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Colby: such empathy, might cry with you, will offer baked goods, might know someone who owns a castle if a visit’ll cheer you up? Jason: Big Protective Action Hero Mode; also good at muscular cuddles Gareth: best option for both Kind & Practical, really Lorre: will panic & turn into a river #ocsky

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

rainbow capitalism is important not as a statement of any corporation’s values (for that, look where they donate money and talk to LGBTQ employees!), but because they have access to consumer data we don’t have and they’re conservative by nature. a pendulum swing right now is useful data

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16h

Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 12h

My grandma used to pick up a cheap paperback at the grocery store as part of her weekly shopping. Haven’t seen books at a grocery store in years now.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 13h

The loss of the mass market has made me purchase fewer books because I dislike trade paperbacks and always have. And I won’t pay trade prices for ebooks.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 16h

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's National Coming Out Day. It's also one hell of a time for all of us. I've struggled with what message I wanted to send today. So I'm just going with the truth: I'm glad you're here with us. 🖤🩶🤍💜

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sharing as a good source written clearly for people who have those AI users in their life

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This Late Iron Age cast dragonesque brooch features a complicated design with schematic animal heads at either end and a yin-yang in the centre. Dragonesque brooches were made from around 75–175 CE in Roman Britain.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thys ys a refuge. Thys ys a quiet shore. Thys ys a forest full of lost songs. Thys ys a hope machine. Thys ys a treasurye of languages. Thys ys a beacon for wanderers. Thys ys a workshop for the broken heart. Thys ys wher we meet across tyme and space. Thys ys wher dreames begin. Thys ys a library.

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve got The Warlock Affair coming later this month - magical murder mystery romance! (Established couple, but stand-alone story.) #mmromance #lgbtq #WeeknightWriters

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hark! heare the wynde blowe! Wacche the sonne ryse! Runninge yn the shadowes, Curse thy love, curse thy lies. And yf thou ne dost not love me now Thou wilt nevir love me agayne - Ich kan yet heare thee sayinge: Thou wouldst nevir breake the chayne #FleetwoodMac #OFMD

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

...opening line? "The warlock was dead, to begin with. In fact, the man had been murdered Tuesday night." *ominous music*

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Little update: The Warlock Affair will be out closer to the end of the month (publisher having understandable life delays) but still coming this month! First time I’ve written a magical murder mystery (also romance)! #BookSky

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hmm…queer magical historical romance, hurt/comfort + spice, lots of rain & bad puns & occasionally dropping characters off cliffs or staircases?

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Help, I can't breathe 😆🥊

LADY BOXERS. Lady boxers are not new. A challenge to fight and an acceptance between lady boxers appeared in ‘‘The Daily Post' as far back as 1728. The advertisements are too long to quote in full, but the challenge was issued by ‘‘Ann Field, of Stroke-Newington, ass-driver,” to Mrs ‘Stokes, styled the English Championess, “to a trial of the best skill in boxing, for 10 pounds, fair rise or fall.”” Mrs Stokes acoepted the challenge, none too politely, it must be said. She referred to ‘‘the famous Stoke-Newington ass-woman,”’ and went on to say ‘‘the blows which I will present her will be more difficult to digest than she ever gave her ass." Perhaps some sporting enthusiast will be able to tell us result of this encounter.

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New release from a lovely author-friend! 💕

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My lovely publisher @jms-books.com is having an Anti-Prime Days sale, if you would like to support a small #lgbtq press! (Also a good time to pick up anything of mine you might be wanting… 🙂) #sales #romance #BookSky www.jms-books.com/kl-noone-m-2...

autumn leaf background with orange text advertising sale at JMS Books

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(I promise I don’t always have this much happening at once - and academic projects have variable timelines - somehow just lots of dates coinciding this time!)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Queer romance IS resistance. It is radical to imagine happiness, and community, and joy, when people are trying to kill you, erase you, oppress you, or deny you the right to live a full life in so many ways.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This a very timely reminder that in 2019 during Trump Administration 1.0, I presented a paper at Ithaca College about why queer historical romance is so important. I have the whole paper/presentation on my website if you'd like some more reasons as to why queer romance is so important now and always

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On Accuracy in Historical Romance

Back in April, I presented a paper at Ithaca College’s feminist pop culture conference From Pippi to Ripley on the issues surrounding the perceived “inaccuracies” in historical ro…

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also I sneezed and some sort of muscle in my side went OUCH, and is this what being over 40 is like

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh and if you are in Seattle in November, stop by the #PAMLA conference & say hi - I’ll be doing a reading & on a panel about #fantasy & also chairing the #romance panel! www.pamla.org/pamla2026/

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123rd Annual Conference (Seattle, WA) – Nov. 12-15, 2026 (Hotel: Hyatt Regency Seattle) - PAMLA

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

3) essay on Patricia Nell Warren for collection of essays on her legacy 4) article on #PeterDavid & #RobinHood for the International Bulletin of Robin Hood Studies! #AcademicSky #nerdfun

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The end of this year is about to be busy with academic publications! All these are planned to be out by year’s end: 1) article on #starwars & the Gothic for Science Fiction Studies 2) essay on predecessors (like Mercedes Lackey & @diane.dianeduane.com ) for collection of essays on #romantasy (cont.)

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s day two of @spacemagiccon.bsky.social - I’ll be speaking on this panel this afternoon! #BookSky #writing

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did you miss this Sunday's fabulous talk on Queered Frankensteins? No worries! Catch it here! youtu.be/cTi5SkMFNdM

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An Introduction to Queered Frankenstein with Dr Lucy Allan

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Wyth regard to Artificial Intelligence, Ich am generallye on the syde of the Pope" -- thanke you, science fictioun, for gettinge me readye to saye thinges lyke thys wyth confidence

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My reading panel is starting now! (A couple people before me - so, time to be nervous, heh!) #BookSky

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy October! Time to do some #halloween book promo - The Prestley Ghost was last year’s autumn novella, a #paranormal #mmromance in an alt-Regency setting (same-sex marriage ok!), and I do very much love the opening of this one, and these characters! #BookSky www.jms-books.com/the-prestley...

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The Prestley Ghost : JMS Books LLC, a queer small press

GENRE: Gay Historical Paranormal Spicy RomanceLENGTH: 21,102 wordsRATING: The village of Prestley has a ghost. Fortunately, Charles Hayward and his brother John come from a family of occult specialist...

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Come join us! I’ll be doing a reading on Saturday and then speaking on a panel on Sunday! #BookSky #scifi #fantasy #lgbtq #community

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October Country by Ray Bradbury. (for @tomsbrown.bsky.social & all others who love this month)

OCTOBER COUNTRY
... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain....

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The Prestley Ghost : JMS Books LLC, a queer small press

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you!! 😻 The Warlock Affair will be out October 10, to wrap up Colin & David’s story (plus some guest appearances from friends!) - I have not dropped anyone off a cliff or down a flight of stairs in this one, though there is a murder… 😄

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/? (Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)

Detail of some handwritten Latin. A note written in the bottom left margin of a book is in smaller, paler text than the bolder letters visible in the top right corner where the main text of the book is. At the top one can read a word which begins "Ne" and then has a bizarre squiggle, The next word is clearly "pro" then a strange line. The following words, to an expert eye, can be read as "sustitudine veterii alterum requirit ut neque hoc neque illud primus Cicero usus est sine altorum" but most of hte words are very hard to make out, many have omitted letters assuming you'll recognize the abbreviation, and only the word "Cicero" is really recognizable to a modern eye.

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 01/10/2026

PSA for romance authors and also the Ted Lasso writers room apparently, but if your "accidental/surprise pregnancy" storyline relies on a grown woman never thinking about her own risk of pregnancy while she's regularly having PIV sex, I'm out

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, the spouse and I looked at each other and went, no one in this writers’ room has any real-life experience here, do they…

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have bought! 💕 And so much yes about the different writing styles - some of my fav authors write in ways I could never emulate! But that’s part of the glorious fun of what we do.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yay! This one is short but fun (in a hurt/comfort way!), I think - and there’s one more story in that universe coming in October! 🙂

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