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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

if you're on goodreads my publisher is doing a giveaway of arcs for LOVE AND LAKE MONSTERS they look like this, they're gay as hell, and they are into some weird shit www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Two uneven stacks of advance reading copies for love and lake monsters in front of a bookshelf on a wooden floor.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Cover reveal for my next m/m contemporary romcom, LOVE AND LAKE MONSTERS Featuring: 🧌 Cryptid hunters 😷 COVID conscious 🍂 Upstate vibes 🕰️ Age gap 🏳️‍⚧️ Older trans man Preorder, synopsis, & more at tjalexander.com#books7 Illustration by Liam Eisenberg. Art direction by James Iacobelli.

Love and Lake Monsters. TJ Alexander. Nationally bestselling author of A Gentleman's Gentleman. The illustrated cover shows two men in front of a lake surrounded by orange fall foliage. One man is taller and younger, wearing a blue button up. The other man is wearing a red flannel shirt and has a salt and pepper beard. They are embracing, about to kiss. In the dark background, red glowing eyes peer out at them. Out Feb. 9, 2027.

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

okay AO3 is working right now, everyone quick open all your stuff in tabs so we can survive the day

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

wa ha ha ha everyone will be lured into the romance world, nobody can resist our charms

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I’m So Used to Gay Tragedies That I Almost Missed Romance

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

i wrote this story, and this comment came directly to my inbox when it was made. in unrelated news, i'm legally changing my name to "wizened husk morrison" and would really appreciate if someone could come collect my bones from where they've been gathering dust on the floor since that email arrived

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✨🌙 the vvitchering hour 🌙✨ @vvitchering.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Every time tumblr goes down it feels like staring at an elderly beloved pet sleeping in their bed across the room. Is it still breathing…? Is this the end????

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radish @radiantradish.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

tumblr is down and I'm feeling like i've been locked out of my own house

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Because *I* need joy today. #JoyScrolling #HeatedRivalryCrave "I hope it infiltrates all the spaces"--Jacob Tierney (it has)

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Heated Rivalry From Page to Screen with Director/Creator Jacob Tierney

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I’ve read some eye-rolling Heated Rivalry takes, but this one demonstrates such a bad faith interpretation, a misunderstanding of Romance as a genre, and a failure in media literacy and critical thinking skills that I don’t know what to do. 1/ slate.com/life/2025/12...

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The Horniest Show on TV Actually Has a Weirdly Conservative Message. Don’t Fall for It.

Why do we keep skating in circles?

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Palate cleanser

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Chris Molanphy @cmolanphy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Laugh about it, shout about it: new #HitParadePod on @slate.com is about the chart history of soundtracks—from Bing&Judy to Barbie&Huntr/x. How did The Graduate reboot movie music in the ’60s, Flashdance in the ’80s? Will KPop Demon Hunters spark a soundtrack comeback? Come to this place for magic.

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For Nearly a Century, Hollywood Has Left Its Mark on the Pop Charts

Movie soundtracks have sometimes eclipsed the films that inspired them in the first place.

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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

And what if I just flung myself out a window 😭😭😭

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Alright! We have just a few of these shirts left. In Orange, we have M, 2x, and 4x In Magenta, we have everything between small and 3x. Designed by the unparalleled @franzanth.bsky.social! Thank you @davis.social for being our model! Get one before they're gone at SquidFacts.net!

A man wears a shirt than says "Biology is Bigger than Binaries", in pink, with a bee, clownfish, and lily

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Sara @sportsandsuffering.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

For those of you watching 🏒The Gay Hockey Show™️—aka Heated Rivalry—allow me to go on a neurodivergent rant about how Connor Storrie’s Russian language work is so stunningly perfect that it makes me feel like I have wasted a decade of my life. We begin with this chart and the worst/best vowel ever! 🧵

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Have you read Candy's essay, "Heated Rivalry: The Unbearable Lightness of Having a Dump-Truck Ass" yet? smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/12…

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

You can tell that everyone in Romancelandia has hit the breaking point with bad Heated Rivalry takes today! But what makes me *sad* is the way TV and film have trained people to expect that we do not get to see queer intimacy unless it is headed for toxic drama and/or death. I want to cry a little.

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Highlights from the Bundled Up on Broad auction opening tmow 11/13!! (Buys warm clothes for the families at my synagogue Rodeph Shalom Philly's food pantry, or give directly to our wishlist: bit.ly/bundled25) I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...

beaded octopus with tiny beaded suckers in an octopus teacup

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Neil Slorance @neilslorance.com · 04/10/2025

They all liked his outfit 🎃🐢

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

We laugh about Carpenter being in his weed and video games era (and good for him) but there are very good reasons he might have gotten sick of the industry. It screwed him over repeatedly and even though he eventually got his genre flowers, he is still obscenely underrated as a serious filmmaker.

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mikhel @duplicitus.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

my favorite babygirl Steve Rogers

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mikhel @duplicitus.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

a piece for katie_delaney’s fic, “vanity fair” 🏖️ archiveofourown.org/works/574322... #stucky

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

IT'S PUMPKIN SEASON, BETCHES

Tortoise with pumpkin guts on his beak and chin. His mouth is wide open like he's cheering

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Man alive, I just saw that Robert Irwin dancing with the stars clip. Today is a rollercoaster. The tragic sadness of losing Jane Goodall. The whoaaaa MAMA of Robert Irwin's dance performance. We're gonna be ok, wildlife people. We're gonna be ok. Idk how. But we will be ok.

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BookGeekGrrl 💗💜💙 @bookgeekgrrl.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

if you stop seeing me here, this is why. absolute bullshit.

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Rachel Reid @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A lot of people outside Canada want to watch Heated Rivalry, which is awesome, but the producers can’t just, like, put it in other countries. Media outlets in other countries need to pick up the show, so the thing to do is tell your favourite streamer to get the show!❤️

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Bringing these shirts back for the fall, shipping in early November 🫡 squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/bina...

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BookGeekGrrl 💗💜💙 @bookgeekgrrl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Don't forget to download! I just pulled more fics than I could read in probably 20 days, let alone 20 hours. 😂 Better safe than sorry, though!

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Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

this whole piece is deeply worth reading and sharing, especially with the centrist dems and liberals in your life, but this penultimate graf really sums it up. you just can't play these kinds of games with people's lives.

Screenshot of a paragraph pulled from the linked article: "The implication here seems to be that Democrats can turn a big dial that says “transphobia” on it to some ideal level—that there’s a sweet spot of anti-trans discrimination that everyone can be content with. (Everyone, presumably, except trans people themselves.) But the events of the past year should have put that idea to rest. Democrats and centrists have been distancing themselves from trans people—indeed, top Democratic figures like Chuck Schumer will barely say the word “trans”—and the only forces that have benefited are the forces of anti-trans fascism. You can’t just play these kinds of games with people’s lives."

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deisderium @deisderium.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

happy fat bear week to those who celebrate explore.org/fat-bear-wee...

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Fat Bear Week 2025

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Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Esther and Delaney turned in a masterpiece here. The entire history of the meat packing industry is a vivid example but much of the story is analogous to ICE raids and labor shortages today in many industries

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leupagus @leupagus.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Gird your loins folks

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BookGeekGrrl 💗💜💙 @bookgeekgrrl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Excited to see my pre-order shipping notice!

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 23/09/2025

"Art commission" spambot comments are on the rise! Do not give scammers your email or social media information. Read more advice from #AO3 Policy & Abuse about how to protect yourself from spam at otw-news.org/yckkv3hy

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

And *this* is linked to a terror and rage at the possibility that their children, which are their property, do not conform to their expectations. A sick cultural dominance game driving every aspect of the Western conservative movement..

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 23/09/2025

A Handy Guide [2/4]

Image 5 of 15 of a Crow Time update listing various French Canadian / Quebecois expressions and illustrating them with crows. Here we have "t'es dans le champs" (you're in the field) meaning you offbase, lost or confused; and "Pantoute" which means "nothing at all".

Image 6 of 15 of a Crow Time update listing various French Canadian / Quebecois expressions and illustrating them with crows. The two here are "lâche-toi lousse" (let loose) and "c'est plate" (it's flat, say to say something is boring or saddening you).

Image 7 of 15 of a Crow Time update listing various French Canadian / Quebecois expressions and illustrating them with crows. This image has two hat inspired expressions, "accroche-toi à ta tuque" (hang on to your - winter - hat) and "calme-toi le pompon" (calm your winter hat tassel), the first is a way to say "hang on" emotionally or physically, and the second is a way to prompt someone to calm down.

Image 8 of 15 of a Crow Time update listing various French Canadian / Quebecois expressions and illustrating them with crows. This image has a description of poutine, a fries, cheese, and gravy typically Quebecois meal.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Happy #Caturday, and happy 9th birthday to Aces, world champion sleep goblin.

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sparkling homunculus @1001cranes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

jokes about the confederacy are always funny, but you gotta think about it in terms of "Supernatural lasted 5x longer than the Confederacy", which is absolutely hysterical

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cova. @mostunclean.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

"We have elected to not listen to any of your feedback. Thank you for wasting your time though. (: "

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Megaera Lorenz @megaeralwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Get The Shabti…. before it gets you! Available in paperback wherever fine books are sold, Sept. 30th.

Graphic of a mustachioed man in 1930s attire holding a phone to his ear while a copy of The Shabti lurks over his shoulder in the background. There’s a speech bubble by his head with the text “The Shabti, in paperback? In less than two weeks, you say? Great Scott!” Text at the lower right says “It’s coming! 09.30.2025”

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inflomora 🦇 @inflomora.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Camp Mirkwood pages 45-47 are up! #steddie www.patreon.com/posts/camp-m...

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A heads up: in this book, Verbena falls for a character named both Flora and William. Flora-William consistently refers to herself as both "he" and "she." Some readers might think this character should be referred to with they/them pronouns. This is incorrect. Here's why 🧵

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