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Victoria Janssen
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I love cats, comics, and houseplants. She, her. SFWA Romance Steering Committee member. Writer of "A Place of Refuge" hopepunk space opera: https://books2read.com/rl/aplaceofrefuge
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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · May 28
What happens after rebel guerillas fight a fascist empire...but cannot win? A trilogy of novellas about choosing hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life on the utopian planet Refuge. #Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #spaceopera #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐

books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...
3 books in a boxed set with covers by August Scarlett; volume 1 features a beautiful Black woman with a shaved head, against a blue background featuring a spaceship and a planet.
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mprnews.org MPR News @mprnews.org · 2h
Across the Twin Cities residents are volunteering to make ICE’s job in Minnesota as difficult as possible. ICE watchers say the ultimate goal is to prevent ICE agents from arresting, jailing and deporting their neighbors.
‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
www.mprnews.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
More updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way! I plan to keep updating through the various award nomination periods, so it's not too late.

acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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victoriajanssen.bsky.social
Steamy Couple Treats includes “The Aid Station, 1916”; “In the Cold With You”; “The Magnificent Threesome” trilogy; “Vanilla”; “Twisted Beauty”; “No Sooner Met”; “Crimean Fairy Tale”; and “8:00 PM: Appointment Tee Vee.” 💙📚 #romancelandia #eroticromance #quickreads

books2read.com/steamycouple
This collection includes ten character-driven steamy stories: “The Aid Station, 1916” (historical); “In the Cold With You” (contemporary); “The Magnificent Threesome” trilogy (historical/poly); “Vanilla” (contemporary/science fiction?); “Twisted Beauty” (contemporary); “No Sooner Met” (historical); “Crimean Fairy Tale” (historical/time travel); and “8:00 PM: Appointment Tee Vee" (contemporary). 40,000 words. Previously published in print anthologies including Cowboy Lover; For the Love of a Soldier; Dream Lover; The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica; and Morning, Noon, and Night.
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I shared this resource last Sunday in our final organizer/activist virtual drop in space. It's a guide for "finding your people" to organize alongside: drive.google.com/file/d/1iK83... - It was created by Shout Your Abortion.
Tactical-Brief-A-Guide-to-Finding-your-People-OUTLINE (2).pdf
drive.google.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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rsagarcia.bsky.social
TGIF!!

Have a little Trinbagonian slang this weekend.

Today's word is JUB-JUB.

Jub-jubs are small gelatin squares dusted with sugar crystals, a popular candy here. So it's another way to say 'darling', or 'sweetheart', esp when talking about babies/children.

I.e. Nora's baby is such a jub-jub!
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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gregpak.net
Hey, remember this awesome event?

The group behind it is @comixaction.com, NYC comics creatives against authoritarianism and for community action! Please feel free to give us a follow and sign up for the newsletter - we got more stuff coming very soon!

buttondown.com/comixaction

#FF #FollowFriday
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
victoriajanssen.bsky.social
Last #staycation day included writing and a nap, and will include pizza for dinner.
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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limecello.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/s...

I checked this morning if the sbux strike is still ongoing (yes) - cuz I’d been wondering why the company keeps sending these $3 drink coupons. Which I will continue to not use. (They also desperately send “you have a GC balance!” emails 🙄😒)
Starbucks Workers United holds rally in NYC as strikes continue for a third week
Several hundred picketers gathered outside of the Empire State Building, the site of a Starbucks Reserve location and the company's regional headquarters.
www.cnbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
OOOooOOOooOO yes! Thanks to @colleenaf.bsky.social we have merch for @authorsabb.bsky.social that financially benefits Authors Against Book Bans, now!

a lovely gift for yourself or the book creator in your life!

www.customink.com/fundraising/...
Authors Against Book Bans
Official AABB Merch. Perfect to wear while fighting book bans. Great for school board meetings, conferences, marching for our rights, and annoying THAT neighbor. You know the one. Show off your love o...
www.customink.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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kambriel.com
The 25th anniversary @gothicbeautymag.bsky.social kickstarter for a celebratory reunion calendar (with yours truly alongside an amazing group of photographers, designers & models who've appeared in Gothic Beauty throughout the past *quarter century*) is now in its final week & nearly at their goal!
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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bextraordinary.bsky.social
♥️
To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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devanbarlow.bsky.social
✨Buy my books!!!✨

devan-barlow.itch.io

Fairytales-meet-musicals fantasy novels!
books2read.com/u/bzKXBj
books2read.com/u/bp1nBW
books2read.com/u/bOD2LE

Short fic/poetry retelling collections!
books2read.com/u/bOqZKN
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
Cover of Shells For Hearts: Retellings, by Devan Barlow. The cover is by Arden Powell, and features seashells, perfume bottles, a pumpkin, and assorted animals against a green background. Cover of Foolish Hopes and Spilled Entrails: Retellings, by Devan Barlow, featuring numerous fantastical objects surrounding a smoking cauldron, against a dark red background. The cover is by Arden Powell. Cover of An Uncommon Curse by Devan Barlow, featuring a golden bird against a green background. The cover is by K.B. Spangler. This is book 1 of the Curses & Curtains series
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
victoriajanssen.bsky.social
Construction noise next door has been incessant today. I wished my radio had a white noise setting then belatedly realized it did--STATIC. Radio plus earplugs FTW!
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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victoriajanssen.bsky.social
Help #Juntos raise $75,000 in grassroots donations & spread community safety resources!

Juntos is a community-led, Latine, immigrant organization in South #Philly doing important deportation defense, community care work, and more.

ICE hotline: 814-205-3293.

secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...
"Juntos for Humanity" logo in green, dark red, and gold. Even $5-10 a month helps!
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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sjgochenour.bsky.social
hey my peeps! guess who is running a sale on my available paperbacks on my website!

IT IS I

all the goblins paperbacks are $2 off, and A Bloomy Head is $1.50 off, until Monday, December 15th!

www.sharonjgochenour.com/store
Store — Sharon J. Gochenour, author and illustrator
Do you want to buy books directly from me? Here! Here is the place!
www.sharonjgochenour.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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sarahseeandersen.bsky.social
This new piece is available as a hand signed print! A portion of all proceeds go to Mind, the UK's leading mental health charity loom.ly/-tpxBnM
Scribbles Winter Wonderland
Sarah Andersen
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December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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megelison.bsky.social
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social took something I have drowned in (vampires) and made it new and exciting again, with a weave of the weirdness of Christianity and a brisk insistence that the reader keep up. Refreshing and so satisfying.
Cover of "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter" by Stephen Graham Jones. A brown and black buffalo's muzzle and eye, with snow clinging to its fur. The title hovers in red in the foreground against an off-white background.
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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mariapicasso.com
#BandcampFriday 🔥
Poster text: Happy Bandcamp Day to all who celebrate. Buying an album on Bandcamp pays an artist about the same as streaming it every day for a year
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
victoriajanssen.bsky.social
Help #Juntos raise $75,000 in grassroots donations & spread community safety resources!

Juntos is a community-led, Latine, immigrant organization in South #Philly doing important deportation defense, community care work, and more.

ICE hotline: 814-205-3293.

secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...
"Juntos for Humanity" logo in green, dark red, and gold. Even $5-10 a month helps!
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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duckprintspress.com
Looking for some queer reads these holidays? Duck Prints Press is participating in the Transmute: Winter Magic bundle on itch.io. This bundle contains 7 wintery tales staring non-binary or transgender characters, by non-binary and transgender authors! Check it out: itch.io/b/3419/trans...
A graphic with a background photograph of a snowy barren mountain, an aurora in the sky above it. Text reads: Transmute: Winter Magic. A bundle of trans and nonbinary winter stories. Dec. 5 - Jan. 1. 7 stories, only $3 US! get yours on itch.io. Beside this is an outline of an e-reader, with the cover of the book To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh on the reader. The cover shows a man and a woman holding hands, walking through the snow toward a snow-covered pine forest.
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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51st.news
D.C. in three words, as submitted by our readers: Hot Humid Love. Colorful Characters Communing. Little Big City. Proud Pissed Passionate.

Do you want one of the shirts we're making that captures this project? Get your order in today: 51st.news/members-only...
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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marigoldmimsy.bsky.social
we know people are planning for when ICE returns to the city of chicago and i've received notes about how USCIS has started to act ICE-like, making people fearful

i've gotten requests for water, dish soap and more food

we've updated the list, please share

bit.ly/distributefoodchicago
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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sarahseeandersen.bsky.social
The image is of a comic titled "Winter." Panel one depicts monarch butterflies flying. They say, "We take a long journey south." Panel two depicts a bear hibernating underground. It says, "I fall into a deep, impenetrable sleep." Panel three depicts a squirrel holding an acorn, with other nuts scattered around it. Off camera, someone asks, "How do YOU survive?" Panel four depicts the squirrel having grown enormously round after having eaten all the nuts.
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
victoriajanssen.bsky.social
Stopped at 792 words on my fanfiction exchange story yesterday. Today, I plan to actually have some plottish things happen. #writing
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
victoriajanssen.bsky.social
Steamy Couple Treats includes “The Aid Station, 1916”; “In the Cold With You”; “The Magnificent Threesome” trilogy; “Vanilla”; “Twisted Beauty”; “No Sooner Met”; “Crimean Fairy Tale”; and “8:00 PM: Appointment Tee Vee.” 💙📚 #romancelandia #eroticromance #quickreads

books2read.com/steamycouple
This collection includes ten character-driven steamy stories: “The Aid Station, 1916” (historical); “In the Cold With You” (contemporary); “The Magnificent Threesome” trilogy (historical/poly); “Vanilla” (contemporary/science fiction?); “Twisted Beauty” (contemporary); “No Sooner Met” (historical); “Crimean Fairy Tale” (historical/time travel); and “8:00 PM: Appointment Tee Vee" (contemporary). 40,000 words. Previously published in print anthologies including Cowboy Lover; For the Love of a Soldier; Dream Lover; The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica; and Morning, Noon, and Night.
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM