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Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

February is often the month that #romancelandia wonders if Black authors still exist. But they’ve been here all along, friends.

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🌿 oortbox 🌿 @oortbox.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Absolutely crushed to discover that if I want people to read my stories I have to finish writing them.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Im sorry. What. The. Fuck. (Reskeet is a thread)

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

If you're in a group chat for a romance book fandom, it is safe to assume at least one (1) of the people fangirling is a practicing attorney or retired lawyer, no matter how small the chat may be

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I have read 12 KJ Charles books in the last two weeks, I am OBSESSED. There is a true mastery of craft here, and a grafting of Gothic and mystery plot structures onto (weaving into?) romantic and emotional arcs that is enthralling in it's execution.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Looking to read trans man/cis man regency-age-ish historical romance, if you have any beloved indy recs drop them my way! #romancelandia #booksky (I'm normally an audiobook person, but will break form and read with my eyes instead of my ears for this one!)

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

@kjcharleswriter.com The Doomsday books are going to live with me forever in my soul, and I cannot thank you enough for writing them. In addition to being just wonderful m/m romance books full of adventure, they cut deep on subjects of flawed family, community responsibility, (1/2)

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Yo. Not dead. Just too busy to write right now - Ren Faire opens in (checks watch) 11 days 😬😬😬😂😵‍💫☠️

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Surprising no one who follows me, the RELIC series by @mazmaddox.bsky.social Just absolutely no contest, dinosaurs shifters and mafia, and a wild romp of the BEST kind of fun.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Y'all worried about Obergefell and I'm just wondering how long it takes us to back track and overturn Lawrence v Texas. Consensual, private, same sex relationships have only been legal since 2003. 🙈🙉🙊

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Indy Publishing Cult stickers came in today!! And they have ~・°˖✧ SPOT HOLO ✧˖°・~ (You can grab one through my ko-fi.com/s/e3dec6f156 ) ((reposte because I fucked up the link ☠️))

A photo of a red, black, and holographic sticker that says "PROUD MEMBER OF THE INDY PUBLISHING CULT." The illustration features a book above a heart shaped summoning circle, with spooky candles in the background.

The sticker is a spoof off of the "self publishing cult" comments made in the romancelandia and self publishing booksky community as part of some discourse-of-the-week stuff, but tbh it just sounded metal as fuck and I love it.

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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Hey. Hey, you. Yeah, you. The person reading this. You, specifically. Be messier and weirder. Fuck up more. And cut people a break when they're messy and weird and fuck up, if you can. Queerness is about being messy.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 31/07/2025

Since we don't have polls here on Bluesky yet... In the replies here you will find two posts. Like the post you agree with most. We are pitting hardcover books against paperbacks. I wanna know who reads what!

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I am a reclamation kind of bitch. 😌🔥 (I will probably retool this a bit and print some stickers)

Flat graphic horror style poster in red and white on a black background that reads "PROUD MEMBER OF THE SELF PUBLISHING CULT" in sick ass spooky fonts. Below the text an open book floats above a heart shaped pentagram with candles in the background.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

So, I used to work at a call center in the fraud department for a financial institution. I dealt with porn claims for maybe a good third of my calls. The problem with explicit content for payment processors isn't actually porn: It's free trial scams. 🧵

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I dont understand the appeal of a kilt, but the author of this Ren Faire romance series seems to REALLY like them. I can instantly tell a man introduced is going to be a hunky beefcake if he is wearing a kilt. The Kilt is instant shorthand for Irresistible Sex Appeal. 😆 #romancelandia

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Saw this, needed this, delighted to find the first ebook is available from my local library via Libby 🙌✨️

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Every time I run into "The primary text is held in private collection." MY BLOOD BOILS, and @mazmaddox.bsky.social I deeply envy the ability to just turn into a dinosaur and eat the history hoarding dipshits.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Come for the gays and dragons, stay for my strong opinions about 18th century trans femme celebrity, diplomat, spy, professional duelist Chevalière d'Éon

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

One of the many problems with academics who only read historians without ever pulling up the original primary texts is that it renders them COMPLETELY UNABLE TO RECOGNIZE BLARING POLITICAL SATIRE!!!

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The countdown clock is in hours and the backing progress bar is nail-bitingly close to fully backed - Lets punt this one across the finish line, and grab some cool queer dragon books from an award winning indy author all in one 😎 🐲 🔥

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This is such a cool thread to glance through processes - here are some of mine:

A series of scribbled thumbnails depicting a very large bird, a door, and an an airship. Song lyrics are noted along the bottom of frames.

A tall, vertical image of a series of thumbnails that can only generously be described as stick figures.

An image of a scribbled thumbail on the top, that is so vague as to be entirely unclear what it is trying to depict. A black arrow points down to the thumbnail finished as an illustration of three scared people huddled in the corner of a room.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible. These pirates spend more time looking for snails than looking for dragons. 😔🐌

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

If you live (most places) in Washington State you can also get a card for Sno-Isle for free, which has the fourth largest Libby/Overdrive collection in the nation. They tend to have all the queer books that QLL has and then some, with shorter wait times. www.sno-isle.org/get-a-librar...

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It is TOTALLY WILD that I can email a professor on the opposite side of the planet asking for a copy of their journal article deconstructing gender roles in politics in 17th century Europe & they will just SEND IT TO ME, FOR FREE, LESS THAN 24 HOURS LATER!!! IT FEELS LIKE. FUCKING. MAGIC. 🤯✨️⭐️💖👏⭐️💖✨️🎉

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This letter from my Orlesian Bard to the Inquisitor (both player characters) proclaiming the love he knows to be deeply one-sided, given just before the final battle of our 5-year-long Dragon Age: The Roleplaying Game campaign, remains the most romantic thing I've ever written in my god damn life

A letter typed in a font resembling neat handwriting. The letter reads:

Reynaud,

(The following is transcribed from morse code)

I can only write this because I know you will never read it.

We approach not only a battle, but The Battle, and you’ve never been one to focus on little puzzles when the big picture requires your attention and your blade. By the end of these fights, I assume this page will be long since lost or destroyed.

So I can say, to you, but mostly to myself:
I love you.

As family? As a vassal loves their lord? As a disciple loves their religion? It’s hard to say. Maybe yes to all three. Maybe more. Certainly not less. It’s not an emotion that requires a response. No acceptance or rejection required. It simply is. And it is mine.

You bear yourself with honesty and integrity, in any given situation, even when it’s dreadfully stupid to do so. You believe in the best in each person, even when it is not present. No, it’s more than that - the worst of a person doesn’t even occur to you as an option, such is your optimism.

In anyone else it would come off as naive. For you, it’s not. It’s a reflection of the most genuine warmth I have ever seen blaze. Where others may harbor an ember, your faith in humanity ignites a bonfire.

And when I walk a step behind you, I can see the world through your eyes. Your light crowds out the shadows that haunt every corner of my perception, so bright they simply can not survive.

When I see your vision of the future, I want nothing else in the world more. It’s infectious. Slightly intoxicating. I don’t care if that dream is impossible, when I’m with you I know someone has to try.

When I’m with you, I want to be that stupid, optimistic, someone.

I say this not to flatter, but to explain.

What I harbor is not so weak a thing as romance or infatuation, but a profound devotion. I will follow your command into this war to the very end.

I don’t expect to survive. I don’t expect to die either, but I won’t be surprised if I do.

Either way, I trust you.

I hope you trust yourself, too. Believe in your judgement, and forge on ahead, my Inquisitor. You’re strong of will and mind. You’ll make the right call.

Then again it means nothing to encourage you here - because of course, you will never read this.

Your friend,
Christofer Rocheau

Fifth In line for the Rocheau Nobles of Orlais
A Jenny who has many Friends
Bard and Cryptographer to the Awakened Inquisition

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Gender affirming care IS life saving care. I agree that our message to young people should be "there are ways to survive this," but that doesn't mean we should deny the actual literal truth, because that will only give the Alt-Right more ammo to take it all away.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Fan conventions exist through the labor of unpaid volunteers - many working 40-60 hour weeks for months at a time (on top of their real paying jobs). Commonly events with 15,000+ attendees will have zero paid employees. Even shows that pay a few staff members rely on many, many more unpaid ones.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Banning transition healthcare will effectively ban *all* health care for trans patients. You know how long it took me to find a doctor who would see me for routine *antibiotics* when I lived in a state that allowed doctors to opt out of trans health care? Three. Months.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Fan thought for RELIC (dino shifters) by Maz Maddox: Royal and Blaise would both have a *fantastic* time at a Stars on Ice show. Royal because it is just as magical to watch in person as it is on Yuri on Ice. Blaise because figure skating can totally rival drag for sparkly dancing fun ⛸️🦖

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

A summary of my favorite love interests from romance novels: #romancelandia

A screenshot from the dating sim game "OZMAFIA!!". Caramia, a romance option who the player character has spurned, dunks on the player character by telling her: "You have awful taste in men."

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

If you need a last minute, Pride themed protest sign for today Ive got you covered! (Free & Printable!)

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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.”

On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use.

On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm.

On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Dragons are in my books both because they symbolize the unfiltered power of queer and feminine rage when relinquished from the fetters of systematic opression and because I Fucking Love Dragons, Bro

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This femboy needs to absolutely rail my Pirate Captain in the last chapter of this book, and no one can convince me any other conclusion is even moderately acceptable.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Pride & the No Kings rally are on the exact same day in my city, so I made myself a new sign as a treat. 😌🌈 You can download a free printable PDF or PNG here if you want one too~ ko-fi.com/romantasychr...

A flat graphical image. The top half says NO KINGS in black on a red background, in blocky sans-serif font with the "o" turned into a no symbol. The bottom half has YAS QUEENS in the colors of a pride flag rainbow on a black background. The Q in Queens is wearing a crown in the colors of the trans flag.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Spoilers(?) For my Pirates and Dragons WIP: Queens of the Sea and Sky The Polycule - Jean: Bi Kanat: Gay Victor: Trans, Pan(ish) Marcel: Gay Emily: Like a Kinsey 1 Other Main Characters - Tully: Gay Vivienne: Trans, Pan Branches: Nonbinary, Queer Iz: Trans, Queer Riven: Lesbian #Romantasy

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/06/2025

We already know that the other side will make all peaceful protests violent. They will send in the proud boys and they will send in ICE and they will kettle protesters and tear gas them and put up images of a street that they have turned into a war zone and say, “see? Rioters.”

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⭐️eunnie⭐️ @eunnieboo.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

pink in the night (2019)

lyric comic to pink in the night, by mitski. page 1 text: and i know i've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right. scene 1: a little boy and girl are sitting in the rain. the boy wipes away tears, having tripped and scratched a knee. the girl leans forward to kiss the small wound. scene 2: the two friends are in elementary school, holding hands. the boy looks at a picture depicting a mom, dad, and child.

page 2 text: can i try again, try again, try again. scene 1: high school. they lie on the floor during a study session, but they only have eyes for each other. scene 2: college. the same couple, only now they are two girls, kissing in bed. scene 3: the girls are getting married, exchanging a sweet kiss in a field of flowers. sunset colors cast warm light onto their wedding dresses.

page 3 text: try again, and again, and again. scene 1: the girls are moving in together. one dozes off against an unpacked moving box as the other kisses her head. scene 2: disneyland. both wear minnie mouse ears as they take a selfie, laughing at the kiss mark one has left on her wife's cheek. scene 3: the childhood friends have grown older. one woman hides a bouquet behind her back as they kiss over breakfast.

page 4 text: and again, and again, and again? scene 1: the women wake up in bed together, hints of grey in their hair. one kisses the other's bare shoulder. scene 2: a winter walk. they kiss as their dog plays in the snow. scene 3: the shore of a beach. the wives have greying hair and fine wrinkles, but they're still just as in love. they hold each other close, laughing, full of affection.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Still on my dinosaur shifters fanart bullshit (Yu is from the RELIC series by @mazmaddox.bsky.social )

Fanart of Yu from Lost In Amber by Maz Maddox. Anime style art in brush pen and greyscale marker with red and gold highlights, featuring a Chinese man with long hair, sticking out his tongue with a hard candy like a sexy bitch mofo.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

#Queers&Quills was AMAZING, I cannot rant and rave enough, an absolute honor to work with everyone on the volunteer team. There was so much fucking heart put into this first year event - this was the Queer Romance Book Event the community DESERVES. #romancelandia #writingcommunity

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Calling all trans* authors! My colleagues and I have a form up and running to which you can submit your books for possible purchase by our home institution library. 🌈📚 Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... *including agender, nonbinary, twospirit, and otherwise gender nonconforming authors!

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Tra(ns)versing the Stacks: A Gender Diverse Literary Preservation Project

A librarian, and academic, and a radio host have joined forces to create a collection of works by gender diverse authors at their academic library in Canada. Due to the ongoing threat of the censorsh...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

Someone on Twitter writes: "Derek would you ever consider doing a thread on how transmascs can dress well and have clothing that helps hides hips and stuff? Only advice I've gotten are straight leg jeans and a boxy shirt"

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Was looking at some old work, and if this doesn't hit directly in the 'tism feels -

White text on a dark grey background. It reads:

“When I’m with friends, there's always a gap. Like a weird bubble, between me and everyone else. They still like to have me around. I think. But they're always compensating for the gap, and it makes me feel like - like no one is really seeing me as a person. Like I'm a mascot. Or a pet. Or a child.” She drinks deeply at that, almost in defiance, the bottom of her glass surprisingly close, her head a little light, a little giggly in the background. “Lots of other reasons it's nice to be around you. Lots of them. You're straightforward and fun and your humor is *wicked…* But I think you're asking about self-interest, and I think that's it. When I'm with you, I'm a person.”

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Returning to school is making deals with myself like "if you read two more chapters about judicial review you can write one chapter of trans masc pirate romance"

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K. "Val-eerie" Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Since it's late and my brain is too fuzzy to write from the IVIG treatments, I thought it might be fun to do a thread on beta readers in general and specifically to my gryphon series. I find beta readers most useful for flagging what's *good* in a draft rather than what's wrong. 🧵

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