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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

do you like poetry? i have some! available online in both digital & physical forms, are my two poetry chapbooks, "trauma bone" & "kept streets" see below for linkage!

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The HWA grievance committee is run by the failed Trump judicial Nominee who praised the Klan? Seems not ideal!

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 19/08/2026

TIL this is who apparently runs the Grievance Committee of the HWA. Patrick's still running unopposed. He's posted a weak statement on his substack saying he's grown as a person since creeping on Theo and "let the voters decide." There's no one else to vote for. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_T...

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Brett Talley - Wikipedia

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Portals #1 opens to submissions on June 22nd at 12:01 am Eastern! Co-editors Jess and Angel are looking for speculative horror fiction and poetry by trans/nonbinary authors. GUIDELINES: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/... Find their wishlists below, plus more details in the quoted thread! (1/3)

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 10/06/2026

reminder that my queer cozy horror about a lonely autistic clockmaker, a forest spirit turning slowly into a beast, a deeply repressed disabled sapphic woman, and a slightly slutty very annoying lesbian releases July 21! #WriterShareWednesday bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Lord of the Wood

Check out The Lord of the Wood - <strong>The cozy fantasy of TJ Klune meets the creeping horror of T. Kingfisher in this magical novel about a man who enters a deadly enchanted forest expecting it to ...

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I'd like to share an essay written by my beloved cousin, @okokno.bsky.social who is a fantastic author of horror through the lens of a queer Black woman "Braiding A Rope From Hair" Part 1:

"Braiding A Rope From Hair," an essay by Donyae Coles, author of Bram Stoker award-nominated novel "Midnight Rooms"

(cw: abuse, housing crisis)

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"I have a book coming out and summer is difficult.

Midnight Rooms came out on July 2, 2024. I received an eviction notice the next day, the day of my actual book launch. So first thing in the morning on the day that I'm supposed to celebrate this achievement, I am losing my house.

I was in crisis the. Entire. Time."

"During the time I told stories about what was happening. I'm very good at telling a story, so I told a story about my life, what was happening to me and why it was happening. Some of that was very much out of anyone's control. His mother did die. Our landlord did sell the house.

But the real reason I was in the situation I was in was because I had an abusive husband who didn't want me to succeed. Because if I did well I would leave him.

And so, the crisis.

The endless crisis."

"And the reality. That I did not have any joy for my book release. There was no space for it. I could only survive. I could only focus on survival. I showed up at my (very few) book events, smiled, signed, went home back to survival. Back to figuring things out.

People asked me, a lot, if I was doing events. What my plans were and my plans were figuring out how to keep my kids off the street.

It has been two years."

"I am still healing from that. I am not In Crisis. Not like I was then, that constant dangling above the pit, the single strand of hair by which I keep hold threatening to break at every movement. This is not the fable of Damocles and his sword; there are no riches to be had.

If I fall it is forever.

It has been two years and I think I must be a fraud. That I should be over this, that I should be better. That my life should be as though that time never happened. But it's not."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This Pride month don’t forget to BOOKMARK the cool book posts you see so you can grab them when you have the time/spoons/cash

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

anyone doing any itch bundles? kinda got lost in my brain for a while after itch banned e/rotica but whatever i can join would be helpful

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Sneaking this announcement out before the weekend: We are pleased to announce the ToC and share the cover for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025! www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...

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Cover Reveal & ToC: We're Here 2025 — neon hemlock

We’re delighted to announce, along with editor Bogi Takács and series editor Charles Payseur, the full table of contents for We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 : “Magical Girl A...

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

i ate too many gluten free mini muffins, so I'm not very hype right now, but if anyone wants to bread about queer trans men, i have one in almost everything i write #ChaosChat jemzero.com

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jem zero – art and writing by jem zero

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

HWS: Jax is shyly wearing a trans pin, Sei-vész is in latex accepting free condoms AFTA: Callum has never been to Pride. Jesse makes Bennett come with him. Cal stays home lol CGYH: Jericho & Harlan wear normal clothes but J buys H a huge rainbow fan AotR: PACK PARTY (biodegradable glitter only)

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

all of my current books are placed in a contemporary setting, and all of them have the usual Pride events! #ChaosChat

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

all my characters are queer unless stated otherwise and even then that's iffy 🤔

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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| H • A • P | @kodasea.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Sketch commission for zoanthia

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 31/05/2026

So much of the pandemic was us finding out life actually could be easier and better and more accessible, and then watching them peel every scrap of that back out of our hands & lives, often for incoherent reasons. (return to office!)

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Lucky_Bun @luckybun.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

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Jo @service-worker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Here’s the thing, people are buying the same amount or less of everything as before, but it is costing them more than before because this administration has fucked up every single thing it touches. If you can’t understand that, you might be MAGA

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I'd like to share an essay written by my beloved cousin, @okokno.bsky.social who is a fantastic author of horror through the lens of a queer Black woman "Braiding A Rope From Hair" Part 1:

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 24/03/2026

when I tell you this t-shirt I just found in a thrift store was the best six dollars I've ever spent

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

i can’t fucking stand this bitch

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

it's almost my pub'versary for CAT'S GOT YOUR HEART!! come Sept 10, my snarky-but-sweet, hijinksy pet store romance will have been out for a year. interested in two nerds dragging out the interpersonal drama of adopting a single fluffy cat? CHECK IT OUT: books2read.com/catsgotyourheart

cat's got your heart is turning one
rivals to lovers (a contentious cat adoption)
slow burn
grumpy trans mc vs snarky artist
hurt/comfort
borrow or buy [link]

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✧Mirai✦ @starrymirai.moe · 02/08/2025

Heartwarming: payment processors help thousands in the LGBTQ+ community get over their phone anxiety

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Coffee cat @honeyedcoffee.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

me: (trying to focus on writing a work email) my boss, @keiralekseii.bsky.social, DMing me weird shit:

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

me: while writing this contemporary i had a crisis about the characterization of the titular book 3 MC bc their development in book 1 isn't lining up with what they were supposed to be for the title so i started working on a MMF scifi standalone instead friend: I mean, that's one way of handling it

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

almost spat out my miralax when i read the caption

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

query my boss who is a huge nerd about her inbox

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

the fact thay payment processors are singlehandedly neutering the internet GLOBALLY because of some purity police bullshit is making me fucking exhausted in my joints

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A win! A federal judge has just blocked part of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that aimed to restrict Medicaid funding. Judge Indira Talwani, ruling from the District of Massachusetts, ordered the Trump administration to continue Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood health centers.

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Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from cutting off Planned Parenthood funding

Planned Parenthood sued the administration Monday, alleging that a provision of Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is unconstitutional and will cause irreparable harm.

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

admittedly i am mildly sick of allies saying "you can't change your sex" when what they're trying to refer to is chromosomes. like i 100% promise you can change your sex. i wouldn't have spent the last week laid up in bed with my crotch on a pillow if you couldn't. 😬😅

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Contrary to popular belief, the cure to bunr out is not to do more work. Especially if you are autistic. Because when autistic folks burn out, we never go back. We will drop a job or a hobby and never pick it up again.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

just LOOK at this fucking UNIT

a very solid-bodied bengal cat sitting on a bathroom mat

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Antlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Yet another heinous grift by Big Flesh

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

me turning thirty and becoming obsessed with werewolf/wolf shifter lore despite thinking vampires were way cooler while in high school hello i'm jem & i have deeply normal opinions about dudes who turn into some form of wolf

club sam reid @popstarlestat
me age 13: been getting really into vampires lately me age 18: can't remember the last time i've felt genuine happiness me age 26: been getting really into werewolves lately

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

i haven't been able to hold Vesper for a few days but mum is very kindly wiping down her enclosure so we get to cuddle a bit. she loves the soft blanket 💕✨ recovery is difficult but I'm hanging in there with support from my family 🥰

selfie of a white transmasc lying in bed looking up at the camera. there is a snake curled up on their chest.

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

does your dog have bone or paw energy because we are about to drop some absolutely BONKERS new gender roles

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Stephanie Maria @staylokey.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

THIS book is an entire MOOD!! 🥹 Warsan, whose poetry is in the interludes between songs in THE QUEEN 🐝’s Lemonade album, doesn’t disappoint!! Her words travel through love, loss, identity, and home, charged by her Somali-British heritage. #blackbooksky #booksky #bvm #blacksky #beyonce #poetry #poet

A portrait of the poet-author WARSAN SHIRE and the book “Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head”

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

it’s my favourite ship dynamic

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

waking up at 3am to my sibling hollering TINKER, WHY??? to his senile 18 year old menace because he bumped her in his sleep and she took it personally

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

palate cleanser: my cat came in to snuggle me this morning and now she is doing this

a sleeping bengal cat on her back stretched out the entire length of my leg

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

i will defend women's wrongs with my life, if necessary

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jem z @jemzero.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

turns out lying in bed doing fuckall gets boring pretty quickly

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