The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall. Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber. High drama and high CAMP! Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops! BACK THE BOOK TODAY! #booksky bit.ly/3OIVfNs

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It’s Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets The Chronicles of Amber in this queer post-apocalyptic science-fantasy extravaganza!

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🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks@annesmbooks.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#DVPARTY day 6 new WIP! Losely based on Fame: In the mid-80s with Live Aid rising and AIDS looming, a shy gay teen in London and a bold bi singer in New York connect through a music mag ad. As they chase fame and trade letters, they fight for identity and love in a time that fears both.

#DVPARTY Day 4 memes: Two cats. Four amber eyes. They stare at me. My mind immediately floods with images of countless others watching: classmates, random people on the street, Julie. Every time their hateful, disgusted gazes fixed on me, I longed to sink into the ground and disappear. #YA #LGBT #CR

#DVPARTY day 4 a sweet one: I whirl around, my wet Vans almost sliding on the floor, trying to get as far from that beast as possible—and tumble straight into two strong arms. I jerk back. A boy my age stands in front of me, his dark brown face framed by cornrows, eyes wide and locked on mine.

🌺Anne🌺AnnesMesmerizingBooks@annesmbooks.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#DVPARTY Day 4 memes: Two cats. Four amber eyes. They stare at me. My mind immediately floods with images of countless others watching: classmates, random people on the street, Julie. Every time their hateful, disgusted gazes fixed on me, I longed to sink into the ground and disappear. #YA #LGBT #CR

EVERYTHING GETS CANCELED is about rumors and what it means for a 17yo singer to crash from viral fame to cancellation. Here’s the article that kicks off my story—and the opening lines of Chapter One Fight or Flight! #DVPARTY #YA #LGBT #CR #demi

#DVPARTY day 2! Want to meet Brent? Here’s his (sort-of 😂) Pokémon card—and Jeremiah’s, the football star he bumps into in a cat café… and slowly falls for (because we’ll… demi). #YA #LGBT #CR #demi

🖤One false rumor. 17yo Brent’s singing career is wrecked… 🤍His escape: Amsterdam—until his bond with a closeted football star sparks gossip 💜As the press closes in, he anonymously drops a track that goes viral 🩶Now he risks outing the boy he loves for a comeback #preDV #YA #CR #LGBT

One rumor wrecks his career One boy makes him feel safe One song could ruin them both When gossip won’t quit, 17yo Brent drops an anonymous track. But the world connects it to the closeted football star at his side—and redemption might out the boy he’s falling for 🖤🤍💜🩶 #preDV #YA #CR #LGBT

Let’s kick off #DVPARTY! Meet Brent, my demi, sassy, canceled teen singer hiding in Amsterdam + Jeremiah, a closeted soccer—uh, football—star. Their meetcut? A cat café. Add gossip (think Kit Connor) about a secret romance. Brent is furious. So he drops a song—anonymously. It blows up. Ai… #YA #LGBT

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Let’s kick off #DVPARTY! Meet Brent, my demi, sassy, canceled teen singer hiding in Amsterdam + Jeremiah, a closeted soccer—uh, football—star. Their meetcut? A cat café. Add gossip (think Kit Connor) about a secret romance. Brent is furious. So he drops a song—anonymously. It blows up. Ai… #YA #LGBT

What if the only boy who makes you feel safe is the one you could destroy? Canceled in the US, demi singer Brent hides in Amsterdam. But one anonymous song going viral could out the closeted football star he’s falling for. Think: LOVE, SIMON x RADIO SILENCE x IF THIS GETS OUT #preDV #YA #CR #LGBT

Take a canceled 17yo singer Add a setting in Amsterdam +A closeted football star +A meetcute in a cat café x Rumors swirling about the two… The result: an anonymous viral song that could redeem the singer—but out the boy he’s falling for. #preDV #CR #YA #LGBT

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I think it’s fine to bully people for reading Harry Potter in 2025 actually If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.

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