They get suppressed, so fewer views. There’s no clear rule, TikTok doesn’t say anything about it, but we all know the algorithm suppresses certain words. War, death, sex etc, but also queer words, sadly.
It’s Lesbian Visibility Week!
Here are some brilliant lesbian books with BIPOC MCs (I have to use “Sapphic” on TikTok because the algorithm doesn’t like the L-word).
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Available now in ebook, audiobook, or paperback The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen Mm romance, forced proximity, a lavender marriage, murder/magic/mysteries, food tour of 1890s NYC, unbury your gays, an autistic necromancer, everybody's queer
THE REANIMATOR'S HEART (TRM #1) is the first in a four book series with an autistic MC x ADHD MC
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️🌈MM paranormal historical romance
books2read.com/trm1 in ebook, audio, and paperback
Authors!
It’s Autism Acceptance Month and I’d love to read and boost some books!
If you’re an autistic author and/or have a book or story with autism rep, please drop a link below with a description, mention the rep and I’ll repost.📚💙
A digital illustration of two japanese lesbians flirting in a queer underground bar in the 80s. One of them wears a blue jacket, the other a suit, while in the background there's liquor and a multitude of little stickers and illustrations of lesbian and queer marks.
The full illustration I did for @taplingzines.bsky.social "We've Always Been Here"
The zine depicts queer couples throughout cultures and history and I had the honours of portraying a Japanese lesbian couple in an underground bar during the 80s✨
#queer #lesbians #illustration
Oh so do I! I’m disabled and have to prepare for days before plans. I mean if you are both obviously kinda not feeling it/pushing yourselves and just sticking it out to be polite when you both really want to stay home and not talk to anyone.
It really does make everything just a little bit better!
Remember to occasionally cancel plans so your introvert friends don’t have to.
It will make them love you more.
An English park with a stream, trees and lots of pink flowers
My country drives me up the wall but bloody hell springtime is pretty
It was great! I hope the rest of the con is wonderful
I was so happy to see you were there!
You too! So many great things to go explore now
Mercutio by Kate Heartfield. A sword, shield, rose and spire on a purple design
The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo. Sketched eyes in a dark forest.
Had a great time on a queer historical literature panel with the brilliant @leemandelo.bsky.social & @kateheartfield.com.
Now these books are at the top of my wishlist!
Mercutio - a 13th century epic retelling
The Woods All Black - an Appalachian, historical, trans romance revenge horror
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Ahh thanks so much! Hope the rest of the con goes great
Disco, a tan trans man, sat in front of a bookshelf, wearing a rainbow jumper
Just did my first panel as an author!
Really great discussion at virtual Can*Con about queer historical literature. 📚🏳️🌈 📚💙
Putting out an a list of books for Autism Acceptance month for @blog.readindiefantasy.com (yes I know I'm late lol) if you're an autistic indie or self-pubbed author with a SFF book, link it here and I'll try to include it!
Image of cover of TC Parker's Saltblood, with the text: BLACK MIRROR, WITH CRYPTIDS FIVE STARS ~ SCREAM MAGAZINE
Cover image of Brennan LaFaro's The Denizens, with the text: REST IN PEACE? NOT IN THIS TOWN.
📢 2-FOR-1 HORROR BOOKS ALL WEEKEND! 📢
Grab @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's small town zombie epic THE DENIZENS from the digital Batstore this weekend... and get @tcparker.bsky.social's dystopian isolation horror SALTBLOOD *absolutely free*!
It's a steal!
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Ahh thank you! To be fair this was on the phone and I can’t always be bothered to use my lower voice. And it sounded busy where they were so it was just us yelling MA’AM / MAN at each other 😹
Bad Queer by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan. A non binary teenager with brown skin wearing a turquoise hat and pink shirt.
Absolutely loved this verse-novel by @unembarrassable.bsky.social!
It follows a non-binary British-Tamil teenager who joins a youth theatre group, experiences first love, and finds their voice.
Highly recommend. 📚🏳️🌈 📚💙
To be clear I’m not annoyed, she seemed perfectly nice. Just incredibly confused. It was like a comedy sketch going round and round.
I think I confused the pharmacist earlier:
“How can I help you ma’am?”
“No, I’m a man”
“Yes I said ma’am”
“No, I’m a MAN. I am MALE”
“OK ma’am”
“Look at my chart. It says MR”
“OK. I understand… how can I help you?”
“I need a repeat prescription”
“Alright. Do you need anything else ma’am?”
Can everything stop breaking and using AI please, we only JUST got drafts
This Is How The World Ends by Disco Barrington. An eye with tech details and fire around it.
COVER REVEAL!
I’m so so excited to reveal the cover for my queer dystopian novella THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS, publishing on 16th September from @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social.
Available for preorder now (links below)!
Designed by the incredible @drewhuff.bsky.social.
I love it so much! 📚💙 📚🏳️🌈
Monthly gossip catch up with my brother, filling me in on my gigantic no-contact family:
Everyone hates everyone, everyone’s getting divorced, everyone’s screwing everyone over, everyone’s fighting over inheritance, everyone’s an arsehole.
Me, eating popcorn: I am not surprised by any of this.
Disco’s TikTok profile with 16k followers. Queer dystopian spec fic author THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS (Sept ‘26) He/they |
Just reached 16k followers on TikTok!
If you have TikTok, come say hi! I do reviews of queer, BIPOC and disabled books, with a focus on sci-fi, fantasy & romance. I occasionally remember to talk about my own writing too.
I also have a newsletter run through Bindery, details on my profile!
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Sex, gender and society in historical queer specfic. April 18 2026 12.30-1.20pm EST. Online. with Kate Heartfield, Lee Mandelo, Disco Barrington and Faye Gabriel
I’m speaking at a [virtual] convention on Saturday!
I’ll be on this panel at Can*Con with the absolutely brilliant authors @kateheartfield.com, @leemandelo.bsky.social and Faye Gabriel.
See my Linktree in my profile for tickets! 📚💙
An Elixir for Wanderlust by Alistair Reeves. A man half submerged in a spring next to a man with long blue hair. A spectre in the background.
Happy publication day to An Elixir for Wanderlust by @kataraqui.bsky.social!
I’m halfway through this fantastic queer romantasy about a witch running from a curse, and the trans healer who may just be the one to save him.
Book 3 in a brilliant series of interconnected standalones.
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Humans and otherwise of the interwebz!
I'm putting together a database covering those "bookfluencers" / book bloggers / book tubers etc who cover SFFH in some form.
No matter your following or readership, please let me know you exist by filling in this form:
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Great, it’s fixed. Done!
Hi! I’m trying to fill this out but some of the sub-genre lists only let you select one option, I’m assuming you want us to be able to select more than one! Can you alter it?
