Finished in September: 🎧 Private Rites by Julia Armfield read by Hannah van der Westhuysen. A dismal, disqueiting, and apocalyptic novel loosely based on King Lear. Highly recommend. #QueerBooks

Finished in September: 🎧 Looking for Smoke by K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) read by Julie Lumsden, Katie Anvil Rich, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, and Jordan Waunch. Thriller told in the voices of four teens. I cried multiple times listening to it. I'm looking forward to whatever Cobell writes next.

Finished in September: 🎧 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston read by Natalie Naudus. Slightly less steamy than The Pairing, this paranormal-light romance was sweet and satisfying. #QueerBooks

Finished in September: 🎧 Exhalation by Ted Chiang read by Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon, Ted Chiang. I didn't know that Chiang wrote Arrival until after I finished this collection of short stories. He's an amazing writer with novel takes on the meaning of being human. #QueerBooks

Finished in September: 📕 Someone You Can Build a Nest in by John Wiswell. Romantic horror. So so good! Read It! #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 🎧 The Pairing by Casey McQuiston read by Emma Galvin and Max Meyers. This is a capital R romance novel and it is very good and very hot! #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 📕 Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure: A Graphic Novel by Lewis Hancox. Trans coming of age memoir set in the U.K. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

Finished in August: 📕 Belly Full of Heart by Madeline Mouse. Cute, not super memorable. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

Finished in August: 🎧 Guilt by Association by Gregory Ashe read by Tristan James. I'm still hooked on these despite the painful internalized homophobia of the main characters (and the externalized homophobia of Wahredua, Missouri). #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 🎧 Paternity Case by Gregory Ashe read by Tristan James. More Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset fighting, flirting, and solving mysteries. But I really didn't enjoy the horrific crime in this one. #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 🎧 Transposition by Gregory Ashe read by Tristan James. I have mixed feelings about this entries series of "will they (detective partners), won't they" and "hate to love" mysteries. But I am reading all of them. #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 🎧 The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill read by Shaan Dasani. Time travel, the meaning of homecoming and friendship, and a trans protagonist wrestling with growing up. #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 🎧 Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs read by Saskia Maarleveld. Engaging speculative fiction, with satisfying puzzles and a new take on magic. #QueerBooks

Finished in July: 📕 Plane Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol. Especially loved the characters and ending. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

Finished in July: 🎧 In Case You Read This by Edward Underhill, read by Shaan Dasani and Logan Rozos. Cute trans gay romance. #QueerBooks

Book cover. Text reads: Women of Our Time, Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology, Kathleen V. Kudlinski. The image is a painted portrait of an older women with short wavy hair, wearing a red jacket, with binoculars hanging around her neck. She is leaning against a tree. There is a small puffin logo in the bottom right hand corner of the cover.

Finished in July: 📕 Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology by Kathleen V. Kudlinski. I found this in a #littlefreelibrary. I didn't really know anything about her and this was a great overview. Well researched and well written. #Nonfiction books written for tweens are often solid intros to a subject.

Audiobook cover. Text reads: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight. A metal shield with a spider etched into its face is surrounded by hot red and yellow fire.

Finished in July: 🎧 Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky, read by the author. Finally, I've read one of Tchaikovsky's books! He's a brilliant writer and very good narrator! Hey, I like spiders. If you don't, heed the title, heavy spider content. #Fantasy

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Annalee Newitz: Automatic Noodle - Macmillan Publishers Join acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz for a discussion of their cozy near-future novella, Automatic Noodle.

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Book cover. Text reads: Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz, "A story I didn't know I needed right now. So much fun!" -Martha Wells, bestselling author of The Murderbot Diaries. The illustration on the cover shows a giant robot hand holding chopsticks that are pulling thick noodles out of a rectangular food holding box. Another robot sits on the edge of the box. In front of the box starting at the sitting robots feet is a cityscape with the Golden Gate Bridge. In the right-hand corner is a robot with three jointed, insectile metal legs and long hair. On the left hand-side toward bottom two arms with two-pronged claws reaches inward. One claw holds a whisk.

Finished in July: 🎧 Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz, read by Em Grosland. Cozy, post-apocalyptic, novella about robots running a restaurant. Some peril. Inherently queer. If you Becky Chambers' books, you will like this. Stand out narration on the audiobook too!

Finished in July: 📕 Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane by Cat Rambo; short story. #QueerBooks

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Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io Payment platforms demand services remove NSFW content after open letter from Australian anti-porn group Collective Shout, triggering accusations of censorship

The Guardian just covered the Steam / itchio situation

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Book cover. Text reads: Now, Conjurers, Freddie Kölsch. A young man stares out at the viewer. He has a star shaped patch of vitiligo over his left eye. He has dark brown wavy hair, his skin is a light to medium tan, his eyes are a bright, light brown. He is holding a skeleton style key on a chain in his left hand. His hand with the key is resting on his chin. He is wearing black silky cloth with stars sprinkled across it. The cloth draped over him visually connects to the same cloth above and behind him. Reaching out from the cloth behind him are two red hands. The hands are gripping his shoulders in an aggressive way.

Finished in July: 🎧 Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch, read by Giordan Diaz. Murder, magic, queer teens, and the Quabbin Reservoir. Set in 1999. If you like light horror and ya, highly recommend. ##QueerBooks

Queer Coven TTRPG. QUEER COVEN "Join the Queer Coven in this rules lite polymoph TTRPG born from a collaboration between Tabletop Gaymers and 9th Level Games in celebration of our 10-year Gay-aversary! You are a Magi! A magic user, a WITCH! With the help of your friends, learn about your new identity and how to move through the world. Build community, make friends, find the meaning of love and family, and learn just what you were meant to be. Welcome to the Queer Coven!" The game coven says Queer Coven. Powered by Polymorph. Written by Bug Boll and Adriel Wilson. Seven Queer cartoon Witches hanging out doing various tasks in a room with a rainbow carpet. A troll looks in through the window. The spell sheet has all the import parts of being a queer witch, including divination, enchantment, transmutation, and invocation.

@adriellee.bsky.social and I wrote a fun little game about being Queer Witches for @tabletopgaymers.bsky.social 10th Anniversary! It is sweet, light, and a gay ol' time!

You'll be able to pick this cozy bad boi up starting at @Gencon!

Check out The Queer Coven!

Bpol cover. Orange phoenixes gather around the edges of the image. They are on top mostly blue foliage with some green leaves in it. Text reads: The Phoenix Keeper | Falling in love never burned so bright.... | S. A. Maclean

Finished in July: 🎧 The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. Maclean, read by Stephanie Bentley. Cozy novel about an anxious, queer zookeeper, who wants to restore the endangered phoenix population. Enemies to lovers. This was cute but the main character annoyed me quite a bit. #QueerBooks #AudioBooks

Book cover. Yellow text reads: Emily Austin, Gay Girl Prayers, Poems. The word Prayers in the title is broken out into four lines, Gay | Girl | Pray | Ers. Which gives it a cool double meaning. The text covers a drawn black and gray image of a young nun gazing upwards. She faces to the right.

Finished in July: 📚 Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austen; poetry. Austen reinterprets bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities. My favorites are the Matthew 25 series. #QueerBooks #Poetry

Audiobook cover. Text reads: The Emperor and the Endless Palace, Justinian Huang. The background image is of a person's arm and part of their side in a brightly colored and pattern silk robe. A hand comes up from the bottom of the image holding a bitten peach, a river flows from beneath the peach. There's a peach tree, a black cat, part of a dragons tail, and a three tailed white fox.

Finished in June: 🎧 The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang read by Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao, Telly Leung. A multiple lifetime spanning queer romantasy. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of "on screen" sex, definitely a book for adults. I wanted more from the ending. #QueerBooks

Audiobook cover. A brightly colored picture of a dead planet with a spired building in the background. The ground and the building are shades of pink. The sky is blue with multicolored dots for stars. Also in the sky is another pink planet, some space junk, a teal planet with a ring that a space ship flies in front of, and a teal planet with two intersecting pink rings and a thin blue ring. An orange and white cat in a space suit hovers in the sky. There's a publisher's logo on the upper left hand corner. It's a line drawing of a squirrel with text reading Hanover Square Press underneath it. Text on the cover reads: Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe.

Finished in June: 🎧 The Last Gifts of the Universe: A Novel by Riley August read by Robyn Holdaway, Ayesha Antoine, Chris Thompson. This book has some interesting an important things to say, though the plot didn't stick with me at all. However, there is a space cat. #QueerBooks