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Name a film with a forest.

Rogue One

(Can't remember if this scene is movie or Andor, tbh)

November 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM

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A whole year of snackable 🏳‍🌈 holiday romcoms! Hurry & get ur early bird discount, or pick up ALL of my #🌈📚, stories, swag, & more on sale:

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8 ereaders on a red bokeh background for the upcoming happy holigays series, featuring trope arrows calling out such favs as rockstar/rockstar, best friends to lovers, brother's best friend, single dads, open door

November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM

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Hailed as a medical miracle after surviving by 🤏 this much a construction accident doctors say should've killed you?

Phineas Gage gap.

Sandra is cheering you on! @sgwong.com · 7h

Wizard keeps throwing fireballs like confetti every combat while sorcerer keeps spending sorcery points trying to perfect subtle spells?

Problematic mage gap.

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 9h

Prisoners keep escaping because you put the bars too far apart? Problematic cage gap.

November 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM

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Merriam-Webster

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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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If you see this, share a Western 🤠🐴

Space Western 🤜🤛 Space Western

November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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SpryOldLorax

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Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

September 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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If you see this, QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood!

November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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Know I've been quiet the last few days. Been trying to prep the Secret Project in time

Go see!👉 suncatcherpress.com/Kickstarter

(Now to go pass out b4 the sun comes up)
#🌈📚 #mmromance #GayRomance #MMReaders #gaybooksky #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #⚔️ #lgbtqwriters #WeekendReads #mmholiday

🌈🎄💝 LGBT+ MM Holiday Romance Collection: 12 Gays of XMAS

Get your queer cheer on with 7+ festive tales full of hope, heat, & heaps of holiday love sure to melt even the Scroogiest of hearts!

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November 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM

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CL Hellisen

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Self promo is my bane; it makes me feel like an immense tit when I post stuff about my writing (thanks to upbringing - never blow your own horn), but it is increasingly apparent that all it means is that I'm utterly invisible as a writer...

So, anyway.

I have books and stories out there.

November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM

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Know I've been quiet the last few days. Been trying to prep the Secret Project in time

Go see!👉 suncatcherpress.com/Kickstarter

(Now to go pass out b4 the sun comes up)
#🌈📚 #mmromance #GayRomance #MMReaders #gaybooksky #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #⚔️ #lgbtqwriters #WeekendReads #mmholiday

🌈🎄💝 LGBT+ MM Holiday Romance Collection: 12 Gays of XMAS

Get your queer cheer on with 7+ festive tales full of hope, heat, & heaps of holiday love sure to melt even the Scroogiest of hearts!

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November 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦

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welp
books2read.com/u/mqxAa8

the "this is fine" meme except it says "So I have a book coming out." With a picture of Favour Fire on the table.

November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈

@clericofthevoid.bsky.social

LOOK AT JUDE 🔥

My heart can’t take it today, this is too much 😭💖

Mango 🥭 @mangomakes.bsky.social · 5d

jude as promised 🤭❤️
#fanart #art #nameherholy

November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM

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Jes & Cin

@jesncin.bsky.social

Happy trans awareness week!!!! Please become aware of my book.

Jes & Cin @jesncin.bsky.social · Mar 31

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

Here's a comic essay we made last year about Lunar Boy and QPOC representation 🌈📚

(1/4)

#Art #Comics #OC #OCsky #Booksky #Artsky #TDOV

The cover of Lunar Boy. Indu sits on a pile of objects and looks out to the pink and blue sky. He's bordered by a giant moon

Panel 1: Jes and Cin (identical twins with short hair) depicted cheering happily as they stand next to a cover of Lunar Boy. The essay reads: “Lunar Boy is going to be out in May and it feels unreal. I’ve said that a lot when working on this book. That it feels “unreal” to be bringing this story to existence. And I should explain why!”
Panel 2: Jes walks through a display of movie posters and bookstands while holding a book. The essay continues: “When I see representations of queer people of color in the mainstream, it always felt like something was missing.”
Panel 3: Cin being overcrowded by fantastical characters, a robot, a gorilla in a spacesuit, a cat princess, and a woman with a sword. The essay continues: “Especially in stories of happy queer escapism.”

Panel 1: Continuing: “Their stories often revolve around their white queer friends,” A white woman points to herself as her other hand holds a Black woman’s hand. Who is off to the side. The white woman says “This story’s about ME.” While the Black woman says “I’m here too.”
Panel 2: Continuing: “They’re stripped of cultural specificity” a white woman shares a meal with a dark skinned hijabi woman. The white woman has a burger while the hijabi woman holds chopsticks, ready to eat her noodles. Dialogue above them reads “Ugh, why can’t the character just HAPPEN to be Muslim?” “So stereotypical.” An arrow points to the right showing an edited version where the white woman is unchanged and still eats a burger, but now the hijabi woman doesn’t wear her hijab and is also eating a burger. The dialogue above them reads “much better!” “Finally, a universally relatable diverse story!”
Panel 3: Continuing: “The intersection of their identities,” a venn diagram showing the intersections of religion, POC, queer, and diaspora.
Panel 4: Continuing: “or the histories of their communities, would never be acknowledged.” A woman solemnly stands in front of a grave bearing a bouquet of flowers. On the grave is a small candle and cup with the trans flag poking out of it.

November 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM

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chris☀️

@arcanegold.bsky.social

tonight’s the last night for this!! get ‘em now!!!

chris☀️ @arcanegold.bsky.social · 9d

heyyyyyy y’all :3 if you want a print before christmas nows the time!! i’m also trying to get some money together so i can go on some gay dates with my gay partner this coming week so your support is going to a good cause

November 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM

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Smooth Dunk

@smoothdunk2.bsky.social

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM

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The Folklore Podcast

@folklorepod.bsky.social

Happy boy to the talented @gurdybird.bsky.social , composer and performer of the Folklore Podcast theme music which has graced episodes for almost a decade now.

Follow her and show her some birthday love

Photo of hurdy gurdy player in pirate costume

November 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM

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What’s a movie you never tire of?

November 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM

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Rewatching Star Trek (2009) & the urge to get back to my sci-fi WiPs is incandescent

November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM

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ascalaphid

@ascalaphid.com

Mole's little winter outfit in the 80s stop-motion wind in the willows...

March 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM

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UPDATE: My #mmfantasy novella broke the top 50! 🥳

You can help by snagging your copy while it's still on sale:
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#🌈📚 #mmromance #GayRomance #Novellavember #WeekendReads #MMReaders #gaybooksky #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #cozybooks #indiebook #romantasy #⚔️

A heart drawn around the rank #46 flag, over an Amazon listing for the new Under Ghostfire Mountain (Tales of a Sunless Land) by J.A. Skald, along with an ereader featuring the clinch cover, and trope arrows listing Grumpy/Grumpy, Forced Proximity, Dog Dad, Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone, Cover Art by Author, Hurt/Comfort, & Open Door (Spice). Currently on sale for $0.99 USD (as of this posting)

November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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"Let" is a strange word here. If I've learned anything, it's that there's no force on earth as powerful as a determined fan creator 😆

That said:
1)don't show me
2)don't tell me
3)don't comp for it
4)know that I treasure you

Cosplayers & tattoo-getters better @ me photos tho 😍

#writingcommunity