I agree with the small bookstores comment! My bookstore of choice to order from is The Stacks. They are a disabled owned and operated bookstore who prioritize keeping books accessible, and inclusive, with monthly in-person book clubs featuring LGBT+ and BIPOC subjects and MCs. 🩵
I’m bummed I missed the Haley SV tea, but the AO3 one sounds like actual heaven, oh my goodness. The combinations on that site are extremely clever, and enticing. Definitely will have to save this! Thank you for enlightening me
Friday Afternoon tea is a small tea company that does fantastic single-origins AND blends, including seasonal fandom-related ones! Cantrip Candles designs scents to accompany TTRPG games to set the scene, like dungeons & taverns. Both high-quality, and with great customer service.
Lancaster Creative Reuse in Lancaster, PA. They take donated craft and art items, sell them at a steep discount, and profits go to local art programs. They are seriously suffering right now! Cash donations from anyone, anywhere will benefit so many. https://www.lancastercreativereuse.org/monetarydonation
May I offer my wonderful queer indie book publisher @jms-books.com , who did an ACLU fundraiser anthology back in January & is now having a week of free ebooks to give people something good? 💕📖🏳️🌈
north of the border, but i love @carmico.bsky.social (their newest slasher-inspired collection is SO COOL) and @pulpfragrance.com (delightful perfumery inspired by pulp lit)!
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I also support @gaybreakfast.bsky.social's Patreon, and I've pointed people at @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social for their Poorcraft stuff.
Supporter of my family's soap habit and my second-favorite purveyor of smelly goodness. Queer-owned and operated, fast TAT.
https://www.lancastercreativereuse.org/monetarydonation
(Also local offline stuff — small family farms, mostly — that’s not especially boostsable.)
https://go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm
https://go.bsky.app/9bTR428