Reposted by Lena ColeJenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 20hI remember when Heated Rivalry came out, my sister and I were explaining the book series to my brother-in-law, and he was like, "well, hey, that's kind of neat! almost like an MCU thing, where the world keeps expanding book by book and you get to know all these different characters" 2352
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Forcing myself to do the hard work of getting Arrow Collar Man up on the different platforms this evening. Managed Amazon but am getting stymied on other sites ... 000
Reposted by Lena ColeLena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026marymarchbanks.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/c... - in which Mary is pestered by a charming gentleman in company, and comes to a decision regarding Mr. Blackstone's offer of magic lessons. 022
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026marymarchbanks.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/c... - in which Mary is pestered by a charming gentleman in company, and comes to a decision regarding Mr. Blackstone's offer of magic lessons. 022
Reposted by Lena Colederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking. 329164292129
Reposted by Lena ColeKhonri @khonri.com · 23/09/2026I'm testing out using Leaflet and decided to make an opinion piece on prompt games that apparently became the equivalent of nearly 66 bluesky posts. I hope you like proper long-form Khonri, because this is more my element.khonri.leaflet.pubso you want to run a prompt game?a tired person's thoughts on hosting community engagement bait 155821
Reposted by Lena ColeAda Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ada Lovelace Day is coming up soon, on Tuesday 13 October, so if you're celebrating in any way, please add your event to our calendar. If it's a private/internal event, you can set it to 'private'. Add your event: findingada.com/worldwide-ev... What's on: findingada.com/worldwide-ev... 210140
Reposted by Lena ColeTuatha @tuatha.ie · 22/09/2026The Autumn Equinox is upon us. A time of balance between night and day. Evidence of the importance of the equinox can be found at Cairn T, one of the Neolithic passage tombs that crown the hills around Loughcrew, Meath, Ireland. Its passageway is aligned to the equinox sunrise. #Ireland #Equinox 116345
Reposted by Lena ColeMass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Remember this iconic cardigan? Well PhD researcher Neve from @manchester.ac.uk has written us an excellent blog post looking at this, and lots of other creative submissions, to our 1988 directive on clothes and personal appearance! massobs.org.uk/2026/09/21/e... #skystorians 0144
Reposted by Lena ColeKate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This feels like a quietly appropriate approach to autumn dressing, a loose early #1880s ‘at home’ kind of gown in reddy brown challis, a lightweight blend of wool & silk. The Watteau pleat at the back & panels at the front are embroidered with pale forget-me-nots #newcanaanmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 417131
Reposted by Lena ColeKate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Printed leaves become appliquéd leaves the higher up the dress they travel. Blurry pastels become more defined and the edges frame the shoulders, finished with a pale pink bow. Pierre Balmain, 1954 #V_and_A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 612023
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Finally rewriting the beginning of A Run of Better Fortune, and it feels very good to replace the original first chapter with something much more immediate and full of characterization. I've got a good feeling about this book! #WritingCommunity 270
Reposted by Lena ColeCallisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW! @callistokhan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you want really great ace rep and feel cheated by how underdeveloped Sayolara is on that front, I recommend this absolutely delightful lesbian monster x monster hunter (sort of) romance by John Wiswell. The romance between fmc (a monster that takes the shape of a human, which has similar trans 4277
Reposted by Lena ColeAlex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's #SapphicSeptember! I'm giving a rec for every day until the end of September! Today, I'm recommending Fire at Her Fingertips by @bookspotlight.bsky.social mybook.to/WDd0F 02314
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026marymarchbanks.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/c... In the latest chapter of MARY MARCHBANKS, we meet the cool and mysterious Olive Randolph, who will shortly become a more major character in the story. 😍🌈💜marymarchbanks.wordpress.comChapter VIIIThursday morning seemed to pass as quick as a wink, between our new habit of late rising and the flurry of activity required by the ball that evening. After breakfast, I found myself required and s… 000
Reposted by Lena ColeW&S_BOOKCLUB @wsbookclub.bsky.social · 18/09/2026@biblionerdrflxn.bsky.social reviews Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske. 044
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In current project - he'd have a solo about getting what he wants that's kind of a reprise of his earlier rollicking drinking song in a minor key (or modulated in some other way). In Mary Marchbanks - something like "Mother Knows Best" from Tangled, starting more delicate and ending BELTED. 030
Reposted by Lena ColeKate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is a gown I revisit every so often for its outrageously rich colour & extravagant silhouette. The early 1830s ballooning sleeve is a divisive detail, some people love it, others not so much. I am firmly in the love it camp precisely because they are so enormous #museumatfit #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 1015120
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Mary Marchbanks update: marymarchbanks.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/c... In which Mary re-encounters Mr. Blackstone in London. (Next time: Olive enters the narrative, this is NOT A DRILL! 🌈💜 #SapphicSeptember #sapphic)marymarchbanks.wordpress.comChapter VIIThe next morning was a very strange experience for me, as it was the first time I had spent the night anywhere but at Marchbanks Hall; in addition, the result of our having had supper at nine-thirt… 110
Reposted by Lena ColeKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/09/2026But people need a break. People need to consume art, it's what we are as a species. And people need to create, in whatever ways. That's not a 'nice to have', it's a necessity, and grinding it out of people is criminal. Just...don't let anyone tell you you oughtn't be creating, for whatever reason. 218530
Reposted by Lena ColeKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/09/2026Create things, and enjoy things that other people have created. Those things will keep your humanity fed and watered. And God knows we need more of that. 116025
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I was away for a few days, and wrote about 3,800 words! Mostly on airplanes. They're such a good place to trap you with the manuscript ... 020
Reposted by Lena ColeStephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A quick reminder: you can preorder the epic conclusion to the Queens of Villainy trilogy, my sapphic marriage-of-convenience romantasy novel Melting the Ice Queen, for 25% off from @barnesandnoble.com with the code PREORDER25 today or tomorrow: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/melting-th... #romancelandia 14335
Reposted by Lena ColeOscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Something we don't talk about much - these stones are maybe 2 billion years old! They're Lewisian Gneiss, a local rock laid down in the Precambrian, before complex life evolved! Puts the 5000-year stone circle into perspective! 📍Callanish stones, Scotland 📸 Me🏺 #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology 015624
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Something I realized recently wrt depictions of corsetry in fiction is that most people are only seeing them on dress forms from a distance. That makes them look like hard, solidly shaped shells that have to be cracked open to be taken off. 🗃️🪡 1308
Reposted by Lena ColeDD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Blair wasn’t used to women looking down at her. She felt drunk. And as she stared at the countess, she realized that she felt aroused as well. Something boiled deep in her, throbbing within her hips. www.patreon.com/posts/155627...patreon.comCaptive of the Crimson Countess Chapter 16 | D.D. Ward is WritingBlair caught up with Nadia in the dining hall. The other women milled around, ignoring Nadia. When they realized that Blair had arrived to s 061
Reposted by Lena Cole🏳️🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 04/09/2026It has come to my attention that I never actually set my sale to "live" .... Well, it's live now! go buy my books! #SapphicBooks #QueerBooks 💙📚🌈📚🌶️ 0125
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It feels appropriate that my birthday is in Sapphic September. 010
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Sapphic Cinderella retelling set in fantasy 1920s, in pastiche style. books2read.com/u/470Rd7 #PromoSky #BookSky #10WordPitch 160
Reposted by Lena ColeArden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 04/09/202634 hours left to get this Queer Historical Indies Bundle and stock up on gay, trans, and sapphic books featuring knights, pirates, vampires, and explorers in settings including ancient Greece, Arthurian England, the Age of Sail, Colonial America, and 1920s Cthulhu mythos. ✨ itch.io/b/3875/queer... 13136
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A self-indulgent shopping interlude in which Catherine tries on corsets. (Self-indulgent for both me and Olympia.) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity 🌈💜 0143
Reposted by Lena ColeKate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sometimes just a detail is enough to appreciate. This #1770s gold ribbed silk gown has quite a story from its many alterations, refashionings and later use as fancy dress but this point here is beautifully constructed, seams and sharp pleats and covered buttons all a-glow #VandA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 518634
Reposted by Lena ColeWorn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Worn #onthisday in 1901 by the four sons of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar, photographed in London. The three youngest wear wide Eton collars, named for the boarding school they attended near Windsor, UK; the oldest was enrolled at Oxford, where he played on the university polo team. #OTD 📷️ V&A Museum 0143
Reposted by Lena ColeKate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So satisfyingly neat with its lilac panels, some striped some plain, bisected with stripy buttons. Heather Firbank truly took her name into sartorial life with shades of purple throughout her wardrobe. This c1912 gown is by Mascotte with unusual twist of a label inside #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 29823
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I love how difficult Olympia finds ignoring or being unmoved by Catherine throughout this entire story. #WIPSnips #WriteSky (Please, graphic, upload as words rather than a void.) 091
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Patreon is driving me crazy ... I thought briefly about serializing romance fiction over there so started an 18+ creator page. They hit me with the age verification thing and I went eh, don't need this, so deactivated my creator page. But now they've turned off my ability to see any 18+ content? 120
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Can't believe I only use "button" twice! Here's the selection I like more: #WIPSnips #WriteSky 040
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026From the early chapters of A Run of Better Fortune! Reminding me that I will someday need to fill in the placeholder "[write the whole blackjack game]". #WIPSnips #WriteSky 1101
Reposted by Lena ColeSkulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Our Mari of Autumn (Subtle) 2582174
Reposted by Lena ColeAubrey 💖🏳️🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026ATTENTION SAPPHIC LADY KNIGHT ENJOYERS 🏳️🌈⚔️ 22512
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Did we ever figure out a replacement for Draft2Digital other than uploading to every retail website individually? #WritingCommunity 020
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Not clickbait! A real discussion of the process I went through over the last month or so. Plus a discussion of an 1860s portrait. buttondown.com/lenacole/arc... #WritingCommunity #FashionHistorybuttondown.comHow to End Writer's Block (By Writing)After being blocked and only intermittently able to write for the last few months, I seem to have cracked the problem! Lately I’ve been getting in the groove... 041
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I forgot that I made this! I should use it every time I post a chapter. 011
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This weekend's Mary Marchbanks chapter! marymarchbanks.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/c... In which Mary has a migraine, and gets some news that's hard to take in because of said migraine.marymarchbanks.wordpress.comChapter VI woke the next morning with a splitting headache, the worst I had had in years. They did tend to come with some regularity, sometimes from understandable causes and sometimes with no warning, but … 010
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I'm finally back in the groove of writing every day, yay! 120
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 22/08/2026In this week's chapter, we meet an unassuming character who couldn't possibly have any greater importance down the line ... marymarchbanks.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/c...marymarchbanks.wordpress.comChapter IVEven though it had been decided that new clothes must be got in London in order to be as fashionable as possible, it was still necessary to make sure everyone else was well-outfitted for the journe… 000
Reposted by Lena ColeElizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026'Archaeologist Lynne McKeggie added: "When site staff first saw the pit and how well the stone lining was built they thought it might be modern, but the finds inside, and this style of building, all point to an Iron Age date."'bbc.comArchaeologists uncover Iron Age woman in 'beautifully made' graveThe discovery was made ahead of a planned expansion of a Highland quarry. 23311
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not so much a misunderstanding, but Olympia and Catherine are just on completely different wavelengths and do Not talk about how they see themselves and each other, which means that they definitely don't understand the signals they're sending or receiving. 260
Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I just listened to the first chapter today, and LOVED it: open.spotify.com/episode/0vME...open.spotify.comCh. 1 - Mr Warren's Profession narrated by Gary Furlong (audiobook sneak peek!)Right Here Write Queer · Episode 021