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they/them. I review books sometimes https://mibookreviews.wordpress.com/
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mimimaruuu.bsky.social
Fanart for The Starving Saints 🥀🗡️
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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kf1n3.bsky.social
Wanted to paint this dog
September 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
iamreads.bsky.social
for some reason Robert Robertson III constantly makes me think of adult Neil Josten so.... AFTG Dispatch!AU, anyone???
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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kashinggiwa.bsky.social
On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising...

THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.
Cover for THE KING MUST DIE, illustrated by the amazing Eleonor Piteira.
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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johannestevans.bsky.social
Monthly Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost

- Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below.
- Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share.
- Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter!

NSFW and erotica welcome.

#TransSky #BookSky
trans author? share your work below!
November 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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lgbtqreads.bsky.social
Happy Native American Heritage Month 2025!

Happy Native American Heritage and Indigenous History Month! We're celebrating, as we do, with books by Indigenous authors, starring Indigenous characters. (Note: Despite the title of the post, these books include indigenous characters from all over.)…
Happy Native American Heritage Month 2025!
Happy Native American Heritage and Indigenous History Month! We're celebrating, as we do, with books by Indigenous authors, starring Indigenous characters. (Note: Despite the title of the post, these books include indigenous characters from all over.) While the usual affiliate links are included, you’re strongly encouraged to order from the Native-owned Birchbark Books where available! Picture Books Phoenix Ani' Gichichi-I'
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November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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johannestevans.bsky.social
Hello! My name is Johannes T. Evans (he/him), and I am a gay, transgender, disabled author of fantasy, romance, horror, and erotic fiction based in West Yorkshire.

I write a huge array of fiction and non-fiction, and lots of it is available to read for FREE on my website:

www.johannestevans.co.uk
JOHANNES T. EVANS, author of queer fantasy, romance, horror, and erotic fiction. short stories, novellas, and novels featuring: - transgender men in situations - sexy disabled dudes crushing pussy - vampires that only sparkle in a gay way - cute cats - lesbians who love DIY - insufferable queer people - autistic men who have Had Enough - fallen angels with personality disorders - gratutious references to sailors and the sea and more! read online or buy books at www.johannestevans.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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linseymiller.bsky.social
please keep your eyes peeled for aces this week we're visible and experiencing the Terrifying Ordeal™
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Despite his cowardly and flinchful nature, Owen Mallory finds himself unmoored from time–and at the tip of a sword. Presenting chapters 4 and 5 from The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social!

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The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow: Chapters 4 and 5 - Reactor
The lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent through time to ensure she plays her part…
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October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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kashinggiwa.bsky.social
The Splinter in the Sky is somehow two years old! Please enjoy this lovely drawing of Enitan and Xiang by the unbelievably talented @ashcremated on Tumblr.
Illustration of Enitan (right) and Xiang (left), two of the main characters of The Splinter in the Sky. Enitan is a Black woman with short black hair and warm brown skin. She wears a green tunic with a patterned shoulder scarf. Xiang is an East Asian person with shoulder-length black hair and light copper skin. They wear a reddish-brown tunic with a slightly darker gilet. They're drinking tea together.
July 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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shaenon.bsky.social
A big lesson of the civil rights movement was that everyone has their own activism and we support each other. If you're a radical activist, you can draw fire away from peaceful protestors. If you're a pacifist and you see radicals fucking shit up, no you didn't. You didn't see a damn thing.
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Oct 19
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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drlisacorrigan.bsky.social
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Oct 19
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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djangowexler.bsky.social
Ooh! Happy THE WORKS OF VERMIN day to those who celebrate, which should be everybody. I got to read this as an ARC *ages* ago and I've been excited to push it one everyone -- it has bugs who love opera and weaponized perfume and just gooey wonderfulness.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
October 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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johannestevans.bsky.social
Oh you want to read Gellert's New Job, about the meanest autistic transgender man and the biggest bastard of a vampire mov boss, so badly. You want to read it for just 99p for the eBook or a fiver for the paperback.

#BookSky #TransMan
You grew up in Lashton,” said Pike. “You know how to handle yourself, don’tcha? Word is people don’t like you.” “Oh no,” said Gellert sarcastically. “That hurts my feelings.” “’Cause you’re on the spectrum.” “Colour spectrum?” “Asperger’s.” “Asperger’s,” Gellert repeated, and scoffed. “Even when they diagnosed me, I wasn’t palatable enough to be labelled with Asperger’s. I’m autistic.” And blind as shit,” said Pike. “And you talk funny. And you’re a cunt.” “And you want to hire me,” said Gellert. Pike grinned, showing his sharp fangs. “Yeah,” he said. “Now who’s the cunt between us?” “What’s the different between Asperger’s and autistic?” “Politics, acceptability, and about fifteen years.” Do you think people hate you more ’cause you’re a faggot, or ’cause of the autism?” “Always asking the important questions, aren’t you?” “Is it true you’re a trap?” asked Pike, and Gellert blinked. “I beg your pardon?” “You know, a cuntboy,” said Pike. “You had your womb whipped out and your tits chopped off, but you still have an axe wound.” Oh,” said Gellert, filing “trap” away to remember for later, and doing his best to do anything but remember “axe wound”. “The politically correct term is transgender, but yes.” “You’re not getting angry,” said Pike. “Are you trying to make me angry?” “Not really,” said Pike. “Just wanted to see if you would be. You too good for crime?”
October 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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sarahgailey.bsky.social
Spread Me, my erotic horror novella about an isolated research team and the specimen that wants to explore them back, is available everywhere you buy books.

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Spread Me
Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly ...
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September 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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johannestevans.bsky.social
Update to my @itch.io profile. Apologies for the inconvenience for those still wishing to use the platform.
As of 31/08/2025, Itch.io has never paid me for a sale made through their website, owing me at the time of writing a little under $500, and all new sales have been disabled with this in mind. My apologies for the inconvenience: please buy directly from me at www.JohannesTEvans.co.uk.
August 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Movie Madness here in Portland, Oregon, now has a shelf curated by me, under the heading "Strange Expeditions," both material and psychological. For those of you who aren't MM folks, here's the list:
Ad Astra Aguirre Wrath of God Aniara Banshee Chapter Dark Star Don't Look Now Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1970s version) The Kill List The Last Winter The Kill List Session 9 Sorceror Triangle Yellow Brick Road
July 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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johannestevans.bsky.social
If you pick this one up, please remember to review it wherever you bought it, on Goodreads, StoryGraph, romance io, and anywhere else if you can!

Word of mouth is the biggest help for me as an indie author, and reviews and ratings are utterly invaluable to me and my business.
johannestevans.bsky.social Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · Jul 17
1927 polio survivor who feels unattractive and undesirable, he avoids other men of a similar lilt, and avoids all social situations possible... Until he enters an arranged marriage of sorts with his very sexy new butler.

An Uncommon Betrothal by Johannes T. Evans out now!

#BookSky #LGBTBooks
an uncommon betrothal by johannes t evans
July 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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johannestevans.bsky.social
happy pride month. did you know you could read hundreds of short stories and dozens of essays from me, a really sexy gay transgender man, mostly for FREE? that's crazy, right?

erotica, romance, horror, fantasy, historical stuff, it's all here babyyyyyy

check 'em out:
johannestevans.co.uk
Johannes T. Evans | The Official Website
Queer Fantasy & Romance Fiction
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June 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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I wish people would understand the difference between analytical "AI" and generative algorithms using LLMs. The former is used for pattern recognition at high rates and precision humans can't replicate and highly useful in medicine and science. The latter is autocomplete with delusions of grandeur.
April 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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grouchymarx57.bsky.social
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."
-Ursula le Guin
April 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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dovegraveyard.bsky.social
Ancient critters
February 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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rosieethor.bsky.social
Happy aromantic awareness week everyone! You’re legally required to be aware of me and my aro books this week (and then you can go back to ignoring me lol) 🖤🩶🤍💚
A heading says “my aromantic books” with 3D images of Tarnished are the Stars, Fire Becomes Her, Being Ace, and Common Bonds below with flowers in the aro flag colors at the bottom
February 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
It's #AroWeek and while I *am* running a Kickstarter to bring more aromantic SFF into the world, in the meantime you can buy some of my existing books at a discount!

🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 #AspecAuthors #AromanticAwarenessWeek

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Itchio Aro Week Sale, 20% off. The image is built in the colours of the aromantic pride flag (greens, black, and white) and has the covers for six books: City of Strife, City of Betrayal, Baker Thief, Snowstorm & Overgrowth, Awakenings, Flooded Secrets.
February 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM