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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#twincities #minnesota #booksky #queerbooks ⚰️✨ Celebrate the Release of The Reaper with Sadee Bee! ✨⚰️ Sadee Bee's newest novella, The Reaper, published by Laughing Man House Publications, comes out Oct 13th, and you're invited to the launch party on Oct 22nd! Inkwell Booksellers | Oct 22 | 6pm

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#ARCReaders who love queer cozy holiday romance novellas, check out Dancing in the Snow! 🌈💜📚💙 This sapphic FX romance features bi, nonbinary and polyam characters, queerified campy romcom tropes, and cozy winter magic for degenerate nonbelievers. 🌬️💃 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Infographic on a snow cityscape background. In the middle is the cover of Dancing in the Snow, featuring a queer masc/fem couple dancing in the snow (shocker). The masc character is Asian American, with a shaved head and glasses, wearing a purple puffer coat. The fem character is white with brown curly hair, glasses, and wearing a Camel trench over a red dress and combat boots. In the background is the Mississippi in Minneapolis, featuring the Stone Arch Bridge.

Header reads: ARC readers wanted! Tropes listed are Fake dating, Insta-crush, set in Minneapolis, winter solstice romance, red flags are so festive! Text along the bottom reads: out Nov 11 and sapphic with nonbinary bi and polyamory rep. Cover artist Otte Lotee

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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Want to read an m/m second chance romance with 2 former boy band singers, 1 of whom is now a drag queen? Also, they're stuck on a dating show, everything is going wrong & their break up was super messy... Interested? Free review copies are available but sign ups close tomorrow! buff.ly/VsEtL75 📚🌈🌶️💙

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ARC Request: No Love is an Island

Thank you for your interest in No Love is an Island! This is the final book in the Pagans & Pop Stars contemporary romance series. It is standalone (90k words) with a HEA, no cliff-hangers or…

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cars: losing all the colors except red Houses: increasingly greige and bland Clothes: tradwifecore made from plastic and slave labor Music: bridgeless and made for viral soundbites Toys: sadder and beiger than ever Meanwhile, romance authors... 📚💙

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trope reveal for Dancing in the Snow! Which is your favorite? 🌈💜📚💙

Trope infographic on a winter cityscape background (art by Otte Lotee). Headings read: Dancing in the Snow, coming to KU 11/11!

Trope arrows read: fake dating, insta crush, winter solstice romance, set in Minneapolis, red flags are so festive! Sapphic with nonbinary bi+ and polyamorous rep

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

D2D: we’re adding yearly fees and more (annoying) internal shit that doesn’t even work right half of the time because we’re fighting AI slop flooding our systems 🙂‍↕️

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Celebrate Bisexuality Day! Check out all of my bisexual books, by a bisexual author! #booksky #queerromance #spicybooks #queerbooks

Brightly colored infographic with the pan and bi flag colors swooping in the corners. In the center are the covers of Cozy's books (13 in total). Text reads: heat level 1-4, all queer, all HEA, inclusive characters!

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had so many book boxes to ship to Kickstarter backers, I had to buckle them in so they wouldn't fly everywhere. 🤭 If you want your own Earthly Ties immersive book box, the pledge manager is still open for at least another month! www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz... 🌈💜📚💙

A tote bag full of purple shipping envelopes in the backseat of a car with the dog seat belt around the handles.

A photograph of Earthly Ties by Cozy DuBois sitting on a brightly colored patio with a bottle of wine in an ice bucket behind it.

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Sage Mattison @sagelmattison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CHARACTER ART REVEAL TIME! Finally sharing art that the amazing @kayworx.bsky.social made for my upcoming release. 😍Aren't they so pretty together? FF Romance Neighbors to Lovers Rope/Suspension Play Pre-Order now! www.amazon.com/dp/B0H58ZLW9K #SapphicRomance 🌈📚 📢📚 #spicybooks 💙📚

Graphic showing character art for the book Tied up in Her Demon Goddess by Sage L Mattison.
Character Art by Kay Claire

Character art shows two female presenting demons sitting on a couch together. A shorter green demon with red hair is behind a taller, plus size blue demon. The green demon has her hand gently around the neck of the blue demon. There are shibari ropes tied around the blue demon.

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Petty Roots by Cozy DuBois is out now and available on most platforms! 💐XX bi4bi pairing 💜Fake wedding date 💐Small town (derogatory) 💜Frenemies to lovers 💐3/5 heat level bookshop.org/p/books/pett... #booksky #queerromance #nonbinaryromance #spicybooks

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Remember Glimmer in the Dark? It's getting a sequel! The working title for my next winter solstice romance novella is "Wanted: Fake Date for the Non-Denominational Office Winter Holiday Party" But that's a mouthful. 🌈📚💜💙

Trope infographic with a winter landscape backdrop with an aurora. In the middle is the cover of Glimmer in the Dark by Cozy DuBois, featuring two masc characters holding hands and walking through the snow under the Aurora. Heading reads: remember this book? Tropes read: winter solstice romance, workplace rivals in tech, slow burn with a touch of heat, cozy Alaskan setting, there's only one geodesic done!, and achillean with trans bi and aroace rep. Art credit is Otte Lotee.

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was suddenly reminded of a snack from when I was at summer camp back in the 90s-00s: sliced apples with straight up kool aid powder all over them. Why. Why did the adults make these for us? Was a punch of red40 concentrate straight to the teeth really necessary to get us to eat apples? 😅

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the best feelings is when your ARC readers make your table their first stop at a book event to buy a physical copy. 🥰 #booksky #sapphicseptember #queerromance #specfic books2read.com/u/4A9axJ

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My PA asked me which of my characters I think she could take in a fight, and now I need to make a whole chart for it. I think she'd win against about half of them. The only ones she conceded she would lose to are Blanche (Confession series) and Ananas (Familiar Faces)

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On my author shit at Booked Eau Claire this weekend! #booksky #queerromance

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This Threads lockout is gonna end up with me actually put effort into my Instagram, isn't it? 😭

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Out of malt'o'meal, and this cream of wheat just isn't hitting the same. 🫠

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Look at my pretty book. I wrote this. ☺️ Its about a depressed professor haunting her colleague. 👻💜 Otte Lotee made the cover, because I can write, but I cannot make art. #booksky #queerromance #specfic #paranormalromance #sapphicromance

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The receptionists at my dentist office all complimented my shirt. But it's just a plain blue shirt that says Absolut on it. As in the vodka brand. I got it for free when I won trivia. I think they were just looking for a sign to get drinks after work 💀

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't want my queer characters to be palatable. Digestible. Easily consumed by cishet readers. We can be bitter. We can be jagged. They can choke on us. (I say, writing heartwarming, low-stakes queer romance)

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In my WIP, the characters are stepping dangerously close to the cheating trope for a cozy holiday romance... She's a 10 but she's married 🤪 Luckily polyamory exists. #sapphicromance #queerromance

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have scoliosis, chronic back pain, and I've been fighting against permanent shrimp mode since high school, and even I have a stronger backbone than Ed Sheeran.

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

IG thought I got hacked (I was not, that was me adding a 🔗 to my own bio!), so Threads locked me out and meta is such a pos company that I can't even report a bug to get back into it. 😭 Sorry in advance for any unhinged behavior, bluesky. Threads is usually my dumping ground for inside thoughts.

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Earthly Ties is out now! 🌈💜📚💙 Haunting your crush is the worst situationship 🥀 💜Forced Proximity 🌸Ice Queen Femme/Sunshine Masc 🪦Existential Angst 🐦‍⬛Dark Academia 👻Slice of Death 🥀Hurt/Comfort 💜Sapphic Yearning

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

99 books, and they're all sapphic! Build your Sapphic September TBR with these recs! All real authors, no AI! sapphicsept2026.my.canva.site 🌈💜📚💙

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Sapphic September 2026

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Earthly Ties is a sapphic speculative romance about a philosophy professor haunting her colleague. Existential heartache meets relatable humor in this slice-of-death exploration of a year in the existence of a ghost. 🌈💜📚💙 #sapphicromance #specfic books2read.com/u/4A9axJ

Character art by Aimee Foremar, featuring two women sitting on a cloud drinking wine. A Black woman with a twist out has her back to the viewer in a purple dress, a white woman with brown waves is wearing a pink suit jacket and is looking out at the sky, which is a whimsical landscape with stars and an aurora. Over the picture is a quote from the book: "bridging that chasm of what-ifs is all I can think about. I'm more determined than ever to stay tied to Esther. My deepest regret is never talking to my East when I was alive. Being tied to her doesn't exactly make that regret easier to bear. My other deepest regret—if I'm allowed two deepest regrets in the endless abyss of my own making — is that no one else gave a shit about me."

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#arcreaderswanted for a sapphic speculative romance about a philosophy professor haunting her work crush! #arcreader #booksky #queerromance #darkacademia #paranormalromance docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

1 day left of the Earthly Ties Kickstarter campaign! Have you checked out this sapphic speculative romance yet? 🌈💜 🥀 Haunting your crush is the worst situationship 🥀 💜Forced Proximity 🌸Ice Queen Femme/Sunshine Masc 🪦Existential Angst 🐦‍⬛Dark Academia 👻Slice of Death 🥀Hurt/Comfort 💜Sapphic Yearning

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We are $4 away from unlocking our 8th stretch goal (another character art print!), and there's only 48 hours left to do it! Readers of sapphic romance, dark academia, ghost MCs, & existential musings are encouraged to check out the Earthly Ties Kickstarter! 🌈💜📚💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz...

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Earthly Ties: Special Edition Hardcover

Get the special edition hardcover of this upcoming sapphic "slice-of-death" speculative romance. Plus an immersive book box experience!

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One week left of the Earthly Ties #Kickstarter campaign! 🥀 Haunting your crush is the worst situationship 🥀 💜Forced Proximity 🌸Ice Queen Femme/Sunshine Masc 🪦Existential Angst 🐦‍⬛Dark Academia 👻Slice of Death 🥀Hurt/Comfort 💜Sapphic Yearning www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz... #specfic 💜🌈📚💙

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hello lovers of sapphic romance. May I interest you in a speculative romance about a philosophy professor haunting her colleague? All the tragic yearning, but with a HEA because we don't bury our gays, we resurrect them. 🌈💜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz...

Infographic on a black background with pink roses, featuring the a mock up of a book box with Earthly Ties, plus art and stickers. Infographic text reads: immersive book box, merch pack included, unwrap rewards as you read, more unrevealed surprises, plus more goodies to unlock!

Infographic on a black background with pink roses, featuring the character art mockups Infographic text reads: what's in the merch pack/book box? 5+ art prints, bookmark, stickers and buttons! Any unlocked stretch goals are included in the book box

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We've unlocked 2 more stretch goals but still somehow there are 2 more earlybird book boxes left? People are just paying full price? 🥹🥹🥹 So now we're only $100 away from adding another character art print to the book box/merch pack. Would love your support for my sapphic speculative romance. 🫶🌈💜

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There are only two immersive book boxes left at the early bird pricing for the Earthly Ties Kickstarter! Get the reading experience along with the fancy special edition hardcover for a reduced price! 🌈💜 🌈📚 💙📚 www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz...

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Earthly Ties: Special Edition Hardcover

Get the special edition hardcover of this upcoming sapphic "slice-of-death" speculative romance. Plus an immersive book box experience!

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

😭😭😭 everyone is so amazing! my Kickstarter was fully funded in 4 hours! And we blew through the first stretch goal overnight. Can we reach the printed edges upgrade/color printing within the first 24 hours? Only $112 to go, and only 5 early bird pricing left for the immersive book box! 🌈💜 💙📚 🌈📚

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The Earthly Ties #Kickstarter campaign is officially live! Check out this new release that blends sapphic paranormal romance with existential speculative fiction, where a professor-turned-ghost haunts her bubbly colleague and secret crush. 🌈💜 🌈📚 📚💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz...

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm so excited to share the cover of Earthly Ties! The Kickstarter followers got to see it last week but I can finally share it far and wide! Full credit goes to Otte Lotee for the stunning art and design! 💜 #coverreveal #sapphicromance #specfic www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz...

Infographic on a black background with pink roses. Text reads “Earthly Ties Cover Reveal.” There is an arrow pointing from the temp cover (a purple cover with a ghost holding pink flowers) to the final cover, which is concealed with pink paper.

Infographic on a black background with pink roses, featuring the final cover, which is concealed with pink paper. Text reads “I’m Dr. Lucy Monae, expert in esotericism, the occult, and philosophical understandings of life and death. There is no plane of existence where I would sit idly by and simply be a ghost. No, I need to know everything there is about ghosthood.”

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Just posted the Earthly Ties #coverreveal and first chapter preview over on the Kickstarter for followers only! If you like speculative fiction, sapphic romance, and books that give you a minor existential crisis, give the campaign a follow! 🌈💜 🌈📚 📚💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz...

Infographic on a black background with pink roses. There is a cover concealed by pink paper. Text reads Earthly Ties, a sapphic slice-of-death speculative romance. Follow the Kickstarter for the latest updates! Tropes listed are: haunting your crush, ice queen femme, sunshine masc, hurt/comfort, dark academia, slice of death.

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Did you know I have a Kickstarter that launches next week? 👉👈 It's sapphic paranormal romance meets spec fic. I'm doing the cover reveal and sharing a free download for Chapter 1 later this week, if you maybe want to follow the campaign, or something... 🫶 www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz... 🌈💜📚💙

Black and pink/purple infographic. There's a book cover concealed by a pink paper. Text reads: Earthly Ties, a sapphic, slice of death speculative romance. Follow the Kickstarter for the latest updates. Tropes listed are: Haunting your crush
Ice queen femme
Sunshine masc
Hurt/comfort
Dark academia
Slice of death.

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Want some trans books for your Pride TBR (or to read all year round)? Get 60+ recs here, including my most recent releases, Petty Roots and Familiar Faces: books.bookfunnel.com/transbooksfo... 🌈💜 🌈📚 📚💙

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

#TwinCities book lovers! 💙📚Love book fairs but always wish they had more stripping? 🌈💜You want some brunch with your smutty romance books? 🌶️📚Wish you could go to more burlesque shows but they're always past your bedtime? Have I got an event for you! events.humanitix.com/novel-approa...

Event flyer for Novel Approach: a bookish burlesque brunch. Background is a bookshelf with two curvy people in lingerie fingering a book. Text reads: May 23rd | book fair and market 11am | show 12pm | Minneapolis Cider Co | 701 SE 9th St Minneapolis MN

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Posted the first glimpse of character art to my Kickstarter campaign yesterday. www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz... Follow to see the reveal of one of the endpapers in the special edition hardcover, and stick around to be notified when the campaign goes live in the few weeks! 🌈💜 🌈📚 💙📚

Black and floral trope infographic with a temp cover of Earthly Ties by Cozy DuBois. Temp cover includes a cartoon ghost holding pink flowers with a dark purple background. Text reads: Earthly Ties. A sapphic slice-of-death speculative romance. Follow the Kickstarter for the latest updates. Tropes listed: haunting your crush, ice queen femme, sunshine masc, hurt/comfort dark academia, slice of death.

Black and floral infographic with a small part of a larger illustration, showing only the legs of a Black woman in a black dress, in front of a teal and purple gradient, with a dark purple frame featuring flowers and a raven. Text reads: want a little taste? If you want more, you know what to do!

Black and floral infographic with a screenshot of the Kickstarter campaign page and an arrow pointing to the notify me button. Text reads: "click notify me on launch to follow!"

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🪻🪻🪻HAPPY RELEASE DAY! 🪻🪻🪻 Familiar Faces is out now! A bridesmate who never remembers a face. A groomsthem who is unfortunately forgettable. A wedding night they’ll cherish forever. Cover art by Otte Lotee 🌈💜 🌈📚 📚💙 www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT2JZDPZ

Pink and floral infographic with the cover of Familiar Faces by Cozy DuBois in the corner. The cover is a peach ombre with title embedded in an illustrated bouquet of lilacs.

Text reads: Happy release day! Familiar Faces! Out now in KU!

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Text reads: A bridesmate who never remembers a face. A groomsthem who is unfortunately forgettable. A wedding night they’ll cherish forever.

Ananas Jackson has been dreading xir sister’s wedding from the moment Martina met her wonderful, charming fiancé, Mel. Martina deserves the utmost happiness, but this wedding means yet another major life change that Ananas isn’t ready for. The only thing keeping xir from drowning is xir sister’s support, the uptight mail carrier, and daily body-doubling livestreams; this wedding threatens any stability Ananas has. To make matters worse, xe’s paired to walk down the aisle with Mel’s college roommate—some stick-in-the-mud jerk xe’s never met before, who won’t look xir in the eye.

However, Kai insists they have met before. Many times, actually. While Kai is likely correct, Ananas doesn’t exactly disclose xir prosopagnosia diagnosis to strangers, especially not pedantic nerds xe’s forced to sit next to at the reception. Maybe if Kai was more interesting, Ananas would remember meeting them.

Little does Ananas know, Kai is as persistent as they are persnickety, and they accept Ananas’s challenge. The night is young, neither of them brought a plus-one, and romance is in the air. Maybe this time, Kai will leave a lasting impression.

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is the worst kept secret (do I have any secrets I can keep? TBD!), so I'm just gonna announce it ahead of schedule. 🌈💜📚💙

Infographic with black background and pink roses. Text reads: important update from Cozy

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I went to find a chat with a friend I haven't spoken to in 10 years... (life advice: whenever you think of someone, reach out) And got jumpscared by an unread message a situationship sent in 2018 that started "do you think we could try to be..." (Life advice: except them! Don't open it!)

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Looking for a 420-friendly, smutty queer romance? 🌈💜📚💙 How about one with.... A jaded Scorpio trans masc with hippie parents + Their Aquarius genderfuck weirdo frenemy who works in a dispensary =

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