Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
@swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
A podcast about all things representation hosted by queer book lovers, designed to spotlight marginalised authors & creators.
Hosted by Rachel Bowdler & Ivy Marikova 🌈
https://linktr.ee/swordsandsapphicspodcast
Hosted by Rachel Bowdler & Ivy Marikova 🌈
https://linktr.ee/swordsandsapphicspodcast
The authors below were also unfairly affected by this week’s events & still deserve love on their books! Support if you can.
After much consideration, we will not be creating a new bundle as we don’t feel it would be safe for us or the authors involved.
Full post on IG, inc. stabby quotes ⚔️
After much consideration, we will not be creating a new bundle as we don’t feel it would be safe for us or the authors involved.
Full post on IG, inc. stabby quotes ⚔️
October 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The authors below were also unfairly affected by this week’s events & still deserve love on their books! Support if you can.
After much consideration, we will not be creating a new bundle as we don’t feel it would be safe for us or the authors involved.
Full post on IG, inc. stabby quotes ⚔️
After much consideration, we will not be creating a new bundle as we don’t feel it would be safe for us or the authors involved.
Full post on IG, inc. stabby quotes ⚔️
Due to the unkindness of some of the participants in the Swords & Sapphics bundle, we have decided to unpublish the sale as they do not deserve to profit from our name. Please be sure to support the authors affected. Thank you for your love & support. We truly hate this. 🧡
October 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Due to the unkindness of some of the participants in the Swords & Sapphics bundle, we have decided to unpublish the sale as they do not deserve to profit from our name. Please be sure to support the authors affected. Thank you for your love & support. We truly hate this. 🧡
mind you she has an entire section on her wikipedia page about her targeted attacks on marginalised folk. hope everyone supporting her is feeling particularly cool and superior for being part of her clique!
October 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
mind you she has an entire section on her wikipedia page about her targeted attacks on marginalised folk. hope everyone supporting her is feeling particularly cool and superior for being part of her clique!
definitely the posts of a secure non-toxic adult who only wants the best for the queer community 🧡
maybe you, benjanun, should be more careful, since you’ve been cancelled…. what? five, six, ten times already?
maybe you, benjanun, should be more careful, since you’ve been cancelled…. what? five, six, ten times already?
October 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
definitely the posts of a secure non-toxic adult who only wants the best for the queer community 🧡
maybe you, benjanun, should be more careful, since you’ve been cancelled…. what? five, six, ten times already?
maybe you, benjanun, should be more careful, since you’ve been cancelled…. what? five, six, ten times already?
CALLING STABBY SAPPHICS!
Add 19 new swords & sapphics-themed books to your TBR this autumn with our Ultimate Book Bundle! 19 books for $22 including:
⚔️ fantasy, romance, mythology, sci-fi, & horror
⚔️ lesbian, bi, & pan women
⚔️ will definitely include sharp objects
itch.io/b/3296/the-u...
Add 19 new swords & sapphics-themed books to your TBR this autumn with our Ultimate Book Bundle! 19 books for $22 including:
⚔️ fantasy, romance, mythology, sci-fi, & horror
⚔️ lesbian, bi, & pan women
⚔️ will definitely include sharp objects
itch.io/b/3296/the-u...
September 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
CALLING STABBY SAPPHICS!
Add 19 new swords & sapphics-themed books to your TBR this autumn with our Ultimate Book Bundle! 19 books for $22 including:
⚔️ fantasy, romance, mythology, sci-fi, & horror
⚔️ lesbian, bi, & pan women
⚔️ will definitely include sharp objects
itch.io/b/3296/the-u...
Add 19 new swords & sapphics-themed books to your TBR this autumn with our Ultimate Book Bundle! 19 books for $22 including:
⚔️ fantasy, romance, mythology, sci-fi, & horror
⚔️ lesbian, bi, & pan women
⚔️ will definitely include sharp objects
itch.io/b/3296/the-u...
LAST CHANCE ‼️ to support our Disability Pride Month Bundle with a HUGE bundle of books & games spanning SFF, horror, & romance genres. With a range of LGBTQ+ and disabled characters, there’s representation for everyone!
🏳️🌈 $15 for 12 items
🏳️🌈 usually $44!
🏳️🌈ENDS TOMORROW
itch.io/b/3134/sword...
🏳️🌈 $15 for 12 items
🏳️🌈 usually $44!
🏳️🌈ENDS TOMORROW
itch.io/b/3134/sword...
July 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
LAST CHANCE ‼️ to support our Disability Pride Month Bundle with a HUGE bundle of books & games spanning SFF, horror, & romance genres. With a range of LGBTQ+ and disabled characters, there’s representation for everyone!
🏳️🌈 $15 for 12 items
🏳️🌈 usually $44!
🏳️🌈ENDS TOMORROW
itch.io/b/3134/sword...
🏳️🌈 $15 for 12 items
🏳️🌈 usually $44!
🏳️🌈ENDS TOMORROW
itch.io/b/3134/sword...
🏳️🌈 Cursed in Love by @rachelbowdler.bsky.social
When Ophelia sets out to return a cursed relic to its resting place, anxiety-sufferer Luce becomes her unwilling passenger. An adventure romance for fans of ROMANCING THE STONE x WITHOUT A PADDLE.
When Ophelia sets out to return a cursed relic to its resting place, anxiety-sufferer Luce becomes her unwilling passenger. An adventure romance for fans of ROMANCING THE STONE x WITHOUT A PADDLE.
July 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🏳️🌈 Cursed in Love by @rachelbowdler.bsky.social
When Ophelia sets out to return a cursed relic to its resting place, anxiety-sufferer Luce becomes her unwilling passenger. An adventure romance for fans of ROMANCING THE STONE x WITHOUT A PADDLE.
When Ophelia sets out to return a cursed relic to its resting place, anxiety-sufferer Luce becomes her unwilling passenger. An adventure romance for fans of ROMANCING THE STONE x WITHOUT A PADDLE.
🏳️🌈 Higanbana by @jakevanguard.bsky.social
A human man and a fallen angel, both traumatized by their past and hurt by family, find comfort in each other's arms. Healing together, love blooms - but the past always comes back.
A human man and a fallen angel, both traumatized by their past and hurt by family, find comfort in each other's arms. Healing together, love blooms - but the past always comes back.
July 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🏳️🌈 Higanbana by @jakevanguard.bsky.social
A human man and a fallen angel, both traumatized by their past and hurt by family, find comfort in each other's arms. Healing together, love blooms - but the past always comes back.
A human man and a fallen angel, both traumatized by their past and hurt by family, find comfort in each other's arms. Healing together, love blooms - but the past always comes back.
🏳️🌈 Dandelion by @merlinagarance.bsky.social
A second chance romance with flashbacks to young love, addressing the struggles of coming out in an unwelcoming environment and building the life you really want.
A second chance romance with flashbacks to young love, addressing the struggles of coming out in an unwelcoming environment and building the life you really want.
July 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🏳️🌈 Dandelion by @merlinagarance.bsky.social
A second chance romance with flashbacks to young love, addressing the struggles of coming out in an unwelcoming environment and building the life you really want.
A second chance romance with flashbacks to young love, addressing the struggles of coming out in an unwelcoming environment and building the life you really want.
🏳️🌈 Just Stu by @merlinagarance.bsky.social
John kisses Stu at a wedding. It would be fine, if he knew why he did it, and they hadn't been best friends for the past year.
John kisses Stu at a wedding. It would be fine, if he knew why he did it, and they hadn't been best friends for the past year.
July 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
🏳️🌈 Just Stu by @merlinagarance.bsky.social
John kisses Stu at a wedding. It would be fine, if he knew why he did it, and they hadn't been best friends for the past year.
John kisses Stu at a wedding. It would be fine, if he knew why he did it, and they hadn't been best friends for the past year.
🏳️🌈Shades and Silver by @daxaeterna.ink
The Ástfríður have long lived in secret, keeping their ways and magic hidden from intruders. But Astrid and Britt feel like intruders in their own home, each struggling with a disability. Can they find love and acceptance despite their differences?
The Ástfríður have long lived in secret, keeping their ways and magic hidden from intruders. But Astrid and Britt feel like intruders in their own home, each struggling with a disability. Can they find love and acceptance despite their differences?
July 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
🏳️🌈Shades and Silver by @daxaeterna.ink
The Ástfríður have long lived in secret, keeping their ways and magic hidden from intruders. But Astrid and Britt feel like intruders in their own home, each struggling with a disability. Can they find love and acceptance despite their differences?
The Ástfríður have long lived in secret, keeping their ways and magic hidden from intruders. But Astrid and Britt feel like intruders in their own home, each struggling with a disability. Can they find love and acceptance despite their differences?
🏳️🌈 My Lord by @shimaira.com
A queer, slow-burn erotic gothic horror novel about rediscovering yourself after trauma—with kinky, blood-drinking immortals and polyamory.
A queer, slow-burn erotic gothic horror novel about rediscovering yourself after trauma—with kinky, blood-drinking immortals and polyamory.
July 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🏳️🌈 My Lord by @shimaira.com
A queer, slow-burn erotic gothic horror novel about rediscovering yourself after trauma—with kinky, blood-drinking immortals and polyamory.
A queer, slow-burn erotic gothic horror novel about rediscovering yourself after trauma—with kinky, blood-drinking immortals and polyamory.
🏳️🌈 Tales of Yamato by @odessasilver.bsky.social
Deep within the ancient landscape of Yamato, fourteen tales from the hearts of humans, gods, and yokai, will take you on a journey—one not everyone will survive
Deep within the ancient landscape of Yamato, fourteen tales from the hearts of humans, gods, and yokai, will take you on a journey—one not everyone will survive
July 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🏳️🌈 Tales of Yamato by @odessasilver.bsky.social
Deep within the ancient landscape of Yamato, fourteen tales from the hearts of humans, gods, and yokai, will take you on a journey—one not everyone will survive
Deep within the ancient landscape of Yamato, fourteen tales from the hearts of humans, gods, and yokai, will take you on a journey—one not everyone will survive
🏳️🌈 Dice Dragons by @herecomesthehelios.bsky.social
A second-person cosy fantasy adventure in which you are a dice-hoarding dragon trying to protect your treasure and drive away intruders. Make choices, roll dice and befriend a diverse cast of good-hearted adventurers.
A second-person cosy fantasy adventure in which you are a dice-hoarding dragon trying to protect your treasure and drive away intruders. Make choices, roll dice and befriend a diverse cast of good-hearted adventurers.
July 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🏳️🌈 Dice Dragons by @herecomesthehelios.bsky.social
A second-person cosy fantasy adventure in which you are a dice-hoarding dragon trying to protect your treasure and drive away intruders. Make choices, roll dice and befriend a diverse cast of good-hearted adventurers.
A second-person cosy fantasy adventure in which you are a dice-hoarding dragon trying to protect your treasure and drive away intruders. Make choices, roll dice and befriend a diverse cast of good-hearted adventurers.
🏳️🌈 a girl’s guide by @auroralight.bsky.social
A self-defined “straight girl” finds herself entangled with a college friend after a momentary lapse in judgement. The problem is, she’s pretty sure she liked that version of herself, and she needs to figure out what that means before it’s too late.
A self-defined “straight girl” finds herself entangled with a college friend after a momentary lapse in judgement. The problem is, she’s pretty sure she liked that version of herself, and she needs to figure out what that means before it’s too late.
July 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🏳️🌈 a girl’s guide by @auroralight.bsky.social
A self-defined “straight girl” finds herself entangled with a college friend after a momentary lapse in judgement. The problem is, she’s pretty sure she liked that version of herself, and she needs to figure out what that means before it’s too late.
A self-defined “straight girl” finds herself entangled with a college friend after a momentary lapse in judgement. The problem is, she’s pretty sure she liked that version of herself, and she needs to figure out what that means before it’s too late.
LAST CHANCE 📣
If you’re still not sold on the Disability Pride Bundle, take a look at these short pitches. 🧵
🏳️🌈 12 books for $15
🏳️🌈 a range of genres & rep: romance, horror, & SFF
🏳️🌈 supporting LGBTQ+ & disabled authors
🏳️🌈 ends TOMORROW
📢📚💙🌈📚🌍
If you’re still not sold on the Disability Pride Bundle, take a look at these short pitches. 🧵
🏳️🌈 12 books for $15
🏳️🌈 a range of genres & rep: romance, horror, & SFF
🏳️🌈 supporting LGBTQ+ & disabled authors
🏳️🌈 ends TOMORROW
📢📚💙🌈📚🌍
July 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
LAST CHANCE 📣
If you’re still not sold on the Disability Pride Bundle, take a look at these short pitches. 🧵
🏳️🌈 12 books for $15
🏳️🌈 a range of genres & rep: romance, horror, & SFF
🏳️🌈 supporting LGBTQ+ & disabled authors
🏳️🌈 ends TOMORROW
📢📚💙🌈📚🌍
If you’re still not sold on the Disability Pride Bundle, take a look at these short pitches. 🧵
🏳️🌈 12 books for $15
🏳️🌈 a range of genres & rep: romance, horror, & SFF
🏳️🌈 supporting LGBTQ+ & disabled authors
🏳️🌈 ends TOMORROW
📢📚💙🌈📚🌍
CURSED IN LOVE by @rachelbowdler.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 sapphic adventure romance
🏳️🌈 anxiety & grief
🏳️🌈 opposites attract
🏳️🌈 chased (by highland coos & also by conmen)
🏳️🌈 scottish hebrides
🏳️🌈 only one bed/tent
🏳️🌈 stuck together
🏳️🌈 ROMANCING THE STONE x WITHOUT A PADDLE
🏳️🌈 sapphic adventure romance
🏳️🌈 anxiety & grief
🏳️🌈 opposites attract
🏳️🌈 chased (by highland coos & also by conmen)
🏳️🌈 scottish hebrides
🏳️🌈 only one bed/tent
🏳️🌈 stuck together
🏳️🌈 ROMANCING THE STONE x WITHOUT A PADDLE
July 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CURSED IN LOVE by @rachelbowdler.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 sapphic adventure romance
🏳️🌈 anxiety & grief
🏳️🌈 opposites attract
🏳️🌈 chased (by highland coos & also by conmen)
🏳️🌈 scottish hebrides
🏳️🌈 only one bed/tent
🏳️🌈 stuck together
🏳️🌈 ROMANCING THE STONE x WITHOUT A PADDLE
🏳️🌈 sapphic adventure romance
🏳️🌈 anxiety & grief
🏳️🌈 opposites attract
🏳️🌈 chased (by highland coos & also by conmen)
🏳️🌈 scottish hebrides
🏳️🌈 only one bed/tent
🏳️🌈 stuck together
🏳️🌈 ROMANCING THE STONE x WITHOUT A PADDLE
DICE DRAGONS by @herecomesthehelios.bsky.social
- Read&Roll RPG
- you’re a tired dragon who loves personal space
- 1st person cosy fantasy
- transmasc satyr bard
- wheelchair user cleric w/ sword
- deaf teen artificier who built her hearing aids herself
- less than half your friends are cishet
- Read&Roll RPG
- you’re a tired dragon who loves personal space
- 1st person cosy fantasy
- transmasc satyr bard
- wheelchair user cleric w/ sword
- deaf teen artificier who built her hearing aids herself
- less than half your friends are cishet
July 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
DICE DRAGONS by @herecomesthehelios.bsky.social
- Read&Roll RPG
- you’re a tired dragon who loves personal space
- 1st person cosy fantasy
- transmasc satyr bard
- wheelchair user cleric w/ sword
- deaf teen artificier who built her hearing aids herself
- less than half your friends are cishet
- Read&Roll RPG
- you’re a tired dragon who loves personal space
- 1st person cosy fantasy
- transmasc satyr bard
- wheelchair user cleric w/ sword
- deaf teen artificier who built her hearing aids herself
- less than half your friends are cishet
TALES OF YAMATO by @odessasilver.bsky.social
* First person Multi POV
* gods & supernatural creatures
* disabled guy makes unusual badass friend
* love of all types
* sleazy guy gets his comeuppance
* tired dad & his energetic 6 children
* kitsune are called tricksters for good reason
* First person Multi POV
* gods & supernatural creatures
* disabled guy makes unusual badass friend
* love of all types
* sleazy guy gets his comeuppance
* tired dad & his energetic 6 children
* kitsune are called tricksters for good reason
July 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
TALES OF YAMATO by @odessasilver.bsky.social
* First person Multi POV
* gods & supernatural creatures
* disabled guy makes unusual badass friend
* love of all types
* sleazy guy gets his comeuppance
* tired dad & his energetic 6 children
* kitsune are called tricksters for good reason
* First person Multi POV
* gods & supernatural creatures
* disabled guy makes unusual badass friend
* love of all types
* sleazy guy gets his comeuppance
* tired dad & his energetic 6 children
* kitsune are called tricksters for good reason
HIGANBANA by @jakevanguard.bsky.social
- Protective angel boyfriend
- Vintage cinema workplace
- Family Trauma
- Mental health struggles & therapy (+ own voices depression)
- Popculture references
- Unhealthy coping
- Everyone's queer
- Escaping an abusive relationship
- Found family
- Protective angel boyfriend
- Vintage cinema workplace
- Family Trauma
- Mental health struggles & therapy (+ own voices depression)
- Popculture references
- Unhealthy coping
- Everyone's queer
- Escaping an abusive relationship
- Found family
July 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
HIGANBANA by @jakevanguard.bsky.social
- Protective angel boyfriend
- Vintage cinema workplace
- Family Trauma
- Mental health struggles & therapy (+ own voices depression)
- Popculture references
- Unhealthy coping
- Everyone's queer
- Escaping an abusive relationship
- Found family
- Protective angel boyfriend
- Vintage cinema workplace
- Family Trauma
- Mental health struggles & therapy (+ own voices depression)
- Popculture references
- Unhealthy coping
- Everyone's queer
- Escaping an abusive relationship
- Found family
July 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
SHADES AND SILVER by @daxaeterna.ink
🏳️🌈 Metal Magic
🏳️🌈 Unicorn People
🏳️🌈 Learning to Unmask
🏳️🌈 404 Gender Not Found
🏳️🌈 Grumpy / Sunshine
🏳️🌈 Metal Magic
🏳️🌈 Unicorn People
🏳️🌈 Learning to Unmask
🏳️🌈 404 Gender Not Found
🏳️🌈 Grumpy / Sunshine
July 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
SHADES AND SILVER by @daxaeterna.ink
🏳️🌈 Metal Magic
🏳️🌈 Unicorn People
🏳️🌈 Learning to Unmask
🏳️🌈 404 Gender Not Found
🏳️🌈 Grumpy / Sunshine
🏳️🌈 Metal Magic
🏳️🌈 Unicorn People
🏳️🌈 Learning to Unmask
🏳️🌈 404 Gender Not Found
🏳️🌈 Grumpy / Sunshine
JUST STU by @merlinagarance.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 cosy
🏳️🌈 queer awakening
🏳️🌈 friends to lovers
🏳️🌈 idiots to lovers
🏳️🌈 everybody knew before them
🏳️🌈 found family
🏳️🌈 their Dnd characters got married first
🏳️🌈 cosy
🏳️🌈 queer awakening
🏳️🌈 friends to lovers
🏳️🌈 idiots to lovers
🏳️🌈 everybody knew before them
🏳️🌈 found family
🏳️🌈 their Dnd characters got married first
July 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
JUST STU by @merlinagarance.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 cosy
🏳️🌈 queer awakening
🏳️🌈 friends to lovers
🏳️🌈 idiots to lovers
🏳️🌈 everybody knew before them
🏳️🌈 found family
🏳️🌈 their Dnd characters got married first
🏳️🌈 cosy
🏳️🌈 queer awakening
🏳️🌈 friends to lovers
🏳️🌈 idiots to lovers
🏳️🌈 everybody knew before them
🏳️🌈 found family
🏳️🌈 their Dnd characters got married first
DANDELION by @merlinagarance.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 old man yaoi
🏳️🌈 Spicy
🏳️🌈 Second chance romance
🏳️🌈 friends to lovers
🏳️🌈opposites attract
🏳️🌈 hurt/comfort
🏳️🌈 realistic HEA
🏳️🌈 historical
🏳️🌈 old man yaoi
🏳️🌈 Spicy
🏳️🌈 Second chance romance
🏳️🌈 friends to lovers
🏳️🌈opposites attract
🏳️🌈 hurt/comfort
🏳️🌈 realistic HEA
🏳️🌈 historical
July 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
DANDELION by @merlinagarance.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 old man yaoi
🏳️🌈 Spicy
🏳️🌈 Second chance romance
🏳️🌈 friends to lovers
🏳️🌈opposites attract
🏳️🌈 hurt/comfort
🏳️🌈 realistic HEA
🏳️🌈 historical
🏳️🌈 old man yaoi
🏳️🌈 Spicy
🏳️🌈 Second chance romance
🏳️🌈 friends to lovers
🏳️🌈opposites attract
🏳️🌈 hurt/comfort
🏳️🌈 realistic HEA
🏳️🌈 historical
MY LORD by @shimaira.com
🏳️🌈 Sapphic
🏳️🌈 Overcoming trauma
🏳️🌈 Polyam F/F/M
🏳️🌈 Kill your abusers
🏳️🌈 Standalone
🏳️🌈 Hurt/comfort
🏳️🌈 Kinky lord
🏳️🌈 Blood-drinking & cannibalism
🏳️🌈 Sapphic
🏳️🌈 Overcoming trauma
🏳️🌈 Polyam F/F/M
🏳️🌈 Kill your abusers
🏳️🌈 Standalone
🏳️🌈 Hurt/comfort
🏳️🌈 Kinky lord
🏳️🌈 Blood-drinking & cannibalism
July 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
MY LORD by @shimaira.com
🏳️🌈 Sapphic
🏳️🌈 Overcoming trauma
🏳️🌈 Polyam F/F/M
🏳️🌈 Kill your abusers
🏳️🌈 Standalone
🏳️🌈 Hurt/comfort
🏳️🌈 Kinky lord
🏳️🌈 Blood-drinking & cannibalism
🏳️🌈 Sapphic
🏳️🌈 Overcoming trauma
🏳️🌈 Polyam F/F/M
🏳️🌈 Kill your abusers
🏳️🌈 Standalone
🏳️🌈 Hurt/comfort
🏳️🌈 Kinky lord
🏳️🌈 Blood-drinking & cannibalism