@sleepyoceans.bsky.social
They/them. Queer. AuDHD. Bookworm.
Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
15.05.2025 14:55 — 👍 2576 🔁 746 💬 95 📌 294I'm actually so exhausted but it's almost 2am and I'm wide awake. I neeeeeeeed sleep! I wish my partner was here.
16.05.2025 00:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've been spending so much time with my partner lately that I physically cannot sleep now that I'm away from them for the night lmao how am I gonna cope when I go home for the summer and can't just spend every night at their place because I have to go to work???
16.05.2025 00:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There are loads of amazing short stories in this anthology, spanning a variety of genres! My one is about a mysteriously locked door and finding the courage to accept yourself 🚪🗝️
15.05.2025 07:17 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I'm going to start off this thread with Changelings: An Autistic Trans Anthology edited by @arvwriter.bsky.social
www.waterstones.com/book/changel...
Authors,
I am literally begging you,
when you post trying to sell your book,
give us *some* idea of what it's *about*.
Maybe I need it! How am I supposed to know when you just say "my book is on sale"??
🙏
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Ignore All Previous Instructions By Ada Hoffmann Imprint: Tachyon Publications, Recorded Books Author of THE OUTSIDE Ada Hoffmann's IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS, a light sci-fi novel pitched as a queer coming-of-age with an autistic main character and a cutting satire about AI in publishing, conglomeration of corporate ownership in media, and censorship and book banning, by Jacob Weisman at Tachyon Publications, with Jaymee Goh editing, for publication in spring 2026, by Hannah Bowman at Liza Dawson Associates. Audo rights to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books. Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy April 8, 2025
YOOOOOOOOOO
09.04.2025 19:33 — 👍 274 🔁 64 💬 28 📌 13yall better not watch that damn show. do not go to the park or the play, do not buy the books, do not give that hateful old creep another dollar.
17.04.2025 13:28 — 👍 600 🔁 99 💬 17 📌 5"let people enjoy things!!!" well i enjoy basic civil liberties for my friends and family but she won't leave them the fuck alone so 🤷♀️
17.04.2025 13:31 — 👍 200 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
A photo of a black dad cap with pink text embroidered on the front which reads "no cops at pride"
A side profile of the cap
New caps available on my website now 🌈
#queerartist #transartist #smallbusiness
I've been shortlisted for the "committee member of the year" award at uni, and I am SO excited for the awards evening next week! I doubt I'm gonna win because the shortlist is actually pretty long, but it'll be a good night regardless!
26.03.2025 23:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It looks so good!! I can't wait 😁
26.03.2025 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I got tickets to see The Hunger Games On Stage!!! 😍
25.03.2025 11:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In other news, the narrator for this audiobook is brilliant. I don't have much experience with audiobooks, but this is brilliant and engaging. I've only had to rewind a few times (due to zoning out). I usually zone out from audibooks A LOT more, hence not my usual reading method.
21.03.2025 08:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Obviously I know who wins the games in SotR, and therefore, that all the other tributes will die, but google didn't have to tell me that the character I was googling would have the most gruesome death.
21.03.2025 08:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don't usually listen to audiobooks, but I'm listening to Sunrise on the Reaping, and I googled one of the characters' names to check the spelling, and it gave me a spoiler about his death.
21.03.2025 08:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0SUNRISE ON THE REAPING - MINOR SPOILER
Chapter 8 of SotR is so heartbreaking. Beetee?! Iykyk. I'm crying. The cruelty of it all 💔
I got scammed out of £20 by a homeless guy this evening which fucking SUCKS because as a uni student I'm pretty skint and I needed that money for food 😭
19.03.2025 20:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SotR is so tragic already I can't cope
19.03.2025 10:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm on chapter 4 of Sunrise on the Reaping, and I have to say that Maysilee Donner is iconic the way she's dragging Drusilla 💀
19.03.2025 10:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of ‘I Shall Never Fall in Love’ graphic novel by Hari Conner. Behind the curly title, a drawing of three teens sat outside in historical england: on the left a black girl with a cup of tea, sat beside a white girl looking romantically towards a white person with a kind of gender ambiguous skirt-but-also-cravat outfit
Photo of 'Into the tower, a choose your own path book' by Hari Conner, showing a ridiculously tall medeival looking tower with a big burst of crazy magic stuff (monsters, strange objects and flying ships) through the centre. Above, the graphic shows a black & white interior illustration and says 'no DM or experience required' and a screenshot of a 5 star review titled 'have died many times'
hey. if you’re looking for books for #TransRightsReadathon #trr25 have you considered
I Shall Never Fall in Love: regency romcom, graphic novel. Austen + real queer history mashup plot with a n-b/ transmasc MC
Into the Tower: a choose-your-own-path (and gender) weird fantasy
A illustrated book cover in the vein of 50’s lesbian pulp meets 80’s action movie poster, two women run through the flames of a crashing plane. The title reads NO BODY NO CRIME.
Cover Reveal of my gals! Drawn by the incredible Zoë van Dijk @creepcaptain.bsky.social who gave me my dream cover. Out with MCD/FSG in July!
13.03.2025 16:58 — 👍 40 🔁 14 💬 7 📌 1Today, I've learnt 3 BSL signs through tiktok. I just hope I remember them tomorrow so I can show my friends and we can practice them together so they'll stick in my brain!
12.03.2025 23:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am always pleasantly surprised to see Changelings in complications like this. Thank you for promoting my book! ✨️
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Book Recs 1/4, Neurodivergent Rep: The Broposal by Sonora Reyes (autistic author & MC). Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (selective mutism, neurodivergence). Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (love interest and author have ADHD). A Tale of Hijinks and Honeydew by Alex Nonymous. Under the Dragon Moon by Mawce Hanlin (autism). Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution (neurodivergence).
Book Recs 2/4, Neurodivergence: The Deep by Rivers Solomon (autism & ADHD author). Changelings: An Autistic Trans Anthology. Uncomfortable Labels by Laura Kate Dale (autism). The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor (autism). The Duke Steals Hearts and Other Body Parts by Elias Cold (neurodivergent; releases May 2025). Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (autism).
Book Recs 3/4, Physical Disability and Chronic Illness: How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva. Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliott McLemore (chronic pain, mobility aid use). Survival and Other Surprises by Casper E. Falls (chronic illness and long Covid, releases April 2025). Gays of Our Lives by Kris Ripper (MS). Nine of Swords, Reversed by Xan West (arthritis). Knot Body by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (chronic illness).
Book Recs 4/4, Misc. Disability Rep: Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (disability justice). Trans and Disabled, an anthology. Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker (Deaf rep). A Bone in His Teeth by Kellen Graves (injury, chronic pain, cane user). Fight + Flight by Jules Machias (hEDS & anxiety). Continuum by Chella Man (Deaf rep).
Looking for some disability rep in your trans+ books? We’ve compiled a list of titles, along with the type of representation they include. There are lots more to choose from on our StoryGraph, and as always, drop your suggestions below!
#booksky #transrightsreadathon #trr25
Please understand me when I say that you cannot talk yourself out of criminal charges. You can, however, talk yourself into them.
"I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present" is the ONLY thing you should EVER say to a police officer, EVER.
Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
Netgalley approved me for an ARC of Gifted and Talented by @olivieblake.bsky.social 😍
12.03.2025 01:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Haha, fair enough! I'm excited regardless 🤣
Fab! I'll keep my eyes peeled, I can't wait to see what you release next 😍
