ReflectiveDetective
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ReflectiveDetective
@reflectdetect.bsky.social
Aspiring writer, avid reader. Aspiring filmmaker, avid watcher. Aspiring aspirer, avid avider.
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
Looking for a supernatural queer read?

🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality

Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Available here:

a.co/d/bufFU4f
February 22, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.
April 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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It's also the day for my favorite meme!

If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
March 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors.

Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts.

Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.
March 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I LOVE REGULATION. I LOVE THE PEACE OF MIND KNOWING THAT A RESTAURANT IS SAFE TO EAT AND A PRODUCT WONT KILL ME. I WANT MORE REGULATION. I DONT WANT CORPORATIONS TO BREATHE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT PERMISSION.
March 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
A LIGHT MOST HATEFUL by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social! Finally got around to reading it a few months ago and it immediately struck a chord with me. Truly beautiful story. But there are so many great ones out there.
Hey, #BookSky! It's Trans Day of Visibility, and we're doing an ebook giveaway. We have three digital copies of Briar Ripley Page's very trans horror and Weird fiction collection Lupus in Fabula. To enter the giveaway, repost with your favorite book by a trans author!
March 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife.

Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.

We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
March 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Block anyone posting about the LGB or LGBQ+ community. This is an active effort to erase trans people.

There is no Pride without trans people. Specifically trans people of colour. Dropping the T is bootlicking. It's throwing them under the bus and waiting happily to be next.
February 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Literature is no one’s private ground; literature is common ground. It is not cut up into nations; there are no wars there. Let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

~Virginia Woolf
September 26, 2023 at 2:09 AM
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Val, the reluctant companion of a toxic benefactor, pursues freedom with a band of thespian thieves in space, but when mercenaries attack and all their plans unravel, she must trust the crew and confront her past to bring down an intergalactic criminal enterprise #2025Pit #A #SF
January 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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DRESDEN FILES X GRAVITY FALLS

Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in Bludeye Beach.

👧Character driven
🫂Found family
💕Slow burn romance
👻Monster menagerie

#2025pit #A #Q #H #F
January 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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#2025pit
The Tea Party from Hell and Other Stories is a horror short story collection featuring the titular tea party from Hell, Richard Nixon on a trail cam, and Cthulhu in a toilet, plus more.
(Not sure if this is for collections or just novels, but thought I’d give it a try)
January 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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#2025Pit #H #A
Memento X The Searchers
Inject the dying memories of your dead loved ones into your veins. Live their last moments. Die by fire. Live through assault. See their murderers. Find clues to where they took your daughter, to sell into slavery.
Then kill them, one by one.
A few Vials more
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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THE DOG STARS x THE END OF MEN
After the women’s plague, a lonely farmer contemplates the end, when a woman who shouldn’t exist kills a thief on his farm. They flee reprisals across a frozen prairie & battle into the wilds where survivors plan to save humanity. At all costs.

#2025pit #A #PA #SF
January 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Marvel meets Millennial motherhood.
A health crisis teaches Kate her limits, but when she develops superpowers, she faces a choice: be a hero & earn a magical cure or finally be true to herself, even if it means facing the unknowns of cancer treatment.
#2025Pit #A #SPF #LF #authorsurvivor
January 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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THE MOURNERS

Dual POV pink horror novella.

After a man dies under suspicious circumstances, his lover and his wife spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin by a lake hoping to get some long-overdue answers.

One of them is a murderer.
One of them is possessed.

#2025pit #A #H #E
January 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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DEXTER+INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Kidnapped and thrown into a corrupt vampire prison camp, Grace makes a deal to escape by bringing a vampire a body a week in exchange for her life and answers to a massive conspiracy.
#H #T #A #2025pit
January 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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VANDERMEER X MURAKAMI

Scrappy rocker Shannon is mid-concert when an audience member erupts, leaving a twisted tree in place of their body. As the outbreak spreads, she leads her band to safety—while fearing one of her band members may already be contaminated.

#2025Pit #A #H #SF #novella
January 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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#2025pit

Non-binary former anarchist finds source of infinite electricity in economic dystopia.

#LF #DIS #A #F #H #LGBT
January 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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GENERATION GAP HORROR

Boomer: When we were kids, we fought & captured a cosmic evil. What’s your generation done?

Millennial: Nothing. You spent years making human sacrifices to tap the captured being’s power, keeping your generation in charge & leaving us in the dark. Until now.

#A #H #2025pit
January 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Win The Buffalo Hunter Hunter:
There are just 10 days left to win a finished copy of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, bestselling author of The Only Good Indians! It is his most anticipated novel of 2025, what readers are heralding as "the best vampire novel since Dracula."
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January 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Turns out it's cover reveal day!

A GAME IN YELLOW is coming August 12, 2025 from Saga, with a delicious cover by Caroline Teagle Johnson and Math Monohan, that the publisher calls "a masterful blend of horror, erotica, and psychological thriller" 💛

tinyurl.com/sagayellow
December 6, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Thank you @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social for this lovely blurb for Vanishing Daughters.

Vanishing Daughters is available March 11, 2025.

Link to preorder: Vanishing Daughters: A Thriller a.co/d/eWjMFHh
January 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM