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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 4h

The boos for Cathy need to be louder, Phoenix

Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 5h

I hate to agree with Rebecca Lobo, but I also don’t understand why Coach Girl Dad was ejected

Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 7h

Oh this has the potential to get real messy real quick

Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 12h

yessss that's another a+ blorbo song

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 13h

but for which blorbos?

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 13h

QUICK everyone else tell me your most blorbo song

Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 13h

Florence + The Machine's "One of the Greats" is really the most blorbo song of all time to me, since it works perfectly for both Buffy and Commander Shepard

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 13h

Florence + The Machine's "One of the Greats" is really the most blorbo song of all time to me, since it works perfectly for both Buffy and Commander Shepard

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 13h

and honestly, finding out that SenLinYu was raised fundie/evangelical explained a lot about the relationships in Manacled/Alchemised

Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 13h

not just romantasy - a certain star wars ship fandom is still yelling about how dare we infantilize the female main character, when instead she just wanted to get married & have babies with their favorite fascist

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 14h

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week I and several readers built a rec list of our favorite reads of September. Plus: lots of great reviews, author interviews, and award news.

Intergalactic Mixtape #23

Hey! This week, the most mentioned book by far is a book that, as far as I can tell, doesn’t have a U.S. release date yet. That’s fine! I don’t suffer from...

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 14h

Like even books that are "progressive" like FW, which are built on tropes made popular in Divergent and other YA books, just have a weird... idk air of conservatism about them in how they view the world

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 14h

*coughs* just bc a book is nominated for a Lodestar Award, doesn't make it YA

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 14h

Honestly it feels like a lot of popular romantasy is a backlash to diverse YA books

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 14h

This whole thread!!! when I talk about YA authors getting picked up to write romantasy, it's overwhelmingly white authors writing het romance. but that represents just a fraction of what's actually happening in the YA space.

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 14h

There are real conversations to be had about thematic issues with romantasy, what publishers are buying vs what they're rejecting, YA being colonized by NA, etc. But what ends up getting the most marketing, into celebrity book clubs, and on bestsellers lists isn't representative of the whole genre.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 16h

Okay, I really don’t want to keep talking about this, since frankly - I hate KP. She’s an example of toxic management, and I saw what she did to my friends.

But I’m really disturbed by the number of women, specifically white women on Threads and on here, justifying her cursing at staff.

Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 1d

Going to be honest: Threads going to bat for Katie Porter is one of the most 🫠 things I've seen today...

And really speaks to my ongoing belief we shouldn't stan politicians. At all.

Fellow Dems, hold politicians accountable for their work, not for who you THINK they are only on camera.

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 1d

No because it’s HP fanfic

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 4d

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal.

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"All the Jews have to die or convert to trigger the rapture. Then our dead bodies surround Jerusalem and they climb over us to reach Jesus, who will bring them to heaven. It's why they're all Zionists obsessed with Israel.
Cause they need Jews to go there so we can die"

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 4d

THE WITCH ROADS ebook is currently on sale (US) for $2.99, so if you're curious & want to read a grimsweet tale of a humble deputy courier & her annoyed nephew, a possessed prince, & a ravenous fungal ghost plague, now's the time.
Bk 2 of the duology arrives Nov 4!

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The Witch Roads

Book 1 in the Witch Roads duology, the latest epic novel by fan favorite Kate Elliott.. Status is hereditary, class is bestowed, trust must be earned.When an...

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 6d

Deeply funny that an artist who made a big deal about owning her work and each song being uniquely hers is using AI slop to promote her new album

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 7d

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week: my favorite headcanons from other fans about The Murderbot Diaries and a call for your favorite SFF book from September 2025, so we can lovingly build a rec list together. 🥹📚

Intergalactic Mixtape #22

Hey! This week, I learned how to turn on the newsletter archives and make them searchable, after 22 weeks. :D Technology: 1, Renay: 0. Welcome to October!...

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Seerat Sohi @seeratsohi.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote about Napheesa Collier's power play, Cathy Engelbert's puppet leadership, a changing ownership landscape and how the next commissioner should take a collaborative approach to the WNBA entering its player empowerment era:

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The WNBA Is at a Breaking Point

Napheesa Collier went scorched earth on Cathy Engelbert for a reason. The players are fed up—and the firestorm is here.

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 9d

It’s why I’m refusing to upgrade my tv until it legit dies on me - yeah it’s an older model but it’s dumb and it doesn’t do weird shit on me

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 9d

I hateeeeee how hard it is to avoid accidentally starting a romance in ME1

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 9d

Lmao I did not expect my semi regular bitching about Sanderson to pop off like that 😅

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 10d

like I truly do not care that he allegedly supports the LGBTQ community - as long as he is giving them a substantial amount of money, he is funding an organization that actively hates them + wants them to be removed from public life

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 10d

anyway, reminder that Brando Sando is a mormon in good standing aka he tithes 10% of his income to a church that just announced they filed a brief saying that protecting trans rights infringes on their religious freedom ✌️

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 10d

We are THRILLED to reveal the gorgeous cover for Isles of the Emberdark, a new Cosmere novel from none other than Brandon Sanderson, arriving February 3, 2026 from Tor Books

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Revealing Isles of the Emberdark, a New Standalone in the Cosmere Universe by Brandon Sanderson - Reactor

Sanderson's new novel navigates the seas and the stars of a far-future Cosmere...

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