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Maeve Larken

@maevelarken.bsky.social

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Reader & writer of fantasy romance. She/her I believe these things make the world better: ✨ Representation in media ✨ Beauty & Wonder ✨ Monster smut Autistic ⁕ Boobless ⁕ Still Pretty Cool Debut book coming soon!

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Shannon Lawson @nanlawson.bsky.social · Feb 11

But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am.

A colorful illustration depicting Eowyn standing up to the Witch King from Lord of the Rings.

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S. E. Wendel @sewendelauthor.bsky.social · Feb 4

More stunning new Faeling art! I’m so thrilled I got to work with the amazing Koti Komori on this gorgeous piece of Vallek & Ravenna 🥰 Her wings are so pretty and his braid is giving me serious hair envy!

Faeling is book 4 of the Monstrous World series and out 7/25 a.co/d/8DmLJdi

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Maeve Larken @maevelarken.bsky.social · Feb 4

A very interesting read on sex in media.

My take: You don't complain about someone drinking a coffee in a movie "why is this in here??" so why complain about a sex scene? Sometimes people want a coffee and that's all there is to it. It does not demean the media

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What’s retrograde is arguing that women (or anyone for that matter) having sex and being overtly sexual (for any reason or no reason at all), even and especially when they are the ones being agent about their sexuality, is somehow retrograde. The automatic assumption that sex, sexuality, desire, bodily experience and expression as a major part of a woman’s (or any person’s) life and perhaps core to understanding her is not valid in and of itself and must instead serve some kind of moral or political purpose, is a vehement expression of this puritanical stance, and furthermore, supports the broader capitalist perspective that sex only exists for pro-creation and the production of new workers — that sex for pleasure, and indeed pleasure itself, is inherently anti-capital. These critics (and audiences today generally speaking) are only interested in a sanitized, moralized, and ideally, completely non-controversial experience with their media and art, an experience they readily commodify into an easily digestible opinion (or tweet, meme, headline) to exist as an artifact online, one that’s representative and reflective of their personal political and moral ideologies.

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✧✧Nick✧✧[OPEN COMMS] @webreathewords.bsky.social · Feb 2

Redoing my portfolio and filling it with pieces of my ocs
#art #artist #fantasy #ocsky #booksky

enemies making love or whatever the trope was.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Feb 2

@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community.

More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · Feb 2

📣 UPDATE: OK, still working with some others to figure out the best way to present it all, but in the meantime here's the first batch of links to the most-recent archived versions of every page at the CDC prior to the Trump/Musk Purge:

acasignups.net/25/02/02/whi...

In which I provide links to archived versions of every CDC.gov page available pre-purge (Part 1 of 15)

As horrific as it is that the Trump/Musk Administration is purging data from federal websites, it's good to know that the Internet Archive has been archiving much of it. However, in addition to the Ar...

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Maeve Larken @maevelarken.bsky.social · Feb 3

A girl gets to a certain age where she realizes dragons are far more fun. I’m that age.

An illustration of a fantasy woman dressed elegantly leaning against a pillar. The text reads “Forget waiting for Princess Charming… I want the dragon”

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Leigh Miller @authorleighmiller.bsky.social · Feb 1

If you’re in the mood for a kraken shifter romance with:

🐙Fated Mates
✨A cinnamon roll MMC who falls first
🐙An FMC who’s healing from her past
✨Found Family
🐙Tentacle fun times

… then I think you’ll like Nora’s Kraken. AND - it’s free for the next few days!

#romancebooks #romancelandia

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SpellFire @spellfire.bsky.social · Feb 1

Fun activities for Imbolc. If you need some inspiration today.
*Candles candles candles.
*Cleanse crystals by smoke.
*Clean out a section of your space
*Baked goods, cheeses & seeds
*Bless items for your garden
*Weave Brigid crosses/corn dolls
*Plan your garden
Tune out the world for 1 day.

three candles are lit in front of a cross made of straw

Alt: three candles are lit in front of a brigid cross

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Feb 1

Hey y'all! The FAB @rdotspoon.bsky.social is giving US a gift for her birthday!

She has two book bundles up where you can pay what you want to get four AMAZING books.

If you are broke, get some joyful books. If you are not, throw in some extra to pay it forward!

payhip.com/RWBirthdayBo...

Birthday Book Bundle featuring A Walk int he Park, A Man for Mrs. Claus, Harbor, and Xeni. Pay what you want!

Birthday Book Bundle #2: firsts in series, with Fit, So Sweet, Haven, and Rafe

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Vera Valentine @valentineverse.bsky.social · Feb 1

Hey friends! I've revamped my pay schedule cheat sheet (apparently I left February completely off the last one😬) for KDP authors.

Find more helpful tips and resources here:

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www.valentineverse.com/author-resou...
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#VeraValentine #IndieAuthor #KDPPaySchedule #AuthorPaySchedule

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Maeve Larken @maevelarken.bsky.social · Feb 1

All of the above, please 💕✨😈

Meg Rhodes @megrhodes.bsky.social · Feb 1

Which Valentine would you like to receive?? ALL of them is an acceptable answer😉😘

#romancebookstagram #firefighterromance #agegapromance #megrhodes #curvyromance #indieauthor #smalltownromance #monsterromance