Finished in July: 📕 Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology by Kathleen V. Kudlinski. I found this in a #littlefreelibrary. I didn't really know anything about her and this was a great overview. Well researched and well written. #Nonfiction books written for tweens are often solid intros to a subject.

Finished in July: 🎧 Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky, read by the author. Finally, I've read one of Tchaikovsky's books! He's a brilliant writer and very good narrator! Hey, I like spiders. If you don't, heed the title, heavy spider content. #Fantasy

Finished in July: 🎧 Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz, read by Em Grosland. Cozy, post-apocalyptic, novella about robots running a restaurant. Some peril. Inherently queer. If you Becky Chambers' books, you will like this. Stand out narration on the audiobook too!

Finished in July: 📕 Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane by Cat Rambo; short story. #QueerBooks

Well said!!

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Finished in July: 🎧 Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch, read by Giordan Diaz. Murder, magic, queer teens, and the Quabbin Reservoir. Set in 1999. If you like light horror and ya, highly recommend. ##QueerBooks

@adriellee.bsky.social and I wrote a fun little game about being Queer Witches for @tabletopgaymers.bsky.social 10th Anniversary! It is sweet, light, and a gay ol' time! You'll be able to pick this cozy bad boi up starting at @Gencon! Check out The Queer Coven!

Finished in July: 🎧 The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. Maclean, read by Stephanie Bentley. Cozy novel about an anxious, queer zookeeper, who wants to restore the endangered phoenix population. Enemies to lovers. This was cute but the main character annoyed me quite a bit. #QueerBooks #AudioBooks

Finished in July: 📚 Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austen; poetry. Austen reinterprets bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities. My favorites are the Matthew 25 series. #QueerBooks #Poetry

Finished in June: 🎧 The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang read by Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao, Telly Leung. A multiple lifetime spanning queer romantasy. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of "on screen" sex, definitely a book for adults. I wanted more from the ending. #QueerBooks

Finished in June: 🎧 The Last Gifts of the Universe: A Novel by Riley August read by Robyn Holdaway, Ayesha Antoine, Chris Thompson. This book has some interesting an important things to say, though the plot didn't stick with me at all. However, there is a space cat. #QueerBooks

Finished in June: 🎧 Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. Started in 2021, finally finished. It’s very good, I just got distracted. The interrelation of fungi with, well, everything is so incredibly cool (and also critical to life existing on earth). #Nonfiction

Finished in June: 🎧 How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler, read by the author. Essays about sea creatures, being queer, and race. This conservation journalist is an effecting writer, and a great narrator. I cried multiple times as I listened #QueerBooks #Nonfiction

Finished in June: 🎧 Hi Honey, I’m Homo! by Matt Baume read by the author. An entertaining examination of the relationship between queerness and the American sitcom. Baume's writing is snappy and interesting. He's also a great narrator. Highly recommend to sitcom fans. #QueerBooks #Nonfiction

Finished in June: 🎧 Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood read by Saffron Coomber, Ioanna Kimbook, Sebastian Humphreys. A Greek tragedy about girls who’ve been sacrificed to Poseidon resurrected as mermaids tasked with killing the Prince of Ithaca. Bi love triangle. #QueerBooks

Finished in June: 🎧 The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan read by Ayoola Smart and Bert Seymour. An intimate comedic exploration of the wedding plot. Dolan uses a likeable ensemble to explore queerness, infidelity, and traditional marriage expectations. #QueerBooks

Finished in May: 🎧 The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars read by Christian Banas. Cute gay boy romance with a trans lead. Very light reading. #QueerBooks

This thread sums it up well.

Finished in May: 🎧 Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson read by Julie Lumsden, Aaliya Warbus, Kimberly Woods, Shaun Taylor-Corbett. One weekend in the life of three teens working at a local pizza shop. Poignant, evocative, and satisfying. #QueerBooks

Finished in May: 🎧 The Mars House by Natasha Pulley read by Daniel de Bourg. The romance was fine, but the politics and science fiction goodness were great. #QueerBooks

Finished in May: 🎧 Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley read by Isabella Star LaBlanc. This summer, instead of fishing, laidback troublemaker Perry Firekeeper-Birch faces rising numbers of missing Indigenous women, murder, and greedy grave robbers seeking to profit off her Anishinaabe tribe. ❤️

Finished in May: 🎧 Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley read by Isabella Star LaBlanc. YA thriller about a native teen, Daunis Fontaine, who must root out the corruption in her community. How far will she go to protect them, if it means tearing apart the only world she’s ever known? Rating: ❤️‍🔥

This Gay Week episode of #DoctorOdyssey is serving! Bob the Drag Queen as Marsha D'Penguins?! Perfection! Also, big points for the polyamory 101 class. Love this show! Fingers crossed that it gets a season 2.

Malta's Miriana Conte was AMAZING, she deserved so many more points from the juries and the voters! #Eurovision

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! 🎉🥳 #indiebookstoreday

Finished in April: 🎧 Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders, read by Hynden Walch. Queernorm YA space opera. Tina’s actually the clone of an epic alien space captain. Things get Star Trek when she (and her best friend Rachael) finally get picked up buy that captain's crew. #QueerBooks

It's too early to call but The Beaches "Last Girls At The Party" is a strong contender for song of the summer. It's a dancy anthem with a slight undertone of 80s English rock. open.spotify.com/track/3T00vg...

Finished in April: 📕Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (now an HBO miniseries). Survivors of a devastating flu attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost. Published in 2014. This book made me feel unsettled and hopeful. Pleasingly layered.

Check out @heatheroneill23.bsky.social's thoughts in this Forbes article on the impact of new tariffs on the tabletop games industry. The uncertainty around future costs and consumer behavior is something a lot of indie publishers are feeling right now. 📉📦🎲 www.forbes.com/sites/robwie...

IRS Chief just quit in the middle of tax season and a week before tax day bc they’re forcing IRS to share info with ICE to deport immigrants who pay their taxes bc none of this has nothing to do with who is paying taxes but about control and racism. Fascism.

Finished in March: 📘 Masters of Death by Olivie Blake. A vampire real estate agent, the ghost who haunts the house she wants to sell, a demon, a love-sick reaper, a sharp-voiced angel, and the godson of Death have to play an immortal game with one rule, don't lose. Good Omens vibes. #QueerBooks

Finished in March: 🎧 Slayer by Kiersten White, read by Emily O'Brien. Nina continues to learn about her slayer powers, while that pesky prophecy comes to haunt her. Both the books in this duology are light reads that Buffy fans will likely enjoy. #QueerBooks

Finished in March: 🎧 Slayer by Kiersten White, read by Madeleine Maby. Set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Twins Nina and Artemis are the twin daughters of Buffy's first Watcher, the one who died saving her. There's a prophecy about these girls too. Straight main character. #QueerBooks

Finished in February: 📕 Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath. Dexter meets Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town. Don’t. Murder. The locals. Is small-town serial killer, upstanding citizen, and cute brown bear Samantha Strong’s cardinal rule. So who's breaking that rule? #GraphicNovels

Finished in February: 📙 Crusher Loves Bleeder Bleeder Loves Crusher by Thomas Stemrich and Patrick Keck. Queer and humid. A boy loves a bug and a bug loves a boy, but can a bug love a boy for more than his blood? There are matters more complicated than how and when to die. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

Finished in February: 📕 Mall Goth by Kate Leth. 15 year old, bisexual goth, Liv, moves to a new town with her mom. She faces challenges making friends and receiving some squicky attention from a teacher. She stays strong and ends up with true friends. Very slice of life. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

There's a new show on Hulu, Mid-Century Modern, about three older gay men & one of their mothers living together in Palm Springs. It's very Golden Girls and it's perfect. Matt Bomer plays Jerry, an ex-Mormon flight attendant who's very Rose. I wish my friend Zane were here to yell about it with me.

Finished in February: 🎧 At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson, read by Gibson Frazier. Ozzie is the only one who remembers his boyfriend Tommy, missing from everyone's mind except his own, and notices the shrinking universe. Being a high school senior is complicated. #QueerBooks

Finished in February: 📘 Meet Me In Another Life by Catriona Silvey. Thora and Santi meet in lifetime after lifetime. Each teaching them something about each other and themselves. After a shocking revelation they'll have to overcome their history and work together before they die for the last time.

Finished in February: 🎧 The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong, read by Stefan Menaul. A mixed-species fugitive escapes to a pleasure moon and joins the circus. Where he'll try to save his friends, escape the mob, and avoid the scientists who want to vivisect him. Asexual main character. #QueerBooks

"Chihuly is blind?!" I exclaim watching #HarleyQuinn. Turns out he is, in one eye.

TIL that #Kickstarter displays the verified name of an account holder on the campaigns that they create. In many campaigns creators choose a different display name than the verified name on their account. Here's an example. When you select "more info" about the campaign's creator you see ...

Denying lifesaving medical care is disgusting! I hope every one of these people has Christmas Carol style nightmares until this decision is reversed. actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

Finished in February: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, read by Cindy Kay. Demons, aliens, violinists, intersectional found family. I didn't know the author was trans until after finishing the book. I thought I was reading a trans story told by a cis person, and it was well told. #queerbooks

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Finished in January: 📕The Chromatic Fantasy by H.A. Trans cutie Jules escapes a nunnery with the help of a devil. He meets Casper another transmasc prince of thieves. Together they partner in crime through adventure and fight for each other to just live. This book is lush! #queerbooks #graphicnovels

Finished in January: 📕 Boy Island by Leo Fox. Fox's art reminds me of the everyday fantasy-horror of Gahan Wilson. The drippy uncomfortable sensuality of it emphasizes the trans fable he's telling us. I'll definitely be reading more of his work asap. #queerbooks #graphicnovels