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A list of UK LGBTQ+ bookshops:
It’s funny, just because you’re adult doesn’t mean you have to ‘keep the peace’, instead you can choose to put your own needs first.
Queer kids, sadly, often have no choice. Parents don’t get a free pass to abuse, disrespect, insult, frighten. If home isn’t a safe place, you don’t have to go there. End of story.
Sarah Ditum: the voice of parents, some driven mad with hate by the very newspaper for which she writes, who rejected their children and now struggle with the consequences.
Sarah, I'm pretty sure hectoring them from the pages of The Times won't bring them back.
Sarah, I'm pretty sure hectoring them from the pages of The Times won't bring them back.
December 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It’s funny, just because you’re adult doesn’t mean you have to ‘keep the peace’, instead you can choose to put your own needs first.
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Wishing a very merry Christmas to those of you who are celebrating today. 🎄✨
(And to everyone who isn't celebrating – hope you're having a delightful Thursday!)
What will you be reading today?
(And to everyone who isn't celebrating – hope you're having a delightful Thursday!)
What will you be reading today?
December 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Wishing a very merry Christmas to those of you who are celebrating today. 🎄✨
(And to everyone who isn't celebrating – hope you're having a delightful Thursday!)
What will you be reading today?
(And to everyone who isn't celebrating – hope you're having a delightful Thursday!)
What will you be reading today?
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, thanks to the sacrifice of 1,000 psykers a day, ascended to the Throne of Man to guide the Imperium through the stars on their mission to conquer the galaxy
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, dead at 8 reports TMZ.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, is in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but
December 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, thanks to the sacrifice of 1,000 psykers a day, ascended to the Throne of Man to guide the Imperium through the stars on their mission to conquer the galaxy
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7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:
1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear
1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear
December 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:
1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear
1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear
What’s your favourite Christmas song:
December 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
What’s your favourite Christmas song:
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When Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, said two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half-sunk, a shattered visage lies
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, left from the Grey Havens and sailed to the undying lands.
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
When Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton
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Enjoying the For You feed? Give it a like ♡ to help more people discover it: bsky.app/profile/did:...
The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
July 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Enjoying the For You feed? Give it a like ♡ to help more people discover it: bsky.app/profile/did:...
The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
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Today's 2025 pb choice is The Cat Bride by @charlieratpig.bsky.social, a wild, gory, strange female coming-of-age tale that taps into the folkloric "beast on the moor/escaped zoo animal" type reports. Tense, moody, dark & hallucinatory, a shapeshifting tale from a great unreliable narrator.
💙📚🪐
💙📚🪐
December 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today's 2025 pb choice is The Cat Bride by @charlieratpig.bsky.social, a wild, gory, strange female coming-of-age tale that taps into the folkloric "beast on the moor/escaped zoo animal" type reports. Tense, moody, dark & hallucinatory, a shapeshifting tale from a great unreliable narrator.
💙📚🪐
💙📚🪐
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I've been so stonkingly grateful for some of the reviews/responses my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster has gotten this past week! 🧵
December 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've been so stonkingly grateful for some of the reviews/responses my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster has gotten this past week! 🧵
This is what happens when I get book vouchers at Christmas. I aim for poetry or classics. This time I satisfied both options.
December 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is what happens when I get book vouchers at Christmas. I aim for poetry or classics. This time I satisfied both options.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616:
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616:
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
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This time of year is fucking hard. The holidays are a fertile ground for dark thoughts. Loneliness can drown you, even when you're surrounded by people. Take care of yourself. If you feel like you're drowning in darkness, please talk to someone. Friend, family, stranger. Anyone.
You deserve love.
You deserve love.
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This time of year is fucking hard. The holidays are a fertile ground for dark thoughts. Loneliness can drown you, even when you're surrounded by people. Take care of yourself. If you feel like you're drowning in darkness, please talk to someone. Friend, family, stranger. Anyone.
You deserve love.
You deserve love.
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It’s the last issue of 2025 at @strangehorizons.bsky.social (I know, what even is time etc). What do we have for you in Reviews?
Monday is the always incisive @octavia-cade.bsky.social on Syr Hayati Beker’s What A Fish Looks Like (@stelliform.press). “Is there one right way to navigate apocalypse?”
Monday is the always incisive @octavia-cade.bsky.social on Syr Hayati Beker’s What A Fish Looks Like (@stelliform.press). “Is there one right way to navigate apocalypse?”
What A Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker
Is there one right way to navigate apocalypse?
strangehorizons.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It’s the last issue of 2025 at @strangehorizons.bsky.social (I know, what even is time etc). What do we have for you in Reviews?
Monday is the always incisive @octavia-cade.bsky.social on Syr Hayati Beker’s What A Fish Looks Like (@stelliform.press). “Is there one right way to navigate apocalypse?”
Monday is the always incisive @octavia-cade.bsky.social on Syr Hayati Beker’s What A Fish Looks Like (@stelliform.press). “Is there one right way to navigate apocalypse?”
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We've only just begun telling you about the cool Weird shit coming from Tenebrous in 2026!
Cover reveals still to come for new releases from @dangerslater.bsky.social @allisonmick.bsky.social & @momoshaty.bsky.social
store.tenebrouspress.com
Cover reveals still to come for new releases from @dangerslater.bsky.social @allisonmick.bsky.social & @momoshaty.bsky.social
store.tenebrouspress.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We've only just begun telling you about the cool Weird shit coming from Tenebrous in 2026!
Cover reveals still to come for new releases from @dangerslater.bsky.social @allisonmick.bsky.social & @momoshaty.bsky.social
store.tenebrouspress.com
Cover reveals still to come for new releases from @dangerslater.bsky.social @allisonmick.bsky.social & @momoshaty.bsky.social
store.tenebrouspress.com
Now, @df2506.bsky.social's top ten is exactly why I like reading people's round-ups - a mix of books I should have got to, books I've forgotten, and books I haven't heard of but am glad I do now.
Top Ten Books of 2025
I reviewed a lot of books this year. As I was putting this list together, I had to make a lot of tough choices. There were books that I really wanted to put in the top 10 but others beat them out. …
roland19.wordpress.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Now, @df2506.bsky.social's top ten is exactly why I like reading people's round-ups - a mix of books I should have got to, books I've forgotten, and books I haven't heard of but am glad I do now.
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My top 10 books of 2025! @alixeharrow.bsky.social @briankeene.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social @jrdawson.bsky.social @joe-hill.bsky.social @allymalinenko.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @peterclines.com @claymcleod.bsky.social @jonathanjanz.bsky.social
Top Ten Books of 2025
I reviewed a lot of books this year. As I was putting this list together, I had to make a lot of tough choices. There were books that I really wanted to put in the top 10 but others beat them out. …
roland19.wordpress.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Once again wishing a Clarke Award existed for fantasy
I think it also might be to do with the fact that I've been really enjoying the litfic-SF borderland niche, but have been much less successful at finding the fantasy equivalent of that. There's something I'm clearly craving here that exists in that border (probably character work, let's be real).
December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Once again wishing a Clarke Award existed for fantasy
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I intend to do some reading over Christmas and there's apparently a British tradition of reading scary stuff at this time of year. What's your favourite ghost / scary / dark stories? Good one you read lately?
December 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I intend to do some reading over Christmas and there's apparently a British tradition of reading scary stuff at this time of year. What's your favourite ghost / scary / dark stories? Good one you read lately?
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ARB's Notable Books of 2025!
ARB’s 2025 Notable Books
At the end of the year, we ask ARB’s contributors to pick just one book that they found really interesting this year: maybe already a best-seller or award-frontrunner, maybe something obscure…
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December 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
ARB's Notable Books of 2025!
33 books read since April ( I had 3 months of non-reading) and just over 11K pages. I wonder what 2026 will look like?
December 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
33 books read since April ( I had 3 months of non-reading) and just over 11K pages. I wonder what 2026 will look like?
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Rishi Dastidar’s The best poetry books of 2025 recommendations is:
a) brilliantly written
b) persuasive
I try to buy some poetry with Christmas vouchers and this year, thanks to Rishi I’m picking up:
That Broke into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott
The Book of Jonah by Luke Kennard
You?
a) brilliantly written
b) persuasive
I try to buy some poetry with Christmas vouchers and this year, thanks to Rishi I’m picking up:
That Broke into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott
The Book of Jonah by Luke Kennard
You?
The best poetry books of 2025
From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Rishi Dastidar’s The best poetry books of 2025 recommendations is:
a) brilliantly written
b) persuasive
I try to buy some poetry with Christmas vouchers and this year, thanks to Rishi I’m picking up:
That Broke into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott
The Book of Jonah by Luke Kennard
You?
a) brilliantly written
b) persuasive
I try to buy some poetry with Christmas vouchers and this year, thanks to Rishi I’m picking up:
That Broke into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott
The Book of Jonah by Luke Kennard
You?
In this week's Sunday Summary, which I polished and posted not that long ago, I said I wasn't sure I'd read next, and if it weren't for my @thestorygraph.com reading streak, I'd probably call it quits for the New Year. Well, I started The Book of Gold by Ruth Frances Long as an audiobook!
Sunday Summary: 21 Dec 25
Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system. B…
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December 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In this week's Sunday Summary, which I polished and posted not that long ago, I said I wasn't sure I'd read next, and if it weren't for my @thestorygraph.com reading streak, I'd probably call it quits for the New Year. Well, I started The Book of Gold by Ruth Frances Long as an audiobook!
Sunday Summary: 21 Dec 25
Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system. Books Read & Reading This Week. Finished: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh If…
Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system. Books Read & Reading This Week. Finished: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh If…
Sunday Summary: 21 Dec 25
Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system. Books Read & Reading This Week. Finished: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh If you've read Authority by Jeff VanderMeer, you'll know that the mundane isn't quite as mundane as the story portrays.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sunday Summary: 21 Dec 25
Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system. Books Read & Reading This Week. Finished: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh If…
Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system. Books Read & Reading This Week. Finished: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh If…
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Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be
December 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be
Rishi Dastidar’s The best poetry books of 2025 recommendations is:
a) brilliantly written
b) persuasive
I try to buy some poetry with Christmas vouchers and this year, thanks to Rishi I’m picking up:
That Broke into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott
The Book of Jonah by Luke Kennard
You?
a) brilliantly written
b) persuasive
I try to buy some poetry with Christmas vouchers and this year, thanks to Rishi I’m picking up:
That Broke into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott
The Book of Jonah by Luke Kennard
You?
The best poetry books of 2025
From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Rishi Dastidar’s The best poetry books of 2025 recommendations is:
a) brilliantly written
b) persuasive
I try to buy some poetry with Christmas vouchers and this year, thanks to Rishi I’m picking up:
That Broke into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott
The Book of Jonah by Luke Kennard
You?
a) brilliantly written
b) persuasive
I try to buy some poetry with Christmas vouchers and this year, thanks to Rishi I’m picking up:
That Broke into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott
The Book of Jonah by Luke Kennard
You?