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Sarah N. @vermillionworks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some free webcomic hosting possibilities right now besides Webtoon: ComicFury Drunkduck/The Duck NamiComi Tumblr (there are webcomic templates) Webcomic Studio (brand new) Comix Cleric (still being made)

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

HAPPY CHERRYBLOSSOM SEASON 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 Here are manga and comics with pink covers that I loved and highly recommend for THE SEASON. This will be a thread since I need to gush about these books 🧵

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Every time someone asks why and how I buy a book a month in this economy, I explain how I schedule months worth of releases every B&N preorder sale. Then one arrives ~per month. It's mostly manga and comics by people I know do good work. Like this one! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-your-sk...

Cover for trade paperback of In Your Skin graphic novel. Red background with moon-shaped circle in top center with the title in uppercase red lettering. Shows two women illustrated in greens, yellows, blacks and blues holding each other.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 27/12/2025

Share your couples art 🖤

illustration of the vampire Carmilla caressing Laura's neck while she sleeps.

illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by Guillermo del Toro's film, "Frankenstein". The scene depicts Frankenstein's monster carrying Elizabeth.

illustration of a woman straddling a demon in front of a fireplace

The "Death" card from the upcoming Vampire's Tarot from Llewellyn Publishing. Image depicts a female Death kissing a woman kneeling on a tomb in an overgrow cemetery.

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 24/11/2025

Udo Kier has passed away at 81. A singular screen presence, Kier had a long history in the horror genre, starring in films including Mark of the Devil, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Blade, Feardotcom, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears.

Black and white photo of Udo Kier in a suit

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Getting ready for movie night with friends 💚💚💚💚💚

A packet of Mexican origin coffee and a paperback Everyman edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on a maroon velvet cloth

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/11/2025

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

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J || Vampire Pyramid Scheme 🦇 🏳️‍⚧️ | ✨ Sleepiest Vamp🩸 @vampirepyramid.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Who needs sleep when there are BIPOC vampires to enjoy? 👀

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

New review up! Lee Lai's Cannon is one of the absolute best comics I've read this year. Very topical, too.

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The Necessity of Movement: Cannon by Lee Lai Review

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Fell Hound @fellhound.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

FUNeral Home is now LIVE on kickstarter! 💀⚰️ Our epic fun time oneshot of sapphic assassin shenanigans from myself, @cerealpancake.bsky.social @longtalljodie.com and Kiela Sibal!! Hope to see you at the FUNeral 🥹♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/cer...

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Coming soon: FUNeral Home: a 30 Page One-Shot Comic

A story about chosen family, processing grief, and sapphic assassins. It's not burying your gays if your gays are burying everyone.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Literally watching this right now 🦖🦕💚💙

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

New review up! Very chuffed about this one. It has a pseudonymous work by Lorraine Hansberry! Anda messy butch on butch story that will delight fans of Sal Jiang's Black and White 🤭

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Femme Fatales, Homicidal Housewives and Errant Employees: The New Lesbian Pulp edited by Sarah Fonseca and Octavia Saenz Review

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The Yossi Milo Gallery in NYC has a beautiful exhibition on through 08/22 of J. Carino‘s most recent paintings.

Side view photo of J. Carino‘s Looking Back (2025) painting. Oil and Acrylic paint on linen. 40 x 30 inches, showing upper half of figure in green with warm colored shadows lying next to water, also painted in shades of green.

Close-up photo of J. Carino’s American Progress (2025) painting. Oil and Acrylic on Linen. Close up shows donkey walking and man carrying wood on a background of oranges and browns with yellow slightly abstracted sunflowers heart them, next to a flowing river depicted in whorls of white and black. The close up is taken so the river takes up half the vertical photo and the man and donkey the other half.

Off-center photograph of J. Carino’s Flood (2025) painting. Oil and acrylic on linen. 48 x 48 inches. Shows a man painted with brown skin carefully, tenderly carrying a baby donkey through a flooding river, with a tree and the bank painted on the upper corner.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

ICYMI: The winners of this year's @graphicmedicine.bsky.social awards: Long Form: The Jellyfish by @boum.bsky.social Short Form: Sunflowers by @keezyyoung.bsky.social Educational: Breathe by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social and @sarahpeitzmeier.bsky.social Coverage: www.comicsbeat.com/here-come-th...

This year the Graphic Medicine Awards comprised three categories. The winning titles were Boum‘s The Jellyfish (Pow Pow) for Best Long Form Comic; Sunflowers, by Keezy Young (Silver Sprocket) for Best Short Form Comic; and Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding, by Maia Kobabe and Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier (Penguin Random House) in the newly introduced Best Educational Comic category.

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Ok, since this IS apparently a thing now, allow me to list/thread just a few places where people can read speculative poetry - for free!

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lu @coffinvows.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

[ butchfemme carmilla ] “Let us look again for a moment; it is the last time, perhaps, I shall see the moonlight with you.”

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

New review! Low fantasy lesbian goes on a questing Bildungsroman after getting cursed. I grew up reading Amar Chitra Katha and very old school Spider-Man. The color work in this was such a delightful trip down nostalgia lane, though the panels are bigger w/ more room to breathe than in those series

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Wishes and Curses: The Well by Jake Wyatt and Choo

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Cutting Medicaid means costs are shifted to providers. When patients lose coverage, they turn to ERs for care they can’t afford. Hospitals eat the cost, pass it on to insurers, and your premiums go up. Medicaid cuts mean a worse health care system for EVERYONE.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

On chpt 2 of @sophiegilbert.bsky.social’s book and recalling Bethann Hardison’s “Invisible Beauty”. There’s a chilling moment on the shift to girls from behind the Iron Curtain. Showed, not told, how intersecting vulnerabilities left them more exploitable than adult models with literal agencies.

Cover of Sophie Gilbert’s Girl on Girl: How pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves, on pink floral bedspread

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This is so well deserved. Their work is profoundly unsettling and also well written and rooted in compassion even as it excavates pain. A rare combination.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I’ve been reading these lately. I keep them nearby on my shelves because they are examples of an artist using their craft to tell their story, and their history. Poetry, illustration, manga, comedy and even architectural design. These books remind me why art matters, why craft and intention matter.

Copies of Worm by Edel Rodriguez, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hull, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, What is Home Mum by Sabba Khan, A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi on a pink floral bedspread.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I loved this book by James Albon so much. It takes elements from some of the best rom coms and remixes them with thoughtful, beautiful art and a sweet sapphic love story about how people in love create languages of their own 💙❤️💛

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An Unexpected Love Story in Paris: Love Languages by James Albon Review

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 27/05/2025

Home sick today. 1 like=1 obscure Yuri review from the Okazu archives.

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D.J. Kirkland @ohheydj.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Your stories and art are worth telling and sharing. They don’t have to be groundbreaking or revolutionary. They just need to be YOURS.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Dubravka Ugresic, the Yugoslav-Croatian writer who lived in exile because of her anti-war and anti-nationalist views, passed in 2023. The posthumously translated A Muzzle for Witches is her final work, returning to many of her themes. My review: anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/t...

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Vita Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

ALANNA THE LIONESS Book #1 comes out today, and I cannot express how blessed I feel to be on this team. @sambeckdraws.bsky.social is a damn rockstar, being her collaborator is such a thrill! Josh Reed's letters are perfection! Andrea Miller's design of the book is what dreams are made of!

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Song of the Lioness, Book 1: Alanna: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

A Graphic Novel Adaptation

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Liquid by Mariam Rahmani was my favorite “clearly written by an MFA” book, because of its addressing, immediately, the uncomfortable aspects of power, class, loss, history and burnout in academia, as well as the importance of connection. It tries to push away even as it seeks to be witnessed.

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A Literary Love Story of the Moment: Liquid by Mariam Rahmani Review

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls is one of few books that I would describe as a tour de force. It is layers on layers on layers grappling with inherited histories, stories, lies and responsibilities where complex matrilineal pain is tied to national myths in a moving, intricately illustrated way.

Title page of Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hull. Black page with white font.

Inside first page of Part 2 of Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls. Part title “The collapse of one mythology”. Under title, quote from Ian McLachlan book Shanghai 1949: The End of an Era. Quote is “Is that, I ask myself, the point at which it all ends? The collapse of one mythology, the start of another?…But there is another story yet, as there always is. On the other side of the flat ideology is a knot of personal trauma.”

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 16/05/2025

In her first-ever English-language interview, Green Yuri creator Sumiko Arai talks about WLW stories, the inspiration for her characters, and what's on her music playlist.

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Rockin' Out With Sumiko Arai, The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All Manga Creator

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no crying in the club (monaco) @sadaboutchiffon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

While it is very easy to see the Met Gala as a form of unnecessary excess or make jokes about the Hunger Games, the event directly funds public arts and provides resources for a preservation of history that comes with its own unique challenges, never mind fashion being undervalued as an art form

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Speaking of Poison Ivy, here’s an old but good piece I did of some fun comic reads featuring her:) lesbrary.com/times-dc-did...

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The Top Four Times DC Did Poison Ivy Justice

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

So excited to finally get my copy of Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death signed by @amychu.bsky.social. Also bought the latest Saga volume 💚💙 Please support you local comic stores today - I also got a lovely San Junipero comic preview and some neat horror ones from IDW for #FreeComicBookDay #FCBD

Title page of Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death paperback with partial author signature visible, lying on top of of speed racer, IDW Dark, Blood Type and Black Mirror issues from free comic book day.

Inside pages of free comic book day Black mirror issue illustrating San Junipero story from the Black Mirror tv show.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My latest review is for @hayleykrischer.bsky.social newest book “You Belong To Me”, aka a YA lesbian thriller set in the beauty industry with themes of identity and belonging. I especially liked how the issue of identity formation and idealizing your SO during your teen years was portrayed!

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The Dark Secrets of the Beauty Industry: You Belong To Me by Hayley Kirscher

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Just got my copy of @miraongchua.com newest release! Very excited. The bookmarks are so cute 🤍💚🖤

Picture of “The Prince in the Basement” graphic novel held up against wooden floor with five character bookmarks sticking out of the right side in a fan shape. There is silver foil on the title and author’s name.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 09/04/2025

#1C000LEST 42: Hole - Celebrity Skin Difficult to think of a pop/rock star done more comprehensively dirty than Courtney Love, who had to be better than the boys to make it at all, only to be punished when she matched them in petty self-destructiveness as well as talent.

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Hole - Celebrity Skin (Official Music Video)

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This! I’ve been stymied over my review of Liquid for the last month trying to figure out how to explain this and locate it properly in context. Reminds me what happened with Crimson Peak and Jennifer’s Body, to some extent.

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gabriel burrow @gabrielburrow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I think it's worth comparing the adaptation of her book to the current trend of Ghibli image generation. Turning something into a Studio Ghibli production takes more than anime aesthetics and a sepia filter. Here's a breakdown: gabrielburrow.com/2025/04/02/m...

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Make it Ghibli: Howl’s Moving Castle and GenAI Slop

Back in 1986 my grandmother—the late, great Diana Wynne Jones—wrote a book called Howl’s Moving Castle. Years later, it was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into an Oscar-nominated film of the same name. …

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Choosing to view this list as an absolutely brutal burn of Ayn Rand

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/03/2025

It's Women's History Month! All March, we're highlighting women who've taken valuable steps for technology, privacy, security, and free expression for us all. We encourage you to learn more, get inspired by their accomplishments, and tell us about women in tech that you admire.

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Joy Content 🏳️‍⚧️🐒 @joycontent.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

sometimes a 5/10 game can change your life in ways a 10/10 game never will

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LySandra Vuong ➡️ Covenant Vol 6 KICKSTARTER @explodikid.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Comic artists and readers! Who are your favorite comic artists and inspirations for paneling? I’m doing research for a new project and looking to spice up my own layouts 👀

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Vivian Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This tower of books is every physical copy of a work of fiction by a trans, non-binary or otherwise gender non-conforming author. These are all SFFH and nearly fill one standard bookshelf, and I'm still only scratching the surface of trans literature

A slightly precarious stack of twenty-nine books by various trans, non-binary and otherwise gender non-conforming authors. The books are a mix of paperbacks and hardcovers of various sizes, and pretty much all fall under the sci-fi/fantasy/horror umbrella.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Watching a friend play that Love and Deepspace gacha hell game and I nearly spat out my smoothie when I saw what the squirrel was named. Never thought I’d see an antiplatelet drug mentioned in an otome. As a squirrel’s name, of all things.

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