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Gwen Tolios ✒️ 💜🖤🤍💚
@gwentolios.bsky.social
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Reader. Fangirl. Analyst. Ace. Shower singer. Author: RETURNING TO YOU + HEALING CRYSTALS & OTHER BREAKABLES
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Spotted around town
A sticker on a pole above a crosswalk button. The sticker says "what if cars had to beg to cross? Put pedestrians first, eliminate beg buttons."
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Working on pointed toes during Halloween week at the studio
A woman dressed as a ladybug in an arabesque pose in an aerial sling.
October 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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I loved Planet Word in DC! There were so many amazing details, like these words in the library.
A word and definition printed on the inside of a door jamb. The word is readgret. It means sadness about pushing off a book you should have read
October 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Traveling (again) this morn! 💙✈️ For night flights, i like city lights but it's alao so nice to look at fluffy clouds.
The view of the horizon from an airplane. Soft clouds covers fields below, the horizon line glows, and the sky tapers from light blue to navy above.
October 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Headed down the nyc library walk today
A bronze plaque in a nyc side walk reading "the universe is made of stories, not data"
October 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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My apartment building is gonna be a tv filming location!
A close up of the door of a big truck. Text reads: operated by universal city studios.
September 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Redwoods!
A redwood tree named Tall Tree
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Did some cafe reading today!
A table with a collection of items on it - a macchiato, a flowered plate with a pastry, and the book Cultish by Amanda Montell
August 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Summer Sundays are for reading on a picnic blanket and sipping an iced latte.
The edge of a picnic blanket spread over grass. On the blanket is a book called Cultish, a pastry bag, and an iced latte.
August 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Went camping this weekend in a delightful park.
A shot at level with the ground of a series of low stones creating a walkway across the Apple River. The far shore is green, dappled with golden light.
July 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Finished reading this 📚 book, the memoir by meta's old director of global policy, and recommend
A photo of the book careless people by sarah wynn williams on top of a suitcase
July 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Check out this photo Joey Murphy Photography took of me during a circus show in April! (I'm the middle one). Ahh, missing circus tonight but I do have an aerial class tonight, so it's okay. 🎪
Three women suspended in the air performing in aerial slings dressed as showgirls.
July 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Ah! One more sleep until my short story collection is in readers hands! 💙📚🏳️‍🌈

www.amazon.com/Healing-Crys...
The cover for healing Crystals and other breakables by gwen tolios. It's surrounded by arrows pointing to things that break in the stories - bones, belief in the gods, strings of murder, gender norms, marriage.
June 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Returning to You - the book for all sapphic fans
The book cover for Returning to You by Gwen Tolios. It features the profile shilotuette of two women before layered imagery of Chicago.
June 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Returning to You is a sapphic romance between a bi ace woman and a bi aro woman. Dating for the parents, best friends to lovers, family drama, a single bedroom wall between you and your BFF/crush of 8 years. www.amazon.com/Returning-Yo...
June 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Tomorrow and Beyond is a grab bag of genres but the most prominent is scifi. Specifically of the subgenre of cyberpunk where you're stuck in the net (I loved .hack// in college, okay?) but also has a wide span of queer rep - trans, gay, aromantic, and bisexual. www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Bey...
June 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Fae Deals & Other Tales is a fantasy anthology with transgender and bisexual rep. Might be most notable for several stories in second person, and also that story about entering into a money laundering deal with the tooth fairy. www.amazon.com/Fae-Deals-Ot...
June 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Written with Pride is an anthology with @notapipe.bsky.social publishing that's so full of queer rep I cannot list it all here. But my story is about an astronaut pining for her trans partner during training. www.amazon.com/Written-Prid...
June 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Fae Dreams & Other Schemes is also a short story collection! This one is a little darker, with some dark fantasy and SF horror, as well as transgender lead who happily lets a fae take a name and a bi blacksmith who uses her dead husbands forge to woo a lady adventurer. www.amazon.com/Fae-Dreams-O...
June 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Healing Crystals & Other Breakables is a short story collection with 32 tales. It has asexual, aromantic, & transgender leads. And an unexpected amount of stories about baking - both as a way to affirm gender identity and as a vehicle to break faith in the gods. So... www.amazon.com/Healing-Crys...
June 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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All Mondays should have joy to start off the week, so here's where you can get queer joy - my books! 💙📚🏳️‍🌈
A image reading 'queer rep in my work'
June 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I know these aren't Jumanji flowers, but that's the first thing that went through my mind when i saw them.
Large purple flowers peeking over a wall of green leaaves
June 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Took a slightly longer walk home this morning to go through the local park after snagging an iced latte. Today is so nice.
An iced ube latte in a plastic cup sitting in clover.
June 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Healing Crystals is getting closer and closer to release! This fantasy short story collection is full of delightful things that don't stay intact. www.amazon.com/Healing-Crys...
Preorder banner for healing crystals & other breakables, a fantasy short story collection by gwen tolios.
June 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Making a writing game for the author fest later this month! I've done digital variations of these over the years for my writers group, so excited to have physical versions soon too! But in the meantime, digital downloads are on my new itch.io shop 💙📚
A series of colored, laminated cards labeled with various book genres.
June 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM