Esme
@esmewonders.bsky.social
Creative, queer, & chronically ill. I talk about books a lot, brain all turned and stuff. Writer of romance, SFF, & opinions. Disabled gamer & fangirl. I contain multitudes. She/her.
Also remember to read queer all year.
June is #PrideMonth, but it’s also #RainbowBookMonth — a celebration of LGBTQIA+ books, authors, and stories.
Find reading lists, tools for libraries, and graphics to help you celebrate: bit.ly/4kKOkOg
Read with pride, in all of its colors. 🌈
Find reading lists, tools for libraries, and graphics to help you celebrate: bit.ly/4kKOkOg
Read with pride, in all of its colors. 🌈
June 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Also remember to read queer all year.
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May 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
April 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.
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What an incredibly uneven, surface level analysis of the sentient object romance subgenre. Did anyone else read this?
Genre Alert: Women Who Are Sexually Attracted to Airplanes… And Other Non-Sentient Objects
If you’ve spent any time around books in the last five years, you’ve heard at least a dozen romance tropes: enemies to lovers, age gap, grumpy-sunshine. These shorthands describing the dynamics of …
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April 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What an incredibly uneven, surface level analysis of the sentient object romance subgenre. Did anyone else read this?
RIP my @blackwells.bsky.social shopping cart.
April 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
RIP my @blackwells.bsky.social shopping cart.
Media childhood trauma came up during dishwashing discussion.
Me: "I'm still not over Artax in the Swamp of Sadness."
My mom: "Don't say that. If I can get over Old Yeller, you can get over that."
Me: "I'm not over Old Yeller either!"
Me: "I'm still not over Artax in the Swamp of Sadness."
My mom: "Don't say that. If I can get over Old Yeller, you can get over that."
Me: "I'm not over Old Yeller either!"
April 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Media childhood trauma came up during dishwashing discussion.
Me: "I'm still not over Artax in the Swamp of Sadness."
My mom: "Don't say that. If I can get over Old Yeller, you can get over that."
Me: "I'm not over Old Yeller either!"
Me: "I'm still not over Artax in the Swamp of Sadness."
My mom: "Don't say that. If I can get over Old Yeller, you can get over that."
Me: "I'm not over Old Yeller either!"
I have somehow found myself in the middle of reading six books between book clubs, ARCs, and mood reading. I don't like it. That's officially too many.
At least I'll finish two of those today, a third one tomorrow, and I've got until Thursday to finish another.
At least I'll finish two of those today, a third one tomorrow, and I've got until Thursday to finish another.
March 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I have somehow found myself in the middle of reading six books between book clubs, ARCs, and mood reading. I don't like it. That's officially too many.
At least I'll finish two of those today, a third one tomorrow, and I've got until Thursday to finish another.
At least I'll finish two of those today, a third one tomorrow, and I've got until Thursday to finish another.
Book production is just a series of realizing little mistakes you made.
March 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Book production is just a series of realizing little mistakes you made.
This right here. Not only is each Prime Mating Agency book a joy to read, they're an excellent class in worldbuilding.
Finished 'I Married Amreth' by @regineabel.bsky.social ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚💙 The worlds, narratives, & cultures that the author is able to create are so rich, unique, & complex. Each book is an a enjoyable blend of engaging plot & sweetly steamy romance🔥. 📚🌶 #booksky #romancereader #scifiromance #alienromance 📚🪐
March 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This right here. Not only is each Prime Mating Agency book a joy to read, they're an excellent class in worldbuilding.
I don't even go here. But I could. #DevilMayCry
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March 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I don't even go here. But I could. #DevilMayCry
So I'm assuming the first rule of ARC Club is that we don't talk about typos in ARC Club? #bookreviewer
March 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
So I'm assuming the first rule of ARC Club is that we don't talk about typos in ARC Club? #bookreviewer
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Rereading Feed by Mira Grant (pen name of @seananmcguire.bsky.social), and this line towards the beginning stuck out, given the political climate:
"There was a war on, and the ones whose responsibility it was to inform us wouldn't even admit that we were fighting it."
"There was a war on, and the ones whose responsibility it was to inform us wouldn't even admit that we were fighting it."
February 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Rereading Feed by Mira Grant (pen name of @seananmcguire.bsky.social), and this line towards the beginning stuck out, given the political climate:
"There was a war on, and the ones whose responsibility it was to inform us wouldn't even admit that we were fighting it."
"There was a war on, and the ones whose responsibility it was to inform us wouldn't even admit that we were fighting it."
I'm trying to finish reading Night's Master by Tanith Lee today, but Azhrarn is the worst. 💙📚
#Booksky #NowReading
#Booksky #NowReading
a group of men standing next to each other with the words the wooorst
Alt: a group of men standing next to each other with the words the wooorst
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February 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'm trying to finish reading Night's Master by Tanith Lee today, but Azhrarn is the worst. 💙📚
#Booksky #NowReading
#Booksky #NowReading
"I need a folder on my phone just for all the book club and library apps" is a sentence that my 12-year-old self wandering around the library next to my junior high school would never have dreamed up.
February 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"I need a folder on my phone just for all the book club and library apps" is a sentence that my 12-year-old self wandering around the library next to my junior high school would never have dreamed up.
I just finished re-reading Fahrenheit 451 for the first time in years and, while it absolutely has an important and complex message that's SUPER RELEVANT today, the misogyny in there is just. Yikes. 💙📚
#Booksky
#Booksky
February 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I just finished re-reading Fahrenheit 451 for the first time in years and, while it absolutely has an important and complex message that's SUPER RELEVANT today, the misogyny in there is just. Yikes. 💙📚
#Booksky
#Booksky
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Definitely in the 'getting by with a little help from my friends' category.
We are launching a GoFundMe for our lovely @zzclaybourne.bsky.social. Those of you who attended the Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction 2 know that he was too sick even to read that night—after all the love & work he poured into organizing it! This is to help him as he recovers!
gofund.me/8e2a5252
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Donate to Help Zig Zag Claybourne in His Recovery Process, organized by CSE Cooney
Hi friends. Claire—C. S. E. Cooney—here, on behalf of our beloved friend Cl… CSE Cooney needs your support for Help Zig Zag Claybourne in His Recovery Process
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February 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Definitely in the 'getting by with a little help from my friends' category.
I have been there and back again this morning. Like a hobbit.
...but just like a regular hobbit. Not like a Baggins.
...but just like a regular hobbit. Not like a Baggins.
February 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I have been there and back again this morning. Like a hobbit.
...but just like a regular hobbit. Not like a Baggins.
...but just like a regular hobbit. Not like a Baggins.
Romance novelist's Author's Note: "this book is pretty light!"
Romance novel's prologue: *body count hits double digits*
#Booksky #Romancelandia
Romance novel's prologue: *body count hits double digits*
#Booksky #Romancelandia
a woman in a turtleneck sweater is standing in front of a mirror .
Alt: A black and white GIF shows Lucy from I Love Lucy, in a turtleneck sweater, standing with her back to a vanity mirror and shrugging in a very exaggerated manner.
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February 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Romance novelist's Author's Note: "this book is pretty light!"
Romance novel's prologue: *body count hits double digits*
#Booksky #Romancelandia
Romance novel's prologue: *body count hits double digits*
#Booksky #Romancelandia
How is it the middle of February already? I know we're in the middle of a rapidly evolving dystopia, but happy Valentine's Day anyway.
February 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
How is it the middle of February already? I know we're in the middle of a rapidly evolving dystopia, but happy Valentine's Day anyway.
I've got a really important presentation on Monday and a story to write, so I built a cardboard theatre for my cat.
February 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Instead of sleeping last night, I read two novellas. I wanted to sleep, but sleep and I are apparently on a break.
EVEN WHEN I PUT THE BOOK(S) DOWN, sleep wouldn't come. (Don't @ me, people, I really did try everything. This relationship problem is not my fault.)
#Booksky #insomnia
EVEN WHEN I PUT THE BOOK(S) DOWN, sleep wouldn't come. (Don't @ me, people, I really did try everything. This relationship problem is not my fault.)
#Booksky #insomnia
February 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
HOW SO RAW AND LUMINOUS.
Posting the v.e. Schwab covers I got to paint for the new ppl here
February 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
HOW SO RAW AND LUMINOUS.
I'm currently listening to an audiobook edition of Fahrenheit 451 performed by Tim Robbins. Which is great! Just sometimes, my brain trips over his voice in such a way that I end up in Shawshank. 💙📚
#Booksky
#Booksky
a man in a striped shirt with the words oh i see below him
Alt: Tim Robbins, in a grey prison uniform as the main character Andy Dufresne in the film The Shawshank Redemption, says "Oh, I see." The words are in white font at the bottom of the GIF.
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February 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I'm currently listening to an audiobook edition of Fahrenheit 451 performed by Tim Robbins. Which is great! Just sometimes, my brain trips over his voice in such a way that I end up in Shawshank. 💙📚
#Booksky
#Booksky