#pre-order gifts

[ashen-crest]

[ID: a purple and book cover that reads “A Rival Most Vial: Potioneering for Love and Profit.” There are two male silhouettes on the cover, as well as gold filigree, cauldrons, wands, swords, and potion bottles. end ID]

would you like to read about some potioneers falling in love?

would you also like to receive some lil gifts?

pre-order gifts for A Rival Most Vial are now open!

Step 1: pre-order ARMV before March 20th. You can pre-order basically anywhere, but I have a few links here to help you out.

Step 2: fill out this form so I know where to send your goodies! (and yes, I do ship international!)

what are the gifts?

so glad you asked! they are:

a sticker

a double-sided bookmark

a digitally-sent watercolor piece based off a scene in the book

all made by me!

but ash! I don’t have the money to pre-order!

hey, that’s okay! I’ve still got some ARC slots left. You won’t get the goodies, but you will get the book for free!

#a rival most vial #bookblr #writeblr #writblr #pre-order gifts #arc readers

[palarien]

Pre-orders for the Five mousepad are technically closed, but Nine (Four&Five) are forever...

#five visited four to gift her a mousepad personally but it seems like she already has one... so eager! #also: i may extend pre-order period a lil bit so no rush. but like kinda rush. extending for a few days at most #drakengard #drakengard 3 #dod3

[merakisphere]

Introducing our new DIY Fidget Flower Kit! | Ships April 17th, 2023

With this starter set kit, you can assemble and put together 1 3D Fidget Flower of your colour of choice. 

This DIY kit provides you all the materials (and tools), you need to make your very own convertible 3D wire flower from start to finish. Just scan the QR code on the card included, and follow along my complete tutorial video of how to complete this project. (available soon)

Included in the kit:

Prepared arches with looped ends (30pcs)

Your choice of 3 beaded ring styles (2 pcs)

22 gauge banding wire (10pcs)

Optional Add-On: 5'' craft pliers for assembly (1pcs)

Meraki Sphere sticker

Pre Order Here | Pre-order exclusive price $24.99 (valid until April 16th)

#First Fidget Flower DIY Kit #Stimblr #DIY project #Craft Project #How It's Made #Mother's Day Gift #Home Craft Projects #Fidget Bloom #Make Your Own Jewelry #pre order

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Tell me more about this book blanket? I'm Fascinated

Omg yay!! Okay so I'm knitting two rows per book that I finish in 2024, and each book rows will be a different color based on the genre it is

So here are the books I've read so far. Everything that's in bold is what I've knitted, and the last book on the list is what I'm currently reading but haven't finished yet. So I've knitted everything before Fifty Feet Down, and read everything up to Annie on My Mind, but I'm currently like thirty percent through it.

I'm choosing colors as I finish genres, and I'm trying to do it only with yarn I have (cuz yarn is expensive and I have a lot of yarn. The reason I have a lot of yarn suitable for a blanket is because I took all of this yarn from a blanket I started knitting four years ago and never finished. Like I finished frogging that blanket yesterday and made it into cakes on my new yarn winder!!) I didn't really try to make the colors fit the genres. I just own a lot of navy yarn and knew I'd read a lot of LGBTQ books, and I own a lot of black and know I'll read a lot of horror books. Then for dystopian I just chose a yarn color that I had available, same with mystery.

Here's how it's going so far! You can see the four navy rows for the two LGBTQ books i read, the two purple for the one dystopian book (which is also very good, I highly recommend Debate Kids at the End of the World and that author in general, Alex Nonymous) and then a chunk of black because I read four I. S. Belle books in a row (you can also see all of the ends I didn't weave in, which I'm going to hate myself for when I finish the blanket)

"But Austyn, what if the book is more than one genre?" I'm so glad you asked! Most of these books could be considered more than one genre. Fifty Feet Down is a mystery, but also a romance. So I just consider what genre I believe is more integral to the story, if that makes sense. Fifty Feet Down could be relatively the same if the main characters were just friends, but the story would be vastly different if it wasn't a mystery. Therefore, it gets the mystery color instead of romance. Same with all of the I. S. Belle books. There's romance in them, but if you took out the romance it would still be pretty similar, but if you took out the horror it would be an incredibly different story.

So that's my 2024 book blanket!

#im so excited about this #its so fun #i read on the subway. at work. before bed. in the morning after waking up #i get so excited to knit new rows #and buy new books #buying new books is like a little gift for me #i put my entire tbr on an online spinny wheel so if i dont know what i want to read next i can spin the wheel and itll tell me #but sometimes im craving a specific book and ill just read that next #right now i have classics such as: stone butch blues. the perks of being a wallflower. playground. manhunt. #the second ari and dante book that ive been meaning to read for months #because i pre ordered that book and ive owned it since the day it came out. and this summer i reread the first one #so that i would know whats going on in the second one. but i haven't read the second one yet #i have a long ass tbr and i swear every day i add more #but i have a whole lifetime. and a whole year. to read them. #im gonna go knit the rows for fifty feet down now (an incredible book) and then probs read some more annie on my mind #have a great night everyone!!

[myhyperfixationisback]

hey. what the fuck is up with Ratchet and Clank merch

#ratchet and clank #I was like ‘I have literally three pieces of merch of R&C despite it being my special interest since elementary school I should fix that’ #*goes online* the fucking horrors #what do you MEAN everything is at least $100 dollars or more??? excuse me??? #the employee exclusive one is almost always over a thousand dollars. y’all see the one priced like a small car right. #the fucking PLUSHIES ARE A HUNDRED DOLLARS??? #why. #the TINY FUCKING PIN IS $90???? #btw the three pieces I have are the Funko Pops (I am not a huge Funko Pop person but I saw them release and pre-ordered them for my b-day) #and then the Ratchet and Clank art book. that is all #I have all of the games but like. that’s not /merch/ per se it’s the actual series content #actually I take it back I no longer have all the games bc I’m missing the very first game in physical copy + the PSP games + the PS4-5 ones #and I am the most fucking rabid Ratchet and Clank fan. I am autism insane about it. and I don’t have ANYTHING #do you see how much of a tragedy this is. do you understand how damaging this is to me every single day #that I do not have a Clank plushie to hold. a Ratchet plushie to keep him company. and an Alister Azimuth action figure to abuse. #my goal is to make that video essay I’ve had in my brain for years and make Insomniac feel so seen that they gift me something. #bc of the heartfelt please of a disabled poor person that has loved their series so much all their life #I’m going to punch through a steel wall

[youngearlgrey-partdeux]

It’s so beautiful 😭😭😭😭

#solas #dragon age #a late Christmas gift from my brother in law because these were on pre-order for like 7 months lol

[remitiras]

So my fave webtoon Four Leaf is getting a physical book and pre-orders JUST started and I have no idea how I'm gonna afford it 😭

#I WILL pre-order this book #nothing will stop ne not even debt #webtoon #webcomic #webcomics #four leaf webtoon #four leaf #i have no money #im broke #what's a good way to ask my friends to get me this as a bday gift without being rude? #alt text

[guinevereslancelot]

sitting in a blooming garden would fix me

#flowers WHEN #i have one teeny snowdrop just starting to form a flower 🥲 #worried its going to get killed by the cold front coming in tho #its an early blooming fancy one that honestly probably won't live idk what i was thinking when i bought it #literally nothing else is close to flowering tho #i just get so anxious for spring flowers in january i start blowing money pre ordering stuff tho #i ordered a bunch of snowdrops and some bare root hydrangeas and roses #idek how im gonna plant them the ground is probably frozen and we're about to get a foot of snow #what is wrong with me #the hydrangeas tho were a gift from my mom #i've wanted the white kind for a really long time and i told her one of my friends might get married at our house in the next few years #so she ordered them so they'll have time to establish and we'll have big beautiful white flowers for her wedding #which was really nice of her #anyway my friend was so excited and touched when i offered :') #she's not officially engaged but she's halfway thru her degree and she and her bf are planning to get married soon after they both graduate #so in two or three years the hydrangeas should be pretty well established and nice for a wedding #anyway im off track but im excited for all the stuff i ordered to be beautiful and blooming this summer #less excited to figure out how to plant them 🤔 #the roses are shipping at ideal planting time in april but the hydrangeas are coming this week for some reason #i cant plant those??? in january??? #i will have to try ig #i probably can we'll see #this has been a shitpost

[strawberry-jellicle]

Once i get my hardback the glass scientists book its over for everyone

#tgs #SOON. #i got the pre-order gifts and they're so cute

[flipside-phoebe]

I'd like to join the big Christmas parade for my city in cosplay this year. I'm going to get some upgrades for my suit & pack. Nothing major, but a V-hook and some elbow pads will keep me looking more up to date. The hook is more practical too. Don't think I'll be going the full mile and getting a red jacket just yet. Might save that for another year. Funny enough my dad thought I'd be a Peoplebuster again. As amusing as it would be to see Phobia walking around in a Santa hat, I don't think the average person would understand (I already learned that on Halloween lol, I still had fun though). Nah, I want to celebrate Frozen Empire with the return of my girl Phoebe :)

#Mera's rants #cosplay plans #I gotta get holiday shopping soon too #for now I'm starting with little gifts for myself #I also want to pre order the new comic

[outmaww]

would just like everyone to know if we don't get a thirty minute cutscene of the rebuilding and unification of hyrule at the start of totk i'm throwing the whole game away

#totk #zelda #loz #tears of the kingdom #just pre-ordered the game finally I don't know why I didn't before #comes a week before my birthday #it's a gift to me okay I deserve it

[ashen-crest]

[ID: an image showing a book cover on the left, and a sticker and a bookmark on the right. The book cover has a red and orange lute surrounded by blue flowers. The text reads “The Stray Spirit, Lutesong Book One, R.K. Ashwick.” The sticker on the right is of a lute with flowers and vines growing out of the sound hole. The bookmark shows a water color of blue and purple flowers, with script text “The Stray Spirit on the upper right. end ID]

The Stray Spirit Pre-Order Gifts!

It’s finally time, folks!!

If you’ like to pre-order The Stray Spirit and get:

a lute sticker I drew myself

a bookmark I painted myself

the first three chapters of the book (with full-page illustration in there!)

🌿 Click here! 🌿

🌱🌱 And...if you put “Tumblr” in the name part of the form, or as a part of your receipt screenshot, I’ll write you a special note to go with your sticker + bookmark! 🌱🌱

TSS Taglist below the cut. Please ask to be +/-:

@crystallized-ink, @little-boats-on-a-lake, @semblanche, @theramwrites, @wordsbycreed, @pretend-im-normal-blog, @mel-writes-with-her-dragons, @wildswrites, @ladywithalamp, @ettawritesnstudies, @mj-is-writing, @cecilsstorycorner, @write-your-own-stories, @chayscribbles, @storytracks, @lightningmastertrilogy, @magic-is-something-we-create, @authortango, @thegoldenseries, @lunewell, @vellichor-virgo, @writeblrfantasy, @weaver-of-fantasies-and-fables, @bronwennjames, @akindofmagictoo, @pheita, @talesfromaurea, @a-wild-bloog, @starryeve88, @the-finch-address, @alexwritesfiction, @47crayons, @jadeywrites, @writing-with-l, @the-titular-bird, @sagasofazeria, @thelaughingstag, @dragon-swords-prophecies, @drabbleitout, @houndmouthed, @drowsy-quill, @jaimistoryteller, @zmwrites, @pe-ersona, @booksnotbookies, @the-orangeauthor, @extra-magichours, @athenswrites, @bebewrites

#the stray spirit #writeblr #writblr #fantasy books #indie authors #my wip #pre-order gifts

[queen-mabs-revenge]

the way i just leapt to pre-order (ireland/uk here)

#gothic marxism #marxism #horror #I love pre-ordering books when I can #bc my ass forgets the second after so it's like getting a surprise gift for future me #while giving a real numbers boost to the author #win win babey #also the cover has Dave McKean vibes and I'm forever about that

[ya-zz]

Gonna take a lil break this weekend - prepping for a job interview tomorrow and ngl, anxiety is HIGH... Need Ram hugs

#hgn #wish me luck #I hate interviews so much... #also still have Ramattra brain rot #I love him sm #I have that blizzard bust of him pre-ordered #my gift to myself for graduating uni

[mearcatsreturns]

I really should know better than to trust Barnes & Noble after having worked there.

I don’t buy books from Amazon, but GOD, if the cost is having to deal with this bullshit...

#I hate BN so much #I stupidly got drawn into one of their promotions and got a gift card #their STUPID fucking site ate my gift card and wouldn't let me process my order #I was able to contact customer service #and I got the gift card back but I won't be able to use it until tomorrow #will the promo still be valid? who the fuck knows #just fuck me. I should know better than anyone how janky their services are #no I will not start buying books from Amazon (unless it's not for sale elsewhere) but I need to never do BN again #I just wanted to pre-order some books ;_;

[impossibletruths]

14 and 20 if you're still doing the end of year asks!

yes I am! <3

14. Favorite book you read this year?

the pickings are slim but I have really been enjoying 'the marvelous clouds' by john durham peters. it's about media theory and it's rad as shit. I think I'm going to enjoy babel too, but I'm only about 20 pages in so far

20. What’s something you learned this year?

how shared branch banking works lol. I also learned at the end of the day I'm actually perfectly happy doing things the easy way and letting someone else take care of things—it is such a relief to not be the one Dealing With Shit all the time

#I love and adore my old roommate and I miss them but good god not having to deal with the on fire washing machine #was the best gift anyone could have given me #and like. ordering out. buying pre-prepared ingredients. not feeling bad about doing things 80% instead of 100% #shocking new discovery: done IS better than perfect #ask memeing