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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Not Troy Jackson responding to Collins' claims of Medicare fraud in Maine by pointing out that maybe she ought to stop since only one person on the stage has been accused of fraud. 🤭

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Moved my living room around this weekend and now my shelves are all back together again. 😊

Two book shelves, a utility cart, and a pile of books all linedup next to each other. The shelves and cart are full of books and decorated with knick knacks. The grey metal utility cart is covered in stickers and magnets.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last weekend my family and I went apple picking and stopped at my favorite used bookstore in Farmington, Twice Sold Tales, where I got that Notion Critical Edition of Howard's End and the Sherlock collection which is made up of facsimile pages from The Strand Magazine, which I thought was neat.

A stack of books including paperbacks of Possession by A.S. Wyatt, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage, Howard's End and A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, and a hardcover of The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't know if I'd bring an iced coffee to a job interview, but brought one to the library book sale today and then stopped for another one on the walk home, which was an excellent life choice.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This has apparently become a terrible Tuesday habit. But gosh I love this mini-series.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On today's episode of Don't Do That, Horror Edition: If the box in the old ruins has chains and weird writing on it, don't touch it. And definitely don't open it. This survival PSA bought to you by "It's Name Was Mormo". Don't die like these people are probably going to die.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This feels like an appropriate pairing. I've been waiting all week to start Hailey Piper's newest, THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT, so I'm really glad today is my Friday and I can finally dive in.

A TV showing the title screen of the horror documentary In Search of Darkness III. A paperback of This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper is standing on end in front of the screen.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I bought the thickest, softest flannel duvet cover from Beans. It's so heavy with my down comforter in it that I can feel it pressing on all my bones. Which feels really good and like I can actually stay in one piece and I'm maybe never coming out from under here ever. I live here now.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I went to my first adult ballet class tonight despite being really nervous, and my nervous system has decided to reward my bravery with ✨️More Anxiety✨️! So now I'm watching Hunchback of Notre Dame at 11PM, as one does.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New aesthetic goal. All the girls want a slender garter ad boy.

Part of a page from F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise with the words "of garter-advertisement slenderness" underlined. On the page, Isabelle, who has just spotted Amory, is describing his appearance and comparing it with her expectations.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 01/09/2026

SPOOKY SEASON APPROACHETH

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Watching Dragonwyck again? Me? No. Of course not...

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's gloomy and overcast here, which means it's a perfect day for reading horror. I'm a little less than halfway through the arc of TRAD WIFE by Sarah Langan (out 9.29.26), enjoying it so far, and really curious to see where this is going!

An ereader displaying the cover of Trad Wife by Sarah Langan on top of a woven blanket with ghosts on a black background.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just me and my 5 hr ambient city noises video trying to get some sleep because this apt building is too far back from the road and it's too damn quiet after 6 yrs living directly on a busy street. Sweet traffic sounds, how I miss thee. Drunk people shouting at 2AM, did you ever find your hotel?

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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Monstrous bugs run amok. Artistic drama gets dirty. The queer community does war crimes. Monday, August 17th, 2026. The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes. Featuring special guest, @mariawrites.bsky.social!!! Get ready to lick some blood from your homie's earlobe.

cover art: the works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Guess who's watching House on Haunted Hill again. (It's me. 🖤)

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Skeletal Stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ @stephiesparda.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Every person being fascist and puritanical about sex needs to be relentlessly berated and ridiculed. It is anti-human behavior that actively contributes to the corporate sanitization of the internet, forced ID verification laws, criminalization of queer people, and women being stripped of autonomy.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Oooooh, it's really pretty. 🖤🧡💜 August is my last favorite month because it's the hottest and I spend most of it hiding from the sun. So it's the perfect time to stay inside where it's cool and dark and enjoy a queer vampire murder mystery. With a talking cat!

A paperback of Be Still My Unbeating Heart by Josh Winning. The two leads stand back to back with an Italianate city in the background. One lead has light brown skin with dark hair, wearing a dark blue polo shirt. The other is pale with shoulder length blonde hair, sunglasses, and a Hawaiian shirt. Between them sits a black cat.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

10:45 pm things to do when you should be going to bed: message a friend about how War & Peace is bullying your emotions and making you worry about a character you're not even sure you like? But yeah, someone should really check on Andrei. That man is saying some CONCERNING things about death.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 04/08/2026

Fae: Behold, mor— Me, suspiciously: Are you AI? Fae: What? Me: Because you’ve got some weird looking feet Fae: What are you talking about Me: I don’t use AI, thanks. ::walks away:: Fae: What just happened

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Being an adult is realizing that if you prep a bunch of chicken, some veg, couple of sauces, and a carb or two, you can prep multiple meal options for the same week all at once. Being a better adult is realizing that no where does it say the chicken you prep can't be dinosaur chicken nuggets. 🦖

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This book was freaky in the best way. Just genuinely weird and horny and I loved it.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I made little breakfast tacos for brunch this morning and now i never want to eat anything else ever. I think I actually forget how good eggs are oh my god.

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

📎 It looks like you wrote "LGB" without adding the T! Delete that bullshit and keep our community out of your fascist collaborator mouth!

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

on the bright side, it's kind of awesome that so many people are talking about THE ODYSSEY, the translation the movie is based on, the translator's own thoughts in the LRB, and what a big, ambitious film can mean in a market oversaturated with movies about superheroes and nostalgia for old titles

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

THE ODYSSEY: When you no longer receive strangers with respect, dignity, and hospitality, when you abandon international law, you cause the collapse of civilization. HADESTOWN: Union solidarity is the only way out of hell and the climate crisis. Please, please someone make an Antigone movie.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A little Greek mythology double feature. 🖤

Two movie tickets. One for The Odyssey and one for Hadestown.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Drugs, Drugs, Drugs" I chant as I dump a packet of caffeinated drink powder into my water bottle because I've somehow got to summon the energy to go to the gym in an hour.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”

photograph of the relevant passage in Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey ("I make no bed of love with you upon it. Or swear me first a great oath, if I do, you'll work no more enchantment to my harm.")

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My ice cream float matches my mug and my current read. 🖤🧡

A mug in the shape of a black bag with big eyes and an orange mouth, wearing an orange and black striped bowtie, full of orange foam, sitting next to a hardcover copy of Spread Me by Sarah Gailey, which has an orange cover. On the orange background is the image of a black geodesic dome with a mass of tentacles dangling from the bottom and wrapping around the bright yellow block text of the title.

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 17/07/2026

my queer cozy horror THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases THIS TUESDAY [internal screaming] please (a) preorder it and (b) consider coming to an event! PREORDERS: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... EVENTS: www.elizmanderson.com/events #WeeknightWriters

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The Lord of the Wood

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 endanger his life, but not his heart... C...

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Rowan MacColl @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Good Morning, Rose (1/5)

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Getting caught up on The Vampire Lestat but oof I'm not sure I was ready for the emotional savaging that was this last episode. Fuck, man. That song. 🥲

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The Maine Millennial @mainemillennial.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We gotta run a liberal arts professor from Bowdoin. It saved the country once we can do it again

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Reminder that June 30th is the last day when you can observe queers in the wild. In the evening of that day they'll start their journey to the spirit realm where they'll remain until June next year. Go to the beach before 10 pm if you'd like to see their migration.

A drawing of a floating black cat with pink eyes, surrounded by sparkly, glowing jellyfish in various pride flags colors

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

SHATTER THE SUN is here, and it came with some gorgeous promotional art of two other Neon Hemlock titles: the Unfettered Hexes anthology (LOVE it) and Caitlin Starling's The Oblivion Bride (currently in my TBR). 🤩

Paperback of Shatter the Sun an anthology of "queer tales of unfold adventure", two pieces of Neon Hemlock art, one the cover of Unfettered Hexes and the other character art of The Oblivion Bride, and a Neon Hemlock bookmark.

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

for my queer authors, especially trans authors, especially especially my various trans authors of color, from all over & with all kinds of lived experiences, especially my Black and Indigenous ppl out there - I love you. Your work is needed. You are special. Your voice MATTERS. Keep. Going.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Two last books for Pride. 🏳️‍🌈 My copy of THE BLACK PARADE (queer, post-apocalyptic, and the perfect blend of horror and romance) arrived at my local indie. When I went to pick it up, I also snagged a copy of THE LILAC PEOPLE (a queer historical fiction that I expect will destroy me emotionally.)

Paperbacks of The Black Parade by Ilana M. Lindsey and The Lilac People by Milo Todd

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Some amazing books in this list! 😍

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I finally found a use for this giant Hocus Pocus mug. It's a bit too big for tea, but it's perfect for containing my root beer floats so that they don't volcano all over my counter.

A large white mug with silhouettes of the Sanderson sisters surrounded by stars with the words "I put a spell on you" in gold. The inside and handle of the mug are blank.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This, however? Amazing. Gut wrenching. I read the whole book in a day and it had me physically flinching. White's books remain some of THE most stressful, and best, books I've ever read. I'm happy to say that YOU'RE NO BETTER (out 10.20) absolutely continues that tradition. Brutal and just so good.

The cover of You're No Better by Andrew Joseph White. It's sketchy, almost comic-esque style image of a teen in a leather jacket and school uniform skirt kneeling on front of a pile of crime scene photos, hands coated in and dripping blood. The background is a series of images in sections of a shattered mirror with cracks spiderwebbing between them.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I was at work when I watched this earlier and I had to fight SO hard not to shout. Fuck I'm excited about this. 🖤🦇

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Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 - Official Trailer | Prime Video

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Posting a bit late but: I went to Portland Pride on Saturday and it was amazing. 😍 I walked with the Frannie Peabody Center in the parade, which was such a cool opportunity! The festival in the park was a blast. There were 1000s of people there, it was wild. And I found books! (Of course.)

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Oh this is 110% my shit. Cryptic? Age gap. I'm gone. I'm feral, running around in the woods waiting for this book.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Oh this is 110% my shit. Cryptic? Age gap. I'm gone. I'm feral, running around in the woods waiting for this book.

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Jay Avery @jthebookworm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Why yes I am watching the live feed on YouTube at midnight. It's fine. Totally fine. Just practicing for November of this completely normal, not at all critical election year.

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Noah Hawthorne (they/them) @noahhawthorne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

'I'm sorry I didn't answer your letters. I didn't have them. I didn't know.' 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧭 The Voice of Wild Places follows two estranged friends on a journey into Brazil searching for a lost legend. What they find is far more important than treasure or fame. The gay along the way. Audio coming soon!

A paperback copy of The Voice of Wild Places by Noah Hawthorne in the grass and white yellow blossoms.

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