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[nshbrown]

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[brightmaiden]

Bookish asks: 1, 5, 13, 14, 26

Thank you! 1, 13, and 26 have already been answered here, leaving these last two aligned in perfect, thematic harmony. :)

5. What was your relationship with books like as a child?

I took them for granted, honestly. We didn't have a lot of children's books in my house growing up, but I thought nothing of opening up my dad's old mythology and tall tales books and picking a story that looked interesting until I'd read them all. I was in middle school before I realized that my experience with books was more intense and intimate and absorbing than a lot of my peers'. I'd always been a reader, but I didn't identify as a bookworm until then. And though I think I was a little too willing to embrace others' definitions of what a bookworm was capable of, the books, themselves, were always a positive force in my life.

14. What is your favourite children's book?

When I think of "favorite children's book," I think of the sort of book I'd want to give a newborn child. Not for the moment they've joined us in the world, but for a moment later in their life when that book might blossom in meaning and anchor something ineffable and precious for that child about who they are, were, or will be. And that book, amidst all the children's books I've read, is God Bless the Gargoyles by Dav Pilkey. It's a beautiful book, with vibrant, saturated illustrations reminiscent of stained glass. But it's also a book that speaks to struggle, to loneliness, to finding community and healing and hope. I first encountered it as an adult, and every time I read it, I uncover something new.

[made-defective]

[ MIRACLE ] - What have they been awarded for their beliefs?

"Nah, not really. When ah was still property, Ah tried t' be a good boy an worship tha' fuckin disgustin thing. Ah believed if ah could please em. Ah could end m' daily...pains. Didn' work. ...an recently, ah ate a angel an some folks got real upset, callin me th' devil. Which ain't much of'a insult. But explainin tha th angel was jus here t' kill, an therefore fair game ta fight, made em riot. .......So ah broke a leg or two ta shut em up."

[chains-changed-your-soul]

🌻 and ill just tell you whatever the fuck i want

Copied b/c my keyboard is broken:

Red Pandas Are The First Panda

In 1825, nearly 50 years before the giant panda was discovered, Frédéric Cuvier first described the red panda as the most beautiful animal he had ever seen. Georges-Frédéric Cuvier was a French zoologist and paleontologist who was the head keeper of the menagerie at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1804 to 1838 (the year he died). He was the younger brother of the "founding father of paleontology", Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric. Georges-Frédéric's work was also widely known and was mentioned in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species and in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick! Georges-Frédéric actually first described the western red panda (Ailurus fulgens fulgens). In 1897, F. W. Styan discovered another red panda subspecies and named it Ailurus fulgens styani, now refulgens. Now you can see why red pandas are the first panda — the original panda.

[solarcandydrops]

There's an organization called the Trans Empowerment Project that helps trans/gender-expansive people get aide.

They help with things like food and I know they used to do housing, so they might be able to help with that too.

Their form is currently closed, but if you reach out through their contact page, maybe they can set you up with some help through another organization.

https:// transempowerment. org/ get-help/

thank you, I'll look into them

[mimicben]

*rolls out of grave* hhhhhhrgrghh, what year is it??

(enjoy another panel redraw lolol, they're a lot of fun to do; original under the cut)

[bianc0re]

Their looks? Questionable

Their intentions? Also questionable 🧩

[skaspert]

query and echo! also miss tuesday

[moxis]

oldish batman art i never posted here. i think. and a daredevil

[theygotlost]

period

[malenjoyer]

[ Play Aliyah’s Interlude - IT GIRL ]

This is for the corner of Edward stans and fellow hench people to enjoy

[brightmaiden]

Bookish ask game: 1.) best book and why; 13.) choosing the next book; and 26.) classroom book you fell in love with.

Thank you! These were so much fun to answer!

1. Which book would you consider the best book you've ever read and why?

When I see "best book," I don't think of a favorite book so much as a book that impressed me with the skill of its writing and the deftness of its storytelling. And for me, right now, that's Dorothy Dunnett's King Hereafter. A historical retelling/exploration of Macbeth, the mythical is grounded in the real people and politics of 11th century Europe. Brimful of historical fact and detail, Dunnett unspools her yarn with the expectation that her readers can be trusted to follow where she leads. She drops hints at the beginning of the book that she doesn't follow up on until the end. Her characters have conversations that suggest more than reveal their motivations and true feelings. She's so subtle that the entire book becomes a collaboration between her words, her story, and the reader's own engagement and interpretation of them. I can't read this sort of book all the time, but when I do, it's exhilarating for both the writer and reader in me.

13. How do you chose which book to read next?

There's a kind of organic flow from book to book. I usually have a number of books on my to-read-soon list, and something about the book I've just finished will resonate with one of the books on that list. If you've ever listened to music and known the next note, or even whether it would go up or down the scale, before you heard it, it's kind of like that. Sometimes the next book is a key change on the same theme. Sometimes it's a new tempo at the same soft volume. ...And sometimes I just have to read a book before it's due at the library, so it gets pushed to the top of the list. ;)

26. A book you studied in school and ended up loving?

Dandelion Wine. I read it as a teenager whilst in the depths of a bitter winter, and it so caught me up in the descriptions of summer and heat and childhood that, upon looking up into the blue February sky, I was convinced I could walk outside in shorts and a t-shirt to warm my toes on the sidewalk and listen to the cicadas sing.

[made-defective]

Eerie would allow him to crack open their chest and play in their blood. As a treat.

And that is one of the reasons he adores her!

[clunkyrobogirl2000]

How to casually tell mutuals I desperately want to suck them off/eat them out?

[bangsinc]

Echo and Query 💚❔

[ariaste]

im moving toward publishing my work traditionally, is it still best practice to network with agents on twitter or has that moved to bluesky?

A lot of the publishing industry has moved to Bluesky, yeah, but honestly it is not necessary to network on social media with agents. Just focus on writing the best book you can, getting it polished up, making sure your beginning is really strong, and DON'T FUCK UP YOUR QUERY LETTER.

There are a lot of great resources online about querying (the Queryshark blog closed down submissions earlier this year but there is a WEALTH of wisdom on there, definitely go check it out). Read those resources and etiquette guides, internalize them, obey the rules, and always always always always follow the submission guidelines on an agent's website! Remember that the query letter is much the same as a job interview, so treat it with all the same seriousness and professionalism.

Finally, I hope you don't get too many rejections, but... hey, rejections are real and normal, and everyone gets them sometimes! I got one myself just last week! It is sad when it happens, but don't let it destroy you, ok? The great thing about publishing is that the game is never over until YOU decide it's over. You've ALWAYS got another chance to roll the dice. :)

GOOD LUCK!!!!!! You've got this!!