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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Oh my god, its even better than that. According to her post on Reddit, she intentionally forced the tie to create this opportunity! She realized she didnt have the points outright, timed her answers to keep the scores as even as possible, & skipped buzzing in on the last question. MAD game theory!

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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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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Had it happen to me, too! My first doctor was able to prescribe by sending a letter describing all the reasons it *had* to be this one med. My next doctor didn't write the letter as persuasively, and they made me fail off of *four* other meds before they would refill the one we knew would work.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

You will be getting a denial letter in the mail that will lis the exact reason for denial (insurance is required to provide the reason in writing). My guess is they want you to try and fail off of something cheaper first. If that's the case the letter will name the exact prescription/s.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I think this is actually quite common in K-Dramas, which live somewhere between soap operas and romance stories. But I'll give you that western TV isnt great at highlighting romance! (Even in RomComs, the story telling tools mirror comedy more than romance)

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The man posting this mentions in the same thread that he thinks reading The New Yorker is more efficiently informative than reading non-fiction books, which tells me everything I need to understand that we fundamentally disagree

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Thank you for this PSA being the first thing to load on my timeline, exactly the info I was looking for. 🫡

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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

Sometimes you can describe the laughter similarly instead, "dry laughter," "huffed an exasperated laugh," etc

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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 · 16/12/2025

For Jean, it's dyeing the the ship black (like a pirate witch ship), they even have a conversation about it being a point of no return. For Kanat, it's staring out to see, watching enemy ships pursue them, and realizing he would sooner die then let them capture the crew (and then he almost does!)

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

really digging into story structure and character motivations and the myriad of ways KJC uses language choice and thematics to imply and infer. These are books that trust their readers to understand complexity and subtext and they are a delight to bury myself in as a reader and disect as an author.

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

I've been reading a lot of fluffy books the last few years in these trying times (nothing wrong with that!), but some of the KJC backlog is so remarkably complex and meaty that I've been pulling out my literary analysis glasses for the first time in ages -

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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

fathers who should love you but don't, childhood abuse, and the PTSD fallout thereafer. Both books are so wonderfully done, but Luke's journey in particular hit me somewhere deep and wrung my soul out to dry. I love these books immensely and I'm so glad you wrote them. (2/2)

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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

I onboarded and scheduled shifts for 54 volunteers last week (not counting Cast, Tavern, or Care Crew people who are handles internally by their own guilds) and I'm still scared we dont have enough!!!! We're projecting 20k+ attendance this year and I am not ready!!!!!!!!

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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 · 19/08/2025

I love a fluffy dog, but at a certain point it is literal HOURS of upkeep per day, and that's just way too much 😂 ⬇️ same dog

A bedraggled black Muppet enjoys his third favorite pass time (after walks and tug-o-war): watching the street for pedestrians suspicious enough to bark at.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My Muppet just got his haircut yesterday ✨️

A picture of a black golden doodle with a poodle-like curly coat of fur, except all that fur has been cut away for a summer short hairdo. He's sitting against a photo backdrop with a field of sunflowers, and looking slightly morosely at the camera because haircut day is his least favorite day, and the groomer (out of frame) is probably holding a dog treat to get him to stand still when she really should just give it to him already for the hardship he's endured.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Just need to say this book cover is TO DIE FOR 🙌👏🙌👏

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

Not trying to doomsay, just recognizing it's all built on the same precedent.

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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 · 12/08/2025

Yuuuuup. Obergefell has been on the chopping block since the Dobbs Decision 🤷‍♂️ Any time the opinion has to specifically carve out an exception like Noooo, this totally wont affect this other civil liberty built on the exact same precedent!!!! ....its a bad look. And a predictive one.

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

Cloudward, Ho! the most recent season of Dimension 20 on Dropout TV ✨️💖

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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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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Went to go see the new Naked Gun in theaters tonight with the fam and, honestly, more of a DVD-or-Streaming movie, but it was funny enough to be an effective comfort watch tonight. Many good puns.

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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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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

When I contacted Stripe, the only financial institution customer service could verify that Stripe has a close relationship with is Wells Fargo, but they didn't have any information about if WF was the bank causing the problem.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Stripe didn't say that it was end user banks causing the problem - they said their "banking partners," which means the financial institutions they have closer relationships with to provide services through directly. Those banks would have more policy sway over Stripe than an end user bank.

A screenshot from Stripe's customer service docs, with the phrase "banking partner" highlighted in orange. The screenshot reads:

Financial accounts
You can use the Treasury endpoints of the Stripe API to create financial accounts, and attach them to connected accounts in a one-to-one relationship (unless you’re enrolled in the Multi FA beta).

You can fund the financial accounts of your platform’s connected accounts and move money between them. Your connected accounts can also fund their Treasury financial accounts using a bank external to Stripe. If your platform uses Stripe Issuing, you can provide payment cards linked to the financial account balance of your connected accounts.

Treasury financial accounts have routing numbers because they’re backed by US banking partners, and balances are eligible for FDIC pass-through insurance.

A screenshot from Stripe's customer service docs, with the phrase "banking partner" highlighted in orange. The screenshot reads:

Use Stripe Capital to either:

Build a Capital program and provide financing offers to your connected accounts. This option is only available to Connect platforms. You can send financing offer notifications to eligible connected accounts through Stripe Capital and our financial partners. Onboard to Capital regardless of whether your existing Connect integration processes payments using both Stripe and non-Stripe payment processors. Stripe manages the underwriting and servicing, and offers additional features to help grow your Capital program. Learn how Capital for platforms works.
Access financing offers for your business. Depending on eligibility, you can view and accept financing offers presented to you by Stripe and our banking partners. Learn how Capital works.
Capital offers financing types that include loans (issued by Celtic Bank) and merchant cash advances (MCA) provided by our banking partner (YouLend) or Stripe. All financing requests are subject to a final review before approval.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Notably, though, this doesn't mean YOUR bank, it means STRIPE'S banks. So now we have to find out which financial institutions Stripe is trying to shift the blame to.

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Chris M Hill @romantasychris.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

And any potential readers following you will burn out, too. No one likes a corporate account that's nothing but ads. 🤷‍♂️ At least those ain't the vibes on Bsky.

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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 · 30/07/2025

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

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

I saw "self publishing cult poster" and thought "yes I would totally put that poster on my wall" Disappointed to find out it's discourse, not merchandise. 😔

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

Side note, this is how Patreon won concessions with payment processors the first time around. They used empirical data to show that Patreon subscriptions were lower risk and lower charge back than other subscription model adult content.

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

That's what this is about: Money. It was never about moral panic or Collective Shout. Visa & Mastercard will only listen to us about censoring adult content when our calls cost them more than adult content costs them in disputes. Calling *will* work, but the bar is very high. (End 🧵)

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

So on the payment processor side, they have a flood of fraud claims and dispute claims that are messy and a pain to handle, and cost payment processors a lot of money to arbitrate. All for purchases under this one product code: adult material. 🧵

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

Shame leads to denial - mostly people who won't admit they made that first purchase to their wife or mother. Add to this the fact that a lot of actual fraud will start with a little $2 porn purchase, just to check and see if the card works, and suddenly the investigations get a lot more messy. 🧵

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

Arbitration means employees hired to look over cases. Employees cost MONEY $$$. Other groups use the same scam structure, notably THC pills, weird MLM herbal supplements, and political donations to Trump (yes, Trump specifically). But porn is worse than those for another reason: shame. 🧵

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

The difference: Fraud says "I never made a purchase" and Dispute says "I made a purchase but they fucked me over." We can often win that Dispute on technicalities, because porn scams are sloppy with their paperwork But know who arbitrates those disputes? Payment processors. Visa & Mastercard. 🧵

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

Sadly, theres usually nothing we can do to get that money back as a fraud claim, since they *did* make the first purchase and check a checkbox somewhere agreeing to TOS (aka subscription), it doesnt match the technical definition of fraud. We CAN, however, file a *Dispute* claim - 🧵

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

The common set up for this scam is a $2 purchase to access a porn site for 24 hours, where its not clear that the site will then charge $25/month on a subscription after that. People call in when they see the $25 charge and say they didnt make that purchase. 🧵

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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 · 28/07/2025

Motivation and Agency! It doesnt matter what they want, as long as they want it and have the means to strive for it independantly.

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