An orange leafy background with a blue thread of wool passing over it, as well as the occasional autumn leaves. In the centre is the cover for Common Bonds 2 (two friends knitting a sweater within a frame of autumnal leaves). The image says describes this book as “an aromantic SFF anthology” that is coming on March 26, 2026
COMMON BONDS lovers, you can get even more of the good stuff. An entire anthology of short stories and poems that have:
💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!
Coming March 26, 2026 : buy.bookfunnel.com/yilbsiz3a6
🌈📚
05.03.2026 16:03
👍 17
🔁 20
💬 0
📌 1
Thanks to everyone who came to my merfolk talk with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social last night 🧜🏿🧜♀️🧜🏻♂️
05.03.2026 08:57
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 1
Elizabeth Hopkinson- Massaged to Death by Mermaids | Centre for Folklore
Merfolk of the World and LGBTQIA+ Representation.
It’s tonight!!! 🧜🏿🧜🏻♂️🧜♀️
7pm online. Get your last minute tickets from @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
See you then, for Irish merrows, Yoruba Orishas, Andean sirinx, lovelorn Mer-Kings, and… Sappho 😳
www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
04.03.2026 10:16
👍 3
🔁 3
💬 0
📌 0
@rosymegglemoth.bsky.social ‘s Baby Kraken Ed is telling me to, “Stop scrolling and get on with rehearsing the talk!”
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
03.03.2026 09:01
👍 3
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Have you all got your tickets for my online merfolk talk with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social on Wednesday?
I’m getting in the mood by rereading this on BorrowBox 🧜🏿
02.03.2026 10:23
👍 1
🔁 1
💬 0
📌 0
I love the story of Cuthbert’s otters!
02.03.2026 10:19
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Do these look like mer-cats to you?
They’re not meant to be - I made them myself - but I’m claiming it ahead of my Merfolk talk for @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social this coming Wednesday. 🧜🏿
28.02.2026 11:45
👍 5
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
@sachacoward.bsky.social You’ll be pleased to learn that Bradford Equity Book Club has chosen Queer As Folklore for their next book! 🌈
28.02.2026 11:39
👍 21
🔁 1
💬 1
📌 0
5 days until Massaged to Death by Mermaids @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social Have you got your online ticket?
🧜🏿🧜♀️🧜🏻♂️
27.02.2026 08:39
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Less than a week to go!
Today’s mer-pic is Trinidad’s Mama D’leau on the cover of Caribbean Folk Tales by Wendy Shearer. Cover art by Jenna Catton. 🧜🏿
#mermaids #LGBTQIA @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
26.02.2026 08:23
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Tagging in a few contacts who might be interested in my merfolk talk 🔼🔼🔼🧜🏿
@deedeechainey.bsky.social @owenstaton.bsky.social @sachacoward.bsky.social @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social @rosymegglemoth.bsky.social
It started as an #OFMD talk. Sacha, I have credited you as a resource.
25.02.2026 10:58
👍 3
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
1 week until Massaged to Death by Mermaids online with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Here’s Anna Hopkinson’s artwork of The Ice Queen & the Mer-King, my definining Asexual Fairy Tale. It’s in the talk!! 🧜🏿
#folklore #asexuality #LGBTQIA #mermaids
25.02.2026 10:49
👍 6
🔁 4
💬 1
📌 1
Are we all mermaided out yet?
Never!! 🧜🏿🧜🏻♂️🧜♀️
Here’s the illustration of “The Little Mermaid Speaks” from my book Asexual Fairy Tales.
By Anna Hopkinson (aka Jim from yesterday’s post).
My talk will highlight every ace-coded moment in Andersen’s Little Mermaid.
#folklore #LGBTQIA #asexuality
24.02.2026 10:46
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Copies of the Asexual Fairy Tales and Angelio books
I’m an ace author!
I’ve read (and enjoyed) a few of the books on your list, but would like to read more. (Eagerly awaiting the arrival of my copy of Common Bonds 2!)
24.02.2026 10:36
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Just over a week until my online mermaid talk with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Today’s mermaid is receiving a kiss from #OFMD Jim (sort of) who is categorically NOT a mermaid 🧜🏿
23.02.2026 07:53
👍 5
🔁 1
💬 0
📌 0
Invisible: Asexuality & Aromanticism | Breakout Session A | 2022 Making a Way Conference
Asexuality and Aromanticism tend to go overlooked, especially in Christian circles where they are often mistaken for sexual or romantic abstinence. In this session we will correct common…
In this session we will correct common misunderstandings about asexuality and aromanticism, illustrate how those misunderstandings cause lasting harm to Ace/Aro Christians, and discuss what we can do to raise asexuality and aromanticism out of invisibility.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUeR...
21.02.2026 02:00
👍 2
🔁 2
💬 0
📌 0
Mr Man Stede - Mr Excitable
Here he is!
23.02.2026 07:39
👍 3
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
More merfolk ahead of my online talk on Merfolk & LGBTQIA+ Representation for @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social on 4th March.
Today’s mer-person is - me!! In fancy dress as the Sea Witch from Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”. Featuring Moana the toy mermaid. 🧜🏿
21.02.2026 12:11
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
How serendipitous that #FolkloreThursday is highlighting Water Sprits!
Today’s mer-pic is Muirgen the Mermaid Saint of Lough Neath, Northern Ireland (aka LíBan) and her otter. Illustration by Anna Hopkinson for Legends from Lindisfarne.
Details of my Merfolk and LGBTQIA+ Rep online talk below:
19.02.2026 06:50
👍 10
🔁 6
💬 1
📌 0
Looking forward to today’s talk! 🧜🏿
19.02.2026 06:39
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Don’t ask… 🫣
18.02.2026 09:04
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
On this Soul Ace Day I highly recommend looking up the research and advocacy of ace activist and model, Yasmin Benoit! She’s doing more work for the community than anyone all while facing awful racism, sexism, and aphobia.
16.02.2026 20:21
👍 10
🔁 5
💬 0
📌 0
Black Ace Culture: A Digital Zine by blackaceculture
HAPPY SOUL ACE DAY to my Black asexuals and aromantics!
To celebrate and learn more, please download Black Ace Culture: A Digital Zine by blackaceculture
blackaceculture.itch.io/black-ace-cu...
#blackaces #blackace #blackasexual #blackaromantics #asexuality #asexual #aroace #acearo #aromantic
16.02.2026 14:34
👍 67
🔁 47
💬 0
📌 1
Mer-pic of the day on the run-up to my Merfolk online talk with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social on 4th March.
MerStede & Ed key charm by @neslee.bsky.social check into the Old Ship Inn, Hackney.
(They had a lovely time btw).
17.02.2026 09:31
👍 1
🔁 1
💬 0
📌 0
And today’s mer-post (see what I did there?) comes from my home village in the Bradford district. Merfolk, fish and sea creatures topping a postbox. 🧜🏿
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
16.02.2026 11:15
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Sharing merfolk on the lead-up to my online talk for @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Here’s a very enjoyable book I just finished reading. The Mermaid the Witch and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall 🧜🏿
Sapphic love and nonbinary rep!
14.02.2026 13:37
👍 4
🔁 3
💬 0
📌 0
