T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him)

After skipping September because I got lazy and had no content, I'm back in October with a new blog post This month, there's doses of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of my recent beta reads, so jump on in for the latest goss Oh, and I changed my title too 😁 #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky #BookSky

As the failure flies, Snuffed out one by one, they're all Unfinished goodbyes. #BSPP58 #TheUnfinishedGoodbye #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Corvid carnage, crows, Magpies, ravens and jackdaws, Bird seed confetti. #vssmagic #corvid #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @vssmagic.bsky.social

Ghoulish wastrel with Extravagant tastes, rare bones Adorning the walls. #haikuhorrorprompt #wastrel #extravagant #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @pgpayt.bsky.social

To keep the danger Away, here I shall remain, The wolf at your door. #BedroomEyesPrompt #TheWolfAtYourDoor #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @matthew-ds9.bsky.social

Feline masters of Fluidity, able to Fill any vacuum. #BraveWrite #fluidity #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @bravewrite.bsky.social

Mixing bowl fine chef with one unique sobriquet. He is the Whizz Pa. #vss365 #micropoem #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #tinypoem #writingcommunity #blueskypoetry #emoetry #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt #micropoem #haikuhorrorprompt #justwrite #whisper

Stunningly stunted, The range of everyday Essentials grows thin. #vssdaily #range #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

I wonder, how proud would my English teachers be knowing that I went through therapy to get better and now I'm about to write my first book? I wonder if they ever thought I could do it, I unfortunately don't remember... 💙📚 #WritingCommunity #Teachers

Trauma and Postmodern Subtext in Star Trek www.scifi.global/trauma-and-p... Notes on Star Trek archive.org/details/note... __ www.locate.richard.directory www.spatiotemporal.space __ #Trauma #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #StarTrekVoyager #ScienceFiction #WritingCommunity

#QueerPrompts #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity #Writesky #Queerwriters #Lgbtqwriters #Religion #Fantasy One of the gods of my world's pantheon is the intersex Atlantiadis, the psychopomp deity of messengers, liminality, trade, travel, guides, rainbows & commerce. They're sympathetic & shrewd 🧵

I forgot that I was doing blurbs for rejected work now. Silly me - my own fault for wanting to keep up with my work. #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Blurb

"Let this be the basis of everything you do next" - God #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #art #sociology #amwriting #ableism #library #theology

Happy Monday! Our prompts for this month are all borrow words! Tag #PJSenryu and we’ll retweet your poems. Today’s prompt: Sugar Casual reminder that submissions are open! #writingprompts #poetryprompts #WritingCommunity

#PoetryPrompt #secret @thetoypress.bsky.social #WordOfTheWeek #poem #poetry #WritingCommunity #PoetrySky

Fresh and invigorated from the 2026 Florida Writers Association conference, I spent the day giving my website a little refresh. New blog post (well, a link to a non-writing blog) incoming later today. #writinglife Catymcgill.com

They have "Publisher Reviews" which are literally just the same handful of "reviews" attributed to repeating fake names, saying all sorts of publishers are scams? Like... What is the point of this site? Tagging @victoriastrauss.com in case this should be submitted to Writer's Beware?

Did I ask for prodigious writing ability? No. Was it bestowed upon me by the Cosmos for some unknowable reason? Absolutely not. Shit is hard. Like, every time. I give up daily. #writing

Being artistically frustrated is how I imagine cats feel with a hairball. I need to yack this thing up, but it's gonna take a lot of retching and yowling first. #writersky #amwriting

When I said the impostor syndrome hits hard when doing graphic design, I was talking about this I got immensely lucky with the photo on top merging so well into the black background. Truly accidental/unearned genius Anyway, beta call still out! Check pin for info #writesky #WritingCommunity

We're hearing you everyone on today's TBB Countdown question and that means a whole lot of non-US drop ship options are being opened up last minute before launch!

Because I just saw it on a book blurb, here is a periodic reminder that the "A" in LGBTQIA+ stands for: asexuality aromanticism agender And that "ally" is okay/accepted because many people who aren't safe to come out self ID as ally first. Related: Changing the acronym is sometimes a dog whistle.

Author Update 🖊️ Guess I could've done with a lot less Skyrim yesterday to revise another chapter instead Oh well, I have tonight and tomorrow to get pecking, wanna get back to the 15th chapter in as little time as possible (only up to chapter 5 😭😭) #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #ReaderSky #BookSky

Being an indie author is basically Writing a book Then becoming a graphic designer, marketing department, accountant, publicist, and unstable small business owner. I just wanted to make fictional people's lives worse. #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife

Our Lord is Allah Our King is Strong Our God is One Based on Quran 59:22-24 #Quran #BookSky #readers #Writers

Just trying to achieve some tiny little semblance of peace whilst ADHD, Autism, C-PTSD, and PTSD are just all battling relentlessly below, I swear this stuff can make a person feel severely bipolar at points during the day. Just such an insane thing to live with/around/inside.

this is what happens when you remove empathy from politics - ignorance & intolerance dressed up as cost cutting policy. People like Mr Hunt do not want to engage the problems of mental health bc he doesn't care - the problem is how to cope with unhealthy people forced into work based on this policy

why hello clarice have the lambs stopped screaming yet? i ate a man's face

favorite film in haiku form of all the souls known to me in my travels, his? was the most human

favorite film in haiku form What is on his face? Should have maintained quarantine Crew expendable

Yep, Jesus said it: “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

If it's this easy for this guy, why is it so hard for others? Support trans rights.

Why do cis people always need to mention how hard it is for them when you talk about your struggles as a trans person

Forgot to post this earlier: Beautiful morning in Dublin for a run, eh? Best of luck to all those taking part in the Dublin Marathon today - especially @patrickkelleher.bsky.social! I being such a wonderful boyfriend will be racing myself (i.e. Normal Gay walking pace) to see him in a few spots.

it seems the death of bioware means we're all relitigating veilguard and i don't care if you think that game was the antichrist or whatever cos i got to play as an angry nonbinary little elf who tried to solve all their problems with punching and it was the most fun i'd had in an rpg in years

Might as well spread this over here too I dunno who needs to hear this, but if you're trans you're allowed to be listened to. You're allowed to have your experience be heard Haven't even seen the show yet cus I'm mentally working myself up to it, but I hate the way people talk about Bunlith's art

I was talking to my ex about some Democrats pushing anti-trans policies. She asked if I was a feminist. I reminded her that trans women are women, so yes. She then said she only hears me complaining about trans women's rights being taken away and that I'm failing to see the bigger picture.

So many sapphic romances have an electric jolt between the couple when they first meet and touch hands to the point I am starting to suspect lesbians might be a green energy source.

some comedy relief from the debacle of Aotearoa's election horsefuckery ancient trans girl has a meltdown about her underwear i'm tot's ok with this, might even post a pic if you're gonna take the mickey about ACT NAT NZF TOP, best not let ur own ego get in the way, they'll misuse it #nzpol

"If he said he wants equal rights for everyone and health care for everyone as well there's no way he'd win!" That doesn't even sound true bro... He didn't HAVE TO SAY he wants to take health care away form trans people.. what did you smoke?

Your politics are largely dictated by who you seek community with. Trans academics seeking their place in the academy and cutting themselves off from community with other trans folk do this shit for the same reason stealth or stealth aspiring trannies do it. To show the cis they can be trusted.

Im back in on Cyberpunk after Edgerunners Season 2 I love when a game is very clearly flush with queer artists going nuts and lets me also go nuts with them <3

I write about queer life because I’m interested in the bits that don’t fit neatly into slogans. The contradictions. The blind spots. The uncomfortable questions. That’s usually where the interesting stuff is.

but WHAT IF it was not an issue. you are imagining a problem that doesn't exist. "they are eating the dogs and the cats!"

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this