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he/him🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 avid reader and reviewer | library worker | lover of queer fiction, fantasy, Sci-Fi, and historical fiction | autistic storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/ech0reads

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ech0reads.bsky.social @ech0reads.bsky.social · Jan 30

hi i'm echo! i'm an avid reader and reviewer of queer fiction, mostly fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and historical fiction.

my storygraph is in bio
my goodreads is www.goodreads.com/user/show/15....

you can contact me at [email protected]

thank you for stopping by!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 2d

✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨

🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
🏰 second pov

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-knight-s...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges

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G.M. Gray @gmgray.bsky.social · 18h

#OctoberWorldbuilders Day 9

Cards are really popular on the Swallow (given the pyrean belief in Fate, they love games involving luck and wagers). And while I haven't specifically designed a board game, pyreans adore Earth's Age of Sail, so I'd be shocked if there wasn't a sailing-themed one.

October Worldbuilders prompt list

WEEK 1: DESERTS
1: Name of a desert in your world
2: What’s your desert society like?
3: Desert town architecture
4: Desert animals/plants
5: Myth/legend/religion about
desert
6: How do they survive?
7: Clothes/dance/music from
desert society

WEEK 2: SPORTS AND GAMES
8: Does your MC play a sport?
9: Board games in your book’s world?
10: Competitive game/sport
11: Cooperative game/sport
12: Equipment/pieces
13: History/famous figure involved in a sport/game
14: Strategy for winning

WEEK 3: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES
15: Trade routes
16: Fire/police/hospital services
17: Where does their food come from?
18: Tech: Electricity? Steam power? Mills?
19: Sanitation, sewer system, hygiene
20: Who developed the infrastructure? Government employees? Soldiers? Private business? Are taxes or slaves involved?
21: Housing (Style? Architecture? Amenities available in your world?)

WEEK 4: AESTHETCS/VIBES
22: Share a moodboard or art
23: Aesthetics of a town/city
24: Overall vibe of your story/book/wip
25: Religious/cultural vibes/influences
26: Clothing and accessories
27: What feeling or thoughts do you hope your readers come away with after reading your story?
28: Something special about your world

Extra days:
29: Plans for next month
30: Recent character you’ve created
31: Which of your characters would you like to see someone cosplay? (Or who would you cosplay yourself?)

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 16h

Toothless
Unbothered
Slightly crusty
In a pretzel
Thriving

Finn sleeping with his tongue sticking out. Laying on a blue towel over a pee pad in a pretzel shape. He is a black dog with a white face and feet

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 14h

Check it out!!! 👀

Alex Larkspur 💛 Sweet & Wild Available Now! @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sweet & Wild, is out now! 🐝💛🍃
Sweet & Wild is a MM Fantasy Romance featuring nature magic, a sunshine MC, and mysterious spirits in the forest!

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

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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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 14h

Follow Avalon!

Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · Dec 1

🌹 Welcome to the Rose Garden 🌹
I am Avalon Roselin, a queer indie author in my 30s who writes Horror and Fantasy books. You can find my work anywhere books are sold online. Full information about my books, including content warnings, are available on my website.
Enjoy your stay~ 🌹

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 17h

I've added more products to my Payhip Store, check them out!

#booksky #queersky #queeradultsff #sff #readers #readersonbluesky #booksonbluesky #readingcommunity #indieauthor #queerauthor

payhip.com/Magicwithada...

Niranjan's Books

An author and editor, Niranjan’s biggest ambition is to have a character named Garth in every book they write. Niranjan writes books rooted in mythical worlds, and their stories are often a combination...

payhip.com

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Bijhan Agha @bijhan.bsky.social · 22h

I'm a disabled trans author living with daily hunger.

Please back my comic on KS.

"Zero & One" is about a Human youth on a robot planet. New language, new culture.

It's a great way to start conversations with young people about immigration.

BACK TODAY:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

The characters Zero and One. Zero is holding the nonbinary flag. One is holding the rainbow flag. The text above them says NOBODY IS ILLEGAL "ZERO & ONE" STAND WITH IMMIGRANTS

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Bijhan Agha @bijhan.bsky.social · 22h

I'm a disabled trans author living with hunger.

Please buy my comic.

Kobra #2 is about a trans lesbian Muslim superhero allying with an all-queer sorority to take on a Vampire from the future and his robots!

Available as a PDF or print-on-demand.

BUY TODAY:
www.indyplanet.com/time-wars-th...

PAGE 18 - PANEL A
The women are all now in their casual outfits. Kobra still has facial injuries from the fight with Etta that morning. From left to right they are: Mitch, Etta, Kobra, Kat, and Jimi. They are all facing the viewer. We are seeing as if we are inside the kitchen wall.
They're all cooking

SOME TIME LATER, THE WOMEN ARE BACK AT THE BETA LAMBDA HOUSE,
MAKING VEGAN CURRY!

MITCH: I NEVER HAD TO COME OUT TO MY FAMILY, THEY ALWAYS KNEW.

ETTA: FIRST I CAME OUT TO MY MOM AS A LESBIAN, AND YEARS LATER AS NONBINARY. SHE WAS COOL BOTH TIMES.

KAT: WHEN I CAME OUT TO MY SISTER, THE FIRST THING SHE SAID WAS “DATING SUCKS”, HAHA. IT MADE ME FEEL BETTER.

JIMI: I ACTUALLY WAS THE LAST PERSON TO REALIZE I WAS QUEER. MY DAD SAT ME DOWN WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER AND EXPLAINED THAT IT WAS NORMAL FOR ME TO NOT LIKE MASCULINE PEOPLE.

PAGE 18 - PANEL B
The viewer is between Kat and Jimi, looking down the line toward Kobra.

KOBRA: THE FIRST PERSON I HAD TO COME OUT TO WAS MYSELF. I THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF I WAS HAPPY.

PAGE 18 - PANEL C
Closeup of Kobra’s face.

KOBRA: AND THE FIRST THING I IMAGINED WAS BEING IN A DRESS AND A HIJAB. THAT’S WHEN I KNEW I WAS A WOMAN.

PAGE 18 - PANEL D
Contiguous with the next two panels. Etta is on the left, and Kobra is on the right.

ETTA: HEH HEH!

KOBRA: WHAT?

PAGE 18 - PANEL E
Contiguous with the previous panel and the next panel.

ETTA: THAT’S EXACTLY WHO YOU’VE BECOME!

PAGE 18 - PANEL F
Contiguous with the previous two panels

ETTA + KOBRA: HAHAHAHA!

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Bijhan Agha @bijhan.bsky.social · 22h

I'm a disabled trans game designer living with hunger.

Please follow my vg on KS.

Time Wars: Infinity Runners is an endless runner about traveling through time and making allies in every era.

GAMEPLAY TRAILER:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xArX...

FOLLOW TODAY:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

The character Zom Toranda in front of the progress flag with the text SUPPORT QUEER GAMES

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Bijhan Agha @bijhan.bsky.social · 22h

I'm a disabled trans author living with hunger.

Please follow my comic on KS.

Legendary X-Knights #2 is about a trio of queer transforming martial artists who are confronted by a mysterious foe with their same powers!

For fans of Power Rangers!

FOLLOW TODAY:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

Coming soon: Legendary X-Knights #2 "Who Is The Orange Roc?"

The queer transforming martial arts heroes, the Legendary X-Knights, have a new and mysterious foe to face down!

www.kickstarter.com

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 21h

"Keep it down JK or I swear to god I'll get the hose."

a meme by salt_baer: I put a fried egg on my Croque Monsieur to make it a Croque Madame and now JK Rowling is outside my house shouting at me.

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 21h

If we end up with the pope being the most progressive leader in the world, I may not know what to do with myself.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 17h

I beg you. I implore you.

DO. NOT. USE. CHATGPT. OR. AI. AS. YOUR. LAWYER. @nbcnews.com, this is unbelievably dangerous and you're going to get people seriously hurt or worse.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

People are using ChatGPT as a lawyer in court. Some are winning.

From pickleball disputes to eviction cases, litigants are using ChatGPT to fight their court battles — and they’re starting to win.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · Aug 19

SABLE: A GHOST STORY is an ongoing gothic horror webcomic, and it launches publicly today!!! Sablecomic.com

An anthropomorphic stoat with white fur and a red sweater brandishes a flashlight in a darkened hallway, as a skeletal animalistic wraith looms out of the shadows behind him.

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 2d

Need to hit 50% on this goal by the end of the month! Please share!
ko-fi.com/laikalgagari...

Support LaikaLGagarin

ko-fi.com

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 18h

it's dog o'clock

a giant fluffy white dog in a black and purple plaid bowtie.

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 17h

A sleepy bleppy boy

#DailyDoggo

dachshund-mix in a pink donut (instead of a cone), lying sphinx-position on a teal blanket on a teal couch. His eyes are 2/3 closed and his tongue is peeping out in a lil blep

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 1d

A take on the "This is fine" meme: two panels of a cartoon dog sitting in a chair in the middle of a room on fire, saying "So I have a book coming out". The cover of Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1 by Vivian Moira Valentine sits in the bottom right corner.

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · Jun 27

A drawing of a glowing firefly sitting on a flower in a meadow. The caption reads, "you deserve every bit of light you can find"

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

👾 futuristic world
☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨
📝 600+ pages
🔥 grumpy x sunshine
🗡️ revenge
🍃 lots of plants
💪 close friendships

🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

these violent nights by rebecca crunden kindle cover; image shows a neon city with four black figures, two men and two women; there's a moon in the background around the text.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
🌲 enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship

🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Ebook cover for ‘A Light for the Dead to Follow’ by Rebecca Crunden. Cover image is of a skull surrounded by red-pink flowers. There are vines at the top beside the title. The title font is black and maroon, the name font is white.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

🤍 estranged husbands
🥺 close brothers x2
🗡️ an mc who is 100% done
🐺 a love interest ready to grovel
🏫 a haunted, gothic school
🔍 buried secrets
❄️ snowy setting

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-strange-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. Text is gold and greyish-white.

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 1d

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · Sep 1

A drawing of a raccoon washing an apple in a river. The caption reads, "I don't know how to fix my problems, but I can look after myself carefully today."

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this bundle of books for ADHD Awareness Month!

#booksky #readersky #readers #books #readersonbluesky #booksonbluesky #bookrecs #readingrecs #ADHD #ADHDAwarenessMonth #Bundle

💙📚 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚

itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction by Elise Carlson and 22 others

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction: 22 items for $25.00

itch.io

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 1d

Very grateful I’ve got a path like this fairly close to work for my lunch walk recharge ✨🌿🌲🖤

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