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Blu (writing/dreaming/editing)
@bluwrites.bsky.social
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🌈 about: sffh writer | autistic english professor | lit agency intern

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bluwrites.bsky.social
this book has one of the most unique character dynamics I’ve ever read. don’t miss out!!

#booksky 💙📚 #fantasy #retelling #greekmythology 🪐📚 🌈📚
Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell
June 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
upcoming titles for your #tbr I’ve had the pleasure of receiving ARCs of as well, to add some more variety!

Fantasy, horror, paranormal, and literary here :)

#pride #booksky #queerbooks #diversebooks 💙📚🪐 🩸📚 #fantsybooks #horrorbooks #bookrecs
Lessons in Magic and disaster by Charlie Jane Anders The mercy makers by Tessa gratton The ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by Clarence a. Haynes Palaver by Bryan Washington Herculine by Grace Byron The good vampire’s guide to blood and boyfriends by Jamie d’amato
June 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
happy #pride!!

here are some of my favorite queer books :)

most of them I read this year, though I snuck in a few older favorites

#queerbooks #bookrecs #booksky
An unkindness of ghosts by rivers Solomon Harrow the ninth by Tamsyn Muir The spear cuts through water by Simon Jimenez The song of Achilles by Madeline miller hell followed with us by Andrew Joseph white What moves the dead by t. Kingfisher A psalm for the wild-built by Becky chambers Cemetery boys by Aiden Thomas These burning stars by Bethany Jacobs Love after the end anthology The see by Chana porter Flight of the fallen by Hana Lee Someone you can build a nest in by John Wiswell A master of djinn by p. Djeli Clark What the woods took by Courtney Gould The tainted cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
June 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
mini book haul🤩

José Esteban Muñoz’s work has had a huge impact on the way I understand queerness and I’m so excited for Amplitudes.

Forest Euphoria popped up as a “related read” and it’s giving Staying with the Trouble vibes so I had to grab it😌

#amplitudes #foresteuphoria #queerbooks #bookrecs
Amplitudes: stories of queer and trans futurity edited by Lee Mandelo Forest euphoria: the abounding queerness of nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
May 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
you ever read anything so good you despair of writing anything worth reading yourself

#booksky #bookcommunity #bookrecommendation #luminous #silviapark
Cover art of Luminous by Silvia Park. A colorful, mosaic tiger paces atop a mountain divided by two different shades of green against a strong purple background.
May 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
Grad student Leto remembers his life all wrong. When bodies start piling up—including his own—his investigation leads him to a secret society that abuses an ancient power for financial gain. That power has a voice, and it speaks to Leto: some people deserve to be eaten.

#questpit #a #f #h #lgbt #w
Mood board with images including dead flowers, books with tea, a girl in a mirror, and hands cupped around a candle
May 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
fashion is my passion
My tabby cat Moose sits on my back while I’m standing in the kitchen making ramen. He gives the camera a scandalized look. My cat Merlin drapes around my shoulders like a scarf. He does this whenever he wants snackies
April 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
a strangely accurate description of how the romance in ETwip is going

#writingcommunity #amwriting #queerwriters #horrorwriters
Janet from the Good Place saying “love isn’t a triangle. It’s a five dimensional blob, so …”
March 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
some feelings based on some stuff I saw

#booksky #writersky #bookmemes
3 images of captain holt. In the first he says, unedited, “when people say good morning they mean hello, when people say how are you they mean hello” In the second he says, unedited “when people say” and then edited “‘I still give money to branded Harry Potter content’” In the third he says, unedited, “they mean I am a person not worth talking too”
March 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
guilty

#writingcommunity #writersky
screen cap of Amy Santiago (labeled “plotters”) saying “writing things down is nerdy? What do you do?” Second screen cap of Rosa Diaz (labeled “pantsers”) replying “I just forget stuff like a cool person”
March 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
I’m just over here doing my best

#writersky #writingcommunity
Photo of a giant ship stuck in a canal being slowly dug out. The ship is labeled “the ideas” and the digging machine (idk what these things are called) is labeled “the writing process” Tags: writing writers novel book fantasy science fiction horror sff romance
March 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
um how cool is this cover

can’t wait to read the spookies inside

from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Cover of The Skull & Laurel. It depicts a black buffalo (?) with golden eyes and horns, swirls of neon-pastel smoke billowing from its mouth against a black background
February 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
Grad student Leto remembers his life all wrong. When bodies start piling up—including his own—his investigation leads him to a secret society that abuses an ancient power for financial gain. That power has a voice, and it speaks to Leto: some people deserve to be eaten.

#wspit #a #f #h #lgbt #wip
Mood board with images including dead flowers, books with tea, a girl in a mirror, and hands cupped around a candle
February 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
I mean, this is what’s going on right in front of my reading couch:
chaotic photo of two dogs and three cats being rambunctious and very distracting
February 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
if WIPs you gave up on ages ago could text
Message from 4/24/14 reads “you shouldn’t waste your time with a loser like me” followed by message from 5/27/14 reads “or should u”
February 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
It’s “goo time” hahaha … ha ha

From ETwip🫀📚🪐

Went from “whim” to “without thinking” on this one

#wipsnips #sffh #queerwriters #writingcommunity
Excerpt from my fantasy horror book ETwip: “It’s the same stuff.” Without thinking, I reach for your wrist, meaning to show you that the pearly, sinewy string of the friendship bracelet is exactly the same as the longer strands of goo laced along the wall like the web of a talentless spider. But I’ve forgotten how you reacted before, and this time you’re even quicker. You snatch my wrist before I can make contact and your forearm snaps tight against my triceps, effectively arm-barring me straight into the goo.
February 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
(forgot about this for like a week haha WHOOPS)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

10/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
#amreading
#photographer
#DidierLefèvre
The Photographer by Didier Lefèvre and Emmanuel Guibert
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
bluwrites.bsky.social
happy caturday😑
my cat casually and delicately cleans his paw in front of the screen that I’m trying to read #booksky #cats
February 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
bluwrites.bsky.social
this is the first novel I’m writing that’s both fantastical AND contemporary so text messages are a fun addition to the cosmic horror happening in this town

#wipsnips #writingcommunity #queerwriters
(Italics) Leto. I’m so serious, text me back. (Normal) And then, about ten minutes after that: (italics) You said there was nothing here. (Normal) My heart rattles around in my ribcage. Oh my god, if the neighbors saw — you must have climbed the fence and found the unlocked storage door. I’m both mortified and pissed, and I’m struggling with putting this into a scathing text when another message pops up. (Italics) Need your help. (Normal) I hate you. I hate you so much. I’m gonna kill you when I get there. I text you back: (italics) On my way.
February 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

9/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
#writesky
#thegoldencompass
#philippullman
The golden compass by Philip Pullman
February 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
big ETwip vibes at the sunset last night

with the beach and the snow and the bloody horizon and my skin basically icing over while I took this

#writingcommunity #booksky #horrorwriters #queerwriters
February 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
QRP with your wings🪽
Stained glass magpie with its wings outstretched
February 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
bluwrites.bsky.social
Closeup of my cat’s upside down face and his tiny lil teeth
February 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
bluwrites.bsky.social
well he closed my laptop so I guess that’s enough writing for tonight
A tabby cat lies with his head stretched upward against my laptop, which is now shut on my lap. I am reaching out to scratch his squishy tum tum
February 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
bluwrites.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

8/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
#writesky
#stitches
#davidsmall
Stitches: a memoir by David small
February 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM