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[hullosweetpea]

felled by you

a steddie royalty a/b/o

The guards stop and shove Steve forward towards the man. He trips over his feet. Steve catches himself and stands tall. He’s a soldier, a leader, a royal prince. For now, it still means something.

The man coughs. “The king and queen of Loch Nora have been executed, the royal palace occupied, and victory declared. The royal troops of Loch Nora have been given the choice to swear loyalty to their new king or face exile. However, King Edward has not decided what to do with you.”

Steve knows two things: King Edward is an alpha and he has not taken a mate.

He sinks to the floor and prostrates himself. “I submit myself to King Edward’s rule, to be bitched and promised as his mate, and birth him an alpha heir.”

The silence that follows is choking.

Or: a Royalty Bitching AU

Read Chapter One

[duckprintspress]

Duck Prints Press is Vending at Capital Pride 2026!

Absolutely thrilled that, for the first time ever, Duck Prints Press will be joining the celebration for Capital Pride in Albany! This is our area’s premiere Pride event, and it’s always a great time. There’ll be a huge parade, performances, a drag show, vendors, food, and much more! I hope to see you there.

Learn more about Capital Pride!

[veliseraptor]

can't believe it's only tuesday. it feels like it should be at least wednesday and honestly really thursday

[mikkeneko]

Happy feels like it should be at least wednesday and honestly really thursday tuesday

[strangerthingskinktober]

So... when do you all wanna see these prompts? 👀

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!

Friday 12th June (time TBD)

Saturday 13th June (time TBD)

A different date (elaborate in replies)

Remaining time: 25 minutes

[duckprintspress]

A Rainbow of Queer Books for Pride 2025: Red

HAPPY PRIDE 2025! For Pride this year, we’re changing up our usual rec lists. Instead of doing books with specific identities or themes, we’re focused this time on cover color! Throughout the month of June, we’ll be doing 8 rec lists, each with covers inspired by one of the colors of the original Gilbert Baker Pride Flag. We drew a little additional inspiration from the meaning behind the color and why it was included in the original LGBTQIA+ flag (in this case, red = life), but we prioritized color over meaning. The contributors to this list are: Sanne, Neo Scarlett, boneturtle, Nina Waters, Shannon, Shadaras, Tris Lawrence, Linnea Peterson, Owl Outerbridge, Shea Sullivan and 2 anonymous contributors.

The Devil’s Luck by L.S. Baird

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” ed. by Nina Waters

Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Fat Ham by James Ijames

Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer

Husband Material by Alexis Hall

The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard

For Real by Alexis Hall

Jay Moriarty Violates the Official Secrets Act by Kit Walker

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan

The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado & DaNi

Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland

Devilman by Go Nagai

Find these and many other queer books on our Goodreads book shelf or buy them through the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate page.

Join Book Lover’s Discord server to chat with us about books, fandom, and more!

[duckprintspress]

itch.io Pride Bundles!

Pride is a great time to load up your device of choice with queer e-books to last you all year. In addition to the short story and art bundles of Duck Prints Press titles we’re selling to raise money for charity, we’re also part of five (!!!) different itch.io bundles currently running.

Pride Book Fair: PRIDE HARD!

The Pride Book Fair is a month-long virtual book fair hosted on Instagram and Bluesky, aiming to uplift queer authors and books. During the first week, the Book Fair is offering four different itch.io bundles, and Duck Prints Press has books in… all of them! Each bundle is $40 USD, and each contains either 37 or 38 queer books.

Pride Book Fair Bundle 1: PRIDE HARD includes a lot of awesome stuff, including our anthology Scholarly Pursuits. The bundle’s $40 USD price tag is a savings of 73% off the list price of the included books.

Pride Book Fair Bundle 2: PRIDE HARD with a Vengeance is a 72% savings at $40 USD, and our book Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley is among the 37 books in it. (The artist-author May Barros, who has done a fair amount of art with DPP, also has a book in this bundle!)

Pride Book Fair Bundle 3: Live Free or PRIDE HARD has 38 titles at a 71% discount, and includes novelette In Good Company by Nicola Kapron.

Pride Book Fair Bundle 4: A Good Day to PRIDE HARD is the last bundle, $40 for 38 titles (73% off list price). The first book of our recently-fully-published trilogy Twinned, Commit to the Kick by Tris Lawrence, is in this bundle!

Get one bundle or get ‘um all, there’s a lot of really awesome queer fiction in these bundles, so I hope you’ll check ‘um out!

These bundles end on June 8th!

-

LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Bundle

This Pride bundle features 23 stories for only $10, an 82% savings. Among the titles is Puppetry by Nina Waters! As the title indicates, all the works in this one are under the speculative fiction umbrella – they’re either science fiction, fantasy, or horror (SFFH).

Get this one between now and June 13th!

-

Can’t get enough? Well, as a final note, there are still a little over 12 hours left to get the Queerly Beloved bundle, featuring 32 queer romances for only $10! We’ve got three titles in this one – To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh, Moongatherer by Willa Blythe, and Lightbringer by boneturtle.

[inmyvampireempire]

I love tumblr because somehow I can end up being mutuals with a celebrity (someone that wrote a fic that I loved)

[disarmd]

i get the vibe that people are reading less fic these days. confirm/deny?

in terms of reading fanfiction in the last six+ months...

i have been reading less fic lately for various reasons

i have been reading less fic and i'll tell you right now it's because of AI

i would like to read more but i'm in a fic reading slump

i never read all that much fic (less than one story per week)

i almost never read fic (less than once a month)

i read the same amount of fic as ever

i have been reading more fic lately

nuance/bald/i'll tell you in comments

Voting ended on6h

"because of AI" i mean because of the number of fics that are written using AI.

[prose-n-scripts]

Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

Mass Lobby for Trans Equality

Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

Worried about what to say? Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.

Money issues? Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.

Got a refusal or no response from your MP?  Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.

Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:

Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination. e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).

Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee. If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)

Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).  A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).

Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).

Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.

I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.

[charlesoberonn]

Female Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beard

Voting ended onJun 9

[charlesoberonn]

Child Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beards

Voting ended onJun 9

[charlesoberonn]

Baby Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beards

Voting ended onJun 9

[charlesoberonn]

They shed their baby beards to make room for their adult beards. Like with baby teeth.

[duckprintspress]

Our Favorite Queer Audiobooks for Audiobook Appreciation Month

June is Audiobook Appreciation Month! While we talk a lot on our blogs about all the books we read, we haven’t talked much about how often we don’t “read” those books so much as listen to them! A lot of our rec list reccers love audiobooks and rely on them for various reasons. Thus, we wanted to celebrate by highlighting some of the great books that have audiobook versions we loved. Note that for books that have multiple audiobook versions, we do specifically mean the versions listed below, with the named narrator. The contributors to the list are: Rhosyn Goodfellow, JD Rivers, CarCrash, Shea Sullivan, Aubrey Winter, Annabeth Lynch, Ivy L. James, jumblejen, Puck, Rascal Hartley, Tris Lawrence, Linnea Peterson, Evangeline Giaconia, and an anonymous contributor.

The Escape Game by Marissa Meyer & Tamara Moss; read by Keylor Leigh & Ryan Vincent Anderson

All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles; read by Sonny Archer

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian; read by Aven Shore

The Edge of a World by J.D. Rivers; read by Anthony Proctor

Nicked by M.T. Anderson; read by Euan Morton

Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón; read by Everett Rain (note: the cover for this edition says it’s narrated by the author, but the listings on Goodreads and elsewhere indicate the narrator is Everett Rain. We’re not sure if this is a case of Calderón having multiple pen names or what, but we decided to proceed with the listing as given on the audiobook listings.)

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner; read by Simon Jones, Ellen Kushner, Nick Sullivan, Robert Fass, Katherine Kellgren & Dion Graham

The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater; read by Will Patton

Breaking Character by Lee Winter; read by Angela Dawe

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir; read by Moira Quirk

The Charioteer by Mary Renault; read by Joe Jameson

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra; read by Catherine Bilson

The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton; read by Emily Lawrence

Nevada by Imogen Binnie; read by Imogen Binnie

Unstoppable series by Charlie Jane Anders; read by Hynden Walch, Sena Bryer, Imami Jade Powers & Marcella Lentz-Pope

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass; read by Michael Crouch & Kevin R. Free

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala; read by Pete Cross

The Extraordinaries series by TJ Klune; read by Michael Lesley

The Radiant Emperor series by Shelley Parker-Chan; read by Natalie Naudus

Once & Future series by Cory McCarthy & A.R. Capetta; read by Lauren Fortgang

A Clash of Steel by C.B. Lee; read by C.B. Lee & Emily Woo Zeller

The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells; read by Kevin R. Free

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian; read by Joel Leslie

Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman; read by Avi Roque

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers; read by Dan Calley

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; read by George Guidall

Find these and other books on our Goodreads book shelf. We’ve also made a list on the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate page, but note that not all of these titles are actually available in audiobook format through Bookshop.org!

Join our Book Lover’s Discord server to chat books, fandom, and more!

[sraithpics]

I meant to make this meme ages ago when pride month was still on but yeah gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose.

[sraithpics]

IT’S FINALLY PRIDE MONTH, TIME TO REBLOG THIS AGAIN.

[afurioushawk]

[afurioushawk]

[frustratedasatruar]

Real and growing possibility of him dying live on tv and nobody in the room noticing for minutes on end.

Likes charge, reblogs cast.

[megmca]

If he isn’t the nastiest old grandpa in the entire world I don’t know who is.

[prose-n-scripts]

Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

Mass Lobby for Trans Equality

Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

Worried about what to say? Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.

Money issues? Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.

Got a refusal or no response from your MP?  Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.

Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:

Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination. e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).

Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee. If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)

Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).  A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).

Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).

Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.

I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.

[duckprintspress]

itch.io Pride Bundles!

Pride is a great time to load up your device of choice with queer e-books to last you all year. In addition to the short story and art bundles of Duck Prints Press titles we’re selling to raise money for charity, we’re also part of five (!!!) different itch.io bundles currently running.

Pride Book Fair: PRIDE HARD!

The Pride Book Fair is a month-long virtual book fair hosted on Instagram and Bluesky, aiming to uplift queer authors and books. During the first week, the Book Fair is offering four different itch.io bundles, and Duck Prints Press has books in… all of them! Each bundle is $40 USD, and each contains either 37 or 38 queer books.

Pride Book Fair Bundle 1: PRIDE HARD includes a lot of awesome stuff, including our anthology Scholarly Pursuits. The bundle’s $40 USD price tag is a savings of 73% off the list price of the included books.

Pride Book Fair Bundle 2: PRIDE HARD with a Vengeance is a 72% savings at $40 USD, and our book Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley is among the 37 books in it. (The artist-author May Barros, who has done a fair amount of art with DPP, also has a book in this bundle!)

Pride Book Fair Bundle 3: Live Free or PRIDE HARD has 38 titles at a 71% discount, and includes novelette In Good Company by Nicola Kapron.

Pride Book Fair Bundle 4: A Good Day to PRIDE HARD is the last bundle, $40 for 38 titles (73% off list price). The first book of our recently-fully-published trilogy Twinned, Commit to the Kick by Tris Lawrence, is in this bundle!

Get one bundle or get ‘um all, there’s a lot of really awesome queer fiction in these bundles, so I hope you’ll check ‘um out!

These bundles end on June 8th!

-

LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Bundle

This Pride bundle features 23 stories for only $10, an 82% savings. Among the titles is Puppetry by Nina Waters! As the title indicates, all the works in this one are under the speculative fiction umbrella – they’re either science fiction, fantasy, or horror (SFFH).

Get this one between now and June 13th!

-

Can’t get enough? Well, as a final note, there are still a little over 12 hours left to get the Queerly Beloved bundle, featuring 32 queer romances for only $10! We’ve got three titles in this one – To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh, Moongatherer by Willa Blythe, and Lightbringer by boneturtle.

[arowitharrows]

Shout-out to aromantic people whose lives are so fucking busy that they periodically forget what day of the week it is. today is Wednesday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.

[arowitharrows]

Today is Thursday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.

[arowitharrows]

It's June 5th again!

[rocketsaurus]

Curious what is actually normal for bed time. Go for your normal/average time, not your most extreme or what you wish it was.

what time do you go to bed? (local time)

7pm or before

8pm

9pm

10pm

11pm

12am

1am

2am or after

it's never consistent

some other time entirely

Voting ended onJun 9

I just don't know what grownups do for bedtime and I want to know!!!