Hearth Stories Issue Five Winter Solstice 2025 cover, featuring a lush green forest and a rock outcropping
Our fifth issue was just released this morning. You can download it here at no charge:
hearthstories.org/issues/5.html
@aliciaadamswriting.bsky.social @kitcalvert.bsky.social
#fantasy #magazine #cozyfantasy #shortstory #free
Stamps drawn for the 2022 peachtober art challenge
serially procrastinating novel progress by considering doing a repeat of my peachtober stamps this year
me: realises i did not buy cake to eat while watching bake off tonight
me, ten minutes later: cake in oven, flour everywhere
worm or snake-like fantasy creature with rainbow feathered body, black feathered wings, and black feathered head with large fish-like eyes
another writing competition done! excited for a summer break from comps and figuring out what to scribble down next
Writing battle announcement post with three prompt cards: Adventure, gardener, lipstick, with illustrations for each. The illustration for adventure is a wooden mask with a ribbon and leaves covering it. The illustration for gardener is a man in a robe and brown hat looking at a bush with yellow flowers. The illustration for lipstick is a red lipstick in a black case. The text below reads "Flowers for the Apocalypse" "Congratulations! Your story is headed to the final showdown!". The writing battle logo is underneath.
my story is battling it out in the Wonder Final Showdown tomorrow evening! π±
so excited for this to come out!!
A circular illustration of 19 colorful different species of invertebrates across various phyla (arthropods, cnidarians, echinoderms, sponges, mollusks, annelids, flatworms). Black arching text surrounding them reads βCelebrate Invertebrate Biodiversityβ. They are illustrated on a light blue background.
Happy #Invertefest! Celebrate invertebrate biodiversity ππ
Two valley carpenter bees side by side, the one on the left is colored like a typical male with orange fuzz and green eyes, and the female on the right colored so black that it is hard to distinguish any features. Speech bubble from the left bee reads, "Hi, I'm Sunny B and this is my wife, VOID"
Valley Carpenter bees and their fun sexual dimorphism for #invertefest
A digital illustration of a medieval banner. It says in medieval inspired script "ye olde trans rights". It is decorated with plants and blue, pink, and white flowers.
ye olde trans rights π³οΈββ§οΈπΏ
βbiological sexβ should refer only to having sex in a lab, knocking over microscopes and shit, contaminating every surface while scientists watch you and take notes
Two other groups that work really hard for trans people and their loved ones (as I can attest from personal experience) are Mermaids and Gendered Intelligence, and they could both use donations:
mermaidsuk.org.uk?form=donate
genderedintelligence.co.uk/donations
Here's my long comic essay about breaking up with Harry Potter and JKR's increasing transphobia. Please boycott the new TV show and all of her future projects β¨ #harrypotter #transphobia #jkrowling
redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/718...
i've been playing a game where you're a critter running a train line for... most of saturday, and it's incredible π
The Apiarist
This monthβs riso print subscription print, and excuse for me to draw bees and desert flora. Join my Patreon to get this for half off, and weigh in on what I do for future monthβs prints
congratulations!! this is so excitingβ¨
Unbelievably stoked to share that the r/Fantasy team has been nominated for Best Related Work! We're up against an impressive field but it's an incredible honor just to have our fun not-so-little game included! See y'all in Seattle! β¨π
TRANS RIGHTS π³οΈββ§οΈ
#TransDayOfVisibility is tomorrow! be sure to uplift trans creators!
Let's start with trans authors and writers~ π³οΈββ§οΈβ¨
#booksky #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity #TDOV
go.bsky.app/VamK3SD
It's International #TransDayOfVisibility π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ
And for trans authors in particular: We see you, we read you, we wanna give you money πππ°.
Which SFF works by trans authors should we be squeeing excitedly about?
#TDOV ππππ³οΈβππ
It's trans day of visibility! Transness has been made very scarily visible over the last few years but through a warped and harmful filter of politics and media. Today, I hope that visibility might be more human and that cis allies might be inspired to do something about it.
Drawing of a crow in a bed with an elaborate quilt.
Its a tired day today.
gorgeous!! congratulations kalie!
writing battle results graphic showing prompt cards for the story 'in search of eternity' - romance, assassin, statue. the text below reads 'in search of eternity' 'congratulations!' 'your story finished in the SWEET 16!'
after a few disappointing battles, today's results cemented the heart battle as the best i've ever done in writing battle! and there are more results coming next week π
A swirling pair of blue and orange turkey tail mushrooms grow off the sides of a fallen tree branch on the floor of the forest. All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms
just got through to the final showdown in the heart flash fiction writing battle!
digital drawing of a rainbow colored worm-like creature with many short legs and antennae. most of its body is covered in a mix of colors, like an oil slick. the head, legs, and tip of the tail are all black.
rereading anne of green gables with my partner the past couple of days and id forgotten how good it is!! id love to see more kids like anne in modern releases
UK AUTHORS AND AI HATERS: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY! respond to this consultation and tell the bastards what you think. You don't have to answer every fiddly question - and if you want, sample answers are available to c&p.
