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i made THIS painting last summer
a painting of an anatomical heart bleeding overlaid atop a trans flag
April 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Sorry everyone, male fashion peaked here:
RoboCop
March 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Quote with a poster of a film or series for which you've read the original literary work.
book cover of carl sagan’s contact contact movie poster
March 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Post your fav pokemon, wrong answers only
a hork-bajir from animorphs
January 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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you know you’ve made it when trish salah is reading your book
a screenshot of goodreads showing that notable trans poet trish salah is 125 pages/24% into welcome to dorley hall
January 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 20: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

(I did it! Yippee!)
cover of Yanagihara’s A Little Life: a black and white close-up of a white man’s orgasm face and a national book award finalist badge on the left. the top (above the title) also reads “Man Booker Prize finalist.”
January 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Take a worm / leave a worm
Jadzia Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a joined Trill with a symbiote in her body
January 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 19: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
cover of Yu’s How to Live Safely. text is pink; background is white; the rest is taken up by rows of cartoon ray guns in various colors.
January 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 18: Love’s Instruments by Melvin Dixon
cover of dixon’s Love’s Instruments: it has a reddish-pink border and text, with a lot of visual elements—it’s low-resolution, but the center includes an open gold cube with one white hand and one brown hand cradling what looks like a cadeuceus, in teal, gold, and gray. surrounding this structure are viscera; beneath it is a black grid leading to a horizon. the top under the title text has three panels: eyes on either side seeming to look at a skull.
January 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 17: Zone One by Colson Whitehead
cover of Whitehead’s Zone One: A Novel. it’s sepia with a highway and a tall building barely visible behind it.
January 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 16: Volatile by Kimiko Hahn
cover of Hahn’s Volatile. the bottom half is orange with yellow text; the top half shows a night scene on the water, with buildings, a very close-up side of a boat, and reflected lights.
December 29, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 15: Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
cover of Emezi’s Pet (lettering of title made to look like feathers). it has numerous award plaques and a young Black girl, Jam, wearing cream-colored patterned pajamas and green slippers and holding a black and white feather. the background is a purple miniutarized town. the bottom text reads: “Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look?”
December 27, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 14: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings by Martin Luther King, Jr.
cover of A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Other text includes “Foreward by Coretta Scott King” and “New foreward by the Reverend Dr. Raphael G. Warnock.” cover is dark red with gold trim at the top and bottom with a color photo of Dr. King in the middle.
December 26, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 13: feeld by Jos Charles
cover of Charles’s feeld, a plain white background with a gray tumbleweed in the middle. it also has a brown badge on the top right reading “Pulitzer Prize finalist,” and, at the bottom, “Winner of the National Poetry Series, Selected by Fady Joudah.”
December 25, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you
leonard nimoy smiling
December 24, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 12: Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
cover of Kunzru’s Red Pill. the background image is of a man standing facing some mountains, mostly covered by an orange-and-purple-and-blue gradient circle inside a square. only the man’s head and neck are visible past it.
December 24, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 11: Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
cover of Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold, captioned “a Miles Vorkosigan novel.” there is a blurb from Booklist declaring it “a masterpiece.” cover art is of a silhouette of a man’s head, inside of which is a woman’s face, a man shooting a laser gun, and sci-fi ships and lighting.
December 23, 2024 at 5:22 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 10: Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
a book cover: title (Future Home of the living God: A Novel) and author (Louise Erdrich) over a blue and white ultrasound
December 21, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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post your favorite star trek character but wrong answers only
Alan Rickman as Alexander Dane as Dr. Lazarus from Galaxy Quest
December 20, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 9: The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
cover of Okorafor’s Book of Phoenix. it features a yellow-winged black figure and flames, and a blurb reading, “‘[Okorafor’s] books are fresh, original, and smart. We need more writers like her.’ —Patrick Rothfuss, #1 New York Times bestselling author”
December 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 8: Bharat jiva by kari edwards
cover of Bharat jiva by edwards. it is green and brown with blue-green and orange text. there is a translucent overlay of a buddha statue on the left and faded images of the front of a residential building on the right.
December 19, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 7: Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante
cover of “defacing the monument” by briante, orange with seven vertical aqua lines
December 18, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 6: Soft Science by Franny Choi
cover of Soft Science by Choi. it is pink with cream lettering. the central image is a blue Asian female figure kneeling on one knee atop a pink and brown cracked crystalline structure. the crystals are also hovering on top of and emerging behind the figure.
December 17, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 5: Apocalypso by Evelyn Reilly
cover of reilly’s Apocalypso. it is primarily brown and white and yellow, with creatures like those out of medieval marginalia, limbs and horns poking through letters, everything overlapping. many horror elements here and interesting details.
December 16, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Day 4: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
cover of Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars. it is pink and detailed, with blue hands with shiny red nails (the left one smoking a cigarette) cradling the title. also included are sparkles, a hot pink piece of cake, a river, hot pink heels, a mermaid tail, a sword, an open tube of lipstick, numerous bugs (bees, possibly wasps, etc), and two circular award logos.
December 14, 2024 at 5:33 PM