*People with personal medical issues include but are not limited to: people who can’t tolerate any covid vaccines, people who can only tolerate Novavax and couldn't access Novavax specifically, and vaccine-injured people (if you’re not opposed to vaccines for other people).

**If you choose this option, please consider telling me in the notes (or sending me, disasterhimbo, an ask that I will answer privately) whether you’re opposed to just mRNA vaccines or all vaccines, and why.

***If you don’t know if you got the 2025-2026 covid vaccine, choose “See results.”

🎸COVER REVEAL of TUMBLING HEARTS: Book 2 of THE DUSTY BROOMS trilogy🎸

I'm so excited to show you guys this!! 🤩💕 Book 2 is really almost here of my 1970s rockstar romance trilogy! I designed, drew, and painted these book covers 100% all by myself. And I wrote the books too! If you want to see how Ray and Gene's story unfolds, get ready for TUMBLING HEARTS 🎸

SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES, book 1 of THE DUSTY BROOMS trilogy, is now available on KU, ebook or paperback! TUMBLING HEARTS, book 2, will release August 12th. Add to your Goodreads TBR or preorder the ebook ✨

🎸MM romance 🎤1970s rockstars 🎸Singer × Guitarist 🎤Slowwwww burn 🎸Best friends to lovers 🎤Double bi-awakening 🎸Cheating 🎤Internal illustrations

All artwork drawn by yours truly!

🎸TUMBLING HEARTS blurb🎸 It’s 1976, and the Dusty Brooms are exploding in popularity. From TV appearances to radio interviews to front-page magazine features, the band is bigger than ever. Ray revels in it, but such fame comes with a cost.

Ray can’t let anyone know about his feelings for his best friend and bandmate, Gene. Whenever they have a chance to be alone together, they can’t keep their hands off each other. It’s their own dangerous little secret.

They need to keep up appearances, or else they could ruin the band’s reputation. If Ray can stay on the right track and focus on his girlfriend, things should work out. That’s easier said than done, though, when everything about Gene makes him want to give in.

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

So, if any trans men are being told about this, it’s not true!! Smoking will not change your voice, at least not until you’re about forty years down the line and you’ve already irreparably destroyed your lungs and throat and mouth and pretty much every other organ in your body. When you hear heavy smokers with deeper, scratchier voices it is literally because their vocal cords have been ruined. This is not a passive effect of smoking, it is a very very damaging one!

It’s simply not worth it! There will be no meaningful changes except terrible ones. Voice training will do a lot more for you than cigarettes will, I promise that the people urging you to start smoking as a voice training method do not have your best interests at heart!

(And you know what, this also goes for not eating due to the idea that starving yourself will decrease your chest size. Like with smoking, there will be no meaningful changes except terrible ones. Your body is worth so much more than that and there will always be healthier alternatives!)

(Btw, afaik smoking only has this effect on estrogen from HRT. Estrogen that AFAB bodies produce naturally is not affected, so smoking is still bad for trans men)

I think also in that conversation, I had a couple people tell me that the book The Easy Way to Quit Smoking is, despite the gimmicky title, genuinely helpful.

If quitting for yourself seems too abstract and it’s hard to care, think about everyone around you. Someone with asthma or migraines will breathe easier if they’re not risking an attack from standing near you.

Lastly, some queer history: a 90’s tobacco marketing campaign that targeted gay men was literally called Project SCUM. That’s what they think of us. Don’t give them your money.

🎸COVER REVEAL of TUMBLING HEARTS: Book 2 of THE DUSTY BROOMS trilogy🎸

I'm so excited to show you guys this!! 🤩💕 Book 2 is really almost here of my 1970s rockstar romance trilogy! I designed, drew, and painted these book covers 100% all by myself. And I wrote the books too! If you want to see how Ray and Gene's story unfolds, get ready for TUMBLING HEARTS 🎸

SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES, book 1 of THE DUSTY BROOMS trilogy, is now available on KU, ebook or paperback! TUMBLING HEARTS, book 2, will release August 12th. Add to your Goodreads TBR or preorder the ebook ✨

🎸MM romance 🎤1970s rockstars 🎸Singer × Guitarist 🎤Slowwwww burn 🎸Best friends to lovers 🎤Double bi-awakening 🎸Cheating 🎤Internal illustrations

All artwork drawn by yours truly!

🎸TUMBLING HEARTS blurb🎸 It’s 1976, and the Dusty Brooms are exploding in popularity. From TV appearances to radio interviews to front-page magazine features, the band is bigger than ever. Ray revels in it, but such fame comes with a cost.

Ray can’t let anyone know about his feelings for his best friend and bandmate, Gene. Whenever they have a chance to be alone together, they can’t keep their hands off each other. It’s their own dangerous little secret.

They need to keep up appearances, or else they could ruin the band’s reputation. If Ray can stay on the right track and focus on his girlfriend, things should work out. That’s easier said than done, though, when everything about Gene makes him want to give in.

I like how it outfit looks on him xd 🌸