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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#100daysofqueerfantasy DAY THREE A trans witch fantasy book that I’ve had on my TBR for a while now! 📚: The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

#100daysofqueerfantasy DAY TWO An incredible adult space opera that gave me vibes of Star Wars mixed with Doctor Who. I was obsessed with this book when I read it and I can’t wait for book two! 📚: The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

#100daysofqueerfantasy DAY ONE: a YA fantasy book with cozy witchy vibes, and a second chance Sapphic romance 🩷 📚: Brewed with Love by Shelly Page - YA - Sapphic - second chance romance - Black author/MC (Video has captions if you click into it)

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Recommend me a book, any genre, any audience, that features a theme of hope among resistance #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Okay besties, I’m prepping for my 100 Days of Queer Fantasy series year 2! Please give me recommendations (and indie authors feel free to rec your books too)! I’m looking for fantasy books of any subgenre/length/age range, where the MC is queer. #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Currently reading: 3 fiction books 1 beta read 1 professional development book 2 books paused on Storygraph And I need to read them all (minus the textbook) by May so I can enter ARC city 😭😭😭 #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

“I’ve gained over 120k followers on Bookstagram in less than 6 months and here’s how I did it” *has Harry Potter books DIRECTLY next to their head in the video* *Taylor Jenkins Reid in March Wrap Up* So you did it by not having morals or something? #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I loathe when people review Middle Grade books, only to be like “the MC was annoying and immature at times” like…. the MC is 13? News flash but 13 year olds can by annoying and immature sometimes. #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Just saw someone pitch their book as “if ACOTAR mated with Handmaid’s Tale, but women are in charge and there were dragons.” And honestly I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around that description. #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I get that I’m a just a white girl on the internet but when ppl comment “that’s for the _____ community to decide” WHEN IM LITERALLY JUST RELAYING INFORMATION I HAVE LEARNED FROM THAT SPECIFIC COMMUNITY it really just grinds my gears

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

📚23/52: Dreadnought by April Daniels ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 Rep: trans author & FMC Finished during the Trans Rights Readathon! A superhero YA coming of age story about a trans girl getting superpowers (which transitions her in an instant) A fun read but def check content warnings. #booksky #trr25

a hand holds a kindle in front of a bookshelf. The kindle displays a black and white cover of Dreadnought by April Daniels. Text on the image reads “My name is Danielle Tozier. I am a girl. No one is strong enough to take that from me anymore,” “Book 23/52,” and “Trans Rights Readathon Book.”

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

After seeing how much fun yall had at SATC, I’m devastated that I don’t have the means to go to BookNetFest :( #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Me: I don’t like this problematic book, and quite frankly it give Republican vibes Comments: How DARE you censor us and tell us what we can and cannot read?!?!? How DARE you judge us it’s a FantASy BoOk! Oh and I AM A LibERaL and my RePUBlicAn friends hate this book! #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Hello can more literary events and people come to NC please? I don’t have the money to travel all the time but the FOMO is FOMOing

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Sorry but I see the hashtag #whoremembers as whore members

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I drank caffeine for the first time in 3 days and now I’m shhhakkakkingng

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Thank you for 4.5k followers!! I appreciate you all and I will continue to bring you: -diverse book recs -cat pictures -anxiety thoughts -fantasy books #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It just hit me that I have a Waterstones preorder 😭😭😭 RIP to the beautiful UK paperback editions of We Hunt the Flame and We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal that I was going to get my hands on (And also Plestia Alaqad’s book, but I can get that on US sites) #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Who wants to guess which two books were my picks? #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I think I’m gonna make it a goal to read an anthology every month, so let me know your fav! So far I’ve read: Jan: Why on Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology Feb: Reverent: A Divine Anthology Mar: Love After the End (Indigenous, queer scifi) Apr TBR: Thyme Travellers (🇵🇸spec fiction) #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It’s time to get my beta reader hat on this week! My second beta read for @jacollignon.bsky.social, and my third beta read ever 🫶🏻 #booksky

A hand holds up a kindle, displaying the words “A Favored Fey,” and “J.A. Collignon.”

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Palestinian short story collection of the day. A series of stories exploring the trials, tribulations, joys and dreams of Bedouin women. A gorgeous, short book that has stayed with me long after I read it. #booksky #diversebooksky

They Fell Like Stars from the Sky and Other Stories by Sheikha Helawy. Sketches of women in long dresses falling and floating around

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

📚 21: Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Y Joshua Whitehead ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rep: indigenous, queer, 2Spirit, indie pub I have never loved an anthology like I have loved this one! Every story was amazingly written. #booksky

A hand holds a copy of Love After the End in front of a bookshelf. Other text on the screen reads “book 21/52,” and “Trans Rights Readathon Book.”

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

📚20/52: Guns & Scones by Darcia G. Laucerica ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Rep: trans MMC, demi FMC, queer side characters, anxiety, PTSD, Latine & nonbinary author, self-pub book A super cute cozy fantasy book in which magical (sweet) mafia boss Arawn takes baking lessons from the (cute) new baker in town. #booksky

A hand holds a kindle in front of a bookshelf. The kindle displays a black and white cover of Guns & Scones by Darcia G. Laucerica. Other text on the image reads, “I’ll let you off the hook… if you teach me to bake before the week is over,” and “book 20/52.” A trans flag and “Trans Rights Readathon Book” is in the bottom left corner.

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Ngl I kind of regret letting my YouTube content fizzle out. I just find it takes much longer to edit and upload - I had such a hard time fitting it into my schedule :/

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/03/2025

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

Showing the accessibility settings for alt text in bluesky with two options:

Require alt text before posting
Display larger alt text badges

Both are checked

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

📚19: Dusk Mountain Blues by Deston J. Munden ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rep: Black author Last one before we get into the Trans Rights Readathon reads! A gritty sci-fi about protecting family and land, with heroes not afraid to get their hands dirty. Filled with mutants, guns, magic, and robots. #booksky

A hand holds a kindle in front of a bookshelf. The kindle displays a black and white cover of Dusk Mountain Blues by Deston J Munden. Other text on the image reads “Play dirty or don’t play at all,” and “Book 19/52.”

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

When building my @trreadathon.bsky.social TBR I noticed a lack of Trans femme/Trans woman representation in the fantasy books on my lifetime TBR. So I’m looking for Trans femme/Trans woman rep in fantasy or sci-fi books! Please give me your recommendations! #booksky #trr25

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

📚18/52: Out of the Blue by Jason June ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Rep: nonbinary, Achillean, Sapphic, queer, trans author I read this before the Trans Rights Readathon, but it is written by a trans author! A cute YA rom-com featuring a Mer needing to help a human, fake dating, and teen drama. #booksky

A hand holds a kindle in front of a bookshelf. The kindle shows a black and white cover of Out of the Blue by Jason June. Other text on the image says “I realize the Blue might not be able to give me everything I need,” and “Book 18/52.”

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

IUD insert today. I love the OBGYN I have. Did not have fun at all and lots of tears were shed but I’m doing okay at home now and the worst of it was the actual insertion.

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Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

SHE’S HERE! The Trans Rights Readathon has officially begun! ✨🥳🎊🎉📚 #booksky #trr25 #transrightreadathon

Slide 1: Pink, white, and blue text over a background image of a trans flag. Text Reads: The 2025 Trans Rights Readathon: A decentralized grassroots event that focuses on UPLIFTING trans books, AMPLIFYING trans stories, and SUPPORTING trans organizations and communities. March 21-31, 2025.

Slide 2: Text Reads: The #TRR Isn’t Just Reading, It’s Action! The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out works by and/or about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender non-conforming authors and characters. Along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level! Image includes a blue box with the word UPLIFT, a white box with the word AMPLIFY, and a pink box with the word SUPPORT with a dollar sign in place of the S.

Slide 4: Text Reads: Get Loud, Stay Loud. Trans people, trans voices, trans stories have always been here, and will always remain.
If this is your first or third readathon, you’re an author or a reader, an accomplice, young or old—let’s always remain loud for Trans Rights!

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Question for authors! If you have a short story, do you prefer to: A) Submit it to magazines B) Put it out yourself e.g. on Itch? I wish we could do polls on here! #writingsky #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@trreadathon.bsky.social TBR: - The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas - Dreadnought by April Daniels - The Diablo’s Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa - Guns & Scones by Darcia G. Laucerica - Love After the End edited by Joshua Whitehead #booksky #trr25

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I love Lush so much. My local lush has a “No ICE Zone” sticker on their door. Then of course they have the watermelon soap that benefits Gaza, and their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bath bombs.

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

What do you mean the @trreadathon.bsky.social starts in 2 days?!?! Where did March go?? #booksky

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Someone please validate me that this is NOT IT and this IS STILL AWFUL and if you’re an author please just… practice outlining????????? #booksky

A TikTok comment saying “hey so ai helps me outline my ideas into chapters because my brain doesn’t work that way. they are my ideas and then I use the outline to write the story. every word is mine but the ai organizes it.”

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

No one talk to me we just figured out how much tax we owe the federal government :(

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

📚17/52: Camila Nuñez’s Year of Disaster by Miriam Zoila Pérez ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rep: anxiety, fat FMC, Cuban-American, so much queerness! I loved this book so much! An amazing representation of anxiety, fantastic writing, and a great story. Thanks to Page Street YA for the ARC! #booksky

A hand holds a copy of Camila Nuñez’s Year of Disasters by Miriam Zoila Pérez in front of a bookshelf. The cover features a Cuban-American teenage girl, three tarot cards, and a white circle that says “Advanced Reading Copy.” Other text on the image says, “The excitement of it was quickly followed by doubt. Was I really ready for something new,” and “Book 17/52.”

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Went to see Mickey 17, and the theater still had War of the Rohirrim popcorn buckets… I am now the proud owner of a hammer popcorn bucket.

A plastic replica of a battle hammer, featuring a red and gold design.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 11/03/2025

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

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

📚16/52: Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rep: Achilles side characters Holy world building, I loved this book! The perfect fantasy mystery if you want an in depth world, history, and characters. Lots of lore, lots of “oh shit” moments, and I was hooked the entire time! #booksky

A hand holds a book in front of an airplane window. The book is Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evan’s, whose cover features white text on top of a background of maps, coins, ink and quill, and a sword. Other text on the image states “when we don’t clear the brush of injustice, we as good as set the fire ourselves,” and “book 16/52.”

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

📚15/52: Reverent: An Anthology of Divinity arranged by Quinton Li ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25 Rep: queer, BIPOC, disabled A really cool anthology- I love the many different interpretations of divinity that all the authors had! This anthology had nonfiction, fiction, and poems. #booksky

a hand holds a Kindle in front of a bookshelf. The Kindle displays a black and white cover for Reverent: An Anthology of Divinity arranged by Quinton Li. Other text on the image says “Book 15/52.”

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 07/03/2025

When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations. When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Was going to start an indie author debut eARC, but then saw that she’s a big R. Yarros fan… Also she said her book has “ethnic women” in it… Yeah… I’m good. I’m good. And this is why I will look up any new to me author #booksky

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rocio📚 @rocioreads.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I have been playing the piano for 18 years and will never get over the anxiety of performing 😭

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The crazy difference my hair makes- I’ve felt so much more like myself and so much happier these past couple of days 🥹

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ally📚🍄🌱 @allys-shelf.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

📚14/52: That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Rep: Black author & FMC, fat FMC I love this hilarious book and its shenanigans. If you like romcoms, with a heavy emphasis on the “com,” mixed with some werewolf romance- this book is for you! #booksky

A hand holds up a copy of That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming. The cover features yellow text, with a Black woman and a white man laying on the grass together. Words on the image say “Love potion or not, you can’t fake a hunger like this,” and “Book 14/52.”

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Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The 2025 Trans Rights Readathon starts on March 21st and runs through the 31st. The goal of this event is to Uplift, Amplify, and Support trans authors, trans stories, and trans communities. 🏳️‍⚧️💙💗🤍

Text: Mark your calendars. This year the Trans Rights Readathon will be Friday, March 21st through Monday, March 31st! This year is longer than the last two years.

Text: What is the Trans Rights Readathon? The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual decentralized call to action for readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st.

Text: The TRR isn't just reading, it's action! The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out works by and/or about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender non-conforming authors and characters along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level. We have three core goals: Uplift. Amplify. Support.

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