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Scottish book nerd. Queer. She/her. Co-host of @wyrdandwonder.bsky.social and @scifimonth.bsky.social. Sometimes remembers to write stuff.
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Lisa @deargeekplace.bsky.social · Jan 6
OK, let’s see if I can keep this thread up this time - #BooksOf2025 begins with WHAT DOESN’T BREAK by Cassandra Khaw.

This Critical Role novel may need a lot of context, but as a longtime CR fan and a massive Laudna fan, I deeply enjoyed it - even when it made me sad. Fantastic choice of author.
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imyril @imyril.bsky.social · 4h
It wouldn't be #SpooktasticReads without 13 prompts to inspire our reading and blogging. @adancewithbooks.bsky.social has put together a brilliant set for us with some nods to this years #WyrdAndWonder maritime fantasy theme
Background: A silhouette of a hand pushing against an opaque white surface Text: 13 prompts for Spooktastic Reads: Spooktastic TBR | Omen | Blood red | Fog incoming | Ghost ship | Footsteps | #StackSaturday | Pitch black | It's behind you | Creepy forest | Bone white | Moon | Samhain / Day of the Dead
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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁 @ CAN*CON @bmwillows.bsky.social · 10h
Hello! Good morning! I'm in not one, but TWO Ace Pride Week bundles on Itchio this week! You can either get 26 books for $26, or 50+ for $50! 🖤🤍💜

Bundle 2: itch.io/b/3322/ace-pride-week-itchio-bundle-2
Mega Bundle: itch.io/b/3318/ace-pride-week-itchio-mega-bundle
Ace Pride Week itch.io bundle 1 Oct 19 - 25 | 26 books for $26! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Yours Celestially - Al Hess Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Junk Junction - Sara Codair Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Journey Home - Mary Barros Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Spade - Brittany M. Willows Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon Blood - D. C. Hart The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/ace2025-1 Ace Pride Week itch.io mega bundle Oct 19 - 25 | 50+ books for $50! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean How Six Saved the Grogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strike - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell Puppetry - Nina Waters Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith Blood - D. C. Hart Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Yours Celestically - Al Hess Pet - H. S. Kallinger The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilaen Junk Junction - Sara Codair Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontido Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal Bridges of Smoke - Julie March The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Journey Home - May Barros Doce Drosera - Anita The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Space - Brittany M. Willows Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke The Harmony of Falling Snow - Andora Brohaw The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/acepride2025
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imyril @imyril.bsky.social · 12h
Welcome to Spooktastic Reads, when your Wyrd and Wonderful friends indulge in 13 days of haunting reads from the darker side of fantasy. Will you join us from now until Hallowe'en?
Let’s get spooktastic
Welcome to Spooktastic Reads, when your Wyrd and Wonderful friends indulge in 13 days of haunting reads from the darker side of fantasy. I'm still edging my way back into reading and blogging this month, so naturally I have wildly ambitious ideas that may or may not survive contact with the first jump scare...
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S.L. Dove Cooper @dovelynnwriter.bsky.social · 12h
It's that time again. Ace Week! Below are 3 books with spooktastic acespec rep for your enjoyment and perusal! I'm only doing 3 per topic, but there are many more books out there. Share your own recs with people. :D

#AceWeek #QueerBooks
An informational graphic. The text reads: Books for Ace Week Day 1: Spooky Season It’s the second half of October, so of course we’re starting this week off with books specifically for spooky season. Whether it’s ghouls or ghosts, supernatural romcom or outright horror, if it’s spooky (or spoopy) it all goes for this set of acespec books. One rule: The rep has to be a major character. The graphic was created by S.L. Dove Cooper at https://www.dovelynnwriter.com An informational graphic. It features a small version of a book cover with text beside it. The book cover is for: Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger The text reads: Books for Ace Week Day 1: Spooky Season Elatsoe is an mesmerising, award-winning young adult novel featuring an aroace Lipan Apache lead who can raise the ghosts of dead animals, and has a ghost dog named Kirby. (Kirby is the best dog.) When her cousin is murdered, Elatsoe sets out with her best friend to discover the identity of the killer and bring them to justice. A powerful, magical narrative about the importance of family and friendship, and a scathing look at the effects of colonisation. The graphic was created by S.L. Dove Cooper at https://www.dovelynnwriter.com An informational graphic. It features a small version of a book cover with text beside it. The book cover is for: Stake Sauce by RoAnna Sylver The text reads: Books for Ace Week Day 1: Spooky Season Stake Sauce is a fantastic vampire novel, starring a disabled former firefighter turned mall cop. In this supernatural cosy-adjacent story, love is the secret ingredient that allows people to heal and stay alive. This heartwarming tale explores the fluidity of aspec identity as well as delivering an emotional rollercoaster of the best kind as Jude and Pixie team up to stand up to bullies and defeat some extremely bad people in the process. The graphic was created by S.L. Dove Cooper at https://www.dovelynnwriter.com An informational graphic. It features a small version of a book cover with text beside it. The book cover is for: He Must Go Walk the Woods So Wild by S.L. Dove Cooper The text reads: Books for Ace Week He Must Go Walk the Woods So Wild is the titular piece in this collection. After a group of teenagers decides to brave the woods at night, during a storm, they end up with regrets as creepy fey creatures decide to, ah, make a deal with one of them. Their friendship and lives will never be the same again. Other spooky season tales in the collection include The Stalking of Sally Foth (don’t be fooled by the cosy-adjacent), Kitty (who is a dog, yes I know) and Balanced by Those Horrors. The graphic was created by S.L. Dove Cooper at https://www.dovelynnwriter.com
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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.bsky.social · 12h
On this occasion of this, the #AceWeek of 2025, I just want to remind you to be aware of us.

We're here. We're queer. We don't particularly want to have sex with you.
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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.bsky.social · 12h
Happy #AsexualAwarenessWeek to all of my ace siblings!
Image of two rows of four hearts, each one with a different asexual spectrum pride flag highlighted. Top row: Asexual, demisexual, graysexual or gray ace, aceflux pride flags. Bottom row: Aegosexual, apothisexual, cupiosexual, and freysexual pride flags.
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Lisa @deargeekplace.bsky.social · 13h
Happy #SpooktasticReads2025! As of today I am halfway into Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid, for our October book bingo. What’s on your deck?
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d
these numbers are going to haunt him, even if he pretends he doesn't believe it
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After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
(around an image of the No Kings logo) IT’S OFFICIAL Nearly 7 million people have attended today's peaceful protests, which makes No Kings Day the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history! With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, No Kings Day was 14 times larger than both of Trump's presidential inaugurations (combined).
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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 1d
Aaaaanyway there are now 18 original essays in this series, with 13 more to go. If you like HALLOWEEN and deep dives on horror movies, I recommend them.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 2d
Liberally block it
bnonews.com BNO News @bnonews.com · 2d
Trump's White House has joined Bluesky: @whitehouse-47.bsky.social
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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 1d
Does anyone know any good gm-less 2-3 person ttrpgs? Something rules-light and beginner friendly, preferably fantasy. I’d like to introduce my parents to ttrpgs but the only ones I’ve played wouldn’t work for this
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d
Friendos, give them what they deserve: a block.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2d
Feral churches holding green communion growl at careless trespass. Their wild mysteries are not easily untangled. They scratch the soul, infect with untamed spirit. They place the language of vegetation upon the tongue and you find yourself offering thorned hymns. – #DAKilroy
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Lisa @deargeekplace.bsky.social · 2d
This
ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 2d
B&N has dropped their Best Books of 2025 list with 2.5 months left in the year so here's your reminder that "best" is arbitrary, time is a construct, and there are still a ton of good books coming out that shouldn't be ignored just because the credits are rolling early
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SciFiMonth @scifimonth.bsky.social · 4d
Fancy revisiting the Imperial Radch with us? We’ll be reading Ancillary Justice for #ScifiMonth2025
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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 4d
NoaF needs more contributors. Maybe that could be you?

If not, we'd really appreciate a share, or if you fancied passing the link across to someone who might be interested, so we can keep on covering as wide a ground in SFF as we can.
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Libreture - your ebook & comic cloud library @libreture.com · 5d
This!

Just remove "the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason".
spavel.bsky.social Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6d
boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)
r/SaaS u/soasme I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP. Everyone's busy adding Al to everything. I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work. I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything. Guess what? I see more registered users and higher retention. That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better? Here's my question: Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?
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Lisa @deargeekplace.bsky.social · 6d
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 6d
🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
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Lisa @deargeekplace.bsky.social · 6d
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Lisa @deargeekplace.bsky.social · 6d
This is why I have no intention of ever watching a Jared Leto film.
joelnb.bsky.social Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 6d
Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.
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Lisa @deargeekplace.bsky.social · 6d
WTAF
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Lisa @deargeekplace.bsky.social · 7d
Alcoholic: Negroni (sometimes with Whitley Neill blood orange gin for a twist)

Non-alcoholic: either a hazelnut latte or Barry’s Irish Breakfast tea
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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 8d
Now's your chance to show (younger) people, by your acts of beautiful, shining excitement, that having genuine love for things (art, bugs, apple varieties, books, theatre, volcanoes, charity work ......) & sharing that glowing joy is what makes you more deeply YOU & more deeply HUMAN.

See beauty.
essencesimmone.blacksky.app essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 16d
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d
This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical
thedailyshow.com The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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