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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 6h

😊😊

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 6h

ohhh this is rly exciting to me 👀👀

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 8h

i sure think so ;)

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 9h

❤️❤️❤️

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 9h

oh goodness what a compliment! very much in that vein for sure, just replace appalachia with the southwest

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 9h

thank you for all the work you did on it!! i’m thrilled it made such an impression 🥰🥰

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 9h

Have read some of this. You WANT this book in the world. Someone pick this up, it's the good shit.

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS

BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT

A collage with images of sweaty boys almost kissing, a human/bird monster, and a cowboy pulling a horse under an intensely cloudy sky. There are also the words “A love like that made me someone new. Not even because I chose to change, I had no choice in the matter; the feeling swept me up and molded me into someone I didn’t recognize before I could look down and understand just what I had gotten myself into.”

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 9h

ahhh thank you so much 🥺🥺 i’m a huge fan of erewhon’s catalogue/ethos so this means a lot ❤️❤️

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 9h

this sounds amazing as hell (complimentary)

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS

BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 9h

will do 😊😊

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS

BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

i'm obsessed with these two comps together

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

amazing endorsement thank u!!

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August @king-goldfish.bsky.social · 10h

Didn't realize I was into gay trucker apocalypse cult stories until just now

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

excuse you 😤 i'm much too tight to leak

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

so it was in fact just ragebait and my replies are full of ppl laughing at me bc i fell for it. which is a stupid thing to get upset abt bc they're all children but nevertheless im not a fan

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

they're calling me stupid on twitter they're saying my brain must leak out of my ears when i sleep

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

thank you! i also love this art style; all credit to @sydmish.bsky.social

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 10h

Elton is running, he just can't remember from what. When he runs into lonely trucker Beck, they learn together what it takes to rebuild a person, but dark things from his fractured past are on his trail. Remembering may destroy him, but what he's forgotten may destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT

An art piece of a buff wasian man with a scruffy red beard and hair in a baseball cap and white t-shirt playfully holds a scrawny white guy wearing a dark hoodie with yellow eyes and stringy black hair in a headlock, both are smiling.

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 11h

it’s been a long two years of querying so i rly appreciate this 🫶🫶🫶

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scott vaughn @woodlandrattler.bsky.social · 11h

Jay has such a compelling narrative voice and his passion is so clear in everything he writes!! I’m still working my way through the manuscript bc I’m a slow reader </3 but already it is such a strong work of horror, cannot recommend him and Blessed Be The Flesh enough!

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 11h

Lonely trucker Beck knows that beautiful boys are trouble, so he can’t be too surprised when picking up an attractive amnesiac cult escapee off the side of the road plunges him into a battle for the world’s survival.

#DVpit #OWN #POC #LGBT

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 11h

:D ilyt bestie and i am ALWAYS happy to talk abt ur work

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 11h

this novel is gloomy and hypnotic and everything anyone could want from an appalachian gothic horror (abusive dads, fucked up animals, and everything else)

scott vaughn @woodlandrattler.bsky.social · 13h

FOR OLD TIME’S SAKE follows Buck’s return to his home in the foothills of Appalachia after his sister is killed by a cougar. Haunted by their dead father and relentlessly called to the woods by talking animals, Buck must arrange her funeral before he becomes a ghost himself. #DVpit #H #A #LGBT #TV

A man and a dog at a gas station amid a snowy night. There is a mountain range behind the gas station.

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 11h

Lonely trucker Beck knows that beautiful boys are trouble, so he can’t be too surprised when picking up an attractive amnesiac cult escapee off the side of the road plunges him into a battle for the world’s survival.

#DVpit #OWN #POC #LGBT

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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 2d

The internet created space for people to put words to their queerness and find community where they feel they can't find it irl, but I worry this is a stopgap that keeps many in a kind of arrested development who would pre-internet be forced to go out and find in person community

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