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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈

@faerywhimsy.bsky.social

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Author of stories across the spectrum of gender and identity Winner of John Preston & Pauline Reage NLA-I awards Editor for @phenomenapress.bsky.social‬ www.ko-fi.com/nicolefield www.nicolefield.gumroad.com/ www.nicolefieldwrites.wordpress.com/editing

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · Mar 28

Today I found out I’m going to be joining the ranks of HOW many amazing authors (??!) as part of @starsandsabers.bsky.social’s upcoming anthology OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM (out October 2025).

Banner reads at the top: Guess who just joined the Stars and Sabers Family and has a coming soon cover, an author photo, contributing authors list as well as out now and preorder for two Stars and Sabers titles

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 14h

Surprise!! 🎉🥳

Phenomena Press @phenomenapress.bsky.social · 15h

✨️Meet the Team✨️

Nicole fills out our wonderful editing team, and can be found right here! @faerywhimsy.bsky.social

#writingcommunity #booksky 📚🌈

With fancy flourishes, the image has a photo of a person with short hair against a red background.

Text reads: "Meet the Team- Editor - Nicole - she/he/they @@faerywhimsy.bsky.social "

With the same flourishes, this image reads "About - Nicole Field was the editor of Happiness in Numbers, the first anthology with a focus on polyamorous stories. It was, and still is, the only polyamorous anthology to de-center sex. As a novelist, Nicole has won the John Preston and Pauline Reage awards.

They are polyam and ace, with a focus for works across the spectrum of gender and sexuality."

Again with fancy flourishes, the text reads "Wants to see: Polycules inclusive of aro, ace and queerplatonic relationships -
Aspec stories centering neurodiverse characters -
Kinky aro fuckbuddies OR
Kinky relationships depicted without sex"

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 14h

Surprise!! 🎉🥳

Phenomena Press @phenomenapress.bsky.social · 15h

✨️Meet the Team✨️

Nicole fills out our wonderful editing team, and can be found right here! @faerywhimsy.bsky.social

#writingcommunity #booksky 📚🌈

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you!! <3

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

One's a lizard!! 😂

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

Eeee thank yooooou <3

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

A perfect bby. That's why

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

Oooh amazing and also I love the mood board here!!

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

Gimme more of this!!

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

Love how clear the pitch is here!

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

Ooooh this seems riveting!

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

OMG this one sounds amazing!!

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

Oh wow I'm SO here for this. Vampire buds right here!! <3

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

When Delaney learns vampires are real, he's seduced by the possibility of a life where he can be gay and unafraid - except he completely forgets one important truth along the way: Vampires will always be hunters, not pets.

#DVPit #H

Shadows of Ourselves mood board with dates being from 1976-1981, hints of blood across polaroids and spider and bat motifs

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 18h

Heya! If you happen to have any links/articles/interviews around Outside the Lines that you'd like me to try including, please let me know 💙

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Karen From Finance @blkreparations.bsky.social · 1d

Healing—whatever that is—is a deeply political act

Don’t let anyone fool you about this

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

Haha 💙 If you have any links/interviews/articles relevant to Harbor that you'd like me to try to include, please do let me know.

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

Okay last update for the day! 🤞

I've 'finalised' the list for a chapter on contemporary analysis of polyamorous romance published after 2010.

It turns out a lot of you are here! @amergina.bsky.social @rdotspoon.bsky.social @garrettleigh.bsky.social @krisripper.bsky.social you heard it here first 💙

Text Reads: Fiction

Leigh, Garrett (2015) Misfits (Urban Soul #1), Riptide Publishing, Burnsville.
Ripper, Kris (2021) The Life Revamp (The Love Study #3), Carina Press, Toronto.
(2016) One Life to Lose (Queers of La Vista #4), Riptide Publishing, Burnsville.
Weatherspoon, Rebekah (2020) Harbor (Beards & Bondage #3), Self-Published
West, Xan (2019) Eight Kinky Nights, Self-Published.
(2019) Their Troublesome Crush, Self-Published.
Zabo, Anna (2017) Outside the Lines (Bluewater Bay #22), Riptide Publishing, Burnsville.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know why I'm so terrible with leaving proper in text referencing till 'later'. If I was like this with grammar, I'd kick my own ass so much more often.

To keep the mood low, I made this figure to depict the skewed nature of polyamorous stories and the forms our othering typically takes.

Spectrum of Acceptance vs Othering in Polyamorous Stories
An black arrow with a small section of blue leaning towards the right. This reads 'Acceptable polyamorous triad (usually contemporary romance).
On the left with the larger arrow is 'Objectified other' (Menage-style erotica) and on the right is 'Oestracised other' (various genres).

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 2d

You guys would let me know if I was going too hard, wouldn't you? 😅

Text reads: If a reason for fetishisation was required, beyond making it easier to justify one’s actions against any minority group, perhaps the title and prevalence of the word ‘slut’ being used so frequently in The Ethical Slut might have been used as cause. With The Ethical Slut having been published in 1997—and therefore being present in all subsequent conversations on polyamory—connotations and fetishisation might have been excused in the same way generations of predators excused their own actions based on the garment of clothing a person was wearing.

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhhh congratulations, huge news!

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 6d

Read it here for freeeeeeee OR support queer horror creators by buying a real life no-foolin' physical ACTUAL book today! Both options are valid, just like you 😘

SALON SINISTER

Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.

www.salonsinister.com

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 4d

a woman wearing a pink leopard print scarf says treat yo self

ALT: a woman wearing a pink leopard print scarf says treat yo self

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Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈 @faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 4d

It is SO GOOD Cecil!!

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 5d

AN UNCOMMON BETROTHAL is a 1920s erotic romance between a disabled gentleman classicist and his new butler who's fat, sexy, and covered in tattoos.

You ever wish Jeeves and Wooster could be broodier and bitchier and spitroast another man between them?

johannestevans.co.uk/product/an-u...

An Uncommon Betrothal – Novel – eBook

M/M erotic romance, rated E, 100k. A disabled gentleman in the 1920s finds himself secretly affianced, in a manner of speaking, to his very attractive new butler.

johannestevans.co.uk

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 6d

Overheard at the cafe/bar: "I just started reading books again. It's pretty good."

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