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Count Avi Henriques 🩸

@legalizegoblins.bsky.social

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He/him gay trans guy, lead editor at Paizo (Pathfinder and Starfinder), vampire enthusiast. May contain bears. Say NO to AI. Header is Vampyr II by Edvard Munch https://legalizegoblins.carrd.co/

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · Apr 10

📌 Hey bsky! I'm Avi (he/him) and I'm lead editor at Paizo, working on #Pathfinder and #Starfinder. I love wildlife (especially bears) and my cat, Mina. Here you can find posts about my work, my thoughts, and lots of animals. Thanks for stopping by!

Mina, a calico cat with a white chest and big yellow-green eyes, lounging in a cat bed.

Mina lying on the floor, looking at the camera.

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Indigenous Peoples day, I am indigenous Isneg/Apayao through my mother, who is in need of help. please help me take care of my mama at trying to manage a progressive disease and helping extend her life through mutual aid and the miracle of modern medicine, please 🙇‍♂️

🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you! Hey everyone, am an indigenous trans artist in the global south, in perpetual housing insecurity; also permanently disabled with nerve damage that impacts my movement. Id absolutely love if you guys could like my work, or buy a print or send me a tip 🌼 (comments)

School of fish drawn in a spiral in hues of teal and sea glass green

A transmasc sideview portrait in hues of faded green. Golden clouds and stars and fish float over him

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 12h

I love Interview with a Vampire very much but we're halfway through a 2-year-long waiting period for the next season 😩 Oh well. Will have to be patient.

Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 12h

I'm gonna say my not-positive OFMD take with all love to my friends who are OFMD fans. It wasn't for me because I felt the romance seriously lacked passion. It didn't *feel* like a romance to me in the way I wanted it to as a romance reader in particular. The cast is great, just not my show.

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Cagle Cats @caglecats.bsky.social · 12h

Such a dramatic lil face ...

Foster kitten Fester showing off his old man face

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 12h

Oh wait I fact checked myself and Gentleman Jack is late Regency. Maybe I should watch that one.

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 12h

Neither of those are Regency, unfortunately. There's a ton of gay Regency novels, but as far as I'm aware, no screen versions.

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 12h

Bridgerton's getting another season and, as expected, the couple is straight. I can accept that that's what this show is. But god damn, who do I have to bribe to get a gay Regency romance on TV??

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 14h

We should teach Shakespeare to high schoolers by highlighting the dirty jokes.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 14h

Many of the “great works” are just mythological/religious fanfic/slashfic.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 15h

I also have a Nosferatu back piece. One simply cannot have too many vampire tattoos.

Blackwork woodcut-style tattoo of a Nosferatu-like figure in a filagree frame.

Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 15h

In honor of Halloween Month, I gotta take advantage of the opportunity to show off my absolute best tattoo, this sexy vampire man by @phantomorchid.bsky.social 🩸

A large bicep tattoo depicting the bust of a vampire gentleman in ornate period costume. He is crying blood and blood drips from his mouth. Mist surrounds the figure, and bats fly overhead in front of a yellow moon.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 17h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 21h

Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

Today and always, we celebrate indigenous communities across the globe and stand in solidarity with those continuing the fight for liberation. Our freedoms are interconnected.

LAND BACK
ABOLISH ICE
FREE PALESTINE

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 16d

The iconic bat earrings 🦇💜

Takfvleleskv (Bat) Chevron Brick Stitch Fringe Beaded Earrings - cvkvlv.com/products/tak...

#Halloween #Beadwork #Mvskoke #Bats

A pair of purple and black fringe earrings with purple bats on them

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 17h

I like the way you think.

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Frybread Riot @napeskanskan.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

If you're inclined to donate to Indigenous mutual aid today, I am housing insecure and saving while also trying to pay some medical debts.

Venmo/cashapp: napeskanskan
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/hoppingmagpiedesigns

Pilamayaye

John Trudell in Smoke Signals, talking into a microphone

"It's a good day to be Indigenous"

A mother bison (The Ancestors) nuzzling her calf (me)

love
power
courage
wisdom
strength
resilience

A black and white photo of John Trudell, he's looking down and off to his left a little, and the wind is blowing his hair into his face.

"I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human." -John Trudell

"A ceasefire isn't enough

I need to witness the collapse of American imperialism"
[imposed over a fireball raising through the air]

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck the police and fuck ICE forever. The police are not here to protect us, they're here to enforce the will of the state.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 20h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 19h

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 17h

Mario Bava day pls

Mario Bava, a dapper Italian man with a thin mustache wearing a tweed suit.

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laura @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 21h

a small break

illustration of a white sheep eating tea and cookies. the sheep has roses and ribbons by her ears. the cookies are reminiscent of danish butter cookies and the kettle is yellow and patterned with roses. the sheep holds a pink coffee mug and one of the cookies.

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vert ⚡️🪶 open to work @subvertebra.bsky.social · 18h

happy indigenous peoples' day! 🧡 rather than a new post, i'm reupping this one—still open to work, and gladly accepting tips to meet bills this month!

please consider supporting me and the other indigenous friends in your life, today and every day. every repost, dollar, and inquiry helps.

vert ⚡️🪶 open to work @subvertebra.bsky.social · 3d

hey it's me again telling you that i am ✨ open to work ✨ and also need to cover bills this month. :)

hire me for:
⚡ comms (writing, graphics, book formatting)
⚡ self-pub services (editing, book formatting)

or support me via:
⚡ tip jar
⚡ patreon

book portfolio here! bring me your weird fiction.

Buy subvertebra a Coffee

Become a supporter of subvertebra today!

ko-fi.com

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 1d

In a week from now, I'll be back out on the tundra to see these big, beautiful bears. I can't wait! 🌿🐻‍❄️ #mammals

Two large, male polar bears spar on their hind legs in the misty morning sun, among the flashes of gold of a few remaining willow leaves. The bear on the left is biting the cheek of the bear on the right.

A polar bear sits pensively among the bare willows as light snow flutters around it.

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Shay (they) @spellsinsugar.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Indigenous Peoples Day!
And instead of recentering it by talking about one of our many oppressors and how bad he is, I’m going to celebrate my own personal Native achievements!!

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Book recommendations for Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Read today & all year! Alt text for text

Blood Sisters
• A Council of Dolls
• Never Whistle at Night
• Winter Counts (TBR)
• There, There
• Night of the Living Rez
Bad Cree
• The Bone Picker (tbr)
• Ghost Girls and Rabbits
• White Horse
• Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Mask of the Deer Woman
• India Burial Ground
• Shutter
• Man Made Monsters (I need to finish!)
• On the Savage Side

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 1d

The vampires in my series are diverse. We start off with elegant, aristocratic Blood Mages, but that's only the veneer. Slowly, we unveil the rot underneath, the hunger that turns man into beast as vampires are born, and we don't stop there.

Interested? The story starts in MISTRESS OF LIES.

Cover for Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright, The Sunday Times bestseller. Black cover, with a scowling long-haired woman in a Gothic style red and gold headdress and brocade sleeves like wings against a background of red and white roses. Her hands are tipped in gold claws and she holds a long dagger. Blurbs from Melissa Caruso — “Dark, dangerous, and entrancing” — and Sara Hashem — “A decadent story that won’t let you go.”

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