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René
@bogwyrm.bsky.social
author of queer romances and fantastical things | he/him | disabled & neurodivergent | aroace monster

OUT NOW: Desiccated Empire
-> https://mybook.to/DesiccatedEmpire
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Wishlist! Bc why not?

So I have a #Wishlist on #throne. I recently revamped it completely: all new wishes, properly organized by collection! I love the results so much, even just from a visual standpoint 😍🥰

Look at it! It's so pretty!!

throne.com/drowsy

It's got books and bookbinding materials!
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From here I will be calling this exact strain of right-wing Christofascist dispensational premillennialist apocalyptic evangelical supersessionist covenentalist Biblical-inerrantist evangelicalism that's merged almost fully with right-wing cultural issues and the US civil religion "the US heresy".
May 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!

www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope
During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Changed my username to @bogwyrm
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
2026’s New Horror Books
All the new horror books coming in 2026, featuring all manner of hauntings, murderers, vampires, monsters, cults, ghosts, and all kinds of nebulous eldritch terrors.
readjumpscares.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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It's always a bit awkward when ectoplasmic puppet strings sprout from the ceiling and meld to my flesh. I'm not always in the mood for doing a little jig on the stovetop, you know?
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Once again a total Norwegian dominance in the men's 20k skiathlon. Sigh. I'm sure that's very fun for Norway, but it makes for such a bummer of a watch. Zero tension.
December 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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OKAY YES—when I used to train new designers coming in, I would tell them a variation of this. Like you MUST not let your ego be tied to the work. It is tempting, but at the end of the day how well the work does/doesn’t do isn’t personal but you *will* take it personally if you don’t learn to let go.
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Maybe my wishlist should be BUY MY BOOK (bc I published my 1st this September) but guess who is always forgetting I published a book? My memory is terrible, the brain fog is attacking me, and my time-blindness is out of control. I have no fucking clue what I did this year.
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Mithqal's family need help, if anyone is looking for places to donate!
December 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Wishlist! Bc why not?

So I have a #Wishlist on #throne. I recently revamped it completely: all new wishes, properly organized by collection! I love the results so much, even just from a visual standpoint 😍🥰

Look at it! It's so pretty!!

throne.com/drowsy

It's got books and bookbinding materials!
René - Wishlist | Throne
Send rené gifts via Throne. Browse rené's wishlist and support your favorite creator safely.
throne.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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the night belongs to them.
#oc #ocsky #elfenjoyers
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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the final commission bell tolls!

simplified spot illustrations, done in an "artists choice" style. relay to me your characters references, their hearts and hardships, and I will editorialize them.

$250 for a fullbody (or) two half-bodies!

opening tomorrow:
friday, december 5th @ 8PM EST.
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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This month is... oof. So I've decided to run a 50% off sale in my Kofi shop. All books that aren't free+ are on sale if you use this link. I get paid directly from each purchase. #discountbooks
ko-fi.com/shaneblackhe...
50% discount off Shane Blackheart's Shop
Visit Shane Blackheart at Ko-fi for 50% discount off Shop
ko-fi.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Isn't Netflix bleeding money? (At least according to the shareholders) Isn't that why it's always whining about password sharing and raising the price and adding ads and whatnot? How the fuck can it afford to buy those at once? Also, that feels like an anti-trust violation
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Apparently Smashwords royalties are changing as of January 1, 2026. Books under $2.99 will get 40% list; books $2.99 or over get 75%.

(Amazon KDP, for context, is generally 35% and 70% respectively)

Draft2Digital owns Smashwords, so if you publish via D2D it's easy to add ebooks there. 💙📚
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Bookbinding is so fun!!! 🔥 😳
December 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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🗺️Submissions are now open for our May issue on the themes of QUESTS & QUARRELS!⚔️

We are looking for fantasy short fiction up to 7.5k words and cover illustrations. Deadline 31 May 2026.
For details visit our website at www.silversunbooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Money
Marriage
Pussy

....okay
the first 3 words you see will define your 2026 😭

Crabs
New
Car

...welll
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The Sapphic Book Advent Calendar has started!

jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...

From today until December 25, you get to open a new door every day, revealing:

🎁 a free ebook
🎁 a book giveaway
🎁 or a book on sale

by one of the 110 participating authors!
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Mastercard is REALLY trying to pass the buck off onto banks (who, granted, ARE part of the problem but its still mostly MC and Visa)

do as Ana says here and tell them your bank told you to contact THEM. easy way to tack on more time in the call

stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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This is what you risk when you do non-union work, folks. Your voice gets turned into whatever the hell *this* is, and you get thrown out onto the streets.
Welp, a second AI dub on Amazon has apparently been found, and it's a show that already had a perfectly normal (albeit non-union) dub: No Game No Life.
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do.
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM