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The best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be. She/Her.

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello, new followers. I'm an author with a current focus on queer and trans sword & sorcery fiction. You can learn more about my work and where to find it at breadsonja.wordpress.com 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚔️ 🤼‍♀️

Cover of Suplex & Sorcery by June Orchid Parker. Varika, a barbarian woman in leather pro wrestling gear, grabs a kneeling, green skeleton from behind by the lower jaw and raises her fist to punch this foe. Behind her you can see ring ropes, a masked chorus, the seats of a Greek theatre and a black-clad Sorcerer with green magic burning around his hands.

Title page for "How Many Deaths Till Vengeance?" Astartha, a trans woman with a labrys and wearing Ancient Greek-style clothing, sits slumped against a wall next to a hallway. She is covered in blood. A woman in the hallway behind her clasps her hand to her mouth, having dropped a clay vessel of wine in shock.

June Orchid Parker. White with dark brown hair, she wears glasses, a necklace of black beads and curved white teeth, a pleather corset top, black fingerless gloves and black pants. She has her hands planted on her hips.

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Rex 💫

@rexpo.bsky.social

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February 17, 2026 at 6:33 PM

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Willow Catelyn Maclay

@willowcatelyn.bsky.social

I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Levine did not have concerns while making the movie but has developed a fuller understanding of the trans experience in the ensuing decades. "It's just over time and having gotten aware and worked with trans folks, and understanding a bit more about the culture and the reality of the meaning of gender.", says the actor, "It's unfortunate that the film vilified that, and it's fucking wrong. And you can quote me on that.".

February 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM

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Edwin Huang

@ironpinky.bsky.social

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!!! 30% off my entire online store. Just head to ironpinky.com and type discount code “lunar new year” at checkout. Thanks! #streetfighter #chunli #edwinhuang #cny2026

February 17, 2026 at 7:27 PM

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Clade Mirya

@clademirya.bsky.social

Some of my fav warrior women in fiction
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Queen Ilian of Garathorm and Dark Agnes de Chastillon

February 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM

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Thom.Artz

@thomdotartz.bsky.social

Showa Villains #godzilla #kaiju

February 16, 2026 at 8:49 PM

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Sao

@saowee.bsky.social

San #PrincessMononoke

Commission

February 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM

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透明屿

@taiyangyu.bsky.social

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February 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM

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Lyle Speck (Comms Open)

@vectorconvoy.bsky.social

Always thought he was a better fit for the monsterverse

February 16, 2026 at 2:57 AM

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Willow Nightingale

@willowwrestles.bsky.social

Forgot my password for here and have just avoided logging on for the longest time because of that. What did I miss?

February 16, 2026 at 12:21 AM

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PoshMop (commissions open!)

@poshmop.bsky.social

Fuck AI art, look at my Magik with skulls instead

February 15, 2026 at 8:11 PM

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niko.

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#KOF rkgk

February 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM

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February 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM

June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja

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If you choose to listen to this, keep in mind I was not as awake as I should've been

E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog · 1d

Listening to this interview with @breadsonja.bsky.social, and despite being wholly ignorant of WWE and other wrestling, quite a lot resonates with me here. The author's intentionality (or lack thereof) indeed makes or breaks tone and immersiveness. Also, fantasy could use more plots aside from wars.