Breakthrough At the Lit Lab
@breakthroughlitlab.bsky.social
We're an online writing community, made by and for LGBTQ+ writers and our ally friends! 🏳️🌈 We also commit to mutual aid 💖💪
Check out our zine and more about mutual aid at
https://www.breakthrough-at-the-lit-lab.com/
Check out our zine and more about mutual aid at
https://www.breakthrough-at-the-lit-lab.com/
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Hello Bluesky! We're Breakthrough at the Lit Lab, an online-based writing group. We're queer, and happy to be here. If you're trying to find a writing group online, link to our site in bio. From Drabbles to dropping sick beats, we have all kinds of writers with us #writinggroups #writingsky
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Do you like trans literature? Have you read a new release by a transfeminine author that you enjoyed this year?
Then you're in luck!
Vote in the TFR Awards now: thetransfemininereview.com/2025/12/01/v...
Then you're in luck!
Vote in the TFR Awards now: thetransfemininereview.com/2025/12/01/v...
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Do you like trans literature? Have you read a new release by a transfeminine author that you enjoyed this year?
Then you're in luck!
Vote in the TFR Awards now: thetransfemininereview.com/2025/12/01/v...
Then you're in luck!
Vote in the TFR Awards now: thetransfemininereview.com/2025/12/01/v...
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I'd love to know everyone's favourite book so far this year 👀
December 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I'd love to know everyone's favourite book so far this year 👀
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Introduction time. 🏳️🌈✌🏻
Hi! I’m Tom, I run Proud Geek - a queer online bookshop specialising in LGBTQ+ graphic novels, books and manga.
There’s no physical store (yet) but you can visit us online at www.proud-geek.co.uk, on TikTok for book recs @proudgeekstore or at local markets across the UK.
Hi! I’m Tom, I run Proud Geek - a queer online bookshop specialising in LGBTQ+ graphic novels, books and manga.
There’s no physical store (yet) but you can visit us online at www.proud-geek.co.uk, on TikTok for book recs @proudgeekstore or at local markets across the UK.
November 20, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Introduction time. 🏳️🌈✌🏻
Hi! I’m Tom, I run Proud Geek - a queer online bookshop specialising in LGBTQ+ graphic novels, books and manga.
There’s no physical store (yet) but you can visit us online at www.proud-geek.co.uk, on TikTok for book recs @proudgeekstore or at local markets across the UK.
Hi! I’m Tom, I run Proud Geek - a queer online bookshop specialising in LGBTQ+ graphic novels, books and manga.
There’s no physical store (yet) but you can visit us online at www.proud-geek.co.uk, on TikTok for book recs @proudgeekstore or at local markets across the UK.
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it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
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it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
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2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
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Wow, hi new followers, hey! We’re Queer Liberation Library.
QLL is a digital library of queer ebooks & audiobooks available FOR FREE to anyone in the US. Our collection’s in Libby so you can read to your heart's content on your e-reader, phone, etc.
membership details downthread~
QLL is a digital library of queer ebooks & audiobooks available FOR FREE to anyone in the US. Our collection’s in Libby so you can read to your heart's content on your e-reader, phone, etc.
membership details downthread~
November 15, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Wow, hi new followers, hey! We’re Queer Liberation Library.
QLL is a digital library of queer ebooks & audiobooks available FOR FREE to anyone in the US. Our collection’s in Libby so you can read to your heart's content on your e-reader, phone, etc.
membership details downthread~
QLL is a digital library of queer ebooks & audiobooks available FOR FREE to anyone in the US. Our collection’s in Libby so you can read to your heart's content on your e-reader, phone, etc.
membership details downthread~
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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how exactly is a black girl in rural louisiana who develops debilitating health issues from the pollution belched out by the data center next door supposed to “empower herself through technology”?
what if instead of being anti-tech to a degree that isn’t winnable, those who have (sometimes very legitimate) concerns instead chose to empower themselves through technology instead of resisting it? could this be anything?
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
how exactly is a black girl in rural louisiana who develops debilitating health issues from the pollution belched out by the data center next door supposed to “empower herself through technology”?
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It’s huge! Romance is one of the highest-selling genres, if not THE highest-selling. The Ripped Bodice has locations in LA & NYC, Cambridge, MA has Lovestruck Books, too.
which: how big is the audience for romance novels in the midst of an otherwise collapsing book market if it’s enough to sustain a store all on its own?
November 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
It’s huge! Romance is one of the highest-selling genres, if not THE highest-selling. The Ripped Bodice has locations in LA & NYC, Cambridge, MA has Lovestruck Books, too.
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You can start submitting poetry, prose, and art pieces to the lit mag! From today until 3/1/26, you can email us up to three (3) pieces (only one will be chosen) of the queer, erotically grotesque, and monstrous.
See the website for more info: www.letterstothegods.com
See the website for more info: www.letterstothegods.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
You can start submitting poetry, prose, and art pieces to the lit mag! From today until 3/1/26, you can email us up to three (3) pieces (only one will be chosen) of the queer, erotically grotesque, and monstrous.
See the website for more info: www.letterstothegods.com
See the website for more info: www.letterstothegods.com
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Life Is Too Short to spend time with shitty people, even if they ARE your family.
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Life Is Too Short to spend time with shitty people, even if they ARE your family.
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Charisma is a local trans artist, creator, bookseller and all around wonderful human. I've been so lucky to get to hang out with them, and I've gotten to admire their art and their incredible positivity.
They had to move a while back due to fuckery. Please give whatever you can!
They had to move a while back due to fuckery. Please give whatever you can!
Please share and donate if you can! Much much needed and appreciated ❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I have started an urgent gfm for my partner and friend Charisma and Robin. Please consider supporting them as they face financial hardship and housing insecurity! gofund.me/21cc825a8
@cyberpunk.dog @habariqueenby.bsky.social
@cyberpunk.dog @habariqueenby.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Charisma is a local trans artist, creator, bookseller and all around wonderful human. I've been so lucky to get to hang out with them, and I've gotten to admire their art and their incredible positivity.
They had to move a while back due to fuckery. Please give whatever you can!
They had to move a while back due to fuckery. Please give whatever you can!
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November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
With the holidays approaching, many of us will be having dinner with our families, blood, and/or found. Consider writing a scene around a dinner. What kind of implied histories can you weave in through the night? #WritingPrompt #QueerWriters #Typey
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
With the holidays approaching, many of us will be having dinner with our families, blood, and/or found. Consider writing a scene around a dinner. What kind of implied histories can you weave in through the night? #WritingPrompt #QueerWriters #Typey
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Last night on the red carpet I was asked about the best book I’ve read this year and I babbled nonsensically trying to remember the title. This always happens. I need to make a little list I carry around. The book I MEANT to say was The Bang Bang Sisters by Rio Youers.
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Last night on the red carpet I was asked about the best book I’ve read this year and I babbled nonsensically trying to remember the title. This always happens. I need to make a little list I carry around. The book I MEANT to say was The Bang Bang Sisters by Rio Youers.
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On Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Southern Poverty Law Center honors and memorializes those we’ve lost to anti-trans violence. In today’s political climate, discrimination
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November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Southern Poverty Law Center honors and memorializes those we’ve lost to anti-trans violence. In today’s political climate, discrimination
🏳️⚧️ 🩷
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November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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'Why can't I use AI?! Others are using it!!'
Oh good, I see you skipped Human Interaction 101 where we learned that just because others are doing something, we do not also need to do it. Good. Grief.
Oh good, I see you skipped Human Interaction 101 where we learned that just because others are doing something, we do not also need to do it. Good. Grief.
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
'Why can't I use AI?! Others are using it!!'
Oh good, I see you skipped Human Interaction 101 where we learned that just because others are doing something, we do not also need to do it. Good. Grief.
Oh good, I see you skipped Human Interaction 101 where we learned that just because others are doing something, we do not also need to do it. Good. Grief.
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I'm gonna approach everything going forwards like I came from the Inigo Montoya school of querying tbqh.
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I'm gonna approach everything going forwards like I came from the Inigo Montoya school of querying tbqh.
Today (November 20th) is Transgender Day Of Rememberance.
Let's remember those we have lost, and strive for a better future.
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Let's remember those we have lost, and strive for a better future.
🏳️⚧️
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Today (November 20th) is Transgender Day Of Rememberance.
Let's remember those we have lost, and strive for a better future.
🏳️⚧️
Let's remember those we have lost, and strive for a better future.
🏳️⚧️
This day and age is full of social media and influencers. Write a character who is (or trying to be) an influencer of some kind. Question to consider: What sort of things do they do for their channel? Unboxing videos, food blogging, fashion, etc?
#writingprompt #Typey #queerwriters
#writingprompt #Typey #queerwriters
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This day and age is full of social media and influencers. Write a character who is (or trying to be) an influencer of some kind. Question to consider: What sort of things do they do for their channel? Unboxing videos, food blogging, fashion, etc?
#writingprompt #Typey #queerwriters
#writingprompt #Typey #queerwriters
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"Our Lady of Marsupials, Foundress of the Universe, and her consort, the Demiurge, announce the redevelopment of a new heaven and a new earth on the site of the old town square," mixed media on cardboard, 2025.
#art #fineart #collage #blueskycollage #canadianartist #queerart #outsiderart
#art #fineart #collage #blueskycollage #canadianartist #queerart #outsiderart
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Our Lady of Marsupials, Foundress of the Universe, and her consort, the Demiurge, announce the redevelopment of a new heaven and a new earth on the site of the old town square," mixed media on cardboard, 2025.
#art #fineart #collage #blueskycollage #canadianartist #queerart #outsiderart
#art #fineart #collage #blueskycollage #canadianartist #queerart #outsiderart
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🎥 BTS clips of the short film “Not Alone”.
This is the essence of indie film: ✍🏻 Rewriting scenes overnight.
🎥 Shooting with a DIY harness rig
🌅 Losing daylight but still having scenes left to shoot
Huge respect to the cast and crew for making this possible!
#moviesky #filmsky #indiefilm
This is the essence of indie film: ✍🏻 Rewriting scenes overnight.
🎥 Shooting with a DIY harness rig
🌅 Losing daylight but still having scenes left to shoot
Huge respect to the cast and crew for making this possible!
#moviesky #filmsky #indiefilm
October 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
🎥 BTS clips of the short film “Not Alone”.
This is the essence of indie film: ✍🏻 Rewriting scenes overnight.
🎥 Shooting with a DIY harness rig
🌅 Losing daylight but still having scenes left to shoot
Huge respect to the cast and crew for making this possible!
#moviesky #filmsky #indiefilm
This is the essence of indie film: ✍🏻 Rewriting scenes overnight.
🎥 Shooting with a DIY harness rig
🌅 Losing daylight but still having scenes left to shoot
Huge respect to the cast and crew for making this possible!
#moviesky #filmsky #indiefilm
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November 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM