I’m having a really good, incredibly British day.

I’m at a weekend away with six millennial women. The new Lily Allen album has already been played three times. I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS A PUSSY PALACE, PUSSY PALACE!

I’ve been published in a zine! The piece is called “Existence Rebellion: A Joy-Full Manifesto for the Marginalised” All about finding joy, and spitting it the face of those who try to bring us down. The last line is cut off, but reads: “live brightly. Live happily. Just live.” #writingsky 📚💙 📚🌎 📚🏳️‍🌈

I’ve had two people tag me in posts this morning saying they read Red City by Marie Lu because I recommended it, and they loved it. That makes me so happy 🥰

Still not ready for Halloween to be over? Visit Ravenkirk, Maine in my latest novella! Watch Victoria Williams investigate her mysterious inheritance in a haunted town full of magic, mystery, and murder! Also there's a friendly tarantula named Samantha! books2read.com/SOR1

Catching up on Physical Asia (just watched episode 2) and I had no idea Yun Sung Bin was in it!! I loved him in Physical 100. Everyone was in awe of him and he was just so humble.

Learn about semiotics and storytelling from the author of Tradwife! This is such a great concept, love it. Semiotics is a brilliant tool for understanding how culture is changing. It makes so much sense to apply it to storytelling, to keep the writing culturally relevant & exciting! 🏳️‍🌈💙 #writingsky

Very excited about this... Want to learn more about semiotic analysis and cultural research - and how to apply them to your writing projects and practice? Come join me and @alexdavis1981.bsky.social, and we can make it so!

It’s Bonfire Night! “Remember remember the 5th of November, gunpowder treason and plot” I see this night as a celebration of anti-establishment rage. Fuck the system. Burn it all down. I’m sadly not going to any bonfire events but I’ll be happily watching fireworks from my window.

Someone on TikTok just commented asking “why is his voice so high?” (meaning me). Errr, thanks? I guess? Coming across as a cis man with a high voice is a win I think? Let’s go with that 😹

Watching a new Thai gay show, and characters are getting married and talking about how the law just passed for them to be able to 😭💜 Makes me so happy after Trinidad reinstated the old law making homosexual activity illegal (I’m half Trini). At least some places are going in the right direction!

Can we all collectively agree that it is NO LONGER shameful to be broke, unemployed, and/or depressed? The productivity trend of the millennial era is OUT. The “let’s just survive together, fuck going for dinner, come over to my place to watch Buffy DVDs & eat Tesco Value crackers” trend is IN.

I just saw a TikTok of a crowd in Chile absolutely screaming along to Golden while waiting for Linkin Park to come to stage. I love you Kpop Demon Hunters.

Turns out keeping new electrical cables in an enclosed box can make them produce off gas which then stinks out your room when opened, and you get a headache and nausea. Every day I learn something new that proves I am a fucking terrible grown up. Yes everything is being aired out now.

Every day the world gets worse, I get nerdier. The ceasefire failed? I’m going to deep dive into this Kpop band Trinidad reinstated sodomy laws? I’m going to binge this gay Thai show Spotify CEO invested in AI military? Time to join a new DnD campaign Sudan’s fucked? TIME TO REWATCH LOTR AGAIN

Read this for my October book club! I really enjoyed it. The fairytale reworking was fun, the supporting cast endearing, the villain truly scary. However, the romance felt unnecessary, and some decisions made no sense. So, not as brilliant as Cinderella is Dead, but overall really good! 📚💙 📚🤎

Just discovered Thai Boy Love shows. And Girl Love shows. Where have these been all my life? I’m currently watching My Stubborn, which has two gay couples, one lesbian couple & a queer cast. Admittedly it’s not the best budget/acting, but it’s sweet, comforting silliness. Also, look at this guy 🔥

Just reached 12k followers! Thanks for joining me as I natter about queer, BIPOC and disabled books! 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚🌎 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚🤎 Reminder that I have a community Discord for book chats: discord.gg/WsqbNAaUGJ And a free weekly newsletter via Bindery: discotopia.binderybooks.com AMA in the comments! 💜

Look at my new dungarees!! #studioghibli #spiritedaway

How are we in a world where literary magazines have to wade through submissions written by AI slop machines?

I completely blanked and forgot I needed to buy tickets for a festival next year. I realised 30 mins after they went live and they’d all sold out WHY is ticket buying always such a trial 😭 now I have to try and get resale. I hate my foggy brain Also who releases tickets at 8pm on a Saturday night?

Current read, loving it! A Black girl is trained to fight zombies to protect wealthy white people. But then she discovers families are going missing, and a conspiracy is afoot. I’m loving the main character. She’s (very rightly) angry, brilliantly clever, and totally kick ass. 📚💙 📚🤎

Black & queer author here! 👋🏾✨ My debut, Teeth, is a horror comedy with PMDD rep, a queer Black lead, trans rep, & explicit sexual content. CWs for monster smut, accidental murder, gore, & vore. Payhip: payhip.com/b/PNV6Y Wide: books2read.com/teeth

i always appreciate when people write books or edit collections targeted specifically at me

bsky already has a dislike feature and that’s them not liking the post or calling us a bitch in our mentions

New month, new book bundle! 📢 📚 From Nov. 1 to Nov. 15, you can snatch up the Trans People Take on the World book bundle. 32 books for a minimum of $35.00 (or a little extra, if you'd like to help out) you can support seeing the trans rep in books you want to see! itch.io/b/3352/trans...

After the military retook power, many Sudanese anarchists were arrested, killed or forced underground. Others continued their work in secret: translating anarchist texts, running communal kitchens, and assisting displaced families and local defence groups. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/31/s...

Hey I’m a queer nonbinary author currently writing a supernatural dystopian series! It’s about a genderqueer person and a demon rebelling against a tyrannical government.

FREE Monster Romance books today! I recommend Pounded by Produce, about a woman who meets two repressed bisexual priests who have secretly loved each other for years. And can turn into vegetables. I know it’s SO silly, but I promise it’s really good! 📚💙 📚❤️ monstersyk.wordpress.com/monster-sykd...

Check out this thread for diverse horror books by indie authors! #halloween 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚🏳️‍⚧️

Just watched Frankenhooker for the first time! Kinda loved it. The aesthetics and campiness were great, but it also had commentary on sex work, toxic masculinity, the New York crack epidemic in the 80s, societal beauty standards & sexism. Also the prop department looked like they had FUN #filmsky

I have exclusively used Halloween crockery today and I feel very smug.

Queer non-binary neurodivergent author here! My latest release, Swim With Me, Darling is a sapphic horrormance novelette about a small town lesbian who resorts to desperate measures to woo the sirens in her local cursed lake. Where to buy: tinyurl.com/sh-swim 💜😱 🌈💜 💙📚

Thank you! I have two short stories: Friend of the Damned has a queer accepting setting with a small but racially diverse cast, tragic lesbians, and a gay autistic trans man MC. Lock the Last Door has a disabled (hand injury) bisexual trans man MC. books2read.com/ap/nzej7l/Vi...

Finally saw The Lair of the White Worm! Hilarious Halloween watch. Slow start but the final third is utterly bonkers in the best way, e.g. using bagpipes to charm a snake vampire policeman. Peter Capaldi and Hugh Grant seemed vaguely confused to be in something so bizarre and budget. #filmsky

The dead are being used as an energy source! Hang out in Portland cemeteries in book 1, protest in book 2, and head to outer space in book 3. ME (chronic illness) rep in all 3, but strongest in 2. Queer POV in book 3. Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2ZLLL4... Kobo www.kobo.com/us/en/series...

My novella is still on sale for Halloween, on Kobo and Itch. We've got a lesbian heroine and her bisexual ex-girlfriend getting tangled up with creepy cult nonsense in a town that's not exactly easy to leave...

#EchoSight #TaintedFaculties #💙📚 #📚🪐 #📚🌃 #📚⚡️ -A wiseass shapeshifting "game warden" - Xenomorphic fungal parasites - A time limit to save a city - An archmage from a rival nation that has his reasons for helping - Queer, disabled, & POC rep

Happy Halloween and happy Publication Day to Shadows Over Ravenkirk by @itsviviactually.bsky.social! A trans woman is invited to a creepy seaside town to receive a mystery inheritance, dealing with weird bickering families & supernatural scares. So fun! Think Knives Out x The Addams Family 📚💙 📚🏳️‍⚧️

trans author here! dove's eyes, a queer m/m gothic neo western horror novel doomed yaoi, trans body horror, religious trauma, lobotomies the mmc is trans, bi, ace! FREE today! im looking for more readers and reviews help alot use the code HALLOWEEN on my kofi! ko-fi.com/kiennwrites/...

Thanks for this!! Hi! I'm Steve and I'm a neurodivergent trans author! My queer horror comedy about a cryptid-hunting YouTuber has a 99% queer cast and features an ADHD protagonist! Sale: steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil... Wide: books2read.com/u/boB9YL

😁🖤 Everyone is queer, multiple BIPOC supporting characters (worked with two different SRs), multiple MH and physical disability rep

The Reanimator Mysteries is a gothic yet sweet romance series featuring an autistic necromancer and his accidentally reanimated partner as they solve crimes in 1890s New York City. There are 3 books with a 4th on preorder and 3 in between stories.

Queer author writing queer horror! FLESH AND BONE is a gothic western horror-romance with cis gay MCs and physical disability rep. CWs for homophobia, gore, and werewolf body horror. Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io/flesh-and-bone Amz: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1M52FFX Wide: books2read.com/u/3yxrDV

OUT NOW! The first book in my Gothic paranormal fantasy serial Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm is available today wherever books are sold! Join Victoria as she investigates her mysterious inheritance in a haunted seaside town! books2read.com/SOR1

Queer/BIPOC/disabled/neurodivergent authors! Drop a link to your gothic, horror, witchy books, plus a lil blurb mentioning the diversity and I’ll repost 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚♿️ 📚🌎 📚🤎

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

*Running around the kitchen getting the Halloween crockery out* IT IS TIME!

I have had my flu shot. I am now abed like a Victorian waif. Too woozy to read. Just staring at videos of Kpop idols and trying to will the universe into giving me cake.