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always-coffee · 5 months

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Darlings! I have a new poem out today at The Deadlands! I am really excited for you to read it”Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness,” and I hope you like it!!!

#poet #poetry #poem #writing #writing community #writer #nerd #SFF #SFF Community #Ali Trotta #Tarot Poem #Tarot Poems #Spec Fic #art

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gwen-tolios · 3 months

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I tend to hide I'm an introvert pretty well, but tonight after a full day of Capricorn i needed time with just me and a book.

#capricon #capricon44 #sff convention #writer eventd #sff community

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innocentlymacabre · 7 months

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would absolutely love to read more writing from other writeblrs (and become friends with other writers!) so hit reblog with links to intros or completed projects!

prime genres of interest: SFF, gothic, slipstream, magical realism, etc.

will also accept others à la romance, comedy, etc. as long as they're quick little one shots.

#writeblr #writers of tumblr #writers on tumblr #writeblr community #writing community #writblr #sff #gothic #horror #slipstream #magical realism #romance #comedy

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arijensineink · 1 year

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we as a queer sff community do not talk about Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts enough and i think that is an atrocity good morning.

#writing community #writeblr #writers of tumblr #queer writers #sff #sff writers #kipo #kipo oak #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts

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crabtalesmagazine · 8 months

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Imagine a crab. He becomes rounder. Even rounder. SO ROUND. Such a round crab guy. He is wearing a hat and introduces himself as Barry Crabcraberson.

#crabs #crab #flashfiction #sff #crab time #crab day #writing community #time for crab #crabtalesmagazine

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k--havok · 3 months

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The Ghost & The Machine

An Adult Romance SFF Novel

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Summary: Cyberpunk | Beauty & The Beast Remix | 3rd Person Limited POV | First Draft | Novel

Specter isn't so sure who she is, or her past. All she knows is she works for the ruthless fence known as Ricco Maestro using her strange power to jump into people's brains to extract information clients have paid for her to get.

When Mr. Maestro gives her a job to extract information from the notorious Dragoon, a bounty hunter and assassin, Specter's world falls apart. Captured by the only person who somehow could pull her out of his head, Specter finds herself imprisoned by the enigmatic monster. Dragoon is a beast of metal and machinery; and no one knows who he is or what he looks like.

But Dragoon isn't what Specter expected. He's rough, full of fury, and materialistic. But also clever and filled with a longing that resonates with the same frequency as Specter's own yearnings.

Specter is still employed by Mr. Maestro. And she will do anything to complete her job. She cannot fail. But as she and Dragoon grow closer, and Dragoon shows her a whole new side to the city, her own relationship with her boss, and herself, questions begin to arise.

Why can't she remember her parents? Where did she grow up? Who is she, and where do her strange powers stem from?

As Specter and Dragoon search for answers, a new threat lurks in the shadows; one that wants Dragoon wiped away and forgotten. And they just may have the answers Specter is looking for.

As enemies close in on all sides, Specter must decide what is worth more; the truth or trust.

Themes

Finding out who you are, the nature of loneliness, the different faces of abuse and how it shapes us, mental illness, true power comes from within, found family, enemies to lovers, LGBT+ themes and characters, cyberpunk with magic, magic and technology, what makes a man and what makes a monster, Beauty and the Beast meets Shadowrun

Contains

Graphic depictions of violence. Graphic sex scenes. Graphic depictions of torture. Abuse and abusive relationships. On-page panic attacks and other symptoms of mental illness. Graphic depictions of illegal experimentation on sentient beings. Swearing.

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Main Characters

Specter

Specter is a half-elf in her late 20s who isn't so sure who or what she is. She has no real memories or sense of self. Before her fateful capture by Dragoon, she lived in an apartment paid for by her boss, Mr. Maestro, who also paid for her clothes, utilities, and food in exchange for her talents for espionage. With no family, no friends, and not much purpose, Specter put all her faith, trust and livelihood into her boss's claws.

Specter is not so sure where her powers of possession hail from, where she learned such power, or when it manifested either. There are large gaps of her memories missing. All she knows is she can easily possess anything; whether it be a person, animal, an object, or even the air itself. When possessing a person or animal, Specter can access their brain, picking through thoughts and memories as easily as flipping through folders in a filing cabinet. This makes her exceptionally good at pulling out information from others with minimum risk and maximum reward. Despite the dirty nature of her job, Specter is against harming or killing others, and does her best to minimize pain for her targets.

Despite her lackluster, almost boring, life, Specter does try to entertain herself. She is an animal lover and refuses to possess animals. She enjoys watching the birds and rodents scurrying around the city. Specter also enjoys yoga and music. She often hangs around joints with live music or sings to herself when at home. She likes trying new food and cooking meals for herself. Specter is an empathetic soul, but not exactly kind. She has a cheerful disposition most of the time, although is quiet, hard-working, and observant of her surroundings.

Specter is intersex. She has pale skin with brown hair and brown eyes. Her pupils contain cybernetics that record everything she sees. Half her head is shaved close to the scalp while the rest of her hair hangs short, curling around her jaw. She has a beauty mark on the left side of her lip and no other identifying markings. Specter tends to wear well-loved and practical street clothes consisting of plain shirts, leather jackets, leather boots, and hardy denim pants. Specter is about five foot seven, about 150 lbs, and has a broader chest and shoulders with a short torso and long legs.

Dragoon

Dragoon is a chimera, made of several different animals, and is in his 50s. Dragoon has both sides of man and monster and struggles with balancing them out. He works as a bounty hunter, but at times will take jobs to kill targets as well. He primarily works alone and is freelance. Dragoon is known to be expensive, but never fails a job, making him quite invaluable. Despite his volatile nature, he is also known to be simple to work with. He does not have much interest in idle gossip or the social network of criminals.

Dragoon lives inside a life-support suit made of complex nano technology which he built himself. Along with supporting his bodily functions, his suit is a deadly weapon in itself. Dragoon is a master of both blade and gun. He is also a self-taught engineer who creates his own illegal weaponry and hides it within his suit. His suit contains hundreds of different guns, blades, bombs, and a flamethrower hidden inside it. It also modifies his senses, making them sharper, as well as his strength, speed, and stamina.

Dragoon is a neurotic and independent individual. He has an active interest in engineering and the applied sciences. When not working, he is often found either buying and hoarding random things or working on his many cars, planes and helicopters. He also enjoys programming and assisting abandoned robots he finds, re-purposing them as companions of sorts to live with him. Dragoon is quick to anger, and struggles with techniques designed to calm him down, which includes meditation and martial arts. He does not trust easily and has a phobia of needles. He is socially awkward, which leads him to be quiet and avoid small-talk. He can be witty and is mildly blunt. He has a possessive nature in regards to both objects and people, making it difficult for him to distinguish between the two.

Dragoon is male and gender-apathetic. His real form is hidden within his suit. His suit is dragon-like in appearance and can change color based on his mood and surroundings. Usually it is a dark red with bronze and black trimmings. He has a noticeable gauntlet and pauldron on his left arm and shoulder. His helmet consists of a longer snout with horn-like protrusions from the crown of the helmet. Two horns curl forward and two curl beneath fin-like protrusions, similar to a ram's. Spikes line the bottom of the jaw. The jaw of the helmet can open and close and is lined with metal teeth and a whip-like tongue. His true face is hidden behind a one-way black visor. The back of the suit and his tail is lined with a double set of spikes. The spikes on his back can protrude further out to spear anyone who tries to grab him from behind. He has clawed hands and feet and does not wear clothes over his suit. Dragoon within his suit is roughly seven foot two and weighs nearly 400 lbs.

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Links

#The Ghost & The Machine | #tg&tm

#the ghost & the machine #tg&tm #writeblr #writeblr community #writers on tumblr #wip introduction #beauty and the beast retelling #cyberpunk #sff #sci fi fantasy #romance #monster romance #monster fucker #am writing #romantasy #wip #my wips #my writing

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words-after-midnight · 8 months

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I've been toying with the idea of starting a side project that just showcases a bunch of new and upcoming releases in literary/contemporary genres (with a focus on indie works), because I rarely see them discussed much in social media writing/reading spaces, which - in my experience, please do tell me if this isn't a universal thing lol - tend to be very SFF-focused. Am I completely off the mark here, or is this something you think people would be interested in?

#mandatory disclaimer that there's NOTHING wrong with SFF!#it just tends to be what most people are writing/reading in these spaces #and we *know* that social media writing/book communities - esp. booktok - increasingly have an actual influence on the publishing industry #just thinking out loud #writeblr #booklr #bookblr

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transcendragon · 5 months

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Talk To Me About Worldbuilding - I wanted to try my hand at a cute little design, and I’ve been thinking a lot about worldbuilding lately. I borrowed a lot from my earlier pieces, and added some new stuff!

My original art made in Procreate, image description in alt text.

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yvesdot · 1 month

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TRANS RIGHTS READATHON 2024

(March 22-29, 2024)

Since people have gotten ahead of me on reading my queer monster short story collection for Trans Rights Readathon, I figure I ought to introduce it. Something's Not Right is a collection of stories featuring a diverse cast of human and non-human characters struggling with what society thinks is right. There are stories about transphobia, stories about trans love, stories about casual hot trans roommates who help you deal with your problems (dealing blood to vampires and witches); whatever bizarre relationship to queerness you could imagine, it's in there.

Anyone who can't afford a copy and/or can't get one at their local library is welcome to contact me directly for a free e-copy, no questions asked. I also have thousands of words of free fiction available on my website, including two explicit novelettes (Long Line and Band Girls) both of which include trans characters.

And a week's worth of personal trans recommendations from my top reads of the last couple of years, should you need it anytime:

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Females by Andrea Long Chu

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

The Third Person by Emma Grove

Other Ever Afters by Mel Gillman

decolonizing trans/gender 101 by b. binaohan

Bonus links: ko-fi | Patreon

#indie writer #writeblr #writers on tumblr #book sale #trans rights readathon #trans books #queer books #fantasy #sff #transrightsreadathon #trans rights readathon 2024 #writeblr community

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scholar-of-yemdresh · 9 days

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It's frustrating being a person who's really only interested in diverse adult science fiction and fantasy books and has no interest in YA/kidlit or romance.

Frustrating because on one side the people who are into primarily adult sff are only talking about the generic medieval euro cishet mantasy slop; the Wheel of Dragon song light storms by Brandon Mcwhite dude, then the other side is primarily only about YA or "NA" romantasy.

I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's near impossible to find diverse adult sff book people that aren't like 90% into YA/ YA books masquerading as adult with majority of the adult books they read are romantasy smut 💀

So as relatively romance/sex repulsed asexual and someone who doesn't care for narratives centering teens/kids, I'm just in my lonely little SFF corner. I can't interact with the broader book fandoms because both sides of it don't interest me much

It's the same issue I have with anime/manga fandom which is 99% about infantile battle shonen and then Berserk as the token adult manga. For God's sake where are the grown adults interested in adult stories where the only thing that marks them as adult is smut?

I like to read about adults with adult problems I also like to read about queers & POC in Interesting fantasy/sci-fi worlds

#books #bookblr #adult sff #adult fantasy #adult scifi #diverse adult sff #bookstagram #booktwt #probably doesn't help that most of the books I'm into aren't that popular #are they are well known but not among the types that'd be in fandom spaces so there's no significant fandom to interact with #i even do like an occasional token white medieval euro fantasy or two but even those ones are don't have fandom communities #so rip me even the white cis sword dude fantasies i like ain't nobody talking about them!#thoughts on things #adult books #adult fiction #adt bookblr

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thecatwriter23 · 6 days

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Bird Vomit, Vomit Bird

✨New Publication✨

My work ‘Bird Vomit, Vomit Bird’ is finally out in Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting published by Mānoa Journal. Thank you again to the editors for picking up my macabre swiftlet story!

You can read a snippet of it here:

#writing #amwriting #writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing community #writers community #sff writer #sff writing #speculative fiction #anthology #publication #ecofiction #ecowriting #horror #short story #prose #cat23's writing

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always-coffee · 2 months

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Rhysling Poems!

**Kermit Flail**

Three of my poems have been nominated for the Rhysling! I am super proud of all of them. (The SFPA is doing it differently this year. There's a longlist, which they'll whittle down via committee.)

You want links? I got links.

The Deadlands

Small Wonders

Uncanny

I am incredibly proud of these pieces, which each mean a lot to me for different reasons. If you haven't read them yet, I would love for you to. **hopeful face**

#poet #poetry #poem #poems #tarot poems #rhysling nominee #writer #ali trotta #SFF #sff community #writing community #writing

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moonshinemagpie · 4 months

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This looks like a very cool free series of talks from different writers on how to write SFF:

"You’ll hear from bestsellers and major award-winners, authors who have been publishing for decades and authors whose debuts were just published (or are forthcoming)—working SFF authors across a variety of SFF subgenres, from space opera to horror to epic fantasy to romantic fantasy."

Looks like all the lectures are still available to replay.

#writeblr #sff #writing community #writing resources

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innocentlymacabre · 9 months

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They came for us in the dead of night, under the cover of darkness. Like cowards.

~~ first line from a short story entering production

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effusive-eschatologist · 3 days

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I'm so excited to present the COVER REVEAL for my debut graphic novel, SN_33P'sCoolZine.pdf! It's the story of a spunky little AI who is making a punk zine to cope with grief for its creator. It's Adventure Time meets I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream!

You can pre-order it here: https://fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/sn_33pscoolzine-pdf-by-tenacity-plys

And if you want to support me and my small indie press, reblog me so the whole world can meet SN_33P!

#graphic novel #comics #writing community #writerblr #sff #sffhorror #sff/h #sffh #science fiction

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crabtalesmagazine · 8 months

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Crab Tales Magazine - Submissions Open!

We are open for submissions until the 23rd September.

Please see our submissions page for guidelines on what we are looking for: https://crabtalesmagazine.com/

We pay 3 cents per word.

We love SFF and we love crabs!

*clicks claws*

Rachel Handley is our EIC (and everything else).

You can support the magazine here: https://ko-fi.com/crabtalesmagazine

All donations go towards paying our contributors!

#writing community #creative writing #flash fiction #crabs #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy #lit mags #prose #short stories #crab

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