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🖤🤍💚🤍🖤 Hy•pe•taph 🔪 Queer 💉 English M.A. ⚰️ Agender 🐺 Author ✏️ Editor 📚 BLM 🗯 minors dni 🔞 blood/gore content🩸graymaned 🧡
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clashbooks.bsky.social
Tonight we party New York City!
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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tiffmorris.bsky.social
Cover reveal for Carnalis, my lesbian cannibal novella, which is out in MARCH from @nictitatingbooks.bsky.social!!
Abstract photo of a woman’s face, distorted through smears of water. Shades of pink, brown, and white. At the top Carnalis is written in a serif font. At the bottom is my name.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
hypetaph.bsky.social
Recently read Strange Houses. After much praise across platforms, I was unfortunately let down.
Screenshot of a review by C.L. Methvin of Uketsu's "Strange Houses": Fluctuating between a two and a three rating on this one. It started out with promise, as the concept of the book intrigued me, and I was definitely engrossed by the way the mystery of the houses was presented. Unfortunately, in the final third of the book, much of the build-up of tension and mystery felt like it was for nothing. The previous storytelling method of speculating about anomalies or inconsistencies gave way to a single character essentially expositing the entire climax of the novel. There was no sense of discovery or satisfaction in such a blunt reveal, which undid much of the excitement in unraveling the tale. Additionally, many of the twists of the novel were wild speculation—so much so that I was stunned not one character in the book acted as foil to these ideas to drive investigation. Someone would say something outlandishly presumptuous about the implication of a gap in a wall (for example), and then the story unfolded from there with no satisfactory reason as to why such conjecture was offered validity. The book was fine, and I admire its format, but I do not see myself suggesting it to anyone. It was a quick read at the very least: got through it all in probably a collective three hours.
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
hypetaph.bsky.social
The protagonist of this novel pissed me off in the best way. I love that he elicited such frustration. If you like getting furious at fictional characters and narratives laced with queer experience, this book is calling to you 🌀🌀🌀🌀
traumbooks.bsky.social tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 13d
Aaaaand finally, READ AND THEN BURN THIS, by R Merey~an explicit novella about a male dancer living in intense bad faith with his own body and desires.
traumbooks.com/read-and-the...
Cover for R Merey's novella, READ AND THEN BURN THIS (Fall). A very thin male torso with arms posed over the head. The body is mostly obscured by shadows. Photo by TONA. Book released by tRaum Books.
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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frombeyondpress.bsky.social
Do you know someone who's a student or staff member at Columbia University? I need someone to go look at a microfilm in the library, and they won't let me do it. I can pay!
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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catedroguett.bsky.social
Spooky commission for Batty 🩸🩸🩸😎 (CW: gore??)
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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traumbooks.bsky.social
What are our books that feel like late fall? 🧵
EUSECT, by @hypetaph.bsky.social "from cosmic horror to deep sea horror to gruesome body horror, there’s something here for everybody who enjoys the macabre."
traumbooks.com/eusect/
Cover for C.L. Methvin's extreme horror short story collection, EUSECT. A gouache painting of the inside of a canine's mouth, focusing on the teeth. Main colors are flesh, pus, bone and black color. Art by Dusty Ray. Interior collage art by Florian S. Fauna. Book released by tRaum Books.
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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traumbooks.bsky.social
The highest praise, honestly!!
seraphim777s.bsky.social Seraphim777s 🍉🦌 @seraphim777s.bsky.social · 13d
Denny Cooper approved 🥹
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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pucksarcana.bsky.social
i like you bro. i’m gonna add you to my bestiary
October 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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anomalee.bsky.social
I love making the silliest stuff
coyote schloping
April 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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vol-sen.bsky.social
A little style experiment

I didn't want to go with something obvious, so it's more like "brain fog", or when you recall your memories from a 3rd person perspective

#VGenChallenge #oc #ocsky #art #illustration
An illustration of Verte in his hunter form (black anthropomorphic cat) on the ground with Chaos (anthropomorphic hare/rabbit) sitting on top.
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
hypetaph.bsky.social
Whatever. If you're thinking about commissioning @zavlekat.bsky.social, don't 💕

He took a $300 comm from me almost 3 years ago, ghosts months at a time, STILL hasn't delivered the art, then blocked me when I asked about it.
October 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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traumbooks.bsky.social
❣️🦇 DARKNESSES Revamp?!? ❣️🦇
This is something I've been wanting to do forever!
DARKNESSES by Lachelle Sevill got a long-deserved remaster, and the newest version is only $1 for the rest of the month!

Itch: traumbooks.itch.io/darknesses
Payhip: payhip.com/b/Ahyze
A young Black woman runs from a city in a torn sheet-like dress, covering her scarred-up body. Bats fly after her and angel wings sprout from her back. As she runs, she reaches towards the sky. Cover for Lachelle Seville's DARKNESSES, a modern retelling of DRACULA, following a cult-survivor, Oasis, who falls in love with a mysterious young woman who is Dracula's latest incarnation... Book released by tRaum Books.
October 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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hypetaph.bsky.social
New art by @fagmutt.bsky.social 💊
October 23, 2023 at 2:27 PM
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catboiardee.bsky.social
this is how i text @hypetaph.bsky.social and @sessu.bsky.social now that they live here
September 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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lormaggot.ca
Pls enjoy my sapphic skin eating erotica
godscrueljokelp.bsky.social God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · Sep 26
SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
September 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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hyenablood.yeen.world
honestly the entire ending paragraph hits hard as hell. I feel like this is the most I've ever seen someone that isn't a furry Get It.
screenshot of an online review of a furry art show. there's a photo of a brick building with 3 tall windows. each has a single red neon sign in them. "DIGGER", "RUNNER", "LISTENER". text beneath: Brett Hanover (with Eve Hoyt), Digger, Listener, Runner, 2025. Photo: Tommy Bruce. Digger, Listener, Runner (2025) by Brett Hanover (with Eve Hoyt) Furry is about sex and desire, but at its core, it’s really about friendship—about the rare occasion of becoming actually visible to another person. Making art is a fight to be seen, to determine the image of ourselves rather than exist constrained by the distorted images that dominate media; images that have nothing to do with what it actually feels like to be human. To live without that is death-in-life. What do we wish for our friends, who we love and who make our life worth living? That they stay alive in every sense. So, that is all to say that I really liked this work of neon text art that co-curator Hanover made for the windows of “Room Party,” drawn from this quote from Richard Adams’ novel Watership Down: All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. May we be wise enough to embrace art as cunning, strange, and necessary as that in “Room Party.”
September 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
hypetaph.bsky.social
"Bureaucracy."
Even now I had to use voice'to-text to finally get it.
saimihanma.bsky.social Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · Sep 16
Hello, I'm a professional author and I can never spell permanently or camouflage on the first try.

Come, make me feel better and share your nemesis words.
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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hazelzorn.bsky.social
OUT NOW: my debut novella with @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ! The coral reef becomes sentient and invades the surface world, mutating all life. 🔥🪸🪸🔥 Pick up your copy today! store.tenebrouspress.com/products/ree...
September 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
hypetaph.bsky.social
Sorry to anyone anticipating projects from me
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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traumbooks.bsky.social
Last day to check out this sale and grab some ebooks on the cheap, if you're missing a title~~! 🔽🔽🔽
traumbooks.bsky.social tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · Aug 4
To celebrate June's nomination as a Lambda finalist for Love/Aggression, we will keep our sale going on Payhip for now. 🎇 You can grab many of our titles for cheaper, and a couple of them for free! payhip.com/tRaumBooks
A screenshot of our Payhip store's landing page. Book titles, with the first row featuring Demon Engine, Darknesses, Eusect and Love/Aggression. All books right now are 50% off.
September 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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theotherhappyplace.bsky.social
Finished the beading >:]
Letters and happy face beads on colorful elastic spelling out HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE. Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
August 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
hypetaph.bsky.social
From THE Dennis Cooper himself, he's started reading my book!!!! ahhh!!!
Snippet of Dennis Cooper's digital blog in which he states he has begun reading EUSECT by C.L. Methvin
August 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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traumbooks.bsky.social
To celebrate June's nomination as a Lambda finalist for Love/Aggression, we will keep our sale going on Payhip for now. 🎇 You can grab many of our titles for cheaper, and a couple of them for free! payhip.com/tRaumBooks
A screenshot of our Payhip store's landing page. Book titles, with the first row featuring Demon Engine, Darknesses, Eusect and Love/Aggression. All books right now are 50% off.
August 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM