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Sam(hain) @horrorbutch.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hi, I'm Sam. I'm mainly here to reblog cool stuff, but I will also be posting links to some of my book reviews & hype up trans/weird/disabled/mad lit over here!
Please always feel free to send me book recs. I read a lot, but there's always great stuff I just haven't found yet!

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 19h

🐦‍⬛ THE HORRORS: a collection of short horror stories 🐦‍⬛

🕸️ small town horror
🕸️ spiders
🕸️ demons
🕸️ a loyal basset hound
🕸️ older protagonists

On Sale!! 99cents or FREE on itch!!

b2r: books2read.com/thehorrors
itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io/the-horrors

#booksky #horrorsky 💙📚 🩸📚

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 2h

Greetings lovely new followers!

I read & write many queer & especially trans lesbian books, I post nature pics, & I shitpost with varying degrees of success.

I’m best known for my hopeful trans dystopian stories (The Incorporated States) & my trans lesbian fantasy romance The World Within.

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The incorporated states volume 1: user not found, iris, may you wear me like a shell, by dani finn, in trans colors with futuristic themes

The cover of the world within, a weirdwater romance by dani finn, showing an ethereal woman in a blue dress floating above a temple pool with words surrounding the cover: trans sapphic fantasy romance, what are you waiting for, trans femme lead & butch single mother li, meditation magic, a mystic portal, set in a wellness center & sex shop, magical vibrators, cozy & steamy

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Sam(hain) @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 1h

Scientist tried to build-a-butch but then hit her with the catgirl beam? (on accident?)

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 14h

You wanna follow some cool trans writers? I gotcha.

go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

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Sam(hain) @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 2h

Hi, meine Freundin hät Interesse, ich hab dir auf discord geschrieben :).

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ElaGORE🪓 @deathandaxes.bsky.social · 4h

Ich suche transfem Testleserinnen für meine queer horrors Kurzgeschichte, hätte jemand Lust?

ca 3.000 Worte
content notes: Transmisogynie, Transfeindlichkeit, Misogynie, parental abuse, Allonormativität, brainwashing/reprogramming

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Edith @edithraphaela.bsky.social · 5h

CW Transfeindlichkeit

Chris Köver @ckoever.bsky.social · 1d

Am Freitag entscheidet der Bundesrat, ob es ein Melderegister für trans Personen geben wird. Stimmt er dafür, werden die früheren Namen und Geschlechtseinträge dauerhaft Teil des persönlichen Datensatzes. Tausende Behörden können dann sehen, dass jemand trans ist.

netzpolitik.org/2025/selbstb...

Selbstbestimmungsgesetz: Wie eine neue Verordnung zur Bedrohung für Betroffene wird

Das Bundesinnenministerium will frühere Vornamen und Geschlechtseinträge zeitlich unbegrenzt im Melderegister speichern. Fachverbände schlagen Alarm: Für Menschen, die ihre Daten ändern ließen, steige...

netzpolitik.org

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Sam(hain) @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 5h

Also definitely recommending All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper (libro.fm/audiobooks/9...) but I already bought and loved listening to it and Withered by A.G.A. Wilmot (libro.fm/audiobooks/9...), which I own as a paperback, but the audiobook excerpt sounds great and I loved reading it.

All the Hearts You Eat Audiobook on Libro.fm

A visceral and heartbreaking work of gothic horror about small-town mysteries, local folklore, and the things we leave behind when we’re gone, from the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Queen of Tee...

libro.fm

Sam(hain) @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 5h

Libro fm having Leech on sale is a little treat for meeee
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
#samreads (soon. it's downloading right now. Thank you @flameswallower.bsky.social for the recommendation, I'm super excited to get started!)

Leech Audiobook on Libro.fm

In the baron’s icebound castle, a parasite is spreading . . . From Hiron Ennes, Leech is an atmospheric Gothic horror, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.'Unique and utterly ...

libro.fm

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Vaela, polyamory enjoyer — put love first, unionise now! @dragonprose.bsky.social · 15h

Wear a fucking mask. Please. I still mask anyplace I go. Have been for years, and other than making my drip slay, it's not hurt anybody. It can only help, literally

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 20h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15h

I wasn't planning to repost this BUT Libro is doing a mega sale on audiobooks and ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT is included.

Which means a full cast recording (a first for any of my books) full of vampires, pocket universes, hyena monsters, and lots of bloody trauma for like $4.

libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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jay Dragon is away from keyboard @jdragsky.bsky.social · 15h

dark souls image with "pussy installed" in a gold font

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October DEATHules @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 13h

There's some bureaucratic fuck-uppery with my housing voucher, which means I might need to move without benefit of a voucher, ballooning my expenses for at least a single month, possibly more. I'm raising money to be able to cushion the blow. Anything helps! Thank you! paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels

Pay April Daniels using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 21h

Send some funds to a Black trans academic who has been suspended from her job without pay for pro-Palestine/anti-zionist speech.

This action has resulted in her being stripped of her health insurance - a deadly action by a cruel administration, especially now.

chuffed.org/project/1455...

Black Trans Academic Targeted and Fined for Pro-Palestine Speech

Black trans academic suspended and fined for pro-Palestine/anti-z1onist speech.

chuffed.org

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Bailey Bangtan, Lesbian Extraordinaire @b-saxon.femfactory.tech · 27d

Sugar and Spice is available for purchase once again! Nothing can keep this puppy down 😎
www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

Cover for my smut anthology, Sugar And Spice! Model is a black woman with a gold substance on the side of her face and her hands. Her earrings are gold and dangle as well and she’s purty <3 Sugar And Spice, A Collection Of Lesbian Fantasy is at the bottom of the image in white and yellow text, and Bailey Saxon in small white text is at the top

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Bastinus Rex @bastinusrex.bsky.social · 10d

CARIMARA is OUT !!
With a brand new trailer 😱

Can't wait to see people discover all the little surprises I prepared...

It's ONLY $4.5 now and it's perfect for HALLOWEEN 🎃
Let's buy it and spread the word, please!!

Critical Reflex @cr-games.bsky.social · 10d

CARIMARA: BENEATH THE FORLORN LIMBS IS OUT NOW ON STEAM

a short horror story about ghosts, goblins and polite anxiety of asking too much.

untangle the mysteries of a "ghost problem" haunting this unwelcoming, desolate house. even if it means digging up uncomfortable truths.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 18h

Nameless Woman is one of the most important historical texts of the 2010s, and likely one of the most influential trans books ever written.

While I have my critiques of the book as a short story collection without that context, this remains essential reading a decade after its first edition.

Nameless Woman by Ellyn Peña, Jamie Berrout, and Venus Selenite (Trans Women Writers Collective, 2/16/18) | The Transfeminine Review

www.patreon.com

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Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 18h

We are live on itch!

For a very limited time, you can get both of these brand-new, trans sapphic cyberpunk noir novels for the price of one!

itch.io/b/3330/new-t...

#lesfic #sapphic #cyberpunk #booksky #sff

A bundle graphic containing two books: Machines of Consent by Sophia Turner and Keeping The peace by Tris Husband

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 20h

Ooh! Happy THE WORKS OF VERMIN day to those who celebrate, which should be everybody. I got to read this as an ARC *ages* ago and I've been excited to push it one everyone -- it has bugs who love opera and weaponized perfume and just gooey wonderfulness.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

tinyurl.se/crR

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Sam(hain) @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 21h

My 23rd book from itch (well... used to be on there) was Transforming Zero by MJ Marlowe, a short horrorotica about a nonbinary person going through a very rough time and the coping mechanisms he turns to. Haunting and heartbreaking.

Sam(hain) @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 21h

My 22nd book from itch was Patchwork by Savika, a haunting body horror short about being trans with an unaccepting family and how hard it can be to untangle yourself from their expectations. Loved the ending, it was a very intruiging book. (Will definitely be reading more by the author).

Sam(hain) @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 21h

My 21st book from itch was Under Cerulean Skies by Dani Finn, a short satirical piece about the uncessary and draconian bans that were enacted here when trans people dared to wish ill on a certain rich woman. Very fun and I loved the cat!

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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