AVTM is out FEB 2026 and is available for pre-order now! Featuring:
- Second chance romance
- Marriage of convenience
- Emotional Support Hounds
- A nonbinary main character
- Watching your husband get fucked by his boyfriend

Ohh thank you! I will fully admit I've been hiding my head in the sand thinking "oh it'll be FINE" until suddenly I have to think about it and it is less fine, woops. Re: DMs, I can't actually access them (because of the Gov ID thing) but!! you could message me on IG if that's ok?

Ohhh I love this one! All of @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social 's books are super good

oh NOOOOO D:

Our neighbours did the same for us, and afterwards one of the kids asked why we had "a monster" in the house. There's like a dozen things he could have meant. Turned out he was concerned about a framed Everything Everything album we've got 😅

I've done a very brief check, and one of the trans surgeries subs also has this block. Obviously the new law around NSFW content is absurd, but this? This is dangerous. Let's restrict access to support for trans people OR force them to give their ID to some shady website. That'll end well, I'm sure.

Oh my gosh YES I knew there was one I forgot!!

Yeah exactly!! Like two guys bein' dudes in the woods? Eh, whatever, that's fine.

ohh AMAZING, thank you! I'll check these out :D

Yeah I agree! I've come across a few people in my research who were probably trans (as we'd describe them today), and it seems like a lot of the time if you turned up somewhere new and gave your chosen name and just did work and wasnt a dickhead then no one cared or questioned you that much 😅

Also... The Marriage of Likeness by John Boswell, Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages by Robert Mills, Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography (@aspencerhall.bsky.social) and basically all of Leah DeVun's papers/The Shape of Sex. @goingmedieval.bsky.social is also amazing!

The biggest thing I get told is "this wouldn't happen!", when there's literally no reason why *not*. Most of sources we have are legal docs or from the church so you knowww what they'll be like. It's like saying no one in 2025 does drugs because drugs are illegal. Like. That's not how it works 😅

Aha yeah its fun digging into that! Its difficult, too, because you don't want to make it too grim 😅 also this may be totally over the line but LMK if you want any book/paper recommendations! Im always excited to share ahaha

Oh absolutely, it's such an interesting sandbox to play in. And yeah! It's one of those things where you can see how we've always existed just in different ways, its so interesting.

I spent so long researching medieval sex/gender for book reasons and it's fascinating. It just keeps going, and there's sooo much you can do with it as a creator, too. Also, personally, I quite like how it all exists outside of modern labels? For me that feels quite freeing!

oh I'm very glad it's not just me who does this 😅