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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 11h

it would be so easy to design a SAW trap for any makeup artist. just tell them they have to film an unedited full-face tutorial without once using the phrase "go in"

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 17h

jfc literally as i was reading this she walked into my office and yelled because she finished her first dinner which means it's time to start Agitating

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 17h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 22h

Today's Love Letter comes from the luminous Lucy Bellwood - a reflection on caring for her father, Peter, and on the immortality to be found in gathering seeds.

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The Wildflower Year

A Love Letters Feature by Lucy Bellwood - October 2025

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!! <3

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

HELL YEAH 🔥

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

2025 Winner of the Community Award: Authors Against Book Bans

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · Apr 27

Now that I don't have a xitter account anymore, I worry that the internet will forget about the time I was trying to send my paramour a ~hot nude~ and accidentally sent this instead

$A picture of a Pelican with its mouth open to reveal its gaping maw. Text below reads as follows, and I will tell you up front that this is internet syntax rather than glitching software or typos: pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put baby in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort baby sleep soundly put baby in Pelican Mouth. Put Baby ln Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head. Apelican Mouth yes a place for a baby put baby in pelican mouth can trust pelican for giveing good love to baby. friend pelican$

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 2d

if it's any consolation nobody noticed my joke in the original post up there, so apparently if you want to post filthy things this thread is the place to do it without consequences 😌🙏

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Citrus Con @citruscon.bsky.social · 2d

Voting is now 👻OPEN👻 for the first ever Monsterfucker Awards (brought to you by Citrus Con). Voting open until October 31: forms.gle/k9ha9hsrzjfo...

Monsterfucker Awards
Save the Date
2025.11.02

There is a clipart-style image of a paper ballot being put into a box. The box reads "Voting Open."

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 2d

😈😈😈

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 2d

Two and a half weeks out from release & this holesome little book is STILL in the top TEN on Am*zon!

My favorite part of that is knowing y'all will retaliate by requesting it from your local libraries & indies 🥰🥰🥰

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 15d

Spread Me, my erotic horror novella about an isolated research team and the specimen that wants to explore them back, is available everywhere you buy books.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Spread Me

Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly ...

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beardyBOO! 👻🎃 @beardyblue.bsky.social · 3d

Please read Kate's piece and watch Zohran's video. So important, so good, and so hopeful. I cried watching it too.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you but next time you can just dm me

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 3d

judging by the posts im seeing right now, it seems that baseball is not ok. i am sorry for y'alls suffering and i hope the ball is adequately punished for what it has done tonight

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d

What drives me nuts is how hard it is to tell one of these scam emails from people who are just emailing to tell me they liked my book.

I don't wanna start assuming fan mail is probably a scam, because OOF.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 6d

Dear [Author],

Your book [Title] is wonderful. I had painful urination and blood in my urine for years, until I read [Title] and now there is a clear golden stream.

[Title] deserves a wider readership. My team of 5,000 cyber-turtles can post honest reviews and raise your Zoob ranking, for a modest

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 3d

@veronicarothbooks.com this isnt about you tho your sales pitch for cinematic book trailers was both sincere and moving

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 3d

Currently getting approx 8000 of these per day and am on the verge of mcfuckin losing it

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 6d

Dear [Author],

Your book [Title] is wonderful. I had painful urination and blood in my urine for years, until I read [Title] and now there is a clear golden stream.

[Title] deserves a wider readership. My team of 5,000 cyber-turtles can post honest reviews and raise your Zoob ranking, for a modest

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you I am looking forward to my call from the nobel committee

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 3d

Listen sometimes you need a pizzadilla I don't know what to tell you

Pizzadillas

Digest 10.10.25 - Stone Soup

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 3d

🥰🥰🥰

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 3d

Hope is a hammer. "You can act as if there’s a tomorrow worth protecting – even when your deepest, most secret heart is convinced there is no hope to be found. The beautiful thing about being in community with others is that if your hammer breaks... you can still build new things..." ❤️‍🔥🥰

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · Jun 22

Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here.

stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/

Hammer Speech

Last night, I got to stand up in front of the audience at the Locus Awards ceremony. I wound up presenting the Locus Award for Best Short Story (congratulations, Isabel J. Kim!) – but first, I deliver...

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 3d

hooboy it is this kind of day

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · Jun 22

Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here.

stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/

Hammer Speech

Last night, I got to stand up in front of the audience at the Locus Awards ceremony. I wound up presenting the Locus Award for Best Short Story (congratulations, Isabel J. Kim!) – but first, I deliver...

stone-soup.ghost.io

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 6d

oh well that clears it all up

& I'm sorry you weren't AHAG (assigned husband at google) it's hard to be an LLM spinster :(((

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