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Pigeon

A gift for my dear friend @aessedia87 <3

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Junicorn day 3 #

THe Sunrise

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Four of Swords. Art by Jesse Lonergan, from The Unveiled Tarot.

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The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon

Perfect for fans of The Marrow Thieves, Hatchet and The City of Ember, H.E. Edgmon's middle grade debut offers a bittersweet tale of hope and survival, a modern classic for the climate change generation.

One year ago, a solar flare scorched the Earth and destroyed life as we know it.

With their parents gone and supplies running dangerously low, step-sisters Millie and Rose only have one chance at survival: leave home with their infant half-brother and loyal dog Corncob in search of Millie’s grandma, a Seminole elder. As they navigate the burning land with a group of fellow survivors, dodging The Hive, a villainous group that has spent the last year hoarding supplies and living in luxury, the siblings have to learn to rely on each other more than ever, and discover how to build a new life from the ashes.

Expertly balancing heartbreak and hope, The Flicker is both a thrilling survival story and a tender exploration of Indigenous ideas of identity and found family.

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‘we live forever.

we are as old as the sky,

old as the moon.’

(junicorn day 01)

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Happy Pride Month!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Books of 2025: THE LUMINOUS DEAD by Caitlin Starling.

Well! I did not mean to binge read this in less than 24 hours, but Here We Are. Once I started, I had a hell of a time stopping, because I just HAD TO KNOW.

From the very first page, we know something is not right about this solitary caving expedition on a shitty alien mining planet, and we know that 22-year-old Gyre is in it for an enormous amount of money. We know significantly less about her enigmatic and controlling handler, Em, who's Gyre's literal only lifeline out of the cave system.

Or about what's down there with her.

The tension and ratcheting dread are propulsive--lot of mysteries here, lots to pick apart and unravel (including Gyre's and Em's psyches, apparently). Hugely tense and claustrophobic (I kept taking micro phone breaks to calm myself down), enormously isolating and twisty. This is We Support Women's Wrongs: Sci-Fi Horror Edition, and I'm in a complicated situationship with a hypermanipulative voice in my helmet about it--love it, hate it, love/hate it at the same time, what a deeply fucked up ride.

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ran into some incredible clouds on the way home today 😍

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"Les Jardins de Nuit" (censored version) - Mixed media: colored pencils, pastels, ink, and gold leaf on paper. I created this artwork in 2020 for my book Forgotten Gods.

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Vasilisa Romanenko’s Lush Portraits Wrap Common Birds in Decadent Patterns

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One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller

Grace Woodhouse has left a lot behind. She used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a right foot set to earn her a Division I football scholarship--before she came out as trans. As senior year begins, Grace is struggling to find her place in early transition, new social circles, and a life without football. But when her skills as the best kicker in the state prove to be vital, her old teammates beg her to come out of retirement, dragging her back into a sport--into a way of life--she thought had turned its back on her forever. When a chance meeting cracks the door to college football back open, she has to decide how much of herself she's willing to give up for the game she loves.

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🌈 Hey Rainbow Readers! To celebrate our fifth anniversary this year, we’re publishing our second original anthology! Well we have BIG NEWS about our next anthology: we are hosting an open submission period!

We are looking for 10-12 short stories to include in our 2026 June anthology. We are accepting submissions for finished short stories that meet the following requirements: 

 🌸 Theme: Rebirth - focusing on a Spring theme.

 🌸 ~6000 words 

 🌸 Any genre

 🌸 Must be queer, but can include any representation

 🌸 Medium or lower spice level

 🌸 Standalone (can be associated with a current work, as long as it can be read without reading the other works)

 🌸 Are written in English

We are not accepting submissions that include any of the following:

🌼 Written using any kind of AI

🌼 Not original works or characters to the author

🌼 Bigotry of any kind

Submissions will be accepted from July 1, 2025 through July 31, 2025. Rainbow Crate will contact the selected authors in Oct 2025. Selected authors will receive compensation for story inclusion in the anthology. 

We will be collecting submissions via a form that will be posted in July. Authors can submit more than one story. Each story must be a separate submission entry in the form. We will not accept simultaneous submissions. Submissions will need to be submitted as a word doc and include the following information on a cover page:

🌷Story title

🌷Author name 

🌷Complete rep list

🌷Complete content warning list

ID: A graphic with a white brick background and a thin golden frame. At the top it says “Rainbow Crate” with a pastel rainbow in between the words. Below this is black text which says “Want to be part of our third anthology?”. In the middle of the graphic is a 3D mockup of A Queer & Cozy Winter Anthology with the front cover and edges displayed. There is a shadow below the mockup. At the bottom of the graphic there is black text which reads “Open submissions will begin in July!”. End ID. 

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Happy Jewish American Heritage Month 2025!

Happy Jewish American Heritage Month! We’re celebrating as we do with books starring Jewish protagonists, and for more recs, check out previous years’ posts! Children’s Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown – to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the…

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Lesbian Visibility Week is here, and I have a collection of sapphic books to keep you going. There are many ways to be a lesbian and not one label fits all, so please keep that in mind.

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Rotten Bouquet of Flowers, ink drawing by CyanKillsEcoli

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