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Sara Century

@saracentury.bsky.social

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · Apr 23

My zines can be purchased here going forward. Currently I have the Scream zine and my recent lesbian vampire zine for sale, IRL and/or PDF. My next zine is going to be about the X-Men and I'm already a little exhausted thinking about it 😂 sara-century.square.site

Red lips with vampire teeth on a white background

A zine tribute to the Scream Franchise with a mask on the cover

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 6d

THE DEVOURERS is lightly discounted on Bookshop.org again, stick it to Prime Day if it is indeed Prime Day.

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 11

Bookshop.org (still blocked where I am for some reason) is having an anti-amazon-prime sale, & you can my books there, including THE DEVOURERS, my queer dark fantasy/mythic realist debut about shapeshifters in the 17th c Mughal Empire & modern India, slightly discounted. It won a Lambda Award.

The Devourers: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 1h

They love each other tho so that would never happen. Besides Storm already beat Scott with no powers to boot so no one even tries that anymore 😂

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 1h

Easily something Jubilee did in the 90s, guaranteed

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 1h

Hard agree with this stance

Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 1h

My X-Men takes are well-known and on the record but I think that maybe "it's ok for Jean to be a little insufferable sometimes because why wouldn't she be" is perhaps the take that has gotten the most backlash.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 9h

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 1h

I had a lot of travel issues getting to Voidcon so not a ton of photos, but still enough to share. Lots of highlights but no surprise to anyone that meeting some of my fellow Weirdpunk writers was a pretty big deal to me since I have all of most of their books already 💖

A white person with black-gray hair in a flannel shirt at a podium, this is Joe Koch, they are reading at Voidcon in Gettysburg 2025

Three writers on a panel about Human Monsters, Voidcon 2025. This is Charlene Elsby, Max Restaino and B. R. Yeager.

Three readers listening to Joe Koch's reading at Voidcon 2025. L to R this is David Simmons, Junkyard Ambrose (I think), and Sasha Ravitch.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 2h

The hyper-leftist antipathy toward the “no kings” rally was very dispiriting and a lot of people lost points on that one

You can’t complain that liberals don’t care and then scoff when liberals come out in big numbers showing that they care

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 2h

People say that compassion is humanity's unique trait but of course animals display compassion all the time. No. Our most redeeming trait is our ability to! Commit! To! The! Bit!

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 2h

One thing AI robs you of is your human capacity for committing to the bit, and I think that's sad!

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤

Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 3h

It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything.

Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

A a teal flyer for the Western Alaska Disaster Relief with a QR code to donate. Text reads:

WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF

Alaska's Western coastal communities are experiencing devastating impacts from Typhoon Halong, with families displaced and villages facing severe flooding and loss.

ONLINE FUNDRAISER:
Join us in supporting relief efforts. Scan the QR code to donate
online. All funds raised will go directly to
assisting communities.
QUYANA CAKNEQ - QUYANAQPAK - QAGAASAKUNG - TAIKUU
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MAHSÌ CHO - GUNALCHÈESH - HÀW’AA - THANK YOU

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 13h

This is a sign of immense weakness. It’s like a mobster asking others if they’d be interested in a shakedown because their first targets didn’t cooperate.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 17h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Book recommendations for Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Read today & all year! Alt text for text

Blood Sisters
• A Council of Dolls
• Never Whistle at Night
• Winter Counts (TBR)
• There, There
• Night of the Living Rez
Bad Cree
• The Bone Picker (tbr)
• Ghost Girls and Rabbits
• White Horse
• Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Mask of the Deer Woman
• India Burial Ground
• Shutter
• Man Made Monsters (I need to finish!)
• On the Savage Side

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Phillip Sevy @phillipsevy.bsky.social · 1d

And Day 12 of #Supermantober brings us DOOMSDAY. This big boy is hard to fit on this 6x9 board, but he's available for sale, if you want him! $110 shipped.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

Have a suspicious hunch that you haven’t pre-ordered my new book yet. I would advise three copies, one for you, one for brother-in-law, one for niece who is now eleven and saw iron man 1 before she could walk. www.chroniclebooks.com/collections/...

Marvel So You've Been Bitten by a Radioactive Spider

The Marvel Comics Universe is full of action, adventure, danger, and cosmic peril. Be ready for anything with this illustrated action handbook—whether you have newly developed super-powers, you need t...

www.chroniclebooks.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Our enemies are cowards, and we are going to defeat them.

Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 2d

Mom's 4 Liberty finally realizes they are on the losing end of a 75-25 issue seeing @rweingarten.bsky.social celebrating banned books and just decide to go with, no, no, the liberals are the book banners.

moms 4 liberty tweet attacking "the left" for being the real book banners because Randi Weingarten is celebrating banned book week.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 5d

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 3d

Come join me and @victoriaying.com on Tuesday 10/14 (7pm) if you’re in Los Angeles! RSVP here:

Trung Le Nguyen in conversation with Victoria Ying to celebrate Angelica and the Bear Prince

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 2d

Or

You can stay single and read a lot more comics 😈

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 2d

Not saying YOU look bad, YOU look great! You being a hottie is the one thing in a photo that photographers don't have anything to do with. I'm not here to make you look hot, that's on you. Photographers are there to make great photos that you can use for the rest of your life.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 2d

C'mon, people, let's do this!

ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Support African Translation Project

African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3345, 67%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 2d

Cellphone selfies are totally fine for social media, but trust me it's going to bite you in the ass one day if the only photos you have of yourself or your loved ones are grainy, badly composed, badly lit, pixelated, etc. Also photos aren't that expensive and you don't have to do them that much. JFC

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 2d

People will say oh I don't see the point of hiring photographers for headshots when everyone has cellphones. I can! They're cellphone photos and they look like shit.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 3d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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