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Saints Audiobook Pride Facts!!

I am Ecstatic and honored to be working with the Amazing Filipino actor Dante Basco to voice Alon, the Male POV in Saints of Storm and Sorrow. While I was first introduced to Dante’s work from his role as Prince Zuko in Avatar the Last airbender, and jumped at the chance to have the OG filipino elemental magic user to voice MY elemental magic user Alon. His role in the queer cult classic “But I’m a Cheerleader” as Dolf a gay teenage wrestler was played with so much heart and energy I knew he would be absolutely perfect for Saints!

For all the Zuko girlies I need you to know I’m bringing you a romantic fantasy where Alon the Love Interest is an elemental magic user obsessed with honor and duty, under the thumb of a controlling father, desperate to protect his exiled mother, and he’s about to throw it all away for the woman he loves.

Pre-save the audiobook on spotify today! https://open.spotify.com/show/0tgWiRNidOQtYJwoq1RWML

Head to my website to find more fun pride events on the #SaintsOfStormAndSorrowPrideAdventCalendar to celebrate the Launch of my debut novel Saints of Storm and Sorrow coming out June 25th with @titanbooks

Filipino POPPY WAR

Lunurin hides as a nun-from the Inquisition branding her a witch, and her Goddess of Storms, who sings of drowning colonizers. When she’s discovered, a marriage-of-convenience might save her from the Church, but it won’t stop the typhoon brewing in Lunurin's bones.

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Gorgeous! Love the book look and the cover!

Finally I can officially reveal the cover for my Filipino Epic Fantasy SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW.

In which a bisexual nun hiding a goddess-given gift is unwillingly transformed into a lightning rod for her people's struggle against colonization. Perfect if you love lush fantasy full of morally ambiguous characters, like The Poppy War and The Jasmine Throne.

Huge shout out to @missnatmack who did such an amazing job with the cover and incorporated some of my favorite details like Lunurin’s embroidered piña cloth blouse, her salwal style pants featuring the pinilian inspired weaving patterns of Northwest Luzon, and of course her weapon which was inspired by barbed Filipino fishing spears called Sibat.

Saints of Storm and Sorrow comes out June 25, 2024 with Titan books! Preorder links can be found on my linktree in my profile.

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The United States has always been a terrible place to be sick and disabled. Ableism is baked into our myths of bootstrapping and self-reliance, in which health is virtue and illness is degeneracy. It is long past time for a bedrock shift, for all of us.

Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too.

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Aw, thanks, Mel!

Well, the second* short story that is me ranting against prescriptive writing advice is now available. This time as podcast and Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast did an impeccable job of it, if I say so myself. 🥰

This time I am raging against "agency" by having a protagonist who does - absolutely nothing.

I love it and you should too? also, while you're there give a a listen to my friend @adriabailton's short "Submerged" a go. 👀

* The first story is "Inside Job" published in Tumbled Tales in which I rage against the definition of "good writing" versus "cringe" using the beloathed 2nd person reader insert as example.

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welcome to the 2023 tumblr poetry smackdown

tumblr has developed something of a canon of poetry over the past couple years, and i figured others might enjoy getting a chance to voice their opinions on a few of those poems! poems i chose for the poetry smackdown had to be more or less widely read on tumblr (generally 10k+ notes, most with more or spread across compilations), and relatively short so as to make voting easier. they also had to be complete—there are a lot of popular lines floating around on tumblr that are excerpted from very long poems and/or poems that are inaccessible via internet, and those aren't included here. a handful of poets are represented here twice reflecting my sense of their popularity, but i arranged the bracket in such a way that it won't be able to stay that way past round 2 at the latest. if i missed a poem that is super popular i'm sorry, that said the bracket is staying as is because this was a shit ton of work to put together and i don't want to. ty.

you can get to the polls by following the links below or going to the #round1 tag on my blog. you can also send me propaganda if you want via ask and i'll post it/add it to the next round's post if the poem wins.

happy voting!

sincerely amelia @poetriarchy :)

ROUND 1: ENDS JULY 17 at 6pm EST

"The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin vs. "Butter Dish" by Leonard Cohen (cow poems)

"Poem" by Langston Hughes vs. "A Meeting" by Wendell Berry

"Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love." by Gabrielle Calvocoressi vs. "My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task" by Jon Pineda

"Hammond B3 Organ Cistern" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi vs. "Hong Kong" by Sue Zhao

"someone will remember us" (fragment by Sappho trans. Anne Carson) vs. "Wait" by Faraj Bou al-Isha trans. Khaled Mattawa

"The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel vs "Invisible Fish" by Joy Harjo

"Want" by Joan Larkin vs. "Come, and Be My Baby" by Maya Angelou

"Swan" by Mary Oliver vs. "How I Go to the Woods" by Mary Oliver

"The Orange" by Wendy Cope vs. "The Tenor of Your Yes" by Mary Ruefle

"Here There Are Blueberries" by Mary Syzbist vs. "Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón

"To The Young Who Want to Die" by Gwendolyn Brooks vs. "A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde

"Night Walk" by Franz Wright vs. "Meditations in an Emergency" by Cameron Awkward-Rich

"Summer Was Forever" by Chen Chen vs. "I'm not a religious person but" by Chen Chen

"How to Be a Dog" by Andrew Kane vs. "Scheherazade" by Richard Siken

"I'm going to Minnesota where sadness makes sense" by Danez Smith vs. "Dream Song 29" by John Berryman

"Having a Coke with You" by Frank O'Hara vs. "Having 'Having a Coke with You' with You" by Mark Leidner

ADDENDUM: at 6pm on July 17th (or possibly a day earlier if there's already a clear sweep), I will be releasing a one-day poll that will give voters the option to sub in "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver for the winner of matchup #8: "Swan" vs. "How I Go to the Woods". this is to help correct my significant oversight when I was remembering which two Oliver poems I've seen most on tumblr, and it's the only time I'm doing this kind of thing, so don't suggest it for any other poems after this please. that said, a sincere ty to @darkcomedies for first bringing its absence to my attention! and keep an eye out for this extra poll which i am calling ROUND 1.5: A HAIL MARY (OLIVER)

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@ new users remember to set your dash to chronological. I think old users will forget to tell you this because tumblr never randomly resets it like twitter does, so afaik literally everybody switched over to chrono as soon as they tried to introduce non-chrono, and then promptly forgot tumblr even has a non-chrono view. on tumblr we really dont do the “all mighty algorithm” thing.

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Root Rot

by Fargo Tbakhi

via Apex Magazine

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Pitched as an exciting gateway science fiction heist novel, “Ocean’s 8” meets Gideon the Ninth (Tor), Hammajang Luck will be released in hardback, e-book and audio in January 2025.

Its synopsis reads: “Eight years in prison changes a person. Particularly when you’re only there because your partner, your best friend, your all-but-sister, sold you down the river. That’s why Edie knows they’ll turn down Angel’s offer of a job. One last big score. A chance to take down the man who put them away: Joyce Atlas. But Edie’s lost too much time with their family. There’s not a question."

Acquired this bad boy in December, have been making memes to restrain myself from SHOUTING ABOUT IT ever since. (Graphic design is my passion)

SO excited to be working with @makana-yama to bring this book to you - it's fun, sexy, chaotic and most of all full of shenanigans in space. Edie is the buff NB chaos bae you always wanted, Angel is the sexy genius who overdresses for every occasion, and the two of them are constantly bullied for being Old by their crew. And then they go a take out Space Elon Musk while kicking ass and taking names.

1000/10, wonderful book.

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04-03, a tanka

Today is so rough I canceled an appointment Only to notice I canceled the wrong session After an email from him

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Re: Your Stone

by Guan Un

via Diabolical Plots

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04-02, a limerick

For the 2nd of April, I wanted to try A limerick in the hopes it would not make me cry. Alas, a poet, I am not, I admit! Perhaps my poetry marks me a misfit. Still, I will persist, and aim for the sky.

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04-01, a haiku

I have done my chores

Foundation, glue, pound-pound, frames

The bees will be pleased

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okay, but... this explains so much

I am so weirdly protective of the Virgin Mary as a character, not as a religious figure. Heaven can burn to the ground and Hell can rejoice on its ruins, but Mary. Maryam. Sweet Mariam who was but a child when she had to bear her own child—who had to bear the weight of the world. A young girl who had no choice but to do what the Big Man upstairs said. You, who could feel eyes everywhere you go, every step you take, every word that slips from your mouth. They say seeing angels is a good sign, but Michael only forced your mouth open and forced you to swallow a future you never consented to. Didn't he, Maria? What did they do to you, gentle Maria? What did he do to you? Always the Mother, but never the Child.

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something I love about Farscape is how nerfed everyone is. Zhaan is extremely competent but also she’s the first to shut down under too much stress. Aeryn is at times extremely lacking in the emotional intelligence department. Rygel is good at exactly one thing, and that is dealing with bureaucracy. John is a smart guy who is good with tech and but also He Just Got Here so he spends the first couple of weeks just figuring out how doors work.

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3:33 A.M.

by Joelle Killian

via Maudlin House

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Roasted this man for coming for me on TikTok for criticizing publishing's exploitative payment structures but thought what I had to say was worth posting here as well