I promise you need this today

Work is a scam

Looking for some trans+ rep that’s out of this world? 🥁 We do tend to get fewer scifi titles on our StoryGraph suggestions, so if you have more suggestions, we’d love to hear them. (Especially if they’re indie!) #booksky #trr25 #transrightsreadathon

Can personally vouch for the usefulness of Affinity photo and designer. Way cheaper than an Adobe subscription in the long run too

Okay Trans Books Bingo cards at the ready. Anyone got Gay Men MCs? My debut Lightborne has 3 of them and I love them all, even the one who's a total psycho. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ligh...

Finishing a really good fan fic is so emotionally taxing. Time to go back to the mines to find another gem in the rubble, I guess.

True love is curating Love and Deepspace fan fic for your friends

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors. Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts. Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

Important that people recognise this was published nearly a year ago. You're only just noticing it now because the media completely buried it because it's not convenient to their narrative. Tell people about it.

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Hey if you're trying to pick up books for the Trans Rights Readathon then you should give this one a look! And it's on sale right now 😘

I'm reading To Seduce a Siren by Jenny Nordback and The Night and It's Moon by Piper C.J. and listening to the audiobook of Lights Out by Navessa Allen and might start The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson.

Wow this art is gorgeous

I don't want to be spending most of my free time organizing phone banking for the special election. I want to write more smut and start a romance writers group, but here we are.

It's Trans Rights Readathon time again!

No LGB without the T

I read The Lottery, probably like many Americans in grade school, but I was never introduced to the context in which it was written. I'm definitely going to read it now.

I don't have a solution. This isn't that sort of thread. I'm pleading a bit. Don't stop caring, even if you're tired. Care about trans people. Care about immigrant neighbors. Care if people are hungry, if children are sick. Building is tougher than breaking, but caring is how we win. /fin

You had different dreams for yourself than having to meet this shit historical moment. I did too. I did too.

Hi! I'm Annaka and I never saw a vampire romance I didn't like.

*sabrina carpenter voice* have you ever tried this one? *a functioning guillotine rises from the stage*

Unless these wealthy people are going to be a food source I don't think we need them. Thanks. #eatTheRich

And here's @indivisible.org on what you can do if your MoC is a coward who hides from you

The thing that has gotten me the most followers is playing a word game. Y'all are really impressed by my self proclaimed ability to make a 9 letter word in 90 seconds.

I haven't seen a relation-shape this messy since Lothaire where the vampire thinks he loves the goddess who part time inhabits the body of the woman he's falling for.

Find yourself thinking ‘what I need is a massively queer cozy slice-of-life second-world-urban fantasy culminating in a heist’? I’VE GOT YOU 🌈📚💙🪐📚 #Booksky Find it today at books2read.com/Zimanges

Hey: If you made it through the week, and you tried to do some things to help other people — large or small — where you could, and you need to hear it, I’m here to tell you thank you. Get some rest. Figure out today, then figure out tomorrow.

Movies you've watched more than six times using only GIFs (and alt text)

I was reading a book I was really into but it had jumpscare transphobia as a character flaw for a main character in the last third and I can get enough of that on the news so... I'm starting Onyx Storm because my lib hold just came in. Pray for me. #currentlyReading 📚💙

It's also an example of why everyone — not just the sex workers — needs to fight back against the censorship "pornography." Pornography doesn't have a legal definition, and legislators are freely applying it to art, literature, healthcare resources and the existence of entire classes of people.

I truly believe that knitting something for someone is like trapping love and care into a physical object. That's why if you're in my life and are expecting a baby or get cancer you get a blanket. I gotta send care.

I am annoyed at this guy on a few fronts already, but fighting about budget issues with a guy who believes trans people deserve human rights is much different than fighting about everything with a ghoul who doesn’t believe *anyone* has rights, and for that I am grateful

It's easy to say Trump voters fucked around are finding out but, I'm reminding myself daily that the billionaires and corrupt politicians that eroded the education system, built lie spewing media, and fed hate are my enemy, not my neighbor. Even if my neighbor believes me to be their enemy.

"well as long as it's age appropriate" no fuck you guys actually, i read adult books when i was 12 and now i'm weird as hell, as i SHOULD be

In my nin writing life I play roller derby and I'm afraid for my teammates and league every day. We have such a beautiful community and I'm so scared of what's going to happen to it.

Haha turns out I was the problem the whole time. I completely dropped the ball on this one. We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba This book is on my digital bookshelf and it was so inspiring and made me feel like change was possible and within reach. I would recommend it to literally anyone.

I have been making calls to all my elected representatives about the anti trans executive orders and from the state level down I have been getting personal responses in the form of phone calls, texts, and emails. Your state and local reps are easier to get ahold of than you may realize.

With all the shit let's also celebrate what's dear to us. 1 like = 1 book on my bookshelf and what it means to me. (Do I even interact with enough people on here to do one of these?)

Another way to take action. If you cannot visit the office, you can call, email, or fax to demand these things too.

Happy Day 1 of #28DaysofBR. What is #28DaysofBR you ask? Even though we read/celebrate Black Romance 365, this is a little challenge I created in 2022 to put the spotlight on the authors and stories we love so much. This years theme is Black Romance authors from the 90’s and 2000’s

Some Annaka coded characters.

The amount of strength? courage? confidence? Of people who have the ability to share their wip draft chapters with Patreon or alpha readers, etc is so unfathomable to me. The only thing that gets me through my first draft is promising myself over and over that no one will read it.

Authors, if you see this, ompost the first line of your story. "The scariest thing about a suicide dive was the complete trust it required you to put in your partner."

I know the world is on fire and everything is bad but if you need some whimsy in your life to recharge, I beg you to watch the movie Legend (1985). The proto monster romance influence is unreal. Tim Curry as 10 ft demon. Goth princess is S tier. Omg ✨glitter✨ I feel nothing for bb Tom Cruise.

Calling today about this again and my state reps about not enforcing the anti-trans executive orders.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Coming online late this morning to 30+ notifications on this app was scary but it ended up being fine. Thanks for being cool.

I had trouble with Bsky's lack of algo because I didn't understand how to get my posts in front of more people but utilizing popular feeds and following tons of people with good lists has helped a bunch. I have fewer but more positive and personal interactions. And it's easier to put down.

This is way worse than just SW and Porn. There is no legal definition for what porn is. So anything deemed inappropriate is porn. That's gonna be anything pro LGBTQ+, anything pro women, anything the fascist don't like. Eventually Everyone ends up in the cross hairs. Don't let this slip by.