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banulefae.bsky.social
I didn't want it to end so I read it slowly. I gave breaks for my brain to absorb it and to process it and to hold on to the after taste of each chapter. This stiry will stay with me. ❤️💙📚

#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
On a coffee table, a small plush black sheep wearing a red t-shirt is sitting on the book This is How You Lose the Time War. Behind the sheep there is a blue mug on a red Ytterbium coaster.
February 3, 2026 at 6:33 AM
managodess.bsky.social
Gift from my boyfriend that I read in 1 1/2 hours, crying increasingly more and even sobbing as the book went on.
Made extra special by him leaving notes for me inside <3
God what an amazing book.

#thisishowyoulosethetimewar #tihylttw
A photography of the cover of the book "This is how you lose the time war"
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
min7a.bsky.social
#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
philaros.bsky.social
Travelmug Cafe at Porter Square Books Boston has this cool opening lines pattern on the wall, countertops, and tables—wait, what’s that I see? Enhance! …!!! @amalelmohtar.com @maxgladstone.bsky.social #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
The counter wall at Travelmug Cafe, which features a long list of opening lines from literature (the cafe is within Porter Square Books Boston)… A closer view of the counter wall and the many opening lines included—but what’s that line I spy among them? An even closer view of the counter wall, featuring in the middle the line “When Red wins, she stands alone.”, which is the opening of the novella This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
December 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
miguelpeck.bsky.social
Well, this is a cute new edition…

@maxgladstone.bsky.social @amalelmohtar.com @sagapressbooks.bsky.social #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
ph-low.com
hey it's that one scene from #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · Nov 20
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
wintersparv.com
This has been one of the least forgiving texts I’ve read in a while. But it’s grown on me. Can’t wait to return to it in a year or two, to see what I discover. #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar #AmalElMohtar #MaxGladstone #BookChat #booksky
October 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
griseldagimpel.bsky.social
A Place at the End of the Universe by GriseldaGimpel - This is How You Lose the Time War - A... sunset.femslash.club/works/546 via @ao3org

Red and Blue find a place they can be together.

And then they adopt a dog.

#FanFiction #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
New Session | Sunset
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October 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
aletamosquito.bsky.social
This is so my niche. #hematite #kyanite #MinCup25 #SapphicBooks #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
thatwasodd.bsky.social Alex Katakis @thatwasodd.bsky.social · Sep 29
Done in five minutes on my phone so it looks terrible, but when you said Red vs Blue I couldn't resist. Forgive me.
The cover of the novella This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. The cardinal has been poorly replaced by a photo of hematite and the blue jay has been replaced by a photo of kyanite. The cover now reads This Is How You Lose the Mineral War. Both mineral photos come from Mindat.
September 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
wrenwithapen.bsky.social
❤️💙

making fan-merch for my favorite book… i <3 being cringe and free and having access to a pin maker

#art #traditionalart #watercolor #book #thisishowyoulosethetimewar #fanart #bird #cardinal #bluebird #ifoundthisbookwithreadinglesbianfanfictionaboutanun #butnoonewilleverknowbcnoonechecksthetags
September 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
madisongoodman.bsky.social
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September 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
tinkeress.bsky.social
"Lumberjackery". Hah. Can't say I've ever read that word in a book before. Until now. #ThisisHowYouLosetheTimeWar
July 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
tinkeress.bsky.social
Haha, the seal 😂😂😂 #ThisisHowYouLosetheTimeWar (taking a break from Moby Dick) #reading
July 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
benjamin-tribe.bsky.social
Somehow tricked my brain into being excited about reading again, and that's how the latter half of my 2025 is going.

Currently reading through #thisishowyoulosethetimewar and, while only being 54 pages in, I've caught myself staring at a page for minutes in disbelief of how undeniably beautiful 1/?
July 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
and the last one! 💙♥

#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar #cosplay
close up portrait of my blue time war cosplay, in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes, looking down at a teacup with red liquid in it.
July 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
"Hunger, Red—to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth—is this a thing you, singly, know? "

#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar #cosplay
close up portrait of my blue time war cosplay, in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes and bloody teeth, holding half a pomegranate up to my mouth. close up portrait in profile of my blue time war cosplay, in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes and bloody teeth, holding two halves of a pomegranate up to my mouth with my teeth visible, about to bite them.
July 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar #cosplay
close up portrait of my blue time war cosplay, in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes and bloody teeth. My clawed hand is in the foreground, with 5 pomegranate seeds on the palm. close up portrait of my blue time war cosplay, in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes and bloody teeth. My clawed hand is in the foreground, with 5 pomegranate seeds on the palm. My face is more angled and covered by hair in this one.
July 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
"She remembers that last letter. Remembers pomegranate, and what pomegranates are for."

#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar #cosplay
close up portrait of my blue time war cosplay, the side of my face in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes and bloody teeth, holding half a pomegranateand some blue and red flowers in my clawed hands. There's bamboo in the background. close up portrait of my blue time war cosplay, the side of my face in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes and bloody teeth, holding half a pomegranate up to my mouth, head tilted back, some fake blood visible on my teeth.
July 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
Featuring the Last pomegranate in wellington city, I think i went to 7 shops and found a single one.

#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar #cosplay
close up portrait of my blue time war cosplay, in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes and bloody teeth, holding half a pomegranate up to my mouth. close up portrait of my blue time war cosplay, the side of my face in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes, holding a pomegranate in my clawed hand. close up photo of my blue clawed hands in my lap, touching hhalf a pomegranate with the claws
July 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
I'm so obsessed with the results of this Blue photoshoot I did in february during WCPF!! Look at these!

📷 photos by instagram.com/braindance_photography !
⏳ Blue from This Is How You Lose The Time War by @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social
#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar #cosplay ⬇
close up portrait of my blue time war cosplay, in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes and bloody teeth, holding half a pomegranateand some blue and red flowers in my clawed hands. close up portrait of my blue time war cosplay, in a blue mask with 6 yellow eyes, holding two halves of a pomegranate up to my mouth. There is blood on the teeth and chin of the mask.
July 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
underremarkable.bsky.social
#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar by #AmalElMohtar & #MaxGladstone is an incredible example of creative use of epistolary storytelling! It was a blast to read through a time bending love story that carries the reader through a kaleidoscoping war between two all powerful factions with the same weakness 📚💙
July 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
emgravesreadsx.bsky.social
I fear #thisishowyoulosethetimewar and “Devotions” by Mary Oliver are about to become my whole personality this summer and I will not be apologizing for that ✨

#booksky #reading
July 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
literaryhypewoman.bsky.social
This week's #LiteraryHypePodcast features @amalelmohtar.com as we talk about #TheRiverHasRoots and #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar, plus some fun tangents because that's how we roll. This was such a deligtful time and I hope y'all enjoy it. (also available on all podcast platforms)

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Amal El-Mohtar on murder ballads, sisterhood, and making music | The River Has Roots [Author Chats]
YouTube video by LiteraryHypeWoman
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July 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
whimsyceo.bsky.social
Today on cutie dedication pages:

#thisishowyoulosethetimewar #amalelmohtar #stopbeingadorable
July 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
proseandcontext.bsky.social
#ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar is the rare speculative fiction novel that manages to be both incredibly rich with meaning and remarkably brief in page count.

I wrote a little about what goes into making this book such a masterpiece:

proseandcontext.substack.com/p/the-making...

#booksky #lesbian #sff
The Makings of a Masterpiece
Why you’ll love This Is How You Lose the Time War
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June 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM