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Gracyn ✨
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30 🇵🇷 || they/elle || eng/esp || ❤️ bl, horror, art & manga/wha/hua + other comics
Sometimes NSFW 🔞
(I might post my art here)
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drhonor.bsky.social
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 2d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
[Yen On] Mikage Sawamura's Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture EX pre-orders are up at
BAM! https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Associate-Professor-Akira-Takatsukis-Conjecture/Mikage-Sawamura/9781975353117
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December 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
[Yen Press] Common-Sense Monster Volume 2 pre-orders are up at
B&N https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/common-sense-monster-vol-2-shinobu-shinotsuki/1148303526
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Monster-Vol-John-Neal/dp/B0FR3MVS1K
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December 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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elicia.bsky.social
Feel unbelievably bad for artists. And extremely alarmed for women. And really anyone who has posted photos on that site. Family photos. Photos of children. My god. A lot of incredibly evil shit is going to be made from this.
helenicchi.bsky.social Helen 🍉 Vgen comms open! @helenicchi.bsky.social · 2d
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
Edit image button
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
[Square Enix Manga] Yuu Toyota's A Starlit Darkness Volume 1 pre-orders are up at
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Starlit-Darkness-01-Yuu-Toyota/dp/1646094859
BAM! https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Starlit-Darkness/Yuu-Toyota/9781646094851
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December 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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[Yen Press] Be My Worst Nightmare! Volume 4 pre-orders are up at
BAM! https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Be-My-Worst-Nightmare/Michelle/9781975397609
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Be-My-Worst-Nightmare-Vol/dp/1975397606
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December 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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[LoveLove] Fated NOT to Meet Volume 2 pre-orders are up at
B&N https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fated-not-to-meet-volume-2-ei-eijou/1147890663
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Fated-NOT-Meet-Ei-Eijou/dp/1427886261
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December 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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[Kodansha Manga] Shiki Kawabata's Drawing From Your Memory Volume 1 pre-orders are up at
B&N https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drawing-from-your-memory-1-shiki-kawabata/1147835391
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Your-Memory-Shiki-Kawabata/dp/B0FHJY39YJ […]

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December 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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[Shojo Beat] Kaeru Mizuho's Magical Girl Dandelion Volume 1 pre-orders are up at
B&N https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/magical-girl-dandelion-vol-1-kaeru-mizuho/1147557022
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Magical-Girl-Dandelion-Vol-1/dp/197475779X
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December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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toyotayou.bsky.social
MerryChristmas 2025🎄✨
#チェリまほ
December 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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rentayaoi.bsky.social
💪 HOT Update! 👻

"The Monster & The Ghost" Ch. 13
by Himemiko

Read it here: www.ebookrenta.com/cnt/?ac=a-r1...
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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denpabooks.bsky.social
Back in NY and hoping to see some of you all at Anime NYC this week.
August 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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rentayaoi.bsky.social
‼️ ANIME NYC NEWS ‼️

Here's a sneak peek of the goodies we'll be bringing to Anime NYC (Aug. 21-24)!!

Stop by booth #439 to say hi and get some FREE BL merch! 😄

For Renta! members, we've got some BEAUTIFUL postcards to hand out, as well as sampler booklets of some of our favorite series!

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August 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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rentayaoi.bsky.social
We're ready and raring to go here at Anime NYC!! 😆

Stop by booth #439 to chat with our localization team, grab some sweet FREE BL merch, and meet R-kun! ❤️

Looking forward to a weekend of fun 🥳

#animeNYC2025
August 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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discotekmedia.bsky.social
Higurashi: When They Cry is up to pre-order!

Keiichi moved to Hinamizawa & has made friends.

The quiet town isn't as quiet or normal as it seems & it'll be a weird & bloody festival.

store.crunchyroll.com/products/hig...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=txrp...
Higurashi: When They Cry - Opening from Blu-ray
YouTube video by Discotek Media
www.youtube.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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wsstalkback.bsky.social
🚨 According to Comics Beat Kana will release Naoki Urasawa’s Billy Bat in English!

The series ran in Kodansha’s Morning magazine from October 16, 2008 to August 18, 2016 for 20 volumes.

Kana plans to release four volumes a year.

Billy Bat Vol. 1 will be available in June 2026 for $13.99.
August 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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gruntsghosts.bsky.social
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.
action.aclu.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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nocori6.bsky.social
白黒

シオンにコスプレさせると無知なサキュバスに秀作が強いてるみたいになってしまってごめん秀作
May 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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izepress.com
Can romance bloom between a killer and his neighbor? Or will the skeletons in the closet prove to be too much? ...And what's with the onions?

Pre-order the suspenseful BL manhwa Murderous Lewellyn’s Candlelit Dinner, Vol. 1 – Available in Print May 20th!: buff.ly/D3D1k9l
April 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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samaburime.bsky.social
Added more academic resources to the 'Censorship & Conservatism' page @ www.fujoshi.info/censorshipan...
These two articles examine how religious someone was vs. how seriously they perceived 'porn addiction' as a serious issue, & how religion can pathologize developmentally normal sexual behaviors 🧵
Transgression as Addiction: Religiosity and Moral Disapproval as Predictors of Perceived Addiction to Pornography: "Religious beliefs impact sexual attitudes (Lefkowitz, Gillen, Shearer, & Boone, 2004), sexual fantasy (Ahrold, Farmer, Trapnell, & Meston, 2011), and sexual behavior (Farmer, Trapnell, & Meston, 2009). Most often, the effects of religiosity on sexuality are prohibitive or stigmatic in nature (Ahrold et al., 2011). The same is true of pornography use. Religious individuals tend to disapprove of pornography use and support pornography censorship (Lambe, 2004; Lottes, Weinberg, & Weller, 1993; Thomas, 2013). Religiosity also predicts unhappiness and depressive tendencies among pornography users (Patterson & Price, 2012). Not surprisingly then, pornography use is reportedly lower in religious populations than secular populations (Carroll et al., 2008; Poulsen, Busby, & Galovan, 2013; Wright, 2013; Wright, Bae, & Funk, 2013). Even so, analyses of pornography sales reveal that more religious areas tend to purchase more pornography than less religious areas (Edelman, 2009)." "A simple search for the term‘‘Pornography Addiction” on the Amazon bookseller’s website returned over 1,200 results on the topic. Over half of these results were found within the ‘‘Religion and Spirituality’’section of the online bookstore (Grubbs, Exline, & Volk, 2012). Such a simple finding raises a question about the relationship between religiosity and attitudes toward pornography: Could there be an association between religious belief and the notion of Internet pornography addiction? In support of this idea, several studies have found that religiosity and religious values were positively associated with perceived addiction to Internet pornography (Abell et al., 2006; Grubbs et al., 2010; Levert, 2007; Sessoms et al., 2011)." Only Bad for Believers? Religion, Pornography Use, and Sexual Satisfaction Among American Men.”: ​“viewing pornography seemed to be associated with lower sexual satisfaction, but only for those who would be violating religious sanctions against it. This suggests moral incongruence plays a key role in explaining the connection between pornography consumption and sexual satisfaction among American men… this study’s findings suggest that it is not necessarily pornography use per se that negatively influences sexual satisfaction. If that were strictly the case, the negative association between pornography use and sexual satisfaction would have held regardless of participants’ religious characteristics. But the fact that the association was contingent on participants’ religious belonging and belief suggests that “moral incongruence” is an important factor to consider.” “Previous research on pornography use and religion has suggested that religious persons who use pornography often report feeling considerable guilt and cognitive dissonance for violating their moral convictions about chastity and “lusting” (Baltazar et al., 2010; Grubbs et al., 2015; Perry & Hayward, 2017; Thomas et al. 2017). Religious pornography users are more likely to evaluate their lives more negatively than non-religious users (Grubbs et al., 2015). Thus it is likely that men who attend worship services more often [...] or have a higher opinion of the Bible [...] but also view pornography fairly regularly, are more likely to experience guilt and shame that potentially colors their evaluation of their own sex lives. This helps explain why the negative association between pornography consumption and overall happiness (Patterson & Price, 2012), marital quality (Doran & Price, 2014; Perry 2016), or parent-child relationship quality (Perry & Snawder, 2017) has tended to be stronger for those who are more closely attached to religious others.”
April 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
apparently it's #NationalUnicornDay! I have one of those 🦄
a unicorn girl with a blood tipped horn
April 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it—this zine shows you how."
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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psudonym.bsky.social
Just speaking in general, now would be a good time to support your favorite webcomics.
April 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS
Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.
www.wordsandmoney.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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daphnelage.bsky.social
What's old is new again, as the TENCHI MUYO series we worked on with Pioneer back in the day returns to Kickstarter in an omnibus edition. (I did the lettering, btw... 😅)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/arm...
Coming soon: Tenchi Muyo!: American Omnibus Edition
The definitive release of the original American Tenchi Muyo! comics.
www.kickstarter.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM