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#I pay attention for better places to stop #but also based on what point the author leaves you on #is it poignant? #is it a cliff hanger? #what am I meant to feel? #was it well done? #I am dissecting #I am also a slow reader and need more places to stop #I’d prefer if it feels natural than to just stop in the middle of a random page

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watch this. this is literally what love is.

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Me and Evangeline at the Farm, part 1. This is a new comic from my book, out on Tuesday! I'll be posting more in the coming days but feel free to buy my book!!! 🫣

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May I present: Leda and the Swan Princess! It's based on this post about a swan princess who refuses to go quietly in obscurity when cursed. (If you liked this one you will probably also like my other comics which you can find on my pinned post).

If you enjoyed and want to support a queer art student, you can tip me over on my Ko-fi! Tips help me out dramatically while I'm still in school!

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i get so freaked out by like. pictures of really big rope

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I hate how very specifically British colonialism overshadows all other imperialism.

Nobody talks about the Ottoman empire, the various shenanigans the Indian and Chinese rulers were up to, the Russian Empire (Russia is still a colonial Empire, btw) hell, even the shit Spain or Portugal did are swept under the rug. Nobody remembers French colonies in Africa or how much of a menace the Dutch used to be.

No, it's all Britain, all the time, baby. The only colonial Empire to ever exist, I guess.

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The humans call her the "mom-friend."

The aliens call them the "human-wrangler."

Because she can usually get the humans to stop doing acts-of-human, and if she can't, she always knows how to deal with the aftermath.

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Preorder Sale

Today is the last day of the #BNPreorder deal, so I slide in villainously late because if you were considering pre-ordering my chaotic band of villains taking over a story, writers deeply appreciate a pre-order and you all deserve a wicked deal!

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/long-live-evil-sarah-rees-brennan/1144328593

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Sorry, sorry, but manipulative hurt/comfort is fucking cocaine to me. The predatory aspect of it. The vulnerability—500% better if the hurt party knows they're being manipulated and is past the point of caring. The juxtaposition of sweet and sharp flavours. Barkbarkbark

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i was playing scrabble and i had a B, U, R, G, E, and R and i thought “aha burger, one who burgs, but my mom will never accept that as a word” but then i remembered burger is actually a word

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Does anyone know that fairy tale where a woman keeps remaking her husband out of animal fat every time he dies? I think it’s from a far northern tribe in North America or Asia but I can’t for the life of me remember which one and Google isn’t helping any

My professor read it out loud to my fairy tale class last year and I never wrote down what book he was reading it out of and it’s been bugging me.

If I remember correctly she made him come back to life by rubbing her genitals on him and there was a several months long mourning period involved every time he died

Google keeps bringing up unhelpful websites no matter what combination of words I put in, unfortunately. I’m usually pretty good at using Google so my last resort is asking y’all. If you know what I’m talking about and have a lead about it I’d really appreciate it.

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do i know how to write a book in a normal way?

NO, the narrative framing is always weird!

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UPDATE!!!!! Warning for NSFW writers!

ETA: UPDATE!!!!

We have been informed that the NSFW nature of the doc in question was NOT the reason it was pulled. It was affected because it had been shared with a large number of people and went against the spam rules.

We're hoping that editing the original post will help stop the spread of misinformation, but we also realize that reblogs of previous reblogs will not include this addition. Deleting the original post won't get rid of those reblogs, either. We can only hope that the correct information gets spread farther and wider than the initial panic.

This was brought to our attention today. We would ALWAYS recommend keeping your writing in two places, for many reasons, but here is one more!

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Trying to figure something out about myself; please reblog this for a larger sample size.

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“We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”

— Nikita Gill