iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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thea in mexico 🦋🇲🇽 @theagwrites.bsky.social · 4h

The winds of war blow through Lir once again, and Alaric and Talasyn fight to find their way back to each other. Love and duty collide as the fate of a divided world hangs in the balance… THIS SHATTERED TEMPEST is out in bookstores today! For one last time—embrace the storm 🌩️❤️‍🔥

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 6h

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 19h

Hux sits forlornly in the box office trying to read his dog-eared novel. Customers keep interrupting him to buy movie tickets. They’re all here for the Star Wars rerun, which is better, in his opinion, than most newer garbage. Even so, he prefers foreign cinema.

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 22h

farewell, San Francisco 🥹 what a wonderful trip to see friends old and new!

photo of San Francisco Bay from
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

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me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Such a joy to spend some of this past weekend with @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social, baking cookies, adventuring around, going to bookstores & reading each other’s fic in person—the power of the reylo/fandom community!!

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

In other words, these are existing forms that you engage with and use, but this is not an act of plagiarism or repetition. Instead, through iteration (repetition) and variation, these 'strong forms' 'accumulate connotations' across the genre. They become richer, more complex.

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

Romance CAN do almost any fucking thing. Having a romance plot does not mean a book isn't full of other details, other enquiries. There is no other genre that cares so much and so deeply about human relationships in all their forms.

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

I get pretty fucking sick of people assuming romance readers are stupid to be honest. As someone who works on the history of romance, who teaches romance, there is always so much going on. Reflections of and on contemporary society, questions about love and relationships, about gender...

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was very lucky to get to read this chapter before it was out in the world...lemme just say...it's both smart and extremely hot -- a winning combo!

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

UPDATE: it'd be you (I'd call my home) E | 9/20 | #reylofic #reylo 🌿 slow burn 🌿 not-just-sex work 🌿 healing together 💚 ch. 9: caught in your gaze all over again Rey arches her spine deeper, any potential shame already subsumed in the desire that prickles along her skin and begs for his touch.

moodboard with various images including a woman's torso and legs in a green satin camisole and shorts, two hands touching on ivory bedsheets, large hands chopping herbs on a cutting board, pale pink roses climbing a brick wall, overgrown stone steps in a garden, and bookshelves behind a pair of velvet chairs. the main text reads: it'd be you (I'd call my home) by peculiar galaxies.

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I might have chatted with the book purchaser at The Love Potion Library and recced a few more reylo authors.... 📚

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

San Francisco sights & sounds w @baybelletrist.bsky.social and @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social

The front window of the love potion library, our local romance bookstore and tea shop, with a copy of my dear Song Of Achilles I. The window

A plastic tub full of platform shoes being given away for free in the Castro

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Junkyard Jedi @junkyardjedi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW! That One Night Rey and Ben go on their first date. It leads to... ecstasy. #Reylo #ReyloFic

That One Night by JunkyardJediTrash

Daisy Ridley in green dress, Adam Driver in suit/tie, open, earnest expression

Background: Rave

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Maia @meetingyourmaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Day 4 - Full Moon. Dragon!Rey and King!Ben #Reyloween

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Michelle C. Harris @michelle-c-harris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So I'm going to be visiting the west coast next month! If you're within spitting distance of Costa Mesa, CA, I would love to see your face while I'm participating in @fallintobooksfest.bsky.social from November 12-14th! 🎟️ Tickets: www.fallintobooksfest.com/events/fall-...

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tov is reading rn 🦋🌒 @tovesaiko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I really wish books nowadays got proper/more editing and proofreading. I keep reading stories that have fantastic premises and characters but the writing is full of basic errors and the scenes are disjointed because no one paid attention to information structure and continuity 😭

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This and @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social & @kalx58.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️🙏🪬😇

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miranda 🐚 🌊🦈 @peanutbabysith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy Friday!! A pact is made 🦈✨ Read chapter 3 of Biology (and other made up things) archiveofourown.org/works/897623...

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Genuinely, one of the best revision tactics out there is simply to . . . not look at the story for a while. You come back and go "I know what my reasons were for doing it this way -- but omgwtfbbq was that the wrong choice, and I can see that now."

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ProfessorRen @ms-professor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Tech support, this is Rey. How can I help you?" "Your product is garbage," said a deep voice, without preamble. "I've owned this laptop for eleven days, and it refuses to turn on."

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...I spent way too much time on this and I have zero regrets. #reylo 📚🐁🦋💕

mockup of a newspaper front page: THE REYLO TIMES. special issue, September 2026. the main headline is THE RATS ARE WINNING, accompanied by an image of a white rat with pink hearts sketched below it. the other front page text includes: The Love Hypothesis, Olympus U: projects in Hollywood and 'audio fantasy' overrun. Ali Hazelwood announces Love Hypothesis sequel: The Two-Body Problem. Movie already in development.

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NIC ALIVE AND WELL @honeyskeleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the only difference between what is considered fan fiction and what is considered an adaptation is whether or not capital can exploit it. and I will be dead in a ditch before I analyze art through a capitalist lens

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

now get Rian Johnson to direct a detective murder-mystery romance. this is not even a joke. I want to see that movie.

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ghostie (𝔟𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔱) 🦋👻🍂 @ssadghostt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

fall festival vibes 🍂🍎🎃🌽 #reylofic

She’d barely looked his way all afternoon. Granted, he hadn’t really been trying to get Rey’s attention; he’d more so just wished for her to interact with him on the off chance that if he thought it at her hard enough she’d pick up on it like a radio frequency. In a shocking turn of events, that didn’t work.

It’s not like he could blame her. They were at a Fall Festival with all kinds of activities and food to distract the senses, with a group of their friends in tow. All of whom, by the way, were a hundred times more outgoing and extroverted than Ben ever could be. Of course Rey’s attention would be focused on anything other than the quiet, oversized shadow at the rear of the group.

When Finn had set up the group chat to plan this little outing, Ben’s first instinct had been to silence it or leave it. But then he saw the message “Rey Niima has been added to the chat” and scrapped that plan. When she confirmed her happy attendance, his stomach dropped and did some flips, a sickening sensation which Ben imagined to look like a dead fish just flopping around on land. That’s what this girl did to him. Deprived him of oxygen, bravery, and most of his good sense (which was low in stock as a general rule).

So, Ben spent much of the day glancing at her when he could manage it, catching the sound of her laughter over hundreds of voices, and pretending like none of it mattered to him even a little.

Later, when the moon was fat and yellow in the darkening sky and the string lights twinkled above their heads, they all sat on picnic benches next to the mini doughnut truck and waited for the haunted corn maze to start. Ben nursed a cup of steaming apple cider and surreptitiously licked the cinnamon sugar off his lips. It was all fine, until she plopped down on the bench next to him.

“Hey, Solo!” she said with a smile that held his eyes captive. “Feels like I haven’t talked to you all day.”

Because you haven’t. “It’s been busy.”

“Yeah. Excited for the maze, though,” she supplied.

“You gonna scream like you did last year? Or punch one of the actors square in the jaw like the year before that?”

“For your information, I haven’t decided yet.”

“Mm. Surprise me.”

“Are you planning to finish those?” she asked and pointed at his paper bag half-full of the melt-in-your-mouth sugary doughnuts.

“I was thinking about it.”

“Cool.” She stuck her greedy little fingers in the bag and plucked out a doughnut then tossed it straight in her mouth.

Ben couldn’t even be outraged. He just smiled as her eyes fluttered closed and she groaned in her throat.

“Oh my god. I wonder if the doughnut guy would take me home with him?”

Ben scoffed. “I think he’s some Boomer with gout. Do you still stand by that?”

“Damn. I was picturing someone else shaking this magical dust onto steaming, fresh from the oil bites of heaven.” Rey sighed. “My imagination always gets the best of me.”

“Who were you picturing?” Ben asked, entirely out of curiosity and not to torture himself with the no doubt unsatisfying answer.

Rey’s eyes glimmered as she looked at him and the corners of her lips—sparkling with sugar crystals—curled upward in a mischievous sort of way.

“Well,” she began, drawing the word out, “I was thinking of someone like—”

“Oh, it’s starting! C’mon, we’ve gotta get in line.”

Ben desperately wanted Rey to finish that thought. Leave it to Poe and his group leader mentality to ruin what could have been an interesting moment.

“Let’s go,” Rey said. She tossed another doughnut in her mouth before grabbing his hand and tugging.

He tried to ignore the way that made him feel but found he couldn’t when they were standing in line and she was still holding on.

His mouth was dry, but he said, quietly, “Rey…?”

There was that smile again and those eyes that always seemed to say more than her voice did, even if he could never quite comprehend it.

“Don’t let go, okay? If you do, I might punch somebody again.”

He smiled shyly and squeezed her hand just a little. “Are you scared or something?”

“Yeah, but you’re not. Right?”

“You have no idea.”

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...I spent way too much time on this and I have zero regrets. #reylo 📚🐁🦋💕

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

my screenwriter friend just told me that Ali's writing reminds her of mine?!?? (she hasn't even read any of my fics, only a half-finished original work.) 🥹 fucking huge compliment, this week keeps getting even more wild.

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Kate Goldbeck @kategoldbeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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🍂 @palesspareshirt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

illustration from Choose Your Destiny: A Finn & Poe Adventure by Cavan Scott, illustrated by Elsa Charretier, depicting a GNK droid and two First Order stormtroopers, the droid is saying “HONK” which I have edited to say “HONK HONK I LOVE THE LIBRARYl

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the thing that normalizes abusive dynamics in academia is the failure on the part of colleges to take action against abusers (ask me how I know), not rom-com writers who, if anything, may create narratives that are healing to survivors

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🦋Izzy💜⁷~Moon🌕Joy~🍉 @mowsyling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm overjoyed to have found this.. in the depths of the cloud.. Made ages ago... 💜😌

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Olive living her best life: at the lab with a sugary caffeinated drink in one hand and Adam’s butt in the other. 🥹💕

closeup of a selection of The Two-Body Problem cover, showing Adam and Olive from behind. Olive’s left hand is in Adam’s back pocket, and her right hand is holding an extravagant pink beverage.

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Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

let’s reverse centuries of human-caused population decline with mama

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Briar 🦋🍂🐀 @briarlily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ALI ANNOUNCED THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS SEQUEL

Cover for The Two-Body Problem, the sequel to The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood, showing the backs of the two main characters, Olive, a medium height white brunette, and Adam, a tall black-haired man, with their arms around each other. Olive's hand is in Adam's back pocket. Additional text bubbles read "In hardcover February 2nd", "More good news below", and "MRC is developing a filn based on the book for Amazon MGM Studios".

Caption on the Instagram post by Ali Hazelwood:
Ali says:
Friends! Hi! "I wrote a sequel to The Love Hypothesis" is not a sentence I thought I'd say a year or so ago, but now I weirdly can't imagine a world in which The Two-Body Problem doesn't exist. I'm really eager to talk more about this book and how it came about in the next few months. For now let me just say that the TLJ movie and its cast made me fall for Adam and Olive all over again, that revisiting them was an absolute pleasure, and that I am delighted to show you the amazing cover that @lilith_saur illustrated (I can't believe she and I go back almost a decade by now 😭)

As someone who gets VERY attached to stories and characters, I know that unannounced sequels can be blindsiding, so feel free to skip this book and overwrite it with whatever headcanon you prefer, and I'll see you on the next one! But if you want to read more about Adam and Olive, The Two-Body Problem spans a couple of years, and it's a mix of of slice of life, postdoctoral turmoil, and an unflinching exploration of the hardest challenge one will face in a long-term relationship: deciding what to have for dinner. If you pick it up, I really hope you enjoy 💙

And: Nothing is guaranteed, but MRC is developing a film based on The Two-Body Problem for Amazon MGM Studios.

More soon, ily, kthxbyeeee ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Isabella🦋 @evendia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a very ironic way this meme has become real. 🙃 #Reylo #TheLoveHypothesis

A comic strip of a dog refusing to hand over a ball with the caption of "Reylo? No Star Wars. Only Reylo" written on top of it.

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I try not to get too heavy-handed with the garden metaphors, but damn, sometimes that's just the way the English language works....

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

do you need fic recs?! I have fic recs! going to be traveling later this week, and downtime in the airport would be a perfect time to play fanfic sommelier, just saying.... #reylofic

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I will say tho, to add to @saint-heretical.bsky.social’s advice to go read old fics and leave comments & kudos (def do this!) ALSO there are new reylo writers appearing every day & the work being written right now is fucking amazing & getting fewer readers than ever…so read brand new fic too

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☁️ sal ☁️ @buriedbloom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

art imitates life imitates art imitates life 🧪🧬 #reylo #thelovehypothesis

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Cello is fundraising for The Trevor Project🦋 @altocello.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I may not have been able to run a race this fall to celebrate my birthday, but I can run a fundraiser! Help me support @trevorproject.bsky.social in their efforts to prevent LGBTQIA+ suicide, & get a cute funny top w/a design by me! www.bonfire.com/barely-hangi...

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Barely Hanging On | Bonfire

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oh no it’s actually another trilogy made by white men. I don’t want to get on this rollercoaster. 😭

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ProfessorRen @ms-professor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Professor Rey Niima sighed and capped her red pen. It had run dry on page 52. "Mr. Solo. Your dissertation is 540 pages. The limit is 300." He folded his hands on the desk between them, and a silky black wave fell into his eyes. "I'm aware."

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miranda 🐚 🌊🦈 @peanutbabysith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Biology (and other made up things) 🐚🦈 chapter 2 archiveofourown.org/works/897623...

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

some spice and caretaking for your saturday! 👀

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Working on a Paper Tiger au // 1980s NYC // crooked cop Gary Pearl x Times Square stripper Rey

A woman wearing red stocking and suspenders lies on a bed in a green-tinged room, with a beaded lamp behind her. We only see her legs and one thigh

In the dim crimson haze of the club floor, the man comes into focus. It only takes Rey a split-second to assess him, to check — as she always does— for danger. Even sitting, beer in his hand, he's a head taller than the others, with long, dark that curls at the back of his neck. Her trained eyes find the thick gold watch on his wrist that smacks of a heavy wallet. Pinky rings glint from each of his two little fingers and that tells her he's a man who likes the sound of his own voice, who'd prefer her to play dumb. Immediately, she puts on her best saccharine smile.

But then he looks from the table and meets her eye and it stops Rey in her tracks. She is used to being looked at by desperate men, each part of her separated out and on display, like meat under a butcher's cleaver. She's used to being sold for parts, like the gold jewelery the old women hawk at the faded pawn brokers along Eight Avenue. What she's not used to is a look like this cop is giving her, one that seems to take all of her in at once, like a gaping jaw ready to swallow her whole.

This man is not just a lamb to be fattened up and taken for all he's worth. This man is a wolf.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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