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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Birthday sale and new releases! Use code BDAYABUNDANCE for 20% off through the weekend and check out the latest OGA tea guild releases from the last four months! www.oldgrowthalchemy.com

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The OGA Tea Guild is open once more for new members and this months theme is summer slashers. The tea will be perfect as an iced option during the heat of July and brew up delicious red. www.patreon.com/oldgrowthalchemy

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Kimberley @theamazingkimmoth.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

My bestie got me tea to pair with a book I have. It is smooth with hints of smoke. I’ve read the book already, but plan to go through it for a compare and contrast. This tea is going to be perfect to drink on while I drown myself with notes! #booksky💙📚 #bookish💬 @ashenalchemy.bsky.social

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Last day to join the OGA Tea Guild this month! The theme is Pasticceria with a member blend inspired by tiramisu! www.patreon.com/oldgrowthalchemy

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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The Apiarist This month’s riso print subscription print, and excuse for me to draw bees and desert flora. Join my Patreon to get this for half off, and weigh in on what I do for future month’s prints

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Himeutsugi ❦ 🦜🧮 dice roller vtuber @hime.vtubers.social · 22/04/2025

A happy mail day! Got a jar of my absolute favorite tea of all time from @ashenalchemy.bsky.social ! I was so happy to see this in the shop, as I was heartbroken when my little bag from the Patreon was used up.

A jar of Spiced coconut black tea from Old Growth Alchemy

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

there will be plenty of things out there that are not to your taste, but this culture of saying yuck to sincerity to get little more than an empty laugh - it will destroy your heart.

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Shop will be going on a hiatus from April 23-May 9 while I move! All orders placed during that time will not ship until after May 9.

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The OGA Tea Guild has once more reopened to new members! The theme this month is fairy tale with the member tea being a white tea with apple pieces and blossoms, black peppercorn, and blood red beet pieces! www.patreon.com/oldgrowthalchemy

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creating monthly tea adventures!

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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I know I’ve said this before but it bears repeating: We need your queer books more than ever. They’re the only thing getting us through the day sometimes. You’re literally saving lives.

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Can’t wait to vend the Pulp Lit Bazaar once more! Join me and many others at Die With Your Boots On in Salem on March 28, 7-10pm.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This is what your reposts and signal boosts can do for independent artists.

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

To that end, my order processing time is at 7-10 business days due to present higher than normal order volume. But in general, this is going to be my standard processing time going forward. I’m going through major life changes and this is a one person operation. Thank you for understanding.

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Reminder when you order from small businesses to check their order processing times and to not expect them to magically be shorter than what they have listed. Sometimes they might be and that is a bonus, not the norm.

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Today is the last day to join the OGA Tea Guild for March. This month’s theme is Frost Melt and it is the two year anniversary of the guild so all members will receive a little extra token of appreciation. The tea for this month is an oolong blend with peach and snow plum blossoms.

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A little leather reback from a workshop at school. In an ideal world I would have completely retooled the spine to replicate the existing tooling that was crumbling away, but the point was to practice spine lifting and reattachment. This is volume 2 of the odyssey.

A leather book with a crack in the leather along the shoulder with detached board

A leather book with mostly detached boards and crumbling leather spine

Leather book that has been rebacked with leather and spine reattachment

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kellen graves 🦇 @skellygraves.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

HAPPY RELEASE DAY to the fourth Rowan Blood book, and my sixth published book— I am so grateful for everyone who has joined Saffron & Cylvan on their journey this far, we’re about halfway through and things are only going to intensify from here 🫣🩸✨

Photograph of VESSEL OF WOVEN NIGHT paperback against a brown leafy backdrop

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The Starless Sea is rising 🐝🗝️🗡️ My latest collaboration with @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social is now live! A tea blend companion for The Starless Sea!

Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea and a black back of companion tea made by Old Growth Alchemy rest stop a blue and gold sequin cloth backdrop scatteeed with brass keys

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/02/2025

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration.
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

i love seeing other trans people out in the world

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

happy valentines day! give a trans person $100

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Kirsty from Hellraiser franchise truly went to the 80s school of brunettes screaming in distress. She’s even in a labyrinth screaming in Hellraiser II.

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✨️ mars 🪽 STIGMATA out Oct. 31 @marsadler.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Today I'm very excited to announce the re-release of my sophomore book, Blood & Flowers, with new content and a new cover done by the extremely talented @heavenlyystar.bsky.social Coming Feb 14th to itchio and amazon, I'm so excited for y'all to see the expanded and updated version of this book!

Cover: A white man stands in front of an elaborate Victorian Style mansion. He has brown hair and his eyes are closed. In his hands he holds red flowers and a bloody dagger. The house behind him is blue and red, and the background is a dark blue with fog. A few bats fly around, and there are a few stray flower petals falling down around the edges. There is mist all around the house and man as well. In red and white text it reads "mars adler" them the top and "Blood & Flowers" at the bottom.

The cover is on a dark background with the vague silhouette of a house and tree branches and red smoke.

The post text reads: Illustration and typeset by Yune (@/heavenlyystar)

A trope map of the Blood & Flowers cover with red arrows pointing to it. White text on a dark blue and red background reads going clockwise):
- enemies to enemies who fuck to ?????
- sentient haunted house
- sex pollen & fuck or die
- generational trauma
- warring vampire families
- overuse of the term darling in a vampire way
- blood drinking induced orgasms
- trans witch mc x vampire LI
- 11k words added
- now includes a the 9.5k word holiday short story

A full cover spread of the Blood & Flowers cover with spine text that reads "blood & flowers mars adler' and a back cover that had the same gothic mansion in brighter colors and with pieces breaking off at the bottom. There is no back cover text.

The post's words say "coming Feb. 14th, avaliable in ebook on itchio and ebook & paperback on amazon"

Post is on a dark blue and red background

Back cover blurb, white text on a dark blue background with the blurry silhouette of a house and tree branches

Back cover blurb reads: Two scions of warring vampire families must put aside their bad blood to unravel the disturbing mystery of a cursed house.

Elio Kane is desperate to escape his father’s controlling, brutal hold. His plans never included pretty, vicious Valerian D’Arcy, but fate brings them together when their fathers order them to investigate the crumbling, abandoned D’Arcy family home.

Twelve months of undoing various traps and curses have taken their toll on the already tenuous truce between the Kane and D’Arcy families, but Elio just has to hold it together for one more night, where he and Valerian will enter the D’Arcy home to defeat whatever waits inside.

After a decade of mutual animosity, Elio and Valerian are more than hesitant to set aside their differences. But as they navigate the labyrinthine, malevolent halls of a house much different than the D’Arcy family left twenty years ago, they find they have no choice.

The house plunges them into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, toying with their emotions and sense of reality, and revealing deep, festering wounds that plague both families. Anger and lust fly and the lines between them blur as Elio discovers that the man he hates is far more complex than he lets on.

If they survive, will Elio’s relationship with Valerian ever be the same?

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P.dee 🌕🐛🎶 @waiterpe.de · 09/02/2025

Extremely good article. I mean just

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

In Salem today 2-6pm at The Ossuary as part of the Salem’s So Sweet festivities!

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Today is the last day to join the guild! www.Patreon.com/oldgrowthalchemy

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Sasha ✨ shop in bio @alexskyline.com · 09/12/2024

A list of reasons to make art: -horny -spite -for the bit -if you don't who will

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Ash MacIsaac @ajemtattoo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’m really sick of seeing big creators say “my art is for everyone regardless of politics” my art is NOT for nazis, idk about the rest of y’all. My art is for trans people, for queer people, for folks with a sense of love & whimsy in their hearts. It’s not for people who vote against human rights.

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The final calligraphy pieces of “Fix your heart(s) or die” because it is actually that simple.

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adelle k. @ RCCC I-46 @klimtsonian.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

my finished art for @novamali.bsky.social ‘s tarot deck: the king of pentacles 🍇🌿✨ there are only 3 days left to back the campaign and claim your deck — don’t miss out!!

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Some little cuties from the Flemish masters exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum.

A painting of a small white dog snarling in a slightly concerned manner

A painting of a striped cat that looks curious like a potato

A painting of a dapper owl with a feathered cap and a devil on his shoulder offering him spectacles in a bird house

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Ash(en Briar Bindery)/Old Growth Alchemy @ashenalchemy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The OGA Tea Guild has re-opened. This month we are celebrating trans joy with some bonus goodies from Selby Burke and Sweater Muppet! The tea blend is a fruity shimmering herbal in the colors of the trans flag. All tiers are now open! www.Patreon.com/oldgrowthalchemy

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Fae’rynn is Writing @faerynnistired.itch.io · 31/01/2025

and like if you can’t flee, which many can’t, than there are other things you can do. namely don’t let yourself be isolated. cling to local communities. greater society will turn away but there are friends and family who won’t. banding together is something. just don’t do nothing

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"Resist the urge to think of your own past as a simpler time. The truth is, you were a child with a child’s understanding of the world... Do not make the choice to regress, no matter how much you wish things could be simple again."

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To Defeat Fascism, We Must Reject Nostalgia

I’ll be blunt: nostalgia has played no small part in bringing us to our current moment. The desire to return to a mythic past is one of the hallmarks of fascism, and now that America has allowed an…

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✨️ mars 🪽 STIGMATA out Oct. 31 @marsadler.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Gonna write more t4t books out of spite!!! The govt says we don't exist? Well damn here's two OR MORE trans folks TOGETHER falling in love and surviving the horrors. Eat my whole ass 💕

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