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Devin Madson | Rebecca Ide
@devinmadson.bsky.social
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Author. Drinker of tea. Killer of plants. Pan/trans 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (He/him) Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Australia

Rebecca Ide: THE GENTLEMAN AND HIS VOWSMITH (queer fantasy murder romance)

Devin Madson: BETWEEN DRAGONS AND THEIR WRATH (queer fantasy)
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You just died, the sixth picture in your camera roll is what killed you.

… i mean… 🤣
a quick line drawing of a grumpy frog-looking person with stick arms, glaring, hands on hips with a boner. says “the audacity”
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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my daughter chose The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel, painted in 1847. she chose this because, let’s face it, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree and she’s also drawn to the male figure, intense emotion and romanticism, especially if she can imagine it being gay (i’m a great influence!) 4/
painting of the fallen angel by alexandre cabanel. it’s a nude painting of lucifer being cast out of heaven, he’s sitting on barren stones looking very smouldering, has one arm over half his face and an expression of betrayed, angry hurt. he’s hot and mad and has wings
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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a movie that takes place where you’re from

… this is way harder when you’re Australian. lots of things are filmed here, few bother to be set here
movie poster for He Died With A Felafel in his Hand, which has the title in bold blue type above a picture of a man lying dead in a bathtub wearing a suit and bow tie
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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oh no. the AI author promotional emails have found me. i’d hoped i was uncool enough to keep being safe awhile longer 😂

they couldn’t handle mixing in my old bio though, and came out with this insanity
“Devin Madson isn't new to epic storytelling. An Aurealis Award-winning author, she thrives on crafting fantasy worlds with shades of grey, witty banter, and morally ambiguous characters that linger long after the last page is turned. Also, tea and chocolate-fueled creativity? Genius. Fried zucchini-powered world-building? Legendary.” followed by a tea emoji, a chocolate emoji, and a cucumber emoji
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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TorUK are giving my baby a whole new face for the paperback release in Feb! isn’t he a pretty boy? 😍
a graphic of a book showing the new UK paperback cover for The Gentleman and his Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide. it’s a magenta background with fancy pale blue swirls in each corner, pale blue silhouettes of two men back to back in the centre and the title in big yellow letters. it’s very regency romance but gay, and there are two cover quotes, one from Freya Marske that says “a piece of magic in itself” and one from C.S Pacat that says “a delectable read”
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
picture of Lestat from Interview with a Vampire looking disheveled and intense in his nice shirt, vest and tie, with blood dripping down his neck. caption reads: “what can i say? i’m a lot. i’m not perfect”
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. share yours if you want!

(The Gentleman and His Vowsmith)
Chaptor 1 Death is the only way to escape being a Monterris. Nic had been five when his father told him so, which was, if one thought about it, a bit messed up. When Nic was eight he'd said love was nothing but a bargaining tool. At eleven he'd clarified it was a bargaining tool should someone love him, a weakness should he deign to love another. And at fifteen that it was a weakness he could never indulge. Wine, on the other hand, was encouraged. Thank. God.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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the Paris Masters, introducing tennis players like new challengers in Street Fighter

✨ v dramatique ✨

#tennis
wall covered in black and green lighting, with two inset doorways filled with green light in which two men with tennis bags stand as silhouettes. looks a bit Maleficent. or Loki.
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Date Everything answered this question 😂 the answer is currently messily broken up but in love
a picture of the characters Washford and Dryson from the game Date Everything. a pair of handsome men personified from a washer and a dryer complete with round windows in their chests and white clothes. Washford is more long-haired leather daddy while Dryson is more frilly-shirted poet with Cheekbones
October 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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i know so nothing about Taylor Swift but this sounded interesting (it is very!), although now i think i would like to know less actually…
Snippet of a Guardian article that says: “As Swift leans into her taunts in one of her fabled middle eights, she reframes Charli's so-called hate campaign as "talking dirty" and sings - and I am sorry to have to write this - that "it's kinda making me wet". (Upsettingly, the moment is more convincing than Wood, the song about her fiance's dick set to Bruno Mars-lite.) It unwittingly reveals so much of Swift's current MO: eroticising hate, still getting off on it when her foes are long past participating”
October 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
white poster with bright cartoon flowers smiling in the middle and the hippie-font words around the outside say: “I am not the bigger person. I will hit you with a chair”
September 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Timothée Chalamet, best known for his role as Tom Cooper in Interstellar
picture of a young Timothée Chalamet in Interstellar, in casual grey clothes, facing the camera while Matthew McConaughey stands with his back to us. they’re having a serious parent/child moment on a rural background
September 4, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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overall theme seems to be like… “uncharted” maybe?
About LAcon V Dare to Discover, Dare to Explore, Dare to be Uncharted! LAcon V, the 2026 World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), is presented by the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests (SCIFI), Inc., a California 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. LAcon V
August 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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only reference to these i could find on the site was on their menu
menu reads: = MENU LAcon V BLOG-THE TELEGRAPH ABOUT-THE GUIDES GUESTS-THE PIONEERS VENUE-THE FRONTIER CONVENTION THE SIDESHOW REGISTRATION JOIN US IN 2026
August 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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this is from a very thoughtful, critical review that also ended with this VERY GOOD POINT:

(i would link to the specific review but i’m so protectively bad at goodreads i don’t know how to get links to individual reviews looool 😂)
“Ultimately, if Croydon was so interested in asking the question on nobody's lips — what if Alan Turing had a child? - why not also create a new history in which Turing is allowed to be happy? To find love (with a man!) and connection to his children and friends, where his Turing Protocol can be enshrined in their upbringing rather than merely assumed as a side effect of carrying his DNA? Why continue to write about his suffering when you could have found room for joy or justice?”
August 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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“but what if Alan Turing was only gay cos he hadn’t met the right woman yet?”

IM SO TIRED Y’ALL 😭
excerpt from a goodreads review that reads: “This decision is made more questionable as the sex scene between Turing and Joan is one of only two on-page descriptions; all other sex scenes are 'fade to black'. Whilst Turing is clearly stated to be gay in the novel, his homosexuality feels tacked on, as he lacks queer community and a desire for men outside of a purely sexual context. Contrasting the intimate detail with which the scene between Joan and Turing is described, the interactions between Turing and Arnold feel perverse, as Turing has a "weakness for young men" (p.109), and he becomes "excited" (p.109) by his "fresh face" (p.110). These descriptions reinforce homosexuality as an indecent perversion; whereas Turing and Joan engage in a more 'pure' love, as they are "captivated by each other's company" (p.19), where Turing gives into Joan's seduction and "pulled himself closer" (p.89), afterwards "the couple relaxed, holding each other - two people in love, if only briefly" (p.89); thus intimacy and love is contrasted with sexually deviant lust. Croydon strips Turing of his autonomy and…”
August 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

uhhhh… at least professional athletes probably have good advice on how to let go of failures and keep fighting?

(italian tennis pro Lorenzo Musetti for those less obsessed with tennis than me. probably my…15th fave?)
a picture of italian tennis player Lorenzo Musetti showing his muscles off to the crowd by pulling back his sleeve after a match at Roland Garros earlier this year
August 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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and yet DEGREE IN GRECO-ROMAN CLASSICS
JASMINE MAS is a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy romance. Her books have been translated into 20 languages. She has a degree in ancient Greco-Roman classical studies from Georgetown University, and is a former lawyer who spends all her free time writing about strong women in magical worlds.
July 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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What's a book—or series of books—that you loved as a kid that almost nobody seems to read or even remember nowadays?

was obsessssssssed with these as a kid. still think about them to this day
June 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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this one too 🤣
MzFreud @mzfreud.bsky.social • 2h You should have said no to Emperor Orange. But noooooo... you had to go getting mixed up with a serial felon and his buddies. Your bed, Dan. You lie down in it. (attached picture of a tardigrade playing a stringed musical instrument) Itlging.bsky.social @Itlging.bsky... •58m That IS the world's tiniest violin! slugdoug.bsky.social @slugdou... • 21m Nope, that's clearly a cello.
June 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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i love bluesky for the random, good-hearted-but-snarky interactions total strangers have in replies. after so many years of “never read the comments” as a rule, it is delightful
Eric Winick @eawinick.bsky.social • 5h Fonts matter Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsk... • 5h *nods in comic sans * Eric Winick @eawinick.bsky.social • 4h Get out.
June 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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laughs hysterically in actually knowing shit about australian politics. if y’all want to see pretty things in australia, don’t leave it too long cos our government is doing fuck all to stop them getting destroyed. oh wait, no, they’re lobbying UNESCO to stop them complaining about the doing nothing🙃
screenshot of article that reads: “reach the Tropical Coast, high on the list of CNTraveler's Best Places To Go list in 2025. This is the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and its sustainability efforts to protect it, as”
June 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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heads up for all Melbourne folks, i’m going to be at Melbourne Comic-con this coming weekend so if you’re around, be sure to drop by and say hello! 🥰
oz comic-con announcement pic showing my author picture and some of my books. Devin Madson | Rebecca Ide, June 7&8 at MCEC
June 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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i mean… 👀 this is some seriously excellent level book propaganda
screen cap of a Screen Rant article with the subhead: The Gentleman And His Vowsmith Is A Great Bridgerton Replacement Read Ide's Novel Captures The Passion And Humor of Quinn's And Netflix's Series with pictures from the bridgerton netflix series beneath
June 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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my gods someone please just throw lots and lots of money at David Gaider and let the man cook. please let us have this game, universe, we deserve this
snippet from quote posted article: "So what if there was more focus?" he continues. "What if the point was the relationships and the characters? What if they played more into the plot? I can think of a few, like, say, Dragon Age: Origins. There are a couple of followers that have more relevance than the others. For instance, you couldn't take Alistair or Morrigan out of Dragon Age: Origins and still have the throughline of plot remain the same. So what if you had more of that? What if there was more interplay where they played a stronger role? Or what if there's things we haven't yet considered about the role of romance?
May 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM