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A heart drawn around the rank #25 flag, over an Amazon listing for The Dancing Tree (Songs of a Sunless Land #1) by J.A. Skald, along with an ereader featuring the clinch cover, and trope arrows listing Complete Trilogy, Grumpy/Sunshine, Sword & Sorcery, Hurt/Comfort, Dark Folklore Adventure, Heroic Dark Fantasy, Disability Rep, & There Was Only One Bed. Showing a rating of 4 stars & priced $0.99 USD (as of this posting) Also shown is "What readers are saying about Songs of a Sunless Land" and reviewer quotes: "dark and distinctive" | "amazing worldbuilding" | "entrancing" | "unique premise and wonderful characters" | "I immensely enjoyed it" | "compelling" | "Dark Fantasy at its best"

👀 My dark #mmfantasy of singing spell slingers broke the Top 25!

See why readers say series is "Dark Fantasy at its best"
Now on ✨SALE✨ +KU
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#🌈📚 #mmromance #GayRomance #MMReaders #gaybooksky #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #romantasy 🌈💜 🌈📚 📚🌎 #💙📚 #WeekendReads

A heart drawn around the rank #25 flag, over an Amazon listing for The Dancing Tree (Songs of a Sunless Land #1) by J.A. Skald, along with an ereader featuring the clinch cover, and trope arrows listing Complete Trilogy, Grumpy/Sunshine, Sword & Sorcery, Hurt/Comfort, Dark Folklore Adventure, Heroic Dark Fantasy, Disability Rep, & There Was Only One Bed. Showing a rating of 4 stars & priced $0.99 USD (as of this posting) Also shown is "What readers are saying about Songs of a Sunless Land" and reviewer quotes: "dark and distinctive" | "amazing worldbuilding" | "entrancing" | "unique premise and wonderful characters" | "I immensely enjoyed it" | "compelling" | "Dark Fantasy at its best"

👀 My dark #mmfantasy of singing spell slingers broke the Top 25!

See why readers say series is "Dark Fantasy at its best"
Now on ✨SALE✨ +KU
👉 suncatcherpress.com/get-SoaSL1

#🌈📚 #mmromance #GayRomance #MMReaders #gaybooksky #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #romantasy 🌈💜 🌈📚 📚🌎 #💙📚 #WeekendReads

Let’s see, a new pinned post maybe.

I am an illustrator and I also make pictures with my own hands for animation and games sometimes.

The Fall of the House of Valenziaga: A Special Edition Novel It’s Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets The Chronicles of Amber in this queer post-apocalyptic science-fantasy extravaganza!

The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall.

Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber.

High drama and high CAMP!

Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops!

BACK THE BOOK TODAY!

#booksky

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A heart drawn around the rank #72 flag, over an Amazon listing for The Dancing Tree (Songs of a Sunless Land #1) by J.A. Skald, along with an ereader featuring the clinch cover, and trope arrows listing Complete Trilogy, Grumpy/Sunshine, Sword & Sorcery, Hurt/Comfort, Dark Folklore Adventure, Epic Dark Fantasy, Disability Rep, & There Was Only One Bed. Showing a rating of 4 stars & priced $4.99 USD (as of this posting) Also shown is "What readers are saying about Songs of a Sunless Land" and reviewer quotes: dark and distinctive | amazing worldbuilding | entrancing | Unique premise and wonderful characters | I immensely enjoyed it | compelling | Dark Fantasy at its best | pick up this series if this is your genre. You will be glad you did

👀 My dark epic #mmfantasy of singing monster hunters hit the Top 100 again!

See why readers say series is "Dark Fantasy at its best" while it's still on KU:
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#🌈📚 #mmromance #GayRomance #MMReaders #gaybooksky #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #romantasy 🌈💜 🌈📚 📚🌎

6 eReaders facing front, with alt covers angled behind featuring two themes: [XMAS Traditions] + Chance's Harbor: Go the Long Way + Bully Boys 1: Fresh [Winter Vibes] + The Dancing Tree (Songs of a Sunless Land: Hymns of Winter #1) + The Shattered Isles (Songs of a Sunless Land: Hymns of Winter #2) + The Hollow Palace (Songs of a Sunless Land: Hymns of Winter #3) + Under Ghostfire Mountain (Tales of a Sunless Land) Other UI elements include: "FREE in KU!" "Discover all the covers & more at SuncatcherPress.com/Kickstarter" & all atop a sparkly red background

🎅💝MM Reading Roundup: Festive Feels!🎁☃️

Songs of a Sunless Land: Hymns of Winter 1-3
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Go the Long Way
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Bully Boys
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lwaxana troi being hounded by a ferengi with the dril tweet "using mindfulness. to waste my enemies"

Here’s some Ulla Thynell art to make your Sunday a little better.

The text WHAT ELEGANT STARS on a background of swirling void and glittering stars, amidst two neon-lit inlaid columns. Spaceships with fiery tails behind them in the distance. (An excerpt from the cover illustrated by Lyss Menold). Plus the Neon Hemlock logo.

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.

Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.

<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.

www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

A foul vapor hung about [object/place] like a malevolent spirit of stenches long past, cursing [POV]'s very clothing with an uncommonly vengeful reek of ages. T'was such a noisome haunt, it defied even of the soap of Guildmaster Lye, he of the Worshipful Company of Launderers, Tanners, & Gongfarmers

two ereaders featuring the alt covers for Under Ghostfire Mountain (Tales of a Sunless Land), one with two men wrestling, the other of a campsite below a mountain & northern lights in a starry sky || 4.5 stars are shown above some reviewer quotes: well-written and engaging right from the beginning | felt as though I were immersed in it | another great visit to the sunless land || trope flags: Enemies-to-Lovers | MM Romantasy | Hurt/Comfort | Sword & Sorcery | Standalone || Now on KU for a limited time! 99¢ SALE

Need #🌈📚 #mmfantasy to get you through the holiday travel crush? Escape your snoring seatmate- set out for adventure w/ a snackable standalone novella!

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Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.

It's your birthday, Duane.

badger eating berries

important

OMG YUUUUUUUS
🦀🦀🦀

Blue crabs shed/molt their carapaces in the spring, but yeah - not as dramatic to hold one high in your pincers going "Alas, poor Yorick - "

"Over here, mate!"

Q1) Where does the poison go if not in the King's ear?
Q2) Would crabOphelia still drown?
Q3) Can Rosencrantz & Guildenstern be whatever the opposite of the others are, but pretending along in a very confused manner about it?

"boomer situation": as in boom/bust, like how WWII ended there was suddenly a bunch of babies & that gen hit schools, etc all at once. Similarly, w/ a dearth of new cars, ppl drive old ones longer. Drove up demand/cost when production came back, but old ones fell apart w/ no buffer gen to fill gap

(AFAIK) COVID lockdowns shattered the worldwide supply chain from tip to tail down to a level we're still feeling. Fewer new cars meant used market suddenly jumped, which unbalanced the natural industry rhythms & forced a kind of boomer situation. PLUS tariffs & new industry/safety regs

/Nutshell

A group of Christmas nutcrackers arranged on a shop shelf. They’re coloured in pink, blue and white with a bit of yellow

BEHOLD the trans army of Nutcrackers!

Ban this sick filth.

Suyodhana from The Mahabharata wearing armour and holding a mace with a paddy field in the background

Also look at what @janjanartsss.bsky.social created for me! Omfg, I'm so much in love!

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

I think everyone should set aside some time to read Julie's incredible comic here about making comics, and then check out her new webcomic, Grand Adventure Yonder!!!!

Songs of a Sunless Land trilogy in paperbacks & hardbacks

It's penciled in on my calendar, I just need to actually export the new editions, update InDesign files with all the new splash art, maps, bonus material, etc, & package 'em up w/ the new cover art. Oh & figure out who does sprayed edges 🤩

two ereaders featuring the alt covers for Chance's Harbor: Go the Long Way (one with a shirtless cowboy, the other of two men walking up the drive to a beach house overlooking a sparkling ocean while a horse watches om) || 4.5 stars and the number 50+ (indicating the review count) are shown above some reviewer quotes: "There were times I wanted to cry, laugh, blush. It was an amazing read" | "it broke my heart and put it right back together again. Honestly, I just can’t recommend it strongly enough. 5 stars!!" | "Didn’t know how much I needed a dirty talking ex-NFL star calling his cowboy boyfriend “darlin’”" || trope flags: MM Romantantic Suspense | Second Chances & Small Towns | Cowboy/Teacher | Jock/Jock | Country Boys Figuring It Out | Best Friends to Lovers || Back on KU for a limited time! 99¢ SALE

Holiday travel, a Christmas present, my new cane - who cares why, Go the Long Way is on sale for the first time in ages!

Grab yours now:
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👀 I'm not allowed any more Patreons until the new year, but yours just hit the top of my wishlist 💜

Reposting to add:
To support & see ALL your art (not just the smut)
OH! YOU HAVE A BTS/PROCESS TIER TOO? 🙏

Hold up - you have smut?!

Alright, apparently I need to do some searching 'round these parts, but really I'm camped here for that softness and traditional/historical touch you infuse your work with

Your art has this inspiring blend of gentle strength, it's so good (whatever form it takes)

No no, that's not fan service I'm writing, it's me service.

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Since mobility aids are the theme of the day:

You don't need any excuse to use one. Cane, crutches (heavily recommend forearm), wheelchair, etc. There is no minimum amount of discomfort or disability required.

By the time you think you need a mobility aid, you often have needed it for a while.