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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was hoping the Venus in Scorpio transit would make me (Scorpio venus retrograde native) extra sexy and magnetic but unfortunately it’s really only boosting the thirst for Vengeance. Any Vengeance really. Will report in as things progress

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sir Lancelot is so AMAB nonbinary to me

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One could argue that as the most widely read genre, romance is most deserving of care and attention, a refusal to concede to bland extruded text from the Average Intelligence machine. The potential to reach the greatest number of readers with your art, with your intellect, can be through romance.

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

in honor of #BiWeek starting today (9/16-9/23 every year, ~mark your calendars!~) enjoy a collection of some of my personal favorite bisexual books! featuring gems by @brosandprose.bsky.social @feliciadavin.com @stgibson.bsky.social and other brilliant people 🩷💜💙 bookshop.org/lists/bi-boo...

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Bi Books for #BiWeek (and Beyond!)

Check out this list on Bookshop

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

October events and appearances! Get hype for Halloween season, come see me and fellow writers like @stgibson.bsky.social and @caitlinstarling.com (and more!), buy some spooky books 👻

October Events:
10/10 @ 3pm w S T Gibson, Butcher Cabin Books 4th Anniversary, Louisville KY

10/13 6-8pm, Midwest horror and Gothic lit fest, Indianapolis IN @ Guggman Haus Brewing Co.

10/25 10-2:30 Hops & Horrors at Destihl Beer Hall in Normal IL

10/29 6:30pm in convo w Caitlin Starling at Bucket O Blood in Chicago IL

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Sally Rooney and matcha are male manipulator red flags" actually I think you're mean, and punishing men for branching out beyond the NARROWEST understanding of masculinity. give him a break. what I said every woman with a septum piercing who read Joan Didion was going to cheat on me? Get real

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If want men to read more (and I think more men should, because reading is one of the greatest pleasures and most enriching things for a body) you’ve gotta stop bullying them for “performative” reading in public and thirst trapping with books on IG. Keep it moving and let him have fun.

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every American citizen deserves access to the level of personal privacy and data security Donna Tartt maintains. I don't know how she's doing it beyond being incredibly discrete and litigious; at this point it's almost performance art. It's damn inspiring

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey this is one of the best books I've read this whole damn year -- so go get it!

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Where to find me this fall!! I'll be doing events here in Kentucky and I'm so excited to be traveling with @stgibson.bsky.social to Kansas City (I hear everything is up to date there!) for a suuuuper cool event next month!! Hope you'll join me for books, samples, and great conversation!!

September 10
Louisville Give For Good
Louisville Book Festival

October 3
Boozy Book Festival
Kansas City, MO
October 24
Louisville Book Festival
Louisville, KY

November 14
Kentucky Book Festival
Lexington, KY

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The reward for alchemizing the pain of being misunderstood or misaligned so often associated with Venus retrograde is deep self-knowledge and deep, aligned love when things are perfectly — strangely — just right.

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Venus retrograde can bring challenges in love, but as a Venus Scorpio retrograde native, I can attest she also brings deep and committed love that is unorthodox, custom-built, a little unfathomable to outsiders.

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The amount of times this rewatch has made me put my head in my hands like oh okay. Got it. I see what teenage Saint could not

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Get well soon to everyone else who is about to experience a Venus retrograde in Scorpio but for me…..that’s my natal placement baby. A placement so intense it has led me to Venusian devotional work, a career writing gothic novels, and some gorgeously intense love affairs. Have fun!

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

can any astrologer explain to me why I feel absolutely every transit that I’m gonna feel two days before the peak of the transit. I can set my watch by it

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

my libra moon + libra mercury will always bring the piledriver of "words mean things so let's use them accurately in the interest of fairness" to the conversation. I cannot help myself

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The same people who spin out about f/f romances in which one or more characters has a complex sexual relationship to men are the same people who spin out when a woman dares enter the periphery of m/m romances and trouble the waters of binary homosexual desire. its a circle

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Many queer women have complex relationships to comphet, attraction to men, or past sexual experiences with men despite their queerness. I don't think we need to sanitize that in sapphic love stories. "sapphic" includes bisexual, it's on the tin. That's why it's not marketed as "lesbian"

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"sapphic" includes bi women who may experience attraction to men alongside attraction to women. if you're reading a "sapphic" book you should expect love between women, but perhaps not to the exclusion of men on the periphery. Not everything is for you. That doesn't make it false advertising

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm your local genderfluid byronic bisexual, and my pronouns are he/she/they in any order you like. Mixing and matching very much encouraged.

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You’ve heard of no vampire is straight, now get ready for no vampire is cis 🦇

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the biggest difference between dating in your twenties versus dating in your thirties is “I just want it to work out” becomes “I want it to be right for both of us”

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As a bisexual genderqueer artist, I often find stronger reflections of myself in historical queer figures who defy easy categorization or labels than in modern ones. We have always existed and we have always been fluid, crossing and re-crossing category lines, impossible to forget or to define.

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We were at this same GenAI art and labor tipping point 150 years ago, albeit with different technologies! Read the whole article here for my alternatives to doomerism and compliance: saint.substack.com/p/asking-cha...

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The labor crisis brought on by the AI push isn’t new. It’s actually a problem so old its been enshrined in fairy tales, and its one William Morris and the arts and crafts movement laid the groundwork for solving. saint.substack.com/p/asking-cha...

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Asking ChatGPT to Spin Straw Into Gold

I need you to lock in arts and crafts movement style

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The reason Finley/Eileen toxic friends to lovers thing in SAVAGE BLOOMS goes so crazy is because Eileen is insane she can never be Daddy's (literal) favorite boy and Finley is insane he will never be Daddy's (nonliteral) legitimate heir, and the two of them bang about it. That's the secret sauce

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

this corner of the collective unconscious isn’t big enough for the two of us

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

voila, the essay on discover gender and desire through fictional fantasy, queering romance dynamics, jung, and dark romance booktok that I have been trying to write for two! years! I definitely 👉🏻 overshared 👈🏻 but it’s all for the good of psychoanalysis saint.substack.com/p/the-romant...

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the romantasy book boyfriend was you all along

romancing Jung's animus by psychoanalyzing smut

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

envy is an arrow pointing you towards what you desire, and becoming what you envy is the only way to keep it from stabbing you, or someone else. actualize or die

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New essay on what the hullaballoo about a spicy Wuthering Heights adaptation can teach us about our psychosexual shadows, the Enlightenment illusion of a split chaste mind and carnal body, and desire and trauma in Wuthering Heights and Savage Blooms! saint.substack.com/p/resurrecti...

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resurrecting wuthering heights sex scene discourse

that book is simply not about what you think it is

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ceej @ceej.online · 26/07/2026

“The Bluesky Experience™”

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@ceej.online
you have somehow made the exact point of my post, in a reply to my post, without having understood my post

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The most interesting kind of second chance romance by far is “I want to thank you on my knees for coming back, but I also want to punish you on yours for leaving”

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Ashley Hankins Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 17/07/2026

Shout-out to @stgibson.bsky.social and "Savage Blooms" for being one of the very few books I've absolutely *devoured* in recent years. The atmosphere just completely sucked me in. Dark, sensual, and wild. I want to make art about it so badly!! When I finish my current comm I probably will 💚💚💚

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’m so happy you enjoyed!! Also I just realized you’re thee artist behind my favorite Sir Gawain art 🙇‍♀️ ❤️

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The final essay, "Marginalized Author Trauma Confessional Junket", about the authors being pressured to perform trauma as part of publicity, and why being told "you're so good at social media" by your publisher can be a marketing kiss of death substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Marginalized Author Trauma Confessional Junket

publishing mantras that make me insane, sudden death round

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Nobody Knows Why Books Break Out" is about M&P, nad it explores the trojan horse question of "audience", why telling an author "no" is better (and rarer) than "we'll see", and the severely limited access to advertising and sales data within trad publishing. saint.substack.com/p/nobody-kno...

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Nobody Knows Why Books Break Out

3 more publishing industry matras that drive me insane

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My 3 part essay series on the vague, coded catchphrases of the publishing industry, what they really mean, and how we can push for more transparent communication with our publishers, is complete! Start with "Nobody's In This Industry To Make Money" saint.substack.com/p/nobodys-in...

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Nobody's In This Industry To Make Money

3 publishing industry mantras that need to die

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

a smoky, slutty little mocktail for my soapy wizards!

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One year after committing to rebuilding my ability to pleasure-read after it got shredded by doomscrolling and burnout, I’m happy to report these strategies seriously work. I often carry a book around in my purse now, to steal a few pages here and there. Euphoric! saint.substack.com/p/learning-h...

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Learning How to Read (Again)

Burnout wrecked my relationship to books. Here's how I fixed it.

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's sleight hand that flatters our ego, our fears, and our greed, and asks only that we surrender our data, our water, our intellect, our connectivity, our worker economies, and our creative souls in the process. What a small price to pay, for a goose that lays golden eggs!

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s rumplestilskin spinning straw into gold, a king strutting around in invisible clothes, a fairy trove of gold that turns to dust at sunrise

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the AI push is just a modern version of a mythic confidence trick: the promise that one may become proficient without practice and celebrated without skill via a miracle technology with a hidden price.

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“How do you write so much” because it keeps the fear of death at bay and gives my neurotic mind something to chew on that isn’t existential dread I hope this helps

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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the minute they release a JSTOR on your kindle feature I am going to become unstoppable

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