Monday morning mood.

Photo of a rainbow flag. Text on top reads, "Breaking news: VICTORY: LGBTQ+ Advocates Secure Restoration of Pride Flag at NYC’s Stonewall National Monument"

VICTORY: The Pride flag will be restored at the Stonewall National Monument! 🏳️‍🌈

In a settlement we secured with Washington Litigation Group, the Trump admin agreed to rehang the Pride flag––confirming that the flag falls within federal policy.

Learn more: lambdalegal.lgbt/prideflag

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

This series is great fun!

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A handful of our whistle printers are out of filament. Can you help?

Here's one:

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The Autarch's Heir, book 4 in Jo Graham's The Calpurnian Wars, is now up for preorder! (Link to Amazon, but also at all the usual suspects.)
www.amazon.com/Autarchs-Hei...

Book cover for The Autarch's Heir, by Jo Graham: two woman, one dark-haired, one blond, stand behind an elegant dark man in a dark suit. A golden crown hovers in the background above a cloudy seascape. Text: The Autarch's Heir, Jo Graham. It sounds like a simple job to con man Bel Alan: pretend to be the natural son of the assassinated Calpurnian autarch Iulus and steal the priceless Solaste Crown. But his simple theft may be about to plunge Lono into a bloody civil war, and finding the Blameless Prince to wear the crown may be the only way to stop it. What's a con man to do when the stakes of his game are suddenly the fate of a world?

The Autarch's Heir, book 4 of Jo Graham's space adventure series The Calpurnian Wars, is now available for preorder! Link is to Amazon, but it's up at all the usual suspects.
www.amazon.com/Autarchs-Hei...

That's lovely!

The Candlemark & Gleam catalogue is now available on Overdrive/Libby, so you can request our ebooks through and for your library. Major thanks to @amtuomala.bsky.social for the help in making it happen!

Quick reminder! The first 3 ebooks of the series are on sale in advance of the release of book 4, The Autarch's Heir, Feb. 23, 2026.

Three books covers: Sounding Dark, two figures looking up at a golden space ship against a starscape; Warlady, a man holding a ball of lightning, a dark-haired woman in a long dark coat, and a masked woman stand together against a starscape; Fortune's Favor, a red-haired woman in a beautiful dress sits overlooking a distant city with an aurora in the background. The Calpurnian Wars, Jo Graham. "[E]verything I want when I pick up a space opera" — K.V. Johansen, author of Blackdog.

To celebrate the forthcoming fourth book in Jo Graham's space adventure series The Calpurnian Wars, the ebooks of the first 3 books are now on sale! Get caught up in this fascinating universe — at a bargain price.
www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2026/02/02/t...

my hand holding 5 small whistles in cool color combos: a sweet bisexual, a northern lights, a lemon & lime, a pastel rainbow, and a flame colored one.

Okay, it took me three days to finally do this, BUT!

You can buy whistles from us now!

I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK!

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

The ice storm of 2002 has now been invoked by the local weather forecasters, and I just don't have the energy for all this.

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

Thread (and not just because I'm mentioned.) Buying direct from a small press maximizes the amount that goes to the creators. And, yeah, this is a good time to do that.

Make a Donation - A Book of My Own DONATE BOOKS: If you are inter­est­ed in donat­ing chil­dren’s books, please care­ful­ly read the following. A Book of My Own is hap­py to accept books that: Reflect the won­der­ful diverse world in w...

Looking for a way to support Minneapolis-area kids? A Book of My Own will be using all donations for the month to get books to kids who can’t go to school because the federal government is terrorizing their home. #kidlit

bookofmyown.com/donation/

Solstice Carole - cover by Merrigan (Pagan Yule music) YouTube video by Merrigan

Happy winter solstice, all. Let's have more light.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVSt...

The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper: And so the Shortest Day came and the year died / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away. / They lighted candles in the winter trees; / They hung their homes with evergreen; / They burned beseeching fires all night long / To keep the year alive. / And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake / They shouted, reveling. / Through all the frosty ages you can hear them / Echoing behind us—listen! / All the long echoes, sing the same delight, / This Shortest Day, / As promise wakens in the sleeping land: / They carol, feast, give thanks, / And dearly love their friends, / And hope for peace. / And now so do we, here, now, / This year and every year. / Welcome, Yule!

A poem for Winter Solstice: "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper, author The Dark is Rising and numerous other luminous books.

The image is from www.thelostland.com. The poem is © Susan Cooper.

Amazon Greenlights A New Stargate Series » GateWorld FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm.

Stargate is coming back?!
www.gateworld.net/news/2025/11...
“It is not a reboot,” Gero said. “It is a brand new chapter. It’s its own unique chapter in the Stargate universe.”

#Booksky We’re doing our first ever ebook set and it’s up for preorder now! Get a great deal on the entire Astreiant Series for some great gay fantasy reading to end the year! Releases 12/15 and preorders are up at our site, Smashwords and beyond - queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

#Booksky Also on sale via Ingram’s new direct sale option in the U.S. and U.K. - A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social! Gay gaslamp mysteries with magic-using detectives, for the win! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

#Booksky A brief thread of current book sales! Trying out this new direct sale Ingram thing in the U.S. and U.K. - looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social is on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

The bees have discovered Brutalism

The Silmarillion, but in a spectacularly unlikely to be approved by the Tolkien Estate way. Less "EPIC TRAGEDY SET TO THUNDEROUS HEROIC MUSIC" and more "garbage elves (and humans) achieve occasional moments of redeeming grace in between being messy bitches who love drama and do a lot of crimes."

Granted I am putting them outside rather than killing them because I am a softie, but if it is the same spiders returning, they're persistent and have some unknown means of re-entering the house, which mildly disturbs me. If it's different spiders, who invited them all?

The thing I object to is the shower spiders. Spiders, plural. I keep removing shower spiders, and yet there keep being more. My shower is not for spiders. Spiders, no.