Prompts by Category Bodies: MC has More Than One Disability Fat Activism MC has/has had Major Surgery Cover Depicts Two or More Diverse Bodies Indie Book with a Disabled MC Minds: BIPOC Autistic MC Chronic Migraines or Headaches Featuring a Therapist or Therapy Discusses or Portrays Parasocial Relationships Healing from or Overcoming Trauma Lives: Polyamory MC is or has Been a Refugee Invisible Chronic Illness/Disability Working Class MC Food Insecurity and/or Challenging Food Access Places: A Country with an Ongoing Genocide Set in a Library or Community Space Set in Two or More Countries or Territories Set on a Reservation or Native Land Short Story Collection set Somewhere Your Heritage Links to Identities: Features Deaf Culture Black Character on Cover Non-Christian Religious MC Trans MC in Romance Found Family by a Latine Author Styles: Translated Caribbean Literature Middle Grade or Young Adult Includes Second Person Narrative Retelling Written by an Asian Author Queer Poetry Cross: Longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards MC with an Intersectional Identity Queer Book with BIPOC Main Characters Oppression or Segregation Memoir of a Marginalised Figure Recs: Anthology by Diverse Authors Disabled Joy Indigenous Horror Trans Woman MC or Author Not Originally Published or Set in the USA or UK

Presenting the Diverse Reading Challenge 2025 ♡

Will take part on storygraph, in discord and there will be a wee chat on instagram.

Would appreciate a share ♡

Will type prompts in alt text!

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Alternatively, you can add it to our new release form: forms.gle/edKXMMfEKVb8...

🌈 Do you or someone you know have an Nov queer book release? Indie or Trad books! Add it by Oct 25th! (No AI books or covers)

Include:
-title & author (& series name)
-release date
-Cover image/link
-Cover artist/designer

🏳️‍🌈 We will be adding these to our new release list!

A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white square with a thin outline and text that reads "318 queer books coming out in October!". The 318 is in matching horizontal rainbow stripes and October is in orange text. Text between the number and month are all caps black font.

🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this October? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of? 🧵

An image of 31 Rainbow Crate books. The books are arranged in five rows, with the books slightly alternating where they line up. All book covers face the camera, the books near the edges of the image are more cut off. Text along the bottom reads “Last Chance Sale” in white font with a red outline.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows, we are working on clearing older inventory from our packing center, which means it’s time for a SALE! Get up to 40% off select past books and 20% off select past boxes! Quantities are limited and once they’re sold out, they’re gone! 🧵

Assuming all fanfiction is written poorly really just shows you've never been caught in the chokehold of a 150k slowburn that changed the course of your life at 2:40am written by someone whose username has 4 Zs in it and they only wrote one fic and then vanished like an ethereal legend.

"Cis people are afraid that trans people will laugh at them. Trans people are afraid that cis people will kill them"

Wow! What the what?!? Talk about missing your own party. In my defense I was out of the country for 2 weeks. But what a great welcoming gift to stumble across my first day on this app. Latest acceptance speech ever! But thanks everyone and congrats to all the nominees and winners! #Ignytes2024

David Tennant in a black suit wearing a small tardis pin in the trans pride flag colours.

David Tennant pointing to a pin on his cardigan

David Tennant wearing a blazer with a small tardis pin on his lapel

6 small police box pins. The door panels have the colours of the pride flags. Ace, lesbian, nonbinary, pride, trans and bi.

One year since @georgiatennant.bsky.social & David Tennant broke my website by wearing my pins all over TV. Thousands of orders instantly flooded in.
I donate the profits to AKT, a charity that support homeless LGBTQ+ people. Over £35,000 has been donated.
Get yours here: www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

Sarah McBride just giving up already is so bleak. Crushingly disappointing. I guess I take back what I said 😞

Jfc cis people, we really fucking need you on this one. Barring people from accessing bathroom facilities is barring people from public life, and if they succeed here they’re going to move on to barring them from every other possible place.

Call your reps please.

Whenever we make ourselves smaller for them, they just shrink our box again.

Well said! Every attack on trans people is an effort to both:
- manufacture rage for distraction/fundraising purposes
- drive trans people out of public life

And the logistics of the policies always boil down to Republicans making cis women less safe while simultaneously blaming trans people.

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No matter where you are in your trans-ness, if you are feeling despair, I cannot recommend enough engaging with the writings and histories of our elders who lived our lives before the 21st Century. It is both not as dark as you think and tougher than you think. And it will give you something.

There's something I need people to understand.

The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.

The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

And this is why authors are always asking you to preorder.

Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.

Cute animals and yokai huddled underneath themed kotatsus. A kotatsu is a heated, quilted table that originated in Japan. From left to right, top down, the first critter is a kitsune. The kitsune is white with red markings on it's cheeks, tail, and ears. It is underneath a kotatsu with a red blanket that has torii gates on it. The second critter is a tanuki, the tanuki has a leaf on it's head and is underneath a kotatsu with a light green blanket with dark green leaves on it. The third critter is a nekomata, nekomata are Japanese yokai that have 2 tails. It's underneath a kotatsu with a yellow blanket with blue fish on it. Starting on the second row is a red panda, the red panda dons a green bandana around his neck. The red panda is underneath a kotatsu with a light green blanket and bamboo on it. The fifth critter is a Kappa, the Kappa is underneath a kotatsu with a yellow blanket covered in pickles. The sixth critter is an Inu Hariko. It's underneath a kotatsu with a dark blue blanket with a starry patterned design. Starting on the third row is a capybara, the capybara has an orange on his head. The capybara is underneath an kotatsu with an orange blanket, with oranges on it. The final critter is a tengu. The tengu is bright red, with a black tokin and bright purple beads around his neck. He is under a kotasu with a purple windy leaf patterned blanket. They're all very cozy, some have their tails sticking out the back of the kotatsu as if they barely fit underneath. Their paws (or wings, or fins) stick out of the front by their faces while their bodies are completely covered by the kotatsu. Hopefully this paints a warm quaint image in your mind!

yokai kotatsu

[ #art #japan #kawaii ]

not getting over this. the fact that disney tried to shelve this kind of message actually upsets me. this is the kind of message trans youth needs and is especially important now.

I don't come across them often seems like i am lucky

1 like = 1 transfem book I love

Okay let's do this!

By "transfem book" I mean book with a transfeminine main character.

A photo of multiple copies of Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin

Artwork of two men in fancy clothing kissing with a backdrop of the night sky

A graphic with ‘A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters’ in the middle. Arrows pointing to the text surrounding it. ‘Butch MC x femme MC, Sapphic hate to love, All female cast, sibling angst, The Witcher x Castlevania, I will burn the world down for you villain’

Hey #booksky! I’m Rita, an autistic, queer indie author from down under. I like to write fantasy books with gay characters & I have an MM slice-of-life romantasy that’s out now, and a sapphic The Witcher x Castlevania book publishing next year 📚🌈

Try the Island Bites series:
🍰SWEETHAND: oh no I dnt like you but you're hot, help!

🧁DON'T GO BAKING MY HEART: she dsnt follow the rules but I need her help

😌THE DATING COUNTDOWN: let's make a friends-dates pact to see if this can be more than sex!

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If you’re new to Bluesky and want to find some amazing bookish content creators. I made a starter pack 🥰❤️.

Some genuinely terrible people whining about the "block culture" here on Bluesky is how you know the block culture is working, keep blocking those genuinely terrible people, folks, soon the only people they'll be able to bother here is each other

Reminder: This website does not have an algorithm, reposting yourself several times so that people in different time zones can see your posts is encouraged and the norm. It is totally fine to boost your own stuff here. Anyone who tries to make you feel weird about it- does not understand Bluesky. ✨

"Star Trek used to be subtle"