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Gender is a construct. If you’ve spent any time in queer or feminist spaces, you’ve probably heard that phrase. When I first heard it, it rang true—as loud as a steel door clanging shut in a cell.

I just wrote an essay about how lesbians and trans women helped me redefine my own relationship to gender and how that informs my writing!

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Pride month!!! If you want to read about a cringefail, middle-aged bisexual shapeshifter trying (and failing) to hook up his best friend and ex wife during a space pirate attack, check out the full story, "Keeping Up Appearances"

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Decades ago, Star Trek invented gay rights by letting Kirk and Spock roll around on top of each other, and the world has never been the same. These days, fanfiction gets a bad reputation, but how much of it is really deserved? Let's boldly go into the occasionally dark and horrifying world of fandom and find out for ourselves!

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Resurrection Road Trip| Urban Fantasy

When a witch sacrifices her life to protect her friends and bandmates, they travel the country searching for a way to bring her back.

The Lament of Lazura| Fantasy

A young demon mistaken for an angel is forced to choose sides in the war between Darkness and Divinity when she is brought to live in an angelic opera house on the moon.

Shiftless | Sci Fi

A famous shapeshifter gives up his abilities for a shot at married bliss only for the world to be threatened by an alien warlord who happens to be his ex-wife.

This year's NaNo poll is up! I like to get them out of the way pretty early so I have plenty of time to outline before November.

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A moodboard for Eth by M. Lalli Lassegard, a bittersweet queer romance that doubles as Norwegian countryside propoganda

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Quote Countdown #1:

"The laws of changeless justice bind

Oppressor and oppressed;

As close as sin and suffering joined,

We march to Fate abreast."

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Quote Countdown #2: "As long as common sense lasts, we are no longer in love."

Of One Blood is available for preorder here

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Quote Countdown #3: "Will our spirits come like setting suns, on each day of eternity?"

Of One Blood is available for preorder here

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Quote Countdown #4: "Fragments of marble lay about him. It seemed to the lonely watcher that he could hear the sound of the centuries marching by in the moaning wind and purposeless dust."

Of One Blood is available for preorder here

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Quote Countdown #5: "O, what long array of souls divine, lit with immortal fire from heaven itself! O, let me kneel to thee! And to thee, too, Beethoven, Mozart, thou sons of song! Divine ones, art thou come to take me home? Me, thy poor worshipper on earth? O, let me be thy child in paradise!"

Of One Blood is available for preorder here

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Quote Countdown #6: "No man can draw the dividing line between the two races, for they are both of one blood!"

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Quote Countdown #7: "The theories of prejudice are swept away by the great tide of facts."

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Quote Countdown #8: "Good and evil in me contend; which will gain the mastery?"

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Quote Countdown #9: "Without warning, the red dawn shot up behind him. The sepulchre before him flushed the color of blood and the light revealed the horror of its emptiness."

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Quote Countdown #10: "The wonders of the material world cannot approach those of the undiscovered country within ourselves--the hidden self lying quiescent in every human soul."

Of One Blood is available for preorder here

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Can a Bulldog Write a Better Story Than AI?

If you've ever wondered which is superior, artificial intelligence or animal intelligence, this is the video for you!

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Quote Countdown #11: "Fate has done her worst, but she mockingly beckons me on and I accept her challenge. [...] If I conquer, it will be by strength of brain and will-power. I shall conquer; I must and will."

Of One Blood is available for preorder here