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M Zakharuk @ IMAGO OUT NOW

@mzakharuk.bsky.social

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She/her. Writer of sad & mad dyke fiction, cover designer. Nonbinary lesbian, monster lover, amateur woman. 🔞, 🌻🍉 🔗 for books & design comms at mzakharuk.com I write transfeminism on detrans issues here: @dolphindiaries.bsky.social

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M Zakharuk @ IMAGO OUT NOW @mzakharuk.bsky.social · Oct 21

Gonna try and post here more, so here's a new pinned!

I'm a writer of lesbian fiction, horror & SFF. My latest is IMAGO: A DYSTOPIAN GOTHIC. Follow Ada, a pariah under an authoritarian regime, to a remote polar town with bloody secrets beneath its ice.

👁️"Vita Nostra"+gothic horror
🏳️‍⚧️ NB butch4butch

A graphic featuring the cover of "Imago: A Dystopian Gothic" by M Zakharuk. "Vita Nostra" meets "The Traitor Baru Cormorant" meets "Babel." Featuring a nonbinary lesbian MC, dark academia, arctic horror, dystopian setting, and queer rage. Ebooks available wide, paperback on Amazon.

Tresor Institute accepts only the worthy, and Ada Călinescu is anything but. Intractable, mannish, a child of convicted terrorists, she can at best hope to be overlooked. Yet somehow the Institute accepts her application for transfer. Her ticket to the polar town of Heilung, home of the Institute, arrives free of charge.

Her only chance to forge a brighter future.

Except Heilung welcomes Ada with news of a brutal murder. Militiamen stalk the town, keen to fill their arrest quotas—and Ada knows she could make an easy scapegoat. At every turn the bloody conspiracy follows her, from the halls of Tresor to the arms of a stranger she yearns to make hers. What starts as a dalliance risks putting Ada at odds with the Bureau itself.

And then expulsion will be the least of her concerns.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 8h

This has gone out to beta readers. :)

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 3d

The compiled RCBG web-serial is now available as a singular work on Itch! Lightly edited for the medium, with some side content now incorporated into the main canon, and an amazing cover by @hdthorn.bsky.social!

Ranked Competitive Breast Growth: The Complete Serial by Talia Bhatt

All chapters of the web serial RCBG, in one convenient location!

taliabhatt.itch.io

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 3d

TFR Awards start in less than two months 😳

I hope people have been thinking about their favorite books of 2025 :3

If you haven't, here's a refresher on the categories. Still plenty of time to read some great books before December rolls around!

TFR Reader’s Choice Awards

Founded in 2024, the TFR Reader’s Choice Awards are an open-voting chance for the transfeminine literary community to recognize excellence in transfeminine publishing for the year. The awards…

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M Zakharuk @ IMAGO OUT NOW @mzakharuk.bsky.social · 3d

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Chloe Brailsford @comixbychloe.bsky.social · 4d

Passion

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 3d

Realized that I don't actually have to keep reading this tradepub title when I could be reading @trishusband.itch.io's trans lesbian cyberpunk noir instead.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 5d

- informed consent in primary care
- bulldoze every gender clinic
- hold inquiries into the abuses that went on there
- apologies + damages to patients denied care
- bosh ✊

If someone wants to transition, at any age and for any reason, that’s their business.

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Maddie Ouranía @maddiequestions.bsky.social · 8d

kait needs help finding a place to go by the end of October and funding her needs. her payment info is in her bio

rent here is paid so we do not need help with that so if you would have helped with that please help Kait

💸💕
#transcrowdfund
#disabilitycrowdfund

bsky.app/profile/thry...

Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · 18d

Ok so I’m going to need to move by the end of October and have no prospects or savings or social circles.

Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · Aug 13

While I have food now, I’m broke with no income and I am going to be hard pressed to come up with any money to put towards rent or anything else. I’ve just been treading water for a year.

Please, if anyone can help my payment links are in my bio. Uber credit also helps💕💸💸💕

#mutualaid #crowdfunding

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 6d

Some thoughts on the psychology behind white cis liberal women accusing you of faking your race to salve their white guilt. beekian.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/t...

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M Zakharuk @ IMAGO OUT NOW @mzakharuk.bsky.social · 6d

Ikr it's so refreshing

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 6d

If fiction is a conversation with the author, I'm utterly unsurprised that Jay starts those conversations by loudly talking over and ignoring major portions of what's being said before retroactively deciding if you're "worth her time" in the first place.

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 7d

if anyone wants to send a girl a lil gift <3

ko-fi.com/faerynn

Buy Fae'rynn a Coffee

Become a supporter of Fae'rynn today!

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J O Y ❥ ✊🏾 @kraehenherz.bsky.social · 7d

Go say happy birthday to Fae!

Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 7d

if anyone wants to send a girl a lil gift <3

ko-fi.com/faerynn

Buy Fae'rynn a Coffee

Become a supporter of Fae'rynn today!

ko-fi.com

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Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social · 7d

My family,my children have always been my top priority in life. They are the most precious part of me. I dedicated all my time and energy to them, until I nearly forgot myself forgot that I am an engineer who studied and worked hard for more than ten years.
🔗 chuffed.org/project/your...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7d

if transgender for everybody is a consequence of shutting down the government, that’s a deal i’ll have to take

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 7d

Help a trans lesbian pursue education safely!

Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · Aug 23

Well, time for some pretty big news. Wolffie is moving to Canada and going back to school. But I really need your help to make it happen.

You can read more about my upcoming move here: www.patreon.com/posts/137119...

And you can contribute to my GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 7d

And then I log on and see Westerners talk about how lesbians aren't really oppressed and misandry is real and saying that lesbians don't date men is TERFy and biphobic and and and and

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 7d

Epistemicide to the point of not knowing if anyone has lived like we have successfully, still in many parts of the world. No history, no past, constant destruction of our cultures, communities, incessantly torn apart over and over.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 7d

This one thing that galls me about Western queer discourses the most.

Y'all don't understand and I don't understand WHY y'all don't understand.

Lesbians are so fucking oppressed. We face so much violence. So much coercion into heterosexual institutions, brutalization for trying to escape them.

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Pointy Ears🔞 🏳️‍🌈 @pointyears.bsky.social · 8d

Melinoe

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 7d

Please boost and help if you can! Xe's a transfem sex worker who's at risk of becoming homeless.

Roxxie Moth, Yiff Lord 🐾 @roxxiemoth.bsky.social · 10d

I'm out of food and rent's due Wednesday if anyone can pitch in even a little bit to keep me alive another month

gofund.me/6ab0f67d

Donate to Help Roxxie Survive Depression and Mental Health Crisis, organized by Roxxie Moth

Hello, I'm stuck in a crisis of mental health and financial in… Roxxie Moth needs your support for Help Roxxie Survive Depression and Mental Health Crisis

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Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 7d

After the death of her friend, independent detective Isadora tries to meet the demands of every powerful person in the city: don't ask questions. Unfortunately, her nature and fate have other plans.

A trans lesbian retelling of a classic crime noir.

Pre-order: trishusband.itch.io/keeping-the-...

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The first time I laid eyes on Akakios, child of Diodotos, xe was drunkenly trying to start a high-end turbobike outside the Draped Vine. Xe had a young-looking face, but xer hair was bone white and xer slight yet toned arms were covered in fading scars. I could tell by xer eyes that xe was wasted, but otherwise xe looked like every hard-working sailor I drank with in those days; it was a strange sight for a high-end establishment like the Vine.

Behind the sailor was a girl. Her hair and dress were a deep red—like blood oozing from a wound—and her disinterested smirk marked her as the kind of woman I would have let walk all over me. Her skin was nearly as pale as Akakios' hair. The elegance of that woman almost outmatched the elegance of the bike. Not quite.

A rather annoyed parking attendant stood next to the bike, one hand holding it steady as xe struggled with the controls. The man was the usual half-tough character in ostentatious white garb, with the name of the bar displayed on his crisp suit in dark purple. He was at the end of his rope.

"Look," he said, his voice as sharp as a knife, "you've got to move the bike. I can even turn it on for you if it gets you out of here faster." He reached for the controls but yelped when Akakios slapped his hand away.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 7d

PE is like if a bunch of traumatized people are locked in a brutal tournament to see who's having the most godawful breakdown. Persephone has an... advantage, so to speak. Don't ask about some of the characters' body parts. Er, I mean, don't worry about it.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 7d

Payhip: payhip.com/b/fozMp
D2D: books2read.com/u/bpxgaq

To celebrate the new release date, here's a couple poster our illustrator Rashed did for us a while back!

A woman with long white hair covers one eye with her gloved hand; her other eye is glowing and red with a crosshair-shaped pupil; streaks of blood run down her face. She wears a black pilot’s suit with gold accents. Next to her is a black-haired, butch woman with dark skin and veins of gold running through her face. Background is red and white.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 7d

Announcement! We're moving the release of Persephone Effect UP to 29 Jan 2026. You have 3 months to prepare for lesbian cannibalism, psychological breakdowns, the MOST mommy issues, and Elysium being crueler than you thought
Itch: mariaying.itch.io/the-persepho...
Amz: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGXHSNHN

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