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👀 My dark epic #mmfantasy of singing monster hunters hit the Top 100 again!

See why readers say series is "Dark Fantasy at its best" while it's still on KU:
👉 suncatcherpress.com/get-SoaSL1

#🌈📚 #mmromance #GayRomance #MMReaders #gaybooksky #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #romantasy 🌈💜 🌈📚 📚🌎

A heart drawn around the rank #72 flag, over an Amazon listing for The Dancing Tree (Songs of a Sunless Land #1) by J.A. Skald, along with an ereader featuring the clinch cover, and trope arrows listing Complete Trilogy, Grumpy/Sunshine, Sword & Sorcery, Hurt/Comfort, Dark Folklore Adventure, Epic Dark Fantasy, Disability Rep, & There Was Only One Bed. Showing a rating of 4 stars & priced $4.99 USD (as of this posting)
Also shown is "What readers are saying about Songs of a Sunless Land" and reviewer quotes: dark and distinctive | amazing worldbuilding | entrancing | Unique premise and wonderful characters | I immensely enjoyed it | compelling | Dark Fantasy at its best | pick up this series if this is your genre. You will be glad you did

December 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM

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🌈📚 CJ Pines + J.A. Skald 🏳️‍🌈 Author

@suncatcherpress.com

🎅💝MM Reading Roundup: Festive Feels!🎁☃️

Songs of a Sunless Land: Hymns of Winter 1-3
❄️ suncatcherpress.com/get-SoaSL1

Go the Long Way
🎅 suncatcherpress.com/get-CH-GtLW

Bully Boys
🎄 suncatcherpress.com/get-BB1

#🌈📚 #mmfantasy #mmromance #GayRomance #MMReaders #mmromancebooks #mmbooksky #lgbtqbooks

6 eReaders facing front, with alt covers angled behind featuring two themes:

[XMAS Traditions]
+ Chance's Harbor: Go the Long Way
+ Bully Boys 1: Fresh

[Winter Vibes]
+ The Dancing Tree (Songs of a Sunless Land: Hymns of Winter #1)
+ The Shattered Isles (Songs of a Sunless Land: Hymns of Winter #2)
+ The Hollow Palace (Songs of a Sunless Land: Hymns of Winter #3)
+ Under Ghostfire Mountain (Tales of a Sunless Land)

Other UI elements include:
"FREE in KU!"
"Discover all the covers & more at SuncatcherPress.com/Kickstarter"

& all atop a sparkly red background

December 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM

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burt ☭

@refreshingtime.bsky.social

lwaxana troi being hounded by a ferengi with the dril tweet "using mindfulness. to waste my enemies"

December 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM

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Gabino Iglesias

@gabino.bsky.social

Here’s some Ulla Thynell art to make your Sunday a little better.

December 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM

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Neon Hemlock

@neonhemlock.bsky.social

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.

Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.

<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.

www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

December 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM

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KJ Shepherd

@kjshepherd.bsky.social

It's your birthday, Duane.

Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..."

There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel

Duane Puryear died in 1991.

December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️

@fiadh.bsky.social

important

December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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Stefanie 🏳️‍⚧️

@foxenlock.bsky.social

BEHOLD the trans army of Nutcrackers!

A group of Christmas nutcrackers arranged on a shop shelf. They’re coloured in pink, blue and white with a bit of yellow

November 24, 2024 at 1:12 PM

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Martin Nutbeem

@martinnutbeem.bsky.social

Ban this sick filth.

The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · Dec 19

also, as is tradition, we will be soliciting some unsolicited solicited duck pics on Tues 6 Jan for next year's #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay. so, see you then. if you give a duck

December 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM

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Niranjan 🇮🇳

@ormakal.bsky.social

Also look at what @janjanartsss.bsky.social created for me! Omfg, I'm so much in love!

Suyodhana from The Mahabharata wearing armour and holding a mace with a paddy field in the background

December 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM

🌈📚 CJ Pines + J.A. Skald 🏳️‍🌈 Author

@suncatcherpress.com

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

December 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM

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Kody

@kodyisover.com

I think everyone should set aside some time to read Julie's incredible comic here about making comics, and then check out her new webcomic, Grand Adventure Yonder!!!!

Julie Mapes @justjuliejam.bsky.social · Dec 19

STORY TIME! (1/5)

December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM

🌈📚 CJ Pines + J.A. Skald 🏳️‍🌈 Author

@suncatcherpress.com

Songs of a Sunless Land trilogy in paperbacks & hardbacks

It's penciled in on my calendar, I just need to actually export the new editions, update InDesign files with all the new splash art, maps, bonus material, etc, & package 'em up w/ the new cover art. Oh & figure out who does sprayed edges 🤩

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.com · Dec 19

#pretendpanel, I can't believe it's only been a week, it feels like longer! Tell me...

December 19th: Is there a tangible achievement you want to reach in 2026?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#pretendpanel
a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social
December 19th: Is there a tangible achievement you want to reach in 2026?
Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts
New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!

December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM

🌈📚 CJ Pines + J.A. Skald 🏳️‍🌈 Author

@suncatcherpress.com

Holiday travel, a Christmas present, my new cane - who cares why, Go the Long Way is on sale for the first time in ages!

Grab yours now:
🎁 suncatcherpress.com/get-CH-GtLW

#🌈📚 #mmromance #GayRomance #MMReaders #gaybooksky #mmromancebooks #mmbooksky #spicyreads #spicybooks #WeekendReads 🌈💜 🌶️📚 🌈📚 📚🌎

two ereaders featuring the alt covers for Chance's Harbor: Go the Long Way (one with a shirtless cowboy, the other of two men walking up the drive to a beach house overlooking a sparkling ocean while a horse watches om)
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4.5 stars and the number 50+ (indicating the review count) are shown above some reviewer quotes: "There were times I wanted to cry, laugh, blush. It was an amazing read" | "it broke my heart and put it right back together again. Honestly, I just can’t recommend it strongly enough. 5 stars!!" | "Didn’t know how much I needed a dirty talking ex-NFL star calling his cowboy boyfriend “darlin’”"
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trope flags: MM Romantantic Suspense | Second Chances & Small Towns | Cowboy/Teacher | Jock/Jock | Country Boys Figuring It Out | Best Friends to Lovers
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Back on KU for a limited time!
99¢ SALE

December 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM

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A.D. Wills

@adwills.bsky.social

No no, that's not fan service I'm writing, it's me service.

December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM

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Max Cerrina

@alephnaught2tog.bsky.social

Since mobility aids are the theme of the day:

You don't need any excuse to use one. Cane, crutches (heavily recommend forearm), wheelchair, etc. There is no minimum amount of discomfort or disability required.

By the time you think you need a mobility aid, you often have needed it for a while.

December 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM

🌈📚 CJ Pines + J.A. Skald 🏳️‍🌈 Author

@suncatcherpress.com

👀 My dark epic #mmfantasy of singing monster hunters hit the Top 100 again!

See why readers say series is "Dark Fantasy at its best" while it's still on KU:
👉 suncatcherpress.com/get-SoaSL1

#🌈📚 #mmromance #GayRomance #MMReaders #gaybooksky #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #romantasy 🌈💜 🌈📚 📚🌎

December 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM

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🌈📚 CJ Pines + J.A. Skald 🏳️‍🌈 Author

@suncatcherpress.com

💛 is the golden glow of holiday traditions, be it trimming a tree, decking the halls, caroling, baking, or a festive xmas eve crab boil 🥘🦀🌶️🎄

Get all my #🌈📚 & more up to 33% off
👉 suncatcherpress.com/Kickstarter

#mmromance #GayRomance #MMReaders #gaybooksky #mmromancebooks #mmbooksky #WeekendReads

December 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM

🌈📚 CJ Pines + J.A. Skald 🏳️‍🌈 Author

@suncatcherpress.com

Good grief, these scammers that want to "collaborate on a project" & their portfolios full of stolen, easily checked art

🙄

December 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM

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Matthew Dow Smith

@matthewdowsmith.bsky.social

I know a lot of people are starting to log out for the holidays, so while we're all still here, I just want to share an important annual reminder from Comic Book Dad that you are awesome --

I'M NOT YOUR REAL DAD, BUT IT'S BEEN A ROUGH YEAR AND IF YOU DID ANYTHING CREATIVE AT ALL THIS YEAR, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I'M PROUD OF YOU.
-COMIC BOOK DAD

December 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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Madeleine Fjäll

@madeleinefjall.bsky.social

scrolling social media lately has been very depressing 🫠

i just wanna make art in peace and stop having rich people destroy the world we live in

December 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art

@flaroh.bsky.social

🏺🌲🪔 Io Saturnalia!🪔🌲🏺

#OTD from Dec 17-23, Romans celebrated the god Saturn by feasting, exchanging gifts, lighting lamps, and switching up the normal societal class structures 🪔🌲🥧

This illustration is from my series depicting Saturnalia in Hadrians Wall country (more below)🏛️🌲