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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.

Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have absolutely no metrics or data to back this up, but it feels like there should be more overlap between Laura Kinsale fans and Judith Ivory fans than there is?

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The best parts of adopting a dog are, in order: 1. Giving them weird nicknames 2. Rewriting song lyrics to feature those weird nicknames 3. Companionship

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Sam Grittner @samgrittner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

All the wrong people hate themselves.

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Would pay good money (if I had, you know, good money) to see this particular line brought to the screen

““It’s my pleasure,” David said, and then, very softly, added, “It always was.””

— A Gentleman's Position: A Society of Gentlemen Novel by KJ Charles
https://a.co/096sedat

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Who wants to recommend Heated Rivalry fics to me? HEA is a must, and decently solid editing preferred

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think there are a fair number of romance authors who almost always slot their characters into “the one who needs” and “the one who provides.” And there’s nothing wrong with that dynamic! Some of my fav books have it. But I’m alway impressed when a book can go beyond that

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“God has a plan for you” No, thanks. I’m familiar with his work

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 08/08/2026

Always good to clarify with your partner whether you're having sex gratuitously or for plot reasons

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not telling anyone what single item I plan to spend all my beans on (tho if you know me, you can probably guess) because I intend to be RUTHLESS

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 30/06/2026

Well, we gave them a chance to fix their hearts.

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As we close a Pride Month that seems determined to kick queerfolk in the chest (again), I consider one of the queerest experiences of all: spite. Excise those motherfuckers from your life like the cancers they are. Live. Make art. Find others. Be joyful. Outlive those assholes, cheer when they die.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Once again, there is no gender equality without our trans community. There is no feminism without our trans community.

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It's a complicated, busy world we live in, but I'm so glad my upstairs neighbor manages to still make time for her favorite hobby: scraping furniture across the floor

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Had an event to go to last night that had me crossing the city by bus/on foot. Saw flocks of natn'l guards in the double digits, doing fuck-all except making taxpaying (and STILL lacking representation for it) citizens of DC feel uncomfortable in our own homes and neighborhoods

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amber @bloodberrytart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

people reading Dante’s Inferno in 1321

image of a woman at a computer with the caption “pov you've just read the most devastatingly beautiful sentence in literature and can't talk about
it because it was in a fanfic”

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 22/06/2026

Can’t believe Cabo Verde vs Saudi Arabia will be must see television, but circle it now!!! Friday at 7pm CT

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I can achieve just two styles of eyeliner: 1) Undetectable 2) Murder Clown on their 6th bar in a pub crawl

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Oh, go to hell, reviewer 2 (also, there should be a law against getting back peer review - which took 5 months to produce, mind - while I'm in Paris trying to have a nice time)

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

omg the novel I translated just got its first “AI scam book club” email, does this mean it’s finally a real book

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The Map of Love 100 Years of Solitude Season of Migration to the North (Let me add a 4th and I’m putting Laura Kinsale on there)

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I know - I KNOW - it is a waste of my precious and limited time here on earth to get mad at lists like this, but my partner and I love inventing little games with them (who can guess their own read count before seeing the list? can we deduce the top 10 after seeing 100-11?)

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I've somehow become a person who... actually puts stickers on things? Like chooses a sticker, chooses a place to put it, and then does so, without major anxiety or regrets. Does this mean the Lexapro is working??

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Anybody else notice the guys who say it's "inevitable" Goodwife Putnam hang as a witch "so get used to it" are the same bros who only a few months ago were saying Sarah Browne the scullery maid hath spake bedeviling words in a tomcat's ear to make him walk on two legs in mockery of Christian man?

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Still thinking about a book I saw in a French bookstore last week: a romance, with certain chapters having two versions, one “spicy” one not, so readers could pick the one they prefer and then meet back up in the “same” place in the following chapter

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It rained all day in Paris today, so I made soup

Table with a bowl of soup, a glass of white wine, and a copy of Eric Jourdan’s Les Mauvais Anges

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

spare a thought for those of us who are going to have to listen to helicopters circling ALL NIGHT about this

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Just a reminder that 700,000 of us are still living on occupied streets

You don’t even go here, go home national guard

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

After three solid months of work on the first movement of this beast, I got my gold star and I am SO PROUD of myself. This was a massive mental struggle over my own performance anxiety and perfectionist tendencies lol

Sheet music of a Beethoven piano sonata with a gold star on it

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Nearly 42 years for my brain to learn the difference in necessary physical response between “going to hang out with a new group of people” and “running through the woods being hunted for spot” and yet

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kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In the immortal words of Hudson Williams: Fuck AI. Fuck it so hard. Just fuck it to death.

Images of Hudson being interviewed by Variety looking even more handsome than normal as he says Fuck AI. Fuck it so hard. Just fuck it to death.

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I am a known lover of book acknowledgments, and I must say one of the most baller moves I have seen is Vanessa Len thanking each of her translators BY NAME in the acknowledgements of books 2 and 3 of her trilogy

Thank you so much as well to the amazing teams and translators at Alta Novel in Brazil (translator: Giovanna Chinel-lato), CooBoo in the Czech Republic (translator: Petra Badalec), Lumen in France (translator: Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon), Anassa Könyvek in Hungary (translator: Ádám Sárpátki), Eksmo in Russia (translator: Olga Burdova), Vulkan in Serbia (translator:
Elena Milosavljević), Montena in Spain (translator: Elena Macian Masip), and Olimpos in Türkiye (translator: Yasemin Bayraktar).
As I write this, the book is also coming soon from Piper Ver-lag in Germany, Mondadori in Italy, and Wydawnictwo MAG in Poland.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken] CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"No matter how you feel about ketamine, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms"

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn is out today, and it is SO GOOD. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768412... (Disclaimer: I got to beta-read this for my 2 areas of expertise, "being American in Paris" and "how do earnest French learners sound," but I would love it and be promoting it regardless)

penguinrandomhouse.com

The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn: 9780593819371 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

"The most engrossing love story. A 2026 must-read."—Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling authors of Love and Other Words AN AMAZON BEST OF ROMANCE PICK FOR APRIL A JULIA QUINN TODAY SHOW...

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Melanie/Mel @melonreads.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

FYI: The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn is out tomorrow and is without a doubt, one of the best books I read this year. It was phenomenal and no one does character development quite like Kate.

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I need a good, angsty, slump-busting romance. I’m starting to get that desperate feeling like I’m never going to read anything good again 😭

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Never have, never will, and I will absolutely quit my teaching job (which I love) before anyone makes me

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 28/03/2026

It pisses me off so much when I see those ChatGPT ads where someone gets advice for sticking to a running routine or opening a restaurant — all that information is stolen from folks who have done actual research studies, run trials, written blogs, published essays & books. Fucking thievery.

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Of all the reasons to love historical romance, “heroine gets a whole new wardrobe” is simply one we are not talking about enough! Top-tier stuff right here!!

“Being careful not to step on anything, Hester took a slow stroll around the room. She saw fur-lined capes for winter, riding boots, and gossamer thin night wear. There were evening gloves, lisle stockings, and blouses made of silk. She found summer stoles, more shoes, and soft, velvet robes. Amazed at the sheer volume of apparel, she looked back over at Galen and she still had no idea what to say.”

— Indigo by Beverly Jenkins
https://a.co/063mJ4tA

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Taurus: Actually, Frankenstein is the doctor. The monster is you.

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Congratulations to Michael B Jordan on his win for Sinners, and congrats to this Letterboxd reviewer of the movie for coming up with possibly my favorite dad joke on the internet

“Finally they cast Michael A Jordan in something”

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