EmmyKtz 🐙 The Pink Hydra

it is a pity itch shat the bed because that's the only place I ever genuinely saw traction for series after buying the first (and those weren't even free, just heavily discounted)

Pink Hydra Press Novellas ’26 The Celestial Blade Ashley Y. Gao wuxia/xianxia • speculative erotica • bisexual female MC When Cian-Zhi Nie’s brother, the prophesied Chosen One, is killed by his immortal foe, she inherits his destiny to defeat the Demon Lord Chongyuan. But can a mere girl master the gender-shifting spirit blade, forged from Chongyuan’s heart, which seduced her brother to his ultimate doom? Anticipated release: August 2026 Thumbnail image features a young Asian woman looking at a weathered sword blade with a contemplative expression on her face. https://www.thepinkhydra.com#celestial

THE CELESTIAL BLADE by Ashley Y. Gao

Wuxia/xianxia in the tradition of the classic Chinese novels and cinema, featuring explicit erotic scenes.

This is why I've stopped participating in the Smashwords sales. People don't even look at the books discounted - they grab the free ones and then never rate, review, or even tell a friend about the book. With over 120 books "sold" last year and nothing to show for it, I've decided it's not worth it.

My smiley poem for #MadMarch

(shaking with nausea) yeha

KING SPHYNX by artist Carolina Lebar as part of her Animal Kingdom series. Collect one of her highly sought pieces! Available only at everydayoriginal.com or on her website carolinalebar.com

KING SPHYNX by artist Carolina Lebar as part of her Animal Kingdom series. Collect one of her highly sought pieces! Available only at everydayoriginal.com or on her website carolinalebar.com

KING SPHYNX by artist Carolina Lebar as part of her Animal Kingdom series. Collect one of her highly sought pieces! Available only at everydayoriginal.com or on her website carolinalebar.com

KING SPHYNX available on everydayoriginal.com

In my latest video, I talk a bit about @havensocial.bsky.social: a website aiming to be an alternative to Youtube & Instagram, with emphasis on protecting you from AI-powered surveillance & censorship. It's some good work they're promising to do here.

(Not sponsored, just really like what I see)

Cover art The forgetting navigations by marlee jane ward two female astronauts floating in space

Interstellar Flight Press is pleased to announce our latest science fiction novella, THE FORGETTING NAVIGATIONS by Marlee Jane Ward. Harrowing, heartfelt, and thrilling, this one will keep you on the edge of your intergalactic seat. magazine.interstella...

A collage of images: a mossy forest of twisty trees/ a lit lantern surrounded by leaves/ a tuft of thistledown on a red background/ an owl perched in leafless trees/ four painted butterflies on a blue background/ the thick bowl of a tree surrounded by glowing blue mushrooms.

Against a black background dotted by snow, the covers of three books: How to Save an Ancient Hero, How to Soothe a Fallen Hero, How to Forge a Modern Hero.

3 days left to get all my glorious plot-heavy smutty MM romantasy 50% off

www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

A high-contrast black-and-white portrait shows a person standing close to window blinds, lifting one slat to look outside. Light cuts across their eye and cheek while the rest of the face remains in shadow. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top left corner, with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” in white at the top right. Bold white text in the lower right reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #BEINGWATCHED”.

#PoemsAbout #BeingWatched is live.

Write the gaze.
Wanted.
Feared.
Returned.

Who is seen.
Who consents to be seen.
Who looks back.

Post from today.
Tag #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched to be read and shared.
Use Alt Text.
Take care with each other.

coloured fullbody pose of sokka on the left and zuko on the right from avatar the last airbender. sokka is standing confidently with big wide smile on his face. one hand propped on his hip the other at the hilt of his sword. On the right stands zuko harms crossed more serious looking to the left. he holds a red round fan in his hand.

coloured fullbody pose of sokka on the left and zuko on the right from avatar the last airbender. sokka is wearing a big fluffy parker, he holds a fishing spear in his right hand, wears sun googles made of bone and holds with his left hand a fishnet over his shoulder. there are ropes tied over his torso. zuko is on the right wearing thick red robes with golden ornaments and fur trimming.

coloured fullbody pose of zuko on the left and sokka on the right from avatar the last airbender. zuko is wearing fancy red robes leaning forward to look at sokka. dressed in fancy robes looking to the left salivating and thinking of food.

coloured fullbody pose of zuko on the left and sokka on the right from avatar the last airbender. they are both dressed in armor. zuko in traditional thai inspired. and sokka inspired on qing dynasty style. with tassel trims on the edges and tribal decoration.

some outfit designs from last year!
(i just feel this year confident enough to post)

#AvatarTheLastAirbender #zukka #zuko #sokka #atla

Character sheet of Isla, a mermaid with purple hair and a pink tail, and her deep-sea smart phone

Comic page of two mermaids accidentally bumping into each other and having a meet-cute

If you wanna peek into the messy love lives of mythical creatures you should back The Hectic Love Lives of the Mythical on Backerkit (link below)!

MEET ME IN THE SEASHELLS is about Isla, a bisexual mermaid, who gives a deep-sea dating app a try 🧜‍♀️🐟✨ Drawn by me and written by @mhcaliwrites.com

A photo of twisting tree roots, picked out with spots of red. Text reads: ““We remember warmth. We remember the centuries-ago Earth; before the curse drifted down like a quiet, poisonous snowfall. Before the sky soured. Before the light thinned to a ghost of itself.” ~ Where the Roots Remember by Crystal St. Clair FREE in the Bandits & Botany issue of Indie Bites”

A stack of paperbacks of Indie Bites 21, the top one open to Crystal’s story

Where the Roots Remember by Crystal St. Clair is available to download FREE in the latest issue of Indie Bites (Bandits & Botany)!

www.silversunbooks.com/post/bandits...

Pink Hydra Press Novellas ’26 Let Down Your Hair Alex Fayle fairytale retelling • cozy fantasy • #ownvoices autism rep Exhausted and drained from using her magic only to grow hair for the wigs her foster child Rapp is fixated upon, a talented garden witch grasps for her identity as more than just a caregiver. Enter a handsome… goatherd? who just may hold the key to salvaging the situation… Anticipated release: July 2026 Thumbnail image features a woman with dirty blonde hair in a hat and garden witchy outfit, back view. https://www.thepinkhydra.com#ldyh

LET DOWN YOUR HAIR by @alexfayle.bsky.social

This is a lovely cozy fantasy novelette featuring a Rapunzel retelling. Here, the witch rescues an autistic, nonbinary toddler from its neglectful parents.

Sterjall sitting on a bristlecone pine branch against a backdrop of hazy mountains. His amber eyes look to the left, while his body faces right. His dark fur contrasts against the haze, his tail wraps subtly around a branch. He is holding Leif, his obsidian-bladed dagger, with the point down. He’s wearing a blue tunic, a braided leather belt, leather pants, and a copper bracelet. The bristlecone pine has nearly no leaves, but still manages to look lively.

🐺 Sterjall 🗡️
#NossSaga
#Illustration

“we all agreed rape jokes are bad” was about lazy men using rape as a shocking punchline to dehumanize women in like tweets and standup routines

don’t use that same maxim to run around demanding survivors of abuse discuss what happened to them only in somber, sad reverence.

"The second requires fields of excrement, tended to regularly"

No thoughts, just jumping in here to say this is a wonderful sentence 🤣

I've developed a rule for reading and writing #romance and #romantasy: the "hot people make bad romance" rule. If your romance wouldn't happen if the characters weren't physically attractive, I'm bored. The *dynamic* needs to be sexy, not the bodies.

these freebies can also be found on Ao3 if anyone wants to show them some love there! 🖤

archiveofourown.org/users/averys...

That is... a terrible opinion and also exactly in line with what terfs normally say.

a traditional painting of herons in flight among trees, green, pink and white hues

I painted herons in flight. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

#snippetshare #writingq
Not just feeling kinda vulnerable, but fully and completely so.
Erika did a silly right before this.
#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #Writesky

A very long grey and white kitty with pink paw pads on a blanket

Good news: thepinkhydra.com is fully updated (for now)! Bad news: my brain feels like hollowed-out Swiss cheese (I hate coding) 😵‍💫

BUT my grocery delivery came today ☺️ so I will be able to spend what looks to be a ridiculously wet evening with hot chocolate in the company of my kitties.

Three drawings of lemurs on black paper. At the top a Fork-marked lemur drawn with white gel pen and pastel pencils; in the middle an Aye-Aye - I used yellow stickers for his eyes and metallic pencils for the line work; lastly an Indri lemur - his luminous green eyes are achieved with tempera stick - everything else pastel pencil.

A class on drawing lemurs over @artistinresidence.co
I've been working through the alphabet each week - two letters at a time. This one - M & N - Madagascar and Night. The series has all been about brainstorming A -> Z to produce drawing ideas. It works! #drawing #artclass #lemur #sciart #arttutor

Image of 9 books covers for books by Helen Whistberry: Roadkill, shows a highway with animal skeletons on it; The Final Voyage of Avery Mothmere, has a black cat playing with an old-fashioned sailing ship; When Your Heart is a Broken Thing, has a white rabbit crying red tears and a red rabbit with skeleton exposed crying blue tears; Once Upon a Wave of Witches, with co-author Eli Belt, has a green kraken tentacle sweeping through turbulent blue waves; The Tail of Nightshade, has a gray mouse among purple nightshade blooms; The Melody of Trees, has a red fox among twining tree branches; The Weird Sisters, has a full moon behind tombstones with a hand visible lying on the ground; The Avenging Angel, has a full moon behind a mansion; The Ghostly Groom, has a full moon behind a tombstone with a black bird on top of it.

World Book Day? I have books, though I don't talk about them as much as I should which means nobody buys them, but if you're into classic mysteries or dark fantasy or hopeful horror or fractured folk tales and enjoy illustrated books, I got 'em!

linktr.ee/whistberry

informal poll "fuck boys get money" means: a) Forget boys, accrue wealth instead b) Have sex with boys and get money for c) Fuck Boys—ie, boys who fuck—are paid well d) Argh!! Boys are paid well e) Shoot, boys sure understand money 
warpedchyld: God bless punctuation and the English language

the ones I haven't blocked 👀

But yeah, hoping for that buffer!

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's done '' written on the bottom . Alt: frodo from lotr on top of the lava mountain saying "it's done"

It's done! 😂😂😂

We cleared the March hurdle with weeks to spare! 🤩

(Now here's hoping the count doesn't fall TOO much as it often does after a busy period of follows lollllll)

A woman looking happy and hopeful snuggles into a soft, fat, sexy guy with a black cat tattoo on his chest. He in turn looks with love at a slimmer version of himself who has his arm around him. They all look content, in their pants enjoying each others bodies.

My body loves his body. It is not conditional.

CN: weight, body image.

www.girlonthenet.com/blog/my-body...

Stunning new art by @stuartcb.bsky.social (look at the TATS! He’s a genius)