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Sarha
@sarha7nj.bsky.social
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She/her. Never enough spoons or books. Weeping widow. Romancelandia fan. Deconstructionist. Neurodivergents-R-US. Obsessed with my big black greyhound.
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gasp-sending-crow.bsky.social
Yes. Yes. Perfect.
ICE officials claim the couple—known only by their first names, Miryam and Yosef—had illegally entered Judea recently by camel. The woman is said to have given birth to the child a few nights ago, and the stable had been visited by suspicious persons claiming to have been led there by a star. “These people are clearly on drugs,” said an ICE spokesman. “This is exactly the kind of criminal element we want kept out of Judea.” Witnesses said that Yosef pleaded with the ICE agents to take just him and leave the mother and child. “They had him zip-tied, and he kept saying something about being in town to comply with Herod’s Census,” said a man who reported him. “He’s lying. I mean, look at them. They don’t belong here. They need to go back to where they came from.” ICE officials are also investigating the couple for other crimes. They were found with a substantial amount of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. “What are those luxury goods doing in their possession?” asked the ICE spokesman, taking a moment to adjust his mask. “We’re working to ascertain the original source, but we’re confident they were stolen.” He then leaned in. “And not for nothing, but we have it on good authority she was impregnated by another man. It’s apparently not his. Born out of wedlock. She’s an adulteress and likely a welfare queen. They’ll probably use the kid to commit fraud.”
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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I'm gonna be real: many many times when I've watched a sexy TV show and gone "oh wow, this is being surprisingly normal and positive about sex!" I later found out it was a Canadian production.

I have *never* thought that about HBO. If I'm uncomfortable and sad, I check to see if it's HBO.
anselacorsino.com Ansela Corsino @anselacorsino.com · 7d
Heated Rivalry is a Crave production, from Canada. HBO is just a distributor. I really wish people would stop attributing anything in the production of this show to HBO.
smartvpants.bsky.social Viola Smart 🦇 @smartvpants.bsky.social · 7d
Sounds like this set was run how they all should be. HBO once again leading the industry in intimacy directing.
December 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
sarha7nj.bsky.social
Number one son has been taking ADHD meds for 19 years. We travel to see family about once a year so I need an early refill for the meds. Same drug store. Every year, it's like they forget how to do this. It takes days, every year. If I didn't push and insist, we'd never get the meds in time.
December 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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suleikhasnyder.bsky.social
Looking to top off that 2025 reading list? How about a short romantasy from a short author? My MMF novella FROSTBURN is available at Amazon, Apple, B&N, Kobo and Smashwords—and on Overdrive, if you want to ask your library to buy it!
#romancelandia

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Available now at your favorite digital store!
Frostburn by Suleikha Snyder
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December 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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nrlines.bsky.social
This had me laughing and now I need this movie in my life!
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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queerash.bsky.social
to cheer you up, here's Patrick Warburton and his sons (two of which may actually be clones???) doing Kronk lines
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
I DETEST the relentless pressure put upon transgender people to be made to feel as if they are a problem and as if their rights are holding up
everything and everyone else. Leave them the hell alone!
December 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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jordantyranny.bsky.social
FUCKIN FACTS 💯
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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suleikhasnyder.bsky.social
Need a little heating up this winter? FROSTBURN, my MMF romantasy novella loosely inspired by The X-Files, is out now at all the usual e-tailers for just $2.99.

#romancelandia

Buy links: books2read.com/u/47aYWq
A square blue and purple gradient graphic. It gives bisexual. As it should. At the top in fancy font are the words Frostburn by Suleikha Snyder. At the bottom, it lists Amazon, Apple, B&N and Kobo. There is a slash of fire in the upper left corner and a snowflake in the lower right corner. In the middle is the following excerpt text: The head of the queen’s guard is a handsome, fearsome, brute of a man. He shaves his hair down close to his skull with his own hunting knife and trims his neat black beard each morning. He’s brawny beneath his formal black kurta and tapered pyjama. The traditional garb of Sachai flatters him more than it likely does Eoin. His arms are as thick and brown as tree branches when not covered by thick cloth and leather vambraces. But it’s not his size that keeps Eoin in check, that demands tribute behind closed doors. No, it’s how Sikandar has loved his queen for years.
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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suleikhasnyder.bsky.social
A pregnant queen surrounded by threats and caged by expectations. Two loyal bodyguards who'd die for her but want to live for her too. My X-Files-inspired MMF romantasy novella is live on Amazon, Kobo, and Smashwords so far. Get Frostburn for $2.99!

books2read.com/u/47aYWq
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Frostburn by Suleikha Snyder
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December 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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seauxcocoa.bsky.social
I read this last year, very cute read.
rdotspoon.bsky.social Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 11d
The elves have 3 days to find Mrs. Claus a new husband!
A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS is now available in audiobook!
🎅🏾🤎🤶🏾
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ebook: https://amzn.to/4s22FKS
A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS by Rebekah Weatherspoon. A Black couple embraces. The man is kissing the woman's neck as she holds a sprig of mistletoe over their heads. He is wearing a red tshirt and fireman's gear pants with suspenders. She is wearing a short tight fur lined red christmas dress and white boots.
December 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
sarha7nj.bsky.social
@jenreadsromance.bsky.social I have an unexpected addition to the danger banging list.
Cover of India Holton's The Geographer's Map to Romance.
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…

In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
thorbenson.bsky.social Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 16d
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Time person of the year cover for 2025
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
I am 100% opposed to these laws because in all cases they are used to pressure disabled people to die. Because that's cheaper than providing the supports they need to live. It happens in Canada with MAID, it happens in Oregon, it will happen in Illinois.
December 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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flavorflav.bsky.social
Any dentists in Kenosha, WI wanna help out a young autistic girl,?? This child needs 5 root canals due to her autism medicine.

Imma trade you a pair of tickets to our show in Chicago with GNR and a meeting next July

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Donate to My 11 year old autistic granddaughter needs 5 root canals, organized by Shirley Tutor-Perez
My granddaughter Rhiannon will be 11 on 12/20. She has been b… Shirley Tutor-Perez needs your support for My 11 year old autistic granddaughter needs 5 root canals
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December 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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lefttheprairie.bsky.social
Just a quick update that the whistle fund is now focused on supporting a loose coalition of 3D print enthusiasts who are shipping whistles to any community in the US.

If you’re interested in receiving 100-1000+ free 3D printed whistles, email whistlerequests @ proton [dot] me

gofund.me/14eb7ac4f
Donate to Support Whistle Distribution in Chicago and Beyond!, organized by Emily Hilleren
Since late September, I’ve been organizing whistle kit assembly par… Emily Hilleren needs your support for Support Whistle Distribution in Chicago and Beyond!
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December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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gamermomluna.bsky.social
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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unevendays.bsky.social
I inhaled this trilogy during a stressful trip visiting the parents and 100% can recommend. I checked and it's free on Kobo UK as well as US:
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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theladyred.bsky.social
The rats didn't cause it. For centuries, we got that wrong. We built an entire mythology around vermin scurrying through medieval streets, their fleas fat with Yersinia pestis, leaving corpses in their wake.

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We keep forgetting it. The bacterium remembers.
post by Genny Harrison ❤ The rats didn't cause it. For centuries, we got that wrong. We built an entire mythology around vermin scurrying through medieval streets, their fleas fat with Yersinia pestis, leaving corpses in their wake. We needed the story to be simple: rats brought death, and when we conquered the rats, we conquered the plague. But recent genomic research suggests human parasites, particularly lice and fleas living in our clothing and bedding, were the primary vectors. The Black Death wasn't something that came from outside our homes. It was already there, in the fabric we wore against our skin. This revelation matters because we're still telling ourselves the same comfortable lies about contagion, about distance, about the bodies we imagine we can separate from danger. The plague killed somewhere between 75 and 200 million people across Eurasia in the 14th century. It reduced Europe's population by at least a third. The bacterium, a gram-negative coccobacillus that attacks the lymphatic system, moved with terrifying efficiency. Once infected through a flea bite, victims developed buboes, those characteristic swollen lymph nodes in the groin, armpit, or neck that gave the bubonic plague its name. Without treatment, 60 to 90 percent died within days. The speed was unthinkable. The parish register of Givry in Burgundy records five burials in January 1348. By September, the priest was burying 40 people per day. Then he stopped keeping records. Likely because he was dead too. The bacterium moved faster than information could travel. People died without knowing what was killing them, creating explanations from the materials their worldview provided: God's wrath, poisoned wells, miasmatic vapors rising from rotting organic matter, the conjunction of planets Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars in 1345. The Jewish communities of Europe were massacred by mobs convinced they had caused the pestilence by contaminating water supplies. In Strasbourg, 900 Jews were burned alive in February 1349, months before plague even reached the city. We needed someone to blame. We still do. What the plague really exposed wasn't divine judgment but infrastructure. The disease flourished in cities whose density made them economic powerhouses but also perfect incubators for catastrophe. It followed trade routes, particularly the Silk Road networks connecting China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Genoese merchants fleeing the Mongol siege of Caffa in 1347 carried the plague to Sicily. From there, it radiated outward along established commercial pathways. The same networks that had generated unprecedented wealth and cultural exchange became highways for death. Connectivity, we learned, cuts both ways. The bacterium also mutated. While bubonic plague, transmitted through flea bites, was the most common form, pneumonic plague developed when the infection reached the lungs. This variant could spread through respiratory droplets, person to person, without any insect vector. It killed faster, sometimes within 24 hours, and was nearly 100 percent fatal. Medieval physicians had no framework for understanding this. They couldn't see bacteria. They didn't know about immune systems or lymph nodes. They worked with humor theory, believing disease resulted from imbalances of blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. The economic aftermath restructured European society in ways that echo through our present. Labor scarcity gave surviving peasants bargaining power they had never possessed. Before the plague, agricultural workers were abundant and therefore cheap. Afterward, landlords competed for laborers. Wages rose dramatically. The feudal system, dependent on a captive workforce bound to land, began its long, messy collapse. The wealthy attempted to freeze wages and restrict movement through sumptuary laws and the Statute of Labourers in England. It didn't work. You cannot legislate away the mathematics of supply and demand, though every generation tries. We tend to frame medieval people as helpless before the plague, as if they passively accepted mass death. They didn't. Quarantine as a systematic public health measure was born in the plague years. The word itself comes from quarantena, the 40-day isolation period Venice imposed on incoming ships starting in 1377, based on the belief that disease would manifest within that timeframe. Milan closed its gates entirely, enforcing cordons sanitaires that prevented movement in or out of infected areas. remembers. Physicians, despite their useless therapeutics of bloodletting and theriac, developed the first contact tracing protocols, tracking who had encountered the sick. The plague suits, those grotesque bird-beaked leather outfits, represented an early attempt at protective equipment. The beak was filled with aromatic herbs, meant to filter poisonous miasmas. The theory was wrong, but the impulse toward barrier protection was sound. These physicians were groping toward germ theory three centuries early. The plague also didn't disappear. Yersinia pestis still infects thousands annually, primarily in Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Peru. It lurks in prairie dog colonies across the American West. We have antibiotics now, streptomycin and gentamicin, which work if administered quickly. But antibiotic-resistant strains have emerged. The bacterium is patient. What we've forgotten is that the Black Death didn't just kill and recede. It returned in waves for four centuries. The Great Plague of London in 1665. Marseille in 1720. Moscow in 1771. Each outbreak smaller than the last, but only because populations had developed some immunity and cities had learned that public health requires collective action. The real lesson isn't about rats or medieval ignorance. It's about systems, about how we blame the vulnerable and protect the powerful, even when the threat respects neither. The plague showed us that private health is a fantasy when disease moves through populations. We learned this in the 14th century. We keep forgetting it. The bacterium remembers.
December 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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johnathanperk.bsky.social
Been barking about the 15 tenets of White Supremacy Culture, long before Trump was re-elected.

Project 2025 relies on these pillars in an obvious and expansive way. Pay attention to the ways these forces harm our society in the micro and macro level.
• Perfectionism • Urgency • Defensiveness • More = better • Written word worship • Only one right way • Paternalism • Either/Or mindset • Power-hoarding • Fear of conflict • Individualism • I'm the only one • Progress = bigger/more • Objectivity • Right to Comfort
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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readingtheend.bsky.social
good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete

sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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rdotspoon.bsky.social
Small town romantic suspense with a BDSM chaser. Check out my Beards & Bondage trilogy today!

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#booksky #romancelandia #blacksky
Now available in audio! Haven, Sanctuary and Harbor by Rebekah Weatherspoon Three romances with shirtless buff guys on the cover, standing in front of the mountains, in front of a farm and in front of the ocean. All three books have plus size black heroines and all three books feature BDSM elements. Haven - he saves her from serial killers. Months later they reunite and do the nasty instead of going to therapy. Sanctuary - She saves herself from a professional hit and ends up hidding at his farm. They do the nasty Harbor is a polyam story with three black folks. Their cheating partners are killed and they try to find meaning in it all. The meaning involves a threesome on the beach. Now available in audio! Haven, Sanctuary and Harbor by Rebekah Weatherspoon Three romances with shirtless buff guys on the cover, standing in front of the mountains, in front of a farm and in front of the ocean. All three books have plus size black heroines and all three books feature BDSM elements.
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
It's time to talk to you about my cat.
Vital Cat Update
It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…
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December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM