TC Parker/Dr Nat Edwards (she/her)
@tcparker.bsky.social
(Neuro)queer Luddite
1/2 of Nefarious Bat Press. Writer: TRADWIFE, SALTBLOOD, HUMMINGBIRD
PhD in media & politics. Work in social/cultural semiotics, CDA, material culture, storytelling. Rage as deep as the abyss
Fiction at: https://tinyurl.com/mr2rd9bj
1/2 of Nefarious Bat Press. Writer: TRADWIFE, SALTBLOOD, HUMMINGBIRD
PhD in media & politics. Work in social/cultural semiotics, CDA, material culture, storytelling. Rage as deep as the abyss
Fiction at: https://tinyurl.com/mr2rd9bj
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Here we go... the ultimate 🧵 of our We're Not Bezos Batcave deals
Want to sate that horror, crime and fantasy fic hunger at a discount - without dipping a toe in the Big Evil River That Everyone Hates?
We can help! 📚💙
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Want to sate that horror, crime and fantasy fic hunger at a discount - without dipping a toe in the Big Evil River That Everyone Hates?
We can help! 📚💙
🧵 follows...
All our seasonal deals in one place - help us out by spreading the word! 📚💙
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People publicly professing they enjoyed something can genuinely change the life of the person who made the thing
(Liked something we wrote? Tell everyone you know!)
(Liked something we wrote? Tell everyone you know!)
FWIW: Mention books you like or you think others might like. You never know what'll happen:
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
People publicly professing they enjoyed something can genuinely change the life of the person who made the thing
(Liked something we wrote? Tell everyone you know!)
(Liked something we wrote? Tell everyone you know!)
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Just a reminder of how to support our small indie press, Black female owned and operated, specializing in all things horror, prioritizing marginalized voices. www.candacenolaauthor.com/post/11-28-2...
11/28/2025 More Ways to Shop & Support Uncomfortably Dark!
There is no such thing as too much exposure! A small press needs all the help it can get so check below for ways you can help support my work here and on Uncomfortably Dark! OTHER WAYS TO SHOP AND SUP...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Just a reminder of how to support our small indie press, Black female owned and operated, specializing in all things horror, prioritizing marginalized voices. www.candacenolaauthor.com/post/11-28-2...
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Tomorrow is the final day to get the ebook of SONG DOGS for the special early price. Grab it now and wake up to it on your device Tuesday morning.
*Scowling song dog not included.
*Scowling song dog not included.
December 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Tomorrow is the final day to get the ebook of SONG DOGS for the special early price. Grab it now and wake up to it on your device Tuesday morning.
*Scowling song dog not included.
*Scowling song dog not included.
Absolutely yes to this, because George Michael was a queer saint and a bloody good bloke (who also made some excellent music)
As someone said in the OP's comments: if you're going to play Xmas-Song-A-Geddon... start with McCartney and the bloody Frog Chorus
As someone said in the OP's comments: if you're going to play Xmas-Song-A-Geddon... start with McCartney and the bloody Frog Chorus
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Absolutely yes to this, because George Michael was a queer saint and a bloody good bloke (who also made some excellent music)
As someone said in the OP's comments: if you're going to play Xmas-Song-A-Geddon... start with McCartney and the bloody Frog Chorus
As someone said in the OP's comments: if you're going to play Xmas-Song-A-Geddon... start with McCartney and the bloody Frog Chorus
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
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Seasonal Batcave bargains end tonight! Get 'em while you can 🦇📚💙 ⬇️
Here we go... the ultimate 🧵 of our We're Not Bezos Batcave deals
Want to sate that horror, crime and fantasy fic hunger at a discount - without dipping a toe in the Big Evil River That Everyone Hates?
We can help! 📚💙
🧵 follows...
Want to sate that horror, crime and fantasy fic hunger at a discount - without dipping a toe in the Big Evil River That Everyone Hates?
We can help! 📚💙
🧵 follows...
November 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Seasonal Batcave bargains end tonight! Get 'em while you can 🦇📚💙 ⬇️
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#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1
Over 40, and not really 100% sure how to use a filter over here
(Camera is usually on Portrait mode, but it doesn't seem to do much except blur the background. Can confirm, I still look like myself, and not a Pokémon or smooth-skinned nymph of 20)
(Camera is usually on Portrait mode, but it doesn't seem to do much except blur the background. Can confirm, I still look like myself, and not a Pokémon or smooth-skinned nymph of 20)
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Over 40, and not really 100% sure how to use a filter over here
(Camera is usually on Portrait mode, but it doesn't seem to do much except blur the background. Can confirm, I still look like myself, and not a Pokémon or smooth-skinned nymph of 20)
(Camera is usually on Portrait mode, but it doesn't seem to do much except blur the background. Can confirm, I still look like myself, and not a Pokémon or smooth-skinned nymph of 20)
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We know it's Cyber Monday, etc tomorrow... but if you prefer to delay your gratification just a little - why not preorder @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's smalltown zombie grief-horror THE DENIZENS?
Rising from the grave February 17th
Rising from the grave February 17th
The Denizens
The Denizens - Kindle edition by LaFaro, Brennan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Denizens.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We know it's Cyber Monday, etc tomorrow... but if you prefer to delay your gratification just a little - why not preorder @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's smalltown zombie grief-horror THE DENIZENS?
Rising from the grave February 17th
Rising from the grave February 17th
Keep accidentally posting then deleting Bat-related stuff from my own account... and completely understand now why people with sock-puppet accounts are always shaming themselves so publicly
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Keep accidentally posting then deleting Bat-related stuff from my own account... and completely understand now why people with sock-puppet accounts are always shaming themselves so publicly
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BUY INDIE🖤☠️
For:
HAUNTED HOUSE fans who are pretty sure they've worn the genre out?
Try:
POSTHASTE MANOR by @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social
DEHISCENT by Ashley Deng
store.tenebrouspress.com
For:
HAUNTED HOUSE fans who are pretty sure they've worn the genre out?
Try:
POSTHASTE MANOR by @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social
DEHISCENT by Ashley Deng
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
BUY INDIE🖤☠️
For:
HAUNTED HOUSE fans who are pretty sure they've worn the genre out?
Try:
POSTHASTE MANOR by @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social
DEHISCENT by Ashley Deng
store.tenebrouspress.com
For:
HAUNTED HOUSE fans who are pretty sure they've worn the genre out?
Try:
POSTHASTE MANOR by @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social
DEHISCENT by Ashley Deng
store.tenebrouspress.com
The Twelve Days of Christmas, meanwhile, is a chilling depiction of love bombing: a first-person account of psychological manipulation via successive onslaughts of poultry, marching bands and aristo-acrobatic display
(Is he even paying those milkmaids for their time?)
(Is he even paying those milkmaids for their time?)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer celebrates drug addiction and peer pressure. ❄️
Jingle Bells glamorizes drunk driving and animal abuse 💅🏻
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Twelve Days of Christmas, meanwhile, is a chilling depiction of love bombing: a first-person account of psychological manipulation via successive onslaughts of poultry, marching bands and aristo-acrobatic display
(Is he even paying those milkmaids for their time?)
(Is he even paying those milkmaids for their time?)
Re: browsing vs algorithmic delivery... 🧵
I don't think I can overstate how important libraries were to me when I was younger in terms of exposing me to texts I wouldn't otherwise have encountered - even in (chain) bookstores
I don't think I can overstate how important libraries were to me when I was younger in terms of exposing me to texts I wouldn't otherwise have encountered - even in (chain) bookstores
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Re: browsing vs algorithmic delivery... 🧵
I don't think I can overstate how important libraries were to me when I was younger in terms of exposing me to texts I wouldn't otherwise have encountered - even in (chain) bookstores
I don't think I can overstate how important libraries were to me when I was younger in terms of exposing me to texts I wouldn't otherwise have encountered - even in (chain) bookstores
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*Cough* Born in Blood Volumes 1 and 2 *Cough*
ghoulish.rip/product/born...
ghoulish.rip/product/born...
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ghoulish.rip/product/born...
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
*Cough* Born in Blood Volumes 1 and 2 *Cough*
ghoulish.rip/product/born...
ghoulish.rip/product/born...
ghoulish.rip/product/born...
ghoulish.rip/product/born...
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The "original" version
"I will not put up with this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you all treat me this way? What the fuck's wrong with you all? Think about that!" - Sylvia Rivera
"I will not put up with this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you all treat me this way? What the fuck's wrong with you all? Think about that!" - Sylvia Rivera
Just seen an "LGB" gay man say he's all about "pride but the original version"
Yeah, uhhh, who's gonna tell him the original pride was a riot started by a black trans woman?
There would be no pride without us, working WITH our gay, lesbian and bisexual brothers and sisters to demand it
Yeah, uhhh, who's gonna tell him the original pride was a riot started by a black trans woman?
There would be no pride without us, working WITH our gay, lesbian and bisexual brothers and sisters to demand it
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The "original" version
"I will not put up with this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you all treat me this way? What the fuck's wrong with you all? Think about that!" - Sylvia Rivera
"I will not put up with this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you all treat me this way? What the fuck's wrong with you all? Think about that!" - Sylvia Rivera
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this is one of my favourite reads of the year (i was a touch late to the party), if not the number one. read it, it'll make you cooler, more attractive, all that jazz*.
* actually guaranteed
* actually guaranteed
Listen to Rob. Rob knows
TRADWIFE: castrating fictional white-nationalist misogynists since 2024
TRADWIFE: castrating fictional white-nationalist misogynists since 2024
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
this is one of my favourite reads of the year (i was a touch late to the party), if not the number one. read it, it'll make you cooler, more attractive, all that jazz*.
* actually guaranteed
* actually guaranteed
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I don't have any Black Friday deals running because my self-published books are already 99 cents on Amazon! Short horror story collections, a Victorian gothic novella, a horror fantasy novel, and a southern gothic novelette. Happy reading! 📚👀 #booksky
www.amazon.com/stores/autho...
www.amazon.com/stores/autho...
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I don't have any Black Friday deals running because my self-published books are already 99 cents on Amazon! Short horror story collections, a Victorian gothic novella, a horror fantasy novel, and a southern gothic novelette. Happy reading! 📚👀 #booksky
www.amazon.com/stores/autho...
www.amazon.com/stores/autho...
Listen to Rob. Rob knows
TRADWIFE: castrating fictional white-nationalist misogynists since 2024
TRADWIFE: castrating fictional white-nationalist misogynists since 2024
![Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from Rob Costello, reading:
"A clever, ruthless, and engrossing epistolary novel with a bloody mystery at its core [...] Rarely have I torn through a book with such voracious and wicked glee. TRADWIFE reads like a shock to the amygdala for anyone filled with disgust and anguish at the rise of Christofasicsm in the U.S. and Europe. This merciless novel is a howl of feminist rage and a glorious "Fuck you" to incels everywhere."
ROB COSTELLO
AUTHOR OF THE DANCING BEARS](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fqiezj5xezgyanoc6rhpwir/bafkreid34o54phguphzbdkpacbu2ttqmx4o5mjbetr4hopohgzpqsh2wpe@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Listen to Rob. Rob knows
TRADWIFE: castrating fictional white-nationalist misogynists since 2024
TRADWIFE: castrating fictional white-nationalist misogynists since 2024
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I heartily endorse this blurb ;-)
(It's a great fucking book.)
(It's a great fucking book.)
Bargain 6!
Until end of day Sunday: get 50% off true crime-style murder mystery TRADWIFE... and see @cloudbusterrob.bsky.social calls it "a howl of feminist rage and a glorious “Fuck you” to incels everywhere”
Until end of day Sunday: get 50% off true crime-style murder mystery TRADWIFE... and see @cloudbusterrob.bsky.social calls it "a howl of feminist rage and a glorious “Fuck you” to incels everywhere”
Tradwife
Family. Community. Tradition.Annihilation.Everyone remembers the Heart of Solomon murders: three young married couples slaughtered around the dinner table, their bodies desecrated, in the UK's first a...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I heartily endorse this blurb ;-)
(It's a great fucking book.)
(It's a great fucking book.)
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We live in AI hell: A civilization-level nonconsensual human experiment in giant environment-destroying rape culture theft machine technology.
Today I learned of the existence of this abomination - and can I suggest that if anyone on here is considering publishing with Routledge, you reconsider?
(Then perhaps sign up to the Library of Babel, which is doing some awesome things:
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...)
(Then perhaps sign up to the Library of Babel, which is doing some awesome things:
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...)
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We live in AI hell: A civilization-level nonconsensual human experiment in giant environment-destroying rape culture theft machine technology.
Today I learned of the existence of this abomination - and can I suggest that if anyone on here is considering publishing with Routledge, you reconsider?
(Then perhaps sign up to the Library of Babel, which is doing some awesome things:
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...)
(Then perhaps sign up to the Library of Babel, which is doing some awesome things:
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...)
November 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Today I learned of the existence of this abomination - and can I suggest that if anyone on here is considering publishing with Routledge, you reconsider?
(Then perhaps sign up to the Library of Babel, which is doing some awesome things:
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...)
(Then perhaps sign up to the Library of Babel, which is doing some awesome things:
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...)
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
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What if the Head of AI *is* AI?
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What if the Head of AI *is* AI?
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📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks