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Oleander Craw
@oleandercraw.bsky.social
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Author of dark SFF novels for queer and trans readers who want to chew on something weird and evocative. Keep it monstrous, y'all || they/he 🏳️‍⚧️ THE WARDS WILL FALL releasing 10/27/2025 https://oleandercraw.carrd.co/
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 19h
Book cover release day!! I'm thrilled to share this absolutely fantastic cover illustrated by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social. I feel so incredibly lucky!

THE WARDS WILL FALL is a fantasy novel with a mm relationship releasing October 27, 2025. Read for free on my newsletter.

www.oleandercraw.com
Book cover for the wards will fall. It features a man with dark curly hair and olive times skin on the front. He is looking concerned with a hand raised. Golden wards are tattooed on the side of his head and back of his hands. He is wearing an elaborate coat covered in silver rocs. A shadow is behind him with many horns and a golden eye. The title says the wards will fall. Underneath it says oleander craw.
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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 8h
#Daily 34 River | Sacred bones
Painting of a river in a red landscape
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 12h
Hell YEAH
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 19h
Book cover release day!! I'm thrilled to share this absolutely fantastic cover illustrated by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social. I feel so incredibly lucky!

THE WARDS WILL FALL is a fantasy novel with a mm relationship releasing October 27, 2025. Read for free on my newsletter.

www.oleandercraw.com
Book cover for the wards will fall. It features a man with dark curly hair and olive times skin on the front. He is looking concerned with a hand raised. Golden wards are tattooed on the side of his head and back of his hands. He is wearing an elaborate coat covered in silver rocs. A shadow is behind him with many horns and a golden eye. The title says the wards will fall. Underneath it says oleander craw.
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Robbie Trevino @robbietrevino.bsky.social · 1d
An Eldritch Spookster for this spooky season.
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1d
Need a couple of different fountains set up to experience lukewarm slightly mossy park water, cold as hell government building water and strangely delicious limestone aquifer well water whenever you need a water change up. A water fountain variety pack if you will
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 2d
Agreed!!! And I'm definitely curious how well it works out 👀
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The Eerie Potato @hunsweasel.bsky.social · 2d
Scream us a song, you're the Piano Man
A song from the darkness beneath
With your piano wire hair and your soul-chilling stare
And your eighty-eight black and white teeth
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 2d
Oooh kind of jealous!!
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Becky @beckygracelea.bsky.social · 4d
She hath risen.
“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”
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Vincent Chen 🏳️‍🌈 @carrotboi.bsky.social · 3d
The Spear Cuts Through Water
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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 3d
boundaries are important.
this includes with work and partners. if your job or the love of your life can't understand that they don't own you? time to walk. no employer or lover gets 100% of you.
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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d
Not long ago -- in my lifetime -- all trans people faced unspeakable violence, including state-sponsored violence, for simply existing

And self-appointed gatekeepers made it as tough as possible for a person to transition.

Anyone who wants to bring back the gatekeeping also wants the violence back
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
These are all very innocent suggestions uh huh
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
PLEASE
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
Simply incredible
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
Word of mouth is aces every time
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 3d
You don't have to get less angry as you get older. That's why you have to drink more water. It's coolant for the rage
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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 4d
We're $301 from our reprints stretch goal! If we hit that, every issue will include a reprint of a queer story no longer available online. Help us archive queer stories and support queer creators in a time of censorship!

Learn more about our plans here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!
A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
www.kickstarter.com
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
Have struggled with this and it definitely took several years to come to the realization that I just need to write the things I need even if it's more difficult. But that realization has been incredibly freeing
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James Bennett @jamesbennett.bsky.social · 3d
Whatever you do, don't tone down your natural queer expression to fit the mores of a mainstream market fixated by palatable "rep". Might take years for your work to find a home, but ballsy editors are out there. And you won't feel like you've become less than yourself to fulfil a tacit quota. 👍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
Feeling a powerful need for waffles this morning
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 4d
Are you... are you part of the *homo-sexual underground*?
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 4d
Aaaaaaa I still need to give a listen
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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 4d
Okay so we've had trans rights but what about TRANS WRONGS???

Murder! Blood magic! Kissing! Monsters!
Cover for Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright, The Sunday Times bestseller. Black cover, with a scowling long-haired woman in a Gothic style red and gold headdress and brocade sleeves like wings against a background of red and white roses. Her hands are tipped in gold claws and she holds a long dagger. Blurbs from Melissa Caruso — “Dark, dangerous, and entrancing” — and Sara Hashem — “A decadent story that won’t let you go.” Cover for LORD OF RUIN by K. M. Enright. Black cover, with a dark haired Filipino man in a Gothic style embodied suit jacket in shades of blue and gold. Black wings with a similar gold embroidered design stretch behind him against a background of blue with white flowers. His hands are tipped in black talons and he holds a bright red anatomical heart. Blurb from Thea Guanzon — ”K. M. Enright is definitely one to watch.”
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 4d
The world needs more books by queer dudes featuring queer masculinity
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 4d
I've also got a fantasy novel draft in the works featuring a gay dragonrider investigating a murder attempt, who becomes romantically involved with the auditor he is trying to conceal the investigation from
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