My first #TransRightsReadathon book: a bit silly, M/NB/M kinda romance with pirates, a hot celibate monk, a very annoying kinda accidental traitor and a very very cranky pirate captain. I had to reread because rereading A Taste of Gold and Iron I saw the connections! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫🌈💜 📚🌶️

Rathaliel is very practical. She’d make you tea and bring you comfort food. She reads aloud to Elyan when he’s suffering magical hyperexertion and bored and arranges to travel with him so she and Daem can do the heavy lifting. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #wip #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Elyan’s is, but he hates them, had genuinely forgotten when it was, and is very much against the whole idea of celebrating or acknowledging it even though (or maybe because) it’s a significant birthday. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Rathaliel was always the one who got lucky dice rolls and card draws when she was younger, and had a fairly charmed existence, but feels decidedly unlucky with major life events since and doesn’t play anymore. She’d expect the dice and cards to go against her if she did. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #queerprompts

My TBR for #transrightsreadathon 2026! TRR is all about reading and uplifting books by and about trans, NB, 2S, genderqueer and all manner of gender non-conforming folk. Give @trreadathon.bsky.social a follow and feel free to drop recs! I’ll no doubt add to the TBR as we go. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️🌈💜 📚 🌶️

I don’t think so. It’s a different calendar from ours with different divisions of time etc, so it wouldn’t mean much anyway, and I haven’t decided whether I want to be that detailed. Also I don’t want to accidentally get the maths wrong, lol. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #amwriting #queerwriters #queerprompts

#TransRightsReadathon begins soon. It's a decentralized event, which means you don't have to sign up or do anything in particular, you just have to love trans people and trans books. Here's what I'm doing this year 🧵 @trreadathon.bsky.social

Elyan and I are both neurodivergent AF, ace spec and GNC, though quite different flavours and expressions of the second two. Somewhat different expressions of neurodivergence as well, but we had very different upbringings & he has magic. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #queerprompts

I once had a student write about the ‘many centrefold images’ in Where the Wild Things Are… 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

I was obsessed with The Famous Five when I was very young and incredibly disappointed that no matter how many times I tapped every inch of wall in my parents’ house, I never found a single secret passage. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #queerwriters #queerprompts

I was writing fanfic and had started creating this whole other set of characters and storyline within an existing fantasy world, but realised I actually wanted to create my own! 📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️🌈💜 #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #queerprompts

Some cracking new reads this month! @ajdemas.bsky.social’s Sword Dance, @sararaaschbooks.com’s Entanglement of Rival Wizards, @kvalentinwrites.bsky.social’s Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere and Benjamin Alire Saenz’s Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the

If you’re not born to a clan family, doing magic is outlawed. Officially, it’s only anyone *performing* magic who will be arrested, but in practice anyone found to be capable of magic is likely to be abducted and never seen again. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Aaaaah I loved this so much! I laughed so hard people stared at me on the train and my coworkers asked what I was reading. Magic academia is my favourite, and add queer romance, deep trauma and cuddly platonic bffs and no jealousy, it’s like it was written just for me. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 🌶️

All sorts! (And I realise this makes it sound like erotica, though it really isn’t) Including degrees of psychic intimacy, kissing, sex with strangers, lovers, love-of-your-life. My MCs are all telepaths and empaths so that’s a key part of the experience of sex. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️🌈💜 📚 🌶️ #queerprompts

Finally I can read Death in the Spires with my eyes! I’ll be rereading A Taste of Gold and Iron to refresh my memory for Tadek and the Princess, and I need another bookshop book! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 🌶️ 📚

To say that Elyan and Rathaliel have strained relationships with their birth families would be a gross understatement, and book 1 is basically them finding family in each other, Niv and the travelling players. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #queerprompts

Age verification? Our family computer had disks that were actually floppy.

It depends on the PoV. E.g. Rathaliel is a Stare at Everyone’s Eyes neurodivergent, so eye colour is emphasised in her PoV, whereas Elyan is an Avoid Eye Contact at all costs ND so eyes aren’t really mentioned in his PoV. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #queerprompts

Mara, a minor character, is deaf and she and her sibling Ren developed a sign language. Rathaliel picks it up in an evening (because of her telepathic facility with languages) but discovers that speaking and signing simultaneously is a lot harder than she thought! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #queerprompts

Niv trained as a (non-magical) healer, though she wasn’t especially good at it (mostly because she wasn’t really interested and wanted to stay at the bard academy!) Another significant healer, in book 2, is femme-aligned and specialises in psychic injuries. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #queerprompts

The usual mix of rerereads and new-to-me, several of which have been on my ‘save for later when I really feel like it’ TBR. Probably my favourite NTM were <Aristotle and Dante Diacover the Secrets of the Universe> and <The Bruising of Qilwa>. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫🌈💜 📚🌶️

It isn’t an issue for most as the world is queer-normative. Although [redacted] pretends to be cis in the lowlands because they don’t have an analogue for his identity and it’s just easier than trying to develop and explain terminology. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #queerprompts

I generally describe the series as ‘neurodivergent magical queers confront their past traumas and fight to overthrow the magic capitalist oppressors’… so yep, confronting past trauma is kind of a thing! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #queerprompts

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

‘At a glance’ 😂😂😂 A good year in books for me! Apparently 108 new-to-me authors. KJ Charles (87) and Alexis Hall (47) top my most-read authors again, with first-timer (for me) @jordanlhawk.bsky.social coming a close 3rd (41). 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 #romancebook #romantasy #romancem/m #romancelandia

CN for allusions to DV. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #WiPSnips

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What can I say? When someone reminds me about my Resolution Universe blorbos Kiem, Jainan, Tennal and Surit, of course I’m going to turn my back on every other book ever written! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️🌈💜 📚 #booksky #library

Elyan is naughty in his flexible approach to laws that he thinks are ridiculous, but nice to people in general. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

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A dream sequence, inspired by true events. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #WiPSnips

Niv loves chocolate, especially truffles, though any will do. As they’re impossible to get outside the cities, Elyan always brings her some when he visits & usually manages not to eat them (historically because he’s too busy huffing star smoke). 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #fantasy #queerwriters #queerprompts

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Elyan seems to be a much better dancer than he naturally is because he reads his partner through body empathy and can fit himself to the way they move. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

10 Things That Never Happened! It’s an MM rom com with Alexis Hall’s usual deep emotional undercurrents. Will Watt’s narration is also absolutely top notch! Keep the tissues handy for this one… 🌈📚💙🌈✒️🌈💜 📚 #booksky #queerwriters #queerprompts

Elyan had a cuddly animal of some sort that he slept with and carried around everywhere (not sure what type, and doesn’t remember now either). His da took it away when they decided he was too old for it. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #fantasy #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

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Mara is proudly deaf & she and her sibling Ren developed a sign language to communicate. She’s patient with people learning it but🙄 at those who just think yelling will help. Elyan has a psychic disability and he, Niv & Rathi are ND. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #wip#queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

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November reading wrap-up: Finally got up to date with @pretensesoup.bsky.social’s Wisconsin Gothic and loved the fourth book as much as the others! Loving @jordanlhawk.bsky.social’s Rath and Rune as much as Whyborne & Griffin! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 #booksky #fantasy #romantasy #romancelandia

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Rathaliel… 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Most realistic elements: Ulysses’ anxiety dreams & preferring to face zombies and demons rather than defend his thesis. Most fantastical: getting your PhD 2 months after your supervisor asks for revisions to the conclusion & being handed a job… lol 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 #booksky #fantasy #romancelandia

Niv and Elyan would co-author one cafe ‘Safe Foods’, which would include a set of recipes with consistent textures (Niv), and general stuff about food hygiene devolving into vibes (Elyan). Very niche. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

When you reread after a year and it’s just as delightful as the first two times! Magic academia queer romance with gods and demons. Looking forward to finally reading book 4. @pretensesoup.bsky.social 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️🌈💜 📚 #booksky #fantasy #romancebook #romantasy #romancem/m #romancelandia

Hero with heart definitely. None of them is interested in power or wealth, and Rathaliel and Elyan don’t care too much about unfair laws or rules so will flout or break them to get by when needed. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Elyan: Heartstopper (though he’d find the queerphobia super weird) and pulp fantasy. Rathaliel: action movies like Terminator and Aliens. Niv: historical (laughing at inaccuracies) and pulp #romance/ #fantasy 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

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