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Iris Figueiredo @irisfigueiredo.bsky.social · 1d

Vai começar a nossa mesa na Bienal de Pernambuco on-line. Vocês podem assistir a conversa “Os perrengues do início da vida adulta, e como a literatura pode nos salvar” a partir das 15h www.youtube.com/live/sIGO5XE...

Os perregues do inicio da vida adulta, e como a literatura pode nos salvar

YouTube video by Bienal Pernambuco

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ilustralu @ilustralu.bsky.social · 1d

ALÔ NATAL! SÁBADO (11/10)TEM LANÇAMENTO DE CUBA LIBRE NO LADO B DA DISCOL! Das 9 às 12h vou estar por lá, vendendo minhas coisinhas e conversando aresia. Bora?! Num sei se você sabe mas o Mate com limão do Lado B é gostoso DEMAIS.

Ilustração convite para o lançamento do zine Cuba libre em Natal RN, Sábado (11/10/25)das 9 às 12, no lado b da discol. Na imagem, a capa do zine em destaque e uma ilustração de mim mesma (mulher, de óculos, cabelo pro lado, vestindo um macacão verde) convidando as pessoas para o evento num balão de fala.

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Sandy Pug Games @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 1d

you see a lot of companies saying stuff like this and then I think about the kind of people in charge of pulling games like this and I start to wonder who really got offended you know what I mean

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 1d

We’re coming out a day early with our favorite reads for National Coming Out Day! Remember: whether to come out is a personal choice; only you know when if it’s an appropriate one to make for yourself – be careful and take care of yourself!

List in text format: duckprintspress.com/2025/10/10/1...

Graphic 1 of 2. Text, four book covers, and a graphic of two women holding a rainbow flag together on a light blue background. The text reads: 14 Reads for National Coming Out Day. The books are: Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu; I Think Our Son Is Gay by Okura; Flamer by Mike Curato; Roll for Love by M.K. England.

Graphic 2 of 2. Ten book covers on a light blue background. The books are: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli; Love, Misha by Askel Aden; Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo; Acting the Part by Z.R. Ellor; Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli; Bingo Love by Tee Franklin; Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle; The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen; Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie; The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes.

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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 26d

A Study on Magic and Crystals is a story about a princess, a necromancer and a fairy going on a roadtrip and studying magic! They cuddle a lot on the road!!

Coming on October 24th! Preorder now! Or request an eARC!

Preorder: maybarros.com.br/a-study-on-m...
eARCs: forms.gle/MpadTKhTshki...

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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 19d

A Study on Magic and Crystals is coming out October 24th!

Talita must travel to the fairy city to learn magic and count on the necromancer Marcela, and the fairy Solis for help! Together, they learn a lot about themselves.

Preorder: maybarros.com.br/a-study-on-m...
eARCs: forms.gle/MpadTKhTshki...

Banner with the cover of A Study on Magic and Crystals, by May Barros, and a list of things that can be found in the book, with arrows from the things to the cover. The cover shows the main characters: a fairy with short pink hair, white skin and pink wings; a black human princess with afro hair, wearing a pearly crown and a yellow ballgown, while she makes crystals float between her hands; and a human necromancer with white skin, black chanel hair and a skeletal cat on her shoulder. The list of things reads: magic everywhere; queerplatonic and polyamorous relationships; a skeletal cat; agender fairies; aroace, alloaro and demiace rep; only one bed but they asked for it; roadtrip; everybody is neurodivergent.

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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 18d

Let the memes begin! Just a month to go until it's out AAAAAA

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eARCs: forms.gle/MpadTKhTshki...

Blatantly stolen from @clh2oars.bsky.social

When there’s no clean dishes Meme

When there's no clean dishes: Solis washes the dishes, Talita gets take out and Marcela and Kankala (if she needed to eat) eats the food out of a shoe.

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 4d

Twinkle, 10 x 16 inches, acrylics on board and paper.
The lady and a few of the stars pop out in 3d :)

Traditional illustration of a woman holding out her dress to catch star rain. Acrylics on paper and board. The woman and a few stars are on a separate 3 dimensional layer above the background.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 1d

And the same with the poems…

A … CONSIDERATION
A … strictures
if … loneliness
I … pay
Oppenheimer… sun
Clouds … universe
Speck … wings

“True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between…” - Margaret Atwood

Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 1d

The first and last word of each story in the new Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope:

He … night
The … bloom
Hilla … could
All … gulls
First … one
Jak … won’t
Stop … coming
The … dawn
When … me
I … all
I … Bravo
Listen … Listen

Find out what lies in between at www.kaleidotrope.net

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 1d

As a thank you for smashing SO many stretch goals, if we get to 300 backers @mruthrobinson.bsky.social will play Alien: Isolation on stream while Ash and Val tag along and laugh.

Think of it as our silly final backer goal as a treat—for you, not for MR.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Info for our Backer Goals! 50, 100, 150, 200, AND 250 Backers are unlocked! All backer goals are in rainbow with an open lock over a blurred version of OTHERSIDE banner art in purple, with a blurred floating fantastical head on the right. Now at the bottom there is a FINAL GOAL: 300 backers - MR plays Alien: Isolation. Instead of a lock there is a face hugger from the Alien franchise.

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RaposaBranca has ✨COMMISSIONS OPEN! 📌✨ @raposabranca.bsky.social · 1d

Mentorship.

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#dai #solavellan (but it's frienship) #solas #lavellan #digitalart #DAfanfriDAy

Digital illustration of Inquisitir Lavellan (f) and Solas in a lush forest. Lavellan, a black woman with short hair, crouched with her arms crossed and a frown while holding her staff. Solas is holding a glowing blue mushroom gingerly with a hand and supporting his staff with the other arm, also crouched and speaking back to Lavellan. They're perched on the thick roots of a huge mossy tree, light seeping through the forest canopy with dust shimmer around them.

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 1d

My book about gay vampires solving crime comes out NEXT WEEK ahhhhhh

Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 5d

Got my finished copies of Dead & Breakfast!! They are so cute and I’m obsessed with the spine!

Have you pre-ordered yet? Remember you can grab a signed copy with preorder goodies (stickers) from Always Here Bookstore!

www.alwaysherebooks.com/product/dead...

Paperback copies of Dead & Breakfast next to a teal tea pot and black tea cup. The cover shows two men holding hands. On the left, a white man with graying hair wearing a suit and tie holds a cup of coffee. On the right, a shorter man with long dark hair, pale skin, and a ruffly cravat holds a goblet of blood with a silly straw. They both have vampire fangs. Behind them is a field of flowers and a large house with a cat perched on a sign that says “welcome. Over the top is the title “DEAD & BREAKFAST” the tagline “come for the vampires stay for the scones” and the byline “kat Hillis & Rosiee Thor.” The spine shows the title text in blue and the byline in red with a black cat curled around a goblet of blood with a silly straw.

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Blair King 🏳️‍🌈 @autorablairking.bsky.social · 1d

Corram aqui amores 👇🏻💜

Rodrigo Ortiz Vinholo @iamrodrigo.bsky.social · 1d

QUASE LÁ! Estamos em quase 80%! A campanha de financiamento coletivo da minha plaquete de poesia satírica "A marcha da pátria alheia" precisa de vocês! Venham conferir! Link também na bio!

benfeitoria.com/projeto/marcha
#amarchadapatriaalheia #RodrigoOrtizVinholo #livros #editorahecatombe

Pré-venda do livro A marcha da pátria alheia
Rodrigo Ortiz Vinholo
Quase 80%
Hecatombe - Coleção Patriota Made In

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

Also 🍩🦫 CANADIANS 🍩🦫

can pre-order PERSONA here blackbondbooks.com/item/6MX90F-...

through Book Warehouse/Black Bond 📚

And the special (safe) deluxe pack will be available through them shortly!

They are just making it extra safe

So safe

And necessary

You will never know a deeper peace.

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Valiant 🏳️‍⚧️ | Follow BOOM Goes the Bride on Backerkit! @valwrites.ca · 1d

I'd like to thank everyone who's donated to what i personally call "webring 2.0"

This project is coming along very well thanks to some dedicated and skilled developers and i look forward to screaming about this more when my mind is not 100% Boombride

Conjured.Ink @conjured.ink · 2d

Conjured Ink is now accepting both one time and recurring donations!

Head to this link to learn more about our finances, or pledge your support:

opencollective.com/c...

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lacie em hiatus até outubro @lacie.bsky.social · 1d

animaçãozinha teste feat @bunnat.bsky.social e @sasyk.bsky.social

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levi 🏳️‍⚧️ machado de assis de calcinha @sasyk.bsky.social · 1d

eu nesse momento igual aquelas fotos do keanu reeves sentado fumando olhando pro nada enquanto me pergunto onde resolvi me meter

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Occasional reminder I wrote a billionaire forcefem story starring a trans cyborg who’s really good at her job (forcefemming billionaires for The Cause)

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danifinn.itch.io/iris

books2read.com/b/b6DAgM

Also available in this mini omnibus

danifinn.itch.io/the-incorpor...

books2read.com/b/4jd7ql

Iris by danifinn

A sci-fi billionaire forcefem short story

danifinn.itch.io

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RaposaBranca has ✨COMMISSIONS OPEN! 📌✨ @raposabranca.bsky.social · 1d

I've been trying to work on my PC with my ol' reliable +10 year old 2nd hand small Intuos Pro, and while it works, it's just not adequate for my software+display anymore and doing anything is at best awkward and at worst PAINFUL.

So I set a ko-fi goal to save for a refurbished Huion /o/

Support RaposaBranca

ko-fi.com

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Natalia Prata ~ @nyatche.bsky.social · 1d

Chaveiro de pelúcia do Nico disponível na loja <3

www.nyatche.com.br

chaveiro de pelucia de um gatinho branco com uma lua na testa. Ele tem um chapeu de bruxa e tem um ratinho em cima que é seu familiar

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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 20h

É real o que eu faço no lab onde sou bolsista proatec pq sem condições =-=

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 1d

BAKER THIEF has a sequel! You can get not one, but *two* aromantic fantasy books set in a city inspired by Québec, and which are "Romance but Make It Aro" ! 💚

Baker Thief: buy.bookfunnel.com/xtyrwsdcf6
Painted Flock: buy.bookfunnel.com/prdyz5509q

An ad split two halves. The first has Baker Thief's cover and the information: an aro bigender baker, a corporate conspiracy, enemies-to-qpr. The second has Painted Flock's cover, and the info: a quoiromantic agender scientist, saving ols own victims, team scientist to found family

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Ana.txt escreve, edita, assobia e chupa cana @anatxt.bsky.social · 1d

Esse daqui é um dos mais ácidos do Ícaro, mas merecidamente. 💙📚

Verifique Antes de Ler @verifique-antes.bsky.social · 1d

Escolher o que mostrar e o que omitir é um posicionamento da pessoa que escreve perante o mundo. Nos #DestaquesDaVAL de hoje, Ícaro de Brito fala sobre a diferença entre "escapismo" e "alienação" na obra "Perdida", de Carina Rissi. 💙📚

#ManiaDeLeitore

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A leitura perdida entre o escapismo e a alienação

Antes de ler, verifique se você não está confundindo a necessidade de descanso com racismo. Ícaro de Brito fala sobre “Perdida”, de Carina Rissi, e sobre como fingir que a escravidão…

verifiqueantesdeler.wordpress.com

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ilustralu @ilustralu.bsky.social · 1d

É hoje! Bora!

ilustralu @ilustralu.bsky.social · 1d

ALÔ NATAL! SÁBADO (11/10)TEM LANÇAMENTO DE CUBA LIBRE NO LADO B DA DISCOL! Das 9 às 12h vou estar por lá, vendendo minhas coisinhas e conversando aresia. Bora?! Num sei se você sabe mas o Mate com limão do Lado B é gostoso DEMAIS.

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🎡 loira do banheiro só que morena @gihalves.bsky.social · 23h

o ebook de 👻 os fantasmas entre nós 👻 tá em promoção por R$13,45!!

amzn.to/3KLusho

na história, duas ex amigas precisam lidar com os sentimentos entre elas pra evitar serem mortas pelos fantasmas da universidade em que estudam

Colagem de divulgação. Várias imagens coladas espalhadas na imagem, em tons terrosos. As imagens são: um banheiro com uma pessoa dentro do espelho, um espelho ensanguentado, as pernas dr duas meninas contra a parede, cadernos e um notebook, um banheiro de universidade com várias cabines, uma biblioteca. Recorte de duas garotas abraçadas, visíveis dos braços para baixo. No meio da imagem, em cima de alguns dos quadros tem a capa do livro Os Fantasmas Entre Nós. Em cada ponta do livro há um coração com bandeiras lgbt: na parte superior, a bandeira bi. Na parte inferior, a bandeira arromantica.

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