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🥳Time for the Queer Indie Book Promo! OCT 13th-15th all books should be 99c but check before clicking! Books can only be shelved as 1 genre, so scroll to find your fave authors (mine is paranormal). Feel free to quote post with your sale or a rec! www.mnbennet.com/pride-promo

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

I loved both of these, and they are good for Halloween mood too.

Share a movie that immediately puts you in a good mood! ...so much so that I wrote a Labyrinth-but-gay novella 😅

NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

"Temu plan" sounds like slang for "half-ass idea".

This is awesome. If your vote didn’t matter Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Everybody is talking about Lula, but actually the victory in Serbia of a student-led, anti-government group fronting candidates from across society is almost more interesting for what it says about the potential to genuinely transform politics with the right movement at the right moment.

OCTOBER RECS DAY 24 More gay freebie creepiness because I read a lot of that and I'm lazy. www.amazon.com/Mysterious-A... www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Soft goth boys kiss, get cursed.

The "Our Queer Histories" Anthology is here 🌈 This collection invites you to witness what it means—what it’s always meant—to be a queer person navigating the world. Explore the book and audio: eavesdropmagazine.ca/our-queer-histories-read Art: "Our Bodies," Alma Perreault Model: Bisungu Tychique

This free event is already full, but you can join the waitlist in case anyone cancels their ticket. It'll be some C&A fun. TOMMY ORANGE x SHANE HAWK LOCAL ECONOMY - OAKLAND, CA TUES, NOV 3RD FROM 6:00-7:30PM luma.com/rnn8lyc2

🩸🩸 COMING 5TH NOVEMBER! 🩸🩸 𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙥 𝙊𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙮 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙖 𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙫𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛-𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙙𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 - 𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝. mybook.to/MishapMersey

This queer, creepy Halloween novella was written by a human. Me, Eule Grey. The cover was designed by a human artist, Felix Sadler. The book is currently on sale af $0.99 All human. Spooky. All queer. #NOAI #HorrorBook #Halloween #Queer www.amazon.com/Begins-Eule-...

Enter to win a free Witchy anthology 🧙‍♀️

Sometimes wineries get local artists to design labels. I don't know why this isn't more common.

He's lucky he's cute.

Happy #caturday from our surprise!13 new kitties (1 week since Chex Mix and the fire babies showed up!) www.gofundme.com/f/helping-ch...

I love this poem. From Ada Limón's book, Bright Dead Things: #poem #booksky #writing

suspended rabies testing??!!

And if you're at Bristolcon, come visit us in the Dealers Room! We have copies of IWTTO, merch, and the last 5 copies in Bristol of @trip.bsky.social's debut novel...SIGNED!

I will spare you all the tl;dr saga of me trying to washing my cat vom blanket in the tub. Yr welcome.

Head's Up & Sorry Author Friends, My gov's latest decision is gen ai companies don't need licenses to train their gen ai on ANYONE'S work within Australia. All authors get is an opt out. Author's Guild have concerns about how well that opt out will work, and so do I. Sign your opposition in link!

Today, Auckland(?)

Kaleidotrope is still open to fiction and poetry submissions today (October 23) and tomorrow (October 24). It won’t be open again for a while after that. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

If I decline to watch your child it's because I have nightmares about some disaster causing me to be stuck with them.

Speaking of books and characters, I'm heading over to Mile Hi Con today to vend with my new publishing house, Blue Feathered Quill. If you're in Aurora, I'll see you there! milehicon.org

OCTOBER RECS DAY 23 (not really cuz I haven't read these, but they're free!) One is mm romance, the other queer sff and horror stories. www.amazon.com/Bury-Your-Ga...

Want to laugh yourself to death? Can’t wait until Halloween? Great news! Our first 6 issues are all available in our Ko-Fi shop right now! Buy yourself a hilarifying time today! #dielaughing

FRIENDS: recommend some trans-authored books (including yours!) in the comments! And if you've never read a book by a trans person, browse the comments and you may find your next great read. No time like the present to stick it to the pieces of shit who think we ought neither to be seen or heard

OCTOBER RECS DAY 22 I would call these "creative nonfiction" and while they're not reliable for research they're excellent for creepy plot ideas if you need to do some spooky season writing of your own.

One of my illustrations for the work of Lord Dunsany. This tale, called Bethmoora. I am VERT excited to say, it is released with PS publishing and the trade paperback has worldwide distribution so, wherever you are, you can have. pspublishing.co.uk/the-kith-of-...

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🌞 Howl’s Moving Castle 🌙

Btw! @dakkota23.bsky.social has made an IG for the fire babies and the fellowship, if you are on that platform and would also like to see baby cat pics there ^.^ www.instagram.com/the_firebabies

NEW SHIT FROM SASHA BROWN! I had to look "caravel" up it's been a while since I've played Civilization anyway I hope you like sharks fighting babies www.astrolabe.ooo/brown-snow-g...

Happy Release Day to @feliciafm.bsky.social and her gorgeous scifi fantasy novella, THESE BRIGHT AND PERILOUS DESIGNS! Absolutely love this story and we're so excited it's out in the world today! geni.us/TBAPD

There goes 6250 tonnes of CO₂ removal every year…

Now out, I assume! 🦷

OCTOBER RECS DAY 21 I also read lots of creepy nonfiction as a kid. I was so into those "true" ghost stories and Time-Life books of the occult. Do people still read those?

art is the one avenue where you can express this stuff and not immediately get shut down. you can't say this stuff in real life because you have to consider other people's feelings, but art isn't real life. i don't have to worry if i'm too raw for the reader. they can always just stop reading.

New story out from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social online this month in the paranormal noir issue! 🕵️sorry about everyone being everyone else 🔎it's been like this since aliens came 🕵️feminist noir 🔎empathy: good but can be annoying 🕵️grab that bowl of algae flashfictiononline.com/issues/octob...

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.