Llinos Cathryn Thomas
@llincathryn.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏴♾️🥄 Book recs, writing chat, occasional opinions. (she/her)
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For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
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📺 🔍 NEW
We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved.
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved.
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
TalkTV: Ofcom bows to pressure | Good Law Project
We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved.
goodlaw.social
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📺 🔍 NEW
We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved.
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved.
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
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During one sleepless night in 1879, German priest Johann Schleyer felt a Divine presence telling him to create a universal language. The result was Volapük. @ArikaOkrent explores the rise + fall of the first invented language to gain widespread success: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t...
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
During one sleepless night in 1879, German priest Johann Schleyer felt a Divine presence telling him to create a universal language. The result was Volapük. @ArikaOkrent explores the rise + fall of the first invented language to gain widespread success: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t...
This is fascinating!
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is fascinating!
A few days left to get my F/F contemporary Welsh romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
It's got one chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
🌈💜 #Romancelandia #BookSky 🌈📚
It's got one chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
🌈💜 #Romancelandia #BookSky 🌈📚
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A few days left to get my F/F contemporary Welsh romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
It's got one chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
🌈💜 #Romancelandia #BookSky 🌈📚
It's got one chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
🌈💜 #Romancelandia #BookSky 🌈📚
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this is an extremely adorable book, really, do spend 99p on the experience of reading it one chapter a day in December! Llin's work is substantial, like cream and chocolate and other nice things with heft: she's not silly or slight, she gives you beautiful romance that sticks.
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
this is an extremely adorable book, really, do spend 99p on the experience of reading it one chapter a day in December! Llin's work is substantial, like cream and chocolate and other nice things with heft: she's not silly or slight, she gives you beautiful romance that sticks.
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Today is an excellent day to support your local indie bookstore and pre-order Nobody’s Baby, the second Dorothy Gentleman sapphic sci-fi mystery!
Bonus: the official fern shawl pattern from Violet’s yarn shop will be available around release day, entirely free!
Bonus: the official fern shawl pattern from Violet’s yarn shop will be available around release day, entirely free!
Nobody's Baby
Check out Nobody's Baby - <p><b>Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a </b><b>formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective.</b><br><br><i>...
bookshop.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Today is an excellent day to support your local indie bookstore and pre-order Nobody’s Baby, the second Dorothy Gentleman sapphic sci-fi mystery!
Bonus: the official fern shawl pattern from Violet’s yarn shop will be available around release day, entirely free!
Bonus: the official fern shawl pattern from Violet’s yarn shop will be available around release day, entirely free!
I pretty much do this and it's great, one trip to @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social for all the niblings, some recent hard sci-fi for my dad, and I'm already 3/4 of the way done!
my time-saving holiday shopping tip is to just get everybody books. white elephant? book. child? picture book. stocking? small book. i am a neutral & trustworthy source on this subject
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I pretty much do this and it's great, one trip to @alligatorsmouth.bsky.social for all the niblings, some recent hard sci-fi for my dad, and I'm already 3/4 of the way done!
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My book Where We Stand, Where We fall is now up for pre-order. It's about the politics of Doctor Who, the themes the show keeps returning to over sixty years.
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My book Where We Stand, Where We fall is now up for pre-order. It's about the politics of Doctor Who, the themes the show keeps returning to over sixty years.
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
I mentioned this last week, but now there's a proper post about it, with a 30% discount code from the publisher: lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/b...
I just finished this and WOW what a trilogy, what a conclusion! Read them if you love intense chemistry, very bad decisions, political intrigue, things being too complicated for easy answers, loads of queer women, heartbreak, joy, love, betrayal, complex loyalty and just all-around good writing.
THE SOVEREIGN by @clclark.bsky.social
- f/f (/f)
- all hail the queen
- all hail her general
- but even a queen can't stop the magical plague decimating her people
- and even a general can't stop their brittle alliances from shattering
- love & blood & betrayal mix together for a delicious finale
- f/f (/f)
- all hail the queen
- all hail her general
- but even a queen can't stop the magical plague decimating her people
- and even a general can't stop their brittle alliances from shattering
- love & blood & betrayal mix together for a delicious finale
The Sovereign
Check out The Sovereign - <b><i>The Sovereign</i> brings princess Luca and soldier Touraine together one last time in the thrilling conclusion to C. L. Clark's beloved queer political fantasy trilogy....
bookshop.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I just finished this and WOW what a trilogy, what a conclusion! Read them if you love intense chemistry, very bad decisions, political intrigue, things being too complicated for easy answers, loads of queer women, heartbreak, joy, love, betrayal, complex loyalty and just all-around good writing.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I think I'm in safe hands!
I think I'm in safe hands!
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I think I'm in safe hands!
I think I'm in safe hands!
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🎄1 month til Christmas! If you’re lucky enough to have a Dyspraxic or ADHD person in your life, my book “No Heels No Problem: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide to Adult Life When You’re Dyspraxic or ADHD” would make a lovely gift.
*AND it’s dead easy to wrap & unwrap! uk.jkp.com/products/no-...
*AND it’s dead easy to wrap & unwrap! uk.jkp.com/products/no-...
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🎄1 month til Christmas! If you’re lucky enough to have a Dyspraxic or ADHD person in your life, my book “No Heels No Problem: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide to Adult Life When You’re Dyspraxic or ADHD” would make a lovely gift.
*AND it’s dead easy to wrap & unwrap! uk.jkp.com/products/no-...
*AND it’s dead easy to wrap & unwrap! uk.jkp.com/products/no-...
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In an ideal world i would absolutely support AD, but our world is not there yet.
Nothing has radicalised me more on this issue than listening to Disabled Canadians recounting their experiences
Nothing has radicalised me more on this issue than listening to Disabled Canadians recounting their experiences
I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
In an ideal world i would absolutely support AD, but our world is not there yet.
Nothing has radicalised me more on this issue than listening to Disabled Canadians recounting their experiences
Nothing has radicalised me more on this issue than listening to Disabled Canadians recounting their experiences
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For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
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So many things are grim and cold right now. But if you'd like to admire something soft and happy and warm for a moment, please see my heartachingly gorgeous cover for SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE (out 11/25)?
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
So many things are grim and cold right now. But if you'd like to admire something soft and happy and warm for a moment, please see my heartachingly gorgeous cover for SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE (out 11/25)?
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
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This is a great deal on a novella I love!
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is a great deal on a novella I love!
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This is just a reminder that I wrote a trilogy that ends with the icy blond lawyer fiancee, who got dumped for the hot small town tree farmer in the first book, road tripping to the ex's wedding with a fake girlfriend (and there's only one bed).
You can buy all three!
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You can buy all three!
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is just a reminder that I wrote a trilogy that ends with the icy blond lawyer fiancee, who got dumped for the hot small town tree farmer in the first book, road tripping to the ex's wedding with a fake girlfriend (and there's only one bed).
You can buy all three!
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
You can buy all three!
bookshop.org/beta-search?...
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Can't believe it's nearly December, but if you need something to look forward to...
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Can't believe it's nearly December, but if you need something to look forward to...
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I've only just started this sapphic contemporary romance but it's reallly good so far, y'all. Grab it!
🌈💜🌈📚 #Romancelandia
🌈💜🌈📚 #Romancelandia
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I've only just started this sapphic contemporary romance but it's reallly good so far, y'all. Grab it!
🌈💜🌈📚 #Romancelandia
🌈💜🌈📚 #Romancelandia
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Friends this is an absolute steal, I’m looking forward to this as my advent treat!!
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Friends this is an absolute steal, I’m looking forward to this as my advent treat!!
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ooooh, I recommend snapping this up if you haven't already, very excited to start my advent calendar read next week!
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
ooooh, I recommend snapping this up if you haven't already, very excited to start my advent calendar read next week!
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Planning to start your Christmas shopping this weekend?
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
Good Gifts 2025
Use your Secret Santa or present giving to support charities, museums and small businesses.
madlinblog.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Planning to start your Christmas shopping this weekend?
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
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If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of over 314 questions outlined here including eg Do you start fires? Do you steal? Do you physically assault people?
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
Questioning trans kids
The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…
growinguptransgender.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.
One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!
books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
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Scarleteen does incredible, necessary work on a shoestring budget. They’re raising money for a fund to help their brilliant volunteers pay for healthcare. Please help them out by kicking in what you can. They’re an unparalleled resource for teens and young people figuring out sex and relationships.
Scarleteen is raising $40,000 to support the healthcare needs of staff and volunteers who do this vulnerable, crucial, intimate work. 204 people have donated $23k; please join them today and share. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Scarleteen does incredible, necessary work on a shoestring budget. They’re raising money for a fund to help their brilliant volunteers pay for healthcare. Please help them out by kicking in what you can. They’re an unparalleled resource for teens and young people figuring out sex and relationships.
Ooohhhh so exciting! Extra content, lore, bonus short story! 🤩
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ooohhhh so exciting! Extra content, lore, bonus short story! 🤩