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Agata Weronika

@aquedita.bsky.social

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a hippie at heart. a certified yoga educator and meditation facilitator. romance novels are my jam. she/her 🌈🦄✨ banner by yanalya on Freepik logo by Teresa from Wolfsparrow Covers

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Agata Weronika @aquedita.bsky.social · Jan 26

a warm welcome to all the new friends 🥰💖

allow me to introduce myself: my name is Agata Weronika. I was born & raised in Poland but found a new home in Estonia. mainly post about romance novels, yoga and queer stuff.

you are welcome to DM me to book a private online yoga & meditation class 🙏✨

Agata Weronika @aquedita.bsky.social · Nov 12

dear radiant souls,
do you feel called to cultivate peace & tranquility in your daily life? would you like to learn how to soothe your nervous system in this overstimulated world?
book a private online yoga & meditation class with me 🙏✨
you are welcome to DM me for details.

a woman lying on a yoga mat on her back with eyes close, hugging the knees to the chest

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Julia aka mizzelle @mizzelle.bsky.social · 8h

2025 mood.

Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 9h

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Agata Weronika @aquedita.bsky.social · 10h

poor bejbi, may you feel better soon! *wraps you up in a cozy purrito*

a person is petting a cat on a blue blanket with paw prints .

ALT: a person is petting a cat on a blue blanket with paw prints .

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 16h

This Word Suitcase is about the word "condom," the novel Beast by Judith Ivory, and a couple of lines of poetry by Baudelaire

French letters and English hats

condoms, romance novels, rivers of forgetfulness, and loving monsters

www.feliciadavin.com

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Carolina @carolinabeci.bsky.social · 16h

I'm surprised by the amount of USAmericans who think the US government is "bailing Argentina out". They're not bailing anyone out, they're taking advantage of Milei's inability to see he's Trump's puppet to indebt us to them even further and gain access to our natural resources.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 6d

🌈After the storm comes the rainbow.

Photo: Giant's Causeway, County Antrim

A rainbow is seen over the water by the iconic stones of the Giant's Causeway. We can see people exploring from a distance.

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The Wee Owl Art (Scotland) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 22h

Harvest mice among the wheat stalks. A little autumnal piece, A5 size (148 x 210mm / 5.8 x 8.3") on pastel paper.
folksy.com/items/8561646

#HarvestMouse #AnimalArt #Autumn #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #PenAndInk #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop

An A5 size drawing of harvest mice in a wheat field. The mice are climbing stalks of wheat. The artwork is in browns, beige and peachy tones. It is on peach toned pastel paper.
Harvest mice are Britain’s smallest rodent, weighing only 4-6 grams. In the British Isles, harvest mice are mainly found south of central Yorkshire, although they do also occur in Scotland and Wales.
An original art work, please note that the frame is not included.
Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper
Size A5 (148 x 210mm / 5.8 x 8.3")

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Agata Weronika @aquedita.bsky.social · 22h

oh honey 🥺💖
*wraps you up in a soft blanket and offers gentle cuddles*

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · Jan 26

January 26, THE DUKE WHO DIDN'T, Courtney Milan.

I've been saving up the Wedgeford Trials trilogy for ages with the intent of savouring it... then accidentally tore through all three in two days. I loved them all, but Chloe in this book has my whole heart. www.courtneymilan.com/the-duke-who...

The cover of The Duke Who Didn't, a historical romance. It features an East Asian man and woman embracing.

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · Mar 23

March 23, SOME BALI TO LOVE, Carla de Guzman.

This book is the most delightful little summery snack of a romance, and I enjoyed reading it so much.

The cover of Some Bali to Love, featuring a Filipino man and woman grinning against a summery backdrop.

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · Apr 19

April 20, MAKE ROOM FOR LOVE, Darcy Liao.

I did not know this was a sapphic romance about union organising and labour solidarity when I picked it up, but if I had, I would have picked it up even faster.

The cover of Make Room for Love. It features cartoon images of a tall Chinese woman and a more petite South Asian woman sitting on a couch, smiling at each other.

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · Jun 7

June 8, AN ACADEMIC AFFAIR, Jodi McAlister (🇦🇺).

I'm being That Guy and recommending my own book this Sunday. It's about two rival academics who get into a marriage of convenience for professional reasons, it came out this week in Australia and Aotearoa, and I'm very proud of it.

The cover of An Academic Affair, featuring cartoon images of a red-haired woman and a dark-haired man looking at each other. They're both carrying large stacks of books.

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · Aug 3

August 3, THORNFRUIT, Felicia Davin.

One of the challenges of fantasy romance is making the romance feel human where the stakes are so high, but the gentle way the relationship develops between the two heroines in this book is *chef's kiss*.

The cover of Thornfruit: dark red with white flowers on it.

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Agata Weronika @aquedita.bsky.social · 1d

congratulations, so happy for you 😊🎉

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hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.social · 3d

The news is official! I can finally tell you that my next romcom Reality Check will be out in April next year!

A sunny selfie of Hux, a white person with auburn hair and green glasses, holding up a postcard to their face. The postcard is pink and purple and says Reality Check.

A screenshot of the Bookseller announcement for my new novel. Simon and Schuster UK swoons for Lizzie Huxley-Jones’
‘escapist’ reality show romance
RIGHTS
OCT 9, 2025
BY CASSIDY BAILEY.

The photo shows Hux a white person with light auburn hair sitting on a couch in a green lead patterned suit, eyes closed and laughing.

Simon & Schuster UK has acquired two new novels by Lizzie Huxley-Jones, who was previously published by Hodder & Stoughton. Deputy publishing director Molly.
Crawford acquired world all-language rights in a two-book deal from Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency.
The first of the two novels, Reality Check, is a "funny, escapist" romance between two women who share a kiss behind the scenes of a reality TV show and find themselves choosing between on-screen fame or true love. Reality Check will publish in all formats in April 2026.
Crawford said: "I've long been obsessed with Lizzie's Christmas romances so am absolutely thrilled to be able to welcome them to the S&S list. Reality Check satiates a universal need for realistic romance elevated by unusual circumstance rather than narrative necessity.
Lizzie captures the chaos and charm of reality TV, weaving a love story that delivers kick-your-feet romance alongside punch-in-the-gut relatable detail. It centres and celebrates queer love, living with chronic illness and freeing ourselves from life's filters. It's a novel you can't help but press into the hands of friends and I'm so excited to take it to market."

Huxley-Jones is the author of the queer holiday romcoms Make You Mine This Christmas and Under the Mistletoe with You, the young adult summer romance Hits Different co-written with Tasha Ghouri, and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted fantasy series Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend. Reality Check is their third adult romance novel.
Huxley-Jones said: "Reality Check brings together my deep fascination with reality television, with the concept of persona and masking, through the experiences of two queer women who just cannot seem to escape each other. There's hijinks and fake-dating arrangements and an autistic girl unravelling 'comphet' all within the bounds of a wedding-themed dating show. It's been a book in my heart for years and I'm so glad it will reach readers next year.
"It is such a thrill and honour to bring my romcoms to the incredible team at Simon & Schuster, especially my wonderful editor Molly Crawford. They are not only a team who understand and respect commercial romance fiction, but one that deeply cares for their authors. It's been such a joy to work with them on Reality Check, my most ambitious romcom to date, and to see their enthusiasm at every step. I'm so thankful for my agent Abi Fellows finding my work such an enriching home."

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

Hello bluesky! I'm Nora and I have a jewelry store focused on fused glass; I also have game tokens and worry stones.

Collage: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Cluster: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Worry stones: nora.jewelry/search?q=wor...
Earrings: nora.jewelry/collections/...

#bsnm

ad for the nora.jewelry collage collection, which consists of pieces made from patterned cane with some transparency piled on top of other different color canes and turned into a molded shape; the transparency creates a lot of depth in the final pieces, because you can see through the transparent bits to what is behind it. pictures are a pair of round green, white and purple cufflinks, a orange and yellow bolo tie, and a teardrop shaped pendant with a green/white design added to a pink design

ad for the cluster collection, a group of fused glass pendants (and a couple other things, but only pendants are pictured) made from placing glass cylinders on their ends in a group and melting them just enough to round them out but not enough to make them fully puddle like most of my designs. the result of this ends up looking a bit like fish eggs adhered to a flat surface, or a bundle of grapes. the ones pictured are a simple round aqua blue design with yellow middles, a purple design with distorted flowers (this one started out as regular flowers but rounded their petals in the kiln, blurring them) and a round tan design with brown and white middles.

worry stone collection: this one has an orange collage design worry stone in an abstract shape, a white and green one where the edges between the colors blur, and a round one in a bi pride pattern.

earring collection: this one shows a sparkly green aventurine pair of round earrings, one that's white/grey/clear with black spots (that one's made from spiral cane that I made flat and you can see the spiral in the final design) and one with swirling green, yellow and pink set in white.

all the backgrounds on all of these are an aventurine dragonskin sheet that i put at low transparency over white, so they have a lacy quality to them.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for a little magic? I'm slowly adding more labradorite pendants, and US shipping is open once more - it may be slower than usual, but nothing has changed on your side (the tariff stuff all gets sorted at my post office).

oishiny.etsy.com

#Handmade #ShopIndie

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Agata Weronika @aquedita.bsky.social · 1d

what a wonderful project, good luck 😊🎉

check out "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill, Pages & Co series by Anna James as well as the Vivi Conway series by Lizzie Huxley-Jones. have fun 🙏✨

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 4d

...oops?

All Of Us Murderers flyer with book cover. tex says: Readers Say, followed by quotes: All Of Us Murderers is why I am sleep deprived at work today.

Kept me up until 2am on a
work night!

I read this in one sitting and stayed up until 3am because
I couldn't put it down.

I was only going to read a chapter before bed and then I blinked and it was 8am.

end tagline reads: Out Now. sorry about that.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Agata Weronika @aquedita.bsky.social · 2d

omg how dare?! hope you know we adore her in this house 🥺💖

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 2d

Would love to get this halfway or more today. We're at $100/$500. Please RT for reach. Thanks! 🙂
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
www.ko-fi.com/lockdownyour...

Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 4d

Good morning. Want to feel better? Helping with immediate medical bills for a DV family recently displaced. We're currently at $50/$500 if you'd like to support. Please RT for reach! Thanks. 🙂
C: $Lockdownyourlife
V: lockdownyourlife
www.ko-fi.com/lockdownyour...

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Alex Larkspur 💛 Queer Fantasy @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 2d

Sweet & Wild is an MM fantasy romance in a small town with a mysterious forest, and a spirit lurking within! It's sweet as honey, with just a bit of sting! 🐝

Universal Link: books2read.com/u/bzNng9
Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/sweet-wild
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...
Cover Art: @northyme.com

A trope arrow book cover social media post for Sweet & Wild! The background shows a forest with sun breaking through the trees. The arrows read: - MM Fantasy Romance - Sunshine MC - Mysterious Spirits in the Woods - Forest Magic - Healing and Growth - Cozy Adjacent The cover description: A young man, Micah, kneels in a field of purple flowers. He holds a bundle of purple flowers in one hand while reaching to gather more with his other hand. He has peach skin, golden hair, and brown eyes. He wears a white shirt, brown pants, and a wide-brimmed straw hat with flowers woven through. Behind him, there is a verdant forest of trees. Bees buzz around the man as he looks down towards his work. The title, Sweet & Wild, is above him and the author’s name, Alex Larkspur, is below him.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

On the YouTube right now…. @goingmedieval.bsky.social reveals some truths about medieval sex.

It is not at all what you think.

📺: youtu.be/wkZy3geThS8?...

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 2d

Courtesy of Link himself

Fund Friday post :

Happy Friday Yall. Post fundraising links, cashapp links, whichever campaign needing help on . ♥️

Screenshot of a text message conversation on a purple background. The first message from AJ Link at 7:48 AM reads: “Howdy pals. Can I ask for a favor. If anyone has capacity or time today can they do a fund Friday post. I know lots of people need help.” This message has a heart reaction. The second message, also at 7:48 AM, replies: “Obviously what everyone does with their CPU is sacred. So no pressure.“

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