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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · Dec 30

Black Literature I plan on reading in 2025 a thread!
#booksky #diversebooksky

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 9h

a man in a yellow shirt says another one bites the dust .

Alt: a man in a yellow shirt says another one bites the dust .

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11h

PSA: if you quote post me first, you have formally invited me in

i abide by poster’s vampire rules

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 9h

a little girl is hugging a monster from monsters inc

Alt: a little girl is hugging a monster from monsters inc

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 10h

I appreciate that so much 🙏🏻 its been nice to have other people in my life who are familiar with grief. Its helped a lot. Genuinely im glad for you and everyone who's supported me through this. I always love seeing your notifs

As soon as I get one you'll definitely hear about it!

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 10h

Artist on board for foil designs. Im excited for my next assignment whenever that comes.

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 10h

She passed on July 4th. She was like a mom to me. Its been rough and I kind of just gave up for a few months. A friend of mine gave me books to cheer me up from Rainbow crate and its been a complete life saver honestly.

I adore the editions and books that ive read and I feel privileged to be an

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 10h

Currently my TBR for #ThisWitchReads hosted by @becklovesbooks.bsky.social who was kind enough to make me a coven leader. Here's what I've finished and what I have left.
#boosky💙📚 #diversebooksky #readersky #queersky #amreading

A collage of book covers for a reading challenge called this witch reads. With prompts 4 of which are crossed out

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks!

Yeah the death of grandmother hit me harder than I thought it would. And rainbow crates books have honestly helped so much. Reading queer romance and queer joy has sort of jumper cabled my brain again.

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 11h

Another one finished for #ThisWitchReads certainly catching up on my prompts and trying to make a comeback after my several month long slump #booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky #readersky #queersky #rainbowcrate #amreading
Again another edition from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social pics to come

The Apples Hung Like Stars by Ali Williams
Purple galaxy background with a tarot card that reads divination

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 16h

Finished another book! Reviews soon to come!

#ThisWitchReads #booksread #booksky💙📚 #amreading

Demon King's Gardener by Rori Thornton

Cover includes a large blue demon with magenta markings and 4 arms holding a swarty human man's shoulder as they walk through a bright colored garden.

Background is a purple galaxy with a tarot card that reads divination.

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 21h

You're welcome! I stumbled on this term a few days ago myself and was like HUH so THAT'S what that is. I love quiet horror.

And i shall promptly be adding that to my tbr. I love creeping unease. Its why I read and watch horror.

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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 22h

Want to grab one of my games and want to save some cash?

Browse the imperfect book collection! These games have small blemishes on the outside, but are full of the same great rules on the inside.

I just updated the stock with some more titles!

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Imperfect Books

Sometimes books get a little dinged up during travel. Why waste a perfectly good book? All imperfect books are completely readable and ready for play. They just have some cosmetic damage, such as a be...

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 21h

#qotd #qouteoftheday #October #spooky #autumn

"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October." -Nathaniel Hawthorne

Background of a grave with a zombie rising from the ground and a haunted tree with a jack-o-lantern face.

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Kimberley @theamazingkimmoth.bsky.social · 21h

I’m filming AND editing on the same day. Is this what having a superpower feels like?

#bookreviews are incoming…
#booksky💙📚

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 2d

put trans women in your fiction. don’t be a fucking coward.

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Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 21h

This is just so good

VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 23h

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 21h

Bully them so hard them and their supporters shut up. You cannot debate these people into changing their mind. There is no hearing them out.

Start isolating them and outing them. Plaster their faces everywhere and ban them from stores. Dox them make it impossible for them to know peace.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 21h

#BookishQOTD #BQPTD #bookish #booksky📚💙 #readersky #books

A bubbling cauldron on an outlined background of candy.

Oct 12th #BookishQOTD

What's your favorite quiet horror book?

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 22h

If you can you should…

if you can’t don’t block the generosity of others

Giving is how we get through

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

If you're comfortable, & you have everything you need taken care of with a little extra, you don't have to give to mutual aid, but why wouldn't you? The hoarding mindset is capitalist. You can easily be part of the community that supports real life vulnerable folks. We're all we got. You gon learn.

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 21h

“Publisher didn’t register copyright”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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puff 🐇😈 @incupuff.bsky.social · Apr 27

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 21h

I've tried both. The first novel I ever finished i outlined every little thing. From general to every part to eCh chapter. It went okay. But it lacked a lot of whimsy.

Ive done full on pantsing and the ADHD tends to take over and make things very weird.

So now im a plantser.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

Okay #WritingCommunity

Planners and Pantsers. Have you ever tried the opposite approach? Planners, have you ever just writtem with no plan? What happened. Pantsers, have you ever tried outlining? What happened?

Was there anything you kept from this experiment.

I switched from pantser to planner.

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WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social · 17d

Your TBR can do more than entertain, it can heal.
Our latest blog explores Personal Development Reading Habits & how to curate a bibliotherapy library for life-changing growth.
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#BookSky #Bibliotherapy #ReadersCommunity

Personal Development Reading Habits: How to Curate Your Own Bibliotherapy Library for Life-Changing Growth

Explore Personal Development Reading Habits and create a bibliotherapy library that supports your journey toward emotional healing.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 23h

Not only is this explanation great, I also know 5,271,009 people whose lives would be changed for the better by taking it on board.

Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 11d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 21h

Bookish Checkpoint📖

📚 Last Book: The Legend of The White Snake by Sher Lee

📚 Current Read: The Demon King's Gardener by Rori Thornton

📚 Newest Add To The Tbr: The South Foresaken and The South Reclaimed by Rachel Drummond

🌄 Eagerly Waiting For: Some fucking sunshine its been pissing down rain

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)

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