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Joe Bruehler 🇺🇦🇩🇪
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He/Him. Sci-Fi and Spec Fic Guy. Nature obsessed. Librarian by day, woods wizard by night. #LateNightWrite lesser host. Father of cats. Enemy of fish. Find me among the fungi.

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Joe Bruehler 🇺🇦🇩🇪 @joebruehler.bsky.social · Feb 12
Back on a limited basis while I figure out the best way to moderate my experience and time here.
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anotherindiewriter.com
18 days until Opus releases.

Current preorders across all platforms: 41 (15 Itch, 12 Ko-Fi, 10 Amazon, 3 Kobo, 1 IRL [really])

Goal before release on December 12: 65

Goal for fancy bookmark reward: 69

Time is running out for handmade bookmarks

books2read.com/opus
anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
anotherindiewriter.com S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 5d
I fell off updating this. Oops.

23 days until Opus releases.

Current preorders across all platforms: 39 (15 Itch, 11 Ko-Fi, 10 Amazon, 3 Kobo)

Goal before release on December 12: 65

Goal for fancy bookmark reward: 69

Hey! Next preorder is 40!

books2read.com/opus
anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
anotherindiewriter.com S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 21d
Four weeks post novella announcement

Current preorders across all platforms: 27 (11 Itch, 8 Ko-Fi, 7 Amazon, 1 Kobo)

Goal before release on December 12th: 65

Goal for the fancy bookmarks below: 69

Thank you to all who have supported so far💚

books2read.com/opus OR anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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scalzi.com
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
POND RULES: No swimming, jumping or gallivanting. Do not disturb the pond witch. No fishing with dynamite. Sacrifices to water gods on alternate Wednesdays only - NO EXCEPTIONS! Taunt the crows at your own risk. If a hand comes out of the water to beckon you, turn and walk away. Do not feed the weretrout. Is the water burning with cold unholy fire? Report it to the ranger! They’re not ducks. Run. Have fun!
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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p-a-s.bsky.social
Just how I’m tryin to be
A painting by Walton Ford of a spectacular mandrill chilling on a nice chair in a large, airy room next to a table covered in delicious victuals. He’s got his wang out, and he’s completely unbothered, puffing on a pipe as long as his whole body. If you can see it, you can be it.
December 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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octopusgallery.bsky.social
I am not doing a special sale in my shop this weekend because everything is already at cost, I’m not able to ship until next week, and I didn’t make some of the extra stuff I intended. But cat toys and goat totes are available! Bookmarks! A couple of original paintings!

ko-fi.com/octopusgalle...
Visit OctopusGallery's Shop!
Pay what you can crafts and art. Lots of upcycling and creative reuse but mostly cat toys.
ko-fi.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Look. I get it. Sex sells. And I have not been appealing to you with attractive people in my posts enough. Well no longer! Lust. Drool over their visage. Do as they say. Consume. Acquire.

anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus

or

books2read.com/opus

or

ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb
A pair of white rectangles superimposed on a beach. On the left is hand scrawled text reading "pretend a hot person is here". On the right is the cover of Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina. It is a beige/off-white cover with the book's title in gray-blue text. At the top is the text "A novella in three movements" and at the bottom is the author's name, S. Morgan Burbank. At the bottom reads "bottom text"
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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whatashrinkthinks.com
“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
michiganadoptees.bsky.social Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition @michiganadoptees.bsky.social · 23h
A mother shares the terrifying reality that her internationally adopted son, raised in the U.S. since childhood, could be detained or deported by ICE because he was never granted citizenship. 35-70k adoptees remain in this legal limbo. Urge Congress to pass the PAAF Act. 🥚
I'm A U.S. Citizen. I'm Terrified My Adopted Son Will Be Snatched By ICE Due To A Heartbreaking Loophole.
"I lie awake at night worried that he’ll be snatched off the street and taken to a nightmarish prison in some other country, and I’ll never see him again."
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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gwillow.me
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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sjksalisbury.bsky.social
Said the phrase 'I'm over the moon!' to a Polish man and he was a little confused and asked what I meant so I explained and when I finished he just shook his head and said 'You're happy but you have no business in space.'
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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shenanigansen.bsky.social
"oooo i'd draw that but i can't draw"

brother get this through your head

NOBODY can draw

we are literally

ALL

BULLSHITTING
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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blackbirb.bsky.social
I'm 19% into my Ko-fi goal which means I got health insurance for another month. Meeting the full amount will give me a couple months' worth of breathing room to find a more permanent solution so... Any contribution or share helps. And thanks to everyone who helped or messaged to express support.❤️
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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catatante.bsky.social
Thanks for the host #LateNightWrite! Instead of linking to writing (as I haven't posted any new writings yet) I'm going to link the donation page for Blender (because modeling parts of your story helps with writing them)! Blender is Free and Open Source Software, by the way. fund.blender.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Look. I don't remember making this one. And tbh? Not my finest work. So can we all just acknowledge it and move on because with one more preorder Opus passes Woodpusher for all-time preorders

Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Azon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTWJ89VC
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
An image with text reading "minimalist house for sale. In fact, it is so minimalist it is not a house. It is a book. That you cannot live in. But it is $3 for the digital version."
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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melikhovo.bsky.social
Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.

Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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cait.bsky.social
happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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fereldanstew.bsky.social
Halloween people when the Christmas people start to take over.
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 4d
Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday
A jack-o-lantern on someone’s porch steps. The pumpkin is old and starting to rot in such a way that it looks like an old man with no teeth, making a grumpy expression, with the top also falling in. This pumpkin has seen some stuff.
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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bmwillows.bsky.social
Sale ends on the 23rd! These next couple months will also be the only time BLOODY SPADE & BLEEDING HEART (and the box set) are available via Kindle Unlimited for a while, so take advantage of that while you can if that's your jam!
bmwillows.bsky.social Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁 BUY MY QUEER CATBOY BOOKS @bmwillows.bsky.social · 7d
The Cardplay Duology ebook box set is on sale for $0.99! With the holidays around the corner, it could make a great gift for the YA Urban Fantasy reader in your life (or for yourself 😉✨)

♠️ amazon.com/dp/B0FC6Y3W51
♥️ amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FC6Y3W51

#BookSky #WritingCommunity
Promo graphic that reads "I got a BookBub Featured Deal?! Cardplay Duology Digital Box Set 99 cents on Kindle (US and UK), or get Bloody Spade and Bleeding Heart for 99 cents each (US and International). Image also has a 3D mock-up of a physical box set featuring art of the story's main duo, Ellen and Iori. Ellen is a girl with long white hair and a scythe, Iori is a boy with cat ears and a cat tail. A black ink-like substance swirls around them. A promotional graphic featuring 3D mock-ups of Bloody Spade and Bleeding Heart's, surrounded by a list of tropes/themes that appear in the Cardplay Duology. Text reads: Abundant hurt/comfort, inky body horror, hot-tempered fire wielder, bird girl with plant magic, a celestial deity with a penchant for murder, a budding QPR, returned magic, slow-burn romantic subplot, asexual panic, monsters born from malice, softhearted scythe-wielding girl, snarky cat-eared thief. Bloody Spade's cover depicts a black silhouette of a short-haired cat-eared boy with a glowing purple spade in front of him. Bleeding Heart's depicts a white silhouette of a girl with deer antlers and long flowing hair with a glowing heart in front of her.
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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bmwillows.bsky.social
There it is looking all official on the BookBub website!!

www.bookbub.com/books/the-ca...
Screenshot of the BookBub listing for The Cardplay Duology Box Set
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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cait.bsky.social
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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dly.bsky.social
first date idea: I eat a rotisserie chicken and you're in your home, eating your own rotisserie chicken
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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mlsamy.bsky.social
Library books not getting reshelved in a timely manner because none of the teen workers come in between 3pm and 6pm?

Problematic page gap.
anotherindiewriter.com S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 5d
Your fellow nights and squires didn't get the message for the all castle party because your understudy was sleeping?

Problematic page nap.
mcburnellauthor.bsky.social Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd @mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · 5d
Your elected representatives still saying stupid shit about reaching across aisles?

Problematic rage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Your fellow nights and squires didn't get the message for the all castle party because your understudy was sleeping?

Problematic page nap.
mcburnellauthor.bsky.social Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd @mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · 5d
Your elected representatives still saying stupid shit about reaching across aisles?

Problematic rage gap.
krystlematar.bsky.social K Matar @krystlematar.bsky.social · 5d
Your piercing doesn’t look the way you hoped it would?

Problematic gauge gap.
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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refrag.bsky.social
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Nerdy kid at keyboard: Hi guys, I've noticed that it is International Men's Day today, and I'm confused. Why do we need a day to talk about men? We're not a marginalised group like women, queer people, or people of colour. The media is already full of stories about men. Big buff shirtless dude at keyboard: I'm glad you asked, champ. Whatever your view on men's place in society, it's still true that we face a lot of issues - like social isolation, risk of suicide, health problems, and attitudes towards sex and child rearing. Having a day to talk about those doesn't take away from anyone else's problems. In fact, having a day to talk about them helps us be more mindful, and listen better at other times. Second shirtless buff dude on a couch at his laptop: The chief here is really on to something. I want to echo what he said, and also point out that the idea we should remain silent about our problems actually contributes to a lot of our issues. We are human beings, with human needs. Seeking mutual support and understanding isn't the same thing as placing a burden on others. Especially if we're providing it for each other. Third buff dude at his laptop: Right on, my fellow kings. We've inherited a social legacy of competition and division, and a lot of what makes a man in our era is under question. IMD is a chance for us to examine and rethink what we are together, and build the bonds of solidarity and support that will make a better way possible - like in this meme. Because in our hearts, we're all curious kids and buff guys on keyboards.
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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aebennettwrites.bsky.social
lots of depressing news right now

BUT LOOK - A SALE!

6 books for 6 bucks

go here: aebennettwrites.itch.io
All 6 Serrulata Saga books on a starry background.
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Do you want to see my favorite bad promo post of the entire month? Here you go. Censored text and all.

Preorder Opus (long name Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina) now :D

📚💙💕 #bsnm 🌈🚀💫 #BookSky 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #scifi 🖊️📖💰

books2read.com/opus
anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
A picture of a woman with long brown hair wearing a gray jacket standing in front of a window that looks out into a city. A quote beside her reads: "I read Opus on the train to work yesterday. I was so engrossed that I missed my stop. I ran into a woman I never would have otherwise met. We just co-signed a lease. She's h*lding my h*nd as I write this.". The quote is listed as being from Maddie J from Manhasset, NY.
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM