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jay kang romanus
@jelliclejay.bsky.social
he/him 🏳️‍🌈 sffh writer, big fan of the separation between fiction and reality. editor of DUDES ROCK (the circus '25), short stories in anathema: spec from the margins, prismatica magazine, and more 🔞
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we rly did it guys im gonna cry 🥹 my baby is out in the world now, and i feel so lucky to have gotten this opportunity. i'm deeply proud of this anthology; it's everything i could've ever hoped it would be, and frankly i think the world needed a book like this! queer joy! queer men being dudes!!
Our new anthology DUDES ROCK, edited by @jelliclejay.bsky.social with assistance from @audriserat.bsky.social, is out now ❤️‍🔥✨

From buff aliens to gender-affirming werewolf bites, this anthology is about celebrating everything that queer masculinity can be, and we want you to rock with us!
there are more serious problems with generative ai but the one that upsets me on the most visceral level is it being used to create cute animal contentslop. destroying THEIR environment and using their innocent likenesses and they don't even KNOW it makes me nauseous
November 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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DUDES ROCK: A CELEBRATION OF QUEER MASCULINITY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION, is an anthology of short stories, edited by @jelliclejay.bsky.social, and my contribution has sexy Jews in space.

What does masculinity mean to you?

Available in eBook or paperback here: www.amazon.co.uk/Dudes-Rock-C...
November 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Hello! My name is Johannes T. Evans (he/him), and I am a gay, transgender, disabled author of fantasy, romance, horror, and erotic fiction based in West Yorkshire.

I write a huge array of fiction and non-fiction, and lots of it is available to read for FREE on my website:

www.johannestevans.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
messy eater
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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I am usually in the camp of 'all reading is good' but in some very rare cases an absolute dunderhead will pick up a book and be like "the hobbits are a direct endorsement of fascist racial supremacy" and I don't think it's really helping them or anyone else, like maybe reading actually isn't for you
October 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
i can't believe i got to see plane jane, mistress isabelle brooks, irene the alien, and TRIXIE MATTEL all at the same halloween show. i love boston!!
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
WOOO so proud to have a story in this now award-winning anthology
Australasian Shadows Awards 2024
Edited Works:

The Winner is:
Death in the Mouth Vol2:
By Sloane Leong and Cassie Hart

#AustralasianShadows Awards 2024 #CSFG #Conflux
October 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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omggg we won AGAIN!!! so proud of our book, the artists and writers that contributed fiction and illustrations did not pull their punches, just killer work every page 😈

Art here by @jeffreykam.bsky.social, Cho-Hyun Kim, BOLZAK (Arturo Mestre), and @leslekieuart.bsky.social 🔥
October 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Have read some of this. You WANT this book in the world. Someone pick this up, it's the good shit.
SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS

BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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this sounds amazing as hell (complimentary)
SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS

BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS

BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Didn't realize I was into gay trucker apocalypse cult stories until just now
October 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
they're calling me stupid on twitter they're saying my brain must leak out of my ears when i sleep
October 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Elton is running, he just can't remember from what. When he runs into lonely trucker Beck, they learn together what it takes to rebuild a person, but dark things from his fractured past are on his trail. Remembering may destroy him, but what he's forgotten may destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Jay has such a compelling narrative voice and his passion is so clear in everything he writes!! I’m still working my way through the manuscript bc I’m a slow reader </3 but already it is such a strong work of horror, cannot recommend him and Blessed Be The Flesh enough!
Lonely trucker Beck knows that beautiful boys are trouble, so he can’t be too surprised when picking up an attractive amnesiac cult escapee off the side of the road plunges him into a battle for the world’s survival.

#DVpit #OWN #POC #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
this novel is gloomy and hypnotic and everything anyone could want from an appalachian gothic horror (abusive dads, fucked up animals, and everything else)
FOR OLD TIME’S SAKE follows Buck’s return to his home in the foothills of Appalachia after his sister is killed by a cougar. Haunted by their dead father and relentlessly called to the woods by talking animals, Buck must arrange her funeral before he becomes a ghost himself. #DVpit #H #A #LGBT #TV
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Lonely trucker Beck knows that beautiful boys are trouble, so he can’t be too surprised when picking up an attractive amnesiac cult escapee off the side of the road plunges him into a battle for the world’s survival.

#DVpit #OWN #POC #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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The internet created space for people to put words to their queerness and find community where they feel they can't find it irl, but I worry this is a stopgap that keeps many in a kind of arrested development who would pre-internet be forced to go out and find in person community
October 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
can someone give me sixty five american dollars so i can submit my anthology to the lammys 🙏
September 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
crazy to query a magazine about a submission and get hit with the "OBVIOUSLY we've finished selecting for this issue" lol. if it was obvious then i wouldn't be querying now would i?
September 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
petty queers, sad boys, and big diaspora feelings are all things i think my followers are experts in 👀
hit me with the 2025 SFF short stories you have been vibing with!

especially interested right now in petty queers and sad boys and big diaspora feelings
September 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
can u believe the government is trying to distract us from the much more important news that foundation was renewed for s4???
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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New at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: Gretchen Felker-Martin speaks out about DC Comics cancelling Red Hood, and her comments on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "I had no regrets."
September 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Let me get this straight:

2 elected Democratic officials in Minnesota murdered 2 months ago - hardly any coverage

Charlie Kirk murdered 2 hours ago - nationwide attention and our Nazi leader advocating for flags at half mast for it

School shooting moments after Kirk's death - *crickets*
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
lol at a leftist irl posting “remember before posting anti-gun propaganda that it was initially used to disarm the black panthers.” crazy to see such a clear representation of the political equivalent of sitting at the kiddie table
September 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM