Lex

*insert "I'm doing my part" meme*

Hi Folks! A lot of things have happened since I first started writing Light From Uncommon Stars. Recently, I've asked Tor to make a change in the book for all future editions. If you've bought a copy, please feel free to make the change on your own. Yes, this is an official retcon. <3 Ryka

Donate to Help two queer, disabled people keep their car, organized by Lex Peters Hey! I'm Lex and I could really use some help paying off my wife's car payme… Lex Peters needs your support for Help two queer, disabled people keep their car

If you're able to, my wife and I could really use help keeping our car. We're both disabled and can't not have a car for work, appointments, surgery, etc. It would mean a lot to me if you could share this around 🩷

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An image of the novel "We Came To Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror". The novel image shows three people greeting the viewer, their faces overshadowed. The central figure, a woman in a maroon dress holds a pie that has roots growing out of it and a single eye looking outward. The novel is put against the backdrop of a sepia-toned suburban home. Around the novel are the words "assimilation as horror", "Black, queer and mentally ill", "evil H.O.A." and "Adult Suburban Horror".

An image of the novel "We Don't Swim Here". The novel image is of a Black girl underwater. She looks to the right while a blurred mirror image of her looks to the left. The novel is placed against a cool water background with rising bubbles. All around the novel are the words "swimming horror", "dual P.O.V.", "revenge", and "YA Ghost story".

An image of the novel "Burn Down Rise Up". The novel cover shows a Black girl in a mesh top and orange sweat pants looking back over her right shoulder toward the viewer. She holds a bat over her left shoulder. Behind her is the opening of a train in which large insectoid legs point out. The novel is placed against a fire background. The words around the novel reads "sapphic", "creepypasta game", "NYC history" and "YA Horror".

Got some new followers, so here's my new pinned post: Buy my creepy and gay horror books so I can stay alive.

alternatively, you can buy me a ko-fi: ko-fi.com/vincenttirado

I adore your books! I'm doing my best to push them on booklr. People really are missing out!

Also read We Don't Swim Here!

Bindery Books | Do you want some ARCS? Want some ARCs from authors in our community? Head over...

Two of the authors in our community just dropped ARCs in the discord. Come join for free so that you can give them a read/review! ❤️

The ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by Clarence A. Haynes

Audiobook Review 🎧 | NetGalley ARC 3.75⭐️

I was pleasantly surprised by this fast paced paranormal urban fantasy.
If it wasn’t for the fact that I started this book late in the day I would’ve finished it in one sitting! #booksky #audiobooksky

I think a big problem is that a lot of people truly believe that “reading critically” and “reading for fun” are opposing ideas.

All Weather Wants to Be Some Other Kind of Weather A boy lies on top of his sheets in Alabama, his skin glazed with sweat and wonder. The late-summer air is soup, swamp, tongue. The boy suspects he was kidnapped as an infant. Suspects he does not belong, here or anywhere, has no home to return to, and if once he had some other name it has long been forgotten. The darkness is a promise. The quiet is a promise. He opens his eyes. Closes them. And for the rest of his life he will pretend there was a time when he was comfortable in his skin a season that was not about waiting for the wind to change— a moment unshaped by hunger.

Today is our co-editor Amorak Huey’s (@amorak.bsky.social) birthday 🎉 🎉🎉 Share a poem to celebrate?! River River is two people and a trenchcoat of poetry…we could not work without his generous, kind, brilliant attention 📚💙🌊🌊 HBD, Amorak! 🎈

Anyway, I’m finally continuing the Throne of Glass series, starting with updating my Throne of Glass review and most importantly talking about the harm of the Magical Negro Trope and how easily SJM fans dismiss it:

youtu.be/EYI2HbF7qCQ

"Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore."

~Nikki Giovanni 🕊️

Allowable any Nikki Giovanni I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened

I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it.

Today is as good as any day to return to it.

I'll admit, I hate that follower count is visible here. I'm used to tumblr, where the # of people who follow you isn't visible and doesn't matter anyway. This whole "I'll follow you but if you don't follow me back I'll unfollow" is fuckin weird.

Screenshot of Middle East Eye article: “Israeli historian produces vast database of war crimes in Gaza”; Lee Mordechai says his country is committing genocide, as his report documents a wide range of atrocities committed by Israeli forces

In January, Israeli historian Lee Mordechai released a 124 page report with 1,400 footnotes detailing evidence of Israel’s genocide, which he continues to update. How many of you heard about it? witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/wp-content/u...

White and Black book cover with the words "Queer Poets of Color" over the top white block. The middle and bottom of the cover is framed in black and features a person topless with black hair, bending at the waist.

Anthologies are a fantastic way to discover new poets, especially if you're new(er) to poetry and want to see what might interest you. I highly recommend Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color. Skillful, emotional, and amazing variety!
#booksky #poetsky #poetry #diversepoetry

god i love books. yes, reading them. but sometimes, just holding them. and i wish they could hold me. and then i see (again) that they do.

Why didn't they just put the photos inside a glass case that only the manager can open

FWIW: I genuinely & firmly believe that Palestine is one of very few instances where Posting About It actually makes a material difference (because of Palestine Exception bullshit, ironclad media silencing of Palestinian voices, & the COST of speaking up), so if you haven't? Maybe consider it?

nothing makes me feel as alive—or as dreadfully anxious—as writing

A red cover with the word bone written along the left side. There is a quote on the cover from Florence Welch that reads "Yrsa's work is like holding the truth in your hands. It sweats and breathes before you. A glorious living thing."

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6: bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward

THE LAST UNDEVELOPED LAND His mother is getting over pneumonia and still smoking. I say, “There’s nothing worth slaving over anymore. This vacuum, for instance, who’s to say it even works? When I went to prom I had a ten p.m. curfew, look where that got me. I hung dead roses in my room for years. Later when the phone never rang, I dreamt of boys in T-shirts that read I RESORT TO LONG LAPSES OF SILENCE. They were intentional. The boys came around later when I’d stopped thinking of them. We kissed behind the hospital in a Colorado wheat field, the last bit of prairie still in view of the mountains.” —Bethany Schultz Hurst

“When I went to prom I had a ten p.m. curfew, / look where that got me. I hung dead roses / in my room for years. Later when the phone / never rang, I dreamt of boys in T-shirts / that read I RESORT TO LONG LAPSES OF SILENCE.” — Bethany Schultz Hurst, “The Last Undeveloped Land”

This post is so right. This line especially was a banger but I think you should go click through and read the whole thing (and then follow on Bindery, too)! "It's a problem, however, that we don’t even know if these ARE men of color, really, and our best evidence is a list of harmful stereotypes."

as a writer, it's amazing how deep and intimate my relationship with language is—and yet how difficult i find it to say things to, uh, people, anywhere

Yess do it! I'd love to hear your thoughts on it

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 5: Severance by Ling Ma

#booksky #bookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4 (belated): Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

#booksky #bookchallenge

In case there was any confusion about this

"You could have called our closet a walk-in closet in the sense that a child’s body could walk in. Mine did, and I called it home. It was comfortable enough, if you were willing to lie. I was."

~ Benjamin Garcia, The Great Glass Closet from the collection Thrown in the Throat
#poetry #queerpoetry