Happy pub day to me! Running around Brooklyn to sign stock in a opinionated shirt and micro shorts (just as Nolan intended). 💃🏿💜

AUGUST EVENTS for the hottest month of the year (for books!!!!)

Celebrate new releases with events this week! #NaimaCostet on Thursday and @dezinpub.bsky.social on Saturday 🇩🇴🗽❤️ Plus special story time with @nycparks.bsky.social Thursday morning!

Happy pub day to me! Running around Brooklyn to sign stock in a opinionated shirt and micro shorts (just as Nolan intended). 💃🏿💜

✨The book launch for my YA GN memoir is next weekend! ☺️✨

Stepping Up! comes out tomorrow. 🥰Today I am running around in a cute AF outfit to indie bookstores in Manhattan to sign stock. Tomorrow ill be running around Brooklyn. 💃🏿✨

If you want to see everything I got up to: www.instagram.com/reel/DbmJRuY...

Kiara Valdez on Instagram: "✨Stepping Up!, my YA graphic novel memoir about my tumultuous first year at the boarding school Andover, is coming out tomorrow! Today I ran around Manhattan (and Jersey Ci...

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Kiara Valdez@dezinpub.bsky.social · 2d ago

Stepping Up! comes out tomorrow. 🥰Today I am running around in a cute AF outfit to indie bookstores in Manhattan to sign stock. Tomorrow ill be running around Brooklyn. 💃🏿✨

If you want to see everything I got up to: www.instagram.com/reel/DbmJRuY...

Kiara Valdez on Instagram: "✨Stepping Up!, my YA graphic novel memoir about my tumultuous first year at the boarding school Andover, is coming out tomorrow! Today I ran around Manhattan (and Jersey Ci...

1 likes, 0 comments - dezinpub on August 3, 2026: "✨Stepping Up!, my YA graphic novel memoir about my tumultuous first year at the boarding school Andover, is coming out tomorrow! Today I ran around M...

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Kiara Valdez@dezinpub.bsky.social · 2d ago

Stepping Up! comes out tomorrow. 🥰Today I am running around in a cute AF outfit to indie bookstores in Manhattan to sign stock. Tomorrow ill be running around Brooklyn. 💃🏿✨

Stepping Up! comes out tomorrow. 🥰Today I am running around in a cute AF outfit to indie bookstores in Manhattan to sign stock. Tomorrow ill be running around Brooklyn. 💃🏿✨

Me screaming this at anime bros from the top of my lungs. 💀 I beg ya to drill into your head that the recent “out of left field” shounen writing that is impossible to follow and can’t stick to a storyline start to finish even if it’s life depended on it is indeed NOT peak. It’s bad!!

David Sims@davidlsims.bsky.social · 4d ago

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

It’s so incredibly difficult to pick a favorite because Haikyuu!! has countless unforgettable arcs, but in all of shounen Tsukki’s character arc is easily one of my favorites (and most beautifully written). IYKYK and if you don’t, go read and find out! Especially if you need some hope-core. 😭

Kiara Valdez@dezinpub.bsky.social · 4d ago

Ending my post urging everyone who hasn’t to go read Haikyuu!! I’ve been in the fandom for 12 years and reading shounen for 20 years. To this day it is the best, most thoughtfully written, and fully satisfiying longer (aka longer than the goat FMA) mainstream shounen manga I have ever experienced.

Me screaming this at anime bros from the top of my lungs. 💀 I beg ya to drill into your head that the recent “out of left field” shounen writing that is impossible to follow and can’t stick to a storyline start to finish even if it’s life depended on it is indeed NOT peak. It’s bad!!

David Sims@davidlsims.bsky.social · 4d ago

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

I haven’t read a GN in over a year. Honestly, even trying to pick one up for fun is still very triggering. Which is such a complicated feeling to have while I’m actively trying (and struggling to) promote my GN memoir…🫠

Hey, YA readers! You won't want to miss these 62 exciting new young adult books being published in August 2026! popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit

✨The book launch for my YA GN memoir is next weekend! ☺️✨

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

I watched my beloved Aang Gang in theaters this morning. I feel blessed I got to see it on the big screen and it would have been beautiful if more ppl had also gotten the chance to do so (f*ck you Paramount).

Anytime I spend more than ten consecutive minutes on this app I find something to get annoyed about and that’s why I’m practicing never being on here for more than a few minutes.

For absolutely no reason at all, I'm reminding you that Andromeda was Ethiopian. Her pappy, Cepheus? Ethiopian. Her mammy, Cassiope? Ethiopian. So, she wasn't even mixed ethnicity.

I’m not saying it but folks peeped it

we are creating new forms of Orientalism and racism over there

Morgan "Joshi Dyke Dickhead"🗡️ 🛡️@girlnextvore.bsky.social · 2w ago

What do you mean they removed all of the fucking chinese from avatar and replaced it with their own cracker language???

"i asked chatgp-" you aren't seeing the gardens of heaven

I’m gonna have to put out a post in the newspaper or something because why is it this difficult to find other cute asexual femmes to date in the NYC/Jersey City area with these cursed dating apps?!

I’m gonna have to put out a post in the newspaper or something because why is it this difficult to find other cute asexual femmes to date in the NYC/Jersey City area with these cursed dating apps?!

If you want to read a book and your library doesn’t have it, it is truly a massive favor to an author to request that the library acquire it. It really and truly is

Paywalled, but I’m re-posting for the headline

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 2w ago

The publishing industry has reported the lowest uptake of AI usage at only 6%, reflecting ongoing concerns around copyright and authorship, the Creative Access 2026 Thrive report has revealed. 👇

Seems that soul-crushing and health-risking burnout (and other past traumas from previous places of employment) still hasn’t kicked my innate desire to overachieve at my job. But I refuse to return to the Kiara who tied so much of her self-worth and sense of pride to ✨books✨. I WILL stay balanced.

Seems that soul-crushing and health-risking burnout (and other past traumas from previous places of employment) still hasn’t kicked my innate desire to overachieve at my job. But I refuse to return to the Kiara who tied so much of her self-worth and sense of pride to ✨books✨. I WILL stay balanced.

I really enjoyed Nolan’s The Odyssey. One thing that man’s films are surely gonna do is make me think about them for days.

‘Odyssey’ comes from the name Odysseus. The first known use of ‘odyssey’ as a generic term for “journey” was in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” in 1886.