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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 16d

Ace Week, formerly Asexual Awareness Week, is an international campaign dedicated to raising awareness and expanding education of asexuality.

We stand in solidarity with our Ace siblings, team members and supporters!

#AceWeek #AsexualityAwareness #Asexual #LGBTQIA

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Oct 5

Today’s the first day of Banned Books Week! Take a look at the thread and see if there’s something you can do to protect our freedom to read!

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Sep 29

Banned Books Week starts on Sunday, October 5—there are a ton of ways to support!

Find ways to get involved here: www.ala.org/bbooks/banne...

(If you're overwhelmed, even just checking out, buying, or elevating a banned book is helpful! Talking about them w/ the ppl in your life is an action!)

A graphic that reads BANNED BOOKS WEEK, Oct 5 - 11, 2025.

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. ala.org/bbooks

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The Official Tamora Pierce @tamorapierce.bsky.social · Oct 2

I am in AWE! Please give this wonderful artist a follow. She drew Sandry straight from my heart.

🐯 Jack! 🐯 @jaspinplanet.bsky.social · Sep 29

Sandry's Book- A light in the dark 🧵🎇

#kidlitart #middlegradeillustration

a blonde girl, Sandrilene Fa Toren, site in a dark storeroom, surrounded by wooden crates and sacks. The only light is coming from three threads that glow as she braids them. She has a slightly haggard appearance and a dejected expression on her face.

In the Palace of Black Swans, Zakdin, capital of Hatar: Blue eyes wide, Lady Sandrilene fa Toren watched her near-empty oil lamp. Her small mouth quivered as the flame at the end of the wick danced and shrank, throwing grim shadows on the barrels of food and water that shared her prison. When that flame was gone, she would be without light in this windowless storeroom.

"I'll go crazy," she said flatly. "When they come to rescue me, I'll be raving mad." She refused to admit that, with this room locked from the outside and hidden by magic, a rescue was hopeless.

"I'll draw the mob away from here, far away," Pirisi had whispered through the keyhole, speaking in her native Tradertalk. "You'll be safe until the smallpox has run its course. Then I'll return for you." But her nurse had never returned.
"If only I could catch it in something!" she cried. "Like Trader-wizards catch the winds in their nets"

"A net is string," she interrupted herself. "And string is thread."

She had thread in the workbasket she had grabbed when Pirisi dragged her from her room. The basket's contents had kept her from giving up completely before this, as she embroidered until her eyes refused to focus.

"Uvumi," Sandry whispered in Tradertalk. She straightened the threads, one on each side, one in her lap. Closing her eyes, she found that she was much calmer when she couldn't see her work or the lamp. She didn't really need to see, to do something as easy as a braid. In her mind, her threads gleamed brightly. They called specks of light from all around her and tangled them in their strands.

The flickering lamp went out; she opened her eyes. The wick was dead and black. Through and around her braid, light shone steadily, filling the room with a soft, pearly glow.

"Did I know I could do that?" she whispered.

The braid-light wavered.

"All right," she said, gathering the threads once more. "But I have to sleep, you know." She wiped her eyes on her sleeve.

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🐯 Jack! 🐯 @jaspinplanet.bsky.social · Sep 16

The sketches got the ball rolling in my brain, I'm gonna be drawing scenes from Circle of Magic as a personal project! (Similar to my junior thesis at SVA.)

To that end, I wanted to put together some character introductions to refer back to as this goes on.
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Text: The characters of Circle of Magic
Characters pictured, from left to Right:
-Briar, a boy with tanned skin & short curly hair. His pants are smudged with dirt from working in the garden with his teacher, Rosethorn
-Tris, a chubby girl with pale skin, glasses, and a lion's mane of red hair. She's wearing a hand-me-down blue dress and carrying a thick book
-Daja, a dark skinned girl wearing her hair in a number of short braids. She is carrying a wooden staff capped with bronze, and is wearing all red— a symbol of mourning in trader culture.
-Sandry, a pale skinned girl wearing her blonde hair in two braids. She is also in mourning, wearing all black.

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Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 30

Thats such a PITA

Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 30

I kinda bought it twice ans I have no regrets

Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 23

My sister was just in disbelief that I didn't ever want sex. She was determined it would change one day.

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Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 23

Spark and Shadows is live on Audible and im celebrating by giving 6 books away.i would love of you read and review!

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#Audible #audiblebookgiveaway

Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 22

Sending you love

Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 22

All the love for you and Kelpie

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Sep 20

This is amazing.

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Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 19

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Hello! I am in need of help with medical expenses. Any help wil gain you my eternal gratitude, as well as the first chapter of book 3.If you've never read my series, 5 lucky backers will win a copy of books 1 and 2.

#ko-fi #expenses #books

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Become a supporter of Laz today!

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Phenomena Press @phenomenapress.bsky.social · Sep 19

It's the end of the week, and we want to see more aspec rep!

If you write paranormal stories with #asexual or #aromantic characters - check out our submission details here: paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co

💙📚🪐📚🌈

Image is of Spongebob being held by a green fish saying "Come closer, I need, I need - Ace and Aro representation"

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Sep 18

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Sep 18

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 17

I once had a discussion with a professor of mine about how long a country based on a failed democratic system would last. His response was not encouraging. We're in the end times, but we can still fight back.

Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 16

Picking a favorite is *hard*. All your books are so wonderful!

Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 16

You get the real winners sometimes.

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Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 16

That is...very unsettling. Yikes!

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Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 15

Ffs, college was not the driving force behind this act.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · Sep 15

WE WERE THERE FIRST.

LLMs only have em-dashes because *actual living writers* have used them for 100+ years.

LLMs use them because *we used them first* and they stole them *to sound like real writers.*

SCREW THE WRITING MACHINE! Read REAL writers. And reject the machine that steals from them!

Frank Catalano @frankcatalano.bsky.social · Sep 15

I am annoyed by those who claim I and other writers should avoid using emdashes because generative AI has co-opted them.

They serve a purpose, along with the semi-colon and colon. They allow for cadence changes and variety in punctuation.

I will not bow to our AI writing overlords — not ever.

Get an Emdash

If you can't remember the key command for an emdash you can copy one here

emdash.fan

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Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 15

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · Sep 14

Yes, this 💯

RainyRentyn 🌧️ ✨ Magical Girl @rainyrentyn.bsky.social · Sep 12

Don't have money to support your favorite creator but still wanna help out somehow? 💸

- Tell someone about them & why you like them
- Share some of their content
- Send them an encouraging comment on one of their posts or in their streams
- Draw fanart, or create something with them as inspiration

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Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 13

Stay safe! Jfc, what a terrible thing. :( keep us posted if you can. We want to make sure you and yours are ok.

Lazuli @lazzchan.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Fateh's life was as ordinary as it could be with the Fae. He deals with Tabor, an annoying but familiar presence. The fact that he's one of the Fae complicates things.Is he a friend or an enemy?He plo...

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