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AmEricaNo @theamericano.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

A new Clem & West novel just dropped yesterday, and I am frothing at the mouth. If you're into cosmic horror and secondary-world modern fantasy, you HAVE to check out this sapphic fantasy series by Hiyodori. It's easily my favorite thing on the market right now. I need more people to understand!

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TTMadden 🏳️‍⚧️ @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you're interested in what I believe is the best thing I've ever written...

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

*throwing oil onto the fire* you people only ever fight for the right to use the word sapphic on relationships and stories that include a cis man because you know that would be transphobic and misgendering to do that to a trans man

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Sam @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Anyway, can we start a recommendation list of media with butch trans women? As a big reader of trans lesbian lit I've found some (not enough, but some), and I think it's important to highlight the good as well as complain about the bad. I'll start, but please do feel free to add on! #samreads

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Hey everyone, I hate to ask for help again, but I think we're really going to need it. My mental illness has made it hard to earn anything for the past couple months, and we barely have enough for this month. Everything helps! Thank you! www.gofundme.com/f/help-may-a...

Hi everyone,

We're going to need some help again. If you follow me on social media, you probably know I've been going through a mental health crisis for a while. I've been getting more intensive treatment for it, which has included the discovery that I suffer from psychotic symptoms that have gone undetected for many years.

Thankfully, the new treatment seems to be helping, but slowly. In the meantime, I've been almost completely unable to work for close to two months. My partner, a teacher, has also been out of steady work for the summer, which means our income has become a trickle.

Your generosity, including the kindness of one particular recent donor, have been all that have gotten us through the past few months. But since I'm our primary income and I've been so out of commission, I still barely have enough for this month's rent and am worried about the interim until our income picks back up.

I'm hopeful that I'll be more functional soon, but mental illness can be unpredictable and it wasn't exactly easy getting by before things got so bad. So everything is all extra scary at the moment.

My partner and I appreciate any help you may feel able to give, as always. We're so thankful for all of you and your kindness that has made safety and recovery possible.

Thank you all so much!

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Taylor Swift fans review bombing a trans sapphic book by a trans woman: more likely than you think. Fuck this conservative singer and her equally bigoted fans

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Well, time for some pretty big news. Wolffie is moving to Canada and going back to school. But I really need your help to make it happen. You can read more about my upcoming move here: www.patreon.com/posts/137119... And you can contribute to my GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...

A graphic with the American and Canadian flags on it.

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Last day for this sale! Pick up some sapphic books for Sapphic September!

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 20/08/2025

anyway, read my trans magical girl novel (and its upcoming sequel). I hate AI and my girls and I are always in favor of loudly opposing transphobic bigots magicariot.com

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Magica Riot - The Official Site

A novel about Portland's hard-rocking queer magical girls, Magica Riot.

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

People on Threads seem very unhappy about the concept of stealth trans men who do not disclose their transness

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Threads is truly the social media with the worst reading comprehension

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Plan A: Spend the summer at camp hiding from your influencer mother. Plan B: Accidentally break your arm and then blackmail your grumpy skater crush into letting you hide at her house all summer. YOU CAN PREORDER SUMMER OFFICIAL NOW! 🛹🩵🍦 rebekahweatherspoon.... #booksky #romancebooksky

Book cover: Summer Official by USA TODAY bestselling author Rebekah Weatherspoon
A plus size brown skinned black girl carrying a skateboard and wearing crop black tshirt that says Queen of Hearts in white lettering and black jeans and black vans, walking hand in hand with a light skinned black girl with blond hair. She is wearing a white tank top, demon shorts, white ankle socks and green converse. She has a blue cast on one arm with doodles all over it. They are walking through an illustrated Venice beach. The Venice over head sign has been replaced with the book title Summer Official.

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

As a reader/reviewer I find it pretty gauche and unappealing when authors devalue themselves and look down their own works but as an author I really feel the pressure to do it so no one set their expectations too high

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 24/07/2025

I desperately need to go to sleep, but please spread this far and wide. Itch.io may not be as big of a platform as Steam, but this is a significantly more aggressive act of censorship. They're using the queer marginalized artists as test cases to see what they can get away with.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/07/2025

the most extreme part of your new policies provide no rationale or explanation as to why likely because you are not allowed to

Part of this review will see some pages being permanently removed from itch.io. Affected accounts will be notified via their account's email
address from our support address. You can reply to that email if you have any follow up questions.

18.13.3 Publicity
Neither Party shall issue any news release, blog, media outreach, public announcement, advertisement, or any other form of publicity in connection with the Parties' relationship, these Value-Added Services, or any Documentation without first obtaining the prior written consent of the other Party.

5.12.8 Disparagement
A Merchant must not disparage the Corporation or any of the Corporation's products, programs, services, networks, or systems.

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I love when Americans get to tell the entire world what they can buy and share because they own all the credit cards company

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 24/07/2025

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a dangerous evening escalation of the anti-porn war on the gaming industry, indie platform @itch.io has banned a number of NSFW titles and delisted thousands of others. Trans authors are caught in the crossfire. MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.

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Major Indie Marketplace Itch.io Shadowbans NSFW Content, Trans Authors Impacted

A dangerous escalation against free speech and literary preservation from a longtime haven for transfeminine literature.

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Hi all, My work pace and income have slowed down a LOT because of my depression, and I'm worried about making ends meet through the summer while BG is out of work. Any help getting through that would mean a lot to us. Thank you all so much! www.gofundme.com/f/help-may-a...

My mental health has been in bad shape for the past few months, giving me a lot of worry about getting through the summer. Bear God has much fewer options for work while school is out, and my depression and other symptoms have made it hard for me to keep up with work at the pace I needed to hit to make sure we'd be covered for July and August.

My current focus is to find treatment for my mental health that works better for me and helps get me functioning again. I'm not sure how long that will take.

I was also hoping to be reimbursed by now for a billing error that cost me around $3000, and we haven't seen any of that money yet. We may need help covering bills for this month, August, and possibly September too before BG starts getting paychecks again.

Any help you feel willing to give would be hugely appreciated. As always, I'm immensely thankful for all of you and your incredible generosity. Bear God is thankful too.

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Queen Bailey, Defiler of Truth @thebailster.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025

Itch is currently suppressing search results for anything nsfw, so please consider checking this out and sharing it where you can. I don’t feel great just straight up saying that, but the income I get from book sales is extremely important to my survival so I need your help here.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I need people to be much more alarmed about the Steam/itch situations than they are. It’s a hop skip and a jump from banning NSFW stuff (which shouldn’t happen) to all queer media to even cishet romance to anything they find objectionable. They keep trying to ban kids’ books about talking animals.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 24/07/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Indie website itch.io has just rolled out a major shadow ban of NSFW content. This drastic escalation in censorship already seems to affecting trans authors. TRANS AUTHORS ON ITCH: Please check you pages. I am going to report on this TONIGHT. To those affrcted, DM me with any info.

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Arin 🐺 Romance Author @aafairview.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

No matter what itchio says or does in the next week: don't forget this moment. Make no mistake, itchio needs creatives and artists more than we need them.

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 24/07/2025

So why are all the games / books / albums tagged NSFW just gone? With no notice? Why did you give in to Christofascist demands without even telling us? Without even giving creators a head up that you've cut off their income and no warning that they need to find a new home? @itch.io

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nora bouazzouni @nora.bz · 21/07/2025

Communiqué de la SDJ de l'@afp.com : "Depuis que l'AFP a été fondée en août 1944, nous avons perdu des journalistes dans des conflits, nous avons eu des blessés et des prisonniers dans nos rangs, mais aucun de nous n’a le souvenir d'avoir vu un collaborateur mourir de faim." #Gaza

SDJ de l’AFP – 21 juillet 2025 – Sans intervention immédiate, les deniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir

L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ le de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd’hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook : «Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques cousins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était «tombé, à cause de la faim». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n’a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages.

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Suffered from horrible seasickness this morning you won't catch me on a boat again for a long time

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I need to get back into beta reading but there's no easy way for me to find stories I'd be interested in

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Nooe @nopekaat.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Bringing the chickens at the market 🐓

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nooe @snooe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Second Illustration ! For this one I really add more bondage than the first one hhh 👀 (still for the Tied&Bound Zine)

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I've been watching some competitive Pokemon lately and it's impressive that Youtubers in this space are on top of respecting they/them pronouns

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

It's impressive how some authors can make a romance so dry and stale by having the least interesting writing of all time. We're just going through the motions at this point.

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Fae’rynn is Writing @faerynnistired.itch.io · 15/07/2025

help my friend, please 🙏

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The best part of being paid in a currency stronger than the dollar is that I get to donate more than I think

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Fae’rynn is Writing @faerynnistired.itch.io · 05/07/2025

every day this becomes more and more urgent. we’re sooooo close ya’ll. 73% at the time of this post‼️‼️‼️

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

To my sapphic trans women mutuals if any of you do sensitivity reading here is a paid opportunity:

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 11/07/2025

If we wanna get #transbooks trending then allow me to link to mine 🥹 magicariot.com Trans books good. Trans books better than most anything else.

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Magica Riot - The Official Site

A novel about Portland's hard-rocking queer magical girls, Magica Riot.

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I can't believe people on Threads are extremely surprised and shocked when I said there isn't a single sapphic transfem romance traditionally published right now (and even less written by a trans woman)

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 10/07/2025

This is the second time in a WEEK that I've seen some shit that implies f/f and sapphic authors are succeeding TOO MUCH and I am TIRED OF IT. we are still, by orders of magnitude, less popular than m/f and m/m. But we get a SLIVER of recognition, a tiny modicum of success that still pales in

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Bad font choice is a cover killer

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I believe that you find your strongest cultural ties in food

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Cis people writing butch characters cannot stop themselves from a girly pop narrative and calling people with a strict gender expression regressive and essentialist

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Queen Bailey, Defiler of Truth @thebailster.blacksky.app · 04/07/2025

Sugar and Spice is officially up and available for download! June was a weirdly rough month for me in terms of writing, so it’s nice to finally have this sweet and spicy collection done and ready for yall to read finally 💛 bailey-saxon.itch.io/sugar-and-sp...

Cover for my smut anthology, Sugar And Spice! Model is a black woman with a gold substance on the side of her face and her hands. Her earrings are gold and dangle as well and she’s purty <3 Sugar And Spice, A Collection Of Lesbian Fantasy is at the bottom of the image in white and yellow text, and Bailey Saxon in small white text is at the top

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I forgot today was important for Americans until well into the day when people started posting about it

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

peach vs blueberry smoothie 😋

A picture of a light pink smoothie in a coca cola tall glass

A picture of a light purple smoothie in a coca cola tall glass

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I feel like books don't fuck enough with French names. Like drop the Michelle and Jean-Pierre and start investing in Côme, Maëlle, Clothilde, Louison, Tancrède, Thibaud, Apolline, Gaétan, Aliénor or Malo

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Aster @lavendersbook.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It's July which means I can share this without being early 🌈📚

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