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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Update I am alive but still can’t seem to sleep for longer than 1 hour at a time

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Migraine still in full swing. Had to leave work early. Might be developing an ear infection.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also!!!! Omg!!!! I have 1,500 followers?? When did this happen?? Thank you all for being here. I think I’ll run a giveaway or something to celebrate :)

Screenshot showing I have 1,500 followers

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I ended up in the ER today because things ~escalated~ but they gave me a magical IV cocktail and I feel 90% better already. Taking the day off work tomorrow as well — which happens to be my birthday lmfao — because again, I choose peace over pushing the limit.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Give it up for day three of tension migraine!!!

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads is perfect for this year's Hallowe'en Season! All by incredible indie authors! We've got ghosts, goblins and gothic tales! Witches, warlocks and werewolves! Demons, dreams and Hallowe'en themes! itch.io/b/3904/chill...

Graphic for the Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.

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V. S. Holmes @vsholmes.com · 03/10/2026

Dig into everything creepy and dark: I joined 30 other speculative fiction authors for this LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. Get all these titles for less than filling up your tank, so stay home and read! 10/3 - 10/17 itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq... #booksky #writesky #fantasy #horror

A promo image with a dark, foggy forest as the background. Text reads: LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle! Get over thirty books for just $10! Oct 3 - 17

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also!!!! Omg!!!! I have 1,500 followers?? When did this happen?? Thank you all for being here. I think I’ll run a giveaway or something to celebrate :)

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon I’ve been down with a tension migraine (?? Could also be a fibromyalgia flare but I haven’t had one of those in years so idk), so I haven’t written much at all yet. But that’s ok! I’m choosing peace!! I did have a quiet early bday celebration w my in laws though, which was nice :)

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This sexy, kinky short story is free to read on Itch 🩷🤭

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon I’m working on CAT/MOUSE 2 (not real title) the follow up to my debut sci fi novella! It takes place 14 months after the events of C/M and is all about vulnerability, learning to trust, and bravely confronting the ghosts of your past.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy October! Enjoy my new short story for free — but tips are always appreciated 😉

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon Hi gang!!! I'm Eliza and my goal is to write at least 5,000 words in my WIP sequel novella! Also, I have been ungodly busy the last few months, but that season has ended and I am SOOO pleased to be doing a prompt event this month ❤️

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy October! Enjoy my new short story for free — but tips are always appreciated 😉

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Only three more hours until my brand new short story, THE LINDWORM'S WIFE, is available on Itch! 📚🌶️ When Runa learns she's been chosen to marry a monstrous prince, she'll do anything it takes to survive her wedding night... and maybe even enjoy it. Find it: elizamares.itch.io/the-lindworm...

White calligraphy set atop a 19th-century painting: Cadmus and Harmonia (detail), 1877, by Evelyn De Morgan.
The painting depicts a brown-scaled serpent curling up a pale woman's unclothed body. Her expression is reserved and distant, as she stares off to the side instead of at the creature, and we can see her pale-red hair spilling down one naked shoulder. Her hand rests on the snake's stretching body in a tender, stroking gesure.
Text: The Lindworm's Wife, Eliza Mares

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not Bsky putting a label on my promo posts… it’s a painting from the 19th century and I already put text over the nipple!! Come on man!!

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SURPRISE! My new story, THE LINDWORM'S WIFE, drops 10/1! 💙📚 An erotic folktale retelling! When Runa is chosen to marry the monstrous crown prince, she'll do anything it takes to survive her wedding night... even bare her body & soul to a wild, ravenous beast. elizamares.itch.io/the-lindworm...

Background is Cadmus and Harmonia (detail), 1877, by Evelyn De Morgan. The painting depicts a brown-scaled serpent curling up a pale woman's body. Her face is cut off just above the mouth, but we can see her pale-red hair spilling down one naked shoulder. Her hand sits atop the snake's coiled body in a tender, stroking gesure.

Text: The Lindworm's Wife, Eliza Mares

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Accepting submissions till Oct. 15! Authors & editors of works that have gone out of print may submit full-length or short books, including creative nonfiction, fiction, & poetry. Submit: doublebackbooks.com #bookx #authorx #writerx #smallpressx #openforsubmissions

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FireCatRich - Made some comics, wrote some books🐉 @firecatrich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Toxic vampire yuri just in time for Halloween? You bet! ▶️ www.patreon.com/FireCatRich/... #art #writing #supernatural #vampire #yuri

Screen capture of the working cover for Itsy Bitsy Bites. There are three people standing in a row, the middle figure with arms dapped around and under the chin of a dazed girl at the front.

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vert ⚡️🪶 MELT: REFRAIN OUT NOW @subvertebra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

holy shit, thank you for the Massive outpouring of support! your kindness and enthusiasm mean the world to me. we're currently sitting at #3 on itch's top selling books list. wanna see if we can bump that up to silver or gold? 👀🥉🥈🥇

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The opening lines! If you like your fairy tale retellings with bold heroines, shifted dynamics, monster romance, and kinky sensuality, THE LINDWORM’S WIFE will surely tickle your fancy. Comes out TOMORROW!!! 🐍

A pale green background with a horizontal stripe of scales. The excerpt reads:

Runa knew her husband would be a monster, even before the witch told her so. The crown prince had taken two wives in as many months, and both had vanished from the marriage bed. Eloped, the crown claimed, as though slipping unseen from guarded halls was trivial enough to happen twice.
Runa was no fool. When the royal envoys came calling, asking for her father, she stomped off into the thicket to find Old Äggen.

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 30/09/2026

Also! While I'm prepping on my end, perhaps you should go add Project Tasman on Goodreads or Storygraph or Indie Story Geek or Pagebound or wherever you want. www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

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Alana Quevedo was supposed to spend a weekend at seclud…

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two hours into #DVpit 2026 and we're already seeing some amazing pitches! For anyone new to the event, here is a summary of the rules. For full guidelines go to dvpit.carrd.co

September 30, 2026 8AM-8PM ET
DVPit 2026
* #DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors.
* Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Sept 30, 2026 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET.
* Your pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use #DVArt)
* A like ❤️ from an agent = a query request
* A repost 🔁 from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
* A like ❤️ from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
* Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches.
go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens" Poster spotted in York University in Toronto, Ontario

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 29/09/2026

Two days left in September. I need four sales of books to keep my sales streak alive. Please consider picking up one of my books for your shelf this month! If you like sapphic sci-fi, my stories are for you. And they're pretty good, if I do say so myself. anotherindiewriter.itch.io

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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧙TIS TIME 🎃 Join us for #LGBTQWriteAThon October 1-31! Answer each day or just the days you like. Have fun & make friends while working on your WIP! Prompts repost daily to @queerwriters.bsky.social (follow & turn on notifications for reminders!)! @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writesky

#LGBTQWRITEATHON
Use the tag and follow the feed on Bluesky! Tag @lgbtqwriteathon in photos on Instagram!

1. Introduce yourself & goal
2. Introduce your WIP moodboard
3. Check in day
4. Line share — foreboding
5. Goals day
6. Bugbears/fears
7. Does your MC wear a mask?
8. Favorite outfit
9. Skeletons in the closet
10. Check in day
11. Line share — mysterious
12. Goals day
13. Share a treat
14. Ghouls/anxieties
15. Never has your MC ever...
16. Thing MC would protect with their life
17. Check in day
18. Line share — creepy
19. Goals day
20. Genre swap!
21. Monsters/antags
22. Tingler your title
23. MC's most embarrassing memory
24. Check in day
25. Line share — terror
26. Goals day
27. Favorite spooky pastime?
28. Favorite fantasy creature
29. Most haunting thing you've written/read?
30. Brain worms — writing songs
31. Was your month a treat or tricky?

Hosts:
Bluesky: @amaralynn, @rebeccafrostwrites.com
Instagram: @lgbtqwriteathon, @amaralynn, @krakengoddess

[Image description: fall decor including Jack o lanterns and bats on a soft orange background]

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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man @nalohopkinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Help save "Room" (Canada's oldest feminist lit magazine), especially if you'd like to see new fiction from me in their next issue. But mostly do it because they rock, and they're important: roommagazine.com/whats-new/an...

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Save Room Magazine: A Fundraiser - ROOM Magazine

SAVE ROOM MAGAZINE: A FUNDRAISER Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary magazine, running since 1975. For over 50 years, our small nonprofit has carved out a space in Canadian literary publishing w...

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm dropping a new short story this week 👀 It's got whips and monsterfucking 👀 It'll appear in a zine later this year, too 👀

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

🚨NOVELLA NEWS🚨 Veteran hunter Nadine accepts a high-paying bounty to capture a crafty art forger, expecting an easy job... but one look at her mark tells her she's in over her head. 💙📚🪐 Now priced at $2.99... forever! Available on Amazon, Ko-fi, Itch, & Payhip! elizamares.carrd.co#catmouse

The CAT/MOUSE cover on a dark purple background. Surrounding it are arrows and the phrases: “Sapphic science fiction with a noir twist!”; “heisting on a space station”; “far-flung future”; “steamy nightclub encounter”; “all the yearning”; “supporting women’s rights and wrongs”; “femme alien art thief”; “butch human bounty hunter”. The ebooks are $2.99 and they are available on Amazon, Itch, Ko-fi, and Payhip.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can get all 8 previous novellas for $20 👀 Go on a big adventure binge, they're only a few hours each! :D

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🎃CALL THE STORM live on Backerkit now!🌙🦎 @roannasylver.com · 28/09/2026

HA HA HOLY CRAP THREE DAYS 🔥🌈🦎🌙🎉

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vert ⚡️🪶 MELT: REFRAIN OUT NOW @subvertebra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MELT: REFRAIN: A 🔞 queer trans horror novel about toxic corporate vampires in love, and other four-letter words. One part Gothic, one part psychological torment; all sex and death. Everything changes for the worst all the time. What are you going to do about it? Available now on Itch & Payhip. 🪦🕊️

Promo image with the cover of MELT: REFRAIN and extra info. It says: a queer trans corporate Gothic horror novel. Non-linear, multi-POV, first in a series.

The cover illustration features two characters, one in bright red, one in dark teal. The man in red is disheveled and smoking, eyes obscured in shadow, and the man in teal is behind him, mostly obscured and dangling a lowball glass over the first man's shoulder. Smoke drifts up from the cigarette, partially obscuring both their faces. The backdrop is black and dark red, and is textured a little like viscera. The title text has a similar texture and is outline in neon red.

Excerpt from MELT: REFRAIN.

If Simon hadn’t been so desperate already, Hector really would bite him open, drink him half-dry and make him woozy and pliant. But Simon’s saucer-wide pupils and laser focus on the red pooling on Hector’s chin and seeping into his beard belie his composure. It’s not like Hector’s ever been turned—no doubt something out there could mold a vampire into something else, though he’d rather not dwell on the possibility—but he’s got the gist over the years, how it eats and eats and eats at someone if they don’t get what they need. Born vampires have it bad enough already; what exquisite agony something even worse must be, the basest parts of oneself parched and undeniable.

Available now on Itch.io and Payhip.

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Taran Fiddler @tfiddlerart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lifeguard 🦈

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm dropping a new short story this week 👀 It's got whips and monsterfucking 👀 It'll appear in a zine later this year, too 👀

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Jae 🏳️‍🌈 @jaeauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Part 1 of my Sapphic Fiction Reader Survey report is up! I’ve spent a lot of time going over thousands of reader responses and came away with a much clearer picture of readers' book-buying and reading habits. I hope you find the results as interesting as I did. jae-fiction.com/sapphic-fict...

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Sapphic fiction reader survey (Part 1)

The sapphic fiction reader survey explores how the book-buying and reading habits of sapphic fiction readers have changed.

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E. H. Lupton @pretensesoup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Maybe space just has a lot of lesbians in it. I can't rule that out.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Speaking of V:TM, my husband has loose plans to run a one-shot where we're all vampires on the Titanic and I literally cannot wait for this to come to fruition

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pathfinder my beloved but Vampire: The Masquerade is a close second

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Steph 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ | Editor 🦦✍️ @ottersediting.com · 25/09/2026

#WeeknightWriters Q6 My editing spots are almost full for the rest of the year so instead, might I suggest hiring @ksnightingale.bsky.social who is struggling right now. Let's get her some editing projects! 💜

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anita@escrevendo gays 🌈 @anakidd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

thanks #WeeknightWriters ! I'll promo the Queer Romance Bundle I'm participating - 26 works for $25! Comics, books, short stories, and games included. It ends in 5 days, and you can purchase it here: itch.io/b/3889/queer...

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Top text: Itch.io Bundle, Queer Romance & Erotica.
Grid of 26 project covers.
Bottom text: 26 projects for $25, Sep 7-30

Gummy and the Doctor by DarkChibiShadow
SWEET ABILENE by bigbigtruck
A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire
Tomb of Heart and Shadow by Cara N. Delaney
Awakening Hunger by anita
In Her Tired Spiral Eyes by Dulceskull
Lughnasadh Elite Academy Season 1 by Layla Heart/Easily Distracted Media
Sad Porn about the End of the World by Rambling Chantrix
Dead City by JeyPawlik
Beautiful, But Deadly by G.T. Anthony
it sucks to be us by tofurocks
Saved by the Succubus by Huldra House
Blue Ink Yaoi by martiwikiwi cor petit
Monsters by AubrietaRose
Spice of Life by ACM
Nameless by Fiendish Fiction
An Appreciation of Cats by Des DeVivo
Taken Deep in the Maze by Kay Claire
Fashion Scents by Lilith K. Duat
Librarian Catgirl in Bondage!! By 80% Relatable
The Fall of the Rose Princess by DarkChibiShadow
GREG IS GAY by martiwikiwi cor petit
Second Chance Mates [Full Collection] by Rosa Swann/Easily Distracted Media
Pink Sugar Act 1: Limbo by Dulceskull
Seeing Him by KelciDCrawford
Cream and Sugar by Zack Prince

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 25/09/2026

THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS is coming out in paperback in 2027! June 22 for the US, Dec 8 for the UK US preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... UK preorder: www.waterstones.com/book/the-kee... #WeeknightWriters

An old man cursed with immortality hunts ghosts rather than making mortal friends who will die one day. When residents of an Ohio town beset by a vengeful spirit adopt him as their own, he must decide: leave to protect his heart, or stay to save their lives? E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits, upcoming in paperback. The cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with red smoke bursting from the chimney and red mist twisting through the headstones, against a starry night sky, with a quote from a starred Library Journal review reading, "A (literally) haunting story full of heart." Paperback and text are against a blurred background photo of a dandelion in silhouette with its seeds blowing away from its fluffy head.

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🔞Zack Prince Books🔞 @esteemedbastard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#WeeknightWriters Thanks for hosting! There's 6 days left in my birth month #sale on #itchio. All my books are 32% off, or bundled for $3.20: zackprincebooks.itch.io Speaking of bundles, I'm in 2 of them! Queer Romance Bundle: itch.io/b/3889/queer... Femboy Fall Bundle: itch.io/b/3906/-femb...

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Zack Prince

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People keep asking if my relationship "feels different" now that we're married, and most of them seem surprised when I say no. Like, maybe it'll hit me when we're filing taxes or something, but we've already been together for 8 years, live together, have pets together, pay bills together...

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