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Erm…looks like we’re trending again.

Why?

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Happy New Year! I can't wait to see what's in store!! Especially what books imma read this year, I'm so excited to find new stories!

#books #new year #2024 here i come!

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Good morning to everyone except all the people who don't tip their door dash drivers!

#that's literally most of the money they make #why are you ordering delivery at fucking 1am and not thinking about the person who has to be awake and able to drive to get it to you? #most of the people are living in swanky houses don't tip #i am shaming you you should feel shame #JUST TIP YOUR DRIVERS THEY ARE PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE RENT

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Xiran Jay Zhao has changed my fantasy standards forever. The protagonist of Iron Widow, Wu Zetian, is beautifully unhinged and their sheer force of will is inspiring. The internal struggle of wanting to be a force of change and the brutal toll the current world circumstances have on their mental health is all too familiar to any non-man who has been involved in activism across time. I hear their screams of loss, longing, bitterness, anger, hatred, and determination beyond the page. I hear it in my soul. Iron Widow conquers hard real topics with the brutal honesty and ache I've hardly ever seen, let alone in a sci-fi fantasy romance novel.

Xiran Jay Zhao, thank you, you nonbinary icon.

This is their official author photo btw 💖🐄💖

Link if you want to know how to support them with your book purchase:

https://xiranjayzhao.com/index.php/books/

#crying screaming throwing up #maybe this murderer has a point #I'm not a fox spirit I'm just a crazy fucking bitch with access to the spirit world #Wu Zetian #mech suit #fuck the patriarchy #xiran jay zhao #lgbtqia #nonbinary #yin #yun #Iron Widow

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Is it just me or are the new tumblr users convinced there's a penalty of some kind for using this site like it's meant to be used?

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Preview of Sam Long’s story, drawn by the amazing Cynthia Yuan Cheng! (@cynthiaycheng, cynthiaycheng.com)

Becoming Who We Are Kickstarter ends Dec 14! Preorder now to help us fund the book!

bit.ly/becomingkickstarter

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Seeing @neil-gaiman on tumbler feels the same as it would to see him on the city bus. Like it's cool to support public transportation but also I did not wake up ready to see Neil Gaiman.

Anyways, hello sir, have a lovely day ✌🏻

#glad he's here tho #seems like a cool dude #love your genderless angels #odd and the frost giant got me into myths so thanks for that too #neil gaiman

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Excuse me SJM SOFIE WHAT!!!

#omg what a start #crescent city #house of sky and breath #omg #me and my partner were so thrown by that first sentence #i was warned it gets darker but wow #sjmaas #sjm #sarah j maas

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#decolonize yourself dog #yes you do have a culture #not it's not going to be untouched by colonialism or eras of deeply flawed thought- but there is no “pure culture” #purity is part of white supremacy #you are not right all the time and neither were your ancestors #don't let embarrassment stop you from growth #let yourself understand what home used to mean #let yourself learn

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don't use "ftm" it's outdated and offensive. it implies that the trans person was their agab, which we never were. i was always a boy, never a girl who became a boy.

i'm 35 years old. i've been IDing as trans or something similar to trans for nearly 20 years. i was probably calling myself FTM while you were playing tag during recess, anon.

i WAS a girl. i IDed as a girl early in my life. i recognized myself as a girl, called myself a girl, lived as a girl, and was a girl. who then IDed as a man. hence, F t M.

spend more time worrying about yourself instead of strangers on the internet, anon.

sorry not sorry if this comes off as needlessly hostile, but i've been getting a lot of shit from a lot of teenage trans kids about the language i use to describe my own goddamn experience, and i'm growing real fuckin weary of it.

i have elder trans friends who call themselves transsexuals and transvestites and trannies. are you going to seriously go to a 60-year-old trans person who survived the reagan years and tell her she's not allowed to use certain language to describe herself because it might offend the delicate sensibilities of some teenager on the internet?

do yourself a favor and log off, find some real-life trans people who are over the age of 20 or 25, and spend time talking to them instead of getting all holier-than-thou at random strangers on tumblr.

#there is no queer reviwe board #trans #don't police people in the community #its not the same as holding people accountable- you're monitoring them

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SJM how dare you I will never recover!!!!

#sjmaas #sjm haunts me #why do you rip open my soul like that? #WHO HURT YOU #😭😭😭😭 #Bryce 😭 #bryce quinlan #ruhn danaan #hunt athalar #whyyyyyyyyyyy #crecent city #house of earth and blood

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SJM I beg of you to stop mentioning teeth in your sex scenes where there shouldn't be teeth. It doesn't make your characters sound like they know what they are doing, it just makes me afraid for the way they kiss 😭

#sjm books #a court of thorns and roses #acotar #the clashing of tongues and teeth 🤢 #what does teeth grinding softness even meannnnnnn #these scenes are so built up why are you throwing us out of it #i get it it's supposed to be rough sex #but why #why #never in my bdsm life have i wanted or were excited by my teeth making contact with my partners teeth #teeth grinding isn't soft thoooo #crecent city #hunt athalar #bryce quinlan #I'm trying to enjoy this catharsis but I'm hung up on this teeth thing man 😭 #sarah j maas #please consult an active adult hoe when you write these #i just can't #just have them bite each other for fucks sake!!!! #at least then it makes sense

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Say what you will about SJM but she is 7 books away from reaching the number of books Tolkien wrote, and the women have names and are out here getting dick

#do what you will with this information #no i don't think her books are perfect #literally still so problematic #we can't deny her influence on both the romance and fantasy world #sjm haunts me #sjmaas #sjm books #acotar #crescent city #throne of glass #still wish there were even more women outside of the protagonist who live/are cool but it's a step

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There is so much art where Bryce from Crescent City is white- not even tan with the gold. But I don't think she reads as white, especially because all we know about her complexion is that she has "gold dusted skin and freckles." Then as we go on we see she struggles with oppression and racism specifically because she is bi-racial. I'm not going to say SJM handles that with grace or insight to the reality of that experience- but it's a better read then "wHaT iF rAcIsM hApPeNeD tO wHiTe PeOpLe"

I'll admit I haven't finished the series yet, but I feel like people read that she had red hair and made some assumptions. There are people of the global majority that have read hair too. I personally pictured Erin Kellyman while reading (one of the sword lesbians in the show Willow (2022)).

If you are reading (or have read) Crescent City let me know y'all's take/reasoning.

#bryce quinlan #crecent city #fan art #how do y'all see bryce #sjm books #sjmaas #at least there are hot werewolves

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'Don't you dare look at me'

Commission for @kurisus

commission info

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gideon the ninth spoilers #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #art #ow right in my gay little soul #honestly why you got to do me like this #this next book better have a glimmer of hope cuz dear john whyyyy 😭

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ah, childhood.

#tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #the blissful early years #chekhov draws tlt #chekhov draws the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #see its funny because theyre children who are not allowed to play together #and are both starved of human connection and warm touch #so they get their fill the only way they can #by raising skeletons and fighting said skeletons as a form of exercise #gideon is 7 here and harrow is 6 #you bet your ass harrow still has those teeth #gideons skeletons are the strongest thing she has in her arsenal