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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now!

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queer fantasy indie author ✨ debut THE BLOOD DIVIDE - out now! ✨ disabled AuDHD agender alterous aroace zanlowell.carrd.co 🚫 A.I. 🚫

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now! @zanwrites.bsky.social · Aug 5

🌆 urban fantasy
🔮 witches & shifters & vampires (oh my!)
🩸 original lore
🪞 parallel world
⚔️ enemy of my enemy
🌈 everyone is queer (and a disaster)

📖 universal link: buy.bookfunnel.com/ypxhg00vsn

#BookSky #WriteSky

the cover for The Blood Divide by Zan Lowell depicting the sillouhette of a leafless tree with a thin layer of snow on its branches and a mound of snow around the base of the trunk. beneath the snow are cobblestones with blood running through some of the cracks. The background is mottled gray and the title is in red text while the author's name is in white text

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2h

Well over 1,000 people went missing from the Everglades facility and they still aren’t accounted for.

There’s a fresh horror every day and people end up forgetting the atrocities from the day before.

Let’s not forget.

Let’s keep speaking out.

Let’s get justice for the missing

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now! @zanwrites.bsky.social · 1h

with friends like this, who needs enemies? 🙃

(context: Katie Porter)

Screenshot of a Facebook comment

being a grouch and lashing
out to anyone nearby after dealing with the absolutely smug, self-centered, greedy, party of Gross Old Pedos who are actively trying to dismantle our democracy all day
WHILE ALSO DOING MATH, is perfectly normal I think. In fact, I'm surprised she isn't ranting and raving like an absolute lunatic all the time, after doing all the math she had on her whiteboard.

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 4h

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

media.tenor.com

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now! @zanwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Battle for the Last Brain Cell

*Mortal Kombat music on kazoo starts playing*

An orange tabby and a flame point rag doll staring off with a pen between them

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Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 11h

Hello All! I'm DD Ward.

I write stuff. Have you checked my stuff? It's free.

www.patreon.com/ddwardiswrit...

• The Plight of the Last Paladin
• Daughters of the Digital Empire
• Hunted in the Wolf Wood
• The Husband Poisoning Society

The plight of the last paladin in a heartbroken world.

A woman in armor flies on wings of fire

Hunted in the Wolf Wood

A woman wearing armor and an eye patch shepherds a girl in a pink dress as they flee werewolves.

A blonde woman clutches the shoulder of a brunette woman holding a saber. They are facing down a werewolf.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 11h

FYI: If your entire Banned Books Week display is white “classic” authors, you are doing it wrong

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11h

I love when celebrities use their FU money like this. Not only is it the right thing to do, but it's messy (in a good way) and entertaining.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 11h

“BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT,” Neil Young writes. “IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOU OR ME.”

www.stereogum.com/2325956/neil...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.bsky.social · 11h

how are Gaylors still around.

look I swear to God there are actual queer women making music out there. they exist!!!! easy to find!!!!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13h

There are real conversations to be had about thematic issues with romantasy, what publishers are buying vs what they're rejecting, YA being colonized by NA, etc. But what ends up getting the most marketing, into celebrity book clubs, and on bestsellers lists isn't representative of the whole genre.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13h

I don't know what adult fantasy fiction you're reading, but over here in marginalized voices land, fantasy is doing incredible things. Stunning narrative styles and structures, intriguing characters, powerful themes. This feels like a you problem than anything indicative of the genre as a whole.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13h

Every time someone gets on Beyonce's internet to whine about adult fantasy by blaming YA, I they should have to read one (1) recently released YA book first.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 12h

They say they want new things in fantasy, then authors from marginalized groups do new things, but they don't like that, they want the new thing to be like the old thing except new.

What they really want is a book to rewind time and make them young again, something no book or anything else can do.

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now! @zanwrites.bsky.social · 15h

thinking I might just play “This Year” by @themountaingoats.bsky.social on repeat to get me through the rest of this year 🫠

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now! @zanwrites.bsky.social · 12h

I love playing hard to get with scaredy dogs it’s like the best uno reverse lol

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

The best part is when crime actually does go up as a result, American voters will be like “we need someone tough to handle this crime situation republicans created, let’s elect some more republicans”

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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 2d

no, i’m not tired of ‘being nice.’

yes, i still want to ‘go apeshit.’

these things can coexist.

now stop asking me.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 15h

If it’s worth banning, it’s worth owning.
#BannedBooksWeek

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 15h

😄

Dolly Parton: I ain't dead yet!

PBS reply posts: Same, Dolly, same.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15h

I love this because everything she does over there will immediately be leaked for all of our collective entertainment

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Tom Emanuel @realtomemanuel.bsky.social · Nov 7

One of the many reasons I love The Lord of the Rings is because it’s a story about living in the ruins of a world that is already passing away, and still choosing to fight in hope for those who come after you.

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Aya 🎃 @melangell.bsky.social · 15h

The treatment of Palestinians over the past two years—indeed, over the last eight decades—has been unconscionable. Their yearning for peace is undeniable, and any moment of calm is welcome, I understand. To call this arrangement a “deal,” though, is a mistake.

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