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Felicia Davin
@feliciadavin.com
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I write romance & scifi/fantasy about bisexuals of various genders + a newsletter about words & books called Word Suitcase. PhD in French literature, non-practicing intellectual. Bi, she/they, www.feliciadavin.com
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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · Sep 17
Here's an updated guide to my books, including the one that comes out in November 2024. Fantasy and sci-fi romance with bisexual main characters 💖 www.feliciadavin.com/ for more info

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White text on a blue-purple gradient background: a guide to Felicia Davin’s books. There are three book covers: a red one labelled Thornfruit, a blue one labelled Nightvine, and a purple one labelled Shadebloom, each with illustrated floral imagery on them, all by Felicia Davin. The Gardener’s Hand (2018). Queer fantasy. Quasi-feral mindreader discovers her mom is evil, enlists the help of a sensible farmgirl and a slutty linguist. They fall in love. Smart Bitches, Trashy Books said the characters were “phenomenal.” White text on a blue-purple gradient background: a guide to Felicia Davin’s books. There are three book covers. The first book cover shows a figure in silhouette with his back to the viewer. His silhouette is transparent and the bluish starry void of space is visible through it. The text on the cover says "Edge of Nowhere," and below that, "Felicia Davin." The other two covers are similar but the background colors are orange (for Out of Nowhere) and green (for Nowhere Else). The Nowhere (2018-21). A trio of m/m romances set in a world where some people can teleport. Space, evil trillionaires, sex pollen, falling in love, etc. Edge of Nowhere was a 2018 finalist at the Bisexual Book Awards. A judge called it “a gripping, highly readable mystery” with “a compelling romantic plot.” White text on a blue-purple gradient background: a guide to Felicia Davin’s books. There are three book covers in a line, each with an illustration of two women (one tall and white and butch, the other short and brown and femme) posed together. An arrow with “all 3 of these in one book” pointing to a fourth book cover that shows the two women embracing. There is an autumnal landscape behind them. Errant (2022). Five sapphic fantasy novellas co-authored with KR Collins and Valentine Wheeler as LK Fleet. A stoic swordswoman and a cheerful pickpocket actress wander the world causing trouble. White text on a blue-purple gradient background: a guide to Felicia Davin’s books. There are three book covers. The first book cover is THE SCANDALOUS LETTERS OF V AND J, with an oil painting of a white hand holding a quill and writing a letter, and the title text on ripped pieces of paper scattered over the painting. The second book cover is THE MISCHIEVOUS LETTERS OF THE MARQUISE DE Q, with an oil painting of a white hand holding a book and the title text on ripped pieces of paper scattered over the painting. The third book cover is THE ANONYMOUS LETTERS OF C FORESTIER, with an oil painting of a white hand holding a quill and writing a letter, and the title text on ripped pieces of paper scattered over the painting. French Letters (2023-). Set in a magic version of 1820s Paris, told in letters, unclassifiably queer. People write a lot of horny diary entries and do some revenge murders. The New York Times called V and J “exquisite” and said it had “the thirstiest sex imaginable
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
It's so real.

I am helping a church pull together a community meeting about preparing for ICE and everyone I'm reaching out to "yes-ands" me.

I am 40 and I have spent my entire adult life organizing, and I have literally never experienced this before. It's wild.

People are DONE.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
January 13, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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it’s the Connecticut now but it used to be the Kentucky 💖 both superb
thinkingbayonet.bsky.social thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 14h
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.

Mine is the Patuxent.
January 13, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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anyway. sorry to use the internet like my personal diary, as I have been doing since the age of 11

time to go wash some dishes and listen to my emotional support nonfiction audiobook about deciphering cuneiform
January 12, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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today has been really tough
January 12, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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need to skywrite this
sjgochenour.bsky.social gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 19h
cozy is great but have you considered the emotional benefits of beheading people in fiction
January 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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sjgochenour.bsky.social
fun AND profit!
kjcharleswriter.com KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 20h
The great Beverly Jenkins has a book where the heroine beats a villain half to death, sets him on fire, *and* drowns him.

A Bloomy Head (Regency) and the fantasy romance oeuvre of T Kingfisher use decapitation for fun and profit.

I myself had a villain eaten by eels because I could.
January 12, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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alixeharrow.bsky.social
hey The Everlasting ebook is on sale for $6.99 wherever ebooks are sold (in the US)!
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The Everlasting ebook by Alix E. Harrow - Rakuten Kobo
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January 12, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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93% of economists polled by IGM markets earlier this year agreed that "Giving the President more direct influence over monetary policy would lead to substantially worse monetary policy decisions", half of the people who disagreed were people who actually agreed but just pressed the wrong button
screenshot of a polling results saying that 93% of economists said giving the president more direct influence over montary policy would lead to substantially worse monetary policy decisions
January 12, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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image: a graph entitled A brief history of inflation in Turkey,
OR: What happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic preference for low interest rates undermines the central bank and appoints loyalists? and the graph shows the inflation rate spiking, at one point as high as 86%
justinwolfers.bsky.social Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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understatesmen.bsky.social
so much of fascism's power is its mythology, the APPEARANCE of power, and holy shit nothing has demolished that so quickly watching these dipshits slipping on the ice and getting clowned on by people who sound like friendly cartoon bears.
January 12, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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louisevans.bsky.social
Account cancellation is a really effective tactic imo
hormiga.bsky.social Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 1d
It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:

They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.

The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
wajali.bsky.social Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5d
Boycott Hilton Hotels
January 12, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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hey can somebody explain monetary policy to me real quick
January 12, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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arr.bsky.social
Like 12 years ago my friend sent me this picture from his work and it immediately, permanently changed the name of this utensil in my head. The bytes were fully overwritten. I don’t remember the former name of this item and frankly I don’t care
A drawer full of squessers, labeled “Squessers”
January 9, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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eating fruit and whole grains to spite the United States government
January 11, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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romansdegare.bsky.social
MY QUEEN
scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz Scoiattolo @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d
Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
Amber Glenn wearing her gold medal after winning the US National Championship Women’s Singles Competition. She is dressed in a black short sequined gown and proudly holding a progress pride flag behind her. There is a gaggle of photographers in front of her.
January 11, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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I read this yesterday (think it was another @feliciadavin.com newsletter rec) and LOVED the characters.

I felt a sense of Jennifer Crusie (my favourite!!): the combo of noir + screwball; the protags remaking themselves together + separately; the pop culture throughline that adds depth and levity.
January 11, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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"is that standard British English or is the audiobook narrator just doing their own thing," a game I play regularly
feliciadavin.com Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 2d
actually, just having checked the OED, the audiobook narrator is doing NEITHER of their two listed pronunciations, so I guess it's 100% "life is a rich tapestry" on this word
January 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
Word to the wise: even if you aren't in a city under direct attack yet, you want to be developing these sorts of relationships NOW with sympathetic folks at local institutions.

You want to have those numbers in your phone ready for when you have to send exactly these sorts of texts.
normcharlatan.bsky.social Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d
Absolutely insane that my life has become texting with local church pastors to try and find a safe place to hold an emergency meeting for parents at my kid’s’ preschool to figure out how to respond to the federal government kidnapping neighbors.
January 10, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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skyekilaen.bsky.social
This newspaper piece is *glorious*. 🤣
transferdinand.gay Anatoly @transferdinand.gay · 3d
Lmao apparently people near me are freaking out about a non binary teacher

And I am watching the entire community come together to dunk on the much smaller group of transphobic dipshits and it is DELICIOUS

The local newspaper even snarkily wrote about them and I am CRYING
- A group of fully grown adults collapsed into emotional rubble this week after encountering a teacher title that did not personally receive their approval. The incident triggered mass Facebook posts, legal threats, and a community-wide reminder that the people screaming "kids are too soft" cannot emotionally survive one new word. Parents immediately announced they were pulling children from music class, threatening lawsuits, and demanding firings, all because children accepted something calmly, politely, and without a meltdown. This response enraged adults, who had worked very hard to be upset. Children processed the situation in under 30 seconds. Adults have now entered day three of spiral posting. Several parents described the issue as "dangerous" and "immoral," words they apparently reserve for situations involving tambourines and basic respect. One adult warned that children might ask questions, confirming the real horror is not gender, but curiosity. The fragility on display has been remarkable. These are the same adults who mock participation trophies, complain about snowflakes, and brag about "how we were raised." That upbringing, it turns out, produced people who short-circuit when reality fails to match their Facebook comfort zone. Experts note that not one child reported confusion, distress, or identity crisis. However, dozens of adults reported being personally wounded, spiritually attacked, and victimized by the existence of a teacher who did not cater to their feelings. At press time, children remained fine. Music class remained fine. The school remained fine. Only the adults were broken, trembling before the terrifying idea that the world does not freeze until they approve it. Community Note: If you would like to counter the noise, the district needs supportive messages reminding them that calm, inclusive adults still exist and that children do not need to be rescued from basic human respect. The encourages these parents to locate the nearest mirror and ask themselves why a second grader has more emotional stability than they do.
January 9, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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so I really rely on Airtable—I keep a database of hundreds of book reviews, which newsletters they're in, etc—but I'm bummed about how much they're pushing AI features

are there Airtable alternatives that don't have this bullshit?
January 10, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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ellsey.bsky.social
stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating
January 8, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
as someone who has personally benefited from Tal’s m/m romance curation and has also derived a lot of joy and comfort and emotional catharsis from books about queer people in love during a bleak and grueling year, this is a wonderful read about why romance matters
January 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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jenreadsromance.bsky.social
This is lovely, doesn’t matter if you’ve been reading romance for decades or since you discovered Heated Rivalry. It’s a genre that is delighted by your feelings, and happy to make you feel more of them.
January 9, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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a pick-me-up! just beaming at my screen the whole time. (actual song starts around 2 minutes)
Chris Thile at Brown County Music Center, 10/3/21, “Toxic”
YouTube video by MyTallTripod
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January 10, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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I really need to read this
dreddieclark.bsky.social Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 3d
Isaac Fellman - Notes From A Regicide.

I didn't rank books in this list, but honestly decent chance this'd be up the top if I did. Speculative humanities is a thing more people should do if this book is an example of how powerful it can be.
Unsurprising from Fellman, but god this is good. Incisive, distinctive, beautiful writing on a sentence level. Ultimately a story about character and family, with all 3 lead characters quite annoying people at times, and yet this does nothing to get in the way of how moving, affective, and effective the portrait of them is. Massively queer, as well. And all this could be done in simply naturalistic fiction; the book is even set in New York, but a New York of several centuries and several feet of sea level rise in the future. What the SFnal element does - and I think it's indispensible - is the opposite of what SF apologetics usually claims is the utility of SFnal narratives - i.e. make it easier explore real world themes in a nonthreateningly unreal fantasy land or projected future. Fellman, on the other hand, takes these vividly drawn, proudly trans characters out of time and out of contemporary mores as a method of insulating the superb character work from the demands of having to make A Point about the burgeoning anti-queer climate of the current moments. This is particularly true of the almost dreamlike fictional state the chronologically earliest part of the narrative is set in - erehwon as actually nowhere, rather than allegory - but holds across the future setting in general as well. Instead, the story is free to be that of Griffon, Zaffre, and Etoine and how they experience the world and each other. A spectacularly successful, moving book.
January 9, 2026 at 11:35 PM