This is so scary! And could become totally possible in our countries. Homosexual love is not βobsceneβ.
ππ ππ³οΈβπ #pride #danmei
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This is so scary! And could become totally possible in our countries. Homosexual love is not βobsceneβ.
ππ ππ³οΈβπ #pride #danmei
NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO!
i thought you were all maybe a little sick of hearing trans book recs from me β¦ so i asked the bookish community!
thank you SO much to the wonderful creators who helped fill this video with books to help us all prep for the 2025 @trreadathon.bsky.social!
youtu.be/AJILpnexf10
An announcement graphic for the 2025 Trans Rights Readathon: #TRR25... Mark Your Calendars! Save the Date! 11 Days of Reading & Calls to Action. March 21-31, 2025. More info on how to sign up and participate coming soon!
Since January of this year, US government websites have been removing any reference to trans and nonbinary identities---including the website for the Stonewall National Monument. Yes, that Stonewall. But weβre still here, and weβre not going anywhere.
15.02.2025 19:08 β π 55 π 27 π¬ 2 π 5I finished it yesterday!! Even better than book 1
22.02.2025 13:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There is no anxiety quite like the waiting room anxiety of waiting to hear back from a job application π«
22.02.2025 12:30 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Yes, he's in the process of working out that he's allo aro π€ππ€
22.02.2025 03:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0In the Care of Magic by Robin Jo Margaret. A white curvy woman standing in front of a kneeling agender demon with grey skin, in the woods
Aromantic spicy fantasy book rec of the day.
A tired witch takes a solo holiday to a cottage and summons an agender, aromantic sex demon to help her⦠relax. The two have a lot of fun⦠relaxing.
This is so great! #booksky #queerbooksky #aromanticawarenessweek
AHHHHHH, it's so GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD and then watching The Ravening War afterwards is like π€―
20.02.2025 13:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia. Illustration of a White City surrounded by red patterns, a large hand dripping blood from above.
Aromatic fantasy book rec of the day.
In a city ravaged by a magical plague, a non-binary aroace healer from a refugee community tries to find a cure.
This was SUCH a brilliant novella. Iβm usually scared of medical plots but I was hooked.
#booksky #aroawarenessweek #diversebooksky
If you're a UK author, illustrator, creative, it's important to have your say by 25th February re. the government's stance on copyright protection and AI. @fossilfreebooks.org has a breakdown on their ig about what you can do.
www.instagram.com/p/DGQktlEIxd...
Marsha and Sylvia and Holly and countless others wonβt be erased. And fuck βLGBβ I donβt want anything to do with it.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2USwPrQ/
Werecockroach is a novella about first contact and people who turn into cockroaches. The lead is aromantic, asexual, agender, disabled and non-white. Everyone's working class, except the aliens. It's a gentle story.
www.polenthblake.com/words/cockro...
#AroWeek #ASAW #QueerBookSky #DiverseBookSky
Happy #AroWeek, y'all!
To celebrate, my queer aro-spec M/M Grumpy Human/Sunshine Vampire STAKE SAUCE (Books 1 and 2, + BITE SIZED STORIES, a collection of Sauce shorts!) are on sale for 50% off! (And also my award-finalist CHAMELEON MOON audiobook, because why not!)
Enjoy! :D
Your friendly reminder that ALL my clear aro rep books are on sale for this #AroWeek! Support an aro author and get some really cool (mostly cosy) SFF for your TBR!
AND, unlike certain billionaires, these are ebooks you get to KEEP. (And, y'know, more of the sale goes directly to me.)
Drawing of a silver arrow with white and green arborvitae and pear blossom plants around it. The background is dark green with larger faint versions of the same art at the edges.
happy #aroweek ππ€π€
#aromantic #art
Digital graphic recommending books with aromantic spectrum representation. The graphic has a dark green background. In the bottom left and top right corners are a wavy depiction of the Aromantic flag which is five stripes of dark green, light green, white, Gray and black. At the top aligned left is text reading "books with arospec representation on my tbr" in a white serif font with a light green drop shadow. Below that are the covers of 12 books across 3 lines each with a light green drop shadow. The books are, from left to right, as follows: - Godly Heathens by H E Edgmon - In The Care Of Magic by Robin Jo Margaret - In The Jaws Of An Oak by Emryn Bird - Tea You At The Altar by Rebecca Thorne - Moonshine by Jasmine Gower - Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault - Natural Outlaws And Fractured Sovereignty by S M Pearce - Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault - The Stones Stay Silent by Danny Ride - Elatsoe by Darcy Little Badger - Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace - Come Drink With Me by Michelle Kan Under Come Drink With Me is my username @ermreading written in white serif font with a light green drop shadow and under that is the hashtag #ArospecAwarenessWeek
So you've had my recs but here's what's on my TBR with aro representation ππ€π€
Definitely gonna try and get to a few during Aro Week ππ€π€
Full list in alt text βοΈ
#Booksky #QueerBookSky #AroWeek #aromantic #asaw
Ofc!! Tarnished and Fire Becomes Her both did ππ₯°π€π₯°π€
17.02.2025 22:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Itchio Aro Week Sale, 20% off. The image is built in the colours of the aromantic pride flag (greens, black, and white) and has the covers for six books: City of Strife, City of Betrayal, Baker Thief, Snowstorm & Overgrowth, Awakenings, Flooded Secrets.
It's #AroWeek and while I *am* running a Kickstarter to bring more aromantic SFF into the world, in the meantime you can buy some of my existing books at a discount!
ππ πππ« #AspecAuthors #AromanticAwarenessWeek
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Just PLEEEEEEASE make them high enough contrast to scan, we have so many magazines at work with neon ones that our scanner simply will not read π
17.02.2025 16:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hi! Arospec author from Brazil here! All my stories are 50% off this week in celebration! Links in the thread below!
bsky.app/profile/mayb...
Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter. A white blonde man in a tan coat stands in foliage, a skeleton hand touching his shoulder from behind
Aromantic fantasy book rec of the day.
An aroace student gets turned into a vampire, found by a vampire punk band, and brought into the fold. Heβs harbouring a secret however, a mysterious force within him, and itβs getting strongerβ¦
Loved this! #booksky #queerbooksky #aroawarenessweek
The video is a lil too long for on here but if you wanna hear about what books with Arospec Rep I'm reading this week, check out my tiktok ππ€π€
vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1ucugq/
#booksky #queerbooksky #aroweek #aromantic
Well, they got me, I've secretly been lying to you all... I don't actually read π€£π€£π€£π€£
My whole life is apparently a lie π
A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
I feel that, working out which micro-label fits can be so hard π« I'm similar in that I generally use aromantic but it doesn't quite describe the nuance of my experience
17.02.2025 11:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's not just aroaces, it's for anyone on the aromantic spectrum including alloaros, greyromantics, demiromantics, etc.
As long as they're aro spec, they're included ππ€π€
Oh you KNOW I'll be posting recs all week ππ₯°π€π₯°π€
16.02.2025 23:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I need to keep going with the series as well as picking up Claudie's other books!!
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