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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · 12h

Such beautiful trees!

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WaywardBooksandRecs @waywardchar27.bsky.social · 12h

Enjoying my MM romance in nature today 🍁🍃
(Miners of the Mystics by Penny Moss 💚)

What are you reading?

🌈📚 🌈💜 💙📚 📚👀 #romancelandia

Vibrant photo of an eReader on a ledge with trees in hues of green and yellow and orange in the background. Some large yellow oak tree leaves sit to the left on the ledge. On the eReader screen is the cover of Miners of the Mystics by Penny Moss

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Mell R. Bright @mellrbright.bsky.social · 20d

BOOK RELEASE: A BLAZING FURY

My fantasy M/M romance is out on Amazon + Kindle Unlimited!

A fire scrouger crew, dragons, a flying ship, smut... what else do you need?

amzn.to/474oMHW

#MMromance #gayromance #book #fantasy #romantasy #lgbt #gay #mmreads #dragons #kindleunlimited

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · 24d

Me burning you at the stake: RICH! RICH! RICH!

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Sep 2

Here are over 40 LGBTQIA+ historical romance books to read!
books.bookfunnel.com/lgbtqiahisto...
💙📚
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#romance #books #reading #lgbtq #gayromance #queerbooks #queerpride #historicalromance #romancebooks

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Sep 2

POOP I forgot to add alt text.
[Image description: sepia vintage photograph of two gay men kissing atop a hill point. They're both wearing trousers and shirts with ties.]

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Sep 2

Here are over 40 LGBTQIA+ historical romance books to read!
books.bookfunnel.com/lgbtqiahisto...
💙📚
🌈📚
#romance #books #reading #lgbtq #gayromance #queerbooks #queerpride #historicalromance #romancebooks

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Aug 27

💙📚Queer romance is resistance!🌈📚
books.bookfunnel.com/queerromance...
And what better way to resist than by supporting queer authors?

#lgbtq #pride #queer #books

A darkened rainbow gradient in the back. Thick white text in the foreground reads "Queer romance is..."

A bright rainbow gradient background. Four fists up in the air drawn in a simplistic, cartoonish style, each in a different skin tone. The thick, splotchy white font, outlined in black, reads, "Resistance"

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Aug 15

#lgbtqia characters in romance! 🌈📚 Just in case your TBR is lacking, here are over 70 #queer titles to choose from, including Rainsquall, heyyy!
Go, go, go! books.bookfunnel.com/bfhostlgbtqk...
💙📚

#books #mmromance #lgbtq #promo #queerromance #rep #read

LGBTQIA+ characters in romance. 70+ book titles to choose from. There's a rainbow-esque photo of a hand forming a heart shape behind the text, and two white hearts in the corner of the image.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 17

This is a beautiful garment.

Let me show you what makes it special. 🧵

An oatmeal-colored single-breasted tweed sport coat with notch lapels, jetted pockets, and welted out-breast pocket

110 630 4.8K

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Aug 15

#lgbtqia characters in romance! 🌈📚 Just in case your TBR is lacking, here are over 70 #queer titles to choose from, including Rainsquall, heyyy!
Go, go, go! books.bookfunnel.com/bfhostlgbtqk...
💙📚

#books #mmromance #lgbtq #promo #queerromance #rep #read

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Aug 15

#lgbtqia characters in romance! 🌈📚 Just in case your TBR is lacking, here are over 70 #queer titles to choose from, including Rainsquall, heyyy!
Go, go, go! books.bookfunnel.com/bfhostlgbtqk...
💙📚

#books #mmromance #lgbtq #promo #queerromance #rep #read

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Aug 15

This sounds so good lol

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C.Quince🌈 Author @cquince.bsky.social · Aug 14

Joke blurb:

Divorced spies have to get back together to solve an old case, and try not to get killed or break an ankle in the process because they're middle aged now.

He wants an early bedtime not late night espionage.
He wanted an easy life not his ex bossing him about.

Coming early December🎄🎵

C.Quince🌈 Author @cquince.bsky.social · Aug 14

Blurbs are harder than the book haha.

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Aug 10

Such a cool trailer. D:

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · Aug 1

I wish more people actually took time to read classic literature.
The point of it (among many others) is to make you see historical parallels. And develop a complex understanding of things, not just "entertainment consumerism".
I think governments cut budget for humanities because of that.

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Jul 29

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · Aug 1

Also, the war on intellectualism and endorsement of aggressive consciousness illiteracy, labelled as "I'm against the system and I refuse to listen to any authority, so fuck your classics and your humanities", also greatly helps those who want people not to understand what is being done to them.

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The BanG Dream Is Over @meltface.xyz · Jul 31

The most problematic ship? Censorship

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Jul 27

There's got to be at least one mystery, right? I can't tell since genres aren't listed and I'm not familiar with all the titles.
Imo bookfunnel should list genres too.

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Seven Seas Entertainment @sevenseasentertainment.com · Jun 24

BLACK BLOOD (For Mature readers)

A Boys’ Love/#BL sci-fi manga that pushes the boundaries on the meaning of love.

Out today in print/digital! See RETAILERS section:
sevenseasentertainment.com/books/black-...

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Jun 24

THIS.
If I see anyone use it, especially authors, I will block. If I see you repost other authors who blatantly use genAI slop, even if you don't use it yourself, I will unfollow you at best or just outright block you. I'm tired of seeing it everywhere. This shit has no place in creative spaces.

Gus! 🌱🔜 LIghtBox Expo 2025 @friedbaens.bsky.social · Mar 28

A BLATANT reminder that I will NEVER support Al or use it.

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ech0reads.bsky.social @ech0reads.bsky.social · Jun 17

Today's #BookPromosForPalestine is Specimen by @cquince.bsky.social‬👽 🌈

Check out their book and his other socials here: cquince.carrd.co

If you can't buy their book, following them, and sharing the post helps a lot!🫶

Cover of Specimen against a background of moving water. On the cover, a figure is contained in a large test tube, with a mask on, and tubes leading to it. The text reads: Specimen, Prism Agents 1, C. Quince.

Book cover and background same as previous alt text. It has several arrows with tropes pointing to the cover. An alien emoji is in the bottom left.

The tropes read:

Paranormal
enemies to lovers
forced proximity
gay aliens? inside us?
Sci-Fi

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Jun 10

Goodness, this is amazing! Love that he's getting hard about it. lol

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Moss 🏳️‍🌈 @pennymoss.bsky.social · Jun 3

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month!🏳️‍🌈 Pleased to enjoy a giant sale of over 100 books, including the first two Miners books! If you like achillean fantasy horror, human/nonhuman, then check 'em out! 💙📚 Ends on the 4th!
www.mnbennet.com/pride-promo
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#pridemonth #booksale #books #freebooks #lgbtq

miners of the mystics and miners of the tempest, $2.99 each
ereaders displaying the book covers with a rainbow and blue in the background

happy pride month! 100+ queer books on sale june 2nd to 4th
Image of a rainbow plashing into an ereader, with a blue background.

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