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Rainbow Crate
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🌈 Special, exclusive editions of LGBTQIA+ books
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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 27d
Have you ever wanted to leave all your responsibilities behind? Get ready to be swept away on thrilling adventures!

The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our December 2025 theme is…

🏃‍♀️ RUN AWAY WITH ME ⛺️

Read on to learn more! 🧵
A gray graphic with a multitude of stamps of famous architectural landmarks depicted. The stamps are in blue, purple, yellow, orange and red colors. The theme text says Run Away With Me in between the stamps. Text at the top says "Rainbow Crate Presents" in a box with a rainbow logo in between Rainbow Crate. Text at the bottom reads "- December 2025 Theme -".
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🌈 Today is a good day to buy some queer special editions from our sale!
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🌈 December Renewal Reminder!

Renewal day is December 1st, 2025 and all subscribers will be charged! There’s about three days left to skip your December renewal if you would like to. 🧵
A photo of a left hand holding out our edition of Of Love and Libraries in front of an assortment of colorful pumpkins on a wooden patch. Text at the bottom of the image reads “Dec Renewal Reminder” in white font with an orange outline.
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Last night was a whirlwind. FINALLY @spookyxpickle.bsky.social and @wctracy.bsky.social funded! Which leaves us with just THREE more projects to fund for 100% funded rate. We've got a week. New tiers and options have been added!
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November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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🌈 It’s time for our BIGGEST SALE of the year!

Quantities are limited, sale ends on Wednesday December 3rd at 10:59 PM CT. This is the perfect time to grab any holiday gifts! Orders for past boxes and items will ship out within 1-2 business days. 🧵
A photo featuring all the books from full boxes in the Black Friday sale available. Twenty books are laid out in a grid of four rows with five book covers each. In the middle is a branded Rainbow Crate box. The text on the image reads “Black Friday Starts Now!” in white font with a fuchsia shadow. The text is split into two lines with “Black Friday” above the box, and “Starts Now!” underneath the box. Books pictured Top row: Of Love & Libraries, Fragments of a Fallen Star, Peter Darling, It's a Queer Queer Summer, Veil us in Gold. Second row: Upside Down, Royal Rescue, Uncharted, Far From Neverland, Of Tides & Snow. Third row: Demon King's Gardner Vol 1-3, The Golden Apple Duet, The Musician & the Monster, Outdrawn, You & I Rewritten. Fourth row: The First & Last Demon, Faces, Where the River Meets the Soul, The Flowered Blade, The Pendragon Wytch.
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Extending this to today; last day to add books!!
rainbowcrate.bsky.social Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 6d
🌈 Do you or someone you know have an Dec queer book release? Indie or Trad books! Add it by Nov 25th! (No AI books or covers)

Include:
-title & author (& series name)
-release date
-Cover image/link
-Cover artist/designer

🏳️‍🌈 We will be adding these to our new release list!
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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🌈 Are you ready for our BIGGEST SALE of the year!?

Starting Wednesday November 26th at 8 AM CT, we are hosting a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. Join our newsletter now, to get a reminder when the sale goes live! 🧵
A graphic announcing the Black Friday Sale. The graphic has a white brick background with a golden rectangle frame. At the top is black text that reads “Rainbow Crate’s”. In the middle is text that reads “Black Friday Sale” in vertical pastel rainbow stripes with a black outline. At the bottom is black text that reads “Starts Wednesday 26 Nov at 8 AM CT”.
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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🌈 Do you or someone you know have an Dec queer book release? Indie or Trad books! Add it by Nov 25th! (No AI books or covers)

Include:
-title & author (& series name)
-release date
-Cover image/link
-Cover artist/designer

🏳️‍🌈 We will be adding these to our new release list!
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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🌈 Introducing our Book 2 feature for December! 🎉

We are so excited to feature this sci-fi tale about an android who will do anything to keep himself from being recycled. Welcome to Static Crush by Alistair Reeves @kataraqui.bsky.social 🧵
A graphic that reads “December Book 2 Spotlight” along the top with a Rainbow logo to the left of it. Underneath it is a search bar with a mic icon that says “Rainbow Crate’s edition of Static Crush by Alistair Ree…” Underneath it is a 3D book with the cover displayed. To the right it has the Featuring section of the caption displayed with the following text underneath EXCLUSIVES: “- First Time in Print - Redesigned Dust Jacket (Not Shown) w/ Orange, Teal & Gold Foils & Spot Gloss - Illustrated Hardcase w/ Silver Oil Slick Foil - Black & White Art Endpages (Different Front & Back) - Printed Edges - Full Color Art Gallery - Signed by the Author” At the top and bottom of the text area are light blue arrows with dark blue outlines pointing towards the book. Surrounding the graphic is a blue ombre striped border.
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Today's the day! Here is the cover for the paperback edition of METROPOLIS DOWN! Done by the amazing @kjetll.bsky.social, it is everything that I wanted and more besides.

Pre-Order today at: ko-fi.com/vesperdoom
A black, green, and red swirled space background with two men in the foreground. The one on the left is a broad man with curly brown hair, freckles, a beard, and green eyes. He is wearing a dark blue jacket with golden cuffs and collar open over a black shirt and pants. He has an arm circled around the man on the left’s head. The man on the left is upside down. He is slender and has tawny skin, black hair, and brown eyes. He is wearing all black with cutouts on his shoulders. Below the figures are the words: METROPOLIS DOWN and VESPER DOOM.
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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🌈 It’s time to announce our September Where the Magic Happens photo challenge winners!

Winners, please send an email to hello@rainbowcratebookbox.com with your username, and what you’ve won to claim your prize.

Blue Sky:
@embermoto.bsky.social

Threads:
@/Evander_Thorne
A graphic of a red brick wall with a white door in the middle. Magic and glowing affects surround the door. The top box has the RC logo and “Where the Magic Happens photo/video challenge”. “Where the Happens” is in a red metallic serif font, “magic” is in a rainbow script font with a glow over the i and “photo/video challenge” is in bold black font. Over this is a black overlay and a left to right diagonal banner rainbow outline. Inside the banner is white background, and in black font it reads “Photo Challenge Winners!”.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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#rcsept25 #RainbowCrate
October 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Okay, take two. THIS is the official calendar for the 2025 #DecemberTransReadathon!

Readjusted for better readability on mobile 🩷
2025 December trans readathon calendae
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our recommendation post for next month’s theme!

Here are twenty books that we think also fit the December theme of Run Away With Me! These are a mix of Adult and Young Adult titles. 🧵
Twenty books in four rows: the first and fourth row have six book covers which stretch across the entire width of the graphic. Rows two and three have four books with two on each side. In the middle of these is a diagonal purple-pink ombre background. A Rainbow Crate logo with no text is at the top. Text below reads “December 2025 Run Away With Me Book Recs” in all caps. “Run Away With Me” is in a yellow neon font, while all other text is white.
November 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
rainbowcrate.bsky.social
🌈 Do you or someone you know have an Dec queer book release? Indie or Trad books! Add it by Nov 25th! (No AI books or covers)

Include:
-title & author (& series name)
-release date
-Cover image/link
-Cover artist/designer

🏳️‍🌈 We will be adding these to our new release list!
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
rainbowcrate.bsky.social
🌈 Introducing our Book 1 feature for December! 🎉

We are so excited to feature this cozy fantasy romance about carving out your own space where you belong. Welcome to Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne @rebeccathorne.bsky.social 🧵
A graphic that reads “December Book 1 Spotlight” along the top with a Rainbow logo to the left of it. Underneath it is a search bar with a mic icon that says “Rainbow Crate’s edition of Can’t Spell Treason Withou…” Underneath it is a 3D book with the cover displayed. To the right it has the Featuring section of the caption displayed with the following text underneath EXCLUSIVES: “- Redesigned Dust Jacket (Not Shown) w/ Iridescent Gloss & Spot Gloss - Illustrated Hardcase - Art Endpages - Printed Edges - Bonus Short Story (Non- Exclusive) & Art Gallery - Signed by the Author” At the top and bottom of the text area are deep red arrows with forest green outlines pointing towards the book. Surrounding the graphic is a forest green - deep red ombre striped border.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our monthly new release call! We are looking for queer books releasing any time during December. Self, Indie and Trad published books are accepted!

Any book with a queer POV character counts for our lists regardless of pairing. 🧵
A graphic with a background made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. A white square sits inside the diagonal rainbow with text reading "Send us your December queer book releases". The text is in black all caps font while December is in green all caps font. Below this in a smaller horizontal rainbow font with a black outline is text that reads “fill out the form in our bio”.
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! We have some shop updates for you today. November RC and Alpha of Mortal Flesh have both shipped, our Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale is coming soon, and we’ll be revealing our special edition set of the Fair Oaks duology in early December. 🧵
A photo of a Rainbow Crate box, the October spoiler card, Make Room for Love and And They Were Roommates. Make Room for Love is on the left side, while And They Were Roommates is on the right side. The spoiler card sits in between the two books. Each book is laid out displaying the dust jacket and the hardcase. Everything sits on a medium brown wood surface. Text at the bottom of the photo reads “Shop Updates” in all caps white font with a purple outline.
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! To celebrate Nonbinary November, we’ve put together a guide of all the special editions we’ve done this far with nonbinary main characters. Some of these characters use other sublabels under the nonbinary umbrella. 🧵
A graphic with a background made up of the nonbinary flag which has four stripes: yellow, white, purple and black. Overlaid is a translucent white rectangle in the middle with a thin white outline surrounding it. Text reads “10 nonbinary books for nonbinary november!”. The 10 is in nonbinary flag colors while the text below alternates the nonbinary colors.
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for the July Hoist the Colors photo challenge! Today we’re featuring book 2: Peter Darling by S.A. Chant @essaychant.bsky.social 🧵
The dust jacket laid out above the full naked hard case. Dark blue flowers sit at each corner of the dust jacket. Pale orange flowers sit at each corner of the hardcase. Everything lies on a white brick background.
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our final artist reveal for the December Run Away With Me crate! Next up is Mali @minemikomali.bsky.social who illustrated the dust jacket for Static Crush by Alistair Reeves @kataraqui.bsky.social 🧵
A quartet of illustrations arranged in quadrants of the graphic. Surrounding the graphic is a pastel rainbow ombre striped border. In the center it reads “Artist Spotlight: @minemikomali.bsky.social”. Artist Spotlight is in black font while the handle is in forest green font.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🌈 Hey, Reading Rainbows! It’s almost time for our October Help, My Roommate’s Hot! photo challenge, which starts on November 22nd! This is your reminder to get your photos and/or videos ready! 🧵
A graphic with a pink background with white polka dots. In the middle is an image of lip biting. The top box has the RC logo and “Help, My Roommate’s Hot! photo/video challenge”. “Help, My Roommate’s Hot!” is in a red serif font with yellow and blue accents and “photo/video challenge” is in bold black font. The middle box has the schedule transcribed above. The bottom box has the last two paragraphs of text in the caption. All text is in black font except for the dates in the middle and the hashtags at the bottom which are dark red.
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Get in there folks! This project looks amazing and who amongst us doesn’t like lesbian SFF?!?
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for the July Hoist the Colors photo challenge! Today we’re featuring book 1: Fragments of a Fallen Star by Viano Oniomoh @vianoniomoh.bsky.social 🧵
The dust jacket laid out above the full naked hard case. Dark blue flowers sit at each corner of the dust jacket. Yellow-gold flowers sit at each corner of the hardcase. Everything lies on a white brick background.
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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✨ Featured A-Spec Small Business: The Armoured Artist ✨
Looking for queer chainmail? Teigan incorporates Pride flags into handmade earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and other accessories. Proudly ace, trans, biracial & disabled, he also hosts a weekly crafternoon! @teigan-tulsie.bsky.social
Featured A-spec Small Business: The Armoured Artist (Teigan). Main picture is of a market stall with jewelry displays and a rainbow tablecloth. 2 small inset pictures show close-ups of a Sunset Flag bracelet and an Asexual pendant. Connect on Instagram/TikTok @teigan_tulsie | Bluesky @teigan-tulsie.bsky.social Three upcoming markets (all in Calgary): Nov 15-16, 10am-5pm, Holiday Geeky Market, BMO Centre Nov 22, 11am-4pm, Starry Dynamo Arts Market, Royal Canadian Legion Dec 7, 11am-5pm, HoHoHomo Holigay Market Extravaganza, Genesis Centre Gym Or buy online at thearmouredartist.etsy.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM