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I’m curious what everyone’s favourite Indigenous SFF book is? 👀
I think mine for sure is the Between Earth and Sky trilogy by Rebecca Roanhorse #booksky

Sorry I’ve been absent. Been crashing out as one does.

Having a job that involves having to speak to aggressive clients

ON MY KNEES FOR THIS

a medieval style digital drawing in progress. there’s an ornate border around the edges, with gold hearts filled with flowers and pink and blue scrollwork, with some spaces left to be filled by little beasts. in the center, a sainted knight with brown skin, wearing the trans flag as a cape, sits on horseback and stabs a long spear into a dragon. there’s gothic text over the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will”

working on something sick as hell

Lunar Boy is such a beautiful exploration of belonging, queer identity, and Indonesian culture wrapped in a coming of age story about diaspora struggles. #BookSky #TransRightsReadathon

Let’s talk about sapphic romance and why yall hate them.

I forgot to mention this in the video but yall also center men way too much in your lives so that’s another reason why you hate wlw books #sapphicbooks

palestinian accounts on bsky are being repeatedly deleted over & over forcing them to rebuild their platforms & now the funds that they've worked so hard to raise in order to try to find a better future, just survive even, are being stolen from them. it's not okay

It’s Neurodiversiry Celebration Week!

Here are my top 4 books with neurodivergent MCs, and they all happen to have BIPOC MCs too.

#booksky #diversebooksky

Im really disappointed that everyone really dropped the ball on Oathbound. I recognize this MAY be a publisher issue, but it’s sorta weird to me Fairyloot hasn’t said a peep about whatever special edition they’re doing for it. If it’s bc of a publisher then they REALLY did a disservice to it.

“But I say it this way in my head I can’t change now!!”
You literally can? You can literally try? It’s not hard - even Kuang in her guide speaks these names in flat affect without tonal inflection. It’s literally the easiest way you can try. You were giving training wheels and you still refuse.

Screencap of a video with the words ‘When I found out Nezha is pronounced ‘Nah-jab’ in whole text over a brown bookcase.

Oof. The comments under this video are Not It. Saying with your whole chest that a language sounds ‘goofy’ and you ‘won’t even try’ is wild. Pinyin isn’t some made up fantasy language to write in - it’s a romanization commonly used. Refusing to even TRY is just racist shit.

“It’s not a badge of honor to have my creative work denigrated as obscene, especially when that work is about queer people and people of color. It’s offensive to have my work mischaracterized this way.” — Malinda Lo

Some people think getting your books banned is a badge of honor, but it’s not. As I told Ms. Mag: “It’s not a badge of honor to have my creative work denigrated as obscene, especially when that work is about queer people and people of color. It’s offensive to have my work mischaracterized this way.”

Ok, here’s the 🇨🇦 artists with commissions #starterpack!

There’s still room to join - reply or DM. It’s for 🇨🇦 artists only, no AI/ NFT

Usually I re-read my faves or swap genres but nothing seems to be working. I need some book catnip

Been back in a reading slump ugh. It’s been a YEAR can I PLEASE read something???

“Oh you work in policy that must be so boring”
Idk man working with grassroots organizations and developing relationships grounded in kinship and reciprocity has been one of the most amazing experiences of my life and has shaped my career goals.

A long haired brown tabby cat with yellow-green eyes laying in the sunlight.

Everyone say hello to Daisy. 🌼💜

Rep to Read: Trans Women and Femmes. What We Mean: A work by an author and/or featuring a main character who identifies as a trans woman or on the feminine side of the trans experience, which can include people who view their gender along the expansive nonbinary spectrum.

Book recs 1/3: She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya. Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon. The Default World by Naomi Kanakia. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom. Embodied Exegesis, anthology.

Book recs 2/3: Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao. Dulhaniyaa by Talia Bhatt. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor. Paper Doll by Dylan Mulvaney. Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul by Ryka Aoki. The Price on Her Head by Suzanne Clay.

Book recs 3/3: Didn’t Nobody Give a 💩 What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham. Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo Duvall. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo. US by Sarah Soler. Fairest by Meredith Talusan. Safe and Sound by Mercury Stardust.

Looking for some book recs for your #TRR25 #tbr? We’ve put together some suggestions for one of our five core prompts, trans women and transfemme rep! You can see what other people have suggest on our #transrightsreadathon StoryGraph challenge. We’d love to know your suggestions, too.

It’s ebbing but I suspect it’ll linger for a few days. It’s not unusual for winter pressure changes to cause them and we had three storms back to back ;;

Anyone local who may want to check out a fantastic fantasy author and their equally fantastic duology. 💜
They are sincerely one of my favourite authors and have always been kind and sweet in our interactions. If you haven’t read Deagonfall yet, you’re in for a real treat!!

Oh god. I haven’t had a migraine this bad in years. I felt like a gunshot hit my head and I immediately lost my stomach and had to crawl to bed to try and rest.
It’s dulled to being tolerable but ugh.

Text: All about the 2025 Trans Rights Readathon. How to sign up, participate, dates, and more!

Text: Mark your calendars. This year the Trans Rights Readathon will be Friday, March 21st through Monday, March 31st! This year is longer than the last two years.

Text: What is the Trans Rights Readathon? The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual decentralized call to action for readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st.

Text: The TRR isn't just reading, it's action! The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out works by and/or about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender non-conforming authors and characters along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level. We have three core goals: Uplift. Amplify. Support.

The 2025 Trans Rights Readathon starts on March 21st and runs through the 31st. The goal of this event is to Uplift, Amplify, and Support trans authors, trans stories, and trans communities. 🏳️‍⚧️💙💗🤍

In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less:

Pick ONE thing and do it.
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STUNNING. PERFECTION.

FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN ☀️🧡

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These fuckers (affectionate, lovingly) didn’t let me sleep.

Jem reaching down to her is killing me he’s such a baby.