S. A. Chant 🏳️‍⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery

my eccc table

I forgot to post my table picture haha

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

People who buy and read books are basically at minimum demigods when it comes to influence over what gets into circulation bsky.app/profile/alys...

LOOK AT MY SONS

More Peter Darling news: The Spanish edition comes out on April 10 and is fully illustrated! ✨

Everyone who tried to draw around me and started drawing LOVED it at the beginning because of their QUICK IMPROVEMENT. Then quit when they hit The Wall™️.

But it's when you hit The Wall™️ that you NEED to push through with practice!! And you gotta do it for yourself, because it's ALWAYS worth it! 😤

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LOOK AT MY SONS

More Peter Darling news: The Spanish edition comes out on April 10 and is fully illustrated! ✨

Imagen en la que se ve la cubierta de Peter Darling en su edición española. Dice: Desde las profundidades abisales llega... Peter Darling, ¡a la venta a partir del 10 de abril!

Muy buenas tardes criaturillas del abismo: ¡Por fin os podemos decir la fecha de publicación de Peter Darling!

Este 10 de abril Peter Darling sale a la venta, y esperamos que tengáis tantas ganas de tenerlo en las manos como nosotres.

Os contamos los detalles⬇️

¡Buenas criaturillas abisales! Mañana tenemos noticias muy noticiosas sobre Peter Darling, así que estad pendientes.

Mientras tanto, os dejamos este maravilloso capitán Garfio de Paltamayo. No os vamos a mentir, en la editorial amamos a Peter, claro… Pero Garfio, ay, nos hace suspirar.

Y'all, get ready for shenanigans and confusion in November, because voter suppression is coming hard for middle-class white folks. I'm Williamson County, I left to vote at 2pm and didn't get home till 7:15pm. This county is more diverse than when I moved here 20 years ago, but still very white. 1/9

Sex Workers Versus the Algorithm No seriously, fuck the algorithm.

Credit card companies are making sex workers' lives worse and worse.

www.theflytrapmedia.com/sex-wor/

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com

We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! 🪐🗡️

Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW!

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Mount Tahoma/Rainier

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I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

we cannot ever let an evangelical be in charge of anything ever again. no more apocalypse cultists doing anything. absolutely barred from running for town dogcatcher

We're down to the FINAL HOURS on our Nebula nominations, where SFWA chooses the best of what they loved in 2025. REMEMBER: This is the first year for Best Comic & Best Poem! Let's make all our awards shine.

Vote for some truly moving SFF before 11:59 PM PST on March 1!

www.sfwa.org/2025-nebula-...

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both

5 Calls can help you make the call:

5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the timeline

When you buy into the idea that "porn is evil" then anything deemed porn becomes evil.

We are so afraid of sex in this country that it is effectively a tool to control the masses.

This is (part of) why sex education is so important. Sex should not be some kind of boogeyman.

Today is a great day to donate to the ALCU of Kansas! www.aclukansas.org

what a great day to have anxiety, I say every fucking day

The moon! Small but cratered!

I was out walking at sunset earlier and the moon was so bright my phone camera picked up the craters!! Hello moon

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.