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Lenia "read Ambrosia" Lenient 🫑👁👁 @lenialenient.bsky.social · Apr 8
LENNY BOOKS MASTERPOST (the published ones) #queerbooks #queerauthors

REAL JOBS (2023)
Queer artist flatshare novel. Tragicomedy, or just one of those things, depending on who you ask

AMBROSIA (2025)
Pseudo-dystopian girlgroup novel. Lesbian psychological horror about stardom and Being Looked At
Cover of Real Jobs by Lenia Lenient. A stylized, sharp-limbed figure compressed in a stylized, sharp-angled box. The box is pink, the person is yellow, the background is blue, and all of it is aggressively saturated. The title font (also yellow) is big and squiggly and looks like it's shaking. The sub-header is "A novel about art." Book Cover for AMBROSIA by Lenia Lenient. The face of a greek-statue-esque face of a woman in profile, no expression. Against the dark reddish-pink background, she is brightly illuminated in pale yellow, big white light spots on her forehead and cheeks. She is melting, her hair merging with her face and her nose dripping. The title spells out her name from top to bottom next to her in a sleek font.
lenialenient.bsky.social
ah yes, the fateful moment in the apocalypse roadtrip novel wherein Noam finally has to drive Frieda's horrible, no-good, very bad car #wipsnips #writesky
Noam gestures from Frieda to the driver’s seat. “I’m doing navigation,” says Frieda. “I can do navigation,” says Noam. “Well,” says Frieda. They open and close their mouth, then laugh - sharp and short. “I can’t drive right now.” “What do you mean you can’t drive? Why not?” “I just can’t right now!” “Why!” “Because I’m-” Hand still on the bonnet, Frieda takes a deep breath, leans closer, and whispers, “-high as a fucking kite.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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TURNS OUT my beloved pseudo-dystopian girlgroup novel got nominated for the #indieinkawards this year! I'm getting a bit shy in the company I'm in..... I'm just a humble farmer tending to my unwell lesbians...
Graphic of the Ambrosia cover, featuring a vaguely greek-statue-looking profile of a woman, melting in bright limelight like candle wax. Writing above: Indie Ink Awards. Writing Below: "Writing the Future We Need: Gay or Lesbian Representation"
December 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
from the ambrosia opening.... im kind of inconsolable about the fact that the novel that takes place entirely over the course of a made up award show does not have the word "prize" in it a single time

#wipsnips #booksky #writesky
Ruby grasps at Nova’s shoulders, sometimes her face when she tries to make her look up, and says either “It’s alright, okay?” or “It’s okay, alright?” or “Stop crying.” It might not sound very comforting, but in this one and only instance, it is. Ruby’s still holding her white award statue in one hand. The red polish on her perfectly oval nails is so bright against it I can’t look away. It’s chipped now, and she’s swollen-knuckled like me. She’s also shaking, which I’m not. “We’re okay. Stop crying.”
October 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
me, ten minutes ago: aw man i dont have that
me, five minutes ago: WAIT

#wipsnips #writesky #booksky #writingcommunity
“So – what?” I said, “You’d just go around decking people every time they brought it up?” “I also sued my parents when I was fourteen. Or tried to, anyway.” Summer stretched her arms, near boredom as if the last seconds had never happened. “Children are evil. Teens – even worse. Tell me you wouldn’t have come out of there with some juvenile assault and battery charges.” “I wouldn’t have come out of there with juvenile assault and battery charges.” “Boo, you hall monitor.”
October 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
the way i ran home the moment my time was up so i could play more hades 2... my inner gamer is healing
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
lenialenient.bsky.social
One of the many joys of First Person Homunculus Perspective is that Alraun's lack of knowledge about... literally anything forces me to refer to a nurse bringing them pudding as "the goo-bearer" (and hence i have something for this #wipsnips prompt)

#writesky #writingcommunity
“Wait,” Janine slips through the door, looking frazzled and a bit wild in the eyes. Janine ushers the goo-bearer aside, and lowers herself to my eye-level in its stead. She rummages through her bag for a pair of gloves, strips them on, then sticks her hands in one of her pockets, then the other. Out, she pulls the bramble-being's berry and holds it out to me between two fingers.
September 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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another AMBROSIA snippie for #wipsnips !!
beware of injury description (or don't if that's your kind of thing)

#writesky #writingcommunity #booksky
“I didn’t know it was this bad,” I said. A pitch-dark bruise the size of a fist sat proudly in the center of her thigh. From it, a blotchy line trickled down to the back of her knee like someone had spilled ink underneath her skin. “It’s not a good look,” she said. “Take a picture?”
September 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
hello #wipsnips tag i am offering you sapphic activity once again
(don't worry about the blood, it's her own)

#writesky #writingcommunity #booksky
“You’re making that sound an awful lot like an offer, Moira.” “Oh, make of it what you will.” Summer dropped into an exaggerated shrug. “I wouldn’t think you’re fun like that but who knows? If you ever feel like you need to rage, you know where to find me.” I watched her carefully, waited for the laughter, the quirk of the mouth, or, alternatively, even a hint of shame. None of that. “You’re unbearable,” I said. Summer laughed. She tip-toed just close enough and swiftly flicked a streak of blood from my upper lip with her thumb. “You should try it sometime.” She gave my shoulder a pat, and strolled back into the recording studio like nothing ever happened.
September 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
#awesomecharacters ok i GOTTA bring Kiwi into this, who is liable to

- gesticulate in big sweeping motions that no one else understands

- speak in vague groans of misfortune

- make a face thats described as a "very close approximation of the grimacing emoji," as pictured here:
A young man in a leather jacket and upwardly styled hair that's bleached and dyed green. His frown is almost a perfect half circle. (This is my own art.)
September 26, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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AMBROSIA deleted scene, if you will
#ocart
Nova, Ambrosia, and Ruby watching footage of their own performance, wherein they are all stanced in power poses, wearing color-coded outfits. We see them from the front now. None of them look as glamorous as they do on screen, sporting hoodies and tank tops, hair unstyled. They look at each other with unsure faces. Behind them on the wall: a plaque that reads "Remember: Smile lines aren't avoidable - but frown lines are!" and a poster advertising VibeFood yogurt with the tag line "It's next to nothing!" The last member of the Moxxy group, Summer. She sits by herself, hunched with bad posture, chin resting in her hand, watching the screen impassionately. Summer announces: "We look like Winx Club."
September 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
summary of recent events:

- going off antidepressants makes the muse clobber me over the head with new ideas every 15 seconds
- my days now start at 3am (involuntarily)
- my creative output is unmatched
- there is some sort of medically concerning evil sludge within me
September 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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im back and stranger
September 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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#WIPSnips | absorb

Fest facing off against a horrifying Something that emerged out of a ritual circle - because even though he's scared out of his mind, the thing's trying to hurt Anneke and that can't be allowed to stand

( saranadosfiction.com/2020/05/16/b... )
Clearly someone needed to do something. And, in the absence of anyone more qualified, ‘someone’ meant him. “Hey! Hey, you! How about picking on someone who’s actually conscious, for a change?” The thing turned its head – or, at least, what passed for its head, since it wasn’t as though it had much of a face to speak of – towards him, the three glowing red orbs which he assumed were its eyes narrowing in what looked almost like confusion. “Yes, I’m talking to you!” He pushed himself away from the bookcase he’d collided with, grabbing one of the less expensive-looking volumes and holding it in front of him like a shield. It wouldn’t do much against the thing’s tentacles, if it tried to go for him, but it might at least absorb enough of the damage that he could get himself mostly out of the way. ‘Might’ being the operative word. “What’s the matter? Is picking on unconscious priests the best you can do?” His mouth seemed to be operating completely independently of his brain at this point – the latter being currently employed keeping up a running commentary which went something along the lines of ‘oh gods oh gods oh gods I’m going to die I’m going to die I’m going to die’ – and he found himself listening to the words coming out of it with a sort of horrified fascination. *At least I’m going to die sounding vaguely like I know what I’m doing. Somehow.* “Come and have a go, if you think you’re hard enough!”
September 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
'nother from the apocalypse roadtrip

#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity #booksky
The pre-apocalyptic suburbs are very different from the pre-apocalyptic cities. Curated flower patches and hand-raised tomato plants rear their heads behind the fences. They seem like the only survivors of a quiet, unknown calamity; aside from them, the place is already dead. Frieda’s Hyundai is the only car on the road. No one’s outside. With few exceptions, the lights are out. It is completely, utterly, silent.
August 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
bringing ya the apocalypse roadtrip novel again 🫴

#wipsnips #writesky #booksky #writingprompts
“Do you ever think we’re being defeatist?” asks Vivienne, she brushes her palms over the grass. “Don’t you wonder if we should be finding a bunker or something right now – stocking up on bottled water?” “Hm,” says Frieda, “I guess preppers are on a real ego trip right now.” “It’s just… weird.” Vivienne sits up straight. “It feels like, okay, the world is ending – shouldn’t we try to do something?” A few paces away, a group of university kids under a tree wave at them. Vivienne waves back. “Like what?” says Lowri. “We’re doing something,” says Frieda, doing their best to fit their whole hand into a Pringles can.
August 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
why are my dreams either me witnessing, in third person, a fully formed revolutionary story premise with three acts and feature film editing or the recurring one i have about misplacing my shoes
August 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
hello #wipsnips, today im presenting only the most tasteful hint of cultural imperialism critique
#writesky #writingprompts #booksky
“Any questions?” “Yes,” I said, I lifted my chin and steadied my nervous hands. “What do I need to be considered by one of the international labels?” By international, I obviously meant American. After a moment of quiet, a man at the end of the reviewer table said: “Good English, for one.” He spoke in English, to stress his point, and to show that it had only the faintest Bulgarian tint. He must’ve had something to do with the foreign communications department. “I have that.” English lessons at Radar Talent were more intense and frequent than they’d ever been at school. For years, I’d prioritized my ABC over my АБВ and every evening I sat in my room, practicing my th, w, and h sounds. After all, English was the language of music, showbiz, and media.
August 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
lenialenient.bsky.social
Do NOT write every day. Do NOT have word goals.

First of all: Rest will give your mind the space it needs to be creative. Second of all: Forcing yourself to do the thing when you don't feel like doing the thing will have you crashing head-first into burnout. Every! Time!
understatesmen.bsky.social Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · Aug 4
Alright, share your terrible writing tips that actually work.

Mine is: stop for the day in the middle of a paragraph, a sentence, even in the middle of a word. It feels SO wrong but it makes it 1000x easier to pick up the thread the next day.
August 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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HOW i am supposed to deal with the fact that every time i log on here i find like 15 new people whose books i want to read when i take 2 months to read a single medium length novel
July 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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#WritingPrompt #bones
CW? past injury? I didn’t feel like sharing gore.

I’ve shared this one before (it’s my fave) and I think it’s slammin’!
"What work is this?" she asked. "It is the work of Kudrum, my lady." With a brush of her eyes Lady Jannia assessed his condition. She plumbed the history of his pain, stripped him naked from the agonies of debridement back to the teeth of the fire, dragged him rearward in time through capture and torment, to the real origin of his maiming; and death's tiny, chill echo bound it all together like an invisible scar. She left no flesh on him, only bones, and a small, narrow crease between her brows marred her face then. She folded her arms. "How is it you survived?" "I don't know."
July 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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way late but considering this prompt i am legally obliged to introduce you to Vitriol
CW for see-through glass homunculus with visible skeleton and organs 👍
#writingprompt
“And, also, the humans are not listening to a word I say. They will face the other way, or they will stare in horror, or they will evacuate their previous foods. I believe I’d be hurting our perception more than helping it. They do not like, at all, to look at me.” Brain bobbing back and forth in its cerebral fluid behind Vitriol’s entirely see-through glass head, it turns to Janine. “Am I wrong?” Janine, who has only as much as glanced at Vitriol from the corner of her eye for the past hour, says “Well.” “No one likes to look at you,” says Sagitta, perched on the chair across Vitriol. “Human or not.” “All the organs you see are organs you also have,” says Vitriol. It blinks its glass lids – though its big round eyeballs remain visible regardless – and raises one bone-encased-in-glass finger to point at its own brain. “Mostly.”
July 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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INTERESTING
authorizedmusings.bsky.social Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · Jul 25
🔥⚔️🔥BURN UP IN VICTORY🔥⚔️🔥 is OUT NOW in hardcover and ebook (including HOOPLA!)

books2read.com/burnupinvict...
Burn Up in Victory book cover in the center of a black field above: "why is everybody so obsessed with her?" clockwise, with an arrow pointing from each item to the book cover: Society Dinners magical city (what does it want) (don't worry about it) lifting a chin with a sword "I didn't know where else to go" everybody's sleeping with everybody too many duels
July 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Itch has made many of these authors' works impossible to find in search

But you can still find them right here in this bundle & support disabled creatives trying to survive - without giving Itch a dime
diannalgunn.bsky.social Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · Jul 28
We're disabled and queer. 🏳️🌈 We sell our writing to eat.

We launched two book sales — each has 20 books for $30. Itch bowed to conservative pressure, and hid them without warning.

Do you agree this is bullshit? Then help us make them pay.

disabilitypac.carrd.co

#MakeCensorshipCost #BookSky
Disability Pride Against Censorship
We’re Disabled and Queer — Itch.io and the Payment Processors Are Starving Us.
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July 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
lenialenient.bsky.social
today i am bringing you the apocalypse roadtrip novel and vivienne edith lucas five minutes after throwing up into the sink at an impromptu house party
#wipsnips #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky
Vivienne, as soon as she can turn her head without upsetting her sense of balance, opens the fridge and drinks two whole half litre bottles of water. She starts a third, but then comes to think that she’d probably, like, die if she drank it all, so she teeters out of the kitchen and pours the rest into the ficus. She stares at the ficus. She finds her phone and sends her parents the pictures of the Strasbourg cathedral. No one in the Lucas group chat responds immediately, which makes sense because it is the middle of the night – a new day! It is tomorrow! Fuck! – and if they aren’t sleeping they probably have something better to do. Vivienne’s head spins and it feels horrible and the bass of whatever bullshit Frieda has put on is louder than God and she’s alone in the world with the fucking ficus.
July 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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are there even any itch alternatives... anything where i could make stuff available on a PWYW basis... how does kofi even work for books
July 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM