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Nelle
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy, servant to an elderly cat, so many books to read so little time, never enough chocolate, she/her #Earper [icon art from Ari North's graphic novel Always Human]
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I think I should adopt a Rooibos Tea Dragon; the author's astrological matching says I should adopt a Peppermint Tea Dragon. So I guess I'd love one of each (they can cuddle)!
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A small reddish tea dragon with flowering plants growing out of the back of his head looks down at an open book; Rooibos from Kay O'Neil's Tea Dragon Society graphic novels. A small light blue tea dragon with darker blue green spots and a long tail, has peppermint leaves growing from the back of her head; Peppermint tea dragon from Kay O'Neil's Tea Dragon Society graphic novels.
January 19, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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Favorite thing about this Sapphic Hollywood romance: the actor Ari Fox is NOT the typical movie starlet, but a butch who may go viral on Lesbian Twitter™️. Nina Rice works for Ari's agent answering actors' emails. A friends-to-lovers situation begins. Love Nina's great aunt & found family.
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Cover of For Your Consideration by Amy Spalding: What if her Hollywood job turns into a Hollywood ending? Sunset pink background with yellow lettering. Actor Ari Fox is walking on a cordoned off carpet next to a palm tree with a paper airplane heading towards her in bottom left. In upper right Nina Rice, curvy femme, has sent the airplane.
January 18, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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Thank god someone else remembers this! 🤣🤣🤣 Was soo glad to find the videos on YT when I lost my bookmarks deleting the other place.
Screenshot from Lubalin's internet drama part 2 tiktok. Top of video shows shots from Facebook: "Doris - You not talkin bout my bfriend Carolin She a Chriesten lady; Helen - shes. a rotten recipe stealin. Bitch, Doris." Video shows Lubalin on left in red shower cap with white polka dots and on the right in blue hair curlers.
January 3, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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The banana blueberry muffins I made today are so yummy! I don't think I've made muffins before, but had to do something with the large amount of blueberries I bought. 😋😋😋
Banana blueberry muffins in colorful liners, arranged on cooling racks.
January 2, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Yes, hope you get a chance to see it! Just overrun with BAMF female characters. Truly.
Naomi Nagata still image from The Expanse
December 26, 2023 at 3:26 AM
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Made a new recipe this morning, turned out pretty well. 😋 Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
Puff pastry with a square hole on top, filled with an egg and cheese; fruit salad on the side.
December 25, 2023 at 4:40 PM
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Made a batch of homemade peppermint bark. Not perfect, but pretty good for a first go. 😋 (Recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction)
Pieces of homemade peppermint bark on a red Christmas plate.
December 21, 2023 at 11:52 PM
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Loved the food art! And the magical familiars art! The girls are older teens, but hopefully will be appropriate for your reader.
Chapter art from Basil & Oregano showing a 4 layer naked cake with white frosting and berries between the layers. Says Porta Bella Class of 2023 on piped top, with a crescent of frosting and berries.
December 18, 2023 at 2:39 AM
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I had forgotten the Santa parade was coming through my neighborhood tonight. What a great tradition! Love to wave at Santa Claus. 🎅
Fire truck lit up with Christmas lights, with Santa on top, driving through a neighborhood.
December 16, 2023 at 1:25 AM
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An adorable Sapphfic GN! Momo, college freshman, never dated. PG's got a reputation as a player. They build a friendship, date, deal with their pasts, and learn the power of communication in relationships. The art is gorgeous, love the lesbian flag lighting! Lovely @eunnieboo.bsky.social!
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Cover for If You'll Have Me graphic novel by Eunnie. Pink background with light pink flowers. Two young women back to back. Momo is shorter, Black with long curly brown hair. She wears a red cardigan and glasses and is holding a dandelion (some dandelion seeds float around the cover). PG is taller, Vietnamese with short black hair w/ swoopy bangs; wearing a purple hoodie. A page from If You'll Have Me by Eunnie; three horizontal panels with no dialogue or words. Top panel: light purple background w/ stars showing a light tan hand held out on the left and a brown hand reaching from the right. Middle panel: dark pink background w/ stars, the hands getting closer together. Bottom panel: pinkish orange background, the hands are now held together.
December 13, 2023 at 6:29 PM
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Anyone else watching Monarch: Legacy of Monsters on +? Really enjoying it! And patting myself on the back b/c my gaydar was pinging in ep4 and confirmed in ep5. 🤣 At least one of the MCs is a queer woman! 🌈 And one MC is Kiersey Clemons from Hearts Beat Loud - such an amazing movie!
Still from Monarch: Legacy of Monsters showing the 3 main characters in a forest. L to R: Kiersey Clemons as May, Anna Sawai as Cate, and Ren Watabe as Kentaro.
December 10, 2023 at 5:38 AM
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A scholar w/ secrets seeking revenge, two rich teens w/ Truly Terrible Parents (TM), & the lowly engineer pulled into their orbits. Falling in love can be rather inconvenient when planning revenge... @aliettedb.bsky.social's Xuya universe is so rich and compelling! 5 stars
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Cover for A Fire Born of Exile: a Xuya Universe Romance by Aliette de Bodard showing 2 Asian women back to back, one in the foreground in armor, holding a sword, w/ twinkling lights in her hair, one in a simple purple dress with her hair piled on top her head. Purple background showing space and a spaceship; white birds fly around the women.
December 8, 2023 at 11:25 PM
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“There's no such thing as witches. But there used to be." 2 yrs ago I read this and promptly declared it my new favorite book. Just finished the audio for a reread & love it just as much. Estranged sisters reunited by a lost spell in this powerful alternate 1893 fantasy. 💙📚 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 Sapphfic
Cover for The Once a Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow. Beige scrolls bear the title surrounded by flowers. A raven sits on top of "witches," and that scroll is pierced by a pair of scissors, point up.
December 7, 2023 at 12:06 AM
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The Advent Calendar truffles are so pretty today! Brownie brittle and medallion hazelnut. (And I broke out the Christmas plates.🎄)
December 6, 2023 at 4:11 PM
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OMG Omar is too cute tonight on 4-Sided Dive! 😻 #CriticalRole
Adorable corgi lying tummy-up on Marisha Ray's lap. Omar the corgi is wearing red flannel dog jammies.
December 6, 2023 at 4:07 AM
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Earth witch Rhia grew surrounded by witch family & community; fire witch Valerie figured magic out on her own. Drawn together in the shadows of deep family secrets, will their magics cause chaos or healing? Enjoyable read; great side characters! Valerie & Rhia are electric! 😉
Sapphic YA 💙📚 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜
Cover for Love and Other Wicked Things by Philline Harms. Two young women are standing in a forest in front of a river. Back-to-back and holding hands, facing left is taller red-head Valerie with a flame in her hand and orange leaves falling; facing right is Rhia, Black with dark brown curly shoulder-length hair holding a growing vine.
December 2, 2023 at 12:43 AM
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Couldn't put down book 2! The majority of adults live in customized printed bodies with a hidden vulnerability. Naira and Tarquin are back fighting to keep canus from subjugating humanity from within. Trans MC 💙📚 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 SFF
Thanks for the great read @meganeokeefe.bsky.social!
Cover of The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin are walking along a large metal strut on a space station, Naira is holding a rifle.
November 21, 2023 at 3:29 AM
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...Holy Sh!t...

Listening to Rebecca Soler narrate the Fourth Wing sequel is like watching a high octane action movie. That tension stays ratcheted up. EVERYTHING is upended. And I just love those dragons!
“We do not eat our allies,” Tairn lectures.
“You never let me have any fun.”
💙📚 Fantasy
Cover of Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros: Burn. It. Down. Textured red/orange background with flames around a sigil and two dragon outlines.
November 20, 2023 at 9:41 PM
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Was pulled in right away, cool world building. Gods warred w/ each other, w/ many mortal casualties, so the new king outlawed god-worship. A mercenary godkiller, a pre-teen girl w/ a deceptively cute god problem, and an ex-knight/baker quest & deal w/ trauma. Queer rep, disability rep!!
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The cover of Godkiller by Hannah Kaner showing an elk tangled in roots, a large moon behind the elk's head and antlers, 2 trees to the sides. One of the chapter heading illustrations in Godkiller by Hannah Kaner. It is a crest with three trees growing from roots, one from the bottom of the crest and one from each side. A bird silhouette faces downwards from the top.
November 10, 2023 at 6:36 PM
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Saw it on a Tor.com list of underrated books. Really enjoyed this cozy fantasy and laughed out loud a few times. 17 yr-old Bridger, trying to get through senior yr, gets a crush on his new neighbor the HS football star, and gets a new job as an assistant. But the job is pretty magical...
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Cover for The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic by F.T. Lukens, narrated by W. Blake Kimber. Red cover with words and pictures in white, showing a teenage boy running from a unicorn, horn down. Benjamin Franklin Award and Forward Indies winner medals.
November 9, 2023 at 8:50 PM
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Here's Calvin a year ago, absolutely CERTAIN a box is the best kind of pillow. 😆😻
Brown/gray tabby cat sleeping with his chin perched on a small white box.
November 8, 2023 at 3:07 AM
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When I read The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow 2 yrs ago I immediately claimed it as my new favorite book. Such a beautifully written novel about 3 sisters in an alternate history 1893 filled with rediscovered magic and fighting the patriarchy. Also some sapphic romance.
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Cover for The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow. The title is on tan banners, with a floral arrangement behind. There is a pair of scissors piercing the "witches" banner and a black bird is next to the point of the scissors.
November 7, 2023 at 12:38 AM
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Phoebe's energetic vitality vibrates off the page in Wilsner's newest Sapphic Romance. I'm more of a Grace, introvert through and through. Opposites attract with the newest rookie and the famous veteran of New Orleans' pro-soccer team. I don't sport 😉, but couldn't put it down. Steamy!
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Cover of Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner: "Nothing's Sexier Than Playing Hard." Two soccer players on the field wearing purple uniforms with gold knee-high socks. Shorter brunette with her foot on the ball and tall redhead showing the back of her jersey and looking at the brunette. "In theory, Matthews sounds terrible. She’s everything Grace is not: loud and talkative and playful. Quick to trust and quicker to flirt. Grace usually hates the class clown, but tonight was fun. Beignets were fun. Matthews is … unexpected."
November 6, 2023 at 7:45 PM
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Bright Falls fans? Sapphic romance? I got so immersed in bk 3 I stayed up way too late. Loved seeing Iris & friends. Found Stevie and her anxiety so relatable. Stevie learns some confidence and Iris learns some romance. Just a little quid pro quo until they catch feelings. Steamy. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Cover for Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake. Light blue cover with the 2 MCs standing in front of a stage. Iris is a curvy red-head and Stevie is slim with curly brown hair.
November 5, 2023 at 9:39 PM
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Sweat Equity was the perfect Fall/Winter romance. Get out your tool-belt & join Sy, who bought a house sight unseen to move to VT & make cheese. It needs A LOT of work. Enter contractor Maddie, BFF w/ Sy's new boss. Sy and Maddie have so much chemistry. Cheese ✔️, DIY ✔️, spiciness ✔️.
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Book cover for Sweat Equity (A Renovation Romance) by Aurora Rey, showing two women standing in front of a house. One woman has long red hair and a tool belt, she has her arm around a Latina woman with very short brown hair.
November 4, 2023 at 1:17 AM