Oleander Craw
@oleandercraw.bsky.social
Author of THE WARDS WILL FALL (2025) / DEVOURING FORTUNE (coming 2026) || 🚫NO AI || they/he 🏳️⚧️
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Oleander Craw
@oleandercraw.bsky.social
· Oct 27
THE WARDS WILL FALL release day! (M/M dark fantasy)
Come read the first chapter. New chapters release for free on Mondays.
www.oleandercraw.com/chapter-one/
👁️ Expedition to a rotting magic city
👁️ Possessed and becoming Something Else
👁️ Ancient magic is returning
Cover by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social
Come read the first chapter. New chapters release for free on Mondays.
www.oleandercraw.com/chapter-one/
👁️ Expedition to a rotting magic city
👁️ Possessed and becoming Something Else
👁️ Ancient magic is returning
Cover by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social
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To add some resources & strategies, so I'm not just snarking:
It's still important to fight book challenges & censorship, especially in schools & libraries.
Although it's hard to keep track nowadays of shifting regulation, grassroots efforts at a local level are extremely important.
To add some resources & strategies, so I'm not just snarking:
It's still important to fight book challenges & censorship, especially in schools & libraries.
Although it's hard to keep track nowadays of shifting regulation, grassroots efforts at a local level are extremely important.
Depressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com:
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - LGBTQ Nation
"In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are "passing" on LGBTQ+ books.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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To add some resources & strategies, so I'm not just snarking:
It's still important to fight book challenges & censorship, especially in schools & libraries.
Although it's hard to keep track nowadays of shifting regulation, grassroots efforts at a local level are extremely important.
To add some resources & strategies, so I'm not just snarking:
It's still important to fight book challenges & censorship, especially in schools & libraries.
Although it's hard to keep track nowadays of shifting regulation, grassroots efforts at a local level are extremely important.
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Knew this was coming. Something I've been noticing happening slowly for a while now. It's also happening in conjunction with the aging up of YA and the influx of romantasies that tend to feature cisallohet relationships and dabble in fascism-adjacent storytelling themes.
Depressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com:
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - LGBTQ Nation
"In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are "passing" on LGBTQ+ books.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Knew this was coming. Something I've been noticing happening slowly for a while now. It's also happening in conjunction with the aging up of YA and the influx of romantasies that tend to feature cisallohet relationships and dabble in fascism-adjacent storytelling themes.
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We're so proud and happy to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social is a 2025 Philip K.Dick Award Nominee for UNCERTAIN SONS.
Congratulations, Thomas!
Congratulations, Thomas!
January 13, 2026 at 9:14 PM
We're so proud and happy to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social is a 2025 Philip K.Dick Award Nominee for UNCERTAIN SONS.
Congratulations, Thomas!
Congratulations, Thomas!
Favorite part about french onion soup is then eating it as leftovers for breakfast for days afterward
January 13, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Favorite part about french onion soup is then eating it as leftovers for breakfast for days afterward
Spent the day playing video games and reading, and feeling a bit better. Do not recommend insomnia and no sleep for good feels the next day
January 12, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Spent the day playing video games and reading, and feeling a bit better. Do not recommend insomnia and no sleep for good feels the next day
Do you know how absolutely crazy I have felt fleeing from this culture as soon as I could in my teens, trying to explain it to anyone who would listen and then watching it spread and follow me?
This is a good *necessary* read for understanding what the fuck is going on.
This is a good *necessary* read for understanding what the fuck is going on.
Christian Reconstructionism has typically has a very small following. But since the 1980s, its ideas have spread far beyond its limited numbers through books, churches and broader conservative Christian networks.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/christi...
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/christi...
Adherents of Christian Reconstructionism Seek Authority Over Civil Society, Law and Culture
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Do you know how absolutely crazy I have felt fleeing from this culture as soon as I could in my teens, trying to explain it to anyone who would listen and then watching it spread and follow me?
This is a good *necessary* read for understanding what the fuck is going on.
This is a good *necessary* read for understanding what the fuck is going on.
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Christian Reconstructionism has typically has a very small following. But since the 1980s, its ideas have spread far beyond its limited numbers through books, churches and broader conservative Christian networks.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/christi...
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/christi...
Adherents of Christian Reconstructionism Seek Authority Over Civil Society, Law and Culture
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Christian Reconstructionism has typically has a very small following. But since the 1980s, its ideas have spread far beyond its limited numbers through books, churches and broader conservative Christian networks.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/christi...
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/christi...
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A bunch of stout men in Mississippi working through homoeroticism for the first time
January 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
A bunch of stout men in Mississippi working through homoeroticism for the first time
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Become uncontainable
January 12, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Become uncontainable
Chapter 12 of TWWF is up!
For those of you new, this is a queer dark fantasy novel releasing through my newsletter. It follows the seer Maxwell as he navigates a land of decaying eldritch cities and the mysterious entity possessing him.
Read (or listen) now -
www.oleandercraw.com/the-wards-wi...
For those of you new, this is a queer dark fantasy novel releasing through my newsletter. It follows the seer Maxwell as he navigates a land of decaying eldritch cities and the mysterious entity possessing him.
Read (or listen) now -
www.oleandercraw.com/the-wards-wi...
January 12, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Chapter 12 of TWWF is up!
For those of you new, this is a queer dark fantasy novel releasing through my newsletter. It follows the seer Maxwell as he navigates a land of decaying eldritch cities and the mysterious entity possessing him.
Read (or listen) now -
www.oleandercraw.com/the-wards-wi...
For those of you new, this is a queer dark fantasy novel releasing through my newsletter. It follows the seer Maxwell as he navigates a land of decaying eldritch cities and the mysterious entity possessing him.
Read (or listen) now -
www.oleandercraw.com/the-wards-wi...
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Hey friends I'm flying high on a Sunday night and if anybody out there is itching to see a fella use sex for self harm in an essentially consensual way but that somehow makes it *worse*, I have a chapter for you. This Friday: Cylus makes his gay pining everyone else's problem
#EuropaUniAdmissions
#EuropaUniAdmissions
January 12, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Hey friends I'm flying high on a Sunday night and if anybody out there is itching to see a fella use sex for self harm in an essentially consensual way but that somehow makes it *worse*, I have a chapter for you. This Friday: Cylus makes his gay pining everyone else's problem
#EuropaUniAdmissions
#EuropaUniAdmissions
Realized my reading attention span really has gone to shit in the last few years
January 12, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Realized my reading attention span really has gone to shit in the last few years
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If you are a bizarre sexy drawing artist as your career, your posthumous graphic novel absolutely needs to be a densely-researched nonfiction historical biographical comic. Do it for the bit
LET THEM FIND A STACK OF BIZARRE SEXY DRAWINGS IN YOUR DESK DRAWER WHEN YOU DIE
January 11, 2026 at 11:33 PM
If you are a bizarre sexy drawing artist as your career, your posthumous graphic novel absolutely needs to be a densely-researched nonfiction historical biographical comic. Do it for the bit
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This entire thread is fantastic, but this particular part is something that I’ve tried to start working on in my own work environment.
Have the agency to change the things in your life that suck. They may be small, but even one less thing is an improvement.
Have the agency to change the things in your life that suck. They may be small, but even one less thing is an improvement.
So story became "Every day, I'm going to look at one small thing about this job or processes here that drive me crazy, and address that. I'll stop telling a snarky depressing story of how fucked we are during team meetings. We all know we're fucked. Talking about how fucked we are changes nothing."
January 11, 2026 at 9:29 PM
This entire thread is fantastic, but this particular part is something that I’ve tried to start working on in my own work environment.
Have the agency to change the things in your life that suck. They may be small, but even one less thing is an improvement.
Have the agency to change the things in your life that suck. They may be small, but even one less thing is an improvement.
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You need friends who aren’t artists, lots of them, so you stay grounded with how other think of art outside your bubble
ARTISTS: quote with some random art advice!!
January 11, 2026 at 9:35 PM
You need friends who aren’t artists, lots of them, so you stay grounded with how other think of art outside your bubble
Did the gym thing again. Been going twice a week and so far so good!
January 11, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Did the gym thing again. Been going twice a week and so far so good!
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The venn diagram of women who police queer men and the women who treat AFAB nonbinary folks as women-lite is a circle
January 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
The venn diagram of women who police queer men and the women who treat AFAB nonbinary folks as women-lite is a circle
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For all those "How to tell that I've won the lottery" memes, for me the answer is simple: I will 1.) have a pristine first printing of the Dell Abyss edition of Kathe Koja's THE CIPHER and 2.) I will have built an entire cursed apartment building for it and it alone.
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen #Books
💙📚🩸
These will be some of my absolute favorites
2/30 THE CIPHER, Kathe Koja
💙📚🩸
These will be some of my absolute favorites
2/30 THE CIPHER, Kathe Koja
January 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
For all those "How to tell that I've won the lottery" memes, for me the answer is simple: I will 1.) have a pristine first printing of the Dell Abyss edition of Kathe Koja's THE CIPHER and 2.) I will have built an entire cursed apartment building for it and it alone.
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No matter how safe and boring your work is, people will project their worst interpretations on to it. Might as well just make the most freak shit possible
ARTISTS: quote with some random art advice!!
January 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
No matter how safe and boring your work is, people will project their worst interpretations on to it. Might as well just make the most freak shit possible
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well, i guess i am donating a sardine for this years @paeartforacause.bsky.social 🐟
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#postcardartexhibit26 #ink #art #farbpeng #schwarzmalerin #sundayfishsketch #kleinekunstklasse
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#postcardartexhibit26 #ink #art #farbpeng #schwarzmalerin #sundayfishsketch #kleinekunstklasse
January 11, 2026 at 1:08 PM
well, i guess i am donating a sardine for this years @paeartforacause.bsky.social 🐟
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#postcardartexhibit26 #ink #art #farbpeng #schwarzmalerin #sundayfishsketch #kleinekunstklasse
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#postcardartexhibit26 #ink #art #farbpeng #schwarzmalerin #sundayfishsketch #kleinekunstklasse
Because I'm working on more TWWF edits this morning for a chapter buffer, here's an excerpt for #WIPSnips
Maxwell is trying to have a conversation with the mysterious spirit trailing him that he calls Not-Ivan, but he's not getting any of the answers he needs.
Maxwell is trying to have a conversation with the mysterious spirit trailing him that he calls Not-Ivan, but he's not getting any of the answers he needs.
January 11, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Because I'm working on more TWWF edits this morning for a chapter buffer, here's an excerpt for #WIPSnips
Maxwell is trying to have a conversation with the mysterious spirit trailing him that he calls Not-Ivan, but he's not getting any of the answers he needs.
Maxwell is trying to have a conversation with the mysterious spirit trailing him that he calls Not-Ivan, but he's not getting any of the answers he needs.
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It's hard to say how things will play out over the next few decades, whether in this bizarre industry, or the political upheavals of any of our countries, or just life in general. All you can really control is the work, and I for one would like to leave behind a big pile of it
January 11, 2026 at 1:31 AM
It's hard to say how things will play out over the next few decades, whether in this bizarre industry, or the political upheavals of any of our countries, or just life in general. All you can really control is the work, and I for one would like to leave behind a big pile of it
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If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2
January 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2
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Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org
There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...
www.2harvest.org
January 10, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org