@merr1dew.bsky.social
Academic by day, gamer by night. Can definitely be trusted in a bookstore with a credit card. My nerdery knows no bounds. Header by me - bumblebee on allium. Profile photo by me - grey calico cat looking cute.
I'm offering up a copy of the gorgeous Bookish Box edition of Wooing the Witch Queen in this fabulous romantasy auction raising money to fight book bans. Check it out! www.32auctions.com/organization...
(And make sure to check out all of the other amazing offerings as well!)
The listing for Wooing the Witch Queen reads: Felix flees his dukedom-in-disguise to seek sanctuary at Queen Saskia’s door. A misunderstanding leads him to start working for her. Perfect for readers who adore yearning and crave magical heroines who can be vulnerable and take charge with equal measure.
Oh wow - thank you SO MUCH to the New York Public Library for including Wooing the Witch Queen in this amazing list of Best New Romance Books to read in 2026! www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
#romancelandia
Big News: It's a gamble, but I want my work to do more good. Everything I create going forward for the next year will be available to EVERYONE, regardless of support.
Yeah. Free. Read on here, and consider joining up! www.patreon.com/posts/more-j...
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
10.02.2026 20:18 — 👍 31313 🔁 13784 💬 971 📌 1691
Seven illustrated book covers over a dark leafy background. Text at top reads The Complete Fae Realm Series. Parchment with text reads I have looked forward to this book with anticipation and some dread. Since the beginning, it has been one of my favorite fae realm series I've ever read, and the conclusion did not miss. Triumph and heartbreak combined to forge a nearly perfect resolution, but now I must say goodbye to loved friends. Until I read the whole series again, which I suspect will happen in the very near future. Kobo review of The Crowns of Ruin, the final book of The Fae Realm Series
📚 Complete Series!
⚔️ Epic fantasy
🐉 Magical creatures
🧝 Seelie & Unseelie Courts
🧟 Undead armies
⚒️ Tall dwarves
🧙♀️ Witches & sorcery
👵 Sassy old ladies
🌈 LGBTQIA+ rep
🐾 Very good boy demon dog
❤️🔥 True love
Universal 🔗: cozykathryn.com/the-fae-real...
Itchio Bundle: cozykathryn.itch.io/68dausuvmp
Our Kickstarter is live‼️
A new season of Burn It All Down is coming and we need your help to make it happen. Your support keeps independent, feminist sports media alive!
Learn more and support the campaign here:
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Fascinating research on how often and for what reasons female economists are interrupted while presenting their work. Obviously this has applications outside economics. Nice to see actual hard data backing this up, instead of being gaslit about how it's all in our minds.
04.02.2026 00:16 — 👍 246 🔁 76 💬 1 📌 1
As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
The front cover of the ebook shows a magic wand trailing stars, with an elegant, art-nouveau style frame around the title.
Hooray! My sapphic romantasy short story "Five Reasons Why I am Absolutely Not in Love with my Nemesis" is available as an ebook now. Just subscribe to my Patreon at any level from $5/month upwards to snap up this & a whole bunch of other stories from me:
patreon.com/stephanieburgis
#romancelandia
In case you’re thinking of self-publishing on Amazon.
12.12.2025 17:51 — 👍 24 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
"every time I listen to 'you're a mean one mr. grinch' i can't help but sit there and think 'what did the grinch do to hurt you?' because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt"
Status report, "WHO HURT YOU MR GRINCH" dep't: The love story that periodically returns to devastate Tumblr. www.tumblr.com/dduane/80274...
12.12.2025 18:16 — 👍 109 🔁 33 💬 8 📌 1
Moonwitc with altar worshipping a cheese like moon.
Bit of moon worship for you this morning. Anyone who looks at the moon and does not feel at least a bit of awe and wonder is very, very strange to me.
11.12.2025 09:58 — 👍 68 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1
a wall of beautiful prints of animals from the love notes from nature calendar, including an ant cutting a leaf carrying that leaf home, clownfish, a salamander, a turtle with yellow fish, a pair of penis fencing flatworms, humpback whales, orcas jumping over a yacht, anglerfish, crows on pumpkins, bats, and cuttlefish laying eggs
Want a calendar you can write easily on, none a that shiny paper need-a-sharpie nonsense?
Wanna see pretty animal art by @megstampede.bsky.social along the way?
& support our biodiversity efforts?
Get a love notes from nature calendar SquidFacts.Net
You can even turn them into prints after!
A box of blue paperbacks of Wooing the Witch Queen, their spines studded with yellow stars. The illustration shows a man in a cloak riding headlong through the night towards an ominous castle with an illuminated, crowned female figure in its doorway and bats flying overhead in the moonlight. A potion vial surrounds that central image and is further framed by leaves and branches. Crows sit on the branches, and a tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sarah Beth Durst reads: "Absolutely irresistible."
Two paperback copies of Wooing the Witch Queen are laid side by side, one face-up and one face-down. The back cover reads: She's the terrifying witch queen everyone fears... He's the new librarian with a secret... Queen Saskia wants only one thing: to keep her people safe, no matter how many enemies she makes along the way. And she definitely doesn't have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic. So, when a mysterious wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him on the spot as her new librarian. Fabian is a little nerdy and his requests seem a little strange. But if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well... Only Saskia doesn't know that the 'wizard' is actually an archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, he's in danger from both Saskia's enemies and her allies. When Saskia finally discovers the truth, will their love save them - or will it be their doom? A blurb from The New York Times reads "Delightfully upends the gender dynamics of romantasy' and a blurb from Sarah Beth Durst reads, "Full of charm, wit and magic... Absolutely irresistible."
And ahhhh such an exciting package: early copies of the UK paperback edition of Wooing the Witch Queen (coming January 15th)!
Aren't they gorgeous? 😍
Of course the hardcover is available already, and you can preorder the paperback edition here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step...
#romancelandia
ink painting of phage
virus dots blue tie
virus dots silk scarf
green and blue virus watercolor
#sciart fans, the brain stuff is going well, but the virus art is not. Surely we have some #virology fans out there who need gifts. artologica.etsy.com 🧪🦠
08.12.2025 01:12 — 👍 45 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1
A handful of handmade science necklaces.
Hi! Buy anything from my etsy shop now through the 15th and say you are from Bluesky and I’ll send you a FREE surprise handmade ceramic necklace. Probably something cool and sciencey like a neuron or a molecule! If you don’t like necklaces hang it on your tree or in your car. Surly.etsy.com
#sciart
An illustrated screen print of an adult beaver in a pond holding a birch branch. Two juveniles wade in the water in the background.
Beavers! We are beaver believers. The first edition of this screen print from 2023 sold out. But we recently printed a second edition to keep the beaver fans happy. Five colors, edition of 26. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨
11.12.2025 12:59 — 👍 77 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0
Sorry for using comics and art to vent and cope with the world changing around me. I will return to drawing whimsical and silly frog wizards and adventures.
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An oil painting of a male common grackle, cropped to show part of his upper body and head, and he's looking at the viewer with pale straw colored eyes. He is iridescent bronze with purple blues on his neck and head, and has a subtle rainbow halo around his body. The artist watermark reads: copyright Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com
"Grackle Assessment" (Common Grackle) 7" x 5" Oil on panel
I've had the fortune of having both the bronzed and the purple forms visit!
Over a wooden table or floor, three images and a bunch of text. Images are of a watercolor painting depicting a skeletal hand grasping roses by the blooms, a black and white rendering of a fantasy map, and a book cover with a red headed and bearded warrior. Text reads Art maps books no ai. Free for supporters (pointing to the book). Follow on Twitch. Support on Patreon. @ CozyKathryn
New pin! Where to find all your CozyKathryn goodies:
Books: cozykathryn.com/the-fae-real...
Patreon: www.patreon.com/cozykathryn
Throne: throne.com/kathrynreyno...
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/cozykathryn
Art Shop: cozykathryn.threadless.com
Live AGAIN with more games for the #ChooseWiselyFestival, this time diving into some period settings for romance, intrigue, and politic...
twitch.tv/kaemsi
CWs for Ookami Okami by @mushroomallow.bsky.social and Imperial Grace by @synstoria.bsky.social in the thread and commands in chat
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A wavy shaped mug glazed in blue with black ringed planets.
The same mug shown from the other side. The glaze has spots on it.
Ringed planet mug. In my etsy shop. Surly.etsy.com. Planet illustrations by me.
10.12.2025 00:46 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A cartoon a of femme person with long blue hair, quirks their mouth in concentration while holding a game controller.... surrounded by various fictional animals from the Two Point Museum "Zooseum" DLC
I was very kindly gifted beta access to @twopointstudios.bsky.social's upcoming Zooseum DLC which releases Tuesday 2nd December! Let's check out what you can look forward to in game! RAWR!
www.twitch.tv/dragancaor
#gifted #ad
The header and footer at the top of the image read: “Kindle Daily Deal” and “99c today only!” In the center of the image (which has a background of lush crimson rose blossoms) is the front cover of Stephanie Burgis’s A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience, which shows an ominously closed entrance-gate at the top of the cover and a bat with its wings outspread at the bottom, all framed by climbing roses. Four arrows point at the cover with four chunks of text, reading: “Beauty and the Beast, but he’s a vampire” “She’s brilliant, and he loves it” “Tea is very important” and “She *really* loves libraries.”
Happy December! If you're in the US, you can snap up my cozy-spooky gothic rom-com novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for just 99c, today only: www.amazon.com/Marriage-Und...
#romancelandia
The Serpentine Bomber jacket is splayed out on a white background with a folded pair of black jeans and white belt with black and white converse shoes with white shoestrings.
a jean jacket with the Legacy remix design, a mandala of waterbirds to remind us that we must always be changing directions.
A wooden cutting board engraved with the migration design that features peyote birds moving in opposite directions with a geometric design down the center.
A gift wrapped in the Two-Spirit pride gift wrapping nestled into pine and surrounded by pinecones.
It's #cybermonday! Shop Native, Shop Small......and you can do both in my little shop featuring tees, hoodies, jean jackets, skirts, dresses, engraved cutting and charcuterie boards, and one of a kind gift wrapping designed by me. Shop now at johnnie-jae-design.printify.me
01.12.2025 11:11 — 👍 41 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 1
watercolor painting with blobby shapes in red and blue
Not like the others...some arbuscular mycorrhiza in watercolor artologica.etsy.com/listing/4409... #sciart
21.11.2025 22:38 — 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
4 brain watercolors with black text about brains
Four new algorithm watercolors! Perfect for neuroscientists, deep thinkers, and zombies #sciart www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...
21.11.2025 22:25 — 👍 104 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 1
A light green ceramic cactus with Christmas lights.
The ceramic cactus lit up. It’s glorious.
Global warming Christmas tree. In my etsy shop. Surly.etsy.com available in two colors. This is the light green.
20.11.2025 19:07 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Re: www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
“This meant that physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical therapists and audiologist were [also] excluded from the list.”
Another blow for good paying middle class jobs courtesy of the orange demon.
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
