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user experience, safe biking, all the musics, many books. all opinions solely mine. he/they. apprentice romance author. aleewellesfiction.com 🦖 trans rights or i bites

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 3d

Hey #MMRomance #Romancelandia 🌈📚 I have a new book:
When Jay moves into his dorm, he’s convinced that he’s straight. But even if he can reconcile his physical attraction to Derek, can either of them handle the feelings growing between them? “When I Trust You” is a spicy novelette
available now!

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 14d

Direct links to US retailers:
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my itch store aleewellesfiction.itch.io/when-i-trust...

When I Trust You by A. Lee Welles Fiction

A Bisexual Romance

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 8h

i wasn't sure I needed 3 hours of OME reacting to this list, but i really did

Dillon @freeyourradio.bsky.social · 13h

This video from @mike-eagle.bsky.social is just fantastic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cld...

going through pitchfork's 100 best rap album list and taking it all very personally PART 2

YouTube video by Open Mike Eagle

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 8h

👀👂

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 18h

after getting over the initial shock I got a follow-up "oof" remembering he was just in the Sly Stone doc talking about how white rock stars get to grow old and comfortable

RIP to the man with the greatest three-albums-in-20-years career in music history

D'Angelo - Devil's Pie

YouTube video by kordtyb

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 8h

just saw, and fuck. devastating.

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 9h

have you heard alex lahey? not a soundalike, but i hear something sympatico

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 9h

so glad to hear it. best to all y'all

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 19h

we stan the King of Crime

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 19h

Books are empathy-generating machines.

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 19h

I still think donating to PACs is a trap, especially in races where I can't vote, but props to these folks for being transparent in their spam text. (And if you feel differently about PACs, that's up to you.)

Partial transcript of an unsolicited text message I received:
Chip in any amount today to help us make history >> https://support-zohran.com/Make-History

Paid for by New Yorkers for Lower Costs, Regina Monge, Chair. Top Three Donors: Mohammad Waqas Javed, Omer Hasan, and Elizabeth Simons. Not expressly or otherwise authorized or requested by any candidate or the candidate’s committee or agent. More information at nyc.gov/FollowTheMoney.

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 20h

ok, well how about the (San Francisco) Cliff House Hotel?

The San Francisco Cliff House hotel is a gingerbready affair, and it looks like a giant hand set it down partly off the edge of a rocky coast, and then smushed a bit of stone under it to make it look less in danger of imminent collapse. The photo is black and white, and a stormy sky looms behind the hotel, with clouds lit by a lightning strike.

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 20h

(also, and relevantly for #LGBTQWriteAThon both Danny and Nykky are bisexual)

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 21h

I have 2 MCs #LGBTQWriteAThon 14 - Danny and Nykky are both professional musicians. They used to be in a band, they used to be in love. They're both still in the Bay Area, making livings doing session work, lessons, getting hired for tours—and they're both still huge fans of a certain 80s metal band

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 23h

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 14:

Introduce us to your MC today!

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 14: Introduce your MC. BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 21h

(whispering into the reeds)
the more unhinged a quote i see, the more comforted i feel that he hasn't already died and been replaced by some animatronic llm nightmare

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 21h

happy anniversary, you whacky kids!

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 21h

(I'm also still a teeny bit salty about the trilogy where book 1 advances a romantic plot, book 2 kills half of the couple, and book 3's back cover copy starts "after the tragic death of..."—which I read in a bookshop, without knowing it was NOT book 2. but I think that's far less likely these days)

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 21h

and more opportunity to appreciate the craft. I hope my new book offers readers two genuine moments of surprise, and reveals some "oh you DID lay groundwork for that didn't you?" on a re-read.
("It's a romance, Villain, how can it be surprising?" "Oh, just you wait.")

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 21h

and I think there is a distinct, non-replicable pleasure of trying to work out what is around the next curve of the rollercoaster (not just for whodunnits, but obviously those). And on the other hand you're more watching the ride from the ground. I think that affords some "oh, just you wait!" fun...

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 21h

in that case I was watching with @editrixie.bsky.social who had NOT been spoiled, and it was very frustrating. probably too subtle for the microblog, but I think spoiled/unspoiled may be two different valid ways of engaging with a particular narrative. In one you're more along for the ride ...

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 23h

the season of Sopranos where a major character wrestles with a decision through most of it, is, IMO, an exception. knowing what he would decide destroyed the tension for me. ymmv of course.

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 23h

on it. (waves to Joan)

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 1d

digging up this old post because if I have to get AI slop scam emails about this novel, I might as well at least put the real thing on my timeline

the thief character is nonbinary and a shapeshifter! she goes by he or she. AI doesn't get that because it doesn't get anything. but YOU can

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · Nov 19

Out now: THE ANONYMOUS LETTERS OF C FORESTIER, a queer romance set in magic 1820s France, told in letters & diary entries, about a tired woman who just wants to murder her ex and die—and the smitten thief who's gonna convince her to fall in love first

books2read.com/fores...
feliciadavin.itch.io...

The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier. Cover shows an oil painting of a white hand holding a quill.

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 1d

one that i would not nominate: the connells doing jethro tull's "living in the past" 🤔

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 1d

ok but what about XTC's Watchtower?

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!

summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 1d

thank you! to be clear, I'm on the east coast, the band in question is in my WIP ;-)

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