L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ

@antarcticempire

Mantis Therian • She/Her • Taken Posthumanist Author & Poet since 2009 Writing comms open! Specializing in horror, sci-fi, bugs, and inner space. sfw/nsfw. DM for details Website: www.antarcticempire.net PFP by @space-salaman.bsky.social

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L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· May 23

Help my sci-fi is actually romanceslop

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· May 21

Signs of life #writing

Photo of a page of typewritten prose. A significant portion of the right side of the text is out of frame. In the center, the heading "CHAPTER II -- 17 May 2026" delimits a transition from third-person past tense to first-person present

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· May 17

ATTENTION!!! There is someone impersonating me to commit fraud and steal your money in my name! PLEASE LOOK AT THE HANDLE

Some account "@llacertawinters.bsky.social" trying to post paypal links

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· May 6

GET THE BOOK it's GREAT and it's about loving bugs too!! I helped edit it, it's a beautiful weird story that I love with all my soul and that really changed my life 💚 I owe so much of who I am to Noah and his writing! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/clementine...

Cover of Noah Corey's debut novel, entitled Clementine H. Hopeful Is Not A Hero. It features a boy in a purple and pink dress, carrying an old backpack with pins on it and a sword over his shoulder. Spiders crawl on the sword, and one descends from it on a line of silk. Flame-like shimmering magic highlights the character as well as the book's title and author. In the background, mask-like glowing faces with many eyes and odd shapes float in front of a pine forest. Small text on the cover's top right corner reads "Would you rather save the world, or change it?"

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· May 5

This is Septima, my mantis sona! ✨she/her✨ I'm excited to finally have a ref to show ppl, am still new to entering raffles and stuff hehe

Reference sheet showing art of Septima, an anthropomorphic mantis character, from the front and from the side. She is spring green on a purple background, dressed in a dark grey buttoned coat, an old-fashioned Sunday hat with a light purple flower, and a short skirt of light purple. She wears purple glasses and a black and purple kufiya over her shoulders. Her arms are the classic mantis raptorials and her feet are digitigrade with two toe claws each. This art was drawn by @miragevision.bsky.social

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· May 2

you should have more bug plushies in your life

Stylized plush toys of an orchid mantis, a black and brown spider, and a crocodile on a desk. The spider sits on the back of a chair, and the mantis appears to be holding onto the chair's backrest

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Apr 23

homemade pork lo mein

Noodle dish in a red bowl on a windowsill. Small meat pieces, green onions, and purple cabbage can be seen, and some herb sprinkles show against the noodles

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Apr 12

this is gonna be a good one, i feel it

Photo of paper in a typewriter. It reads:

Chapter I -- 12 April 2026

Rich, warm light filled the windowed galleries of the Council ship *Ukiah* as it pitched into the plane of an old star.

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Apr 11

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Apr 10

sketch of a woman with a speech bubble that says "waow" and a thought bubble that says "based based based based based based based based..."

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Apr 1

@adigoesswimming.bsky.social here's that map (march 2026) with key and alt text

"Anti-Trans Legislation Risk" map of the US with key. States under each key item:

"Worst Laws Passed" -- West Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho
"High Risk Within 2 Years" -- New Hampshire, South Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska
"Moderate Risk Within 2 Years" -- Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Alaska
"Low Risk Within 2 Years" -- Delaware, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada
"Safest States With Strong Protections" -- Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii
"Do Not Travel" -- Florida, Texas

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Mar 31

real photo of me irl, do u think i pass

Beautiful photo of a mediterranean mantis (Iris oratoria) leaping in flight with its claws extended. The mantis is in sharp focus while the background of grass is unfocused. Both the subject and background are a nice spring green color. I found the photo on iNaturalist

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Mar 19

uh huh

Close-up on gum pack, with "New Comics" label in the corner

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Mar 19

unbelievable. I want my money back. and I NEVER say that

A whole 10-pack of Bazooka, opened to show "comics" that look like NFTs of professional athetes. There are 9 shown in the photo because I threw one out a few days ago

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Mar 19

the fuck is this shit bazooka

Photo of an opened 10-pack of Bazooka bubble gum. Three "comics" are shown, each is a boring single-panel caricature of a professional athlete

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Mar 18

My friend Noah's delightful MG novel about being trans and loving bugs is now OUT!!! It's called Clementine H. Hopeful Is Not A Hero from Penguin RH and you can get it at Barnes & Noble!!! I helped edit so I'm in the acknowledgments aaaaa I'm so hyped noahcorey.com <-- GET THE BOOK NOW 💙📚 #MG

My friend Noah holds a copy of his middle-grade book Clementine H. Hopeful Is Not A Hero in front of a bookcase at Barnes & Noble. The book has a beautifully-designed and colorful cover depicting a boy in a backpack and dress holding a sword over his shoulder. Noah is smiling proudly.

A photograph of a bookcase at B&N showing Noah's book next to a bunch of other good-looking kidlit.

My friends Mark and Noah stand proudly in a Barnes & Noble. Noah holds a copy of his book.

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Mar 11

it's really just

Meme edit of a book cover featuring a guy pointing at a car engine and speaking. Title is "Everything I like is Trans: A Book for Navigating Transition". Under the car's hood is the album art of Traffic's Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys. The guy is saying "This progressive rock album from 1971 is trans."

L. Lacerta Winters 🪳🏴 ΘΔ@antarcticempire· Mar 10

Here's a short story I'm pretty proud of! It's inner-space sci-fi ✨ antarcticempire.net/stories/rhizome.htm Free to read, but you can donate to my ko-fi if you'd like to help me afford food and clothes: ko-fi.com/llacertawint...