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Hannah Zhang
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she/her | 21 | aroace, classics, english | stuff in JMWW, Fractured Lit, forthcoming in MONSTROUS ANGELS (Conquest Publishing) | rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social !! 🐍🪽 ERA
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Hannah Zhang @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social · May 27
Thought I should share my #editorsguide for VIVARIUM, in which a bioengineer is lured out of his haven city by a smiling glass automaton. Now under revision!

🌳 utopian ecohorror
🤖 plant-bellied robots
🏙️ generation ship city
⏳ #OWN asian/ND/aspec rep
Each of the four images in this post have the same background, a dark greenhouse with a brown path leading forward into a wall of windows. The text reads, "An editor's guide to VIVARIUM, NA ecohorror novel, written by Hannah K. Zhang, represented by Keir Alekseii." There are faint succulent designs in the background. Two textboxes on the greenhouse background. On the left: "PITCH — Nathan Hui is a bioengineer, working with his mentor to raise trees strong enough to grow in the desolate world beyond the glass-domed Metropolis. One day, a mysterious glass automaton appears in Nathan’s dreams and lures him out of the dome. In the red wasteland of the Old World, Nathan learns that the Metropolis is no longer a temporary laboratory for saving the earth, but a giant VIVARIUM—tended to by glass automata who have lost their original code." The textbox on the right reads: "SNIPPET — Its voice sounded like chiptune, that genre of music derived entirely from electronic noise. Each of its four monosyllabic words crackled with the metallic edge of outmoded technology, yet possessed almost human intention. The glass automaton spoke to me through dream-code, binary becoming breath: “Come to the edge.” I could hear the crescent sound of an unseen smile, a “love you bye” over the phone." The text at the top of the page reads, "FOR FANS OF:" with two book covers. The first is Monk and Robot (2025) by Becky Chambers, with the following text below: "the solarpunk, rewilded world and human-robot bonds of monk and robot (2025)." The second book cover is of the terraformers (2023) by Annalee Newitz, with the following text below: "the intergenerational environmentalism and anti-capitalist future of the terraformers (2023)." On the right side of the screen, a series of bullet points: "hashtag ownvoices neurodivergent, aspec, asian representation." "cli-fi with a hopeful end." "roko's basilisk." "weird automata." "breaking generational curses, chasing ancestral dreams." "finding the strength to go on in the darkest hour." on the left, a green and beige moodboard featuring a robot, greenhouses, nature, binary code, and a firefly in the center. on the right, several tumblr text posts arranged around lineart of a robotic hand reaching down to a human hand reaching up. the text posts, in order from top to bottom: "Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." next post: "never, ever, ever let the the stress of this bitch of an earth and its torment nexus stop you from making time for yaoi." next post: "you ever know someone and you think "god i love you. i wish we could've known eachother when we were carefree and 11. i wish we could've played together as kids" next post: "our fates are entwined whether you like it or not you stupid bastard"
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
i need to use bluesky more...
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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elizmanderson.com
and here's a static cover reveal post for people who want to skip the book trailer and/or hate videos! cover art by Lucy Rose

THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in July 2026, from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social! #author

preorder now: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...
the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood, framed in gold with gold flowers against a dark teal background around the edges. The cover is teal with a stag of flowers and foliage growing from a twisted tree with flowers growing around it and black ooze dripping from a branch overhead. the title "The Lord of the Wood" is in large white serif text to the left, with foliage growing through the letters closest to the tree, and the author "E.M. Anderson" is in all-caps yellow text at the bottom. the tagline, in smaller yellow text, reads, "Even a beastly woodland protector needs saving..." "When lonely clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton loses his way in an enchanted forest, he meets the hero of his childhood bedtime stories: the Lord of the Wood. But instead of the mythical figure of his dreams, the Lord of the Wood is a grim man turning into a beast and losing power over a dying forest. If they can’t save the forest before he becomes a beast completely, Arthur will lose the man he's falling for—and never see his family again." Text is in a textbox against a murky image of a forest, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood below the text, all against a dark teal background with gold curlicues in the corners. The cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood on a dark teal background with golden leaves overhead, surrounded by yellow text reading: plant magic; sentient forest trying to oops! murder people; intensely homoerotic shaving scene; the one who heard the stories and the one who was in the stories; hopeless romantic who's clueless about his own sexuality; Beauty & the Beast inspired by not a retelling; dual-POV brother/sister; love interest turning slowly into a beast; wound-tending.
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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d-s-saavedra.bsky.social
HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X THE WOODS ALL BLACK

As the lies of his religious order begin to unravel, Thay must rely on the stranger Elio to find a cure to the curse that will turn him into a Beast.

🐑Trans MC
🫀Cannibalism
🐑Poly monster romance
🫀Trans rage

#DvPit #TV #OWN #A #H
October 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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tacc.org.uk
We can not stress the importance of resisting this.

Share and sign this petition:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
September 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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thesuiway.bsky.social
please spread the news far and wide!!

librarians and booksellers, THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now on Netgalley!
The Iron Garden Sutra
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
www.netgalley.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
the We The People fundraiser has begun!! I donated a first chapter critique, and there are so many more amazing items to bid on for a great cause!

www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...
August 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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thesuiway.bsky.social
happy ✨cover✨ day (and some reading material for ya!)
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jul 9
Vessel likes meeting people. They just often happen to be dead when he gets there.

We are thrilled to reveal the cover (and an excerpt!) of @thesuiway.bsky.social's The Iron Garden Sutra, out from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social on February 24, 2026!

reactormag.com/cover-reveal...
Revealing The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui - Reactor
A spaceship murder mystery — arriving February 2026 from Erewhon Books!
reactormag.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
MY MISERABLE DIVINE BODY HORROR NOVELLA FREAKS!! thank u so much lin for taking my comm!! 😭💕💕
qiliin.bsky.social lin 📌PRINTS FOR 🇵🇸🍉 @qiliin.bsky.social · Jun 26
[ #originalcharacters ]

#commission for @/hannahhzhangg on twitter of their OCs Tiro and Metu ❤️
An illustration of @hannahhzhangg's OCs Tiro and Metu. Tiro is a young man with fair skin and short dirty blonde hair, he's wearing a red tunic with a brown messenger bag, he's taller than Metu who's a young man with pale skin and wavy brown hair, wearing a long black cloak. They both look worried and hiding behind a wall. Tiro is holding Metu by the shoulders and Meto is pressed against his chest.
June 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
a lot of technological "progress" is just thinly disguised neo-colonialism. the desire to discover a new thing aka conquer new territory, the desire to create and harness "artificial intelligence" aka enslave captive bodies. it is so insanely obvious im at a loss for words. lol.
June 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
Thought I should share my #editorsguide for VIVARIUM, in which a bioengineer is lured out of his haven city by a smiling glass automaton. Now under revision!

🌳 utopian ecohorror
🤖 plant-bellied robots
🏙️ generation ship city
⏳ #OWN asian/ND/aspec rep
Each of the four images in this post have the same background, a dark greenhouse with a brown path leading forward into a wall of windows. The text reads, "An editor's guide to VIVARIUM, NA ecohorror novel, written by Hannah K. Zhang, represented by Keir Alekseii." There are faint succulent designs in the background. Two textboxes on the greenhouse background. On the left: "PITCH — Nathan Hui is a bioengineer, working with his mentor to raise trees strong enough to grow in the desolate world beyond the glass-domed Metropolis. One day, a mysterious glass automaton appears in Nathan’s dreams and lures him out of the dome. In the red wasteland of the Old World, Nathan learns that the Metropolis is no longer a temporary laboratory for saving the earth, but a giant VIVARIUM—tended to by glass automata who have lost their original code." The textbox on the right reads: "SNIPPET — Its voice sounded like chiptune, that genre of music derived entirely from electronic noise. Each of its four monosyllabic words crackled with the metallic edge of outmoded technology, yet possessed almost human intention. The glass automaton spoke to me through dream-code, binary becoming breath: “Come to the edge.” I could hear the crescent sound of an unseen smile, a “love you bye” over the phone." The text at the top of the page reads, "FOR FANS OF:" with two book covers. The first is Monk and Robot (2025) by Becky Chambers, with the following text below: "the solarpunk, rewilded world and human-robot bonds of monk and robot (2025)." The second book cover is of the terraformers (2023) by Annalee Newitz, with the following text below: "the intergenerational environmentalism and anti-capitalist future of the terraformers (2023)." On the right side of the screen, a series of bullet points: "hashtag ownvoices neurodivergent, aspec, asian representation." "cli-fi with a hopeful end." "roko's basilisk." "weird automata." "breaking generational curses, chasing ancestral dreams." "finding the strength to go on in the darkest hour." on the left, a green and beige moodboard featuring a robot, greenhouses, nature, binary code, and a firefly in the center. on the right, several tumblr text posts arranged around lineart of a robotic hand reaching down to a human hand reaching up. the text posts, in order from top to bottom: "Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." next post: "never, ever, ever let the the stress of this bitch of an earth and its torment nexus stop you from making time for yaoi." next post: "you ever know someone and you think "god i love you. i wish we could've known eachother when we were carefree and 11. i wish we could've played together as kids" next post: "our fates are entwined whether you like it or not you stupid bastard"
May 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
does anyone know how i can pitch a resident evil game idea to capcom because oh my god
May 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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soumiroy1.bsky.social
The auction is LIVE!
We have incredible items up for grabs—from signed copies of rare and fabulous books to agent critiques and more.
Please check it out, boost, share, and participate if you can. Every bit helps!
www.32auctions.com/HelpSoumiReb...
Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction
Silent auction 'Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
May 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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keiralekseii.bsky.social
If the bid for my item comes in over $250 I'll make it query, synopsis, and first 50 pages instead of 10 and the call can be 45min instead of 30!
soumiroy1.bsky.social Soumi Roy 🇮🇳🇰🇷🏳️‍🌈 @soumiroy1.bsky.social · May 10
The auction is LIVE!
We have incredible items up for grabs—from signed copies of rare and fabulous books to agent critiques and more.
Please check it out, boost, share, and participate if you can. Every bit helps!
www.32auctions.com/HelpSoumiReb...
Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction
Silent auction 'Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
haven't been on bsky for a while oops but. BOOK!
the word end in black text on white background in all caps
April 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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lorian.bsky.social
LESS THAN 24 HOURS LEFT to back the first volume of my illustrated gay novel on KS!! 🐎✨🐎 We've unlocked two extra bonus prints for all physical backers! If we hit that super elusive stretchiest of goals then everyone gets a digital audiobook for FREE!!
lorian.bsky.social Lorian Merriman @ m/m novel kickstarter!!!! @lorian.bsky.social · Mar 11
FOR A HORSE AND HORSEMAN Volume 1 is now LIVE on Kickstarter!

A printed/ebook edition of my M/M gay & trans original fantasy webnovel featuring 14 full-page B/W illustrations and 55 unique chapter insets (and a fantasy map~)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lon...
🐎✨🐎✨🐎

Thank you for checking it out!
promo graphic for the FAHAH Vol 1 kickstarter showing Cemil and Osmund lying side by side
April 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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roannelau.bsky.social
🎉 I AM OFFICIALLY A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!! 🎉

My book The Serpent Called Mercy has officially hit shelves in North America (UK/Commonwealth tomorrow)! This is a dream come true for me, and I’m so grateful.

Here’s my very last unboxing video to celebrate:
March 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
honestly something wholesome that i think abt was when i was deep in my zelda phase in middle school, and i was in the elevator up to the children's hospital carrying one of the manga volumes under my arm. there was another boy there who saw it, and he whistled the zelda theme 😭 i was so happy
February 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
gotta remember to crosspost here too 😭

i wrote the Hardest Part of vivarium and now everything is gonna come so naturally and be so devastating im gonna cry out of joy RAHHHHH I LOVE WRITIIIING
February 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
Blast this out to every PTA in America
danagoldstein.bsky.social Dana Goldstein @danagoldstein.bsky.social · Feb 13
1. Scoop: DOGE staffers embedded in the Education Department plan a new role for generative A.I., interacting with kids and parents who have questions about student aid, and potentially replacing many human call center workers www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
DOGE Proposes A.I. Bot as Replacement for Financial Aid Help
A new chatbot would answer questions from student borrowers. The idea comes from staffers with ties to the tech industry as they push further into the agency’s work.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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parkermolloy.com
I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history.

How fucking dare they

Old vs. new
"By the time of Stonewall...we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later... 1500." Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGBTQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement. Stonewall National Monument New York INFO ALERTS MAPS CALENDAR FEES Pass "By the time of Stonewall...we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later... 1500." Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement.
February 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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gwenvines.writes.fyi
ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN
🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/
⚛️engineering magic
🤌obsessive yearning
🚨unreliable narrator
📻corrupted magic tech
🩺ethical dilemmas
🩻body horror
🏆dangerous magic duels
🛠️blacksmith biceps
🌿strange plants
👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them
#questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H
A moodboard in dark tones, featuring a painting of a blond man with chin length hair in a green shirt at the center, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull can be seen. The images around him are of a university campus with gothic architecture, dark flowers and ferns, chemistry glassware, a ring of sparks, a river delta, machinery, anatomical images, and a smithy. Text on it reads "THE BODY ABHORS A STRAIGHT LINE. FATE DOES NOT STRIKE IN A STRAIGHT LINE."
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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fosterja8.bsky.social
IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP

A retired explorer, torn between the fear of losing his wife and a desire to return to the wild, fixates on a towering, imprisoned forest.
Driven by an esoteric rumour, he heads for the forest.

And he will regret every choice from then on...
#questpit #W #SF #T #agentsguide
IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP AGENT'S GUIDE IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP PITCH IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP BOOK COMPS IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP MOOD BOARD
February 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
MONK & ROBOT x UNTO LEVIATHAN

Nathan learns that the Metropolis--a glass-domed haven city--is actually a giant VIVARIUM, nurtured by automata who have lost their original code. #QuestPit #SF #NA #W

🌿 woodland utopia horror
🏙️ generation ship city
🤖 sentient glass robots
🧬 bioengineering hope
a square moodboard bordered on the left by a desolate red landscape, and on the right by a bright cityscape with trees in the foreground. six rectangular boxes in the center, clockwise from top left: the title VIVARIUM and the subtitle "sci-fi/ecohorror novella by hannah zhang" on top of an outlined succulent pot on a white background; a white lineart sun over a photograph of large leaves from below; a white text box with text reading "the anthem of the gardens was old world music: booming power ballads for the still-living earth" over a green-outlined globe; several sprouting plants drawn by one continuous white line over dark dewy leaves; a white text box with text reading "the automaton spoke to me through dream-code, binary becoming breath" over faint green binary numbers; a robotic and a human hand drawn with continuous lines meeting over shy leaf plants. the corners of the border sections have some hexagonal patterns. overly intricate moodboard with nine squares set on a white background. the leftmost row is green and brown themed, centering around a young desi woman summarized as "PETRA NOOR, metropolitan institute of medicine: med student who sleeps well, black cat, matcha latte." the middle row is blue and white themed, centering around a young east asian man summarized as "NATHAN HUI, metropolitan institute of bioengineering: nepo baby slash god pawn bio major, white cat, chamomile tea." the rightmost row is yellow and brown themed, centering around a young caucasian man summarized as "LEO MORGAN, metropolitan institute of mathematical sciences: blonde himbo compsci major, golden retriever, lemon soda." the bottommost box in petra's row is a green-themed studying aesthetic, nathan's is a blue-themed cozy bedroom aesthetic, and leo's is two lemon slushie drinks on a summery garden shelf. there is truly not enough space to describe everything else, i'm so sorry. two rows of text in translucent green text boxes. left box is titled "serious snippets," with the following snippets: "it was just a dream. this city of ours was still breathing." "if we didn't save it in time, i was to inherit a dead earth--and after all his toil, dr. morgan deserved better than to pass that on to me." "i felt the hollow presence of the glass vials in my pocket, weightless like cicada shells. i was searching for tumors." the right box is titled "unserious snippets," with the followingn snippets: "we hadn't expected to be found by the milkmen, and we definitely hadn't expected one of them to invite us to lunch." "why am i always naked in these freaky dreams?" "if i ran there and back fast enough, my friends would just think i'd shit myself breathless." "what are you, my dad?" there are six images behind the text boxes. clockwise from top left: inside a greenhouse, a set of yellow stairs, a forest, blue glass, a country road, and a city reflected over a body of water.
February 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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questpit.bsky.social
We’re prepping for #questpit on the 12th!! come join us later today (12:30 est) for a q&a to meet some other pitchers!
a light blue background with white silhouettes of pine trees and snow. in the top right corner there are christmas lights and in the middle is a puppy in a mug and below that is black writing that reads: “#questpit Q&A Join us today at 12:30 EST to introduce your wips to the community and prepare for Feb. 12th!”
February 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
does anyone know any fantasy lit mags/little presses that take like 22-23k word novelettes/novellas...asking for me
February 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM