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Luke :)
@lukejsuth.bsky.social
writer, librarian, publisher

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REMINDER! We are open for submissions until Feb. 7 for our next anthology, IDOLS. See our previous posts for more prompts, ideas, and manifestations about the theme 🥀
January 4, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Submissions are OPEN for Issue 02: IDOLS!

Send your best work on saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations to info@lilacperil.com until February 7

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December 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Favorite books, films, and albums of the year in no particular order :)
December 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I saw Happiness (1998) alone at AFI this year. Someone in the back laughed so hard at ….let’s just say a certain scene starring Dylan Baker…. that everyone else in the theater became palpably upset. You could cut the discomfort with a knife
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?

Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This will be fun :) dew drop is the best bar in the city baby
We’ll be at Dew Drop vending for Dyke the Halls next week! 🎁🎁🎁
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Vanity plate idea: TRAUMA
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Yes… ha ha ha… YES!
Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
🕯️conjuring your submissions🕯️
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN, BABY

Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS

Send work to submissions@lilacperil.com until February 7

Expected pub: late 2026
December 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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In addition, I am honored to announce our two nominees for the 2025 Indie Press of the Year award.

Congratulations to @littlepuss.net and @lilacperil.bsky.social, two indie trans presses who showcased excellence and innovation in transfeminine publishing in 2025.
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A deer sleeping outside my bedroom window this morning 🤍
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I’m speaking at this wonderful event at GMU on Thursday <3 watershedlit.gmu.edu/events/17561
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Thinking about Them
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I let myself be queeny around other ftms in a way that often feels locked up around other people—that is something I really love about us, f*ggots of our own making keeping each other company
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
🥲 this means a lot to me actually
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
It’s been a hard few months and it’s felt like I haven’t had the energy to celebrate the book properly, but a reading like this makes me really fucking proud of what @submorstua.bsky.social and I made 🖤

lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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After three straight months of research and reading, I have FINALLY reached the last book for the 2025 Start Here page 😭🙏

It's @lilacperil.bsky.social's second short story collection, let's bring this thing home!!
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Once again asking! Small press especially welcome. This is for a series of mini reviews in the spring issue of a journal
People in the know - what trans horror is coming out in 2026? Besides Persona
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I have a short little essay out now in Seventh Wave Magazine about thylacines and writing 🦴 the art is a collage I made a few years ago! theseventhwave.org/insights-on-...
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
People in the know - what trans horror is coming out in 2026? Besides Persona
October 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The person doing acoustic covers at the dog Halloween parade did not sing the little “awooo” during She Wolf. I’m seeing red
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I’m taking away the word performative until we can all behave ourselves
October 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is in one week :) free and virtual!
The workshop is virtual and free and that means 🫵YOU🫵 can attend www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-writ...
October 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM