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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

I may not be at the store, or even the province, but these guys are! (finally!)

Copies of The Hobbit, illusion by Moomin creator Tove Jansson, in a box

Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hey, actual sunlight so you can see my transition lenses in action! As mentioned previously, I'll be wearing this or an identical hoodie all con long.

A smiling bald enby in glasses. The glasses are tinted.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Share a movie scene that lives rent free in your head! For me, it's a few from Miller's Crossing, but this one's the obvious pick.

John Torturo and Gabriel Byrne are walking in a forest. Torturo is bleeding. Byrne is behind him, aiming a gun at his back. Shit's about to get real

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not without making the store feel unpleasantly crowded.

It's a picture of other places books, a bookstore that's long and narrow

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Discussions around accessibility at worldcon made me realize that although wheelchairs can - and have - enter the store, I can make it more accessible. So we have a ramp now.

It's a small ramp outside Other Places Books

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

Visited them today. What a delightful little store. Their used book selection is all genres, and they have non fiction books. The only negative, and I mention this because it's important for folks to know, is that you do need to take the stairs to the basement to get there. Dylan, the owner,

The opening hours sign for Bound To Please. You can see the hours in the link in the skeet this is a reply to

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't think I shared the current version of our sign art!

A frame sidewalk sign. A snake is reading the novel A Snake Falls to Earth. Theres a cup of steaming tea. It's very cozy

An a-frame sidewalk sign. There are three classic little green aliens. The text says "you want to buy a book so bad" and is surrounded with a circle made up of many lines, suggesting a subliminal message

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy birthday! I'm going to cheat with a collection full of previously published work: Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar is just a beautiful collection full of stories I love.

The cover to Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories

It's a picture of bucolic nature, with a prism in the center, through which a rabbit appears to be chasing a... fox?

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you want to find Other Places Books (and guest author @sillysyntax.bsky.social) at the Winnipeg Queer Book Fair tomorrow (at Victoria Inn), this may help:

It's a drawing showing the locations of tables at the book fair. The tables are numbered. At the left is the entrance. At the right end of the center rows are tables 16 and 31. Those are the Other Places Books tables. We're right in front of the book nook reading area, which is at the very end.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

The only part where I buck the site's trends is that I'm less trustful of governments than all polled groups. But, again, this is a badly written quiz, and constantly referring to Black people as "blacks" feels... pointed. Or, you know, just racist.

Far left: further right than one percent of US adults. I'm in the first percentile of all US adults, all Democrats, all Independents, and all Republicans. I'm in the second percentile of all people on the site.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is doomer shit and I am so tired of it. We are not alone. We have allies. Many of them valiant and consistent. Which is good, because there aren't that many of us. Are some self styled allies actually shitty? Sure. And those people suck. But they are not the majority.

Skeet saying quote allies unquote do not exist

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

All of my mutuals reacting to this are missing the point. It's not Old English. It's Olde English. They're just going to be really drunk!

A bottle of Olde English 800 malt liquor

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

New in Other Places Books: Brilliant pal @jordankurella.com's two Nebula nominated novellas, I Never Liked You Anyway and The Death of Mountains!

The cover to I Never Liked You Anyway. It looks like an ancient Greek statue of a woman with short hair, but with many added piercings

The cover to The Death of Mountains. It features a mountain surrounded by clouds

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am particularly excited to have copies of Revolution in the Heart, Stories Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin. It goes on the shelf - and the window display - next week. Looks like another job well done by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social

Stories inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin
Revolution in the Heart
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Charlie Jane Anders
Ai Jiang
Ann Leckie
Karen Joy Fowler
Molly Gloss
and many more

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Over in Other Places Books, our range of local authors grows with this one from @chadwickginther.bsky.social!

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

For comparison, here's the mockup presented by the store. Not the same color, is it?

Mock up of the same doormat. The background is clearly purple

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

Forgot to post about our new doormat. The background is supposed to be purple, and people, including one bookseller, have tried to gaslight me that it is. We can all agree that it's blue, right?

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

I know I just posted about stickers, google, but hell to the no on this shit

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

These stickers are on the side facing where I sit. They're not for customers. They're for ME. They're by @aplante.com

Five stickers:
Get some actual sleep for once in your life.
Drink some water, you fool.
You forgot to eat again, dumbass
You need to stretch
Takr your MEDS!

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

This one's alone on the corner of the counter, observing

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

These are the stickers now facing our visitors on the sales counter.

Five stickers on the front of our main sales counter. One has a ghost emerging from a skull. The next says "gender? I hardly know them!". The next says "you are magic". The next says "kindness wins, motherfucker". The last one has a silly looking wizard creature or person, and the text says "too busy pondering"

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was charged zero dollars for this. I tried to argue, but the guy wouldn't hear it.

A pair of glasses. New arm on the right.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've had to put the sign in to save it from the rain. Well, mostly save it.

It's our cute sign, but some of the chalk paint has started to run.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 02/09/2026

Staff shirts have arrived, and I put mine over my dress!

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 02/09/2026

Another way to look at our sales is to see who our bestselling AUTHORS have been. You'll see a lot of crossovers between the two lists, but our top two authors don't have a top 12 book! Featuring: @marthawells.com, @annleckie.com, @amalelmohtar.com, @wiswell.bsky.social, and @kellylink.bsky.social

Other Places Books Bestselling Authors for August 2026
1. Martha Wells
2. Terry Pratchett
2. Tove Jansson
4. Ann Leckie
4. Matt Dinniman
6. Ursula K. Le Guin
7. R. F. Kuang
8. Amal El-Mohtar
8. John Wiswell
10. Kelly Link

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 28/08/2026

Because why does everything always have to be Ontario? And also because Lake Winnipeg is bigger.

A map of Lake Ontario, now called Lake Manitoba Junior

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 27/08/2026

The long awaited (specifically here at Other Places) Thyme Travelers, edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, is on our shelves and in our window display.

It's the window display at Other Places Books. We've got Spear, Monk & Robot, The Spirit Bares its Teeth, The Kingdom of Almonds, Legendborn, and newcomer Thyme Travelers

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yo, Worldcon programming, I'm not complaining for myself, as I will definitely be asleep, but putting these two virtual panels on at the same time seems MEAN.

Lady Knights and Sword Lesbians (Virtual)
Virtual 1 (Online),Starts: 07:30 PDT con time, 09:30 GMT-5 local timeDuration: 60 mins
Cheryl Morgan
Joyce Chng
Rhiannon "Gibbitt" Rhys-Jones
V.M. Ayala
Valerie Valdes (moderator)
Panel
Lady knights and sword lesbians are a popular trope in fantasy and science fiction, but what makes them so alluring? There are many ways to think about heroic positions and expansive gender expression in fantasy fiction. We can reclaim roles like knight/cavalier/Jedi or we can find different ways for women and femmes to engage.

Queer Fantasy (Virtual)
Virtual 2 (Online),Starts: 07:30 PDT con time, 09:30 GMT-5 local timeDuration: 60 mins
Alex Brown
CL Hellisen
Eboni J. Dunbar (moderator)
Finn McLellan
Ng Yi-Sheng
Panel
More fantasy books feature queer characters as our discussions about queer identity grows. What are some books that showcase the LGBTQIA+ community well? What are the trends as more SFF includes queer characters and culture?

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 22/08/2026

People have have made good points, and I put it up. Only then (the sticker wasn't very legible before being put up), that apart from English and French, the other languages are all First Nations. Glad I did it. It's more legible than it looks in the photo.

A sticker that says welcome in the Ojibwe, Cree, Dene, Michigan, Dakota, Inukitut, French, and English languages

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 22/08/2026

Spoiler: It's Ted Cruz, who would be pretty high up on my list of people expected to support a transphobic shithead.

Sophie Cunningham Receives Major Praise From The Last Person WNBA Fans Expected

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 19/08/2026

From the day Other Places Books was opened, there was a lack in our inventory. A book missing. I think I missed it when I made my initial order, to my great chagrin. But now that is over and done, and The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson is on shelves and in inventory.

Book cover of 'The Space Between Worlds' by Micaiah Johnson with two women walking in different worlds

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 18/08/2026

Since it happened again, I made a meme. Honestly, though, never go in against Courtney Milan on any topic.

Vizzini meme, from the film The Princess Bride. Here he says, in the top caption:

You fell victim to one of the bluesky blunders!

And in the bottom caption:

The most famous is "never fall for it when Gail Simone trolls," but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against Courtney Milan when law is the topic!"

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 17/08/2026

While today was a slow sales day at the bookstore without me (Monday gonna Monday), we did add a cute tiny bookcase that will host the books that arrived with some shipping damage. We're selling those at a 30 percent discount.

An empty smol Billy bookcase next to the regular one that's loaded with books.

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