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New Releases of April 2024!
I’ve been really excited for Dear Wendy for so long! Can’t wait for it to come out :) I have no clue how I’m going to find time to read everything coming out this month tho 😅
#book recs#dear wendy#Song of the six realms#Sheine lende#darker by four#The final curse of Ophelia cray#Court of wanderers#Saint-seducing gold#The forge & fracture saga#that self same metal#Reaper#silver under nightfall#elatsoe#Ann Zhao#Judy I. Lin#darcie little badger#june cl tan#Christine calella#Rin chupeco#Brittany N. Williams#new releases#The black girl survives in this one#Hearts still beating#brooke archer#Saraciea J. Fennell#Desiree S. Evans
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HI HELLO okay i know i vanished from the face of the earth, and i dont have a great excuse, but it was for a reason!!! drumroll… im being published!!!! my debut novel is coming April 2nd 2024 from Penguin Teen, followed by a second novel in the summer of 2025! this book would 100000% not have been possible without yalls support of my writing. whether you showed up a month or six years ago, yall helped me build confidence to create my own worlds, and now i get to share it! i cant promise ill be working on any new fic rn, as im on deadlines, but i did want to share w yall and thank you for everything youve done for me over the years! if you want to keep in touch, find me on twitter (@abrokeworm) and if you feel like it, add my book on goodreads!
#me rolling in w my big news way too late but#its been Very hectic but very fun#but like. HECTIC#but im so fucking excited and grateful#brooke talks#hearts still beating
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'I just see you,' Rory says, and brings her lips to mine.
Brooke Archer, from Hearts Still Beating
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2024 reads / storygraph
Hearts Still Beating
post-apocalyptic YA
a few years after a tick-borne zombie apocalypse destroyed most of the world, a treatment is developed that keeps the infected from going feral
an infected teen is in recovery and sent back in the world - to live with her former best friend’s family, since her sister hates her for killing their parents
the best friend now lives on an island community with her parents and adopted siblings, traumatised from what she’s had to do to survive
when the militant group that has control of the island becomes increasingly aggressive, they’re forced to reconnect and work together
f/f, bi MC
#Hearts Still Beating#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#oh the setup for this is so In The Flesh but lesbians (but plot-wise more actiony and. american)#I liked this quite a bit!#good characters and a focus on survival and how they deal with what they did and experienced during the apocalypse#- while still being pretty action-packed and suspenseful.#I did find it random how near the end they still hadn’t apparently figured out that they like each other romantically?#when it seemed like they had clearly established that to each other?#I also found it a little difficult initially to recognise the flashbacks#- this may have been something to do with the audiobook narration not distinguishing it (with even a pause or slight change of tone)#I did find one thing at the end a little silly but I suppose it's a sort of poetic and hopeful way to end it#sapphic books#bisexual books#I kinda wanted a little more with her sister - she comes in more at the end but I would have liked more throughout the book idk
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Rating: 4.5/5
Book Blurb: Gripping, romantic, and impossible to put down, this dark and immersive post-apocalyptic debut YA novel is about two teen girls who loved each other before the end of the world — and before one of them became infected with the virus that turned her into a monster.
Perfect for fans of Krystal Sutherland, Adam Silvera, and the darkly human side of the HBOMax horror-drama, The Last of Us.
Seventeen-year-old Mara is dead—mostly.
Infected with a virus that brought the dead back to life and the world to its knees, she wakes up in a facility to learn a treatment for the disease has been found. No longer a Tick, Mara is placed in an experimental resettlement program. But her recovery is complicated by her destination: she’s sent to live with the best friend she hasn’t seen since the world ended—and since their first and only kiss. Seventeen-year-old Rory is alive—barely.
With impaired mobility from an injury and a dead sister, Rory’s nightmares are just as monstrous as the Ticks that turned her former best friend. Even after the Island—one of a handful of surviving communities—rebuilds itself, Rory is prepared for the Ticks to return at any time. She never expected them to come in the form of the only girl she’s ever loved.
As the girls struggle with their pasts and the people they’ve become, the Island’s soldiers go rogue and come after the Ticks and anyone harboring them. With the Island’s fragile peace in the balance, Rory and Mara must lean on each other to survive—or risk losing the girl they love all over again.
Review:
The Last of Us meets a love story about two girls dealing with the aftermath of of a virus taking over the world and what happens when one of them is infected... and now is being let back out into the world. Mara and Rory were best friends, they've even thought about being more... until a virus known as "the Tick" happened turning people into flesh hungry zombies essentially and Mara gets infected... and that was two years ago... and now she has been rehabilitated and been put on a treatment program to treat her disease. Mara is put into an experimental resettlement program... and who better than to be her host family than her godparents... aka the same family with her old best friend and the girl she loved who she knows now hates her lives. Mara is still traumatized from what happened to her, she remembers everything she did as a Tick... everyone's she's killed including her parents. Rory is reeling from losing her younger sister, having sene her been killed, and she has impaired mobility from an injury. She is still plagued by nightmares and she's dreading facing Mara again. Rory has spent her time preparing to face off against Ticks, what she didn't expect was facing it in the form of the only girl she's ever loved. Both girls struggle with dealing with their pasts and the girls they have become since then, all the while the island's soldiers have gone wrong and are coming after the rehabilitated ticks and anyone who is harboring them... with the leader of the island's soldier particularly going after Rory and Mara, the girls will have to learn to lean on each other and grow past their differences in order to survive this new horror... and maybe fall for the new girls they are now. This was the perfect read for anyone who loved The Last of Us or loves a post-apocalyptic Romance!! The angst was real and the tension was so good. The world building in this one was fantastic and I loved how the book has you so interested in what was happening all the way to the end of the book. The romance was so well done and I loved that the girls were both healing and trying to get to know the new version of the person they loved. This is a fun read and I would absolutely recommend it!
*Thanks Netgalley and PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*
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#twd#the walking dead#the walking dead episode 7x8#hearts still beating#except for the guy#i dont think his hearts beating no more#norman reedus#daryl#daryl dixon#my food...#twd season 7#twd 7x8
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Title: Hearts Still Beating | Author: Brooke Archer | Publisher: Razorbill (2024)
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Alien Stage is so crazy to me because it’s. It’s about many things but what stands out to me the most is how the children of Anakt Garden during times of extreme hardship and fear and literal alien colonization, instead of looking toward some omniscient being(s) for salvation or succumbing to cynicism/nihilism, they look toward each other to find hope. All it takes is a connection with one person, just one instance of butterflies in a society where things like love and romance are all but obsolete, and now they’re making that person their God their reason to live and breathe and wake up every morning. (Or, in some cases, to give up their lives. If it means protecting the life of their beloved.) And it’s like. It’s as if what sets us apart from aliens or simply what makes us human is our capacity to whole-heartedly, unabashedly love one another. Even to the end of ourselves.
#because the evidence of me having lived and loved is in your still beating heart#Ohhh im so normal#alien stage#alnst#ivantill#mizisua#hyuluka
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real talk having the 2nd worst new years eve yet 🤢🤢🤢 (throat infection, twisted neck, banged-about-foot, ego AND the rest o' me all bruised like misjuggled peaches 🍑🍑🍑)
im bent outa shape and suspectin the universe owes me 8 buck if anyone wannsa chip in
#yes the 🍑🍑🍑was just an excuse to shove ass emojis in your face i'm only (occasionally. allegedly) human#now ask me about my FIRST worst new year eve. it involves wizards and portals and elaborate lies i make up on the spot#SAD REAL TALK <STARTS>:#also made the mistake of reaching out to my mom post-xmas#like what kind of c-ptsd NOOB does that. what kinda chronic holiday trauma survivor NOVICE??? embarrassing#THE SEDUCTIVE FALSE HOPE OF NOSTALGIA WILL LURE YOU IN EVERY TIME#'oh but maybe they won't disappoint me. but maybe they won't rip my heart out this time'#sweetheart that's your dear sweet inner child's yearning for what never was or will be. BEAT IT BACK WITH A STICK!#SAD REAL TALK <ENDS>#....back to that part where i talked about being bent out of shape#if anyone w/ metalwork skills wants ta take a blowtorch & hammer & tongs & have at... I'm open to experimentation is all im sayin#in lieu of that i would also welcome someone buying me a sandwich. i am. so sore.#(metaphysically sore but also the other more urgent im-at-my-daily-NSAIDs-limit kinda sore)#(hence: sanwimch)#...i got so sleepy writing this i started imagining the astonishing hedonism#of stroking a freshly grilled cheese-dripping sandwhich across my body like a loofah#the soothingness of the gooey warm near liquid cheese. the vaguely spongelike quality of toasted sourdough slice.#look i didn't imagine it on PURPOSE it just came to me like a vision like a threat#like one of those weird mens locker room ads where the sportsball is watermelon??? u know the one#where there's nudity & food & homoerotica & hot steaming showers in the background and STILL the overall effect is more offputting than sex#look i have a throat infection. i can barely swallow. i'm sipping chocolate milk to survive and i'm NOT EVEN ENJOYING IT. each drop is agon#(opposite side of the Tantalus spectrum but i'm suffering more than he has in 3.5 thousand years)#i'm dehydrated. barely conscious. electrolytes are circling down the drain. doctors should be incubating me w/ capri sun straws right now.#I GET A PASS ON THESE TAGS#i don't know what i wrote! and i don't stand by it! and you can't make me read em!!!
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cold comfort
#thistle#thistle dungeon meshi#delgal#dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi spoilers#his heart beats and he still breathes but no matter what you do he won't wake up.#i'm always wondering how thistle would self-soothe when he'd get lonely and miserable and afraid past the point he could bottle up#my art
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(ThamePo) Heart That Skips a Beat | Episode 4
Cutie 🥰
#same po same#thamepo the series#thame po the series#thamepo#thame po#thamepo heart that skips a beat#thame po heart that skips a beat#heart that skips a beat#I still dunno what tag to use#william jakrapatr#est supha#williamest#estwilliam#thai series#thai drama#thai bl#bl series#bl drama#tortigifs
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Happy bi week to those who celebrate! These are some books which contain bi main characters (including some bi aros / bi aces) that I’ve read and enjoyed. Every book on this list is one I would recommend to someone (depending on the person).
(My apologies if some of them contain pan main characters instead, it’s been a while since I’ve read a lot of them and I don’t completely remember. I tried to check but I can’t be 100% sure)
Also, bonus: An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole is a bi4bi dark academia thriller coming out in 2025!
#the heartbreak bakery#that self same metal#darker by four#the poisons we drink#running close to the wind#fire becomes her#into the drowning deep#a swift and sudden exit#baker thief#hearts still beating#iron widow#the disasters#don’t be a drag#hani and ishu's guide to fake dating#the spirit bares its teeth#the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue#alexandra rowland#mira grant#xiran jay zhao#adiba jaigirdar#andrew joseph white#mackenzi lee#bisexual#bi week#book recs#booklr#bookblr#queer books#bi#books
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Just some little clips of Tim from my sketchbook pages. I like my Tim’s like I like men: haggard and impossibly sexy
#those sluttty little knee high boots he’s got now though#Jesus Christ#be still my beating heart#me too kon#it’s all I can think about#tim drake#dc robin#robin#red robin#kon el#conner kent#superboy#timkon#my art#doodles#dc batman#batman#teen titans#dc comics#dc#dc fanart#dc comcis#dc batfam#batfam#batfamily
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So many of you liked my chaotic history of Thedas shitpost that I made a little art based on it 💕
I was thinking it would make a nice wee T-shirt. What do you all reckon?
Ps: if you want to follow my shop whilst they’re verifying it (assuming the link works), please do. Might be a few days but there WILL be T-shirts. I literally went through all this cos I wanted one for myself 😂
Some other designs I had to add to meet the requirements:
#solavellan#solas#Solas’s perfect spirit form#when I was drawing him I just kept thinking about how perfect he is#literally a bunch of wavy lines and I’m still obsessed#I love him so much#a solavellan heart beats in my chest#LOOK AT HIM#look at hiiiiimmmm#da4 spoilers#veilguard spoilers#solas x inquisitor#solas x female lavellan
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Orym of the Air Ashari 🌸
It was about time I drew my favorite halfling, I actually can't believe this is the first ever piece I made about him. He has my whole heart 🧡
#orym#orym of the air ashari#orym cr#cr orym#orym fanart#cr fanart#critical role fanart#critical role#cr#liam o'brien#bells hells#cr bells hells#cr 3#dnd#of course i couldn't help adding some blue flowers#my dorym heart still beats#+ they are forget-me-nots#my favorite flower AND very appropriately-named for what I wanted here#anyway i love orym#my art
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Ngl if I became an eldritch cosmic god and Jayce looked at me like this
And said "There must be some part of you still in there." in THAT voice? I'd fold. I'd be like "yes baby I'm just goofin around you know I love you haha" and then we'd call off the war and go get lunch
#im just saying like if it were me the war would have ended a whole lot quicker#jayce REALLY just saw viktor come in looking so changed and different and eldritch-like and gave him THE softest look#with 'pookie? 🥺 are you still in there?'#jayce 'please baby this isn't your heart!!' talis#HE'S NOT BEATING THE ALLEGATIONS#arcane#arcane season 2#arcane season 2 spoilers#arcane spoilers#act 3 spoilers#jayvik#jayce talis#mettys posts#metty posts
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