u/thatsradbruh

Hi!

Long shot here but thought I’d check!

I’m nearing completion of my poetry manuscript which is a collection of sapphic love (and the ensuing heartbreak, and the ensuing hope that remains after) poems.

I’m looking to commission someone to do the book formatting and publish to kdp, b&n, lulu, and Ingram spark, as well as SEO and other such marketing.

I’m finding loads of people who do this already, but would prefer to hire within my own community, for obvious reasons.

So if you do this or you know a friend who does, please please please connect me!!

If not, well, at least I tried right ◡̈

EDIT: I found someone!!!
Leaving this post up so the creators who commented can still have their work visible.

Thank you to all who reached out.

Hi,

I’m in the editing stages of my sapphic/lesbian poetry book and looking for a cover designer. Am open to your ideas, but must involve the theme of “lavender and indigo”. Having a striking and unique but still highly readable font is important to me as well.

I’m looking for a print cover and an ebook cover, with the understanding that whatever is designed has to look good in thumbnail too.

Priority given to those who are LGBTQIA2S+ ◡̈

Budget is $200-$300

TIA

EDIT AND VERY IMPORTANT

It is a requirement of mine that NO AI be used anywhere on, near, or involving my work. You must be willing to sign an agreement as such. I want human work only!!!

I’m getting to know someone who doesn’t know much of anything (like seriously nothing) about Minnesota or the Twin Cities.

I was gushing/rambling trying to talk about how cool it is here and how we have everything and all the fun facts but! I thought what better way to do this than to get other perspectives as well, since our state is so varied and has so many different things!

So-what do you love about here? What are your fun MN or TC facts? What would you want someone to know about our lovely area most of all?

Greetings and Salutations!

I’m a femme lesbian, hailing from yonder Twin Cities region in Minnesota, calling out into the void.

Does the void call back?

Speaking of voids, I have a dapper and handsome and opinionated black cat whomst is my bestie, so must love cats!

I’m a mom of two (16/18, live with me week on/week off), a working professional, a student, and a poet. Sounds insane, but I’m good with my time, and I have room and space for a honey in my life!

I love laughing, libraries, making terrible art that feels good to my soul, cooking, long walks or long drives with music or my thoughts, birdwatching, and recently got into film photography.

I dislike being around people who have little empathy, doing the dishes, taxes, mean things that are disguised as jokes, subtext, and mayonnaise.

I spent much of my time searching for things that I’ve lost and finding other things along the way.

I smoke (I know, I’m trying to quit, scouts honor!) and I swear (but I know time and place!). Sometimes a drink is nice but it’s not necessary. THC is lovely but I’m not a stoner.

Fun fact about me is I was Time Magazines Person of the Year in 2006. It’s true, look it up!

I’m a late bloomer, came out when I was 30ish, have had 2 serious relationships and some dates and such. My story of coming out late in life is intrinsically tied to who I am as a person and the incredible journey I’ve gone on to get where I am and I’m at peace with my life. Still, I know that may be a dealbreaker to some, so letting you know now!

I’m oh gosh idk probably 5’5”, maybe a 16/18 so full figured. Very happy with myself. Not concerned about those stats on others but again, helping yall move along if that’s a dealbreaker for you!

I’m femme and I am attracted to butches/mascs/studs/any outward aesthetic that leans masculine. Love love love it. 💕

If you made it this far and wished I was still yapping, shoot me a message! Tell me your favorite joke or what book you read recently or if you have a documentary recommendation or if you are simply just looking for cat pics! Whatever’s clever, cuties.

Over and out!

So even though we’ve been friends for a few years and I had a girlfriend during part of it, I guess he didn’t pick up on the fact that I’m gayyyyyyyyyy as all get out.

So he shot his shot.

And he was really great about it. Totally cool during the rejection and after. Very supportive and kind. I have mad, mad respect for him, it’s not easy putting yourself out there and getting your bubble burst.

I left the interaction with such a sad, strange feeling. Because if he was a woman, it would be on, no questions asked. One of my best friends, who knows him as an acquaintance, told me that she always thought if he was a woman we’d be perfect together.

I love him down bad platonically. There’s nothing in my bones that desires or could stomach a man.

But it’s strange I guess to have this feeling. Kind of sad I guess? He’s a pretty unique person and so am I.

And maybe it’s because my dating life is shit. I just am not finding people that get me, yanno? Or who I get.

I don’t have anyone to talk to about this. Anyone else ever encounter this feeling?

Also not sure how the friendship will go, hopefully we can stay friends, we inspire each others art so it would be terribly sad to lose that.

Idk, thoughts?

Greetings and Salutations!

As the title suggests, I am 39 years old and live in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. I have a lot of pride for my state and community, but finding it hard to locate the Butch of my dreams here. Every app is full of femmes, and while I would love to be their friend, Butch folks are what does it for me. Always has. My first crush was the lunch lady in grade school - she wore dad jeans and had this great mullet and oh dear I am aging myself aren’t I?

More about me:

- I am a mom to two teenagers (16 & 18, live with me every other week) and one very opinionated cat

- Huge bookworm and frequent flyer of my local library

- Am in school full time

- I am a poet, working on finalizing my first manuscript

- Love love love to cook and bake. Not a huge fan of meat, except hot dogs. I know, make it make sense!

- Hobbies include birdwatching, painting, and film photography - not the best at any of them, but they bring me joy

- Dream is to live in a trailer in the woods and grow my own food and preserve it, sew little curtains and things, I just love making a home. But my other dream is to do all that in the city. So I guess I could end up anywhere that’s not the suburbs and just be happy as a clam in water to make my home cute. Hoping to make even a modest living off my writing and editing to make this dream come true. I don’t need too much in the way of money.

- I will be moving once my youngest gets into college, but not sure if I’ll stay in MN or branch out elsewhere

- I do my best to be kind and give back to my community through regular volunteer work

- However, there is a spine made of steel under the kindness, so I am no pushover

- Staunchly against AI

- 5’5” size 16 with very short brown curly hair and greenish eyes

- The not so great; I swear like a sailor, am working tirelessly to beat a cigarette habit, and I spent most of my life first in survival mode and then doing the healing to escape survival mode and learn to thrive, which means that while I’ve been working my arse off, I don’t have cool travel stories or a big group of lifelong friends, I have very little in the way of family, and I can’t offer anything monetarily. Also I tend to yap a lot. I love to talk. Putting that in the not so great because that hasn’t been received well in the past

I’m looking for someone kind, someone who laughs a lot (laughing is my favorite), an old school Butch who likes getting romanced - I am very romantic! Also please be around my age or older!

I met my last 2 partners on Reddit, and while they didn’t work out, I found it a great way to meet lesbians I wouldn’t normally encounter, so I figured I would give it another shot!

If any of this sounds interesting to you, please feel free to message me ◡̈ Tell me your best dad joke, or the last great meal you ate, or what you’ve been reading! Or anything else about you!

That’s all I suppose. Happy Pride everyone!

So I just kind of fell into being a foster parent…

I am a single mom of two girls age 16 & 18. We squeak by okay but definitely struggle financially.

Recently, my younger daughter’s friend, also 16, needed a place to crash after mom was arrested for child abuse. I said of course and put her on the couch.

Well, it turns out no one in the family is safe to stay with. Seeing that it’ll be more than a few nights, I put my daughters friend in the bedroom where my girls shared a room, I put my older daughter in my bedroom, and I am now on the couch.

Then they asked if I would foster. I thought about friends growing up who faced abuse in their foster homes and knew in my heart I could not send her off. Plus it sounds like she’d already been shuffled around between homes in the family.

She is the sweetest girl. Very responsible, helpful, kind, and considerate. I have no worries about her behavior at all.

I would feel so cruel and I would not be able to live with myself if I made her go somewhere else, but guys I don’t know that I’m cut out to be a foster mom.

I am 39. I have been raising kids for 29 years. I raised my siblings. I don’t mean I helped take care of them. I mean the entire time K-12 my brother was on school, not one teacher ever met my parents, they only knew me. I have been working since I was 10. I am so so so so fucking tired.

I work full time and am in school full time. Getting a degree is a lifelong dream of mine. It has only been achievable because my girls go to their dads half the time.

I don’t see myself being able to continue school, I will have to put that on hold again. I won’t be able to date. I won’t be able to go out with friends or do activities outside of work with my coworkers.

There’s no bus at my apartment (the school is in dad’s district) so I’ll have to have her stay after school every single day so I can drive her to and from. I don’t know that that’s fair to her.

She came here with nothing but the clothes on her back. I’m doing my best to provide (she dresses modestly so can’t wear my daughter’s clothes) and the county is trying to help but everything is waiting for approval. I won’t get any kind of financial help for a month at least.

I was already scared about money because of rising gas and groceries and looking for a second job before we took her in.

I am awful at paperwork and I’m noticing there’s a LOT involved and I just do not feel comfortable that I will stay organized and on top of it.

On top of that, I come from an abusive home, and this is bringing up things I thought were long dead. I do not have time or money for therapy right now.

I have never fostered before. So I’m asking you guys, the experts- what do I do here?

I can’t just send her off, I will not be able to live with myself. That would be so selfish and awful of me, she’s just a teenage girl. She needs love and support. That is so much more important in the grand scheme than my schooling or anything.

Still, this all started two weeks ago and I can’t recognize my life anymore.

Does it get better? Easier? Idk what to do or think.

Thank you for listening. I hope this is coherent. I haven’t been sleeping well. I am open to any advice, feedback, suggestions, anything.

Thank you.

Hi friends!

I was in a relationship for a year. It was long distance. There was some avoidance issues on her end and some lying by omission. Still, we persisted, and she seemed to be being open, honest, and transparent. I ended up proposing, but not even two weeks later, we broke up. After she said “yes”, she did not wear her ring or tell anyone in her life about us. That’s when everything else started unraveling. Lies were uncovered and she just wasn’t who she said she was. Made it easy for me to walk away. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I’m dipping.

Fast forward a few months to now and I met someone spontaneously and organically. They asked me out and we had a blast. Turns out we have a ton in common. Things feel easy. Fun. We laugh so much. They are so easy to talk with. They have made it clear they are interested. We’re about to go on our third date.

The other day, they said something kind to me. It hit me really hard because I realized my ex may have been nice (at times) but she was so not kind. This new person has been very kind. I feel a bit like a wounded dog meeting someone who is trying to give me a treat lol. They remember things I tell them, point out things they see in me, etc and I’m like WHOA. I forgot what it was to be seen, desired, appreciated, liked.

After they said one of the kind things, I got off the phone and just cried.

I don’t want to start something with someone if I’ve got baggage. I never thought that was fair. Is this baggage? Should I be single for longer? I mean it’s not normal to cry because someone was kind to you, right?

We have such an amazing connection. I want to make sure I’m doing the right thing.

Thoughts? Advice? Stories? Please and thank you!