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Photographer, Books Reviewer, Blogger, cozy gaming #Crafts #Tolkien fan #BookSky. No gen A.I Blog : https://outandaboutqz.blogspot.com https://linktr.ee/OutandAboutcg Open for Arcs 📚 📬

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 19d

Jude, 36, They-Them, Europe based, book reviewer, cozy gamer, Foodie, Photographer, Crafts enjoyer. Audhd & Queer 🏳️‍🌈. (no AI)

I review horror & fantasy mostly but queer/feminist non fiction as well.

Where to read me:

outandaboutqz.blogspot.com

substack.com/@judecraftyg...

linktr.ee/OutandAboutcg

frodo baggins from lotr universe, reading a book seated on a tree in hobbiton, shire

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 4d

Check out this bundle of books for ADHD Awareness Month!

#booksky #readersky #readers #books #readersonbluesky #booksonbluesky #bookrecs #readingrecs #ADHD #ADHDAwarenessMonth #Bundle

💙📚 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚

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ADHD Awareness Month Fiction by Elise Carlson and 22 others

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction: 22 items for $25.00

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 5d

Day off, before going back to night shift rotation. I only plan to chill, take care of me, drink lot of pumpkin tea, eat comfort food and read #LOTR and The Silmarillion Fanfictions with a good playlist 😁 the crazy world and boring adulting can wait till tomorrow 🥴
open.spotify.com/track/5VWtav...

Photo of my purple Budda bowl full of a chicken salad and seasonal veggies, a clear mug with pumpkin tea and a LOTR fanfic on my Samsung tab

Spotify playlist currently playing showing part of the titles in my playlist : wolf alice, TTSSFU, the last dinner party, florence+ the machine, blondshell, just mustard, wet leg, Katy j Pearson. With blush by wolf alice playing right now

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 5d

It's Monday again and today I'm reading The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 5d

Red themed cover party and women in horror only this week for me

Let me keep you (arc), the girl in red and the monster of eldenhaven

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 5d

I'm going with a total red aesthetic (totally involuntarily) this week and full #WomenInHorror for the start of my spooky season 🍁🎃👻🩸

What #Horror are you reading this month ?

#BookSky #Horror #QueerReads #BookRecommendations 📚🩸

Screenshot storygraph of my current reads : let me keep you by Kate Peters, the girl in red by Christina Henry and the monster of elendhaven

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 7d

While I feel it's a bit early to nail down any best-of-the-year lists, I'm glad Bookbub enjoyed A GAME IN YELLOW and gave it a place among these terrific horror titles of 2025 so far by Alma Katsu, RF Kuang, Rachel Harrison, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones & more 💛
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Riffing on the classic horror story The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hailey Piper tells the story of Carmen, who is bored in her relationship and anxious that she’s losing her hold on her girlfriend, Blanca. In an effort to keep Blanca interested, Carmen has been pushing her physical boundaries, ultimately leading her to discover a play that makes its readers feel euphoric — at a cost. Carmen is warned that reading too much of the play will drive her insane, but she keeps chasing the high she feels when she reads it, seeking out more and more of the text. As she reads, her sense of reality begins to slip in horrifying ways… but she can’t stop.

The Best Horror Books of 2025, article by Jeff Somers, showing the cover of Katabasis by R.F. Kuang amid lit candles

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 8d

Now is probably a good time to pick up a copy of this (if you haven't already): The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain from @helleborezine.bsky.social, which I contributed to the North West and North East sections of
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The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain

THE HELLEBORE GUIDE TO OCCULT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND Paperback, 13 x 18 cm, with flaps. 316 pages. Exploring castles, museums and manor...

helleborezine.bigcartel.com

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ashley | nyc artist @artbysmashley.bsky.social · 8d

✨ inktober day 03 - creation ✨

Greyscale drawing on a 6x8 piece of paper. The character stands strong in the center of the canvas. She has a curvy, plus size figure and wears a halter top and skirt that expose her stomach. The stomach has stretch marks, proudly on display. Her one leg is bent, thighs soft with cellulite. Gold leaf accents swirl around her arms in an implication of magic. She looks ever part the goddess she is.

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🦇 Rich Tate 🎃 @richtate.com · 8d

They believe in God. We believe in witchcraft.

Remind me again, which one of those beliefs caused more death?

And, now we have the AI god. Ironic, isn’t it?

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah I just finished it and it is definitely a powerful and kind of darkly emotional movie. I loved it. I'm a big fan of Florence Pugh anyway, and she's awesome in Midsommar

Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah it's one of those you see everywhere on social media. I'm not so fond of romance stuff 🥴 so it might stay in my tbr for a bit more lol. Thanks for the feedback 😊

Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 9d

What happens when I'm left unsupervised in a shopping center in October 😁🤣

#Horror

Beige Tshirt IT chapter two with the headline time to float. Two scene of the movie representing Pennywise in black and white and the IT in read

Black Tshirt with a giant ghostface from scream movie

Dark grey hoodie with John carpenter's halloween movie design and the headline the night he came home ! With the name and the title in white and orange

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Jason Behnke @jasonbehnke.com · 10d

"Kuekumkan", painted in 2017. Licensing available.

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#Fae #Faerie #dragon #elf #serpent #swamp #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #art #artsky #drawing #painting #illustration #noai @bsky.art 💙🪐

A female elf stands in a dark, misty, ancient swamp peering into the eyes of her companion feathered serpent coiled around her body. Licensing available.

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 9d

How did you find My Darling Dreadful thing ? It's on my tbr but I tend to dislike most of the trendy books 🤣

Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 9d

I forgot to log at least half of my September's reads on storygraph 🥴 but at least I remembered to log the Arcs

Reviews available on my blog : outandaboutqz.blogspot.com?m=1
or on Substack substack.com/@judecraftyg...

#BookSky @netgalley.bsky.social #WrapUp @thestorygraph.com #BookReviewer

The Storygraph's wrap up for September : how bad things can get 4.5⭐, the fovea experiments 5⭐, small town slasher 3⭐, She's a lamb 4⭐, the fisherman 2.5⭐, banana brain 5⭐, the shadow family 4.5⭐ , tradwife 5⭐

September's wrap up on Storygraph. 8 books , all arcs (actually around 20 reads but I forgot to log them). 4.22 average rating.

Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 9d

Spent the day shopping (I hate malls) and now I'm crashing to watch Midsommar, eat matcha coco-yogurt cake and a new tea : Irish Cream

#MovieSky #Letterboxd

Movie cover Midsommar with a photo of florence pugh crying and wearing a plants and flowers crown.

Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. It stars Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor as an American couple who are drawn into a violent cult in rural Sweden

Movie Midsommar projected on my bedroom wall

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 12d

It's Monday again and today I'm about to start Revenge by Yoko Ogawa

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 11d

Just started this Irish folk horror. It's grandiose ! And I'll probably try either Pagans by Ethan Doyle White or Folk by Zoe Gilbert then.

#BookSky

Screenshot of my current read on storygraph. Knock knock open wide by Neil Sharpson.

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 11d

Bonus🔥for the matching socks 🤩🎃

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 12d

When you try to have a decent conversation with @reasonableladriel.bsky.social but her autocorrect is horny 🌶️🔥🙀

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Screenshot of a conversation between me and my friend about telegram reducing gif use. And her auto correct miscorrect gif (with a typo) for gode meaning sextoy in french. Instead of having her saying "I love throwing/sending gifs and memes" it says "I love sending/throwing sextoys and memes". I answer this with a même of a man saying let god take you

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 13d

I keep up, for now. But yeah that's definitely looking like a slow burn lol

Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 13d

A new day at work to moderate stupid tiktok content (guys please create interesting content, think of the poor moderators who spent 8h/day watching it 😂).

I'm just at the beginning but I hope it kicks soon because the start is boring me a little bit right now 😔 any one read it ?

#BookSky

Kobo reader with the fisherman by John langan

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Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 13d

This story was so messed up, so dark, I wasn't ready for that 😂😂 I thought it was a fun light #horror read hum hum wellll my bad 😳😂 I loved it. Review coming soon.
#BookSky

Jude 🏳️‍🌈 @craftygoblin.bsky.social · 14d

Currently Reading 🩸📚😆

I'm not sure yet if I like or not (24% through it) It's weird though funny in a Hollywood superficial way.

#BookSky #BookBlogger #Kobo

My current read on my Kobo e-reader : she's a lamb with the cover of a blond hottie actress screaming with fear in a horror vintage style. Book by Meredith Hambrock

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 13d

In 2025 finding a reviewer who just nearly reads just exclusively male authors is really a sign more work is needed - guys open up your shelves to the bigger pile of great books out there

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Tea with Tolkien @teawithtolkien.com · 14d

Kind words about my book, Into the Heart of Middle-earth. 🫖

An image of the cover art for my book, Into the Heart of Middle-earth: a watercolor landscape painting of two trees amidst mountains. A golden ring looms in the background. There is a small star at the top of the cover.

Text: "You will finish this book with your hope and courage restored, ready to tackle the adventure of your own life." - Haley Stewart
Editor of Word on Fire Votive and author of Jane Austen's Genius Guide to Life

Coming from Ave Maria Press in February 2026
Learn more and pre-order at www.teawithtolkien.com/book

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