Hana Carolina
@hanacarolina.bsky.social
Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
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Hana Carolina
@hanacarolina.bsky.social
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The Inescapable March
Title: The Inescapable MarchAuthor: Hana Carolina AVAILABLE NOWBarnes & NobleBookshopBooks & BooksAmazon.comAmazon.co.ukWaterstones Arran, a widely feared warrior-mage who can manipulate ti…
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The Inescapable March, my debut fantasy LGBTQIA+ horror-romance novella @spaceboybooks.bsky.social is out today! 🥂🎉❤️ Life long dream, truly! Wouldn't have been possible without @thisisn8.bsky.social @sebdoubinsky.bsky.social @jmoffattwrites.bsky.social So grateful 🥹
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Wait, it’s Monday again?!
Here’s the excellent Roy Salzman-Cohen on Maggie Nye’s The Curators (@nupress.bsky.social).
A historical fantasy that defies forced unities, Roy inds that “The Curators refuses to answer many of its own questions” - but maintains a productive tension.
Here’s the excellent Roy Salzman-Cohen on Maggie Nye’s The Curators (@nupress.bsky.social).
A historical fantasy that defies forced unities, Roy inds that “The Curators refuses to answer many of its own questions” - but maintains a productive tension.
The Curators by Maggie Nye
The Curators is fascinating, perplexing, and difficult.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Wait, it’s Monday again?!
Here’s the excellent Roy Salzman-Cohen on Maggie Nye’s The Curators (@nupress.bsky.social).
A historical fantasy that defies forced unities, Roy inds that “The Curators refuses to answer many of its own questions” - but maintains a productive tension.
Here’s the excellent Roy Salzman-Cohen on Maggie Nye’s The Curators (@nupress.bsky.social).
A historical fantasy that defies forced unities, Roy inds that “The Curators refuses to answer many of its own questions” - but maintains a productive tension.
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The reviews are in!
Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
reviewed by Shinjini Dey
Making History by K. J. Parker
reviewed by Cameron Miguel
Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
reviewed by Eric Hendel
Link to the latest issue in our bio!
#speculativefiction #specfic #horror #sff #bookreviews
Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
reviewed by Shinjini Dey
Making History by K. J. Parker
reviewed by Cameron Miguel
Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
reviewed by Eric Hendel
Link to the latest issue in our bio!
#speculativefiction #specfic #horror #sff #bookreviews
November 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The reviews are in!
Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
reviewed by Shinjini Dey
Making History by K. J. Parker
reviewed by Cameron Miguel
Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
reviewed by Eric Hendel
Link to the latest issue in our bio!
#speculativefiction #specfic #horror #sff #bookreviews
Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
reviewed by Shinjini Dey
Making History by K. J. Parker
reviewed by Cameron Miguel
Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
reviewed by Eric Hendel
Link to the latest issue in our bio!
#speculativefiction #specfic #horror #sff #bookreviews
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November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Friday’s review at @strangehorizons.bsky.social is from @erichendel.bsky.social, on Adam Oyebanji’s Esperance (@dawbooks.bsky.social in the US, @hachetteuk.bsky.social in the UK).
It’s a novel, Eric finds, in which “alternate interpretations of the story emerge constantly.”
It’s a novel, Eric finds, in which “alternate interpretations of the story emerge constantly.”
Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
Alternate interpretations of this story emerge constantly.
strangehorizons.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Friday’s review at @strangehorizons.bsky.social is from @erichendel.bsky.social, on Adam Oyebanji’s Esperance (@dawbooks.bsky.social in the US, @hachetteuk.bsky.social in the UK).
It’s a novel, Eric finds, in which “alternate interpretations of the story emerge constantly.”
It’s a novel, Eric finds, in which “alternate interpretations of the story emerge constantly.”
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✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
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New Review - an excellent tale of digital ghosts, seers, scientists and ethics await in the brilliant The Salt Oracle by @rainewilson.bsky.social out now - very strongly recommended! Huge thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Solaris for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Solaris Published – Out Now Price – £18.99 hardback £7.99 Kindle ebook ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
New Review - an excellent tale of digital ghosts, seers, scientists and ethics await in the brilliant The Salt Oracle by @rainewilson.bsky.social out now - very strongly recommended! Huge thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
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This is an incredibly beautiful book, I urge you to pick it up, especially if you love speculative fiction that is both deeply fantastical, while also being darkly painful and poetic at the same time.
Idk how she does it but I want some of that writing magic ;)
Idk how she does it but I want some of that writing magic ;)
New Review - an excellent tale of digital ghosts, seers, scientists and ethics await in the brilliant The Salt Oracle by @rainewilson.bsky.social out now - very strongly recommended! Huge thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Solaris for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Solaris Published – Out Now Price – £18.99 hardback £7.99 Kindle ebook ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is an incredibly beautiful book, I urge you to pick it up, especially if you love speculative fiction that is both deeply fantastical, while also being darkly painful and poetic at the same time.
Idk how she does it but I want some of that writing magic ;)
Idk how she does it but I want some of that writing magic ;)
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Caught up with this while running errands this evening. Great episode that complicates but doesn’t dismiss the idea of hope in speculative fiction.
And it was quite the surprise to hear my suggestion that SF&F publishing re-embrace the short novel mentioned at the very end.
And it was quite the surprise to hear my suggestion that SF&F publishing re-embrace the short novel mentioned at the very end.
NEW PODCAST ALERT!
The latest Critical Friends episode it out now!
In Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully, Dan Hartland, Paul March-Russell, and Jacqueline Nyathi discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism.
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
The latest Critical Friends episode it out now!
In Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully, Dan Hartland, Paul March-Russell, and Jacqueline Nyathi discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism.
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…
strangehorizons.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Caught up with this while running errands this evening. Great episode that complicates but doesn’t dismiss the idea of hope in speculative fiction.
And it was quite the surprise to hear my suggestion that SF&F publishing re-embrace the short novel mentioned at the very end.
And it was quite the surprise to hear my suggestion that SF&F publishing re-embrace the short novel mentioned at the very end.
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🫰SNAP!🫰
My latest column for the excellent @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org, on Tochy Onyebuchi, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, and what to read to understand what you’re reading.
How might we fill the “imagination gap” in our fictions?
My latest column for the excellent @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org, on Tochy Onyebuchi, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, and what to read to understand what you’re reading.
How might we fill the “imagination gap” in our fictions?
Snap! Criticism: Sanchez-Taylor and Onyebuchi
Dan Hartland What should you read if you want to understand what you’re reading? Gang, this column would of course advise that you read criticism. But there are other, and less eccentric, answers. …
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November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🫰SNAP!🫰
My latest column for the excellent @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org, on Tochy Onyebuchi, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, and what to read to understand what you’re reading.
How might we fill the “imagination gap” in our fictions?
My latest column for the excellent @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org, on Tochy Onyebuchi, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, and what to read to understand what you’re reading.
How might we fill the “imagination gap” in our fictions?
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Here’s Wednesday’s review, from Cameron Miguel on KJ Parker’s Making History: “This tale returns to the question of truth […] and […] the narrator challenge[s] the foundations of historical narrative.”
A review by a reviewer for whom the book “was engineered in a lab”:
A review by a reviewer for whom the book “was engineered in a lab”:
Making History by K. J. Parker
Making History is a meta-narrative revolving around the story of history itself, and how historians shape the boundaries of discourses on the past.
www.strangehorizons.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Here’s Wednesday’s review, from Cameron Miguel on KJ Parker’s Making History: “This tale returns to the question of truth […] and […] the narrator challenge[s] the foundations of historical narrative.”
A review by a reviewer for whom the book “was engineered in a lab”:
A review by a reviewer for whom the book “was engineered in a lab”:
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Pre-order Luna Novella 2026! All That Is in the Earth by
@aknighton.bsky.social When Clifford crash lands on the planet of Abaddon, he might as well be dead 🪐
www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella
@aknighton.bsky.social When Clifford crash lands on the planet of Abaddon, he might as well be dead 🪐
www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Pre-order Luna Novella 2026! All That Is in the Earth by
@aknighton.bsky.social When Clifford crash lands on the planet of Abaddon, he might as well be dead 🪐
www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella
@aknighton.bsky.social When Clifford crash lands on the planet of Abaddon, he might as well be dead 🪐
www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella
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Announcing the cover for THE HALLS OF THE DEAD, releasing Summer 2026 with @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social!
HALLS is a romance, a dark fantasy, a Christmas horror story, a righteous fury revenge quest. It's dark and bloody, full of rage and love. I can't wait to share it with you.
HALLS is a romance, a dark fantasy, a Christmas horror story, a righteous fury revenge quest. It's dark and bloody, full of rage and love. I can't wait to share it with you.
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Announcing the cover for THE HALLS OF THE DEAD, releasing Summer 2026 with @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social!
HALLS is a romance, a dark fantasy, a Christmas horror story, a righteous fury revenge quest. It's dark and bloody, full of rage and love. I can't wait to share it with you.
HALLS is a romance, a dark fantasy, a Christmas horror story, a righteous fury revenge quest. It's dark and bloody, full of rage and love. I can't wait to share it with you.
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New week at SH, and in Reviews we open with a doozy: @shinjinidey.bsky.social on Paul Kincaid's Colourfields (@briardenebooks.bsky.social). Who doesn't love reading a critic on a critic?
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
Colourfields is constituted by tensions inherent to the genre.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New week at SH, and in Reviews we open with a doozy: @shinjinidey.bsky.social on Paul Kincaid's Colourfields (@briardenebooks.bsky.social). Who doesn't love reading a critic on a critic?
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
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NEW PODCAST ALERT!
The latest Critical Friends episode it out now!
In Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully, Dan Hartland, Paul March-Russell, and Jacqueline Nyathi discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism.
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
The latest Critical Friends episode it out now!
In Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully, Dan Hartland, Paul March-Russell, and Jacqueline Nyathi discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism.
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…
strangehorizons.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
NEW PODCAST ALERT!
The latest Critical Friends episode it out now!
In Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully, Dan Hartland, Paul March-Russell, and Jacqueline Nyathi discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism.
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
The latest Critical Friends episode it out now!
In Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully, Dan Hartland, Paul March-Russell, and Jacqueline Nyathi discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism.
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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A grotesquerie of a gothic house novel, rooted in the physical and intellectual repulsiveness of humanity.
I enjoyed it, with the caveat that it is intentionally repetitive, and TW for sexual assault and disordered eating.
Reading it felt like being trapped in a starve binge purge cycle.
I enjoyed it, with the caveat that it is intentionally repetitive, and TW for sexual assault and disordered eating.
Reading it felt like being trapped in a starve binge purge cycle.
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A grotesquerie of a gothic house novel, rooted in the physical and intellectual repulsiveness of humanity.
I enjoyed it, with the caveat that it is intentionally repetitive, and TW for sexual assault and disordered eating.
Reading it felt like being trapped in a starve binge purge cycle.
I enjoyed it, with the caveat that it is intentionally repetitive, and TW for sexual assault and disordered eating.
Reading it felt like being trapped in a starve binge purge cycle.
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I wrote this flash romance story in between books this summer and it just got published!
short-story.me/stories/roma...
I hope you’ll check it out… it will only take a minute to read!
#romancelandia
#shortstory
🌈
short-story.me/stories/roma...
I hope you’ll check it out… it will only take a minute to read!
#romancelandia
#shortstory
🌈
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I wrote this flash romance story in between books this summer and it just got published!
short-story.me/stories/roma...
I hope you’ll check it out… it will only take a minute to read!
#romancelandia
#shortstory
🌈
short-story.me/stories/roma...
I hope you’ll check it out… it will only take a minute to read!
#romancelandia
#shortstory
🌈
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Paul March-Russell on When There Are Wolves Again, in the latest episode of Critical Friends: “From a kind of Marxist revolutionary position, this book will really annoy you. But actually it is reaffirming a faith in legal, constitutional, democratic institutions.”
Radical reformism? Discuss.
Radical reformism? Discuss.
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…
www.strangehorizons.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Paul March-Russell on When There Are Wolves Again, in the latest episode of Critical Friends: “From a kind of Marxist revolutionary position, this book will really annoy you. But actually it is reaffirming a faith in legal, constitutional, democratic institutions.”
Radical reformism? Discuss.
Radical reformism? Discuss.
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The reviews are in!
The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq
reviewed by Kyle R. Garton
Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith
reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce
reviewed by Tristan Beiter
Link to the latest issue in our bio!
The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq
reviewed by Kyle R. Garton
Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith
reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce
reviewed by Tristan Beiter
Link to the latest issue in our bio!
October 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The reviews are in!
The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq
reviewed by Kyle R. Garton
Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith
reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce
reviewed by Tristan Beiter
Link to the latest issue in our bio!
The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq
reviewed by Kyle R. Garton
Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith
reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce
reviewed by Tristan Beiter
Link to the latest issue in our bio!
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Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors!
Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
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Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors!
Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
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I had such a great time with @ukpageone.bsky.social Marco and Tariq! An excellent opportunity to learn more about small presses, AND in true Italian style, my hands were all over the place! 😂
The brilliant Francesca Barbini of @lunapress.bsky.social joins us this week to talk about founding the award-winning small press, how she holds her own against the larger publishers, and how a smaller press can help authors.
Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/1umATPV1Cj8
Or listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone
Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/1umATPV1Cj8
Or listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I had such a great time with @ukpageone.bsky.social Marco and Tariq! An excellent opportunity to learn more about small presses, AND in true Italian style, my hands were all over the place! 😂
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A fantastic episode. Francesca and @lunapress.bsky.social are an amazing part of the Scottish book scene and this interview shows why.
The brilliant Francesca Barbini of @lunapress.bsky.social joins us this week to talk about founding the award-winning small press, how she holds her own against the larger publishers, and how a smaller press can help authors.
Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/1umATPV1Cj8
Or listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone
Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/1umATPV1Cj8
Or listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A fantastic episode. Francesca and @lunapress.bsky.social are an amazing part of the Scottish book scene and this interview shows why.
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Good podcast ep on my favourite part of speculative fiction: near future sf and also hopeful stories. Something we are sorely lacking in these days.
🎧New Critical Friends! It was a real pleasure to convene this talk with Paul March-Russell of @sffoundation.bsky.social and Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.bsky.social.
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…
strangehorizons.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Good podcast ep on my favourite part of speculative fiction: near future sf and also hopeful stories. Something we are sorely lacking in these days.
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Wednesday’s review over at SH continues the monstrous theme of the week, with @subham6.bsky.social on Victory Witherkeigh’s The Demon: “The novel’s soul lies in its interrogation of identity.”
The Demon by Victory Witherkeigh
The integration of Filipino mythology is this novel’s beating heart.
strangehorizons.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Wednesday’s review over at SH continues the monstrous theme of the week, with @subham6.bsky.social on Victory Witherkeigh’s The Demon: “The novel’s soul lies in its interrogation of identity.”
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For a standalone, I recommend How to Survive This Fairytale by @smhallow.bsky.social - A book I loved so much that I simply had to get the RainbowCrate edition of it as well!
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
For a standalone, I recommend How to Survive This Fairytale by @smhallow.bsky.social - A book I loved so much that I simply had to get the RainbowCrate edition of it as well!
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🦢✨ The two editions look beautiful together!! So glad you loved the book!
For a standalone, I recommend How to Survive This Fairytale by @smhallow.bsky.social - A book I loved so much that I simply had to get the RainbowCrate edition of it as well!
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🦢✨ The two editions look beautiful together!! So glad you loved the book!