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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜

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“AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN” MA Thesis & WIP. She/they. Aro/Ace horror writer. 🦑🌈🖤 ✨Loves film, folklore, fantasy. Published in 140+ venues. eXvangelical. Queer. Jesus follower. Not…whatever this is. worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 10d

Esteemed guests, it is my pleasure to present my reflection on Interview with the Vampire and asexuality.

Here I explore themes of Queer Time through an ace lens in Anne Rice’s novel, the 1994 film, & the 2022 TV series. #HorrorWritersChat

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

just re-watched V for Vendetta on the plane and I couldn't help but reimagine that final scene with all those people wearing inflatable frog costumes rather than Guy Fawkes masks

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Mark Griffiths @markauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Few things more redolent of an English autumn than the traditional willow diplodocus.

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 10h

Reminder! Today's your last day to submit your novella to us (closes 8pm BST). Send us your horror, mysteries, weird and uncanny manuscripts.

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Pop up submission window — wild hunt books

Wild Hunt Books are open to unagented submissions  from 6-12 October 2025. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K words with a grace of 1000 words, over/under)...

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 11h

Me: *makes an ace meme, with my ace flag in the background, but captions that I am aroace (two things at once!) so ppl know*

The comments, for some reason: omg I am so tired of you people conflating the two things, aroace is NOT asexual, you are a stereotype and part of the problem

a stuffed white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched .

Alt: a stuffed taxidermied white cat is sitting on a box with its hands outstretched as if saying “why? how?” this is a gif with a photo and a closeup from a profile angle.

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 12h

Me: this person in history might have been asexual! I mean we can’t know for sure, all we know is how they described and lived their life, and the words they used to describe their experiences in fiction—

New a-specs, for some reason: OMG that’s so problematic of them, they should have just known

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 12h

A-spec person: *writes an asexual story with a lot of emotional nuances based on autobiographical experience*

Critics in a-spec community, for some reason: this is such BAD representation bc they conflated asexuality with aromanticism AGAIN ugh they should just KNOW & EXPLAIN how SEPARATE that is

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 12h

Anyway check out “Dear Luke, Love, Me” on Apple+ for the queerplatonic film, and also here’s one of my favorite poems I’ve ever written and shared, “Aromantic Jesus.”

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Aromantic Jesus

Pexels (previously published in miniskirt magazine) never meant to show signs at a weddingalways meant to save until laterbut oh how it made his mother smilewhen the clear water overflowed into ric…

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 12h

Seriously, people are commenting bible verses, acephobic comments about mental illnesses and about how much Jesus saves…

yeah and Jesus was also…His whole LIFE was platonic love. Why would you say He “saves” from it?

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 12h

People celebrating a win: we made a movie with asexual representation about a queerplatonic love!

The comments, for some reason:

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 15h

Avra is one of my FAVORITE writers I discovered through litmags on Twitter! Her work is so weird, lyrical, intense, queer, disturbing, gothic, and poetic.😁🎉

Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 22h

“The two baby-queer angels aren’t interested in human lovers,
not when they have each other and a case full of makeup,
an empty stage draped in velvet or back alleys
smelling sharp like petrichor and bourbon after dark.”

Omg I looove @avramargariti.bsky.social’s work. Glad to see that name again🦋🌌!

Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 22h

"Their pigment-sticky kisses invent more colors
than the human eye can see,
than there ever were in the sterile-white halls of heaven."

Always delighted by a new Avra Margariti poem, in the latest @penumbricmag.bsky.social 🕯️
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Penumbric October 2k25, Queer for All That Jazz

Edgy speculative fiction magazine

www.penumbric.com

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 2d

A Christianity that is known for its cruelty is a Christianity that no longer knows Christ.

"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." -Jesus

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

I love this image.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

Finish the thing you're working on. Don't flit away after the next sparkly, sexy idea you have as soon as things get tough--Finish. Your. Stories!

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 1d

Q23: What’s one tip you would give your younger self as a writer?

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! (Night time!)

The werewolves are so surprisingly wholesome masculinity too.

Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 1d

werewolves not swearwolves

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 1d

I just need everyone to know that today my awestruck 14yo son called me the God of Tetris. 😁🚀

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

Yes these are good gonna print a batch

A stack of posters in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

I don't have a printing press, but I do have access to a laser cutter and supplies for pendants and keychains. #DHmakes 🐸

A row of Miles's Frog of Portland images cut in a circle out of plywood on a laser cutter.

A keychain and pendant of the Frog of Portland image.

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Partially Shy Magazine @partiallyshymag.bsky.social · 1d

⚜️✨something super cool and exciting is coming soon…hmm stay tuned for more info 👀👀 ✨⚜️

#literary #literarymagazine #litmag #onlinemag #zines

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I have burst a blood vessel in my eye and a full half of it is blood red. I am lying shamelessly about it to people who ask. “What happened?” “Tiny meteorite.”

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Alice Scott @allyscottauthor.bsky.social · 1d

It’s October which means it’s been a year since I emailed @kithbooks.bsky.social and went “hey what do you think about a short story collection?” I for one think now is the PERFECT time of year to pick up YOU ARE NOT YOUR BONES if you like queer shit and hauntings that aren’t always literal :)

A copy of my short story collection collection YOU ARE NOT YOUR BONES & Lesser Misfortunes held in my pasty hand in front of a front door decorated with Halloween window clings and a skull wreath

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

Recommended so damn highly!

C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · Sep 10

Thirteenth : "like Encanto but with more gore" (in East Sussex)

Queer Lovecraftian horror x family drama with tentacles

💣🦑Angry girl goes eldritch: When you're meant to catch a train to London but end up locked in a Gothic manor

(Can be read as standalone)
📚💙🪐📚😱🩸📚
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Thirteenth by C. M. Rosens | Canelo

Ebook and Paperback

www.canelo.co

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Courtney Ellis @courtneyellis.bsky.social · 1d

My 6yo: I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK
Me: Oh wonderful! Would you like to read it to me?
6yo: CHAPTER ONE - MY FAMILY IS WEIRD

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