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@tryslora

Tris Lawrence. Over 50, queer, she/her. Mom, Sysadmin, Black Belt in TKD, Writer... constantly sleep-deprived but always enjoying life! Current original project is PHU. Primary current fandom I write in is Teen Wolf (old fandoms are many!), but you'll find whatever catches my eye posted here, plus lots of talk about writing (and more writing, and oh, even more writing). Always happy to talk to folks and if you have anything you want to say or ask, please feel free to contact me!
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Back the WILD AND FULL OF MARVELS Kickstarter!

The crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology, Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales, launched yesterday, and we’re already almost 50% funded and a Kickstarter “Project We Love”!

With Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales, our authors and artists bring our perspective as queer adults in the 21st century to the stories, some ancient, some modern, that meant the most to us when we were young. Each creator selected a folktale, fairy tale, myth, or legend that had personal significance for them, then reimagined these personal touch-stones as we wish they could be: stories that uphold our cultures, stories that impart the lessons and morals we wish to impart, stories that drive home the cautions we wish we’d received, stories in which people like us are the heroes held forth for emulation. We’ve transformed these stories to be more inclusive, more personal, more understanding of others, and—of course!—much more queer.

The book contains 23 stories, each up to 5,000 words long; 21 full-page artworks; a 4-page comic by Max Jason Peterson; and a 10-page comic by Jupiter V—a total of 46 queer fanworks inspired by stories from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

In addition to the book, we’re offering awesome merch – two stickers, a bookmark, an art print, a slate coaster, an acrylic window hanging, an enamel pendant necklace, and a journal! There’s also a ton of add-ons you can choose from, from stories from our back catalog to Duck Prints Press merchandise and more.

Visit our campaign page TODAY to learn more about the anthology, our contributors, what we’re offering to backers, and our plans for getting this book into print with your help!

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Back the WILD AND FULL OF MARVELS Kickstarter!

The crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology, Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales, launched yesterday, and we’re already almost 50% funded and a Kickstarter “Project We Love”!

With Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales, our authors and artists bring our perspective as queer adults in the 21st century to the stories, some ancient, some modern, that meant the most to us when we were young. Each creator selected a folktale, fairy tale, myth, or legend that had personal significance for them, then reimagined these personal touch-stones as we wish they could be: stories that uphold our cultures, stories that impart the lessons and morals we wish to impart, stories that drive home the cautions we wish we’d received, stories in which people like us are the heroes held forth for emulation. We’ve transformed these stories to be more inclusive, more personal, more understanding of others, and—of course!—much more queer.

The book contains 23 stories, each up to 5,000 words long; 21 full-page artworks; a 4-page comic by Max Jason Peterson; and a 10-page comic by Jupiter V—a total of 46 queer fanworks inspired by stories from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

In addition to the book, we’re offering awesome merch – two stickers, a bookmark, an art print, a slate coaster, an acrylic window hanging, an enamel pendant necklace, and a journal! There’s also a ton of add-ons you can choose from, from stories from our back catalog to Duck Prints Press merchandise and more.

Visit our campaign page TODAY to learn more about the anthology, our contributors, what we’re offering to backers, and our plans for getting this book into print with your help!

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[Video description: Gritty is turning the crank on a flagpole to raise the Progress Pride Flag. He gesticulates angrily that the flag is not blowing in the wind, then gestures offscreen. The flag begins blowing. As Gritty begins raising the flag more, the camera pans out to show a man in a suit and sunglasses, looking like a stern Secret Service agent, is holding a leafblower that points at the flag. End description.]

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Buy Queer Creations, Support Queer Causes: 2026 Story and Art Bundles for Charity!

HAPPY PRIDE! It’s time for our fourth-annual Pride Bundle charity drive! We’ve got three bundles this year: a general imprint bundle with 25 titles totaling 381 pages; an explicit bundle of 15 stories, 237 pages; and an art bundle with 10 artworks, 250 mb of digital artwork! In the first three years of this initiative, we’ve raised over $725 for the charities we’ve selected, and we’re delighted to be back, this time in an effort to raise money for the Queer Liberation Library ( @queerliblib ) and the Transgender Law Center.

The General Imprint Bundle costs $25 USD (60% off normal!). 40% of this sales price will be divided equally between the two charities.

The Explicit Imprint Bundle costs $15 USD (60% off normal!). 44% of this sales price will be divided equally between the two charities.

The Art Bundle costs $10 USD (66% off normal!). 24% of this sales price will be divided equally between the two charities.

How This Works

  • You buy one or both bundles between now and June 30th, 2026.
  • We tally up all the proceeds earned and do some math-e-magic to figure out how much we’re donating!
  • Before the end of July, we divide our total raised amount in half and donate equal amounts to the Queer Liberation Library and the Transgender Law Center.
  • We post the proof that we’ve made the donation (you can see past proof here, here, and here.)
  • You get fantastic stories!
  • We all get that happy, glowy feeling of knowing that money has been well-spent on fantastic causes!

About the Press

Duck Prints Press is a queer-owned indie press, founded to publish original works by fancreators. We’ve been in operation for over 5.5 years, and in that time we’ve worked with well over 150 creators to publish ten anthologies and over 200 other stories, from shorts to novels, and we’ve got more on the works (five anthologies in progress, multiple novels slated for the later half of 2026, an art project, and more). The vast majority of our creators and their creations are queer/LGTBQIA+ (maybe even all, but we don’t out anyone and we don’t ask demography because, frankly, it’s none of our business).

About Our Selected Charities

Note: These charities are not affiliated with the Press, do not know we’re doing this fundraiser, have not endorsed this in anyway and are, as such, utterly uninvolved in this beyond being the beneficiaries of our efforts! Text is from their webpages.

  • The Queer Liberation Library: “Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.”
  • The Transgender Law Center: “Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Since 2002 we’ve been organizing, assisting, informing and empowering thousands of individual community members towards a long-term, national, trans-led movement for liberation.”

About the Bundles

We are offering three bundles: general imprint stories, with 25 works; explicit imprint stories, with 15 works; and art, with 10 works. The shop listings include details about and excerpts from all the stories and previews of all the art. Purchasing book bundles gets you access to the e-book (in ePub and PDF formats) of each title included in the bundle. Purchasing the art bundle gets you access to high-quality print-ready images, sized to print clearly at 8.5 in x 11 in (21.6 cm x 27.9 cm) (FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY!). Here’s what you’ll get!

Works in the General Imprint Charity Bundle:

25 stories. 381 pages. 130,140 words of fiction! Price: $25.00 USD

GET THE GENERAL IMPRINT BUNDLE

Approximately 40% of the list price of this bundle will go to charity.

Works in the Explicit Imprint Charity Bundle:

15 stories. 237 pages. 80,768 words of fiction! Price: $15.00 USD

GET THE EXPLICIT IMPRINT BUNDLE

Approximately 44% of the list price of this bundle will go to charity.

Works in the Art Charity Bundle:

10 artworks. 247 mb of art! Price: $10.00 USD

GET THE ART PRINT BUNDLE

Approximately 24% of the list price of this bundle will go to charity.

Check out our bundles for charity now, and help us help others!!

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Hermit Prints - Into the Split

This project was for the story Into the Split by @tryslora.

It is part of Welcome to PHU, a web serial about the students who attend Pine Hills University, a fictional liberal arts school, and the folks around them. It’s about magic, and love, and football, and music, and taekwondo, and just about anything else that college students might get involved in. And magic. Did we mention the magic? Because in this world, ten years ago, the public found out that magic is real, and ever since then, more and more Talents have become public in the world, and Pine Hills University happens to be one of the schools that welcomes these magical students with open arms.

You can read the stories as they are posted on Tumblr and on Pillowfort.

Into the Split is the third story of the “Twinned” trilogy and can be purchased as an e-book and trade paperback through Duck Prints Press or through most bookstores and libraries!

This is in the “6×9” format, with white paper and glossy cover options. The story has 144,994 words and the final book had 444 pages.

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Front and spine view of the book, along with the thematic enamel pin available through @duckprintspress

Interior page – Chapter Start

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Q2 Planning (yes, I realize Q2 is almost over)

I am sitting here being annoyed at everything. Life is… imagine a month of very Mondayish Mondays and that’s where I am. That’s a topic for another post, however.

Today is about finishing up a task that’s been on my to-do list for two months now—Q2 planning.

Yes, I am more than aware that there is only one month left in the second quarter. See above notes about life.

Anyway. Let’s talk about how Q1 went first…

I had a whole lot of goals for Q1. None of the writing goals happened. I didn’t write a fic. I didn’t make progress on either PHU or 7Lakes drafting. In fact, I made a decision to let those goals go for now because I am so far into blocked it ain’t funny anymore. Instead, I’ve been focusing on setting myself up for markets, which includes doing graphic design for stickers and other merch, so it’s not just books on my table.

We did complete some of the household tasks. We completed the bookcases in our family room, so the library is now in place. I am slowly organizing books,  but that’s a very long haul project. I might do a little today, since I’m off work, but uh, I expect things to get hectic after lunch, so maybe not.

I did complete my health-related self-care items. Genetic testing completed—no bad cancer genes, and one potential EDS gene although at the moment, since it’s an unknown mutation, I’m diagnosed officially as HSD. We’ll see if that changes when criteria changes in December. I fit a lot of the lesser-known weird issues for connective tissue disorders, so I’m kind of just claiming it at the moment because it’ll make things easier talking to physicians. Oh, and I’m in PT to try to stabilize things to help my joints to release my freakin’ muscles. Yes, that’s another time sink.

I attended Boskone, but was not on programming. I was unable to attend Balticon due to family emergency. I decided not to attend Readercon since I did not put in for programming. But we did add Philcon to our list in the fall, so that’s kind of awesome.

So now here we sit two thirds of the way through Q2.

I’ve kept things simple this quarter—do design work, set up the business.

I still need to do the following:

  • Finalize business setup
  • Restart my Etsy
  • Upload designs to RB
  • Publicize, publicize, publicize
  • Research and sign up for more markets

In other things, I’d also like to find my ability to write again (still, yes) and get better about social media (again, yes).

Eventually I’ll get to do some photography hiking, I hope, but that’s over a month in the future due to again, family things.

I’m finding it very hard to make goals or focus on things that require dedicated focus. I’ll get there eventually, but right now, life is about riding the rollercoaster and doing my damnedest not to fall off every time it goes upside down or has a really long drop. So. Yeah.

#goals and objectives#tris talks#personal#planning
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ALERT: Help DUCKS IN A ROW Reach Our Funding Goal!

A very ill-timed nasty spring cold has meant I’ve been able to do way less promotion on our now-running Kickstarter to fund Ducks in a Row and Duxxx in a Row, curated collections of stories from Duck Prints Press’s first 2 years. We’ve got 48 hours left in our campaign, and we’re only 80% to our $9,000 goal – about $1700 short.

And all you need to do to help is boost this post! Of course, if you’re interested in the books, I hope you’ll check out the campaign, but we are a small press that relies on word-of-mouth for advertising. More people simply seeing that this project exists is critical as we try to make our goal before we run out of time.

Ready to learn more about what it’s about? Visit our Kickstarter now or read on!

Since Duck Prints Press was founded in January 2021, we have published over 200 stand-alone short stories by dozens of authors, ranging in length from just over 1,000 words up to 9,999 words. Most of these short stories are available for purchase individually from our webstore or are only available to people who back our Patreon… until now! With Ducks in a Row: A Curated Collection of Short Stories and Duxxx in a Row: A Curated Collection of Explicit Stories, Duck Prints Press dips into our vault, anthologizing stories we published from 2021 to 2023 into all-new collections!

Whether you’ve looked at our short story offerings and weren’t sure where to start, or you’ve heard about Duck Prints Press and wanted a tasting selection of what we offer, or you’ve wanted all your favorites in one lovely volume, or you had no idea we existed until today and just heard “short stories by queer authors” and said “SIGN ME UP,” Ducks in a Row and Duxxx in a Row have a little something for most everyone, with stories in different genres, with different types of characters, and by many different authors!

What we’re offering:

  • Ducks in a Row: A Curated Collection of Stories: includes 22 stories by 22 different authors, 236 pages long, in e-book (no DRM!) and trade paperback formats.
  • Duxxx in a Row: A Curated Collection of Explicit: includes 19 stories by 19 different authors, 264 pages long, in e-book (still no DRM!) and trade paperback formats.
  • Art prints of the front covers: our gorgeous cover art is by Pallas Perilous, and we’ll be making it into 8 in x 10 in/20.3 cm x 25.4 cm matte art prints.
  • Bookmarks of the front covers: you can see how we cropped the front cover art to make two charming bookmarks, 2 in x 6 in/5 cm x 10.2 cm, below! The backs will feature the (digital) signatures of all the book contributors.
  • Red Bowtie Dux die-cut sticker: our adorable mascot, Dux, created by Alessa Riel, is red-feathered for this campaign sticker! You can learn more about Dux, our Press mascot, here.
  • Red Bowtie Dux enamel pin: our first-ever enamel pin of our mascot will feature iridescent metal – including as the bowtie! – and pearlescent red enamel feathers.
  • Our ENTIRE back catalog of print books (not the e-book only releases) are also being offered as campaign add-ons!
  • Many of our past merchandise, such as stickers, enamel pins, magnets, and key chains, can also be added on!

Learn more about the contributors, the stories, the merch, the Press, the add-ons, the budget, the schedule, you name it, by visiting our campaign page!

thank you so much for the signal boosts, y'all.

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We are so close!!

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100,000 and we’re just getting started!

To everyone who’s signed up for a membership, donated, borrowed a book, told a friend about us, or just commented on an Instagram post… thank you. Seriously. We would not be here without you!

Want to help get us to 200,000? Join the QLL family and borrow a book today! queerliberationlibrary.org/members

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Kickstarter Launch Day for “Ducks in a Row” and “Duxxx in a Row”!

Since Duck Prints Press was founded in January 2021, we have published over 200 stand-alone short stories by dozens of authors, ranging in length from just over 1,000 words up to 9,999 words. Most of these short stories are available for purchase individually from our webstore or are only available to people who back our Patreon… until now! With Ducks in a Row: A Curated Collection of Short Stories and Duxxx in a Row: A Curated Collection of Explicit Stories, Duck Prints Press dips into our vault, anthologizing stories we published from 2021 to 2023 into all-new collections!

Whether you’ve looked at our short story offerings and weren’t sure where to start, or you’ve heard about Duck Prints Press and wanted a tasting selection of what we offer, or you’ve wanted all your favorites in one lovely volume, or you had no idea we existed until today and just heard “short stories by queer authors” and said “SIGN ME UP,” Ducks in a Row and Duxxx in a Row have a little something for most everyone, with stories in different genres, with different types of characters, and by many different authors!

Ducks in a Row contains 22 short stories by 22 different authors and is 236 pages long. Duxxx in a Row features 19 short stories by 19 different authors and is 264 pages long. Each is being offered in e-book (ePub and PDF) and trade paperback formats, and we’ve also got some of our signature dux merchandise (including our first-ever dux enamel pin!) and art prints and bookmarks featuring the gorgeous artwork Pallas Perilous did for the book covers!

Visit our Kickstarter to learn more and become a backer today!

Campaign ends April 14th 2026!

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Cover Reveals For Our Next Two Anthologies!

Wondering what we’ve been working on? Wonder no longer! We’ll be back with our next crowdfunding campaign on March 30th to launch these two short story collections!!

Ducks in a Row and Duxxx in a Row feature short stories we’ve previously published only on our website or Patreon, all from the first three years we were in operation. All the stories in Ducks in a Row are from our general imprint – 22 of them, to be exact – and all the stories from Duxxx in a Row are in our explicit imprint – 19 spicy tales for you.

During our upcoming Kickstarter campaign, you’ll be able to buy one or both, and a small selection of related merchandise featuring the gorgeous cover art by artist and graphic designer Pallas Perilous and a new dux by Alessa Riel – including our first-ever dux enamel pin.

Follow our pre-launch to make sure you’re among the first to hear when our campaign goes live on March 30th 2026!

Stay tuned for merch reveals, story teasers, author bios, and more!

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graphic design

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole of playing with graphic design.

It’s definitely not my first time. I used to make icons for Livejournal (yes, I’m that level of old). Hell, those icons are still all available on my Insanejournal account (again, yes, I know, this is archaic). But I haven’t had time to play around in a long time, and when I started to, I’d feel guilty about it.

Well, one of the stretch goals for the PHU Kickstarter was a sticker sheet of favorite quotes, which I had volunteered to make because I knew it’d be fun. I have a bunch of fonts with a single-seat commercial license, so I was all set for that. And y’know what? It was fun. A lot of fun. I made a sticker sheet of 9 quotes, which will be going out to everyone who backed a level that receives it.

Afterward, I realized I wanted to print a couple of them for myself, which yes, I have permission to do. And I wanted to make more! It’s something I’ve been talking about doing for a while.

In fact, one of the things I’ve realized both going to markets and working behind tables is that a table full of books isn’t always a good draw. If the eye isn’t caught immediately by a book, people will glance and walk by (I do it myself). So I knew I wanted to be able to have other things on my table if I do markets.

This is my first step in that direction. I also plan to work with my photography, doing notebooks and cards. I plan to do some crochet because WHY NOT let my fidgety hands do something fun like Amigurumi of fandom things. Yes, it’ll make for an eclectic table, but maybe that’ll intrigue people.

I fail at branding as much as I fail at genre, huh? I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.

Next steps are figuring out the business side of things, and reaching out to a few markets to see what I can do to test the waters this year. If only the pages about business information weren’t so damned confusing. Like. At this point, this is only hobby level. But then there’s sales tax, which has to be dealt with if one is doing markets and stuff. So. Ugh?

Anyway.

I just sent off a set of 11 sticker designs to see if they’ll work and if I did them right so I can maybe buy stickers, a sample pack, and a half dozen keychains (because I can’t afford to make patches of the design a friend wanted a patch of) for my first order.

It’s weird how nervous I am about this. And how much imposter syndrome is involved. It isn’t art… it’s absolutely graphic design. I’m playing with fonts, and in some cases, licensed martial arts designs, to twist them into pretty versions that say what I want.

But it’s also fun. And maybe someone else will like them as much as I do and buy some. And then maybe we can talk about books.

It’s the dream, yeah?

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Gluten Free Sourdough Ciabatta Rolls

Eating gluten free can be a struggle. I’m not diagnosed as celiac, but I definitely have a gluten sensitivity, so I’ve been eating gluten free for well over a decade. I regret all my life choices when I catch accidental gluten, and I know what my limits are for cross contamination (shared fryer is okay as long as I don’t get crumbs on my plate—crumbs are bad in all forms).

Anyway. I’ve been seeing a lot of recipes using and raving about Caputo gluten free flour, so I was wondering what the big deal is. Is it really that great? I love that it includes psyllium husk right in it, and isn’t overloaded with gums that will suck up moisture. So of course, I decided to buy a (rather large) bag of it, and give it a go.

If you are also gluten free and interested in this flour, please be aware that it has wheat flour in it that has had gluten removed, so it is not appropriate for wheat allergies, but it is considered celiac safe.

My first attempt was the Gluten-Free Ciabatta Rolls recipe from the Caputo site. The only difference is that I wanted to utilize my sourdough starter, so I made a few adaptations.

I lowered the amount of flour from 2.5 cups to 2 cups, and I lowered the amount of water from 1.25 cups to .75 cups. This allowed me to use 1 cup of my sourdough starter, which is a 1:1 fully hydrated starter made from rice and millet flours.

I lowered the yeast slightly, to 6g from 7g, because I used instant years instead of standard. I did not do an overnight rise to get benefit from the sourdough, so I still did need yeast.

I patted the dough (it’s sooo wet) into a larger square and made 9 rolls instead of 6, but I realized later I could’ve done it with 6 and been okay for how carby they would be. Whoops. Next time I get to make them slightly bigger!

The dough is really quite wet, almost like a batter, even after resting. I used a silicone pad well-dusted with flour to do this, then a bench scraper to move them to my parchment-covered sheet pan. At first I thought the dough was too wet—I struggled to move them and some came out not so neat. BUT. The texture was perfect when done, so I don’t want to reduce the amount of water. Instead, next time I will work directly on the parchment, and simply attempt to get rid of extra flour so it doesn’t burn.

I baked for 20 minutes, and they came out almost a little too crisp. But the inside was perfect and I adored having one for lunch with a leftover warmed-up burger. YUM.

A day later, one toasted beautifully, but the half I didn’t toast was a little dry. I am thinking in the future I might leave them uncut, wrap in foil, warm in the toaster, then try to eat it as if it were just baked. I might also underbake them slightly to freeze for future me.

I was incredibly impressed at how amazing the interior was right off the bat. I love this flour, and will be using it for more recipes, definitely. I certainly have plenty of it to play with.

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