood, and the deep scent of the mire.
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We report: the moon is in the sky again, only just dipping into the chilly night before it sets in a few hours. The clouds are spreading out along invisible patterns, like a flock of birds scouring the horizon. The air is redolent with damp wood, and the deep scent of the mire.
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Awww yiss if my talk about Inix got you interested in what I'm working on, you can follow along and even get a copy come November using this link! TheLuckyMachine.com
#TBBChat
#TBBChat
September 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Awww yiss if my talk about Inix got you interested in what I'm working on, you can follow along and even get a copy come November using this link! TheLuckyMachine.com
#TBBChat
#TBBChat
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Open Call: Radon Journal February 2026 Issue ( @radonjournal.bsky.social )
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Due: Dec 31
Pay: Fiction: 2¢/word, Poetry: $20. Art: $110/cover, $50/back cover, & $20 for website art
Theme: Stories & poetry containing elements of scifi/anarchism/transhumanism/dystopia
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
Due: Dec 31
Pay: Fiction: 2¢/word, Poetry: $20. Art: $110/cover, $50/back cover, & $20 for website art
Theme: Stories & poetry containing elements of scifi/anarchism/transhumanism/dystopia
September 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Open Call: Radon Journal February 2026 Issue ( @radonjournal.bsky.social )
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
Due: Dec 31
Pay: Fiction: 2¢/word, Poetry: $20. Art: $110/cover, $50/back cover, & $20 for website art
Theme: Stories & poetry containing elements of scifi/anarchism/transhumanism/dystopia
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
Due: Dec 31
Pay: Fiction: 2¢/word, Poetry: $20. Art: $110/cover, $50/back cover, & $20 for website art
Theme: Stories & poetry containing elements of scifi/anarchism/transhumanism/dystopia
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The evil that men do lives after them
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The evil that men do lives after them
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We are happy to announce our first zine's official title: "We've Always Been Here" 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Through different characters in various time periods and cultures, we aim to show that queer people have always existed, and always will.
Artist applications will be opening next week!
#Zine #QueerZine #LGBTQ
Through different characters in various time periods and cultures, we aim to show that queer people have always existed, and always will.
Artist applications will be opening next week!
#Zine #QueerZine #LGBTQ
September 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We are happy to announce our first zine's official title: "We've Always Been Here" 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Through different characters in various time periods and cultures, we aim to show that queer people have always existed, and always will.
Artist applications will be opening next week!
#Zine #QueerZine #LGBTQ
Through different characters in various time periods and cultures, we aim to show that queer people have always existed, and always will.
Artist applications will be opening next week!
#Zine #QueerZine #LGBTQ
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A simple but important way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. A helpful list is in the link below but please do explore @arablit.bsky.social more widely as well as publishers like @commapress.bsky.social
This should not be limited to English. We've reached out to people who can help with lists of Palestinian lit in Turkish, Indonesian, Malayalam, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German. If you can help with these or other languages, please message.
arablit.org/2025/09/08/l...
arablit.org/2025/09/08/l...
List in Progress: Palestinian Literature Forthcoming Fall 2025 or 2026
Although we generally focus on literature in translation, this encompasses literature written by Palestinians in any language (and a few additional titles at the end). Please let us know if you hav…
arablit.org
September 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A simple but important way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. A helpful list is in the link below but please do explore @arablit.bsky.social more widely as well as publishers like @commapress.bsky.social
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🚔The Incorporated States🚔
The US incorporated in the mid 21st century.
Internet access was restricted to text-based CorpNet terminals for a time until their stranglehold was complete.
Advances in AI allowed for mass control through technology.
There were some who resisted.
🔗 👇
The US incorporated in the mid 21st century.
Internet access was restricted to text-based CorpNet terminals for a time until their stranglehold was complete.
Advances in AI allowed for mass control through technology.
There were some who resisted.
🔗 👇
September 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚔The Incorporated States🚔
The US incorporated in the mid 21st century.
Internet access was restricted to text-based CorpNet terminals for a time until their stranglehold was complete.
Advances in AI allowed for mass control through technology.
There were some who resisted.
🔗 👇
The US incorporated in the mid 21st century.
Internet access was restricted to text-based CorpNet terminals for a time until their stranglehold was complete.
Advances in AI allowed for mass control through technology.
There were some who resisted.
🔗 👇
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Oh, hey.
Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".
Let that sink in.
Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.
Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".
Let that sink in.
Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.
Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.
September 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Oh, hey.
Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".
Let that sink in.
Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.
Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".
Let that sink in.
Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.
So far, most of the aliens are relatively humanoid. But that could change 👀✨️ #eternacode is intended to be a trilogy, so there are plenty of chances to make it Weird
#SciFiSeptember day 10: how different are the aliens from humans? Do you stick with funny foreheads or go all the way to ineffable space clouds? Why do you make that choice?
September 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
So far, most of the aliens are relatively humanoid. But that could change 👀✨️ #eternacode is intended to be a trilogy, so there are plenty of chances to make it Weird
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To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior.
These are inextricably linked.
These are inextricably linked.
September 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior.
These are inextricably linked.
These are inextricably linked.
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This time last year, we published a fabulous essay from Rjurik Davidson about the connection between time travel and trauma. It made me think very deep thoughts and it's still available to read over here:
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/critical-choices
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/critical-choices
September 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This time last year, we published a fabulous essay from Rjurik Davidson about the connection between time travel and trauma. It made me think very deep thoughts and it's still available to read over here:
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/critical-choices
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/critical-choices
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Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost
- Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below.
- Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share.
- Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter!
NSFW and erotica welcome.
#WriteSky #BookSky
- Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below.
- Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share.
- Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter!
NSFW and erotica welcome.
#WriteSky #BookSky
September 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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My books! All queer fantasy romance novellas.
Structural Integrity & Structural Strain: A couple navigates life & their relationship in a city with a sharp class divide
Dirt-Stained Hands, Thorn-Pierced Skin: Loose Beauty & the Beast retelling
Full blurbs and purchase links at tabithaoconnell.com
Structural Integrity & Structural Strain: A couple navigates life & their relationship in a city with a sharp class divide
Dirt-Stained Hands, Thorn-Pierced Skin: Loose Beauty & the Beast retelling
Full blurbs and purchase links at tabithaoconnell.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
My books! All queer fantasy romance novellas.
Structural Integrity & Structural Strain: A couple navigates life & their relationship in a city with a sharp class divide
Dirt-Stained Hands, Thorn-Pierced Skin: Loose Beauty & the Beast retelling
Full blurbs and purchase links at tabithaoconnell.com
Structural Integrity & Structural Strain: A couple navigates life & their relationship in a city with a sharp class divide
Dirt-Stained Hands, Thorn-Pierced Skin: Loose Beauty & the Beast retelling
Full blurbs and purchase links at tabithaoconnell.com
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"You attract what you fear."
Oh my god nooooo, unlimited free time to write my weird little stories in a secluded forest cabin, AHHHHH, get away from meeeeee
Oh my god nooooo, unlimited free time to write my weird little stories in a secluded forest cabin, AHHHHH, get away from meeeeee
September 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"You attract what you fear."
Oh my god nooooo, unlimited free time to write my weird little stories in a secluded forest cabin, AHHHHH, get away from meeeeee
Oh my god nooooo, unlimited free time to write my weird little stories in a secluded forest cabin, AHHHHH, get away from meeeeee
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This probably won't be the last I say about this, but: If you're counting on your underground resources to sustain the trans community while the government strips away rights, you need to answer the question of how people not currently connected or in-the-know will be able to access them.
Gotta love the "LOL just do DIY, it's easy!" "Okay, how do I access that?" "WHAT ARE YOU A COP?" cycle.
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This probably won't be the last I say about this, but: If you're counting on your underground resources to sustain the trans community while the government strips away rights, you need to answer the question of how people not currently connected or in-the-know will be able to access them.
Yes to both!
#eternacode takes place across multiple galaxies so there will be other forms of intelligent life beyond humans. Establishing connection with other societies is what one of the mc's, Cassandra Kaye's, parents do!
#eternacode takes place across multiple galaxies so there will be other forms of intelligent life beyond humans. Establishing connection with other societies is what one of the mc's, Cassandra Kaye's, parents do!
#SciFiSeptember day 8: aliens!!! Does your world have intelligent aliens? Do we get to meet them? Tell us about one!
September 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Yes to both!
#eternacode takes place across multiple galaxies so there will be other forms of intelligent life beyond humans. Establishing connection with other societies is what one of the mc's, Cassandra Kaye's, parents do!
#eternacode takes place across multiple galaxies so there will be other forms of intelligent life beyond humans. Establishing connection with other societies is what one of the mc's, Cassandra Kaye's, parents do!
Extremely annoyed at the management at my new job. One is very strict about everyone having fully open availability despite always taking the same day off every week himself. Another uses chat/gpt to write stories. That one and another don't use my proper pronouns. I hate them all.
September 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Extremely annoyed at the management at my new job. One is very strict about everyone having fully open availability despite always taking the same day off every week himself. Another uses chat/gpt to write stories. That one and another don't use my proper pronouns. I hate them all.
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🎃 more details later but we we will re-open for GHOULISH TALES submissions September 15 - October 15. nothing longer than 5k words. payment 10c per word. an emphasis on "fun horror"—however you interpret that. let's get spooky, ghouls. 🎃
September 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🎃 more details later but we we will re-open for GHOULISH TALES submissions September 15 - October 15. nothing longer than 5k words. payment 10c per word. an emphasis on "fun horror"—however you interpret that. let's get spooky, ghouls. 🎃
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required reading
September 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
required reading
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I wish every company who only displays legal names with no option for chosen/preferred names a very burn down immediately (yes this is a complaint about my new job)
September 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I wish every company who only displays legal names with no option for chosen/preferred names a very burn down immediately (yes this is a complaint about my new job)
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April 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Help an artist pay his bills, take a look at my shop! ✨👁️ i got prints, stickers and original art! #artsky #blueskynightmarket #art ko-fi.com/scarycircus/...
March 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Help an artist pay his bills, take a look at my shop! ✨👁️ i got prints, stickers and original art! #artsky #blueskynightmarket #art ko-fi.com/scarycircus/...
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I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...
this is why we don't read the Golden Age anymore.
There are so many histories of the future.
Spinning through timespace, studying this apocalypse, a key part of my undercover mission is studying stories about the future. When and where and how were ...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
September 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...