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H.S. Kallinger (he/they)
@xakana.bsky.social
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#LGBTQIA+ Author: Lost & Found Humanity series, disabled, queer SFF writer, geek, gamer. Trans♂️ enby. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

http://patreon.com/xakana
https://hskallinger.weebly.com
https://linktr.ee/hskallinger
https://ko-fi.com/hskallinger

E pulvis vitae noster ad astra.
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H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · Jul 12
Hi! I'm H.S. Kallinger, a disabled, queer author of queer SFF. I have a complete, published psych/urban fantasy series available at multiple online retailers, & I'm working on a new one. My works are character-driven, blend real science with fantasy, and I like to kick tropes in the face.
A banner for H.S. Kallinger featuring six book covers: Hotel of Lost Souls, Pet, Bridges, Predators, Castles, and World of Lost souls in the front center, while behind, the image is split into two: on the left is a fiery scene with a partial image of a topless tan man in jeans with his hands together by medical straps, holding a black shock collar. In the center, fire is bisected diagonally with red on the top and blue on the bottom. To the right is a dark blue scene with sparkling glitter lights over someone barely visible with perhaps pink hair and closed eyes colored by dark teal blue lighting.
xakana.bsky.social
To everyone who celebrates!
stavvers.bsky.social Another Angry Woman @stavvers.bsky.social · 20h
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming by the perimeter fence day to all who celebrate. A solemn 30 second screaming before vanishing will take place at 11am.
Watchmen panel depicting a human skeleton with some muscle on it screaming by a fence while guards look on in horror. Text box says november 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for 30 seconds before vanishing
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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jeremyrayne.bsky.social
I can't be the only one who likes mm faerie romantasy...

🌈📚🌶️ #Romancelandia
jeremyrayne.itch.io
books2read.com/jeremyrayne
A background of spooky mossy trees shrouded in fog. The cover of a book that shows an eye/ moth's wing amid trees. The book is called Fear the Wood, Thin the Trees by Jeremy Rayne. Text reads: Ever gone into the woods and felt eyes on you?
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
xakana.bsky.social
Without downloading new pics, describe your gender:
Magic: the Gathering art for Opulent Palace: Fallout set. A grey, cloudy night scene in Appalachia with a tall lighthouse glowing dimly next to damp ground, but no great body of water. Fireflies are scattered around the scene as nuclear green glowing orbs. Next to the lighthouse sits a giant, fluffy black moth, a vengeful mothman, with glowing pink-red eyes while another hovers in the air a ways away, wings splayed in flight.
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
xakana.bsky.social
Heh. Heheheheh. Heh.

Asking for help? Like... putting myself out there and hoping I don't just get cold wind blowing cricket chirps at me in response?

I'm totally normal about asking for help. Really. I have done it. It's happened!

#SpoonieAuthChat

(I opened this yesterday and forgot to post it)
spoonieauthnet.bsky.social Spoonie Authors Network @spoonieauthnet.bsky.social · 2d
Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), November 12, 2025:

As a writer, do you ever feel uncomfortable asking for help?

(Please quote-post and add
#SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)
Banner image has the same text as the post. There is also a smaller image of three spoons that are connected at the base
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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mcburnellauthor.bsky.social
Tired of lying awake at 3 am raging about how shit everything is? Like to have something to read instead?

How about a bundle of great fiction about authoritarian regimes and heroes who stick knives in evil systems?

📚🪐 #Booksky
itch.io/b/3348/burn-...
A background of flames. Text reads: BURN IT DOWN! Bundle 17 books for $16 November 13-16th Thumbnail book covers line the top, bottom, and left margins of the image: Now and Then and Back Again by A.P. Howell Fruits of the Gods by William C. Tracy Rise of the Resistance by Niranjan Into The Forest by Natasha O’Connor The Killing Song by Felix Graves Birthright by M.A. Vice Heirs of Hyarch Book One: The Spellking's Heir Chriss Mitchell Shadows Dark and Deadly by Andrea Marie Johnson The Backwards Knight by Matthew Siadak Loyalty to the Max by Maya Darjani What May Rise From the Ashes by Susanne Schmidt Their Village, Their Fortress by Dylan Madeley Gift of Snow by C.L. Carhart When In Erebus by Paris Vivian Kotov Syndrome by S. Morgan Burbank Wherever the Stars Call by S. Jean A Path of Endless Crossroads by M.C. Burnell
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
xakana.bsky.social
CN: kink talk

Gabby is a kinkster right out the gate, which is the opposite of Zack, who started his series as vanilla as a milkshake. Zack mostly found interest through Sarah. Gabby's gf Vicky brought it to him originally, but he was immediately interested.
xakana.bsky.social H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 1d
Gabby's got a praise kink, is an exhibitionist, a masochist, and both a service dom and sub.

He talks about how he's into the whole BDSM acronym, and he practices RACK.

I'm probably forgetting something, but I think that's his list?
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I'm running an Itchio sale for Nonbinary November💛🤍💜🖤

Grab a bundle of 3 novels & 1 novelette for $8.50, normally valued at $17. All of them have a nonbinary character in them, either as a main character or side character. (You can also purchase individually)

Running for a week🙌🏻 #discountbooks 💙📚
Nonbinary November by Shane Blackheart
A bundle by Shane Blackheart, $8.50 for 4 games
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November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
xakana.bsky.social
Men of a certain age thread. 40+ besties drop a (non nude) selfie.

45 🖖
White nonbinary trans guy with pink cheeks leaning against a chair with a fuzzy, dark red blanket on it. He has blue eyes, auburn eyebrows, beard, and mustache, short, colorful hair (yellow, blue, teal, pink, and purple), six earrings in the visible ear, a purple lip ring, and a space-themed black t-shirt.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
xakana.bsky.social
Gabby was a dhampir kid with AuDHD. It wasn't so much that he was badly behaved as he just had no impulse control, massive amounts of energy, little to no social awareness, more strength & speed than a human kid, questions about everything, clinginess, & high sensory seeking needs.

#QueerPrompts
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
xakana.bsky.social
Proud to be the 7th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Dark Side of Super Audio Book! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
The Dark Side of Super Audio Book
The Dark Side of Super is an interconnected collection of super-powered shorts. Each features a dark, gritty, realistic take on powers, and adding another layer to the larger story arc being told. Loo...
www.backerkit.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
xakana.bsky.social
There are still three more days to snag this bundle!
xakana.bsky.social H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 13d
Trans main characters tackle themes including self-discovery, love & friendship, trauma & healing, literal and/or metaphorical demons, magic, war, or even the world itself in this multi-genre set of 32 books by trans authors!

Queernormative worlds! Found family! Trans joy!

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 on Itchio. Image: 32 Book covers on a a sunset photo background by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
xakana.bsky.social
New batch of photos. The sky has gone from pink to red, and it's even easier to see ❤️

I forgot to mention, but these are all 3 second exposure.

Location: Kansas
Aurora in the bruised night sky full of stars with the shadows of trees bordering the bottom and sides. The left half of the image shows lights from bottom to top: a deep bright, green into a teal into a pink red with a "ball" of bright pink at the right edge in the right. Aurora bands in red-pink and neon green striped across the night sky with trees and house lights in the foreground. Stars in the dark pink-purple top left third of the image. Shocking pink-red sky above nuclear green band of aurora lights split by grey-blue, all behind various trees.
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
xakana.bsky.social
The best of the original aurora photos I took in my back yard.
A photo of the night sky blanketed in an aurora. The majority of the sky is mauve, shades of pink and bruised purple. At the bottom is a pale green above, a neon green. Some stripes of cloud Are present on the right of the image under dotted stars. This all serves as a backdrop for the shadows of trees and a power line pole. A large tree with a split trunk that branches numerous times upward shows bits of green at the leaves towards the top but is mostly a shadow with the silhouettes of more trees alongside it in the background. Behind it is a glowing sky, the bottom fifth a bright and pale green into a light pink that darkens, as it goes higher until it's a rich, dark pink at the top. A landscape photo. Of a starry night sky with an aurora coloring it. Yellow white clouds draw lines above the faintest shadows of power lines across the center of the pink upper majority of the sky. To the left are the leafy branches of a deciduous tree, and to the right, the packed, fluffy silhouette of a conifer. At the bottom is the top of a distant forest, backlit in green.
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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enberlight.bsky.social
Our roof needs emergency repairs, before two rafters collapse. #🍋🏠

We had an inspector by, and two of the rafters are split, there's dry rot, and some of the decking (plywood) is damaged. The shingles are also worn out and shifted, and the flashing is letting water in.

Help 🙃

ko-fi.com/enberlight
A collage of photos, with "spooky" text overlaid saying "structural roof damage... yay 😭 The photos show the side of the roof exposed to the elements, a rafter that is split almost completely down the beam, another rafter that's split and discolored, and a third that is VERY discolored. There's also some water and rot damage to the plywood decking (ceiling that supports the shingles).
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
xakana.bsky.social
Took 9 out on my back. The colors had shifted so the whole bottom of the sky was green-green, and I took this picture bent over with them just sitting on my back like a cat 🤣
The night sky bordered by black silhouettes of trees, power line, and a cross-shaped pole. The top 2/3rds of the sky is mauve, from a light pink to darker wine. The lower third is a nuclear green, with a bright, yellow-green stripe through the middle.
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
xakana.bsky.social
A queer audience looking for hope, character conversations, adventure, healing, and utter disregard for both gender and genre boxes.

I don't think I can predict who needs it the most. I tend to be surprised by the answer.
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 8d
What kind of audience do you hope to reach with your work? Who do you think needs it the most? #WritingPrompt
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
xakana.bsky.social
Husband finally fixed the 3D printer*, found some filament that isn't borked**, and printed a thing for me. Anyone recognize what's under the support trees?

*it's been a year or two
**apparently, it can absorb moisture from the air and become useless
A mass of silver plastic abstract trees encase a 3D printed statue in front of a blurry shelf of rainbow Funko pop dolls (one is almost clearly harley quinn) and a little colorful pastel print by Laura Siadak done mostly in blues mounted to a white wall. A mass of silver plastic abstract trees encase a 3D printed statue with what might be a rifle to the left in front of a blurry shelf of rainbow Funko pop dolls (one is almost clearly harley quinn) and a little colorful pastel print by Laura Siadak done mostly in blues mounted to a white wall.
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
xakana.bsky.social
Ah, I forgot to post this this year. Thankfully, this guy has me covered!
ianzpotter.bsky.social Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 4d
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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marlynnofmany.bsky.social
My story is called "Pickaxes and Poor Choices," and it's about lumps of god in them thar hills.

I haven't read the others yet, but I'm sure they're great too!

www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Fr...
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit [Harlakenden, Nico, Adams, Sinclair, Asimonov, Konstantin, Bagenski, Benjamin, Brown-Jackson, Maia, Paige, K. D., Nova, Sophie Mutiara, Phillips, J. R., Murphy, A. P., Starlight, Lena] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Forbidden Fruit
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November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
xakana.bsky.social
My first published MC was Zack. His name was taken from Xak, short for Xakana. AKA, I gave him my name because it's one of my favorite names, & I WAS him in the dream (I was still an egg at the time and figured I couldn't ACTUALLY have it, so I would still get to use it that way).
zprospero.bsky.social Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 4d
What's your MC's name and why did you pick it for them? (Feel free to list other characters too!)

#WritingQ #WriteSky
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
xakana.bsky.social
My first published series started as a transcription of the dream I had AS my MC.

I dream of my characters occasionally. Sometimes I dream of writing, and sometimes I dream of them specifically. Not as often as I'd like, though.
dailyocs.bsky.social Daily OC questions @dailyocs.bsky.social · 4d
Have you ever dreamt of your OC? 💤 💭

#dailyOCs
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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seturlington.bsky.social
It's gonna be a good one! Excited to play a plus size character :)

🎭 The Pigeon, a staged reading
📍 The Tank, 312 W 36th St, NYC
⏰ November 16th 9:30pm
⏱️ 75 minutes, no intermission
🎟️ $15, link in bio

🏳️‍⚧️🌈🎭 Support trans art. Support queer artists. Support indie theatre. Get your tickets NOW! 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🎭
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
xakana.bsky.social
One of my favorites is 'The Deep' by Rivers Solomon.

I love ocean life and mermaids, and really enjoyed the unique take, how it tackled history, trauma, generational trauma, and healing both of self and community.

#Bookvember
woodenvelt.bsky.social Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 4d
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 10!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of diverse voices in literature.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
xakana.bsky.social
'The Girl from the Sea' by Lee Knox Ostertag (credited as Molly Knox Ostertag) was a sapphic fantasy graphic novel that I got for my third born when they were 10 or 11. They read it repeatedly (I read it, too, and it was good!) and bemoaned it being a standalone.

#QueerPrompts
cjaralore.bsky.social 🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 5d
#QueerPrompts November 10: National Young Readers Week Begins: Any queer-positive book recs for kids/teens?
Graphics: The background galaxies and stars. The border has stars and planets in the colors of the pride flags. Text: "November 2025", "Safe Space", and "You're A Star" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts November 10: National Young Readers Week Begins: Any queer-positive book recs for kids/teens?
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM