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Making Queer History @makingqueerhistory.bsky.social · 25d

Titled "We Have Always Existed", this queer history mini zine seeks to show snippets of the width and breadth of queer history, from the earliest days of human storytelling to now.
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"We Have Always Existed" Queer History Zine | Harper-Hugo Darling

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 11

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

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Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Apr 29

The girls love their new bed!

a picture of a orange cat on a white cat bed

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · Apr 28

Also yes I am STILL doing copyedits on the ms but it's up for preorder (SORRY JEN SORRY SORRY I'm a little burnt-out and overwhelmed right now) so:

THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES is the third book in the ANNUAL MIGRATIONS OF CLOUDS trilogy! Cover illo by Veronica Park!

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the cover of THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES, with dramatic red writing overlaying three ravens flapping and apparently in conflict with one another. some have red threads emerging from their bodies

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beverlylove / Bev Johnson @bevsi.bsky.social · Apr 28

containing my isi rainbow series with spring green 🌿🍵🪷 #oc

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Diana Chan @thingsbydiana.bsky.social · Apr 21

🌸 Ravens in bloom

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Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Apr 16

Wishing for all of my loved ones to live in a neighborhood with a booktuber so their free little library overflows with special editions

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Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thinking about wolves.

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Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Apr 7

For people looking to start learning more about American queer history, this book is a good starting point! Request it from your library!

Painted book cover of Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known by George M. Johnson

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Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Apr 7

I am working on making a marketing doc for Moonlit; any advice from other authors? I am going for trad pub, but I would specifically love advice from indie authors, I v much respect y'alls hustle

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · Apr 2

Some Magical Girls are WOLVES-
Due to demand signed prints are now live

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My art, digital. A women and a snarling wolf

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Mar 26

when people respond to my posts about the world being like "and this surprises you?" it's like, yes, it does. everything surprises me... I'm sort of like a foal in the body a burly man...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · Mar 27

"don't make the content they'll play at your Nuremberg trial" is the advice I would give

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Mar 26

Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Mar 22

Rejected first thing in the morning after spending yesterday evening certain that I was doing great 😭

Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Mar 21

Also, if you are feeling a certain type of way about this: participate in the Trans Rights Readathon!

Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Mar 21

Nearly all the queer books I request from my library get rejected. Things are changing, and I'm scared of the future of publishing in a way I never have been before.

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Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Mar 21

This thought continues to plague me as I watch my local library ban pride flags:
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

‘Step backwards’: Union decries Pride flag removals from Edmonton Public Library branches

CSU 52 local president Bryce Jowett told Postmedia he heard disappointment and anger from members about flags being taken down.

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · Mar 19

Wolves have value in and of themselves, but in a world where that intrinsic value might not be enough to sway public opinion, it's important to highlight the ecological and economic impacts of wolves. And boy, can wolves shape an economy for the better!

How Wolves Became Yellowstone’s $82 Million Tourist Attraction

Thirty years after their reintroduction in Yellowstone, wolves have proven their ecological worth, at least in the context of restoring balance in the natural ecosystem. But what are wolves worth econ...

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Mar 20

HOUSE SPIDER IN LATE MESOZOIC ERA WAITING FOR THE HOUSE TO BE INVENTED: .....
100 MILLION YEARS LATER:
(spider sees house being built)
"Sick."

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Michael Allan Schneider @quadbonus.bsky.social · Mar 19

If you're feeling hopeless and miserable, I cannot possibly overstate how much it helps to just pick one thing you can do that helps people, and do it.

You only need to do one person's worth of work. That's all any of us can do.

You'll be doing what you can, and there is so much relief in that.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · Mar 20

“Boyz II Stronger Men: Achieving a Better Masculinity Through Slow Jams” (Simon and Schuster, 2026)

tweet from @bigsnugga:

i was raised on silk shirt rnb so all that incel shit never hit for me, i believe in beggin for the pussy. outside in the rain, crying, throwing up, just for a sniff. thats your role as a man

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Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Mar 20

Just rewrote my query letter, and it bops so hard; it makes me want to send out this better version to some of the agents I haven't gotten a response from yet 🫠

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · Mar 10

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

OF THE EMPIRE
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

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Harper-Hugo @harperhugodarling.bsky.social · Mar 10

My new lock screen

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Sara Alfageeh @saraalfageeh.bsky.social · Mar 10

My advice for emerging artists and pros alike: it’s time for in person events.

The industry and community is scattered and algorithms are currently siloing us off.

Go to cons, festivals, screenings + launches, and other art events.

While social media is still shifting, invest in face to face.

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