Indie Reign

Indie Reign

@queermadefinds.bsky.social

Finding the makers worth finding. ✨ 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ creators • indie artists • small businesses Art 🖼️• books 📚• handmade • weird little treasures Good work deserves a bigger audience.

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as i said hello to the horses, i watched the sunrise and sipped my coffee. how comforting it is to know there is warmth and light, even on the chilliest autumn mornings. 🍁🍂☕️🐴🌄🌞

👑 Reigning Find Friday 👑 today's find is @mariposaminiatures.bsky.social adorable, handmade miniature art! from tiny cauldrons to little ghosts and bats, there's so much cuteness happening here 🥹 & yesterday was their birthday! 🎂 go show this human artist some love! #ReigningFindFriday

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Mariposa Miniatures@mariposaminiatures.bsky.social

Hello! I am a human artist and today is my birthday 🎂🎉 Would you like to support a real human artist and also get some completely hand made art in return? I would really appreciate any and all support 💖 🦋 mariposaminiatures.com 🦋 { #bsnm #cuteart #artshop #sculpture #handmade }

tiny marketing thought 💭 being good at what you do matters. but being responsive, communicating clearly, and making it easy for customers to do business with you? that matters just as much. sometimes the best marketing isn't what you promise. it's the experience you deliver. just a thought... 🤷‍♀️

all year long, i love watching the sunset. but come fall & winter, i'm usually up well before the sun. so i get to start my mornings slow, sip my coffee, and watch the sunrise. here's to finding light in the dark. 🌅

Marketing Monday 👑💭 i've got a❔for u all... what's something a creator or small business has done that really stuck with u? & i don't necessarily mean something that made u buy anything. just something that made u stop & take notice. i'm curious what makes someone memorable. 🤔

tiny marketing thought 💭 if you're going to spend years telling everyone you're about to revolutionize something, you might want to make sure the big reveal actually lives up to the hype. just a thought... 🤷‍♀️ ...Tesla. 👀

👑 Reigning Find Friday 👑 running a little behind today, but better late than never 😂 this week's find is author CJ Connor Check out their interview with @michelekiricha1.bsky.social and maybe find your next favorite read! 📚

Geeks OUT@geeksout.bsky.social

CJ Connor is the author of queer romances & cozy mysteries, including the Board Game Shop Mystery series. Active in both the writing & LGBTQIA+ communities, they are a mentor for Author Mentor Match & a member of the Utah League of Writers. @Michelekiricha1.bsky.social interviewed CJ buff.ly/IrUe5dZ

tiny marketing thought 💭 you don't have to be everyone's cup of tea. some people like coffee. some like chaos. the point is, find your people. marketing gets a whole lot easier when you stop trying to appeal to everyone & start connecting with the peeps who actually get u. 👑

officially reached that point in the week where i'm running on caffeine and the promise that friday is almost here…anyway, here's to pretending we've got it all together for one more day. Happy Thursday all.

i’ve reached that age where i wake up some mornings feeling like i got jumped in my sleep. is it all downhill from here? should i go ahead and start making arrangements? or is this just what happens when you sleep past 40? 💀😂

honestly, this is probably only the second time this has happened. so maybe i am being a little dramatic. but i think we all know that twice is the beginning of a pattern. 🤷‍♀️

👑 Reigning Find Friday 👑 Check out @johncoons.bsky.social cabaret, comedy, and a little theatrical chaos! he and Jonah Wheeler are bringing Double Indumbnity to NYC. oh, and they just made Playbill! 👀 go show him some love! 👑💙

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If it comes to accessories or things that you would like to give as a gift, I have the ability to source because I have a reseller license and I would love for you to spend your gifting money with a queer shop! So you should let me know things that you're looking for!

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Housing is a queer issue. LGBTQ+ youth make up a huge share of young people experiencing homelessness — while the people in charge shop for $9M estates. Affordable housing saves queer lives. 🏠🏳️‍🌈

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

JD Vance is sizing up a $9 million Virginia estate while preaching to the rest of us that housing is more affordable than ever. No one believes him.

tiny marketing thought 💭 Resource Drop newer authors: before spending money marketing your book, spend some time learning the biz. contracts. rights. royalties. scams. agents. copyright. all the boring stuff that suddenly becomes very important when someone wants your work.

a few places to start: Writer Beware — scams & questionable practices Authors Guild — contracts, copyright & advocacy SFWA — publishing resources Jane Friedman — publishing & book marketing good marketing can sell a book. knowing the biz can protect the person who wrote it. 👑💙

Short storytime… Many, many months ago, I started writing an opinion piece on generative AI and human writing. In the process, I discovered just how much human writing generative AI had “consumed”. What I wanted to know most, was what literary pieces had AI been trained on?

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

Literally everything I've written for public consumption is in the training data, often in more than one language. Via the Anthropic settlement I'm getting (not nearly enough) compensation for about 20 of them, but it's doubtful I'll ever get compensation for 28 years of writing on my blog, etc.

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I don't know how many people are running around the world named John Scalzi, but I think we all know I'm talking about the Hugo Award-winning, bestselling author John Scalzi, not some random John. 😂

Did I know it was the John Scalzi when I read his post-even though his name was quite literally right there for me to read? Absolutely not. Am I 100% fangirling now? Obviously. The internet is wild. Thank you @scalzi.com for making this an amazing Monday. 🥰

Short storytime… Many, many months ago, I started writing an opinion piece on generative AI and human writing. In the process, I discovered just how much human writing generative AI had “consumed”. What I wanted to know most, was what literary pieces had AI been trained on?

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

Literally everything I've written for public consumption is in the training data, often in more than one language. Via the Anthropic settlement I'm getting (not nearly enough) compensation for about 20 of them, but it's doubtful I'll ever get compensation for 28 years of writing on my blog, etc.

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Which reminded me that should probably work on that opinion piece a little more. So I dive back in and start researching. And as I’m scanning my notes, lo and behold, whose name do I find? John Scalzi. I thought hold on. isn't this the guy from the internet? 😂

I go back, find John's post and of course I had to comment because my research had just made his point rather literal. And then… JOHN REPOSTS MY COMMENT. Yes. THE. John. Scalzi.

Short storytime… Many, many months ago, I started writing an opinion piece on generative AI and human writing. In the process, I discovered just how much human writing generative AI had “consumed”. What I wanted to know most, was what literary pieces had AI been trained on?

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

Literally everything I've written for public consumption is in the training data, often in more than one language. Via the Anthropic settlement I'm getting (not nearly enough) compensation for about 20 of them, but it's doubtful I'll ever get compensation for 28 years of writing on my blog, etc.

Did AI’s creators feed it… Twain?Dickens? Hemingway? Dickinson? Shakespeare? Aristotle? Woolf? Bukowski? Edgar Allan Poe? Austen? Orwell? I needed to know. So down the rabbit hole I went. 🕳️🐇

I discovered that it wasn't just trained using the classics or works by authors long gone. There were authors who were very much alive and whose work was being used without compensation. Fast forward to today. I'm scrolling the internet & see a post about AI by some random man named John Scalzi.

MARKETING MONDAY 👑💭 You’ve got $100 to spend on marketing your business. Where are you putting it? Ads? A market? Your website? Packaging? Content? Something completely different? Tell me what you’d spend it on below. 👇

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IT’S FINALLY HERE. 👀🎃 The Saint Ursula Tales are a trilogy. Maybe It’s Me — October 23. And yes, I’ve been dying to tell you. 😂 #MaybeItsMe #SaintUrsulaTales #YATriller

welp, it's happened. i woke up feeling under the weather. 🤧 drinking herbal tea, wearing my nice wool socks, perusing the World Wide Web & watching the squirrels gather their winter stores. gonna be a slow morning. winter is coming

Friday certainly got away from me. 😂 I swear I blinked and it was over. seriously, does anyone else feel like time has been moving faster than normal lately? Or is it just me? well, goodnight all 🥱🫩😴🛌💤

👑 REIGNING FIND FRIDAY 👑 a lil something different today what's Reigning Find Friday? every Friday we spotlight artists, writers, makers & small businesses that catch our 👀 & yep, u can be one of our finds! no fees, no strings, no catch just sharing some cool things made by even cooler peeps 💙👑