Casper Oliver 👻🌈📚

I grew up as a girl, and lemme tell you: the Mean Girls (and the Mean Gays they tokenized) were utterly traumatizing.
They weren't cool.
People were relieved to get away from them.

Grow up, please, for yourself and our entire community.

A truly beautiful bird that is a light to medium muted pink color who's feathers cover it like a dress or skirt it has black legs and a very long light pink beak

Roseate Spoonbill bird in flight

So many folks need a reminder that Regina George was a BULLY, not GOALS.

The sheer amount of grown women, femme-enbies, and drag queens I see putting their feminine identity into the Mean Girls flavor makes my heart hurt.

Elle Woods is RIGHT FREAKING THERE.

ICE agents tear-gassed kids. This is not law enforcement. Leave our city alone.

In the foreground, two vampires ride a teal tandem bicycle. In front, a white man with graying hair, a light gray suit, and bright red tie holds a pink slushie and looks adoringly at his husband behind him, who has luscious curly black hair, a plum purple suit, puffy cravat, and is holding a blood red popsicle. In the front basket, a black cat perches with her paws up. Behind them, a festival is underway with bright pink tents and red flags in front of dark green trees. People mill about, some wearing pointy witch hats. Yellow text with a pink drop shadow spells out "SUMMER COVEN" over a dark blue sky with a yellow crescent moon at the top, and at the bottom in yellow text is "Authors of Dead & Breakfast" just above "Kat Hillis & Rosiee Thor"

🩸COVER REVEAL! 🩸

Arthur and Sal are back for another romp in SUMMER COVEN! This time, the summer solstice festival plays host to a mysterious coven of witches, some bold fashion choices, and one horrible murder.

Artist: Liam Eisenberg
Designer: Colleen Reinhart

www.rosieethor.com/summer-coven

The Death and Rebirth of the Queer Bookstore Hi! Before we get started… Right now, you can get a Humble Bundle including everything Annalee Newitz and I have published with Tor for just $18 (plus...

Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything!

Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns.

My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop:

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Indie authors using Draft2Digital, this does indeed work, and your self pubs can now be sold on bookshop.org

A stack of paperback advance reader copies of Being Aro sit on a black stool with small painted cherries. On the cover, the title is written in big black letters against a green gradient background. Interwoven with the letters is a person with green skin, short black hair, white clothes and platform boots. They kneeling on the ground and are aiming a bow and arrow to the upper right. They are wearing the aromantic flag around their neck and it is trailing out behind them like a cape.

Ohohoho ARCS have landed!

BEING ARO, my next book co edited with Madeline Dyer, releases in May from Page Street! I’m so hyped to share this collection with y’all and celebrate aromantic stories!

Did you know #Kanopy has anime? Among the selections is the 1996 cyberpunk classic "Ghost In The Shell." It's our @kanopy.com #FlickOfTheWeek, and you can stream it here with your library card: bit.ly/4qlqZp5

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Earlier today we passed 5 million user signups! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who’s tried the product so far and tells their friends to do the same! ❤️

We’re improving StoryGraph every single day, based on all of your wonderful feedback.

We have huge plans for 2026. Stay tuned!

YouTube video by Psychology with Dr. Ana The Psychology of Predators

I always love videos by Dr. Ana! This one is very good and gives a breakdown into predatory people in society & how they navigate relationships. From classmates to politicians, neighbors to the elite, this video gives great insight into common inner-workings of predators.
youtu.be/PWqjCcsQUQ4?...

Oregon looks to regulate AI chatbots After ‘missing the boat’ on social media regulation, an Oregon senator cites mental health concerns, youth access as key issues with unregulated AI use.

Oregon looks to regulate AI chatbots https://loom.ly/-fmuuuc

Salinas, Merkley, immigrant rights advocates speak against ICE in Woodburn The two lawmakers from Oregon introduced a bill to enable people whose rights were violated by immigration officers to sue the federal government.

Salinas, Merkley, immigrant rights advocates speak against ICE in Woodburn https://loom.ly/G09CuII

MAGA is having some difficult feelings and definitely not using their big person words.

Be who you are!

Hello BLUE SKY!

My name is Nick Walden Poublon. I was the '24 Democratic nominee for Oregon HD 52. I narrowly lost a race against the Republican Minority Leader who stepped down from that position after eking out a win on me. I have three cats, a husband I love and a country I'm desperate to save.

I am running for office in what local papers call one of the truly flippable district in the state of Oregon.

We have a chance to turn a red district BLUE.

I'm calling on all Oregonians because when I am sent to Salem I will represent ALL of us.

Reply, DM me, reach out!

Doodled Pombon, the new Puppy Pokémon :3

Doodled the new Fire Puppy :3c

This Hit Series Wasn’t Created for Black Fans. We Made It Our Own Anyway. Our long and complicated relationship with the late Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball.

Akira Toriyama died two years ago today. When he passed, I explained how Black American fans of Dragon Ball reinterpreted the series into a contemporary pillar of our culture.

I loved writing this essay, and I hope you enjoy it, too. Piccolo is wearing a wave cap.

slate.com/culture/2024...

People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE if you can help my good friend raven i will draw a little chibi of your ocs! :3 $25 will get you one little guy and $40 will get you two little guys! shoot me a dm if you were interested and we can work stuff out 😏

YouTube video by PH Company Kelly Clarkson - All The Things She Said (Cover t.A.T.u.) (Live on The Kelly Clarkson Show)

How am I just now seeing this, holy shit

Picture of a man laying down in the Undead Asylum in Dark Souls. The text "Taxes Filed" is displayed in yellow on the center.

Trump warns Iran not to retaliate after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed The Iranian government has announced 40 days of mourning. The country's supreme leader was killed following an attack launched by the U.S. and Israel on Saturday against Iran.

The Iranian government has announced 40 days of mourning. The country's supreme leader was killed following an attack launched by the U.S. and Israel on Saturday against Iran. n.pr/3MX0Df9

Graphic for #TBRuary Wrap-Up - A collaborative reading list building challenge hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social - An illustration of multiple books on a green shelf is followed by the twenty-eight books chosen for the challenge. There are four lines of book covers corresponding to a prompt per day. The books are: 1: CINEMONSTERS 2: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS - Omar El Akkad 3: KAPPA - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 4: OUR SHARE OF NIGHT - Mariana Enriquez 5: THE REAL LIVES OF TRANSGENDER AND NONBINARY HUMANS - Brandi Lai 6: A GAME IN YELLOW - Hailey Piper 7: LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR - Mizuki Tsujimura 8: VILLETE - Charlotte Brontë 9: CHILDREN OF TIME - Adrian Tchaikovsky 10: KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 - Cho Nam-Joo 11: CECILIA - Francis Burney 12: NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US - Premee Mohamed 13: THE LAMB - Lucy Rose 14: FABRICATING WOMEN - Clare Haru Crowston 15: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FUNGAL KIND - Richard Fortey 16: DOPPELGANGER - Naomi Klein 17: THE VAMPIRE LESTAT - AMC poster 18: THE WEIRD (edited by) Ann and Jeff VanderMeer 19: BENEATH STRANGE LIGHTS - Vivian Moira Valentine 20: WINTER TIDE - Ruthanna Emrys 21: ALL SYSTEMS RED - Martha Wells 22: HOUSE OF LEAVES - Mark Z. Danielewski 23: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - Fyodr Dostoevsky 24: NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH - Cassandra Khaw 25: Book 1 BLOOMS OF ARCANA (promo) - D. Hale Rambo 26: POOR THINGS - Alasdair Gray 27: BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY - Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller 28: JANE EYRE - Charlotte Brontë

Well, I had fun! 😊

Here’s my #TBRuary reading list. All twenty-eight #books picked from my #TBR for the twenty-eight prompts.

#BookSky
Are any of these on your TBR?
Have you read any?

Thank you so much to @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social for creating and hosting this reading list-building challenge!

Four figures on a featureless gray background. From left to right: 1) Tarek: A tall non-human figure in dark gray body armor with dark gray skin and a shark-like face with a fin-like crest walks and talks to the figure beside him. 2) Jenna: A white human woman with short black hair and all-black pants, shirt, and jacket carries what looks like a colorful cell phone while looking up at the figure beside her and smiling. 3) Dani: A non-binary human with warm tan skin and short, curly chestnut hair wearing a dirty blue jumpsuit kneels to play with a small silver droid. 4) Esti: A Black woman with voluminous shoulder-length hair and gold jewelry wearing a well-tailored blue jumpsuit stands with arms crossed smiling down at the figure beside her.

Coming in 2026:
THE STARS WILL BE OUR OCEAN

🪐 Sci-fi Romance
👽 Alien x Human
❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn Friends to Lovers
👀 Scooby Gang Commits Light Treason
🏳️‍🌈 Space is Queer
❤️‍🩹 Hurt/Comfort

Stay tuned for updates, cover reveal, and pre-orders later this year!

Character art by @nukeloop.bsky.social

A work in progress shot of digital art, of the character wolfwood from Trigun with white hair.

White hair Wolfwood implies the existence of salt and pepper facial/body hair Wolfwood I will be taking no further questions thank you - WIP

To Slay the Great Regurgitator