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🌈CJ Aralore
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🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romantasy Author | GRAVITY'S FIRE 🙇🏼‍♂️ Introvert | 😼 Cat Owned | 💚 Romantic 🌐 cjaralore.com | 🔗 linktr.ee/cjaralore
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 9d
🌈 Hi #QueerWriters! #QueerPrompts is your chance to talk about your WIP/story/book, meet other queer authors, and have fun! 🏳️‍🌈

📚 While focussed on queer fiction, any writers are welcome to use these prompts! Include the tag #QueerPrompts and join at any time and on any days you want. 🎃
1. Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book 2. LGBTQ History Month: Any queer history mentioned in your story? 3. Free Friday or National Body Language Day: Do you add body language when writing conversations between characters? 4. National Cinnamon Roll Day: Any cinnamon roll character? 5. Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having? 6. National Coaches Day: Any coaches in your story? (fitness, life coach, etc.) 7. National Inner Beauty Day: Does your story address outer vs inner beauty? 8. International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of personality of a favorite lesbian character 9. Curses or bad luck in story? 10. Free Friday or World Mental Health Day: Has positive queer rep in books helped your mental health? 11. National Coming Out Day: Do any of your characters come out in your story? 12. Astrology/horoscopes in story? 13. Indigenous People's Day: What people would be indigenous to where your story takes place? 14. Ghosts or spirits in story? 15. International Pronoun Day: GIF/Audio or description of how easily your character(s) adjust(s) to new pronouns 16. Dictionary Day: What word in the dictionary would have your MC's face next to it? 17. Free Friday or pitch your story as a horror novel 18. Line that foreshadows danger or scary scene/snippet 19. National LGBT Center Awareness Day: Where do your characters go to feel safe? 20. National Day on Writing: Favorite/least favorite part of the writing process 21. Asexual Awareness Week: Ace rep in story? 22. GIF/Audio or description of what emotion(s) you want/expect your story to make readers feel? 23. Does your MC/characters like being scared? 24. Free Friday or spooky queer reading recs 25. International Artist Day: Art share or role of art in your story 26. Intersex Awareness Day: Intersex or non-traditional gendered character(s)? 27. MC/character's worst nightmare 28. Rate your MC's and/or villain's scariness level from 1-10 29. National Cat Day: GIF/Audio or descrip
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 7h
#QueerPrompts October 9: Curses or bad luck in story?
Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters. Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts October 9: Curses or bad luck in story?
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 22h
Tien:
a close up of a woman 's face with an ioiyi logo in the background
Alt: Annoyed girl blowing her hair away from her face.
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 22h
#QueerPrompts 10/8: GIF/Audio or description of personality of a favorite lesbian character

Gale is this chill, laid back biker chick who never really gets upset about anything.

Tien is her opposite, always getting annoyed, but still just as caring as Gale, who naturally she falls for.

Gale:
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 1d
#QueerPrompts October 8: International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of personality of a favorite lesbian character
Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters. Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts October 8: International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of personality of a favorite lesbian character
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 1d
When making the character cards, I had to come up with weaknesses for everyone and his jokes making his students groan and facepalm are definitely a weakness for his respect factor. 😂
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 1d
#QueerPrompts 10/7: National Inner Beauty Day: Does your story address outer vs inner beauty?

Both Nix and Max are insecure about their appearances, but only Max works out to change his. As they discover they're each other's perfect type physically, it goes far beyond that.

As Max says in the end:
“Besides, I know who you are. You’re the sun to my earth and the light I want to open my eyes to every morning for the rest of my life. Even when you’re old and gray and cranky all the time…” He chuckles. “…you’ll always be my soulmate.” - Max to Nix, Gravity's Fire (Text with background of sun rising over mountains.)
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 2d
#QueerPrompts October 7: National Inner Beauty Day: Does your story address outer vs inner beauty?
Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters. Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts October 7: National Inner Beauty Day: Does your story address outer vs inner beauty?
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 2d
Cleaning Spells Before Courtship by @sarahwallacewriter.bsky.social & @socallahanauthor.bsky.social is a cozy historical MM Romantasy about moving on, forgiveness, self worth, and the magic of love.

Check out my #queerbookreview:
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
The book Cleaning Spells Before Courtship on a sofa, with fabric stars, fabric saying Cozy MM Romantasy, and purple flowers.
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 2d
#QueerPrompts 10/6

Flint Parker is ECHS's elementamer P.E. (Physical Elementaming) coach and thinks of his students as his friends and ignores their groans at his jokes. Sure, he spends his summer bulking up and planning lessons, but he lives for coaching. Without it, he feels like a half a man.
Gold and green leaf border around a muscular man with brown skin and a shaved head wearing a green and gold wrestling singlet in a forest. Flint Parker Age: 26 Birthday: August 10 Star Sign: Leo Element: Earth (Solids) Profession: P.E. (Physical Elementaming) Coach Hobbies: Competition & Sports Strength: Physical Power Weakness: Makes Terrible Jokes Flint Parker is ECHS's elementamer P.E. (Physical Elementaming) coach and thinks of his students as his friends and ignores their groans at his jokes. Sure, he spends his summer bulking up and planning lessons, but he lives for coaching. Without it, he feels like a half a man.
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
#QueerPrompts October 6: National Coaches Day: Any coaches in your story? (fitness, life coach, etc.)
Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters. Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts October 6: National Coaches Day: Any coaches in your story? (fitness, life coach, etc.)
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
Having grown up around these people, the irony is that it seems like the people who are the most ignorant about what people different from them are really like tend to be the most confident in their (false) beliefs.
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
To set things "straight"? Are you sure? 😅
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
I've seen metal nutcrackers before, though I don't think I've ever used one. Yes, yes, I'm spoiled by having my nuts without shells! Though, to be fair, I don't have nuts often and haven't seen nut picks before. I also have had lobster or cracked something open and it sounds kind of disturbing. 😅
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
Censorship is so 1984.
Read for your rights.

Banned books week is Oct. 5 - 11, 2025

BannedBooksWeek.org

🧵8/8
Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Banned books week. Oct. 5 - 11, 2025 BannedBooksWeek.org
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
Keep reading.
Keep fighting bans.
Keep spreading hope.

💛CJ

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Keep reading. Keep fighting bans. Keep being true to yourself. 💛CJ Banned Books Week
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
READ positive LGBTQIA+ portrayals.

SHARE positive LGBTQIA+ portrayals.

WRITE positive LGBTQIA+ portrayals.

DEFEND positive LGBTQIA+ portrayals.

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READ positive LGBTQIA+ portrayals. SHARE positive LGBTQIA+ portrayals. WRITE positive LGBTQIA+ portrayals. DEFEND positive LGBTQIA+ portrayals.
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
It can't.

It's the solution to a world that constantly makes LGBTQIA+ defend our very existence.

Our history is real. Our stories are real. Silencing us won't make us stop existing. It will only spread fear, resentment, and suffering.

What you can do: 🧵 5/8
It can't. It's the solution to a world that constantly makes LGBTQIA+ defend our very existence. Our history is real. Our stories are real. Silencing us won't make us stop existing. It will only spread fear, resentment, and suffering. What you can do:
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
ALMOST ALL books, shows, movies, games, art, and music that people are exposed to from birth onward ONLY portray straight cisgender people.

So how could one book getting through this constant lifelong propaganda somehow be a problem?

Here's the answer: 🧵 4/8
ALMOST ALL books, shows, movies, games, art, and music that people are exposed to from birth onward ONLY portray straight cisgender people. So how could one book getting through this constant lifelong propaganda somehow be a problem? Here's the answer:
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
Without positive portrayals, LGBTQIA+ people will hide out of fear and resent themselves out of shame, others will feel empowered to mistreat us, and everyone will be ignorant of reality, which is DANGEROUS.

Not a single good thing can come from banning LGBTQIA+ portrayals in literature.

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Without positive portrayals, LGBTQIA+ people will hide out of fear and resent themselves out of shame, others will feel empowered to mistreat us, and everyone will be ignorant of reality, which is DANGEROUS. Not a single good thing can come from banning LGBTQIA+ portrayals in literature. Here's the question:
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
LGBTQIA+ people exist. We are present all throughout recorded history. We live in every country, even ones where we'll be put to death if found out.

Banning books won't change this REALITY.

What it will do: 🧵2/8
LGBTQIA+ people exist. We are present all throughout recorded history. We live in every country, even ones where we'll be put to death if found out. Banning books won't change this REALITY. What it will do:
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
🚫 #BannedBooksWeek 📚

4 of the top 10 most challenged books last year were targeted because of LGBTQIA+ content.

Why this matters: 🧵1/8
Banned Books Week (logo with a rainbow behind it) (Four images of books: All Boys Aren't Blue, Gender Queer, The Perks of Being A Wallflower, and Flamer) 4 of the top 10 most challenged books last year were targeted because of LGBTQIA+ content. Why this matters:
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d
#QueerPrompts October 5: What might someone try to ban your story for having?

A book aimed at teens with two boys in love? That could make the readers gay!

You know, because having every single book only portray straight cisgender people is necessary to prevent someone from turning queer. 🤦🏼‍♂️
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 4d
#QueerPrompts October 5: Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having?
Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters. Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts October 5: Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having?
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 4d
#QueerPrompts October 5: Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having?
Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters. Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts October 5: Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having?
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 4d
Ah, I see! On the baking sheet is definitely doable, but I don't think I've ever owned a single nutcracker that isn't just a nonfunctioning Christmas decoration. 😂
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 4d
Check out this author interview I did with @quietwriters.bsky.social in which I talk about 🌿Gravity's Fire🔥, fun author facts, and more:

quietwriters.substack.com/p/author-int...
Author Interview: CJ Aralore
Let's talk about his YA contemporary fantasy romcom - Gravity's Fire
quietwriters.substack.com
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