New Monday, new week, and the crowdfunding campaign for Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” is almost 7/8ths funded!!! (I know I keep talking in these updates about how close we are and the changes aren’t THAT big from day to day, I’m just very excited about our progress. 😀
Today’s another two-creator day – we’re meeting Toby.exe and Annabeth Lynch! This is Toby.exe’s first time working with us. Annabeth’s been in past anthologies and has published two short stories on our webpage, and she’s a member of our Press staff, sharing her know-how and experience during our meetings and when we’re chatting our way through management decisions. She also runs the Press TikTok account!
The Voice, The Action, and The Heart by Toby.exe
About the Artist: Freelance Animator and Illustrator based in the UK. He/They LGBTQ+ friendly little goblin who plays excessive amounts of DnD and loves to play Live Action Roleplay events all over the country! If I am not at home drawing, I am out and about playing a variety of fantasy characters in the woods and hitting people with silly foam swords.
Links: Personal Website | Instagram | Patreon | Twitter
A Lesson in Foils by Annabeth Lynch
About the Author: Annabeth Lynch is a genderfae (she/they), bisexual author who writes mostly queer stories, preferring to write marginalized characters finding love. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, daughter, and two very overweight cats.
Story Teaser:
“You ought to learn, then. Every woman could benefit from learning a bit of swordplay.”
“Women don’t learn the sword, d’Artagnan,” Aramis said disapprovingly, having been pulled from his argument with Porthos upon hearing d’Artagnan’s suggestion. “Men fight; women make the home.”
“Does Milady not have intimate knowledge of sword fighting?” d’Artagnan pointed out.
“A special case, and we would all have been better served if she hadn’t learned.”
“And what of me?” they asked.
“You get away with a lot of things you shouldn’t,” Porthos snorted.
Tags: alcohol use (casual), character has a different gender than in the source material, events diverge from how they unfolded in the source material, gender non-conforming character, historical, m/nb, masquerading as a person of a different gender, non-binary character, period-typical misogyny, robbery (attempted), trans character, violence (non-graphic descriptions)