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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It started on Booktube, but a lot of the discussion takes place on a discord -- here's this year's announcement video :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYxE...

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Victober 2026 | Announcement and Recommendations

YouTube video by Books and Things

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Victober! Where you read some Victorian literature in October and chat excitedly about it with nerds. It's a lot of fun, and I've gotten to discover some lesser-known works & authors that I've enjoyed.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 01/10/2026

Available now at #Ebooks Direct as part of our #Autumn #Reading #Sale: Our Whole Store package, including all non-new release works in our inventory—37 award-winning novels and shorter works. Grab this fabulous bargain before the price changes! 🙂 ebooks.direct/products/ebo... #ebooksky

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Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle

This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with the usual EBD lifetime replacement g...

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Happy October 3 to everyone celebrating

Lady in Mean Girls saying, “it’s October 3rd.

A screen cap of Fullmetal Achemist. Someone’s hand holding an open pockets watch. On the inside of the watch is the crudely done engraving, “don’t forget 3, Oct. 10”

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oooh, thank you! I will definitely go look at those. I can finally listen to audiobooks consistently with my new ADHD meds, so I've been binging a lot of them this year :D

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh no. I just thought, out of the blue, 'I should find a solid, comprehensive book about the Civil War.' I think I've entered my middle-aged dad era.

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Kavin Narke - Space Mage Press | Open for line editing @spacemagepress.com · 04/10/2026

Ditching any graphic design platform that tries to shove AI down my throat. I'll just use Procreate from now on. Anyway, my books for 2027 are open. Get in touch to snag your line editing slot

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Jim C. Hines @jimchines.com · 30/09/2026

Today is the last day (I think) to get the e-book of SLAYERS OF OLD for $3.99. Magic house and tentacled cat and baked goods and retired heroes saving the world one last time. bookshop.org/a/25009/9780... 💙📚🪐

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Slayers of Old

Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls in this humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a group of former Chosen Ones coming out of retirement to save the world one last time "Buffy the Vam...

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ok, last day of the month. My health took a severe downturn over the summer and I haven't been able to do much. If I can get up to 70% of my goal, that'll take care of my biggest concern, and free me up to fill your October with cool, seasonal arts! ko-fi.com/karidru

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All that money yet I get a better haircut at my local great clips

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I had an absolutely horrific time with homeschooling (kinder-5th grade) and used to think it should just be outlawed, but on the off, off chance I ever have kids now, pretty sure I'll just be homeschooling them.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

one of the greats by one of the greats: Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s “The Leaving”

The Leaving
My father said I could not do it, but all night I picked the peaches.
The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily.
I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden.
How many ladders to gather an orchard?
I had only one and a long patience with lit hands and the looking of the stars which moved right through me the way the water moved through the canals with a voice that seemed to speak of this moonless gathering and those who had gathered before me.
I put the peaches in the pond's cold water, all night up the ladder and down, all night my hands twisting fruit as if I were entering a thousand doors, all night my back a straight road to the sky.
And then out of its own goodness, out of the far fields of the stars, the morning came, and inside me was the stillness a bell possesses just after it has been rung, before the metal begins to long again for the clapper's stroke.
The light came over the orchard.
The canals were silver and then were not, and the pond was—I could see as I laid the last peach in the water—full of fish and eyes.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The degree to which the conversation surrounding hypothetical civilizational collapse due to AI has supplanted the conversation surrounding actual civilizational collapse due to climate change is, shall we say, concerning.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Omg! Yes! Buy Killjoys! It's so good!!!

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Do I look like a person with professional pants?" -- me, to a coworker, last week.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Having to do indefinite monthly meetings for work with a client, starting today -- which is fine, one meeting a month, w/e -- but I literally had to go shopping because I have not, in the 11 years I've worked from home, had to go to a meeting with clients, and our tiny company is strictly casual.

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FRIENDS! The STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL $1.99 digital sale is now cross-platform for a brief time! Get my award-winning Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy Romance via @bookshop.org at a complete steal! 2-books-in-1! Jane Eyre + Ghostbusters + 1888 London + Dark Academia + Ancient Mythology + Hot-For-Teacher Romance

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I binged my way through the Anne series when I was somewhere between 9-11, loved them, then got to the one about WWI. Only reread it once since, in my early teens, 25+ years ago, & the scene where a mom finds out her son has died in battle still fucks me up b/c of the impact it made on me then.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

between falling ill in June and July, being forced to turn down important commissions and getting hit with extra health bills, I'm not making ends meet this month (as it happened with the previous 2 months). I struggle to ask for help, so the best I can do is a sale. 👇

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Almost halfway and I really need to pay the first bill today if I can! Trying to avoid the big angry PAST DUE emails and reminders 😮‍💨 Please repost if it’s not terribly annoying (trust me, I understand!!). ♥️♥️

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On the one hand, I can't reach the glasses people leave on the top shelf, but on the other the number of couches I can nap on comfortably is enormous. Bless my height and my stubby legs.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thanks for posting it! Love seeing it every year :D

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Alt text: two screencaps from the TV show Frasier. In the first, Frasier holds up a paper with 'You're Fired' written on it. Roz, in the second, has a manila folder with 'I'm union' on it in caps.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oh, that's lovely :) Also, perfect timing -- also American, and this reminded me I promised myself last month that my this month, I'd reward myself for a thing I did with this novel! So I'm off to order it :D

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oooh, I need that black kettle in my life.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Tangential, but I believe it was on the slacktivist blog that I first heard of Wendell Berry some 20+ years ago when I was a teenager, so a very belated thank you for that.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

This Wendell Berry #poem forever

Whatever happens,
those who have learned
to love one another
have made their way
to the lasting world
and will not leave,
whatever happens.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Train trip!!!!! That is so awesome! Hope the rest of it is great :D

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Indiana (& I believe Elkhart specifically) has a huge Mennonite population, actually! (Well, huge in the context of American Mennonites, lol). I think some of my dad's side of the family, who were all Mennonites, actually ended up there for a while, iirc. There are also a chunk in Ohio.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Let's not be selfish.

A black board, probably from outside a bookshop. A cartoon book is saying please read me.
Test reads. Sure, maybe you don't need more books but what if - and hear me out - the books need you?

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I turn 33 in TWO DAYS and it would be *so cool* to get 33 sales for the month in celebration I just need 10 more to get there!

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Starting the last book in the Green Man series, which I hadn't gotten to, as apparently there's a new one out next month (!!!), realizing it's been long enough that I need to go back and read the previous one, except I got sucked in again and now I'm rereading the whole series I guess.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Re: last RP, Woman of Sorrow & Blood was great!!

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is still going!! Grab my own Woman of Sorrow & Blood and many more queer books to fill up your e-reader without breaking the bank

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh, no! What awful news to see first thing on here.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I am waiting to buy this t-shirt whenever you get it set.

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So soon 👀👀👀 and I've got a book in it too!

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One could say, the movie equivalent of a Chili's margarita.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Listening to Kris Kristofferson's Me & Bobby McGee, and it's funny how some things stick with you, but probably 20 years ago someone used the refrain as the title for an SGA McShep fic with a gutpunch of an ending (that I read one single time), and every time I listen, it gets me all over again.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

oh my god, I was reading a novella on my kindle and was horrified that it was taking me so long, because I figured as a novella it was like 130 pages or something, and what happened to my reading speed? But it turns out it's actually a full-ass 450-page novel.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Furthermore, I managed not to give my either roommate the illness. But one of them caught covid at work and has now infected the other.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Also, doctor prescribed me a nasal spray for my congestion. Which did work! Completely killed any congestion! My nose was completely dry! So dry that every time I sneezed I started getting nosebleeds.

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Jupiter (they/elle) @jupiterjupiter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm still getting over the flu/covid convo but am now possibly getting viral conjunctivitis, so this continues to be a winner of a week.

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