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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe
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Indie author & academic librarian. 🇵🇷. Disabled and neurodivergent.
A 🏳️‍⚧️ nonbinary, agender ✨DELIGHT✨

Publishing under A.E. Bross
AO3 fanfic under SkepticalCybrarian
https://linktr.ee/aebrossbooks

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hello, lovely folks. So happy to have y'all here! My name is Addy, I'm a queer author, poet, & librarian.

My books:
🏴‍☠️ The Elysium Proposal - F/Enby Pirate Adventure Romantasy
💞 Where We Converge - M/M Contemporary Paranormal Romantasy set in modern day Chicago.

books2read.com/ap/xXJm2G/AE...
Background of a cracked wall with a vine growing up the sides. Light text reads, "All Kyle wants to do is propose to the love of her life. Unfortunately, it seems that toxic family, a hopeless voyage, & the search for the Well of Eternal Life all have different ideas for how Kyle should be spending her time." The Elysium Proposal "Because nothing ever goes as planned..." Image of the Chicago cityscape in the distance, icy Lake Michigan in the forefront. Text over top reads: "Every so often, life gives us a shot at redemption. When Darius Adair is sent to help a stranger in the dead of night, he never expects that man to be a time traveler who threw himself back in order to stop a threat so severe, it endangered the world as they knew it. He also didn't expect to catch feelings for him." Features the cover from Where We Converge by A.E. Bross.
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acvalens.com
PornHub’s new VDay map is bleak. Age verification laws have done so much damage
A collection of popular Valentine’s Day search terms on Pornhub across the US. Many states are blocked due to age verification laws Porn hub How Americans Are Getting in the Mood for Valentine's Day Top relative searches across the U.S. - What each state searches for more than the rest New Hampshire cheating Washington pegging Vermont passionate Minnesota mutuall orgasmi Massachusetts spanking Rhode Island bdsm Maine cuck Oregon leather Wisconsin hairy bush Michigan bbc lowa lingerie New York intimate Nevada lusty Illinois softcore Colorado tradwife Ohio car sex Pennsylvania respectful W. Virginia dildo California girlfriend New Mexico hugging Connecticut cuddling District of Columbia facesitting New Jersey dirty talk Delaware strap on Maryland granny Louisiana bouncing Alaska vibrator Hawaii couple State blocked in response to age verification laws February 2026 pornhub.com/insights
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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amaralynn.bsky.social
#QueerWritersChat 5:

My latest mothman x cryptid romance book is out in audio now and it's full of cuteness, weird spicyness, and will melt your heart with Glen's adorable West Virginia accent
www.audible.com/pd/Moth-Wood...
February 14, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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astrokatie.com
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
jillian.bsky.social Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social · 10h
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
In a desperate attempt to not yuck someone's yum, I've muted any mention of Wuthering Heights or Emily Brontë. I get that folks like it and I don't want to ruin that for anyone, but I also do not want to see any of it 🙈
February 13, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
The Atlantic, which has waged a non-stop crusade to kill trans kids and deny medical science for the last decade, is now VERY CONCERNED about medical science and dying kids.

Commie link: archive.ph/p84DR
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak By Elizabeth Bruenig
February 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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valwrites.ca
Depends on the spell in #Boombride, most spells just fizzle if they're not cast properly.

#Savior71 is another story. Overuse of magic can cause one's wyrd to Rot. If it goes too far, then the spirits whose names are written there will merge with the user, but rarely cleanly. #febchantment
professoremily.bsky.social Prof Emily @professoremily.bsky.social · 22h
#Febchantment Day 13

It's Friday the 13th! So let's talk about ~misfortune~ 😈

I love a magic system with some dreadful consequences. Tell me what happens when your magic goes wrong? What happens if someone doesn't know what they're doing, or they abuse it on purpose?

#writingcommunity #writesky
#Febchantment prompt for Feb 13: How can this magic go wrong? What are some consequences of mistakes or misuse? Text is white letters on a blue background featuring a magic book with lots of sparkles, and a yellow octopus dressed as Glinda the Good Witch sitting in the bottom right corner. Hosted by @professoremily.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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kougeru.bsky.social
Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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queerliblib.bsky.social
#P4A2026 is starting off strong with some semi-explicit banana stuffing? Here for it! (projectforawesome.com/live)

Vote please! projectforawesome.com/videos/queer...
A graphic asking you to vote for QLL, mentioning all the cool stuff we got to do because of P4A 2025, including doubling the size of our collection and buying our first Spanish books! We need your help to keep growing!
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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katelynburns.com
i think nominating Gavin Newsom will lose the White House again for Democrats. The party's left flank will stay home again because he's an empty corporate shell. The age of Democrats punching left to appeal to the center is over and it's now a matter of if the party as a whole realizes that or not.
February 13, 2026 at 12:12 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Quiet mossy forest.

Everything else takes too much energy 😂
edmondsscanner.bsky.social Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 1d
What's your vibe?

1. quiet mossy forest
2. bustling city bookstore
3. punk rock flea market
4. haunted seaside town
February 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Wrote a rather long and scathing email to my kiddo's school. This whole situation arose from them being hit in the head with a volleyball during gym class.

When they went to their teacher to ask to go to the nurse, the teacher TOLD THEM "NO, GET A DRINK OF WATER AND SIT DOWN."

🤬 🤬 🤬
aebrossbooks.bsky.social Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Two ER visits in two days for the kiddo. One ER basically said kiddo was "fine" and had no concussion, despite having a lot of nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. Different ER (we are lucky enough to live that close to two hospitals) said YES, CONCUSSION, LOTS OF REST.

I'm tired, y'all.
February 13, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
If you write trans romance,

THANK YOU
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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ddwardiswriting.bsky.social
Say, do you make any of your writing available free?

Me too!

Were you interested in coordinating to help people find you?

Wanna talk about the idea?
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Alt: a drawing of a girl with brown eyes and a black sweater
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February 12, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

[ #booksky ]
Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.
February 13, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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kattakis.bsky.social
🖤 If you want to give an indie author some love for Valentines/Galentines/Palentines week, leave a review of our books, tell a friend about them, borrow or request them from a library and/or reach out to say something nice. 🖤
February 12, 2026 at 10:24 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Two ER visits in two days for the kiddo. One ER basically said kiddo was "fine" and had no concussion, despite having a lot of nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. Different ER (we are lucky enough to live that close to two hospitals) said YES, CONCUSSION, LOTS OF REST.

I'm tired, y'all.
February 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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kodyisover.com
Valentine's smooch
a drawing of an Asian dude grabbing his blond punk boyfriend by the face to give him a smooch. the blond guy is smiling!
February 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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aiyanaewhite.bsky.social
House decides they’re A-ok with a significant portion of women not being able to vote. I’ll be calling my senators again tomorrow and hope you will too.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · 2d
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
February 12, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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jongraywb.bsky.social
Screenshotting this and alt texting all of it since it will most likely get deleted because Hammam is Palestinian. It deserves to be seen and not erased.
A post by Hammam, a known Palestinian nurse here. It is a wuote by an account of a man named Nathan Kalman Lamb who is posting an excerpt from an article. The article reads: Examining the bodies returned to their people after the most recent so-called ceasefire, Palestinian doctors noted that, in some bodies "the rib cage and ribs were clipped with a sharp saw—a medical saw, a bone saw-and the sternum, along with the central part of the ribs, [were] lifted to allow for the removal of the heart and lungs without damage to the organ being taken." Organ procurement, with few exceptions like skin and cornea, requires that the body be either alive-via brain death-or just-dead—via circulatory death. It is plausible that some Palestinian prisoners' torture led to brain death. It is also possible their torturers felt no need to wait. Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs. The transplant surgeon waits for a person to die; the soldier can't. The settler surgeon wields his mastery over the body to serve the state. Here, the surgeon acts as-is—a soldier. Nathan says hes honestly speechless. Hammam quotes him to say: The director of the hospital where I work, Al-Shifa Hospital, stated that the occupation forces returned the bodies of women whose organs were missing. Another source also reported that the occupation forces were using a school in northern Gaza to detain women & civilians and harvest their organs
February 12, 2026 at 1:49 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
THIS! I used to push myself through so many books I wasn't enjoying--no need. Be free! Read (or write) the thing you love!
weeknightwriters.bsky.social Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d
Good morning! Life is too short to spend on stories you don't love. Don't be afraid to stop reading - or stop writing - a book if you're not enjoying it
Close-up of snow-covered tree branches with a night sky backdrop, overlaid with the words "Good morning! Life is too short to spend on stories you don't love. Don't be afraid to stop reading - or stop writing - a book if you're not enjoying it"
February 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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foxenlock.bsky.social
Be part of the first-ever book exploring transness in cyberpunk

Your support is an act of resistance in a time of surveillance & censorship

What’s more punk than that?

Not-for-profit crowdfund runs until March

Let’s chronicle the new cyberpunk canon together!

🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
A white background overlaid with vertical lines of binary code. A trans femme person of colour fills up one side of the graphic with two mechanical limbs and one hand raised into the air. Beside them, text reads ‘Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon’. Beneath, bolded in black, is text that reads ‘//Back Now’
February 9, 2026 at 7:03 AM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
I knew him from Dawson, and a few other things, but I loved him from voicing Pazu in "Castle in the Sky".
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d
James Van Der Beek, who starred in the teen drama series "Dawson’s Creek," has died at 48
James David Van Der Beek photo, looking Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning. He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace. There is much to share regarding his wishes, love for humanity and the sacredness of time. Those days will come. For now we ask for peaceful privacy as we grieve our loving husband, father, son, brother, and friend.
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
#Febchantment D11

The way magic is structured (i.e. the energy innate in every single thing), it follows patterns. Depending on how far a mage tries to manipulate something outside of those patterns, "reality" or the original pattern might snap back and attempt to return to its former state (1/2)
professoremily.bsky.social Prof Emily @professoremily.bsky.social · 2d
#Febchantment Day 11

What limitations did you put on your magic system to keep it from becoming too OP? Is power in short supply? Do spells take a physical toll on the body?

Note that this is about magic done RIGHT. Day 13 will be about when magic goes horribly wrong!

#writingcommunity #writesky
February 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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averyedison.com
sigh
Post from Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
February 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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esteemedbastard.bsky.social
#WriterShareWednesday Trying to escape from under the thumb of her domineering adventuring party, Grace seeks the guidance of the wise, handsome, golden dragon Morieshal.

Part of the #TransHet jam on #Itchio, Golden Grace comes out on Valentine's Day (2/14)!
A book cover with a golden gradient titled Golden Grace by Zack Prince, with a dragon flying over a mountain range. The words Golden Grace are circled by a pearl bracelet.
February 11, 2026 at 3:47 PM