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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 2h

if you're in cville, it's also the Friends of the Library fall sale! which raises (literally) hundreds of thousands of dollars for our local libraries! i like to buy (very cheap!!) books just to stock our little free libraries with The Good Shit blog.jmrl.org/2025/09/30/2...

2025 FOTL Fall Book Sale at Albemarle Square Shopping Center, Oct. 4-12

CHARLOTTESVILLE, September 30, 2025—The Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale will be held at Albemarle Square Shopping Center (300 Albemarle Square) on Saturday, Oct. 4 through Sunday, Oct. 12, fr…

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 2h

can't help but feel this overlaps nicely with Little Free Library's anti-book-ban action, which is to stock your local LFL with banned books: littlefreelibrary.org/about/book-b...

Book Bans - Little Free Library

Expanding access to books is at the heart of our mission. The rise of book bans in America goes against our organization’s core values — especially when the bans overwhelmingly… Continue reading Book ...

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 2h

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 21h

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 23h

unspeakably pumped for this. HENCH is the smartest, pulpiest, slickest post-superhero satire you'll ever read

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 1d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 1d

prologue and first chapter are up now! meet the protagonist of my epic fantasy: the saddest grad student on earth 😂

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all lady knights, anxious historians, and those doomed by the narrative...

Reactor is THRILLED to be hosting a serialization of The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social!! Join us every Tuesday through October 28th for an extended preview, starting today!

reactormag.com/excerpts-the...

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow: Prologue and Chapter 1 - Reactor

The lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent through time to ensure she plays her part…

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 1d

ahhh that title is so gooood 👀

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 2d

reminder that you can be the gentlest, kindest person--you can dedicate your life to protecting the planet!--and still keep a little list of people you fucking hate. it's okay to be angry! anger is a symptom of giving a shit!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 2d

reminder that public comment signup for Thurday’s ACPS Board meeting opens at 8:30am tomorrow through a form on the Board’s website, if you would like to speak in support of Allison Spillman as she handles the disingenuous right wing campaign against her

Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 6d

yeah the repeatedly failed state legislature candidate who moved here in 2020, the right wing radio host who faildoxes people under a pseudonym, and the candidate Allison trounced for her spot on the Board are all trying to make this a thing. really think it’s important to nip this in the bud.

Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 6d

want to boost this. guarantee TPUSA is going to try and stack it, but they simply do not have the local numbers to do so *if* we recognize it’s coming and respond in kind. I think it’s critical to set a tone that we will back our local officials against disingenuous right wing bullshit.

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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 3d

The city school board election has 4 candidates for 3 spots. I will be voting for Lisa Torres, Zyahna Bryant, and Dashad Cooper. Emily Dooley's support for SRO's and, in my opinion, poor leadership in guiding the school division's approach to school safety means I will not vote for her.

cvilledems.bsky.social @cvilledems.bsky.social · 4d

School board candidate forum!
Tuesday, October 7 at 7:00pm, Jefferson School.

CHARLOTTESVILLE SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE FORUM

Zyahna Bryant | Dashad Cooper | Emily Dooley | Lisa Larson-Torres

7PM-8:30PM OCTOBER 7, 2025
THE JEFFERSON SCHOOL

JOIN THE CHARLOTTESVILLE DEMOCRATS AND THE JEFFERSON SCHOOL FOR A FORUM WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES. THE EVENING WILL BEGIN A LED DISCUSSION, FOLLOWED BY A Q&A.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 3d

i had it confused with bull durham until very recently. TWO costner baseball movies, like a year apart??? that's not on me that's on the dad movie industrial complex

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 3d

surprise! the real challenge was always getting us to recognize the humanity of other humans! we can anthropomorphize the fuck out of wall-e but genocide is "really complicated"

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 3d

all those movies about society refusing to recognize the humanity of robots but it turns out if you glue googly eyes to a roomba about half the country is ready to propose

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 5d

@dystopiabreaker.xyz
i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

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Alice Cao @alicecaoillo.bsky.social · 4d

Draw fanart of all the things you love! You never know where it may lead. Sometimes it leads to getting to draw lady knights for your favourite author with elaborate borders where we tried our damnest to squeeze as many Easter eggs in as possible 😌

alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 4d

what if i told you the everlasting (out oct. 28th) has ILLUSTRATIONS and a MAP drawn by the incredible @alicecaoillo.bsky.social ??? what then???

pen and ink art in a neo-victorian style, showing a lady knight on a bier. there's cool stuff in the border, too, like a pistol and a boy reading a book

knight kneeling before a queen, who looks like a yassified margaret thatcher

man and a woman beneath a really tight tree. there's a cute cottage in the border

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 4d

most people don't know this but you're not technically a fantasy writer until your book has a map in it. with the topography drawn in charming miniature. and at least one dragon

fantasy map, on exactly the style described

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 4d

what if i told you the everlasting (out oct. 28th) has ILLUSTRATIONS and a MAP drawn by the incredible @alicecaoillo.bsky.social ??? what then???

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 4d

thanks so much for reading!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 6d

trying a new thing where i shout HEY!! STAY FOCUSED!!! at myself, like an exasperated little league coach, every 5-7 minutes. going about as well as it does for little league coaches

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 6d

the speaker the turning points kids have invited is Victoria Cobb, a woman who thinks conversion therapy should be legal and trans kids shouldn't have rights, btw. email the school board & show up to the meeting to keep that kind of horseshit away from our kids.

[email protected]

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 6d

if you're in albermarle county, the nastiest people you know are trying to bully the district into allowing anti-trans hate speech on school grounds, under the guise of free speech. it's an alt-right classic, and the only thing that works is outnumbering and out-shouting their shit.

Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 6d

article below covers the broad strokes. meeting is a week from today, Thursday 10/9, 6:30pm at the County office building on McIntire.

Spillman takes heat over Facebook post comparing club to KKK

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- An Albemarle County School Board member is facing criticism after comparing a student-run club at Western Albemarle High School to the Ku Klux Klan

www.cbs19news.com

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 6d

i talk about that book a lot!! and keep it flapped to that page 😂

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 6d

ohhhh my goodness (it's.....very explicit, so uhhhh, you know, as you and they see fit!)

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 6d

i did! from new dominion?

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 6d

at 8pm ET by the way!! I've never done a live virtual thing where it's just me talking to myself, so i anticipate a vibe somewhere between 2010s youtube and one of those zoo cameras they set up in the exhibits

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