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I am thank you! I slept most of yesterday

I got my ovaries out for PMDD and gender care. So I sm very loaded up on painkillers and very sleepy

I might be a little quiet for a few days. I had surgery this morning and it is painful ngl

It seems like it should be intuitively obvious that in a capitalist society having even the tiniest amount of capital would lead to positive results?

A graphic of a gray background with multicolored stamps of famous landmarks. At the top in a black font with a pale orange outline it reads “December Subscriptions Open Now!”. Below this is a translucent gray rectangle. In the rectangle is the December theme image with the cover of Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea on the bottom left and the cover of Static Crush on the bottom right. Both book covers are outlined in a light blue frame.

Our December ✨ RUN AWAY WITH ME ✨ crate is now available for new subscribers and one time purchases!

🏳️‍🌈 Our December books are Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne and Static Crush by Alistair Reeves! 🧵

It's the last day of our very GAY sale! 🏳️‍🌈

what if there was a YET to part of this statement 👀

Stack of 4 books surrounded by a wreath. Shifting Gears To Catch A Firefly Starship Teapot Shroom for Improvement

The November boxes from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social with both RAD and the RC boxes. I adore the sprayed edges on these so much. Shroom For Improvement really is just so stunning. Photos don't even cut it.
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It sure will be!

If you wanted a gayer Grey's Anatomy without as many ethical horrors and conundrums then this is the book for you. Fake dating turned real love is one of my favorite tropes.

Who'd Have Thought By G. Benson featuring two femmes lovingly gazing at each other while the plus size Love Interest holds an extremely fat cat in front of a large window opening up to a city. Book set on a background of scrubs and florals

Who'd Have Thought dustjacket splayyed out

Hardcase with a golf foiled fat grumpy cat on the front and a qoute on the back "Turns out this year was the weirdest of her life. In all of the best ways."

Interior endpages with stethoscope, paw prints, and med bags

I'm sure you've heard about the @rainbowcrate.bsky.social Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale that ends today! So snag some past boxes and on sale books while you can. Who'd Have Thought is definitely one of my favorite past books!
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Good morning everyone! I am in the process of building a reading challenge next year centered around Environmental Justice Reading and Climate Anxiety! While those prompts are in the works designed to build on one another from a wide over view to intense depth. I have more photos incoming!
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Two boys lay in the moonlight lovingly gazing at each other surrounded by fireflies

The two mmcs lean in to kiss each other under the full moon in a grass field

The interior art for To Catch A Firelfy is so nostalgic. I think these boxes are on sale right now @rainbowcrate.bsky.social if anyone wants to snag them before theyre gone!

Interior endpage art of the two fmcs kissing in a lake

To Catch A Firefly by Emmy Sanders

Dust jacket for To Catch A Firefly splayed out

Foiling for To Catch A Firefly with the two mmcs kissing in a store as golden fireflies crawl across the cover. On the back hardcase is the gold foil qoute "He was my beginning and my never ending"

I love the foiling November's RAD books so much!
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Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester a lovely femme woman leans against a car as a strong butch flirts with her. To Catch A Firefly by Emmy Sanders two men longingly gaze at each other.

Shifting Gears dustjacket

Shifting Gears multi toned foiling with a strong woman hoisting up another woman to kiss her neck. On the back hardcase a tree house sits behind a car

Interior art for Shifting Gears of the two fmcs picnicking in a forest

The Books for November are Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester and To Catch a Firefly by Emmy Sanders! NSFW imagery ahead for the gorgeous foiling!
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A Dark box with neon rainbows down the side that says RAD rainbow after dark. Surrounded by a wreath with frosted berries

Theme card reads. Small town, big heart. In neon.

I also have my Rainbow After Dark box! Which honestly this may be one of my favorite themes for this box yet! Spoilers ahead! @rainbowcrate.bsky.social honestly they have phenomenal quarterly risqué boxes.
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Honestly I loved most of them. My issues with Palestine Laboratory even though it is written by a Jewish author borders into antisemitism by creating a narrative that makes it sound like Israel is some evil puppet master instead of a colonial project created by the US and England. Otherwise good

Its so cute! I believe @rainbowcrate.bsky.social has some on sale for cyber monday!

They're so cute and lovely! Hopefully customs stops being a jerk and gets your edition to you soon!!

The author for Starship Teapot can be found here! @clacksee.bsky.social
And the author for Shroom for Improvement is found here @jemmacroft.bsky.social

Starship Teapot dust jacket: @beanieworks.bsky.social
Starship Teapot hardcase: @enisestudio.bsky.social
Starship Teapot endpages: nisnow.art
Shroom for Improvement @katarqui.bsky.social
Shroom for Improvement hardcase: @cynicaldrawings.bsky.social

Thank you! It's nice to have my brain back 🤣

And They Were Roommates by Page Powars

Current Work Read between customers. I knooooow I've been slacking on RC reads. I'm working on catching up now tho! This is from Octobers box from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social
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2025 Reading Goals You have read 146 books this year Books 146/150 97% completed ahead by 8 Books

Be Intentional 2025: Full Version 90% 126/140 prompts done

Read more LGBT books in 2025 100% Tarot Reading Challenge 100%

Diverse Reading Challenge 93% complete 28/30 The Trope Trials Fantasy Reading Challenge 2025 100% 40/40 prompts done 100% bonus

And Last but not least and update on all the Challenges I Joined this year and their current progress!
#booksky #queersky #diversebooksky #readingchallenges
I will absolutely be joining @foreverinastory.bsky.social 2026 be intentional next year! And @becklovesbooks.bsky.social challenges!

AREN'T THEY LOVELY?

African Author Reccomendations My Life on The Bush of Ghosts Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi The Sleepless by Nuzo Onch My Sister The Serial Killer House Woman

Latin American Setting Rec Dangers of Smoking In Bed Brother Sister Mother Explorer Malasangre Vampyr by Carolina Andujar Literally by Cynthia Pelayo

Mainland Asian Author Out by Natsuo Ghosts of The Silent Hills Valley of Terror Good Son by You-Jeung The Hole by Hye-Young

Last slide! Whew. Thanks for sticking through that long post. As promised here is the stprygraph link. app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...
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Trans /2s recommendation How We End by LM Juniper Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina Lockjaw by Matteo L Cerilli Tell Me Im Worthless Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Nonbinary Reccomendations Model Home by Rivers Solomon They Bloom At Night The Honeys The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell Elation by Darcie Little Badger We Were Restless Things Demon Song Sister Maiden Monster

We're almost to the end for reccomendations!
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Middle Eastern Author Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami Oh Salaami The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq Yalo by Elias Khoury

Achillean Reccomendations Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle The Taking of Jake Livingston My Dear Henry The Forest Demands it Due by Kosoko Jackson Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning

Sapphic Reccomendations The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling Hearts Still Beating by Brooke Archer Youre not Supposed to Die Tonight A Guide to The Dark But Not Too Bold

Bisexual Reccomendations Hazelthorn I Fed Her to The Beast and The Beast Is Me Tenderly I am Devoured Her Body and Other Parties Into the Drowning Deep

Reccomendations continued! If you've read all of these again please consider shouting out with your own recs for others!
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Black Author Reccomendations The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Jackal by Erin E Adams The Ballad of Black Tom White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi The Macabre By Kosoko Jackson

Asian Author Reccomendations Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim Tomie by Junji Ito Yellowface by R.F Kuang

Latine Author Reccomendations Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas Piñata by Leopoldo Gout The Unworthy by Augustina Bazterica

Indigenous Author Reccomendations Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice White Horse by Erika T Wurth The Only Good Indians by Stephan Graham Jones The Unfinished by Cheryl Issacs

Here are some reccomendations from myself to start you off. If you've already read all of these the PLEASE comment some of your own reccomendations!
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Spooky 2026 Diversify your horror Reading across identities Prompts and recs by @whirloglyphics Featuring a red background with zombies coming out of a grave.

Prompts Written by a Black Author Written by an Asian Author Written by a Latine Author Written by an Indigenous Author Written by A Middle Eastern Author

Achillean MC/Author (mlm) Sapphic MC/Author (wlw) Bisexual MC/Author Trans and/or 2S MC/Author Nonbinary MC/Author Aspec MC/Author

Set in or by an African Author Set in or Translated from Latin America Set in or Translated from a mainland Asian Author

And since I'm back on my bullshit. I've created a diversify your horror reada challenge for 2026! It can be found on storygraph which will be linked at the end.
#booksky #diversebooksky #queersky #readersky #readingchallenge