val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈

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📝sci-fi/fantasy writer V.M. Ayala (she/they) 🎮 streamer, indie games, TTRPGs ✨ anxiety/ADHD, chronic pain 🏳️‍🌈 queer Mexican American 🪐🗡️ co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🌈 💌 spacevalkyries@gmail.com

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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· 9d

discovery drafting my novel is going great!!

black text on a white background that simply says "[cool fight scene goes here]".

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· 16d

at this point I notoriously pick a food spot every convention to eat and just go there a million times. for Lavender Con it’s a bagel place named Call Your Mother 🥯 ✨

Front facade of Call Your Mother, with cute red brick apartments above it.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Jun 2

good news though, you can now perceive this masterpiece in night mode 🍑✨

Creative Mode in Dorfromantik. A series of five islands that spell "butts" in night mode.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Jun 2

I got an email from the lovely folks over at @toukana.bsky.social that Dorfromantik got new DLC! which is cool - that game got me through some bad times when I was sick a lot. so I open it to see what the heck I was doing in it last, a couple years ago now, and... well... 🍑 I'm SO mature 😂

Creative Mode in Dorfromantik. It's 5 islands on water tiles that spell "butts".

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· May 13

yesterday got away from me but it was Bella’s birthday!! my adorably grumpy tortie is now a 14 year-old ladyyyy 💜

My tortie Bella curled up in her pride themed bed like she’s diving into a pool.

My tortie Bella staring at something from her fuzzy cat tree

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Apr 16

amazing lmao

screenshot of bsky failing to load a reply.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Feb 25

I fulfilled my greatest necromancer gardener dreams in Greenhearth Necromancer 🪴 AND then also my greatest ye olde manuscript desires in Scriptorium: putting butts on things and making them play a silly instrument ✨

scriptorium demo screenshot of a ye olde illuminated manuscript style art with a cat tooting a horn on one side, with a butt, and a... strange demon creature with a smiling face for a butt. the smiling face is tooting a thorn.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Feb 8

since a friend gifted me Beastieball (because I love Pokemon vibes and volleyball and turn based combat so this game was made for me), I've finally been playing it because it's been chill to dissociate with and if this isn't the most sad writerly mood 😂

Screenshot of Beastieball where the Beastieball coach of a town says "My fault for living in a world where I can make it as a coach and not as a writer" which is deeply relatable to me, as a writer.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Jan 25

I have successfully dragged my fiancé into the snow several times today. this is definitely the most snow I’ve seen in this region since I moved here ❄️

My fiancé grimacing in the snow like the New Yorker he is next to me smiling broadly like the Houstonian who never saw this much snow ever that I am~

Same as previous picture except this time my fiancé is actually smiling.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Jan 18

I am a writer that loves to write to prompts, so I love theme calls for short fiction. AND YET EVERY TIME, I WIND UP MAKING THIS NOTE TO MYSELF…

screenshot of a note in a document that simply says “I fear this might be a novella…”

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Jan 9

the world is a lot and I'm stilllll on antibiotics and recovering—which means more Deep Space Nine! this thumbnail has me wheeze laughing 😂

Julian Bashir from Deep Space Nine looks forward while a Jem'Hadar warrior looks at him menacingly on the right from behind to comedic effect. The episode is Season 4, Episode 4: "Hippocratic Oath".

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Dec 31

the winter glade continues because I don't have the brain for anything else and my voice is nearly gone now 😭 but Tiny Glade continues to be good low energy distraction, thank you for coming on this sheep journey 🌨️

sheep with bird on its head in the winter glade of Tiny Glade at night, with a red building in front of them.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Dec 29

I am still so out of it so the winter glade continues, and I still can't get enough of this sheep. Tiny Glade thank you for my life today lmao 🐑🌨️

winter glade in Tiny glade with a sheep and a bird on the sheep's head with red buildings in the background.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Dec 28

more tiny glades achieved ✨

a tiny summer glade in Tiny Glade, with a duck on a pond in the foreground.

A winter glade in Tiny Glade, with a sheep and a bird on its head in the foreground.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Dec 28

I have found the photo mode. Tiny Glade already very good, very comforting, very cozy 🐑

a sheep in Tiny Glade with a bird on top of its head.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Dec 9

✨ live now! ✨ come hang out for a little bit before the @wholesomegames.com's Wholesome Snack 2025 at 3pm Eastern Time! excited to see some cute games and react together 💜 🌈 www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries 🌈

Wholesome Snack 2025 official co-streamer image! I am holding up the peace sign and smiling at the camera.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Dec 3

So I turned 35 today ANDDDD @r0nyn.bsky.social and I got engaaaaged 💍 Seven years we’ve been together and I can’t wait for many, many more ❤️

Me leaning against a big red ornament sculpture. Ian is leaning on it next to me smiling

Ian holding my hand to a holiday tree ornament. I have on black nail polish and am wearing an engagement ring with a purple stone.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Dec 2

TTRPG booths mentioned: @gilarpgs.bsky.social (I got so much video but did not take a singular photo, why am I like this), @plusoneexp.bsky.social, @ipr.bsky.social! Also got a baby krogan from @sanshee.com and dice jewelry from @yaniir.bsky.social, which was gorgeous as always! AND a baby owlbear!

baby krogan plushie and cryptid wolf with skull and wings plushie from storyteller squad

Black d4 and a iridescent blue d4 on stainless steel chains from Yaniir

Green baby owlbear plushie got at the Imagining Games booth of PAXU.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Nov 25

Made a little vlog style video of my wandering through the PAXU expo hall (my first attempt at this format and style!) looking for solo/GMless/ general TTRPGs to stream with my chat! I hope bsky doesn’t eat the quality but #PAXUnplugged was great this year and I met so many lovely TTRPG creators 💜

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Nov 22

Some assorted photos from PAXU so far! I tried to also get video for a cute vlog but we’ll see how that worked out 😂 Feels like this PAX Unplugged I’ve been running around the expo hall a bunch! If you briefly saw me I’m glad—sometimes I’m too shy to say hi long but I always cherish the meeting 💜

PAX sign on a table in the trans flag color scheme of light blue, pink, and white.

Photo of coffee on a table with my PAXU 2025 badge wound around it and a goose wearing a rainbow ribbon with a butter knife in its beak pin on the lanyard.

A plushie of the grumpy leafy grass type Pokémon Swadloon.

A cute hedgehog woodblock/handcrafted friend at the Snowbright Studio booth

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Nov 22

Saturday wandering the expo hall of PAXU! If you spot me or my new fun goose pin, yell VAL and wave!! Also if you have any solo, two player or GMless 1-2 playable TTRPGs, I’m hunting around for some for streaming potential 👀

Selfie of me against a wall wearing a mask with a goose pin on a purple lanyard

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Nov 21

IT’S DAY 1 OF PAXU!! If you spot me in the expo hall yell VAL!! and I will maybe not hear you so please just come up and wave if that doesn’t work 😂 EXCITED FOR DAY 1 OF PAX UNPLUGGED!!

Me doing the awkward bisexual peace sign in a mask and purple hoodie with the expo hall wall in the background

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Nov 13

it's award nomination season! here is my award eligibility post for 2025. I had one short story out, and I'm so proud of this queer cyberpunk/anti-corporation piece. 🌆"To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" by V.M. Ayala - Lightspeed, Aug 2025 (Issue 183) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a...

V.M. Ayala's award eligibility 2025 image. short story information in white text over a blurred cityscape background. story quote says "None of them knew Zan wasn't trying to climb up to meet them. Zan was the hammer, mid-swing towards glass."

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Oct 9

thank you again for the support and hype during #DVpit 💜 I wound up not using two moodboards, mostly because I couldn't quite figure out how to tie them to my pitch. But if you like flirty moodboards and/or atmospheric ones!! Please enjoy my DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM extra moodboards 👀

A romance focused moodboard for my novel! In the middle of the moodboard are two longer images. The top one is of two people dancing, their faces not shown. The bottom image is a woman dramatically lit looking down, a slice of light showing only part of her face and arm. On the diagonal top right and bottom left are black and gold then white and purple/blue texture photos to symbolize the characters as those are their dragon's color schemes. Then there is a black hole and two hands reaching out. The text on the top left and bottom right reads:

"You lead, I follow," she said, the traditional call and response."
"You lead, I follow," he echoed, and prepared for the dragonrider dance.

Moodboard of the solar system in my book! Text says Tour the Queztira System Today! Our New Home! Myriad Free For Over 150 Years! There are then five images from stock photos (mostly from Unsplashed). The first is for the closest planet to the suns, Ssyr, and has lava for the image. Next is Azon, with tall karst pillars, followed by Ondesar, a beach with deep blue water.

The next line is The Abyssal Planet, with purple quartz to represent Abyssal crystals. Then Diratus, which has a jungle canopy from the floor up so the trees look like river systems. And lastly Medus, which is a beautiful blue glacier since it's an ice planet.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Oct 8

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM ✨mecha dragons 🪐disabled protagonist 💜Mexican American diaspora worldbuilding 🌈bi love interest + an ex-BFF 🌌epic space opera 🐉a hivemind of corrupted dragons somehow back after centuries in an entirely new solar system—it's fine! #DVpit #A #SF #Latine #DIS #LGBT

Moodboard of the evil hivemind of corrupted dragons. Everything is in red, there are three rows of three images, with a middle row having a text box in the middle.

First row: a broken red crystal, red filter spacescape, and a close-up of red crowing crystals.
Second row: red filtered snakescales (to stand in for robot dragons), text box that says: beware the Myriad, beware their crystals bright and red. Survive, survive, but don't let the Myriad take you alive. Third is a canyon crevasse in the shape of a menacing looking eye.
Third row: more angry red space scape and then a red filtered texture effect.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Oct 8

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM A disabled mecha dragonrider steals a prototype egg—and runs into a hivemind of corrupted dragons, an ancient enemy unseen for centuries. She must work with this irascible dragon and move past old grudges to save the solar system. #DVpit #A #SF #DIS #Latine #LGBT

A moodboard for my DVpit pitch! Made from stock photos from Canva and Unsplashed and one NASA art render. Three rows of images. The first row is a zoom in of a snake's eye, edited a bit purple. The middle is a hyperspace-y purple light, the third is a NASA artist render of a water planet with two suns. The middle row is a purple crystal followed by a center box of text that reads: "I am Crescent Scar. And I am no one's dragon, I am not yours to command. We work together, or we don't work at all." After that is white outlines of butterflies. The third row is a closeup of a stone statue's scales meant to represent dragon scales, followed by space photo with a purple filter and the outline of a woman looking up.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Oct 8

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM A disabled mecha dragonrider struggles in an ableist society. When a hivemind of corrupted dragons threatens her people's very existence, she must team up with 3 riders—her lying would-be lover included—to save the solar system. #DVpit #A #SF #DIS #LGBT #Latine

A moodboard with 9 tiles. The first row has purple spacescape streaks of light like hyperspace, a dragon egg, and a Latina staring at the egg. The second row has purple crystals and middle text that has crossed out "star-scarred, dragonrider, etli's claw, wave rider" then, underlined "me", followed by a person underwater. The third and final row has a closeup of a snake's eye to represent a dragon's eye, a solar system, and scale pattern to represent mecha dragon scales.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Sep 26

Flights of Foundry started 30 minutes ago so here is my panel schedule! On time and not late at all!! Seriously though @dreamfoundry.bsky.social puts on the best virtual convention and I love Flights of Foundry every year! Hope to catch some of y'all at a panel or at OTHERSIDE's chill-n-chat!

Flights of Foundry schedule for V.M. Ayala. Saturday, September 27: 10am A New Spring for Persephone and Hades?; 11am Love, Lust, and Relationships: How BioWare Changed Our Perspectives on Romance in Games (Dragon Age Edition); 12pm OTHERSIDE chill-n-chat; 6pm Romance in Games. Sunday, September 28 12pm Play Again to Find Out: Storytelling Through Iteration; all listed times are Eastern Time!

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Sep 25

thank you thank you thank youuuu seriouslyyyyyy. getting so close to the kickstarter has me so emotional, the interest and support already means so much 😭💜🪐🗡️

Screenshot of OTHERSIDE's pre-launch campaign on Kickstarter reaching 240 followers.

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈@spacevalkyries· Sep 24

It's a stream day, yay! AND we are playing the Little Kitty Big City Picture Purrfect update! I also have a couple keys to give away AND a kind gift from the devs to open. Huge thank you to the @littlekittybigcity.bsky.social folks for that! So come hang out? 👀 🐾 www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries 🐾