val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈

@spacevalkyries.bsky.social

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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 🌈 https://www.spacevalkyries.com/ 💌 spacevalkyries@gmail.com

Creative Mode in Dorfromantik. A series of five islands that spell "butts" in night mode.
Creative Mode in Dorfromantik. It's 5 islands on water tiles that spell "butts".
My tortie Bella curled up in her pride themed bed like she’s diving into a pool.
screenshot of bsky failing to load a reply.
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.
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.
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~
screenshot of a note in a document that simply says “I fear this might be a novella…”
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".
sheep with bird on its head in the winter glade of Tiny Glade at night, with a red building in front of them.
winter glade in Tiny glade with a sheep and a bird on the sheep's head with red buildings in the background.
a tiny summer glade in Tiny Glade, with a duck on a pond in the foreground.
a sheep in Tiny Glade with a bird on top of its head.
Wholesome Snack 2025 official co-streamer image! I am holding up the peace sign and smiling at the camera.
Me leaning against a big red ornament sculpture. Ian is leaning on it next to me smiling
baby krogan plushie and cryptid wolf with skull and wings plushie from storyteller squad
PAX sign on a table in the trans flag color scheme of light blue, pink, and white.
Selfie of me against a wall wearing a mask with a goose pin on a purple lanyard
Me doing the awkward bisexual peace sign in a mask and purple hoodie with the expo hall wall in the background
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."
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
Screenshot of OTHERSIDE's pre-launch campaign on Kickstarter reaching 240 followers.
The Little Kitty Big City Picture Purrfect key art. A black cat with green eyes is running through a city with various animals in the background and food items to the sides on a street. The cat is holding a stolen phone that says The Picture Purrfect Update on the screen.
They key art for Henry Halfhead. A bunch of objects with eyes and an adorable long nose, all things Henry can turn into, look at Henry, a white balf half a head in a cute cartoonish style.
A screenshot of a sentence, black background with light gray font. The sentence is a silly typo. It says: In the depths of space there unfolds a complex grasp for powee. That should say power. But... powee.
Herdling key art. A child herds tall furry horned friends in the foreground with mountains in the background.
Ian and I at the dock at the Seattle Aquarium. We are smiling in the bottom left with the open water on the right.
A professional headshot of me. I am smiling on a gray backdrop holding light purple flowers.
MR flat on a wood floor of the Seattle Convention Center overlooking I-5 traffic at night. She is wearing black and clearly exhausted with her badge over her face giving a peace sign with both hands
Ian and I and my plushie Mothman on the Space Needle overlook wearing masks with what I believe is the Puget Sound in the background!
Ian and I wearing masks in front of planes at airport. I have messy wavy shoulder length hair and he is wearing a blue shirt and a ball cap.
My worldcon panel schedule in graphic form. My panels are as follows: - Found Family: The New Social Paradigm; Room 423-424, Wednesday 4:30–5:30pm Pacific Time - Where Does Cyberpunk Go From Here?; Room 321, Thursday 6–7pm Pacific Time - Solo TTRPGs as Writing Exercises; Room 420-422, Saturday 3–4pm Pacific Time
My stream layout for the TTRPG stream! There is a cute pastel cloudy sky background with my PNGTuber in the bottom right. There are two windows, a wide one to the left for the TTRPG pages and one to the right of the Canva pages for text and images of the shenanigans we were getting up to!
A blue and green gradient background with text and two images. The two images are on the right and in black and gold, with the second image being a dark blue and gold. They are the Knight of Wands and the Page of Wands. The text to the left reads: BEGIN ERA 1 Val Turn: Drew Knight of Wands The Bellwether: Discovers Pilates, which leads to new, slightly scandalous sculpted butt positions and poses; targeted and more accurate butt sculpts What adverse effect are they having? It’s too targeted, some people can’t handle it and are upset. The booties are too uniform and vascular now Chat Turn: Drew Page of Wands The Empiricist: Discovers the golden ratio of booty. Intensely sculpts all types of butts. What disaster did they inadvertently cause? New Neophytes and Practitioners don’t feel they’ll live up to that perfection; butt insecurity; impossible ass-pirational goals
My tortie cat Bella curled up on her cat tree asleep.
the Date Everything! key art with all of the dateable characters spilling out in a rainbow from a cartoonish house.
The four signed books listed above! Featuring plushie Mothman.
The exterior of As You Are, an LGBTQIA+ cafe and bar and event venue! It is a white building with a pride flag outside on a fenced area in front of the building.
Clip of my reaction to my co-host segment in the Wholesome Direct. The minute I see myself I hide behind a Mothman plushie I'm holding and start flailing incoherently with joy and social anxiety. It was an excellent moment.
Wholesome Direct co-host image! The text says "Wholesome Direct 2025: official co-host spacevalkyries". A photo of me smiling at the camera is at the center with a blue border and cute blue sky background as the Wholesome Games official backdrop art.
Screenshot of my new PNGTuber. They have short curly black hair, purple eyes, and purple wingies for ears. They're wearing a choker (which was required since I myself always wear a choker), a slouchy purple cardigan, and a blank tank top undearneat.
A clip of me claiming I can reliably parry an attack in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 only to be immediately proven a liar on the second, identical attack that I fail to parry.
A crocheted Mothman complete with a crocheted Mothman booty. There is a pride flag sticking out of one cheek as he dries in the sun on a car dashboard face down, ass up.
Me still very soaked from getting caught in a thunderstorm during an outdoor Pride event staring incredulously at a crochet Mothman booty.
My partner and I in our car making silly faces because we are SOAKED from a sudden downpour
A simple little going live image that says spacevalkyries plays Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and celebrates five years of streaming with the Clair Obscur key art in the center over a blue to purple gradient background with my yay emotes on the side.
Awkward selfie of me holding up The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, which includes my short story “Emotional Resonance”! I’m standing in front of the sci-fi/fantasy bookshelves at Old Town Books in Alexandria. I’m wearing a mask, with my hair in a ponytail. You can tell I’m smiling shyly even with the mask because I’m still in awe this exists!
Mural on the side of a white painted brick wall. Text says Alexandria City of Readers. There are red books and stars painted underneath.
Going live promo image. Key art for Wanderstop with my eyes emoji covering Boro's head to be silly on to of a purple and blue gradient. Text at the bottom says spacevalkyries plays.
The key art for Spirit City: Cozy Kitchen Expansion Pack! A girl with cat ears and headphones is cooking on a green stove. Her cat spirit, with a third eye in the middle of its head, has a chef's hat on.
Going live promo image. Key art for Wanderstop with my eyes emoji covering Boro's head to be silly on to of a purple and blue gradient. Text at the bottom says spacevalkyries plays.
little graphic for my Mini-Space. Black background with a mint green font and stars and purple clouds at the bottom. Text says: Mini-Space #25, writing, reading, playing watching. On burnout, writing, and so many novellas and short stories. Patreon.com/spacevalkyries.
screenshot of my video storage on Twitch. After whittling down 1279 saved hours of VODs, I got it down to 44h 18m of the 100h new limit.
Me glaring at a pluffin keychain behind an adorable yellow mug. It looks like we’re glaring at each other
A knight with a purple shadowy foot and a tie lifts up a tea as if he is exaggeratedly saying "AHA!" and sips it enthusiastically. There's a waterfall in the background and the main character is standing next to the knight in a leather jacket and gloves.