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Queer Indie Awards @qiawards.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

Thank you to our strong community for all you do. You are seen and heard. An important announcement from the #QIAwards team:

Queer Indie Awards has been informed of the situation regarding Freydís Moon and all other associated aliases. We have made the decision to rescind any awards granted to Freydís Moon in the past, and disqualify any current or future pen names of such person in subsequent award years.
Our social media and website has been updated to reflect such changes.
Thank you,
Queer Indie Awards.

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Queer Indie Awards @qiawards.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

WINNERS have been announced on IG & TWT/X. Website updates will be live later this week. Thank you for everyone’s participation this year!

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Queer Indie Awards @qiawards.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

☀️ ! ANNOUNCEMENT ! ☀️ Due to the global social media strike in support of Palestine, voting has been extended through February 2nd to allow everyone to participate !

2023 Queer Indie Awards. Voting Extended open through February 2nd. Find the poll at: QIAwards.wordpress.com

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Queer Indie Awards @qiawards.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

VOTE NOW! Jan 22-26th only! See website for poll.

2023 Queer Indie Awards, Voting OPEN. QIAwards.wordpress.com

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Queer Indie Awards @qiawards.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

💥UPDATE!💥 Voting times have CHANGED! With the huge growth of the #QIAwards this year, our team needs a little more time to get everything ready. See you JAN 22-26th for VOTING! 🤩🌈

2023 QUEER INDIE AWARDS VOTING OPEN JAN 22-26 voting form at QIAWARDS.WORDPRESS.COM

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Queer Indie Awards @qiawards.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

❌And we're finished! ❌ Submissions for the #QIAwards are now CLOSED! Coming in at a mind-boggling 419 submissions, we're going to have our work cut out for us when preparing for Voting, opening JAN 15th!

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Gavin / G. B. Ralph @gbralph.com · 05/12/2023

Submissions are open for the 2023 Queer Indie Awards (@qiawards.bsky.social)! I would love it if you'd consider nominating Poison at Penshaw Hall for any/all of the listed categories 😊 For more info on how to nominate your favourite queer indie books of 2023, head to qiawards.wordpress.com 🌈📚💙🔎💀📚👀

Nominate for the Queer Indie Awards. Poison at Penshaw Hall by G B Ralph. Best Overall Mystery/Thriller. Best Sequel. Best Lead Character: Addison Harper. Best Supporting Character: Mabel Zhou. Best Romantic Relationship: Addison Harper & Jake Murphy. Best Friendship: Addison Harper & Mabel Zhou.

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Sarah "Neila" Elkins @neilak20.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Book of CoL is about an asexual genderfluid shapeshifting detective and I myself am panromantic asexual so I'm pretty sure it qualifies if you'd like to submit it for the Queer Indie Awards tapas.io/series/Book-... #queer #webnovel #LGBTQIA+ #asexual #ace #QIAwards

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

I'm eligible with CITY OF EXILE this year! It's good for General Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Best Sequel, and IMO deserves some Best Supporting, Best Villain, and Best Friendship/Platonic Rship. But please, definitely get your favourite books in the right categories, give them some love!

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Antlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

My dark, romantic Oz urban fantasy STRAW SOUL (pub this year by indie house @gpub.bsky.social) features a subtly transmasc Scarecrow, genderqueer Queen Ozma Tip, gay & ace characters, Norwegian folklore, evil still lurking in Oz, & issues of identity, acceptance, & found family by this queer author!

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ML Stevens 🦇 @mlstevens13.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Queer Indie Awards are open! If anyone would like to nominate The Messages We Send Each Other for Best romantic relationship Best YA Best friends Or any other categories it fits in, I would forever be your friend 🥺

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Charlie Novak @charlienwrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

My 2023 releases Like I Needed, Like I Pretended, Like I Wanted, Pole Position, and Drama Queen are all eligible to be nominated if you'd like to submit them 💕

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City 10/6! @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Submissions open today for this year's Queer Indie Awards (@qiawards.bsky.social) and I'd love if you'd toss a nomination to TRUTHSEEKER in the listed categories! Check out qiawards.wordpress.com for more info on how to nominate your fave indie books of 2023 ✨

a digital mockup of "truthseeker" by talli l. morgan against a gold background with sheet music in the back. text reads: nominate truthseeker in the queer indie awards! best fantasy/epic fantasy, best YA, best adventure, best lead character, best supporting characters, best cover. @qiawards / qiawards.wordpress.com

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Sarah "Neila" Elkins @neilak20.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Do you love a queer indie book? Submit it for the Queer Indie Awards!

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Taylor 🌸Lots of Gay Books 🌸 Author @eldritchflower.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Award Season is still upon us! If you enjoyed A Corruption of Souls, please consider nominating it for any of these categories for @qiawards.bsky.social qiawards.wordpress.com/submissions-...

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Blackbird @blackbirb.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

It's time! As I said I wanna see more nominations for best Web Serial/novel this year. So, if you don't know who to nominate, below are some of my picks: The Blade/Dancer by @artemymandus.bsky.social Book of CoL by @neilak20.bsky.social The Magician and The Bard by @earlronove.bsky.social (1/2)

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Martis the Brazen qualifies for: Best Overall Fantasy, Best Epic Fantasy, Best Romance, Best Novella A Love So Dark qualifies for: Best Romance, Best Sequel, Best Lead Character (Campbell) and Best Supporting Character (Sofia) 👀

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 01/12/2023

Runes of Fall is elegibile for Best Urban Fantasy, Best Fantasy Romance, Best Adventure, and obviously 😉 all the meta categories: Best Cover, Best Lead Character, Best Supporting Character, Best Villain, Best Romantic Relationship, Best Friendship, Best Worldbuilding, and Best Sequel!

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Darby Harn @darbyharn.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I'd be grateful if you nominated Stargun Messenger for the @qiawards.bsky.social this year. The book is eligible for: Best Overall Space Opera Sci-Fi Best Cover Best Lead Character (Astra Idari) Best Supporting Character (CR-UX) Best Worldbuilding Thank you! qiawards.wordpress.com/submissions-...

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Submissions

OPEN: DEC 1 - 31, 2023. SUBMISSION FORM SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Indie: Small Press & Self Published books, web novels, and authors.Queer: Whether pertaining to the identity of the author OR the charact...

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 01/12/2023

looking forward to voting time in January 😌 for now, nominate your favorite queer indie books!

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S.S. Genesee @geneseedraws.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I would be delighted if anyone nominates All Tomorrow's Photos or All Yesterday's Papers for any QIA categories 🫶✨

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Lalo! @lalowolveralo.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

It's time!!! I had two books that came out this year, please consider nominating Forgotten Lyric and Blood in the Water for the Queer Indie Awards!

An image of the cover of Forgotten Lyric by Carolina Cruz. Text reads: nominate The Forgotten Lyric for Queer Indie Awards! Best fantasy, best romantic relationship, best lead character (Asa or kennet), best book cover, best sequel

Also nominate Blood in the Water by Carolina Cruz! Best Horror, best novella, best web serial

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Queer Indie Awards @qiawards.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

🌈🎉 IT'S TIME! 🎉🌈 Submissions for the #QIAwards 2023 season are OPEN from Dec 1st-31st! See our website for the submission form, guidelines, and category specifications. 🥳

2023 queer indie awards submissions open. QIAwards.wordpress.com

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Queer Indie Awards @qiawards.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Happening THIS FRIDAY!! For the entire month of December #QIAwards submissions will be open. Please see our website and/or submissions form for all details and requirements. Here we go again! 🥳🎉🌈

2023 queer indie awards submissions open dec 1-31. Submission form and guidelines at: QIAwards.wordpress.com

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Queer Indie Awards @qiawards.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Thanks to everyone for their feedback! It seems our feed wasn’t updating as accurately as we’d anticipated, and we hope to have snagged everyone’s missed posts now. Fingers crossed for more efficient & user friendly updates to bsky in the future! Again, if we still missed you pls let us know! 🌈📚🫶🏼

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 13/10/2023

A bookish enby heir striving in their perfect father's shadow A pacifist keen to preserve his late father's legacy A feisty Aussie history nerd out of her depth & out of her world Monsters sent by an enemy of unclear intent Magic, mystery & adventure YA Fantasy: elisecarlson.com/books/ 🌈💙📚📣 QIApit

Manipulator’s War Moodboard: title centred.
Top left: fire arrows rain down on torch-lit battlements atop a castle, at night time.
Top centre: portrait of young Heir Ruarnon, their hair braided back, eyes outlined with kohl, wearing fitted bronze armour, a bronze disc kilt, holding a helmet in their left hand and leaning on a spear with their right, a quiver of arrows at their hip.
Top right: man in green tunic with long hair holds bow.
Bottom left: sailing ship with triple masts and flags sails across the sea.
Bottom centred: Asian teen in high school blazer and uniform sits slumped, hugging her legs, her long hair in pig tails.
Bottom right: person leaps the gap between two cliffs.

Secrets of the Sorcery War moodboard: title centred.
Top left: footsteps trail across two sand dunes in orange desert.
Top centre: waves wash up on shore under dark, cloudy skies.
Top right: wooden board walk hangs between tree tops in dark forest.
Bottom left: volcano on small island smokes.
Bottom centred: portrait of young Heir Ruarnon, their hair braided back, eyes outlined with kohl, wearing fitted bronze armour, a bronze disc kilt, holding a helmet in their left hand and leaning on a spear with their right, a quiver of arrows at their hip.
Bottom right: three masted sailing ship sails across bright blue waters between two cliffs, into sunlight.

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Glenn Quigley @glennquigley.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

When a storm strikes his tiny island home, burly gay fisherman Robin Shipp's life is turned upside-down and he is sent on a journey that will change his life forever. And maybe, just maybe, the lives of everyone else, as well. #QIAPIT QIAPIT

Three novels named THE MOTH AND MOON, THE LION LIES WAITING, and WE CRY THE SEA, surrounded by nautical bric-a-brac.

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Glenn Quigley @glennquigley.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Book 1: The Moth and Moon (The storm strikes!) Book 2: The Lion Lies Waiting (Political intrigue and family drama!) Book 3: We Cry the Sea (Pirates!) mybook.to/mothandmoont... QIAPIT #QIAPIT

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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

TRUEFLAME features your new favourite bi disaster fighting the patriarchy with dragons. zero romance, just queer mom rage manifesting as literal fire. come for the dragons, stay for the pissed off queer woman literally burning it all down. SO MUCH FIRE. QIAPIT

books2read.com

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Trueflame by Vanessa Ricci-Thode

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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

FIREBORN is for everyone who watched HTTYD and thought it needed more astrid. and make it GAY. this one's got the lesbian teen blacksmith you didn't know you needed in your life. plus SO MUCH FIRE MAGIC! QIAPIT

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Fireborn by Vanessa Ricci-Thode

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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

FIREBOUND is out next month! this is the epic team up featuring all 3 MCs and your fave side characters from the previous books. it's about queer joy and overcoming grief. AND there's a hilarious baby dragon QIAPIT

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Firebound by Vanessa Ricci-Thode

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Shimaira ⛥ @shimaira.com · 14/10/2023

As Lord Deminas' new chambermaid, Meya quickly learns all her predecessors have disappeared & the lord enjoys the taste of blood. Together with her lover Nina, she must find a way to avoid being the next one to vanish. 🔞 Slow-burn erotic gothic horror 💞 Polyam ~Own voices QIAPIT #NA #A ✍️🔥🖤📚😱🌈📚💙📢📚

"What do you think will become of me? Will he kill me? Will he drink my blood until I turn lifeless like my predecessors?" Her voice quivered. "Will I eventually vanish like them?" ~ Quote from My Lord by L.B. Shimaira

He gripped her red locks firmly and pulled her head aside, baring her neck. His teeth grazed the sensitive skin, causing goosebumps to rise. "I may own your body, but it's your soul that I want." ~ Quote from My Lord by L.B. Shimaira

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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

I was hesitant to share this, as it’s an early WIP, but … THE BRIDE OF HELL Twin Peaks + Silent Hill + an enthusiastic community theater production of The Crucible An epistolary novel. Two people follow a missing friend back to her hometown and find old fears, trauma and folk legends. 🌈📚😱 #QIAPIT

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C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 14/10/2023

#QIAPIT The future of the world is in the hands of a playboy whose image drives people insane, and humanity's fate depends on him facing his family's eldritch god progenitor. Except Wes would rather let the world burn than go through a break-up, and now *both* his partners "need space". (We're fkd)

The Day We Ate Grandad by C. M. Rosens - extract of a review by Meredith Debonnaire.

"With her trademark humour and anachronistic worldbuilding, C.M Rosens takes us on a darkly funny ride through cosmic and gothic horror via family melodrama and the terror of the mundane. My favourite aspec cannibal, Ricky, continues to attempt relationships with people. He has, it must be admitted, limited success. But at least part of that is Wes' fault, who is really really trying but manages to screw people over and accidentally start a cult despite his best efforts. And Katy is carrying the burden of being perhaps the most emotionally able of the lot, which, considering she is a teenage killing beast, does not speak well to the state of anyone else. She is also coming to grips with what being the Beast and in control of herself might mean. Carrie/Fairwood House would very much like people to just stop messing with Ricky, please and thank you. (Cont in replies)

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Jaye F.R. Coates @jfrcoates.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Transformation, rebellion, and no shortage of queer characters. A perfect sci-fi book for QIAPIT readers - and better still, it's on special this month!

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

I missed #QIApit but I pubbed a YA/NA paranormal romance about angels and demons that riffs on Twilight, emo music, and the 2010s. Check it out? www.amazon.com/Rebellion-Ch...

a dark and light version of a demon boy with black wings holding a white brunette girl

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A L N A perera @alnaperera.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Shadow Mirage: Epic fantasy, episodic + longer arcs Lastak is 15, a mage, and on the run from her past under a fake name. It will catch up to her, but she's determined to not go down unknown and without a fight. She is taken in by a bunch of misfits, and hijinks ensue. #QIApit #F

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A L N A perera @alnaperera.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Ravens flight: Fantasy setting, spy thriller. Multiple factions with their own agendas. 1000 year war on uneasy hiatus. Antagonists whose objectives are unclear. 3 MCs with different goals. Loads of worldbuilding. (1st book 140k, others will only get bigger) #QIApit #F maybe #YA

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mito 🦎 @benjisbento.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Hello QIAPIT! King Issaery's Quest is a D&D-inspired fantasy romp over multiple continents in a queer-normative world as a bard, an exile, and an unconventional kingdom's two princes (gender neutral) journey out to find the next King (also gender neutral). Will one of them claim the crown?

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

ICE UPON A PIER is a 24k-long fantasy lesbianoir presented as a memoir told in past & present, with tricks and treats like: 🖤 Be crime, do gay interviews ❄️ Tracksuit mafia 🖤 Sapphic tragedy ❄️ Ice magic 🖤 Poison magic ❄️ Queer rage QIAPit #QIAPit #A #NOV #UF

The cover of ICE UPON A PIER overlaid on a bleached background with a subway, a pier, a lady in a blazer, and snow-covered NYC from unsplash

Cover by Aleta Perez

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

AquaShame's true name and its artist will be revealed on October 24th, 2023 🫀 Secondary world fantasy 🦟 Inspired by 20th Century Russia 🫀 A secret vampire 🦟 Treason 🫀 War brewing 🦟 "oh no, it's the consequences of my actions" 🫀 High heat QIAPit #QIAPit #A #DF #HR

An aesthetic for AquaShame's first volume with a pen, a mosquito on a flower, Warsaw's old town, and the interior of a castle. The border is an illustration done by the artist to be revealed on October 24

AquaShame Series Reveal October 24, 2023

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Sapphic dark romantasy A witch raised to slay beasts, Basia believes she’d always fight alone until she meets Hanka, a cast out bard with no allies Together, they’ll rage against an eternal darkness, though the light has been sealed away - for good reason #QIAPit #A #DF #R

Aesthetic for my sapphic unannounced romantasy with girls kissing, a dandelion on fire, moon, snow, and girls holding hands

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Queer Indie Awards @qiawards.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

THAT'S A WRAP ON QIAPIT ! Thank you to everyone who joined in. We're so grateful for this community of talented folks. 🌈 🚨If we missed your post pls comment so we can share it! DON'T FORGET: QIAwards 2023 season is coming up QUICK, so start making those nomination lists! Stay tuned!

white image with a purple border that says: 2023 Queer Indie Awards Season opens december 1! be sure to follow us for updates!
Twitter and Instagram #qiawards, bluesky @qiawards.bsky.social, website qiawards.wordpress.com

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Desdemona Rose @desdemonarose.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

My #WIP, the Talitha Harbor Series A distant planet, a eco-centric society, and people who think they know better than the rest. It starts with Mist, raised by their kidnapper to live outside of society. Queer Rep Non-binary MC Dark and complex #QIAPIT #queerAdultSFF

Broken Mist novel Mood Board, starting from the top left includes a dark wooden knight chess piece, a small image of an dense forest, and a orange and brown polished stone. There's a quote under the line that says, "I promise to keep you safe, and I will." The next line of images is a hand drawn wooden rabbit with a note around it's neck that says, "keep it safe," and next to that a black and white image of someone's face where you just see an eye, which is bright amber.

Below that a quote, "What would you like to be called," and next to it the phrase, "A name that hasn't caused pain." Behind the name is a image of a tablet, next to the tablet to the left is a dark beige rammed earth wall. Over top both images is hand drawn flower with three seedpods in the middle, three dark blue heart shape pedals evenly spread around, and three white long thin peddles between the dark blue yes. Below that, the quote, "Wisp would pretend not to be sad so the others could feel better."

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Andi is 🏳️‍⚧️ RE-DRAFTING DESECRATE 🏳️‍⚧️ @andromedaexists.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I've got one more for ya, QIAPIT this time around, for Desecrate! What if Marcion was right about catholicism? What if there were two Gods that created the Earth and everything on it? And what if the second God, the God of the Material, was imprisoned by their own creation?

a moodboard for Kit, the main character of Desecrate. It has 10 images and is black and red themed. Three of the images have text that read:
- Your god is not here
- I wonder what I look like in your eyes
- Come as you are

a google search meme for desecrate. the background is an ornate window, there is a white ram's skull in the top left corner, a halo in the top right corner, and smoke in the bottom right corner. The search results read:
- Is it possible to chain up a God?
- Marcion proto-orthodox Christianity
- Is it normal to be sexually attracted to a skull?
- definition of hierophilia
- Am I a prophet? quiz

A WIP menu for Desecrate, the options include:
Chicken Parmesan Sandwich - A meaty filet of religion breaded and served with ooey gooey sacrilege and a sweet academic sauce
Pot Roast - small town roast, country queers, and strong platonic bond slow cooked in a found family
Corned Beef Brisket - agender God seasoned with unbreakable bonds, rage, and thousands of years of torture
Side of Jojos - unrequited love served with a side of devotion
Potato & Kielbasa Casserole - aromantic asexual priest and celibate queer nun seasoned with holy devotion to friendship
P.O.C. Potato & Cheddar Pierogi - hierophili and sacred kink wrapped in home made monster fucking
Full Farmer Breakfast - prophetic dreams, night terrors, ritualistic torture, and two slices of "oh god why?"
Chicken and Dumplings - rediscovery of ancient scrolls topped with remnants of untranslated heretical texts
MPV (Meat, Potatoes, Veg) - multiply disabled characters, platonic shenaniganery, and destruction of the church

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