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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 16h

If you haven’t heard, my book about two very cute boys (elite level figure skaters!) is available now on KU!

Control + Heart + Pressure = Sparks on Ice; Back Outside Edge
Over illustration of two men on skates hugging.

Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Im Baz Navarre, a trans bi-leaning-gay trans man who writes MM figure skating romance! My first boon just released, so this month the goal is to write the second in the series!

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 28/09/2026

The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This cute little frog lured me to my doom… or at least into stepping on a ledge that wasn’t and crashing a few feet down to a mostly dry creek bed. So now I’m sore and scraped, but hey, I got a picture!

A brown frog in a small pond with old broken up concrete and dried redwood needles around it.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The whole list makes no sense. Top 100 based on *what*? AI vibes?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

This is ridiculous. If the team we are supposed to be rooting for is advocating for genocide, then what’s the fucking difference, you spineless twits “The anti-genocide people are why we can’t win” is the worst Liberal mantra of all fucking time

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Newsom vetoing attempts to stave off fascist overreach because he’s worried it might limit his power as an executive is so on brand I’m surprised he didn’t announce the decision first on his podcast with Ben Shapiro.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Im pretty sure that every time I rewrite this character profile that I somehow keep losing, the guy gets taller. Is this how guys end up thinking they’re half a foot taller than they are in real life? :)

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You do not need to explain, to Queer or Black or Disabled people in America, that you can't always have a perfect thing. That is not news to us. You are not providing new information. It is the height of arrogance to assume that's not already part of our understanding of the world.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If EVER a cat needed a merch line for the safety of the cat’s own species and the dopes determined to bring one home, this baby needs plushies, right now.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t know much about any of it because I’m too tired to get philosophical, but I do know that it kinda sucks when minority/safe spaces suddenly don’t allow me to be there anymore. I get it, but being a trans man is a strange place—weirdly minority/majority

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The world is worlding right now, so here’s a piece of good news! My debut novel launches on Friday!!! And you can preorder Back Outside Edge now.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hugs and stuff. From a random stranger, but nonetheless. It’s rough out there even without people in real life being shits

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trans people don't want your pity. Miss us with your regretful sorrow. We're not dead yet, we're the stalwarts fighting the good fight, on your behalf as well as our own.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I like to work outside the park visitors center sometimes because it’s pretty and people and whatever. Every single time I’m here, at least one insanely huge camper gets themselves stuck by accidentally driving into the wrong parking area.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Based on the first two performances at the kinoshita cup, this years senior ice dance is going goth

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/09/2026

Hi @greenburgerlit.bsky.social! A bunch of us authors were wondering what the basis was for your claiming 25% of the total amount for any books your agency remotely touched in the Anthropic Settlement.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oh no! Left behind? Us? What a scary thing. So scary. We're the ones that picked up anachronistic craft hobbies. We complain about "when google worked" and "when the internet sounded like dying robots" we own the Deep Magics of the PDF Conversion. We were left behind by the economy decades ago.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Junior Grand Prix. That makes a difference. She’s 13, and the obvious support was really lovely

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I must be in a mood this morning. Just cried over how sweet a coach was to his student in the figure skating grand Prix kiss and cry.

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J. Tomala (MM/Queer Romance Writer) @authorjtomala.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The season of the witch is upon us!!! And of course that means that I'll throw gay paranormal romance at you. Vampires, mafia, shenanigans, and spice. All of this and more you too can have in your life if you read one or both of these books :) #mmromance #gayromance #vampirebooks #bookrec

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You cannot say this and remain in office. He has to go. And Democrats have to make an enormous deal out of threats to exterminate an entire group of people.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I love your thread fics so much! Thanks for this. It was great!

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s really hard at first. For me anyway. Not so much for voice, because you’re just talking to your computer, but because when I type I don’t really process the words before the come out of my hands, but I have to do so to dictate. Plus I forget what I said ten seconds ago

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My wrists went out right before I started back outside edge, so I taught myself dictation. It was a life (or at least hand) saver. Except when it always thought I said rank when I meant rink… thanks for catching those! :)

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 17/08/2026

jk rowling threatens international human rights organistions and the nhs with slapp lawsuits and we still have to hear from cis ppl about how she just has opinions that we disagree with. it's not normal to be engaging in vexatious lawfare against human rights organisations and the nhs.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I want to think the right is losing. But I very recently had a conversation with a woman who has always seemed like an ally. She told me that she really liked Charlie Kirk and doesn’t believe men should be in women’s sports. Out of nowhere except, I assume, me being trans.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I woke up with this odd sense of foreboding. Haven’t seen anything so far to justify it, so here’s to hoping my brain is just confused!

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I haven’t gotten this one… if it tries to connect a natural disaster to my gender identity I’m going to have to blame wildfires for being trans, I guess

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Drumroll please… My book is available for pre-order! If you love MM romance, high stakes competitions, figure skating, and rivals to lovers, this is the book for you! Pre-order now at www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFDN2NVV/

Illustration of two men skating while looking into each others eyes with a text box stating: some people arrive in your life when everything is already on the edge. For Stefan and Evan, that means pressure, fear, and a connection neither of them saw coming. Sabotage? Make that banter, trust, and way too many feelings for one tiny room. Figure skating has never been this stressful - or this hot.
Back Outside Edge

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veryqueerbooks.bsky.social @veryqueerbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Okay, guys. Cat Shifters today, because why should the wolves have all the fun? Cat's Chance in Hell by Meghan Maslow Jacquin the Cat Mysteries by Alexis Duran Hexbreaker by Jordan L. Hawk #mmromance #bookrec #catshifters #gayromance

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Q. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Honestly, this is the worst part this whole movement: seeing that to pretty much everybody, no matter who they are, actor, viewer, parent, peer, what have you, it just doesn't matter at all. Being a virulent transphobe is an asset, not a liability, and nobody will say "nah, I refuse."

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Into random business conversations about tea. Because why not?

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

First kiss! And *then* the ‘do you like men’ conversation? Putting the cart before the horse, aren’t we? Yes, we just shared a lovely kiss. But no, men don’t interest me in the slightest?

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh, hot local carrying mc right on up those stairs like it’s nothing. Good to know tropes cross cultural boundaries

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It worked! Meditation by a stream the best cure for protein allergies! Anyone who’s recently got a tick bite, take note. Just in case.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

And now they have to wade through the jungle to find a stream to cure it? Sure, why not.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

On to Episode 3! I adore how main guy wakes up with swollen lips, and hot local just decides it’s because main guy is allergic to protein and ate too much the previous night. Like… really? That’s the allergy you’re going with?

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m pretty sure it was your post that got me started :) since I was just looking for whatever and saw it

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

For that matter, where are we? I haven’t looked it up and can’t tell languages apart, so, you know… other than somewhere in Asia, I’m at a loss. Somewhere where mushrooms eaten raw give you hallucinations I guess.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Also looked up termite mushrooms and they’re not super rare? The show makes a really big deal out of them though! And apparently they’re the only mushroom you can eat raw without hallucinations! Are these translation errors? Local folk tales?

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I gave up and found an episode description, and some things make more sense! The alternate plot line confusing the hell out of me might be flashbacks! The phone call was about main guys brother!

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Flirting with? Does he have multiple personalities? Am I confused on names? I’m totally confused on names.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ok, episode two. The boys are really flirting now! Still totally confused about whatever the hell is going on in some other plot line completely where two guys are shooting a series and flirting as well. And some people hate each other and asshole calls someone to see if he (?!?) likes the guy he’s—

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

And there’s the whole side plot that I’m utterly lost about. No idea what’s going on. And tea? Where did tea come from?

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Didn’t think of doing this for episode 1, so let’s just say I am completely confused and have literally no idea what’s going on. Movie star gets car sick (relatable!) and goes to stay with a friend of his brother (?). He’s an asshole. Friend seems to like him anyway?

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Out of sheer—something—I’m going to randomly post updates on my first watch through of one of these BL dramas people talk about…. We’re going with A Winter Sun Wakes the Wind in Spring Hill’s Dream for no reason whatsoever.

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Bastian Writes (has no idea what he’s doing) @rain-midnight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Now that I’ve spent hours formatting my book with all the cute things, I guess I’d better actually buy the software, huh?

Formatting preview of a page from my book, including text bubbles and emojis

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