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Torrance Sené (Cassie Donoghue)
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42 • Bi, Demi, & Genderqueer • Erotic Romance & Erotica Author • Cover Designer at Wolfsparrow Covers • 🐈 Mom • Gaelic Pagan • ND Spoonie • She/her/they 🔞 NSFW • 🚫anti-AI art • US AL

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torrancesene.bsky.social
Per usual, great video essy from Orphie. This time she shines a light on the Authortuber "The Second Story" who is pushing conservative propaganda about how romance is "degenerate".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSou...
The Second Story thinks you're Degenerate
YouTube video by Ophie Dokie
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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mikestabile.bsky.social
Could you imagine being so "alpha" that you're salivating at the prospect government telling you what you can and can't watch?

I guess "Choke me daddy" is what conservatives say to politicians controlling access to the internet.
Headline from the European Conservative UK Becomes First Western Country to Ban (Some) Porn featuring drawing of a white womans face being covered by black hands with long fingernails
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
torrancesene.bsky.social
Not my mum sending me a photo of her watching The Grinch with her Grinch slippers on. WHY IS SHE SO CUTE? lol
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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yellowfund.bsky.social
Tylenol is safe.
Going hungry is dangerous.

Donate to feed the block.
action.yellowhammerfund.org/a/donate-to-...
Donate to Support SNAP Emergency Response Funding
action.yellowhammerfund.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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riengray.bsky.social
Censoring the internet or restricting social media will not result in less queer people, it will just increase the amount of queer people who suffer needlessly before discovering themselves.

Of course, for homophobes and transphobes, this is a bonus feature and not a flaw. They like us suffering.
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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mikestabile.bsky.social
The sex industry doing more to take care of hunger than the President
funkittoys.bsky.social Funkit Toys @funkittoys.bsky.social · 7d
Until food stamps resume, I'll be donating 25% of all NoFrillDo sales to my local food bank. That's $5 per series 3, $6 per series 1, and $10 per series 2. Go get a dildo and dil-do some good.

funkittoys.com/nofrilldo
NoFrillDo | funkittoys
NoFrillDo project description and purchase page
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November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
torrancesene.bsky.social
I have a big mug of milky assam. Nothing can harm me right now. (Yes, I am still using Halloween mugs. Deal with it.)

#TeaSky #TeaDrinker #TeaAddict
Big mug of assam tea sitting by a laptop.
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
torrancesene.bsky.social
I've sadly heard contemporary romance authors, who are otherwise left-leaning, say this bullshit about dark romance.
samaburime.bsky.social Rainy Studios (٭°̧̧̧ω°̧̧̧٭) – Art🎨, BL🌈 & 📝Queer Studies @samaburime.bsky.social · 2d
For another example, many anti-porn groups lobby against women's dark romantic literature with claims that it will make women think abuse is okay or cause men to abuse. Whereas women who are educated on healthy boundaries and feel comfortable advocating for themselves understand that-🧵
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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samaburime.bsky.social
Can we start saying "a person's reality shapes how fiction affects them"? Everyone responds to the same media differently and it is not a universal experience. MANY things influence how a person reacts to & interprets media such as how they're raised, mental health, education, religion, & culture.🧵
Aronson, Elliot, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, and Samuel R. Sommers. 2018. Social Psychology, global ed., 9th ed. London: Pearson Education. The usual assumption has been that watching violence makes people more aggressive, but aggressive people are also drawn to watching violence. Moreover, another entirely independent factor may be causing both. Some children are born with a mental or emotional predisposition toward violence; or learn it as toddlers from the way they are treated by abusive parents or siblings; or in other ways develop aggressiveness as a personality trait. In turn, this trait or predisposition manifests itself in both their aggressive behavior and their liking for watching violence or playing aggressive games (Bushman, 1995; Ferguson, 2013). In an experiment investigating the interaction between temperament and exposure to violence, children watched either a film depicting a great deal of police violence or an exciting but nonviolent film about bike racing. They then played a game of floor hockey. Watching the violent film did increase the number of aggressive acts the children committed during the hockey game- but primarily by those who had previously been rated as highly aggressive by their teachers. These kids hit others with their sticks, threw elbows, and yelled aggressive things at their opponents to a much greater extent than did either the kids rated as nonaggressive who had also watched the violent films or the kids rated as aggressive who had watched the nonviolent film (Josephson, 1987). Likewise, a few longitudinal studies have shown that exposure to violence in media or video games has the strongest relationship in children who are already predisposed to violence (Anderson & Dill, 2000). Thus, it may be that watching media violence merely server to give them permission to express their aggressive inclinations (Ferguson & Kilburn, 2009). The same conclusi
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
torrancesene.bsky.social
November TBR decided! 📖 #Romancelandia #BookSky
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
torrancesene.bsky.social
I think I wanna bake tomorrow. Maybe chocolate muffins.
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
torrancesene.bsky.social
This is the stupidest setting on this website. And again, makes me realize this site is probably ran by fandom antis cos what kinda weak ass shit is this, Bsky?
evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network Evil Bat Witch @evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network · 6d
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
Rude Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose. Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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mikestabile.bsky.social
Hmmm. At the same time that there’s a booming for-profit push to require users to submit biometrics everywhere from porn sites to Roblox. You don’t say?
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 5d
A proposed rule change would allow DHS to collect a wide range of sensitive biometric data on all immigrants, without age restrictions, and store that data throughout each person’s “lifecycle” in the immigration system.
DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says
Sweeping DHS power grab would collect face, iris, voice scans of all immigrants.
arstechnica.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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chaceverity.com
Illusive Wishes is a queer Snow White retelling featuring a nonbinary lead who's fallen in love with his best friend--but his best friend is trapped inside a mirror. Packed with humor, heart, and magic.

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Cover for Chace Verity's Illusive Wishes featuring a pale person trapped in a mirror.
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
torrancesene.bsky.social
Hell yea, NYC!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
torrancesene.bsky.social
Yay, my Adagio order arrived today! We have samples of Blood Orange, Scottish Breakfast, Yunnan Jig, Yunnan Noir, Ceylon Sonata, and Fujian Baroque.... andddddddddd my advent calendar!

#TeaSky #TeaDrinker #TeaAddict
An open cardboard box with samples of tea in it An open cardboard box with a smaller blue box advent calendar with a Nutcracker design sitting in it.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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chaceverity.com
Clara, Darling

- f/f historical paranormal romance novella
- set around Christmas 1932
- lonely radio actress x ghost of her true love
- come for the sapphics, stay to see an abuser get what's coming to him

payhip.com/b/PM7dX
Cover for Chace Verity’s Clara, Darling featuring a white woman with 1930s style hair and makeup wearing a dark dress with sequins. Beneath, it says “a sapphic paranormal historical romance.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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samaburime.bsky.social
P.S. My article published may 2023 in The Journal of Fandom Studies is free to read here now 👀

www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In recent years hostility amongst fans based on what a person ships or tolerates in shipping has become a growing point of contention in western fandom. This has resulted in an ‘anti-shipper’ (or ‘anti’) vs. ‘pro-shipper’ (or ‘pro-ship’), ‘Good versus Evil’ dichotomy that has slowly consumed fandom communities from the inside out. At the core of ‘anti’ debates is a foundation of beliefs rooted in conservatism that what a person consumes in fiction determines their real-life behaviours. Thus, an anti-shipper who is against those viewed to be pro-shippers is already deemed more morally pure. This has culminated in the escalation of toxic vigilantism that has driven harassment, violence-based threats and the criminalization of fellow fans. This piece deconstructs this anti phenomenon and the dominant behaviours that accompany it by evaluating the traditionally conservative environments in which these ideas originated, and by exploring how antis employ hate narratives, conditioned language and morally motivated networked harassment to justify dehumanizing and abusing other fans. This examination ultimately concludes that no kind of communal fandom restoration can begin to occur until those targeted by such anti-shippers are viewed as human beings (not sub-human) and a universal understanding of fiction, reality, psychology and human behaviour based in science is established.
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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mikestabile.bsky.social
UK legislators are moving to criminalize the distribution or possession of "strangulation" porn and hoo-ey there are about a thousand things that can go wrong with this.

An amendment will be added to the Crime and Policing Bill this week.
‘Dangerous’ online pornography featuring choking to be banned
Conservative peer Baroness Bertin warned that there has been a ‘total absence of government scrutiny’ of the pornography industry
www.the-independent.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
torrancesene.bsky.social
My fellow Alabamians, if you're in central AL, here's where you can donate to help feed some families: feedingal.org

They serve Winston, Walker, Jefferson, Shelby, Blount, St. Clair, Talladega, Clay, Calhoun, Cleburne, Etowah, and Cherokee counties.
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama
The Community Food Bank of Central Alabama feeds people in need today and fosters collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow. We believe no one in Alabama should go hungry. We believe there is a s...
feedingal.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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pearlmania500.bsky.social
New episode of TMT covers the how the Nazis got to Argentina eventually leading to a tattoo influencer’s makeup empire crumbling:

$40,000,000,000 N*zi Rat Line Country Lore | TMT 152
youtu.be/5E-u3kbx_SY
$40,000,000,000 N*zi Rat Line Country Lore | TMT 152
YouTube video by Pearlmania500
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November 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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favoritesaintreads.bsky.social
📖 𝒯𝒶𝓀ℯ 𝒜 𝒮𝒽ℴ𝓉 𝒪𝓃 ℳℯ by Leigh Carron

Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 / 5
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ / 5

🔥 High-Heat Romance
🍸 Frenemies-to-Lovers
🔥 Set in Bayside’s favorite bar
🍸 Ex-Best Friends
🔥 Fat FMC

Ex-best friends, to frenemies, to lovers with high heat and fun

amzn.to/4nlmclG

#bookreview #blackromancebooks #spicybooks
Take A Shot On Me (BAEs OF BAYSIDE)
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November 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
torrancesene.bsky.social
NEW RELEASE ➡️ Desperate Measures, book 5 in the One-Hand Reads series. This novella features a taboo kink (omorashi) so please be aware of that before you read 💦 But life's too short for vanilla fantasies, right?

🔗 www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

#Romancelandia #SmutSky #BookSky
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
torrancesene.bsky.social
Good morning ☕ I slept in. This morning's treat is a maple cinnamon roll and English toffee pu'erh tea.

#TeaSky #TeaDrinker #TeaAddict #Autumn
A plate with a single maple cinnamon roll in the middle. Behind it sits a mug of tea shaped like a ghost.
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM