Helen
@sunrayravine.bsky.social
Librarian. Romance and SFF reader. She/her.
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In an effort at something good on the internet today: A thread on Mr KJC, gingerbread architect of the early 21st century.
Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.
Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.
December 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In an effort at something good on the internet today: A thread on Mr KJC, gingerbread architect of the early 21st century.
Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.
Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.
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Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙
BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
We are THRILLED to announce @freyamarske.bsky.social's Bodies of Magic, a new medical dark academia featuring mages and murder coming September 16, 2026 from Tor Books!
Announcing Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske - Reactor
A dark academia fantasy arriving September 2026
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December 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙
BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
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good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
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Get your paws on some excellent books with free delivery 28 Nov-1 Dec. Support independent bookshops, indie booksellers (and their cats.) Bookshop.org
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November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
FREE Shipping is GO!
Get your paws on some excellent books with free delivery 28 Nov-1 Dec. Support independent bookshops, indie booksellers (and their cats.) Bookshop.org
[Site-wide | UK only | Standard shipping]
Get your paws on some excellent books with free delivery 28 Nov-1 Dec. Support independent bookshops, indie booksellers (and their cats.) Bookshop.org
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Love a repressed protagonist. Yearning! Secrets! Denial!
4 of 5 stars to The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
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4 of 5 stars to The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
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Helen's review of The Safekeep
4/5: A compelling and sexy book that explores what lies beneath the surface and what is being repressed on both an individual and a national level. The short, staccato sentences added to the tension a...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Love a repressed protagonist. Yearning! Secrets! Denial!
4 of 5 stars to The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
4 of 5 stars to The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
4 of 5 stars to North Woods by Daniel Mason.
A beautiful, moving tapestry of a novel
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A beautiful, moving tapestry of a novel
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Helen's review of North Woods
4/5: An evocative, funny, and moving novel chronicling centuries of human and natural history centred on a house and its surrounding land in Massachusetts. From the 17th century to the present, and t...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
4 of 5 stars to North Woods by Daniel Mason.
A beautiful, moving tapestry of a novel
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
A beautiful, moving tapestry of a novel
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
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October 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!
4 of 5 stars to All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles
Probably won't be re-reading this one, but it did make me want to re-read Jackdaw and Think of England
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Probably won't be re-reading this one, but it did make me want to re-read Jackdaw and Think of England
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Helen's review of All of Us Murderers
4/5: I know KJC can write the heck out of a second chance romance (Jackdaw is probably my favourite of hers) so I was excited to pick this book up. However, I was a bit disappointed. Four stars becau...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
4 of 5 stars to All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles
Probably won't be re-reading this one, but it did make me want to re-read Jackdaw and Think of England
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Probably won't be re-reading this one, but it did make me want to re-read Jackdaw and Think of England
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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First time Cat has made a wrong move all series #CelebrityTraitors
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
First time Cat has made a wrong move all series #CelebrityTraitors
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Register free now for next Sunday's virtual event with @charlottestein.bsky.social, celebrating her new novel DEALING WITH A DESPERATE DEMON! 🧡 Charlotte will appear in conversation with @oliviawaite.com.
We hope you'll join us, friends! Register free here: buff.ly/TAIar1B
We hope you'll join us, friends! Register free here: buff.ly/TAIar1B
October 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Register free now for next Sunday's virtual event with @charlottestein.bsky.social, celebrating her new novel DEALING WITH A DESPERATE DEMON! 🧡 Charlotte will appear in conversation with @oliviawaite.com.
We hope you'll join us, friends! Register free here: buff.ly/TAIar1B
We hope you'll join us, friends! Register free here: buff.ly/TAIar1B
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Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians
Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.
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October 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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This Sunday (October 5) at 12 noon EST/ 5pm UK time, I'm talking with @alexandravasti.bsky.social and @felicityniven.bsky.social about all things Gothic Romance!
Catch us at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfmk...
Catch us at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfmk...
October 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This Sunday (October 5) at 12 noon EST/ 5pm UK time, I'm talking with @alexandravasti.bsky.social and @felicityniven.bsky.social about all things Gothic Romance!
Catch us at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfmk...
Catch us at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfmk...
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The Romance Reading Group is back with our first session of the new academic year! Join us from 6-7pm (BST) on Monday 29th September to (finally!) discuss Laura Steven’s queer reincarnation romance, Our Infinite Fates. We can’t wait to see you! 💕📚
September 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The Romance Reading Group is back with our first session of the new academic year! Join us from 6-7pm (BST) on Monday 29th September to (finally!) discuss Laura Steven’s queer reincarnation romance, Our Infinite Fates. We can’t wait to see you! 💕📚
3 of 5 stars to Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
There's a BBC TV series coming and I've no idea how they're going to adapt it - so much of the book is quiet routine with wry observations from an omniscient narrator.
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There's a BBC TV series coming and I've no idea how they're going to adapt it - so much of the book is quiet routine with wry observations from an omniscient narrator.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Helen's review of Leonard and Hungry Paul
3/5: Gently humourous book about kind, quiet people living ordinary lives. I wasn't particularly engaged (hence 3 stars) and the whimsy was a bit much for me at times, but I would recommend it to anyo...
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August 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
3 of 5 stars to Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
There's a BBC TV series coming and I've no idea how they're going to adapt it - so much of the book is quiet routine with wry observations from an omniscient narrator.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
There's a BBC TV series coming and I've no idea how they're going to adapt it - so much of the book is quiet routine with wry observations from an omniscient narrator.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I finished a book! Compelling but brutal read.
4 of 5 stars to There There by Tommy Orange www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
4 of 5 stars to There There by Tommy Orange www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Helen's review of There There
4/5: Book club pick that I admired, but found tough to read. It's about Native people in an urban setting (Oakland, California), identity, family, generational trauma, and what it's like to live in a ...
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August 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I finished a book! Compelling but brutal read.
4 of 5 stars to There There by Tommy Orange www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
4 of 5 stars to There There by Tommy Orange www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I'm in my biggest reading slump in ages, but I did finish a very good nonfiction book about the history of gender nonconformity.
4 of 5 stars to Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
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4 of 5 stars to Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
A History Today Book of the YearFinalist for the Lambda…
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July 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I'm in my biggest reading slump in ages, but I did finish a very good nonfiction book about the history of gender nonconformity.
4 of 5 stars to Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...
4 of 5 stars to Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...
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Oh yay, they announced it!!
Ma'am. I am so happy right now! Congratulations! Now can we get H. Jon Benjamin for ART?
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‘Murderbot’ Starring Alexander Skarsgård Gets Season 2 Renewal at Apple TV+
The series created and showrun by Oscar nominees Chris and Paul Weitz airs its Season 1 finale on Friday with star Alexander Skarsgård.
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July 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oh yay, they announced it!!
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A series of giveaways on my books for June, my least fave month of the year! firstly, You Are Here: Ten More Stories, my second short story collection, full of spaceships, ghosts, and also romcoms and queers. If you'd like to win one, repost this and I'll pick a winner at the weekend.
June 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A series of giveaways on my books for June, my least fave month of the year! firstly, You Are Here: Ten More Stories, my second short story collection, full of spaceships, ghosts, and also romcoms and queers. If you'd like to win one, repost this and I'll pick a winner at the weekend.
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My “you’re over 30” advice is hold onto the bannister. Stairs will kill you and not even look back
June 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
My “you’re over 30” advice is hold onto the bannister. Stairs will kill you and not even look back
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Might be time to issue my yearly reminder of a possibly more useful test than the Bechel test:
1. Is your book/TV show etc. set in space?
2. Does it have pirates?
3. Are a goodly percentage of them queer?
Realizing Andor kinda got …3 out of 3?? not bad!? (Rebels = pirates, I’ll allow it)
1. Is your book/TV show etc. set in space?
2. Does it have pirates?
3. Are a goodly percentage of them queer?
Realizing Andor kinda got …3 out of 3?? not bad!? (Rebels = pirates, I’ll allow it)
May 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Might be time to issue my yearly reminder of a possibly more useful test than the Bechel test:
1. Is your book/TV show etc. set in space?
2. Does it have pirates?
3. Are a goodly percentage of them queer?
Realizing Andor kinda got …3 out of 3?? not bad!? (Rebels = pirates, I’ll allow it)
1. Is your book/TV show etc. set in space?
2. Does it have pirates?
3. Are a goodly percentage of them queer?
Realizing Andor kinda got …3 out of 3?? not bad!? (Rebels = pirates, I’ll allow it)
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sometimes cinema is all about letting us know who is the most beautiful woman in the world. and this month it's hayley atwell.
May 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
sometimes cinema is all about letting us know who is the most beautiful woman in the world. and this month it's hayley atwell.
Shout out to the ALT text
May 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Shout out to the ALT text
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A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.
March 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.
My April reads. In a bit of a slump. Although I didn't record my re-reads of the first 4 Murderbot novellas because I read via audio while doing other things so I felt like it didn't count (I know!)
May 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My April reads. In a bit of a slump. Although I didn't record my re-reads of the first 4 Murderbot novellas because I read via audio while doing other things so I felt like it didn't count (I know!)