If, like me, you’re not a crafter or author or person with things to donate, be a shipping fairy! The crafters are working so so hard and they’re ready to raise so much money for voting rights with our help! #RomancingTheVote

Honestly the best $20 you can spend on books. It’s a steal for an incredible series that is unlike anything else I’ve ever read.

It's Sunday afternoon and there are good ebooks & audiobooks on sale! All links to Amazon, Bookshop & Libro are affiliate links, other links are not. Affiliate links = I get a small cut of the retailers' profits. They may be on sale other places!

Look at the pretties!

Well holy shit. My parents got upset and thought we were being rebellious if we threw up an aversive food that they’d forced us to eat. I’ve never been able to explain to people how different aversion/revulsion is from just preference.

HEY LOOK AT THIS DO YOU KNOW IT’S OUT IN AUGUST? You should probably pre-order and then say a prayer for my impatient ass to survive until pub day. (Am I slightly tipsily scrolling my own BlueSky posts in some weird reliving of the past six months? Yes, next question.)

Was thinking and talking about my experiences after reading the initial thread. Despite never having food insecurity due to poverty, I experienced enough hunger due to food aversions that as an adult even now, I still have behaviors driven by that insecurity.

I can immediately tell that @blairbraverman.bsky.social’s new podcast What to Carry, What to Burn is a new favorite! It’s like sitting around the fire listening to an excellent storyteller 💜

"I am not this book's best reader" in the streets, [wall of furious Discord direct messages] in the sheets

🌠 PAID OPPORTUNITY 🌠 Hello! I am looking to pay a wheelchair user of color for a sensitivity read on one of my novellas (about 25,000 words). If that is you or you know someone who qualifies, please respond here or email me at riengrayiswriting at gmail. Boosting appreciated, bots will be 🔇

My experience is that application of punishment in these situations is often very inconsistent! You are a rat in a cage where you can never know the rules and predict what outcome you will get. That shit drives people literally crazy. And we do it to *kids*.

I read Nobody’s Baby, the second book in this series, yesterday! Waite has somehow created the perfect blend of cozy & clever mystery that makes you like humanity more. They’re also short books! If your focus is struggling because of the horrors like mine is, these are a great choice.

Hey would you like a romance about two lesbians on a road trip to an ex's wedding where they're pretending to date + there's only one bed? What if there's some existential angst? I wrote one and the audiobook is on sale for 3.99 libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Does BlueSky want the animal facts I shared with the discord today while I was doing my zoo volunteer training, y/n?

I heard it’s dog o’clock

Seeing a lot of people screaming about the dissonance of this & purity culture — v real. But that dissonance doesn’t take into account that many evangelicals would be happy for girls to marry & start having babies as soon as they graduate high school. (Bree knows this, just jumping off her post)

I was finally able to process my blurry pics from this weekend and confirm that I saw a bufflehead pair on the river! My water-bird observations have been lacking and improving them is a goal for this year, so I’m excited about this first lifer!

be pope, do crimes

Have you checked out the Hermitcraft charity auction for #GFG2026? There's TONS of signed and limited merch. Best part is all the proceeds go towards Gamers Outreach programs! ⏳ https://tiltify.com/@hermitcraftgo/auctions/hermitcraft-2026-auction

Shoutout to audiobooks, because I haven’t been able to eye-read more than a chapter at a time even in tried and true faves, sob

Hey, remember when TJ Klune admitted the book was inspired by the Sixties Scoop but instead of the government being evil in his book they're actually Doing Good and it's perfectly OK to steal children from families as long as the people doing the stealing are good people?

Solve more things with polyamory

Bree has a great strategy! I’m never, ever annoyed about creatives posting promo. That’s your livelihood!! You spent years on it!! Honestly it’s a wonder it’s not the *only* thing you post about.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

We have 2 cool shirts! I have to sell them out by early April for 2 reasons: 1) 5 of my family members are staying in the Skype a Scientist stockroom in mid-April 😅 2) I need to fund our mural project which starts the first week of April! They're soft! They're cute! Get a shirt! SquidFacts.net

Why read outdated TERF-funding wizard school books when you could read the indie smut series Sex Wizards by a non-binary author? @aletheafaust.bsky.social books2read.com/sexwizards

Slightly less seriously, never discount the catharsis of screaming with other people about all this terrible bullshit! How often do you read the news and want to scream until you lose your voice? Because it is all the fucking time for me.

A personal tangent on this discourse: Protests change lives and often embolden people to do more. Shows of mass solidarity are also important! My first protest experience as a newbie exvangelical and progressive was safety work when my very progressive church was targeted by the right.

This leucistic robin seems to be hanging around our yard and a few others and I’m so delighted!! It’s the first leucistic bird I’m aware of observing. :)

Exciting news—We've finally found a way to do a paid indie media bundle so you don't have to separately subscribe to so many newsletters. Now you can get a 30-day trial of @katelynburns.com @kattenbarge.bsky.social and my publications in your inbox for one [heavily discounted] price! Sign up now:

It's a lovely Wednesday afternoon and there are good ebooks on sale! All links to Amazon and Bookshop are affiliate links, other links are not. Affiliate links = I get a small cut of the retailers' profits. Bookshop is my favorite where it's an option! They may be on sale other places!

Here’s my non-exhaustive list of interesting books in the romance ebooks section of Amazon’s sale: My Big Fat Fake Marriage — Charlotte Stein Never Tell — Stacey Abrams/Selena Montgomery Grim’s Delight — Abigail Kelly Unwritten Rules — KD Casey (Part 1)

Ok since Hillary is still on vacation and Meg is on a boat, I'm gonna do a cool thread of things on the shop. First, www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page... For those who don't know, the highest compliment you can get from another artist in the shop is "Fuck you!" This is one of those pieces.

I finished A Gentleman’s Gentleman by @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social while I was awake too early this morning and talk about trans & queer joy!! If you’re sick of histrom authors telling you that queer characters can’t have joyful stories, this is the book for you. #TransRightsReadathon

Ok, #BirdSky, help out a new-ish birder? This is a leucistic robin hanging out in our yard this year, yeah?

I've been saying for years that Firefly was fun to watch, but is ultimately overrated, super racist & whorephobic, and the continued obsession over bringing it back has gotten kind of tedious when all my favorite queer shows keep getting canned by studios who don't give a single shit.

Usual crowd for #TenMinMerlin tonight. I get more variety in the mornings, but couldn’t make it out today. Based on @skwinnicki.bsky.social’s recent observations, I wonder if the Brown Creeper or Cedar Waxwing are bad IDs. Neither is unusual for this area, but new for the spring.

I just reread this one, which—like everything Talia writes—is a total fucking delight. Get it for a great price!

*whispers* why are we dune-posting, someone pls catch me up

Looking for some short stories to read? You're in luck! I am part of a fabulous itch bundle with $12 short stories for only $10! My story in this bundle is Pack Ties, in the same universe as An Unexpected Invitation & A Knight to Remember! Grab it here: itch.io/b/3577/queer...

I had tons of fun looking through the Queer Your Bookshelf sale!! Filled out my backlist collection for some already-loved authors and picked up a few intriguing new authors! Wide variety of pairings, genres, tone, and representation — there’s something for everyone! queeryourbookshelf.com

Perfect for pi(e) day!!

The fastest way for me to not buy your stuff is to advertise yourself as a gypsy with that in your company name or a product name unless you are actually Roma, Traveller, Sinti, etc. Ethnicity. Not a fad, look, whimsical lifestyle choice, or otherwise. A people. Who have been mass murdered.

$0.99 ✦ Mrs. Mix Up by Candace Harper Two librarians must fake a relationship when a mistake at a regional conference leaves them with only one hotel room. Contemporary Romance (FF) amzn.to/4lqmbgY Bookshop bookshop.org/a/111397/978... Kobo click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=...

This is very interesting to try! (Mine was .0031, but it was really tough) www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I haven’t read this one yet, but Nicola Davidson writes great histrom kinky, non-monogamous, and queer relationships! Free is the perfect price to try a new-to-you author.

$0.99 ✦ A Rival Most Vial by R.K. Ashwick Rival potion shop owners are commissioned to brew a potion together and slowly find a different sort of chemistry brewing. Fantasy Romance (MM) amzn.to/4utuE7u Bookshop bookshop.org/a/111397/979... Kobo click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=...

$2.99 ✦ How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly Julie is a high school basketball coach who asks Elle, a former WNBA star, to be her new assistant coach. Contemporary Romance (FF) amzn.to/4bjms0U Bookshop bookshop.org/a/111397/978... Kobo click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=...