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Straith 🍉
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D.A. Straith (they/them). Toronto-adjacent fiction person • nonbinary trans & queer settler • work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, SHATTER THE SUN • Clarion West Novel Workshop ‘25 • #straithenfrancais • agent: Laura Zats @ Headwater • straith.carrd.co
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · Jun 22
HEAR YE, HEAR YE: I am now officially repped by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management!

Laura has a fantastic vision for my very bi+trans, rather mind-bendy throuple-centred Gawain remix, EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER. I'm excited to see what's next!

@lzats.bsky.social @headwaterlit.bsky.social
I'm agented! I'm now represented by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management for my mind-bending throuple-centred Gawain remix, EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER! (Text is bracketed by headshots of Straith (L), a white person with short black hair and large glasses, and Laura (R), a person with bright red lipstick, bangs, and shoulder-length salt-and-pepper hair)
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the more responsibilities I am given, the less time I have, so my new policy at day job is, you want to give me more stuff to do? I'm going to make all decision making and strategy your problem 👍
September 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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🦇 Happy Friday 🦇
i've seen enough summer.. release the bats [Picture of a sky filled with bats and a crescent moon in the middle of it all]
September 18, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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love 2 brainstorm a page of notes and characters and realize it’s just twin peaks but with more industry
September 18, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's a duck simulacrum.
— Jean Baudrillard
September 17, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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Just started reading this last night and I dont think I’ve EVER read a book where I’ve seen my family history so thoroughly embedded and echoed within it. Like, you ever read a book and learn about the people you came from? Not proud, just kind of self reflective
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Cobalt
Finalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled...
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September 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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ok ok it’s a gritty reboot of the Chipmunks about the horrors of being dehumanized by the media machine and being exploited for gain by one’s parent as a child entertainer. it’s called SQUEAK NO EVIL
September 16, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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NEW QUEER JANE AUSTEN ALERT!!! IT’S LYDIA AND SHE’S A HOTTIE!
lindzmcleod.bsky.social Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 2d
The way I have been holding in this news for MONTHS! I'm so excited for you to meet jaded, grown up Lydia, and the sweet, shy spinster she's about to thoroughly debauch 🥰

It's just about the fortune hunting, okay? Lydia Wickham does NOT catch feelings. Right?

... right?
Publishers Marketplace announcement reads: Author of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY Lindz McLeod’s WICKED MRS. WICKHAM, book three in the Austentatious series, a sapphic romance set in the world of Jane Austen’s PRIDE AND PREJUDICE in which the sweet and sheltered Mary King must team up with the utterly classless—and wickedly irresistible—Lydia Wickham in order to recover her family’s stolen fortune, to Leyla Erkan at Harlequin, in a two-book deal, for publication in winter 2028, by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management (world English).
September 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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every day I tell myself at least a little bit that I need a new job, but damn, I really really need a new job lolll
September 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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trial and error

#dungeoncrawl #dungeon #traps #rpg #ttrpg #rpgart #ttrpgart #videogameart #fantasy #fantasyart #osr #nsr #art
a stone staircase spirals up towards us: at the bottom, a figure in a tunic and phrygian cap looks about as he approaches the first steps; a short way up, the figure is sprawled on the steps, his head cleanly sliced off; further up, his hand is vanishing into green sludge which fills a pit that has opened in the steps; a few steps higher, he is pinned in place by a vertical row of spears jutting from holes in the wall; up a few more steps, he has been crushed by a block of stone cut to fill the width of the stairs; almost at the top, only a pair of smoking shoes remain by the metal grille in the floor through which the glow of fire can be seen; at the top, having reached the landing, the figure looks down at his foot as the floor tile he's stepped on has just depressed with a 'click!'
September 16, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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this is not directed at anyone but design tip, please make sure you zoom way out on your book covers, whether you designed them yourself or had them designed for you, until they are thumbnail sized. assess that thumbnail. that’s often what people’s experience of the cover will be on ecommerce
September 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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wow lying down in the dark doing nothing after weeks of doing So Much can be so nice actually
September 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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You should read SHATTER THE SUN, yes, YOU!!
eliaseells.bsky.social Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Jun 24
Ahaha!! My contributor copy of SHATTER THE SUN has arrived. I'm so excited to share my story with all of you & to read the offerings of all the other contributors. Sharp blades, glamorous wizards, terrible monsters, tortured priests, & so much more await in this landmark new anthology of queer S&S!
A copy of SHATTER THE SUN ed. dave ring at golden hour. A prism flashes rainbows on the wall behind. The anthology sits alongside a stack of classic Sword & Sorcery tales (bottom to top): ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ by Michael Moorcock, THE COMING OF CONAN by Robert E. Howard, NEVERYÓNA by Samuel Delany, IN THE LAND OF TIME AND OTHER FANTASY TALES by Lord Dunsany, THE DARK EIDOLON AND OTHER FANTASIES by Clark Ashton Smith, JIREL OF JOIRY by C.L. Moore
August 4, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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you want true crime? try reading about coal operators and the black lung movements in the 60s and 70s. a new horrific crime against workers on every page
In 1970, after a year of examining claimants under the new compensation law, the three physicians who composed the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board of the West Virginia workers’ compensation system recommended the following preventive action: “A vigourous and persistent campaign should be carried on by all authorities interested in preventing lung disease in coal miners to point out the hazard of cigarette smoking and to encourage all coal miners to become nonsmokers.” From DIGGING OUR OWN GRAVES, revised edition, by Barbara Ellen Smith with photographs by Earl Dotter
September 15, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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the fact that fermented foods can be a migraine trigger feels like a cursed directed at me specifically
September 15, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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AI this, AI that, Paint doesn't need copilot integration or whateverthefuck to be incredibly powerful software, it remains the only thing on my work computer that can handle a .webp
September 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Somebody please write a delightful romance novel about the life and adventures of Emmanuel Pateca, trans man of the 17th century.
mattlodder.com Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 4d
In case anyone was still in any doubt that trans people have always existed, here's a delightful account of a trans man called Emanuel from 1634. The author even gets the pronouns right!

[There are a few more...]
Of the changing of Sexe, Matus Lufitanus reports that in the village Esquina, there was a maid named Maria Pateca, who at the appointed age for her courses to flow, had in stead of them a mans yard, lying before that time hid and covered, so that of a woman she became a man, and therefore laying aside her woman's habit, was clothed in mans, and changing her name, was Called Emmanuel ; who when he had got much wealth by many and great negotiations and commerce in India, returned to his country and married a wife, but Lusitanus said he did not certainly know whether he had any children, but that he was certain he remained always beardless.
September 14, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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I may have sent my revised mss to my agent, but now begins the difficult slog of I Hate The Book And Must Distract Myself By Working On Something I Don't Hate Yet
September 14, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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GOOD MORNING

I ... do not have a manuscript to revise today!

SO THAT MEANS today I'm dedicated to:

(1) rest
(2) tackling a few things I've been ignoring to make this deadline 😵‍💫
September 14, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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GOOD MORNING

I have 8 chapters left to review in my manuscript before sending it to my agent. I’d like to send today if possible, so the work includes manuscript prep
Majoras Mask: Dawn of The Final Day
Alt: The words “Dawn of The Final Day: 24 Hours Remain” slowly appear in white text against a black background. The animation is from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.
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September 13, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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drawings about love
4 drawings of bryony vines
September 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Meant to say that this is newly on Shudder- which is how I was able to watch it :)
stinasdemons.com ⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 6d
📽️🩸A fantastic spin on the Gothic that both perfectly encapsulates the genre while also subverting it in a wonderful, needed way, Mārama is a beautiful, haunting story. It's also got one of the most arresting & cathartic portrayals of fury I've ever seen. Everyone should see this; I adored this film.
Movie poster for Mārama. A double image of a woman in gown standing with hands clasped and also at her sides
September 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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GREETINGS.

tis the last weekend of working on this book before I hand it back to my agent on Monday!

I have 20 chapters left to read and make any last line edits to

that's at least 10 chapters to read back today 🥲 I can do it, but it'll take a big push!!
September 12, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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cn food //

combine cottage cheese and calabrian chili sauce to create a tasty roasted red pepper & cream cheese dupe But For Jocks
September 12, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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More info here: www.manyvsmoneysummit.ca
The Many vs. The Money - Counter-Summit & Demo
A counter-summit and protest against the privatization of Canada's public infrastructure and resources. Toronto, September 12–14, 2026.
www.manyvsmoneysummit.ca
September 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Are you kidding me? This is an iconic crew for a counter-summit to push back on Carney’s neoliberal wet dream.

Not to mention the Naomi Klein keynote and more!

Hope to see you there!! ✨
Graphic for the event “the many vs the money” opening plenary! It’s a counter summit and teach in at 9am on Sunday Sept. 13 in Toronto at OCAD. I’m moderating, and the panel features: Samira Mohyeddin Kevin Skerrett Janelle Lapointe Paris Marx Sarom Rho
September 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM