Curiouser and Curiouser...

There's currently a European proposition to ban conversion practice in Europe

If you're European please sigh it

If you're not please reblog

So here are some common symptoms of endo:

Painful periods that are affecting your normal activity

Periods lasting longer than a week

Passing a lot of big clots or having really heavy bleeding

Pain during penetrative sex

UTI-type symptoms

IBS-type symptoms

Pelvic or lower back pain that feels like cramps when you’re not even on your period

<deep breath>

Alright, friends. It’s been a whirlwind couple of days and I am beyond blown away, but let’s start at the top.

Hello. My name is Macey, and I’m real gay.

So, last July, I saw this picture by artist @al-norton​ on twitter. It was gorgeous. Two ladies, one in uniform threatening the be-gowned high femme with her sword. ‘Wow,’ I said to myself, and the internet, ‘I love them.’ And then, ‘but what if we did an anthology full of weapon sapphics and high femmes tho’.

What if indeed.

You gotta understand, I’ve said that before. ‘What if we did an anthology.’ Of tree ladies. Of bone sorcerers. Of airship pirate wizards. No one ever took me all that seriously, before. (Hello, I am your neighbourhood Type A disaster sapphic. Over-commitment is my middle name ^.^;)

But this time… people liked the idea. A lot.

So we decided to put together a kickstarter. We commissioned the cover art you can see up top, from @artbyalexis​, and checked if Al was okay with us citing her inspiration & buying rights to show her art. And then we asked all those writers who were so stoked on twitter whether they really meant it - figuring that some of them were probably, well, over-excited.

Nope. They meant it. Claire Eliza Bartlett. Aliette de Bodard. K.A. Doore. Jennifer Mace (yup, it’s me!). Freya Marske. Kelly Robson. Nibedita Sen. Django Wexler. JY Yang. All of them. We had a table of contents.

We posted our kickstarter on October 28th, with a modest goal of $6,000 to pay our authors, artists, and editors, and an ambitious $12,000 stretch goal to put on an open call for submissions and pay everyone professional rates. We figured if we started strong, we could maybe get to $6k in the first day or two, and slowly strive for $12k (which I particularly wanted, because we promised ourselves enamel pins at that point!) over the course of the month.

We funded to $12k in 12 hours.

As I write this, 37 hours in, we’re at $20,000. We’re in talks with authors whose names make me pinch myself. We’re working to bring in even more artists, and expand our open call to bring the book up closer to 100,000 words - which would allow for half our content to be from unsolicited writers. (Perhaps writers like you.)

I’m beyond words, I’m so happy. I never expected that stories about queer women - queer women having adventures, stabbing things, wrangling diplomatic missions or running space stations or falling in love over the bones of a dragon - could get this kind of response.