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My friend Tom Lenk and I couldn’t stop texting about it, so we started a podcast called “Undressing Bridgerton” Episode 1 (about Episode 1) will go up tomorrow! Spread word and subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get podcasts!

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Casters together… strong. (Via)

(Unholy_Dk80)

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shout out to all gamer girls. i hope you rank up in whatever the fuck 

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why are wlw books so angsty and deep all the time like where is my casual wlw romcom or my fantasy lesbians, space bis and trans princesses like not every wlw has some lost love in some town in the middle of nowhere

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Pssst

Hey, are you an artist or writer with WIPs?

Come here... I got a secret for you pssst come ‘ere

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Rachelle Hampton analyzed Twilight’s murmurs so we didn’t have to.

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THIRST AID KIT | S6E08 | RAKES, SHEIKHS, AND SHIPPING MAGNATES

There are many motivators of human behavior, but here at Thirst Aid Kit we are only interested in the most relevant one to us… Romance is what makes the world go round. And romance novels were, for both of us, foundational texts in building the two thirst experts you know and love today. So: it was time to talk about them properly.

We talked about the trends of the romance novels that marked different eras — like the heroes of so many of the books we consumed when we were growing up, novels in which the men were taciturn and brooding (and rich!) businessmen, and the women were flaxen-haired, kinda subservient, and very, well, white.

We also talked tropes — the ones we love, the ones that we will happily read over and over again, the ones we love to hate, and the ones we actually really would happily never read again (hello, ‘secret baby’ 😡)

And we talked a little about the blossoming of romance novels that featured characters that look, feel, and sound like we do! There have been so many ructions in the romance writing world, but there is also much to celebrate, and so we did. We also took some time to shoutout some of recent fave authors (warning: not an exhaustive list so just because we didn’t mention them doesn’t mean we don’t read or like your faves!)

The drabbles this week were labors of love, as always. with both of us tackling a couple of golden tropes. We were impressed by one another, as we often are. Hope you were too! You can listen to the whole episode RIGHT HERE (more ways to listen are listed below).

SOME AUTHORS TO READ, IF YOU LIKE (it’s a long list this time!)

Alyssa Cole

Talia Hibbert

Alisha Rai

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Courtney Milan

Mhairi McFarlane

Beverly Jenkins

Julie Garwood

Lisa Kleypas

Sandra Brown

Charlaine Harris

Nora Roberts

Holley Trent

Sara MacLean

Katie Clayborn

Jasmine Guillory

Mia Sosa

Helen Hoang

Tessa Dare

Kit Rocha

Chloe Neill

Heather Graham

Melissa Blue

Alexa Martin

Richelle Mead

LA Banks

Lisa Jackson

Jaye Wells

Jeaniene Frost

ONE LOVELY THING TO LOOK AT (trust us)

This lovingly lettered A-Z of romantic fluff tropes/prompts 🥰

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Subscribe to get new episodes delivered to your device automatically every Thursday. We’re on Apple and Stitcher and Podbean and Google Play and Overcast and iHeartRadio and Spotify and and and… Search ‘Thirst Aid Kit’ wherever you get your podcasts, and we’ll come up. We promise.

We’re on Twitter at @thirstaidkit. And you can send us love letters and short drabbles to thirstaidkit@slate.com. We also would not be upset if you left a (five star? 👀) rating and a review on Apple Podcasts. Thank you! 😘

Stay sweet, stay thirsty. We appreciate your ears.

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hi this is my favorite headline

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Okay this started on Twitter but booklr, here's a chance to use your powers for good. Spread the word. Buy books. Go wild.

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24 LGBT+ Books by Black Authors

I’m seeing a lot of the same books on my dash, so I spent a few hours researching some lesser-known books. These books fall across a variety of genres and age group. 

Ways you can help

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“A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can’t speak for everyone - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it’s actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.”

Happy 37th Birthday, HENRY WILLIAM DALGLIESH CAVILL! (May 5, 1983)

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HENRY CAVILL Henry Cavill Explains Everything You Need To Know About The Witcher’s Sword

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Head: hidden

Shoulders: Dreadful Gladiator’s Felweave Amice (warlock only)

Cloak: Marked Cloak of Command

Chest: Robes of the Unraveler

Waist: Dreadful Gladiator’s Cord of Accuracy

Hands: Marwyn’s Macabre Fingertips

Feet: Treads of Liquid Ice

Weapon: Flesh-Carving Scalpel

Off-hand: Deeptide Scroll

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Adding Sound Files to Macros

okay okay okay I saw there was some interest in this after my last post so I made a little tutorial

You got to this link on wowhead -> https://www.wowhead.com/sounds

Search what ever you want in the search bar. I’ll use Thalyssra as my example! It should bring up a list of sound files as shown below.

Click on any of the names to take you to the sound file itself. You want to click on the part circled in red!!

Clicking on it should give you this smaller window as shown below

You want to copy and paste that into your WoW game. Not every sound file on wowhead will actually play so you can make a test macro to listen to it in game! Also - the sound itself will only play on your end of the computer so no one else can hear it unfortunately but for me it’s really fun and makes my characters feel more alive when I play the game!!

I’ve included an example of one of the macros I’ve written!

(#showtooltip = even though it’s a macro, I can see what the contents of the spell that I want to cast is)

(/cast Metamorphosis = makes my character cast the spell that I want)

(/script PlaySound(86895) = the command to play the in game sound file! This one is a line from Portal Keeper Hasabel, a raid boss that has some really cool one-liners that I thought fit my demon hunter)

And I do want to say I’m not the greatest at macros so anything beyond this is just out of my knowledge. I hope this was helpful though to anyone interested :D

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Me as a child: I always finish books; if I open it, I read it all the way through no matter what, even if it’s boring, and I won’t start another one until I do.

Me now: *looks at book* You have five pages to draw me in completely or I snap you shut and open ao3 again.