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Sam
@horrorbutch.bsky.social
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nonbinary lesbian (tme) | they/them, dey/dem (auf deutsch) | horror & sci-fi fan | book reviewer | enjoyer of trans, weird, disabled and mad literature | https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/horrorbutch | https://podcastlesbian.itch.io/
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I was able to attend a symposium on trans*poetics today. It was really, really interesting and I got to add many books to my tbr (& bookshelf), but most importantly I was able to get one of my books signed by Alison Rumfitt 🥰.
#mybrainwyrms #samreads
A photograph of the title page of Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt. It has been signed for Sam and a heart has been drawn.
October 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The girlies have bewitched me, I love them so much.
A drawing of a weeping face with their hands held out as if they were cradling something and the text *gently holds* beside it.
September 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Got some new trans books recently. #samreads. A bunch I've already read and loved enough to grant them some prime real estate on my bookshelf, a few (Sisters of Manchester, Queer Saints II, The Brute & Trans Rites) are new additions :) (+ my little clown opossum from a local queer art con!).
A photograph of a bookshelf. The books in it are A Quiet Universe, A Sea of Silence and A Mask for the Sun by Kay F. Atkinson, (kimmy) by Alyson Greaves, Sisters of Manchester by Selene Kapsaski and Jeff O'Brien, The Book of Queer Saints Volume II edited by Mae Murray, MAEJ by Dale Stromberg, A Rotten Girl by J. Ursula Topaz, The Brute of Greengrave by Jemma Topaz, Rotgut by H.S. Wolfe and Trans Rites: An Anthology of Genderfucked Horror. Beside the books stands a crochet opossum in trans pride flag colors, wearing a little top hat and a jester collar.
September 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
horrorbutch.bsky.social
I had a really good reading month this month featuring some very fun 5 star reads! #samreads
Additional 5 star reads of mine this month were:
- Run Like Hell by Eira Brand
- The Worm and His Kings and Song of the Tyrant Worm by Hailey Piper
- The Nightstalker's Mark by Joachim Hejndermans
The storygraph monthly wrap up for august 2025 showing some stats presented through graphics. Horrorbutch has read 26 books, 3906 pages, listened to 69.37 hours and gave an average rating of 4.17. Their highest rated reads (all 5 stars) are A Mask for the Sun by Kay F. Atkinson, Bury your Gays by Chuck Tingle and Mouth to Mouth to Mouth by wilt. Their covers are featured in the picture. The average book lenght was 246 pages. The average time to finish was 4 days. A pie chart shows they read 100% fiction books. A bar chart shows their top genres and the number of books they've read, those being LGBTQIA+ (15), Horror (13), Science Fiction (8), Fantasy (5) and Literary (5). A line chart lists their pages read and minutes listened to each day. There are quite huge spikes and drop-offs between the days since they only log beginning and end dates, regardless of how much they read in a day. A pie chart shows they have read 35% digitally, listened to 35% via audiobook and read print books 31%.
September 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I made the mistake of trying to finish the book at work so I was pacing and muttering whenever bad things happened (& theres a lot of bad things happening) because it was So Emotionally Devastating and anyway I think my costumers saw this:
a stickfigure violence meme featuring the tbh creature sitting in a room with blood splattered all over the walls. it has been edited so its crying and sitting in a puddle of its own tears.
August 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I do Not want to go deep into the discourse mines today, but Some of the takes on my dash are just. Bad. Especially point 2. If you're a reader and especially if you are a reader of horror, you ought to be mature enough to either a) look up trigger warnings before picking up a book or
if it was weaponized against her I don't think GFM should be suspended. But please let's not valorize her lol. Mass brigading of innocent people on faulty information, saying that it's not her problem if people have a panic attack after reading one of her books, acephobia, etc. etc.
August 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Played my new dice today. They nearly got my Kenku rotisseried, but in the end our party managed to defeat the Owlbear without getting our eggs scrambled.
a set of clear dice for playing dnd. the d4 has an egg inside. the d20 has a big white chicken inside. the other dice have yellow chicks. they are lying inside a purple dice tray.
July 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Trans body horror my most beloved genre ❤️ #samreads
edited xkcd meme. two stick figures are talking to each other. person 1 says: trans horror lit is second nature to us body horror enjoyers so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows rotgut by h.s. wolfe. person 2: and transmuted by eve harms of course. person 1: of course. text underneath says: even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
April 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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I want to join the sicko-lesbian posting ❤️ because we (the evil lesbian enjoyers) can always use more sicko lesbians
1 like = 1 sicko-lesbian character that I love
March 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Hehe, nice #samreads
A screenshot of a netgalley profile. The profile picture is a default icon. Sam. Feedback Ratio: 80%. 69 Approved. 55 Feedback Sent. Recommended feedback ratio is 80%.
March 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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My february storygraph wrap up :) It's so pretty! #samreads
A colorful page titled "@horrorbutch's February 2025 Wrap-Up". 27 Books. 6,680 Pages. 29.6 hours. 4.26 Av. Rating. Highest Rated Reads: Skin by Kathe Koja. How to be Disabled in a Pandemic by Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp. Parable of the Sower graphic novel adaption of Octavia E. Butler's novel by Damian Duffy. Average book length: 268 pages. Average time to finish: 3 days. A pie chart: fiction (78%), nonfiction (22%). A bar chart: LGBTQIA+ (14), Horror (9), Fantasy (4), Science Fiction (4), Short Stories (4). A line chart detailing during which days how many pages were read and how many minutes were listened. A pie chart: print (11%), digital (63%), audio (26%).
March 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Quote with four indie books you recommend.
The cover of Love/Aggression by June Martin published by tRaum Books. On the cover an illustration of two women's faces are looking towards each other, noses nearly touching. They are drawn in the outlines without any features. One of the women is colored in a pink-ish purple and she has big drops (potentially tears) falling down her chin, the other fades into the olive background. A short review by Issac Fellman, author of Dead Collections reads "A firecracker!". The cover of Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante published by Arsenal Pulp Press. The cover is a dark turquoise, interrupted only through a silver-greenish structure growing in from the side. The structure resembles four circular city walls stacked into each other. Three of the city walls have an visible opening. The walls feature various shiny patters, once like a brickwall pattern, once like dots on fur, once like feathers and once like scales. Additional text on the cover reads "A Novel" and "Author of Little Blue Encyclopdia (for Vivian)". The cover of Body After Body by Briar Ripley Page, self published on itch.io. The cover is an illustration of a white cat-like humanoid creature sitting on the ground, its legs still covered in a churning pink liquid that's flowing out of a broken glass vat. The creature has 6 eyes and a human nose and mouth as well as cat ears. It is surrounded by blue steam, that's filled with orange roses and eyes. In the background we can see some machines and behind the creatures head we see stars in out space, blurred and spinning. The cover of X by Davey Davis published by Catapult. The cover is a black and white photograph of a nude person only visible from their ankles up to their neck. In front of the person a see-through fabric is stretched, blurring them. Their left arm is reaching to the side and clutching the fabric, wrinkling it. The text is in big golden letters and at the bottom of the page a short review reads "Unconstrained by taboos and waist deep down in the maw of life." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby.
February 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Received @traumbooks.bsky.social latest book in the mail today & decided it was time to finally take a picture of the books I own by them. I also always really love the care they put into the packages, it's a lot of fun to unpack & I'm excited to try out the tea! #samreads 💙📚 #booksky #transbooks
A photograph showing books placed on a black and white stripped and dotted fabric. Six palm-sized books are placed in an arc at the top of the page. The titles are from left to right: Read and Then Burn This by Rysz Merey. It Helps With The Blues by Bryan Cebulski. a+e by Rysz Merey. Query by Zilla Novikov. Corrupted Vessels by Briar Ripley Page. Eusect by C.L. Methvin. Unterneath that arc is a regular sized paperback of Love/Aggression by June Martin. On the left side is a shiny sticker of a Gryphon from Dale Stromberg's book Maej and three bags of tea. On the right side is a bookmark from the Sad Bastard Cookbook, a tiny white rabbit figurine and two packages of peanut snacks.
January 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I heard we're doing trans book stacks? This is my collection of books with trans MCs, often by trans authors + some trans nonfiction. The first three books are my collection from August of last year, the next stack is what happened after I started working in a bookstore. 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #samreads #transbooks
A photograph of a bookshelf showing the spines of many books. These books are: The Terrible We by Cameron Awkward-Rich. Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews. Visible: A Femmethology Volume I & II edited by Jennifer Clare Burke. Baby Butch by Lou Conradi. Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote. X by Davey Davis. OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro. The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye. Stone Butch Blues and Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg. A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson. Spectrum: An Autistic Horror Anthology edited by Lor Gislason. Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley. Es gibt uns by Elisabeth Klar. Pantomime and Shadowplay by Laura Lam. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca. Not your Villain by C. B. Lee. The Boy with a Bird in his Chest by Emme Lund. Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin. More books: Love/Aggression by June Martin. A + E by R. Merey. Corrupted Vessels and The False Sister by Briar Ripley Page. A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper. The Seep by Chana Porter. Mein Weg von einer weissen Frau zu einem jungen Mann mit Migrationshintergrund by Jayrôme C. Robinet. Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt. If I was your Girl by Meredith Russo. Whipping Girl by Julia Serano. Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions by M. Lopes da Silva. Transland Consent, Kink & Pleasure by Mx. Sly. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. Lumberjanes Volume 1 by Stevenson, Ellis, Watters and Allen. Spoiled Rotten and s.m.d.h. by Natalie Celeste Tautou. Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. Volume I to VI of Souls Foreclosed by Sev Wildfang. More books: The art of being normal by Lisa Williamson. Untendrum Herumreden by Hannah Witton. Your Body is Not Your Body by Tenebrous Press. A picture frame stands beside the last book. In it is a Fck Nzs print and a black and white photograph of two people embracing with T4T is so HOLY! written over it. Their faces are covered with one blue dot and one pink dot. A rock painted in the trans pride flag colors lays beside it. A little 8-pointed crocheted star in trans pride flag colors with little silver bells on each point lays beside it. A stack of books with a nonbinary pride flag in the background. The books are: Model Home by Rivers Solomon. I'm A Queerfeminist Cybord. That's Okay by Mika Murstein. The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin. Margins and Murmurations by Otter Lieffe. The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia. Alles Dazwischen, Darüber Hinaus by Maë Schwinghammer. Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel. Nicht Binär Leben by Birgit Palzkill. Cranberry Cove and Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy by Hailey Piper. Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks. Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey. The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion and The Barrow Will Send What It May by Margaret Killjoy. Lote by Shola von Reinhold. Passage durch den reißenden Strom by Myriam Sauer. The Scales of Seduction by Rien Gray.
January 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I've reached Ivory's second trip to Ghost Cat Island in Hailey Piper's "All The Hearts You Eat", where some very interesting 👀 things happen, so let me present to you a beautiful meme about Ivory's first night on that island :D (i think I'm very funny!) #samreads
An edited tumblr post. The first poster is named Honey and has an icon of a black cat. The first post is: "we're having dream and you swim out to ghost cat island to discover your cock is entirely gone, dissolved (ive digested it like a pitcher plant). bye!" The second post also by Honey is: "You'd swim from me for my breathing cave beast? After the beautiful night we shared???" The third post is by Ivory, who has an icon of a key and cat paws behind her username and the text is: “Was a beautiful night. pesis is gone.”
January 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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When I finally manage to sit down and edit the tumblr pitcher plant pussy post for all The Hearts You Eat as I wanted since Ivory's first swim out to Cat Ghost Island. Then you will see my vision.
It is a constant refrain in my head of this. But better.
White text on black screen in all caps reads: Was a beautiful night. Pesis is gone.
January 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Hi, hope that's okay, but I thought I'd add a version with ALT Text ☺️ This is a really good rec list though & I found some great new books to add to my tbr!
A collection of book covers under the header "Lesbian Fantasy with a Central Romance". The first row features: The Dragon and Her Princess by Vyria Durav, The Grace of Sorcerers by Maria Ying, Moonlight Love and Witchcraft by Vaela Denarr and Micah Iannandrea and Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray. The second row features: Our Monsters by Jemma Topaz, A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray, Imago by M. Zakharuk and Shadow of Gorgon by Selene Tang. The third row features: These Rainy Autumn Nights by Erin Elkin, Siren Queen by Nghi Vo, The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis and The Dark Wife by S.E. Diemer
January 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Had a lovely book surprise waiting for me today ❤️ @riengray.bsky.social I'm very excited to dig into it! #samreads
A picture of a bookshelf with a copy of 'The Scales of Seduction' by Rien Gray turned to show off the front cover. The cover features a black and white drawing of a nude female torso and lower body with a scaled tail winding around the leg and covering the crotch area and four scaley and clawed hands holding onto the hips, one breast and one arm. A decorative border runs along the edge of the cover showing little statues of women and includes the words "Taste", "Hearing", "Sight", "Smell" and "Touch". The statues are positioned in ways the embody the various senses assigned to them (eating something, holding a hand behind one's ear, both hands shielding the eyes from sunlight, smelling a flower, holding a child one her back). Behind the main book a few other book spines are visible, including "LOTE" by Shola von Reinhold and "An Unkindness of Ghosts" and "Model Home" by Rivers Solomon.
December 16, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Day 4 & 5 of #DecemberTransReadathon.
Finally finished Tempting Poison (it was fun, 5 stars, full review here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...) and I am excited to start some new trans lit tomorrow :D
The same picture as above, but now Day 4 and Day 5 have pictures added. Both times it is the cover of Tempting Poison by Jemma Topaz.
December 5, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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Updating Day 2 & 3 of #DecemberTransReadathon. I'm not finished with Tempting Poison yet, but I own a physical copy of The History of Trans Misogyny and sometimes that's easier to read. Trying very hard not to story skip too hard for this Readathon or it will get confusing to keep track off things
The same picture as above, but with more book covers added. Day 2 shows the same cover of Tempting Poison by Jemma Topaz as above. Day 3 shows the cover of A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson. The cover features a close up picture of a transfemine person's face. Her eyes are closed and her mouth is slightly opened. An orange-to-yellow color gradient overlays the picture.
December 3, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Also since I am dnd posting on here already, please check out my adorable & cool af bird that I commissioned from @sev-wildfang.bsky.social <3 Xe is a stickler for the truth, cannot lie, has issues stomaching secrets in general (xe does get a tummy ache) and loves eldritch blasting.
A black and white drawing of a Kenku Warlock. Xe is a raven inspired bird-person with xer clawed hand stretched into the sky. Xe is wearing a black cape, holding a book to xer chest and with two feathers stuck as decoration on xer head. From xer outstretched hand a blast of magical energy zig-zags across the screen and finally impacts on the ground in front of them. It looks really cool. On the top of the page the head of a woman floats, looking down at the Kenku. She has long flowing hair, 4 dragonfly wings on the side of each eye and a crown made out of butterflies.
December 1, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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I'll be joining the #DecemberTransReadathon by @thetransfemininereview.com with a book I've just started: Tempting Poison by Jemma Topaz! Lots of tws, but I expected that when I picked it up. I am excited to see where it goes and I love toxic lesbians. #samreads.
A calendar page of december in a Sunday to Saturday layout. December Trans Readathon 2024. Every day, add a picture of the book you read to your calendar! If a book takes you multiple days, add it more than once <3 Reading every day matters more than finishing books! On December 1st the cover of Tempting Poison by Jemma Topaz, subtitle "Stories of toxic and broken lesbians" is shown. It is a cover in black, red and white, featuring a leashed girl wearing a muzzle, a spiked collar and dog ears looking up at a hand with blood dripping from it.
December 1, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Give me the option to ramble about the books I love please <3
Get to know my reading taste for every like i will post one book i love
November 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM