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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Will you be there on the 27th? I’d love to buy one of your nonfiction books and get it signed.

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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 · 10/04/2026

Hello! I joined your set a bit late. Would it be presumptuous to ask if you'd mind sharing your setlist from the event? I loved what I heard in the second half of it - and whenever I tune into MUYA during your slots!

#10 What is Home, Mum by Sabba Khan is a bit of a departure from the roms and coms, but it's so pretty and it's so pink. A thoughtful, topical and deliberate memoir about immigrant identity and holding onto family histories even as she grows into a future of her own. Not queer, still very good!

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Transfixed Anthology – Strawberry Comics

#9 Transfixed Comics Anthology edited by Gina Biggs. This one is an NSFW collection of fairytales re- or newly imagined with trans and genderqueer characters. One of my favorite collections from this small press! This one also made me cry for good reasons. I love lovely love stories.

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#8 Matchmaker by Cam Marshall. A bunch of twenty-something queers helping each other find some semblance of happiness in today's late-capitalist hellscape. Has some depictions of mental health that aren't the easiest to read, but Marshall keeps a compassionately human and humorous tone throughout.

Check out Matchmaker - The complete collection of cartoonist Cam Marshall's joyful queer slice-of-life webcomic! Best friends Mason and Kimmy live through their early twenties...

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Queer graphic novels and comics by Mira Ong Chua

#6 Goodbye Princess Peony #7 Roadqueen - both by Mira Ong Chua. I've gushed about their work before, but I will do it again because the way they take manga and anime tropes and rework them into these beautifully drawn sapphic love stories between flawed characters who grow into love is so sweet.

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#5 is Fall in Love You False Angels by Coco Uzuki. This list is mainly manga because cherry blossoms and also because it's a crime how most people's reflexive image of a Sakura is Kishimoto's bleh characterization. Good manga about heterosexual women exists, I promise. This is one such series.

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Check out Fall In Love, You False Angels 1 - The Japanese hit manga rom-com comes to print! The sweet smiles across the faces of the "perfect" student council duo hide secret, tough-as-nails person...

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#4 Pink Candy Kiss by by Aoi Izumi, More miscommunication but this time...one of the women is married. To a dude. Yup. What sounds like a total sleazeball situation is actually one of the most heartachingly tender manga I read last year, with a distinct art style and sensibility.

Check out Pink Candy Kiss, Vol. 1 - Can Takara find happiness with the girl she loved in middle school? Or is she 20 years too late? After 20 years apart, Takara reconnects with Ema, the...

Pink Candy Kiss, Vol. 1

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#3 Still Sick by Akashi. More silly manga lesbeans, except this time the miscommunication is low-key toxic and high-key messy. Mostly because pink-hair does NOT know how to talk about her feelings. A sweet n sour story about burnout and art and opening up to others.

Check out Still Sick, Volume 1 - Makoto Shimizu is just an ordinary office worker, blending in seamlessly with her colleagues on the job... That is, until her coworker Akane Maekawa discovers her well...

Still Sick, Volume 1

#2 Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo. Love it when a comic makes me cry. Love it even more when it comes from a culture we don't often see in American graphic novels. A lovely cozy sci-fi story rooted in Indonesian culture about a young boy learning where to find home, and where to find love.

Lunar Boy: A Graphic Novel

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#1 Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko by Sal Jiang. I love Sal Jiang. I love the way Sal Jiang draws women. I love Ayaka's pretty pink fits and Hiroko's suits and how silly they are about each other:) lesbrary.com/ayaka-is-in-...

An F/F Office Romcom Manga: Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko! by Sal Jiang Review

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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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.

Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I adore Courtney Milan. And Alexandria Bellefleur. And my gateway, Sarah Maclean's "The Season" in high school. And I usually read/review FF, but A.J. Sterling's How To Find A Nameless Fae was my absolute favorite romance of 2025 (The Devil She Knows was a close second), and it was M/F 💚

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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 · 11/09/2025

Could always use more lesbian popcorn comedies, tbh.

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.

The Necessity of Movement: Cannon by Lee Lai Review

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

My parents both lived on farms. They don't now, but my mom has made friends with a local farmer and buys milk from them because store bought "doesn't have enough fat for butter". She boils it religiously. I was visiting once and poured some she hadn't boiled on cereal - she made me toss the cereal.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Or Animal Man by Morrison. There are points where it’s depiction of the realistic tolls of superheroism go darker than Watchmen, despite the overall brighter tone. The DC recs are not exactly lesser known, but imo they attempt deconstruction and broader complex themes like Watchmen did.

Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

- Saga by Vaughn/Staples - Swamp Thing by Moore - Enigma by Milligan - Truth: Red, White & Black by Baker/Morales - Poison Ivy by Wilson/Takara - Grendel by Wagner - Doom Patrol by Morrison - Worm by Rodriguez - Feeding Ghosts By Hulls - Abandon the old in Tokyo by Tatsumi - Sabba Khan’s 2 books

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

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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 🦖🦕💚💙

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 🤭

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.

Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Witch Hat Atelier? It’s the other big one I own physical copies of. Art is also very beautiful.

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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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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Hellblazer or Enigma. Both by Peter Milligan?

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

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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

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

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 💙❤️💛