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Olivia Dade

@oliviawrites.bsky.social

SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE is warm, cozy, & out today. I hope you love it! 💗

The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!

www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...

The illustrated cover of SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE by Olivia Dade (subtitle: "A Harlot's Bay Novel") is a warm peachy pink, with golden light coming from an overhead light fixture. The picture is set in a bakery, with racks of golden-brown pastries and loaves of broad. In the foreground, a pretty fat woman with long brown hair is sitting on a table, with a handsome fat man with ruddy hair and a beard standing between her legs. She has a hand tugging on his apron, and he has a hand on her thigh. They are nearly kissing and gazing at one another with desire and adoration.

November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Zoe Tunnell

@zoewithasword.bsky.social

I know all the various defenses of piracy, and can agree with some of them (preservation is important!) but when it comes to books, there really ain't any excuse I buy. More than any other medium, authors directly rely on royalties from purchases. Every purchase gets them income, even from big pubs.

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 1d

Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM

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Kashmere

@kashmere.bsky.social

A warm up doodle before coloring some other work
(Blue Pilot pencil, graphite pencil)

Female canine flying, with her wings up high and her arms outstretched

November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM

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🦄 Boypretties 🦄 🌈Unicorn Liker🌈

@boypretties.bsky.social

Just sent out the latest batch of prints and stickers! I have 5 copies left of the Fancy horse, and now I also have some new hand cut mini holographic Dream stickers!
they are available here: boypretties.bigcartel.com

September 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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Chace Verity

@chaceverity.com

Going to take a break from my Patreon in December since the holidays are going to keep me busy (and i also want to light my ass and finish this first draft of my WIP before the year ends?), but I'd love to have some ideas to think about during my break.

Any Old Hollywood ppl you wanna read about?

November 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM

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BiFross_ 🔞

@bifross.bsky.social

HEY BY THE WAY HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT @rockcocks.bsky.social ??? It's a super sex-positive story about two rockees from LA making it big on a kinky adventure through the US. Check it out if you havent!!! I've been reading for YEARS, trans inclusive, body positive, did WONDERS for my self-image.

Dani Carr @itsdanicarr.bsky.social · 18h

For webcomics, please talk about them! Like, subscribe, tell other folks about the work you like <3

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21h

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM

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Jessica Elena

@byjessicaelena.bsky.social

25% OFF EVERYTHING ON MY ETSY!!

Lots of fun products: brush packs, textures, desktop wallpapers (4K), and so on!! The sale lasts til December 3!!

byjessicaelena.etsy.com

A listing image of a Procreate brush pack called "Yummy Pencils", showing some doodles with pencil looking lines, some info about the brushes (10 brushes, 3 texture brushes etc) and a mockup of an iPad with a drawing of a cat in some flowers.

A listing image for the "Crunchy Lines" brush pack for Procreate, and the text "12 gritty brushes, perfect for outlines, for Procreate only". There is also a screenshot of the brushes in Procreate, and a mockup of an iPad with doodles on it.

A listing image for a desktop wallpaper, showing a black frame around the wallpaper, which is a page filled with flowers and leaves. Above it is the text "desktop wallpaper".

November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM

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Kieran

@toadally.bsky.social

My beloved Lili and their spouse are dealing with car troubles. Any person who gets a full body sketch will get a headshot sketch from me! Just confirm with me via dm!

🍂 Fae Lili 🍂 @liliviccreations.bsky.social · 7d

Open for sketch commissions! Dm if interested!~

Headshot: $30+
Half Body: $45+
Full Body: $75+

+ Flat colors: Varies
+ Colors & simple shading: Varies

#art #digitalart #furry #furryart #commissionsopen

November 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM

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🍂 Fae Lili 🍂

@liliviccreations.bsky.social

Open for sketch commissions! Dm if interested!~

Headshot: $30+
Half Body: $45+
Full Body: $75+

+ Flat colors: Varies
+ Colors & simple shading: Varies

#art #digitalart #furry #furryart #commissionsopen

November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM

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NightlineZ 📼 GOH NYFB+FM

@nightlinez.bsky.social

YE OLDE FURSQUARED!?!?

I'll be there vending my wares there for the first time! Excited for a new con experience and to see y'all out in the ✨M I D W E S T✨

a cartoon of a woman holding a fan in front of a sign that says ' s ale '

ALT: a cartoon of a woman holding a fan in front of a sign that says ' s ale '

media.tenor.com

November 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM

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void's century

@voidscentury.bsky.social

by your 30s you should have at least 3 or 4 internet friends with tastes in weird cartoon pornography that don't overlap with your tastes in weird cartoon pornography

November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM

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Meredith McClaren

@iniquitousfish.bsky.social

Pour one out for everyone who sees the rest of this week as an endurance test, and not a wholesome little holiday.

November 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM

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it's charloh! (it/its)

@charloh.online

you should listen to more folk metal

we should listen to more folk metal

folk metal can heal the world

the pope should listen to more folk metal

November 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM

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it's charloh! (it/its)

@charloh.online

okay yeah if someone just announced at one of the parties we were at in our 20s that the lasagna was ready and meant it we would move mountains for them. a little sex is hardly enough but hey the lasagna man gets what he wants

A K @aklingus.bsky.social · 13h

tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna

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Funny-Presence4228
LPT: How to win as a guest and make new friends at a raging, alcohol fuelled party
Food & Drink
I'm getting older now, and some of my friends' kids have recently started college. I've been reliably told that alcohol-fuelled parties are still happening, and I shared this advice about how to make new friends and be a hero. One of them took my advice, and now has a new girlfriend because of this.
The key to the following advice is an element of secrecy because the surprise makes it even better.
Arrive late and sneak Lasagna into the party. I mean, taking a large, catering-sized tray of lasagna, along with a stack of paper plates and forks, to a raging house party. I used to do this back in college. I'd make one, sometimes two, in the afternoon in big foil trays before goin to a party. Show up around 10.30pm, and slip them into the oven without asking permission telling anyone. Medium heat for 30 minutes to warm it up. Get my paper plates out, and shout: "Lasagna is ready" to a packed house of drunk people, and hand them all a fork. It's cheaper than bringing beer, no clean-up, and I got laid pretty often.
Important note: Make sure the person who owns the oven is the first in the line, and don't make a mess.
Maybe make one meat and one vegan or something... This last point was less of a concern back in my day, but we must move with the times.

November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM

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cedar longpenis

@guypussy.bsky.social

if nobody got me my maladaptive coping skills got me

November 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM

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Darryl Mott

@gamerstavernshow.com

Quick reminder for Americans before you go to bed to put your turkey in the fridge to thaw if you haven't yet.

Don't stress if it's still not thawed by Thursday morning, stick it still in its packaging in in a container with barely running COLD water. It'll thaw in an hour or two.

November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM

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Jorts (and Jean)

@jortsthecat.bsky.social

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

PITTSBURGH'S Public Source

Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike
After a court ruling in their favor, long-striking journalists declared victory and returned to a pivotal Southwestern Pennsylvania newsroom.
They return as union organizing continues throughout the region.
Stephanie Strasburg
November 24, 2025

Natalie Duleba, local secretary of the guild, hugs Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild Communications of America, as she hands him the mic. "The first day of this strike, our folks went over across the street and they sat down at a table, and they started talking about that they were going to take care of each other," said Schleuss, acknowledging the guild could not have known how long the path back to work would be. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh's Public Source)

November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM

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🌱Sita Art🌱 Comms open

@sitaart.bsky.social

Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you :3

Illustration of a lovely wizard or witch kitty, black of fur and purple of cloak. They hold a tome and a magic wand int he shape of a star

November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM

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poorly drawn cats

@poorlycatdraw.bsky.social

it’s not a phase

hell yeah a super punk kitty rocking a big spiky collar

November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM

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Rolling Stone

@rollingstone.com

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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pussyfullawasps 🗡️

@pussyfullawasps.bsky.social

Creating Freedom Movements made a beautiful post honoring Alice Wong, whose impact on our lives, communities, spirits, & Disability Justice is as powerful as it is immeasurable

as co-founder of Crips for eSims for Gaza, she asked for support here: chuffed.org/project/crip...

rest in power, alice ✊

Photo collage on teal background of Alice, an Asian American woman with chin length black hair and gold highlights, wearing fuchsia lipstick and a flowy multicolored blouse, with a trach at her neck. She is looking confidently into the camera.
Behind her is a graphic that resembles a yellow sun, as well as yellow stars and yellow text that reads, "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all." Photo is by Allison Busch Photography.

Cream background with small floral illustrations, text reads:
We are mourning the passing and celebrating the life of Disability Justice Oracle Alice Wong. All of us at Creating Freedom Movements are just a drop in the bucket of the multitudes who have been impacted by Alice's work. We urge everyone to take some time to learn from her and from the many disabled voices she profiled on the Disability Visibility Project website and podcast, through the anthologies she edited, and in her own memoir. (Scroll through for these.)
We also urge folks to engage in practices that honor what Alice taught: the importance of still wearing masks as an act of community care (the pandemic is not over!), and acting in solidarity towards the collective liberation of all peoples. Alice was a co-founder of Crips for eSims for Gaza, for example, a project that still needs our support as the U.S.-supported Israeli genocide and mass disabling of the Palestinian people continues.
If you are moved to make a donation in her honor, you can do so here:
https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza
Disability Visibility Project Website:
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/ Disability Visibility Podcast: https:// www.podchaser.com/podcasts/
disability-visibility-568507

Book cover with illustration by artist Micah Bazant featuring a midnight blue sky with little white stars. Below is a log with mushrooms growing out of it in multiple shapes and colors. "Text reads: Resistance & Hope, Essays by Disabled People, Crip Wisdom for the People, Edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility Project." The 'o' in 'Hope' looks like a full moon. The book cover is framed in yellow and placed at an angle over a cream background with bright floral elements around the edges.

Cream background with floral elements along the sides. Red text at the top reads, in all caps, "ALICE'S FINAL MESSAGE FOR THE WORLD, SHARED ON SOCIAL MEDIA BY HER FRIEND SANDY HO:" Below this, black italicized text reads: "Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and
internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward.

It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching.
I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM

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Circe [Rat]

@pankallisti.bsky.social

These three rats are on a mission to look at kink art, please help them 🥺🐀🐀🐀

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