Volume III is about unexpected company, being with others even when you disagree with them or don’t understand them, the responsibility of living, systemic political change small pragmatic interventions…but it still carries forward the themes of the others. Tara relives November 18.

“Do you believe that all the world was created for men, even the stars in the sky? Might it not be that all the world was made for all the world? Or men for the stars? Or the stars for the trees and the trees for the stones?”

I'm trying to be an avid Naked Reader, since I'm already an avid Naked Coffee Drinker.... LOL ☕️ I've just started to read "Buddenbrooks", by Thomas Mann. Let's see how it goes! 😍🏠🛌🤓📚 I think I'm wearing proper attire for that, but I have to find a better position for my reading habits! ... LOL 😆

I adored this book! It’s a novella about a man who finds out an acquaintance was deeply in love with him for years leading up to his death. Throughout the story, the journals of the deceased man, reveal details about the one-sided affair. It begs to ask, do we truly know how friends feel about us?

I don’t read a ton of YA novels, but man I could not put this one down. It felt to me like a cross between Heartstopper and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but (spoiler!) the protagonist and his love interest become bate buddies before becoming boyfriends. And of course I cried and cried 🥲

“The trouble is, you can't make new old friends.”

“Probably nothing going on inside…Often the case with people who don't read fiction. Hollow inside, monochrome, so they can switch gears no problem…Constitutionally incapable of empathy. These are the people who most need to read, but in most cases it's already too late.” Isaka chose VIOLENCE!

#furryfriday - The Silent Patient, despite my pic, was definitely not ass 😜 #booksky📚💙 #fcf

"white people go around, it seems to me, with a very carefully suppressed terror of black people... because they don't know what the black face hides [but] they are sure it's hiding something. What it's hiding is American history." This was giant, and so worth it!

Une bonne lecture ! Je vous recommande ! #nakedreader

Simple happiness: being naked, reading a good book, and enjoying a quiet moment. 📖 Life doesn’t need to be more complicated than that. PS: currently reading the Far Cry novel. The geek in me is loving it. 😁 And you? What are you reading theses days? #naturistman #nakedman #foreskin #uncut #nude

"the more precisely you…understand the past the less likely you are to misread and vulgarize and misapprehend the present. The narcissism of the present is that it wants the past to conform to its present demands. You can't learn the lessons of the past if you rewrite them in the retelling."

I loved this #novel If you were to describe it in one word, I would say “intimate”. A story about a mother and son, both a little broken by the other. Beautifully written, I loved the things that weren’t said, the distance between them, a navigation between nostalgia and self care. Highly recommend.

One of my favourite books from one of my favourite filmmakers, Derek Jarman (The Last of England). #menreading #gayreader #gaywriter #readnaked #derekjarman #kickingthepricks With a nod to @thenakedreader.bsky.social and @bodieswithbooks.bsky.social for keeping me on top of my reading game.

“Your memory creates postcard images, but it doesn't really comprehend the world at all. That's why a landscape is so affected by the mood of the person looking at it. In it a person sees his own inner, transitory moments. Wherever he looks, he sees nothing but himself.” Happy Friday!

My 4 reads of #February 💙📚 #booksky 📚💙 Adult literacy over on: onlyfans.com/kpisnaked

Pantomime, a Just Us: Clementine origin story is now LIVE! PLEASE check it out when you get a chance! It’s only a 6 minute read and I worked really hard on it! I’d really appreciate any likes or shares if you’re so inclined! I really hope you enjoy it! 💖 eggsandblakon.substack.com/p/pantomime

I did this on Instagram, and after @bodieswithbooks.bsky.social hinted there’s interest here, let’s start. Might also make me read! Really enjoyed this one by @whusseyauthor.bsky.social; the sequels are on my list.

My library has a satirical essay about poor Irish people selling their children as food for the rich under 2SLGBTQ+ stories. Who snitched about the real gay agenda?!

It’s because of books like these that I love the International Booker Prize so much. I’d probably never pick this up, and what a loss that would’ve been! A succinct & cinematic sociological thriller I read in one go, this is Brazil’s counterpart to Cormac McCarthy. A great start to the longlist!

Five women authors by whom I’ve read at least five books: - Toni Morrison - Jhumpa Lahiri - Zadie Smith - Maya Angelou - Jane Austen

“And running allows our bodies to feel like we’re getting away from that metaphorical lion that’s chasing us, right? But then we’re running so much that our body starts breaking down, it really begs the question - what are we going to do about that metaphorical lion?”

Queer YA fiction is really making some points, y'all. #readingisfundamental #readingwhilenaked #camp @gayreader.bsky.social @otterreadz.bsky.social @thenakedreader.bsky.social @bigdickbookclub.bsky.social @bodieswithbooks.bsky.social

A nod to @thenakedreader.bsky.social with ‘He did not Conquer’ about Benjamin Franklin’s push, and failure to annex Canada. I do love a little history and nudity so why not combine the two. Please note the faux fur throw which I thought was in keeping with the theme of colonial Canada 🤭

“This book has no obvious genre; it needs to create one for itself. Just as death has no genre. Nor does life.” I thought Time Shelter was brilliant, and now this! Gospodinov is now on my auto-buy list 🙇‍♂️

“In my mind, until now, until the sight of him for the first time after all those years, he was the boy that lay next to me, the boy I'd gazed at in the first light of day, on that morning that I took to be the first real morning. From that moment on I wanted to wake up like that every morning”

Reading Pessoa while in Lisbon? Groundbreaking.

“He'd be dead soon. And free. Free of this body. As he'd been when young. When young you were free of your body because it only brought you pleasure.” Happy Monday! Whatever your age, I hope your body brings you pleasure today! 🤗

I miss heat… when will winter be over?

“The rampage of death was such that it became common for people to be buried alive, which is why many coffins had bells in them. The only problem was that it was hard to hear them ringing once the coffins were in the ground.” The queen of gothic horror is back! (I prefer her fiction tbh 🤷‍♂️)

Something about feeling the sun on my naked body 🥵 Side note: I forgot to stop the workout on my watch so I guess this was part of my workout today lol

Good morning, everyone! What is it about freezing cold days that make me want to have naked coffee with naked friends even more?

What better way to spend my BIRTHDAY 🎂🥳🍑 So what did you get me?? 😈

Hi friends! I’m doing The Push-Up Challenge to push for better mental health outcomes in Canada. The Challenge is to complete 2,000 push-ups in 23 days for the ~2,000 people who die by suicide every day, worldwide. www.thepushupchallenge.ca/fundraisers/... Any donation is really appreciated!

“the heart's the center in everything— the guava, the mouth that bites it, the palm of a man's hand wiping juice off another man's chin. Call it sin, I'd call it Eden” Happy hump day!

“Was that what poetry was? A leap to another place without moving at all?” Blasting the heat today and pretending I’m in another place 😎☀️🏝️ Also, thanks to @otterreadz.bsky.social for deciding which photo I should post 😋

“I am giddy; expectation whirls me round./ Th' imaginary relish is so sweet/ That it enchants my sense.” These lines about: A) seeing Troilus and Cressida tonight B) a massage I’m getting later (and the “imaginary relish” of my massage therapist saying, “Since you’re naked, I’ll be naked too).

“My grandfather used to say that every word has its guardian and the right word makes the earth shake. The word is a bolt of lightning, a tiger, a gale…Do you know what happens to liars? he would ask…Words desert them, and once a man is empty, anyone can kill him.” Stay warm everyone!

Spending #fcf eve reading and avoiding the cold 🥶

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

“Some days I get up early to write but instead clean—the great lie that I am doing something. The horrible way ketchup keeps, still bright; beer cans lined up on the porch railing.” Have tolerable Monday everyone!

Hey Toronto and London, Ontario friends! I got such a great massage yesterday, I’m still feeling amazing from it. If you’re looking for a professional gay massage therapist, I highly recommend Shawn! rmtshawn.noterro.com (Old photo for engagement I guess, lol)

“All such restrictions, every such rule that reared its head, came from my parents. And now I had nothing more to do with them. But when you open the birdcage, the bird will always need time to realise it's free to fly.”

What a horny little book

good night, beautiful boys 😘 #gay #gayman #buldge #reading #gayreader

“I'm alone among the full ashtrays and empty glasses, the remains of a successful birthday celebration. One by one, I undo the knots on the balloons, bring them to my lips, and inhale your breath.” The queer longing and heartache in @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social ‘s lines make me just 🫠🫠

"’Nothing you see here is actually what it appears to be’…’Do you mean the thing inside us and the thing outside us are the same thing?'” This is my first Can Xue and it is such a surreal and wild ride. As I read I often ask myself if I had an edible earlier and just forgot 🧐😵‍💫

New year, new book 🤓📚 #scs

what should my 2026 reading goal be? I was thinking 16 books!

Turns out Storygraph has an end-of-year 2025 wrap after all, so here’s some stuff from mine! Plus a nude to stay on brand lol. (Also, if you want to follow me on there, I’m @chrispy_krunch 😉)