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🔞 A place for erotica, horror, and the unholy union of both.
⚙️ Eroticizing the machine in every way that matters.
⚠️ Watch your fingers.

🌐 https://synthandsyntax.com
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astramachina.bsky.social
77%? Not bad, not bad.

For the chronically online, an out of context spoiler for this book:
Picture of a still packaged lint roller. Screenshot of that One paramedic known on tiktok for telling people to Not™️
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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darkchibishadow.bsky.social
Pumpkin & Kabocha, Chapter 1 - Part 1

Simple, horny, indulgent yaoi. It's good 'ol satyr on naga action!
Cover for the comic, Pumpkin & Kabocha. Page for the comic, Pumpkin & Kabocha. Page for the comic, Pumpkin & Kabocha. Page for the comic, Pumpkin & Kabocha.
August 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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marywyrd.bsky.social
Every Wednesday, Horror Writers gather here to

> answer four questions/prompts > chat
> share our work
> support each other

Keep that horror vibe going all week long with the
#HorrorWritersChat Starter Pack

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August 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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astramachina.bsky.social
Thank you, Eryn! And the rest of the #HorrorWritersChat too!

MONITORED ACTIVITY, my novella about serial killers, Final Boys, and sentient malls is getting crowdfunded in November.

Signing up for updates right now gets you a ✨free ebook copy✨ of CHERRY KICKS RED MEAT!

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August 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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tdcloud.bsky.social
No better way to beat the heat than by embracing some award-winning toxic yaoi! If you like magic boys in dire scenarios, engaging with even more dire "love" interests, and experiencing the full range of human emotion, check out my Bad Time Duo, INFAUST and OSSUARY!

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July 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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vincentlore.bsky.social
Summer is ending but chills are forever. Check out my indie short stories! #Lovecraftian horror and gaslamp #gothic, these haunting mysteries are queer in more ways than one...

🤏📚 💙📚 #amreading #horrorsky

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
August 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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darkchibishadow.bsky.social
Here's the profile for Heden! He's meant to be a lovable slime ball with a secret heart of gold. Too many betrayals and risky battles has left him a little bit jaded and snarky, but I like to think he's just as desperate for a deep, sweet romance as Nua is. His tdick is huge so he likes short girls.
Profile for the character Heden.
August 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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darkchibishadow.bsky.social
Here's the profile for "Miss Kobold" aka Nua! She's a cis gal with some gender dysphoria problems and is way, way too uptight and repressed. Here's hoping an adventure in a sexy dungeon can loosen her up a bit, huh? (Honestly, she's been desperate for something sexy to happen to her for a while...)
A profile of Nua, a kobold scholar.
August 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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darkchibishadow.bsky.social
"Miss Kobold & Her Bodyguard" is an upcoming transhet erotica novella inspired by worlds like Dungeons and Dragons but with a sexy spin!

We're hoping to release Chapter 1 publicly sometime within the next few months and we really hope you'll join us for the full book too!
An ad for the upcoming novella, "Miss Kobold & Her Bodyguard"
August 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
synthandsyntax.bsky.social
It's Y2K, the mall might be eating people, but Shaw is too busy being a gay transman obsessed with getting in his boss' pants. His boss who is totally a serial killer. Like, Shaw literally saw him kill on the monitors.

That isn't a deal-breaker, though.

This one's for the fucked-up shit enjoyers.
August 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
synthandsyntax.bsky.social
Happy Yaoi Day to all who celebrate. ✌🏽
August 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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prismagic.bsky.social
Bluesky doesn't penalize you for using links, tags, using key words like Patreon or commissions, and doesn't have a central algorithm on your following feed, which means all the power rests on you to help your favourite creators be seen!
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July 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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darkchibishadow.bsky.social
The Yaoi Bundle has officially been delayed until further notice.

With Itchio's current problems, I don't feel confident that everyone involved could actually get their cut of the earnings. If things change on Itchio, the bundle will be back and better than ever: if not, it will be reborn SFW.
An image announcing the delay of the Yaoi Bundle.
July 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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darkchibishadow.bsky.social
Here's a starter pack for all the Yaoi Bundle Artists and Developers. These folks deserve so much of your love and support and could really use some boosts on their posts! Thanks everyone, please share this!

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July 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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astramachina.bsky.social
The MONSTER MANOR BOOK FAIR is here!

100+ books of the queer variety? All of them in one convenient itchio bundle for only $25? Sale of the century.

Both PROFANE SACRAMENT and BOY NEXT DOOR are in the bundle. Quick math says that makes them less than 25c each! ⭐

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Promo image for the Monster Manor Book Fair. It's very Halloween-y, with ghost, bat, and pumpkin outlines floating in the background. There's a ramshackle, black and white house and two zombie hands sticking out of the ground holding a sign that says "read indie". The cover for PROFANE SACRAMENT is ominously floating beneath a full moon. There's white text that says "Pride Itchio Bundle, 118 comics, short stories, novellas, and novels for 25$. Stuff your ereaders this Jun 13th." Promo image for the Monster Manor Book Fair. It's very Halloween-y, with ghost, bat, and pumpkin outlines floating in the background. There's also a ramshackle, black and white house. The cover for PROFANE SACRAMENT is ominously floating in the center of a trope map. The tropes are: The villain is right, lavender marriages gone awry, queer secret societies, the gothic ingenue is a trans guy, sexy corruption arc, ritual sex, cis!m/trans!m. The text on the bottom says "stuff your ereaders this june 13th."
June 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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astramachina.bsky.social
Public blog post about the rejection that nearly made me quit for good, how that influenced my decision to try out self-publishing, and how community brought me back from the brink.

Tomorrow kicks off Succulent Saturday, too. 👀 In case you like freaky smut.

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Rejections, Self-Pub, and the Hot Wet Queer Summer Jam | Synth & Syntax
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June 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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astramachina.bsky.social
‼️TRANS MONSTER PORN‼️

With itchio popping off and a newfound drive to put my back into it ("it" being making enough money to pay bills), I've decided to relaunch my patreon.

$3 a month gets you everything PLUS a free digital download of every drabble collection.

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Revivals and Yearly Plans | Synth & Syntax
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June 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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astramachina.bsky.social
MONITORED ACTIVITY

rolling in with some—

📼 serial killer POV
📼 trans guy MC is fucked up but gets to have fun with it (until he doesn't)
📼 a single graveyard shift at what seems to be a sentient mall
📼 the true cosmic horror is working minimum wage

#HotWetQueerSummerJam #HotWetPitch #WIP #H
in red text: #HotWetQueerSummer, Monitored Activity. in white text: It's the best time to work. High-schoolers have gone to bed, mothers haunt their homes, and the upstanding and respectable have long turned in. All that's left are the people with a story to tell—for the exception of Eddie Conners. Church-going, amicable, straight-laced father of two and husband to a former prom queen; Janice wonders why the hell he's working the graveyard among the unemployable queers and ex-convicts. She has her suspicions but likes to think that Shaw, the young transexual man she and her wife have begrudgingly taken under their wing, is much smarter than that. Horror - 25,000 wc. @astramachina The background is a closeup image of cassette tapes. in red text: #HotWetQueerSummer, Monitored Activity. in white text: A horror novella about horrible people trapped in a horrible system. And a fucked up mall that may or may not be a cosmic entity wrapped in 2000s nostalgia. Featuring: An elder trans lesbian in constant ownership of all nearby brain cells. A serial killer who is totally absolutely 100% straight. A young trans guy who is desperate to get into said serial killer’s pants. Try it if you like: The Backrooms, The Ring (2002), Bag of Bones by Stephen King, Pulse (2006), V/H/S, The Walten Files, analog/digital horror, & creepypastas. @astramachina On the left side is the current cover of Monitored Activity by Mitch Miller. The background image is an angled photo of a 90s Macintosh desktop.
June 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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astramachina.bsky.social
It's ✨Pride Month✨ (+ my birthday month) so you know what that means: time to share my work on main. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Queer horror? Queer erotica? Queer horror erotica? I gotchu, fam. Victorian Gothic, summer in the 1980s, weird locations in the 2000s, etc? Oh yeah.

synthandsyntax.itch.io
Graphic of a lined piece of paper decorated with a trans flag, a rainbow sticker, and that totally radical S design that is probably a cognito hazard. In gray, handwritten text: but is it ~gay~, followed by the drawing of a smiley face. In red, different handwritten text: yeah? duh, followed by a drawing of squinty eyes. Lined composition paper is overlayed over the image of a barely visible cassette tape. The title says "This is an indie author promo in case it wasn't obvious" in red text. There are three columns, each promoting a book. The first is BRUISED PAIR, and the cover features a white haired vampire sexily about to bite a brunet's neck. The text below it says: gothic homos, pathetic vampire/mad scientist, -unethical experimentation or bad BDSM etiquette? The second is BOY NEXT DOOR, and the cover features the back corner of a black classic car. The text below reads: 80s summer homos, college trans guy/DILF, -probably should be doing that out in public, sir. especially not in mormon country. The third one is PROFANE SACRAMENT, and the cover is red with a fancy black Victoria-style border. The text below it reads: MORE gothic homos, transmasc ingenue/evil baronet, -how far can you take a bit in Victorian England? very far, apparently. The url for the shop is in faint text below: synthandsyntax.itchio.io Lined composition paper is overlayed over the image of a barely visible cassette tape. The title says "This is an indie author promo in case it wasn't obvious, PT 2." in red text, and "coming soon" below it in blue text. There are two columns, each promoting a book. The first book is GLOW, its cover a dark image of a wave crashing on the shore. The text below it says: lovecraftian homos, -weird shoreside locals, -that bear is a trans guy, baby, -the real horror is online dating. The second book is MONITORED ACTIVITY, its cover a glitch image of various CRT monitors. The text below it says: retro horror homos, -diversity win: the serial killer is gay and his victim gets spared on a technicality. the victim is conflicted over it. like, sure, all previous victims have been women but it's kinda silly for the serial (the rest of the text is cut off). The url for the shop is in faint text below: synthandsyntax.itchio.io On composition paper, in gray handwritten text: Queer & trans horror and erotica by a queer & trans horror author (that last usage of horror is stuck through in a shitty attempt to be comedic). Below it, in red text, is the itchio shop link: synthandsyntax.itchio.io. On the very bottom, in very faint gray text, the itchio link is repeated again, alongside a patreon link: patreon.com/astramachina. The page is decorated with a trans flag, a rainbow sticker, and a small Puerto Rican flag.
June 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
synthandsyntax.bsky.social
Alright, folks. Website is now up and running!

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May 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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astramachina.bsky.social
I really went "FINE. I DON'T NEED AN INDUSTRY'S VALIDATION. I'LL DO IT MYSELF. FOR THE FREAKS".
May 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM