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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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Hungover Egyptologist Just Gonna Call In Cursed Today
Hungover Egyptologist Just Gonna Call In Cursed Today
CAIRO—Admitting he was unable to face a lengthy session of indexing artifacts after drinking too much the night before, hungover Egyptologist Henry Chapman confirmed Tuesday he was just gonna call in ...
theonion.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Did y'all know about this? I just found out about it. #WritingCommunity

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Indie Author Day 2025: Schedule of Events – Indie Author Day
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November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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amaralynn.bsky.social
First art poll is up!

What scene should the sweet art piece be? for Gems and Star Flowers Audiobook Campaign on BackerKit!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

#tbb25 #booksky #queerscifi #scifi #books
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November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
It's a small sigh of relief, but it is one nonetheless.
Justices decline case seeking to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling
The high court turned down a petition from Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who objected on religious grounds to issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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dansinker.com
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
No, that's Bacchus. Caucus is when someone is boisterously disorderly.
briankspears.bsky.social Brian Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 19h
No that’s crocus. Caucus is the Roman god of getting drunk and having orgies.
thegatesofmel.blacksky.app Big Roux @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 19h
No, that’s the Caucasus Mountains. Caucus is the name of those brightly colored spring flowers, kin to irises.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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nerdskull.bsky.social
Every single person on this list needs to be ejected from the Democratic Party.
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d
Circulating on Threads as to who’s in favor (for what it is worth)

@senjackyrosen - NV
@senatorbaldwin -WI
@senfettermanpa - PA
@senatorhassan - NH
@senossoff - GA
@anguskingmaine -ME
@sengarypeters - MI
@senatordurbin - IL
@senatorshaheen - NH
@senmarkkelly - AZ
@senslotkin - MI
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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amaralynn.bsky.social
3 DAYS UNTIL WE START AHHH

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

#tbb25 #thebookbazaar #booksky #queerscifi #writesky #books #audiobooks
Get Ready for Gems and Star Flowers Audiobook Campaign
From Amara Lynn - Get Ready for Gems and Star Flowers Audiobook Campaign
www.backerkit.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
I'm making a thing for a friend for a winter gift, and I usually send photos to them while I'm going through the process, but I CAN'T, so now I'm sharing it here.

This is Gourdy, one of the special toons from the Halloween event on Dandy's World (Roblox) and I know they will love it when done.
In-progress work of embroidery of a cute, illustrated anthropomorphic pumpkin waving. Cute, illustrated anthropomorphic pumpkin waving.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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vampirepyramid.bsky.social
All setup at the Portland Zine Symposium but realized I forgot the 2025 Vampires of Color zines! 🫠

Heading home while Mr V holds down the fort.
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Me flirting:
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
What’s the fantasy equivalent of U-haul lesbians?

Read The World Within and find out!
danifinnwrites.bsky.social Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · Oct 4
If you like your fantasy romance scalding-hot but filled with tenderness & wonder

The World Within, a C4T lesbian romance set in a wellness center complete with mineral baths, spa, & sex shop.

Meet-cute over a crate of magical vibrators!

danifinn.itch.io/the-world-wi...

books2read.com/b/md2L8W
The World Within by danifinn
A cozy/steamy trans sapphic fantasy romance
danifinn.itch.io
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
OpenAI is not in enough danger, frankly
histoftech.bsky.social Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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chiefwritesbook.bsky.social
I'm running an end-of-year fantasy bundle for indie books! If you have a fantasy book on itch-io, you can sign up below:

forms.gle/45t5y5NVCP...

📦📚 #BookSky
A green graphic for the end of year fantasy bundle with a silhouette of a man in a hat standing on a cliff looking at a hovering dragon. text reads: "end of year indie fantasy bundle. december 1st to 15th. sign ups open"
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
i'm soooo close to hitting 100 sales of my short story 'the knight saves the dragon' this year!! check it out if you like short fantasy stories where the dragon doesn't die! 🐉

only 99c! 🗡️

universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
94 sales this year Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges.
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Holy shit, y'all, this movie was everything. It was beautiful. I didn't want to live skeet the end cause damn, but just DAMN. It's SO GOOD.
aebrossbooks.bsky.social Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.bsky.social · 2d
Watching Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and while I think they're doing an amazing job with making Victor out to be the monster he is, there's such a parallel to parenting... How everything is different and often terrifying after birth. The frustration, the anger, the self-recrimination. It hits.
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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notablyuncool.bsky.social
The idea that you should be *there* by now is an illusion.

There is no *there*.

Just moments of arriving, over and over, into deeper versions of yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Watching Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and while I think they're doing an amazing job with making Victor out to be the monster he is, there's such a parallel to parenting... How everything is different and often terrifying after birth. The frustration, the anger, the self-recrimination. It hits.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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beverlyannemichel.bsky.social
Reasons why you probably wouldn’t like Mechanical Heart:

💜 asexual main character
🫑 no spice
🤖 human like robots - none of that clanking metal
🐲 nerds playing dnd
💝 so squishy and sweet
Mechanical Heart: a science fiction romance. Red and grey binary code forming a heart.
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Is it the BEST repair job? No.
Is it viable, safe, and secure? Yes.

Plus, it has once again been proven that a car cannot be in our possession for long before needing duct tape.
Front of a black Kia forte with a repaired driver side headlight and bumper.
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Good morning, Bluesky.
Choose your own ending!

Today is a great day to...

...support trans folks.
...call your rep to decry trash legislation.
...boycott garbage companies.
...support your local library.
...lift up BIPOC/queer/disabled/oppressed voices.
...call for an end to ICE.
...not use genAI.
August 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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feenavan2099.bsky.social
"Naver WEBTOON, South Korea's largest webcomic platform and a publicly listed company in the U.S., has recently found itself in the spotlight for two contrasting reasons: its rising global profile, boosted by a collaboration with Disney, and growing criticism over alleged unfair labor practices"
Unpaid Labor Allegations Cast Shadow Over Naver WEBTOON's Market Dominance
South Korea's largest webcomic platform has found itself in the spotlight for two reasons: its rising global profile and growing criticism over alleged unfair labor practices.
www.animenewsnetwork.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Happy N7 Day to all who celebrate.
a black background with the letters n7 in white and red
Alt: a black background with the letters n7 in white and red
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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courtneymilan.com
“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”

Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up

Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM