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aspiring book and paper conservator | romance novel enthusiast | Just Some Guy | 25 | she/her
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jasonread.bsky.social
Clarke's famous dictum that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" works both ways, belief in consciousness uploaded to machines, in the singularity, in human life in the cosmos is comparable with belief in magic amulets and Djinn granting wishes.
June 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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jamieloftus.bsky.social
the honor of a lifetime, sweating in my office and desperately trying to achieve the right degree of horny for a TINGLER!!!!

long live chuck, donate to the street vendor fund, LOVE IS REAL
chucktingle.bsky.social Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · Jun 26
presenting THIS HOT DOG GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A DOCTOR ALSO SHE IS VEGAN SPECIAL EDITION AUDIOBOOK read by true buckaroo @jamieloftus.bsky.social audiobook is FREE but we are asking for donations to LA STREET VENDOR FUND who are helping vendors impacted by ICE RAIDS www.patreon.com/posts/this-l...
special edition cover of THE LESBIAN HOT DOG GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A DOCTOR ALSO SHE IS VEGAN featuring audiobook cover on pink picnic blanket with jamie loftus on one side holding a hot dog and chuck tingle on the other side
June 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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lauravivanco.bsky.social
It's a good day for new publications on romance! Here's a second one:

Cobb, Karie L., "Controlling the Narrative: How the United Daughters of the Confederacy Shaped Collective
Memory Through Romance Novels" (2025).
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student
Research. 218.
Controlling the Narrative: How the United Daughters of the Confederacy Shaped Collective Memory Through Romance Novels
While existing scholarship on the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) reveals the immense influence the organization wielded in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I assert that their legacy...
digitalcommons.unl.edu
May 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
By the way, that's legendary Fanny guitarist June Millington with Ruby Ibarra in the all-Filipino band.

Fanny, which included Filipina-American sisters June and Jean Millington, made 5 records and were highly respected by other musicians, including Bowie and Hendrix, and loved by fans.

#AAPIM 🎶🎼🎸🔥
May 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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pedroconsafos.bsky.social
ICE discharged 3 flash-bang grenades. The people, even more determined, then pushed ICE agents out of their neighborhood with anti-fascist slogans forcing them to retreat.
This is the way it should be everywhere.
#LaMigraNoSeFueElPuebloLaSaco
May 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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pplscitycouncil.bsky.social
LAST NIGHT AT UCLA -

On the one year anniversary of the violent encampment raid, UCLA admin called in riot police to break up students watching The Encampments documentary on campus.

These schools are at war with their students. Movies are illegal.
May 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
bendystrawz.bsky.social
WHAT??? rest in peace, legend…
McGinnis’s cover for Johanna Lindsey’s 1980 romance, Fires of Winter McGinnis’s cover for Johanna Lindsey’s 1985 romance, Tender is the Storm
April 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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richardlittler.bsky.social
Robert McGinnis has died. An absolute icon of mid-late 20th century commercial #art and #illustration.
Robert McGinnis painting of a woman Robert McGinnis Diamond are Forever poster Robert McGinnis painting of a cowboy Robert McGinnis painting of a woman
April 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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jacobgeller.com
This New Yorker piece about the Irish Famine has several paragraphs I found literally jaw-dropping (positive). This is a book review!! Good god!!!
March 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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markpopham.bsky.social
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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randomstranger.bsky.social
Famous author Garth Marenghi saying "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards" taken from his commentary on his television show Darkplace.
January 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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collectingromance.bsky.social
Romancing The Stone, by "Joan Wilder," aka Catherine Lanigan
Avon, 1984 hardcover book club ed, by arrangement with Twentieth Century Fox Film Co.
Illustrator uncredited, but maybe Pino Daeni
A novelization of the movie by the same name. If you've never seen it, it's a hoot!
December 21, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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rdotspoon.bsky.social
A MAN FOR MRS. CLAUS is here!

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cover art by: @chiguma.bsky.social
cover design by: @mostlybree.kitrocha.com
A Man for Mrs. Claus book cover. Two black people smooching under the mistletoe. imagine Winston Duke is a firefighter and he's making out with Precious Lee who is Mrs. Claus with a bob. Running the North Pole and making good on the promise of comfort and joy for a few billion people is no simple two-step around the Christmas tree. Mr. and Mrs. Claus have always worked in tandem to do just that. So when her third husband realizes it’s time to peace out and move on to more Heavenly pastures, the angels and all the elves know what time it is. They need to find Tiffany Saint-Nicholas a new man. With the holiday calendar slowing down for no one, her team has three days to find her a new Santa. Someone kind, loving and willing to take on the spirit of the season, and with the potential to be Tiffany’s first true love match. Tiffany thinks that idea is cute and all, and so are the men they line up for her. But she knows delivering on their Christmas obligations is what really matters, not the chemistry she might have with the candidates in question. Too bad one prospective Santa will stop at nothing to show her and the rest of the North Pole population that no amount of silver or gold is more important than winning Tiffany’s heart.
December 17, 2024 at 4:23 PM
bendystrawz.bsky.social
a new ann aguirre alien romance????? maybe there IS hope left in this world..
annaguirre.bsky.social Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · Dec 5
Cover art!

Garrus lovers:
Science fiction romance oming June 17, 2025.

"Galaxy Quest meets Roswell in this quirky sci-fi rom-com..."

Please re-skeet, so others can experience the joy.

bookshop.org/p/books/i-th...

Pre-orders are vital, so please do if you can. Or ask your librarian to get it!
Pulp style romance cover with a purple pink galaxy background. A blue dragon inspired alien is in a classic romance clinch with a chubby human woman with a brunette ponytail. She is wearing a space fleet style costume. The font is graceful modern in lime green reading I Think I'm in Love with an Alien. NYT and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre is in white font at the bottom.
December 5, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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stegan.bsky.social
You didn’t ask, but here are the three prime examples I think of when I think of romance authors appearing on their own covers.
December 3, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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ufw.bsky.social
Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family.

Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou
November 27, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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smartbitches.bsky.social
Even Dr. Tingle got dragged into the mess.

And wrote a book about it!

Honestly when I saw that the first time I laughed so hard I got dizzy.
chucktingle.bsky.social Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · Nov 24
seen a few buds walkin down memory lane on this. along with the other goofball things ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA did, still cant believe their president LIED ABOUT PERSONALLY KNOWING ME AND SAID I WAS TWO PEOPLE. just a WILD move. got a great tingler out of it though www.amazon.com/Pounded-Roma...
November 24, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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jprstudies.bsky.social
And if you're looking for ways to preserve material that might disappear, the information is out there, and some ideas are floating around Bluesky too (for example, this piece from @thetransfemininereview.com) thetransfemininereview.com/2024/11/13/a...
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
thetransfemininereview.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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jprstudies.bsky.social
Last year Jonathan Allan asked "what happens if those primary texts we study are inaccessible to a future researcher? How should the field of popular romance studies begin the process of archiving the primary materials that are studied and talked about?" www.jprstudies.org/2023/09/the-...
The Future of Historical Research in Popular Romance Studies | Journal of Popular Romance Studies
As a researcher, I often find myself in a situation where I can reflect on two of the fields I work in at once. These fields oftentimes share commonalities, though they are distinct disciplines. For e...
www.jprstudies.org
November 16, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Every California election result is like

DEM: 78%
REP: 19%

Prop 7: Amend state constitution to remove tax exemption for descendents of slave traders to fund removing lead paint from elementary schools

YES: 48%
NO: 52%

bsky.app/profile/yoha...
yohannanx.bsky.social Yohannanx @yohannanx.bsky.social · Oct 1
The problem is the voters would get very upset if you proposed rationalizing it.
October 1, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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collectingromance.bsky.social
My FINAL #Gothtober post for 2024

I shared both these covers on X & Threads earlier this month, but missed until now the evidence that it's ok to share our billowy fleeing nightgowns 🎃 👻

Both illustrations are by Robert Maguire, who also did the three-armed lady of Castles In The Air
October 31, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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ygrene.bsky.social
starbucks barista: order for cathy lou

cthulhu: (visibly incensed) i guess that's me
October 24, 2024 at 4:39 PM