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Ari 🐲
@dragondenari.bsky.social
SFF reader, reviewer, librarian, cat lover.

My socials: https://linktr.ee/Thedragonsden
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The SFF Summer Reading Challenge 2025 is live!! Kick-off is may 1st, but it's possible to join the storygraph challenge and start planning your tbr now 👀

#storygraph #booksky
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...
SFF Summer Reading Challenge 2025
Welcome to the SFF Summer Reading challenge 2025!     The purpose of the challenge is to explo...
app.thestorygraph.com
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Orange aficionado 🍊

#art #traditionalart #cuteart
May 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I know I'm spamming a lot with this EU initiative to BAN conversion practices but the signature collection stops on MAY 17!!!

⚠️ Not all countries in EU have laws to ban conversion therapy, so many LGBTQ+ people are still at risk.

You can vote as a EU citizen even if you don't live in EU anymore!!
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the rayne, and the wynde, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir.
May 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀

LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF
April 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I need people to understand that Barthes meant "Death Of The Author" to mean that authorial intent should not be the primary lens by which to criticize and understand a text; it has nothing to do with "is buying a book by a bigot acceptable" it is about LITERARY CRITICISM
April 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The SFF Summer Reading Challenge 2025 is live!! Kick-off is may 1st, but it's possible to join the storygraph challenge and start planning your tbr now 👀

#storygraph #booksky
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...
SFF Summer Reading Challenge 2025
Welcome to the SFF Summer Reading challenge 2025!     The purpose of the challenge is to explo...
app.thestorygraph.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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what do you want
April 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The SFF Summer Reading Challenge 2025 is live!! Kick-off is may 1st, but it's possible to join the storygraph challenge and start planning your tbr now 👀

#storygraph #booksky
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...
SFF Summer Reading Challenge 2025
Welcome to the SFF Summer Reading challenge 2025!     The purpose of the challenge is to explo...
app.thestorygraph.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For everyone that's wondering, yes, there will be a SFF Summer Reading Challenge this year as well 🫡 I honestly almost forgot about it but it's all ready to go live soon-ish!
April 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
BEHOLD! THE CHILD!
March 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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commission for smallmale on tumblr!
March 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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saint senshi (2024)
February 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
To all my booksta buddies wondering where the hell I've disappeared off to - my phone stopped working so it's in repairs, and I lost my login 🥲 hoping I manage to get back in soon, but in the meantime I'm fully enjoying the social media break. Quitting cold turkey has been amazing, truly 🌞
February 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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This $10 game bundle is a great deal to support the trans community
Get 75 games for $10 to support the Trans Empowerment Project
This deal is as good as it will make you feel
buff.ly
January 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Someone rescue me from this snowy hell!!
January 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
She knows she's not allowed on the kitchen counter, so this is how she "hides"...
January 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action.

If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
thetransfemininereview.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Mom said it's unfair we're only watching my shows, so I let Alisa pick the channel 😭
January 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
She might be facing the wrong way, but she's avidly watching Star Trek with me 🫡
January 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I've started posting my booksta rec lists onto a blog on Medium. There's a limit for how much I can post in a day on there, but I'm hoping to have everything on there in a few days! In the meantime, here's my list of anti colonial sci-fi:

medium.com/@thedragonsd...
#booksky #booksta #scifi
Colonizing Space
medium.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I sat and dug through all the settings on Facebook yesterday, and also discovered this. You have to deactivate this on Instagram too even if your accounts are connected!
I recommend just clearing all the data they have on you, like personal information on your account. Leave them with nothing!
UM, I had NO idea facebook was tracking everything I did on the internet. EVERYTHING. I have diligently blocked and followed all ways to try to stop this messed up social media from taking from me, but this is the final straw… THESE JERKS! AGH! [screenshots on how to do it in the comments]
January 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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2024 was an incredible year for African SFF short fiction. Author @wtalabi.bsky.social (Convergence Problems, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon) highlights ten (plus a few more) outstanding examples:

reactormag.com/the-best-afr...
Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2024 - Reactor
2024 was a good year for African Speculative Fiction.
reactormag.com
January 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Silver dragon I had the pleasure to illustrate for Dungeons & Dragons: Monster Manual (2024)
January 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Also here's my super adorable child, Alisa 🥹
January 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thought I'd introduce myself! I'm Ari and I'm your typical cat loving librarian. I have a fondness for anything fantasy, especially if it's queer, and I've been reading and reviewing on booksta for a few years now. Now I'm trying to broaden my horizons!

You can find me here:
linktr.ee/Thedragonsden
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January 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM