#The White Liar
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Hi all!! For those of you who donāt know me, My name is Ella Griffin, Iām a 24 year old trans woman based in south florida. For the last four years, Iāve been working on a super special project that Iām beyond thrilled to share with you all: my debut novel, The White Liar. As a big fan of fantasy books, Iāve felt for a long time that thereās a serious lack of authentic trans representation in the genre. For years, I yearned for even just one iconic transfem hero in a high fantasy setting. The White Liar is my attempt to fill that gap in the literary canon.
As a bit of background, I am a massive fan of hard fantasy books with an epic scope and in-depth magic systems; such as Brandon Sandersonās Cosmere books or Ursula Le Guinās Earthsea series. Iām also a big fan of gothic literature and character-driven classics like Victor Hugoās Les Miserables and Anna Karenina, all of which have played an influence on this book. The White Liarās setting is heavily inspired by celtic folklore, mythology and history with a feminist twist.
Itās a world where fae creatures range from tiny glowing insectoids to massive flying mounts and even humanoid beings. Yet, even the tiniest of these has the potential to unlock unfathomable magical potential through the art of Serimancy! Serimancy, the primary magic system of the book, gives users the ability to transmute or āspinā the silk made by fae creatures into supernatural strength, telekinetic threads, and twelve other distinctive powers. Think Rumplestiltskin spinning straw into gold, but more vaporwave.
Without giving too much away, the book features a diverse cast of characters from all different backgrounds, including transfem, transmasc, nonbinary, aspec and disabled characters, although those aspects donāt always define their motives or character arcs. Mainly, The White Liar is a book about the nature of truth and identity; the ways in which our environment affects how we perceive those things, and the friction that creates with our own perception.
I would also characterize the book as a gaslamp fantasy like the Mistborn series or the video game Lies of P, with a baroque/art nouveau-meets-Bridgerton 19th century aesthetic. Iām a 100% independent author with a summary $0 budget publishing through kindle direct, and flat broke, so I would highly appreciate any and all support with this project, be it word of mouth or otherwise. The cover art is a digital painting created entirely by me and is canon to the book!
Thank you so, so much for giving me your time and attention. This book is my love letter to the queer community and I truly hope someone somewhere finds it hopeful or inspiring like Iāve found with the works that inspire me.
The White Liar is available now on E-book here:
#mine#The White Liar#indie author#indie fantasy#trans author#lgbt fantasy#gaslamp fantasy#art nouveau
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Sheās brown and a democrat, gotta get that birth certificate, that weāll call fake news anyway. Apparently, if you canāt win in a fight, you gotta at least try to get your opponent disqualified.
Sad and weird.
#this is why we can't have nice things#lies and the lying liars who tell them#kamala harris#vote kamala#kamala 2024#vote harris#harris walz 2024#harris 2024#kamala for president#kamala is brat#Kamala is 100% American#vote for democracy#your vote matters#vote blue#Democrats care about Americans#why do republicans hate democracy?#republicans hate democracy#democrat#vote democrat#democracy#vote democrat to preserve democracy#democrats#Democrats for democracy#Democrats are the ultimate patriots#no more old white man presidents#no more trump#donald trump is weird#Donald trump is a bad choice for president#quora answers#quora.com
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so what if. and hear me out. i made my own au for shadowvanilla purposes-
au details below
HELLO SO I PRESENT AMNESIAC AU
so you see, i was minding my business, drawing and looking at cookies and how everyone has their own cool aus with awesome designs and i went "well im not very good at designing but i Love putting characters in Situations"
this au is mostly focused on shadowvanilla so dont be too hopeful I'll get into the other cookies besides their little circle, im ill for gay yaoi only okay
So! motions to comic above, amnesia smilk time! let me elaborate
Pure vanilla fucked up BIG TIME, in that he maybe ventured out to beast yeast alone to try and find out more about the beasts and a way to stop them, as people with a savior complex have a habit of doing. Maybe, perhaps, also at the same time, smilk was getting the workings of his new dough body done and sensing pv was nearby decided to take the opportunity to torment him a little, yknow he cant help himself! he needs to see him
a nasty little fight and confrontation in some old structures of smilk (or at the spire) result in pv using a strange spell he spotted in the surrounding papers and documents, and .... accidentally cracks smilk's soul jam! hehe, oops!
and also sealing his memories. double oops. damn, what are you gonna do now pv?
well he cant leave confused smilk alone here, and itd honestly be best the other beasts and dark enchantress dont drag him back there in this state, so he offers a hand.
"Come with me. We can help you, I'll make sure you're okay."
a memory-less smilk is confused by this but... he's already grabbing the other cookie's hand before he realizes it. It'll probably be fine, something about this cookie... makes something in him feel okay.
taps forehead, im still working everything out of course, and i WILL be cursing all of you with sketchy stuff about it when I'm able, i need more time to figure out smilk's behaviors without the soul jam and corruption
of course I'm always of the mind that pre-corruption smilk was kind of a rat and rude but how exactly is the real question!! how bad was it before the corruption exacerbated the negative qualities of knowledge and his personality
anyways,,, feel free to ask questions!! it could help me figure this all out, if yall are interested of course,,,,,,,my,,,, handful of crk followers SNRRKS
#pure vanilla cookie#shadow milk cookie#white lily cookie#gingerbrave#wizard cookie#strawberry cookie#crk fanart#crk au#amnesiac au#shadowvanilla#pureshadow#<- that is my end goal here guys the men are going to kiss#my drawbs#ALSO THIS WONT BE TOO ANGSTY AN AU#WE ARE A HOUSE OF HAPPY ENDINGS HERE IM SORRY I LOVE HAPPY ENDINGS OR AT LEAST HOPEFUL ONES#but rest assured there will still be angst and conflict#as is a constant with liars#looks directly at pv
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winterfell is one of my favorite of the castles bc its warm. both in a metaphorical and literal meaning. its built on natural hot springs and has hot water streaming through out the entire castle, protecting its residents both from the cold and people alike. its so warm inside that catelyn can open her windows in the middle of the night and still stay comfortable. even the glass gardens are warm enough for flowers to bloom and crops to grow in the long winters, feeding the keep. the people are warm too; everyone from the servants to the lord himself. Ned cared for his people and they loved him for that and took care of the Starklings in turn, risked their lives to save Bran and Rickon from the ironborn. Theon knows that if Bran and Rickon were to get away from Winterfell, the commoners themselves would protect the princes, hide and lie for them. and when Sansa builds Winterfell from snow and rocks and sticks in the Eyrie, it doesn't feel right bc despite the snow which covered it from winter to summer, Winterfell itself never was cold
#and also! the vale!#during sansa's stay in the eyrie it doesnt feel like HOME. its white and cold and empty and despite rarely getting bards and singers#winterfell was ALIVE and warm and despite being burnt down and broken ppl still long for it. be it sansa or arya or bran or cat#even jon misses winterfell and his family and his father and half siblings despite knowing he ought not to return#theon too for that matter. hes a liar and a killer and he betrayed the starks and yet...#asoiaf#winterfell#finally reading adwd btw... finally returning to the north does something to a lad...#house stark#ned stark#catelyn stark#sansa stark#bran stark#rickon stark#catelyn tully stark#its also making me realize how much i miss winterfell povs... maybe i should reread the early books actually#a song of ice and fire#valyrianscrolls#chaos reads
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#hanna marin#pll aesthetic#pretty little liars#coquette#pink aesthetic#pink#girlblogger#girl interupted syndrome#blonde bombshell#girlblogging#im just a girl#hell is a teenage girl#alison dilaurentis#girlnextdoor#sweetest girl in town#strawberry shortcake#sadgirl#2014 tumblr#girlblog#esoteric#cowgrlcunt#lizzy grant#white swan aesthetic#coquette dollete#dollete aesthetic#dollette#dollblogging#elizabeth woolridge grant#this is what makes us girls#manic pixie dream girl
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Love Letters of a Liar. Model: CJ
#women and books#women reading#love letters#love letters of a liar#black and white#vintage books#mrs. william allen#cj
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girlblogger movies
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#coquette#dollette#girlblogging#palo alto#white oleander#the crush#down in the valley#the virgin suicides#i believe in unicorns#buffalo 66#priscilla movie#sucker punch#jennifers body#girl interrupted#black swan#lana del rey#dollette icons#lana unreleased#lizzy grant#pretty little liars#alison dilaurentis#femcel#female manipulator#hyper feminine#female hysteria#divine feminine#waifspo#waif chic#this is what makes us girls#letterboxd
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Why donāt we talk more about the fact that Neal Caffrey had poetry magnets in his cell?!? This is a fanfiction dream!!! Our boy was writing angsty prison poetry!!!
#our boy is so soft and sad and sweet and lonely#also i just restarted the series so get ready for freak outs#i also am taking notes in a google doc so i might get hung up on details like this#im not obsessed#i promise#im lying im a liar#im totally obsessed#white collar#neal caffrey#peter burke
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#jjk#gojo satoru#jujutsu kaisen#geto suguru#sugusato#gego#satosugu#every time Iām grieving you guys will get fucked in the ass just like me#I need to vent through this stupid idiot white haired guy#Iām not saying youāre a liar#florence and the machine#thatās the song if youāre curious
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#my art#trigun#trigun maximum#vashwood#vash the stampede#nicholas d. wolfwood#ahhh i'm so done#me who told who won't be drawing straps again#what a liar am i#wolfwood just mistook vash's leg with punisher#what? it's easy to make a mistake!#do you see those straps???#god this art took my soul away#i guess i can make a black&white vashwood art collection now lol#based on a true story of how I carried my drunk friend home
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Donald Trump has won the election, and Republicans are now comfortable openly admitting that Project 2025 was the plan all along.
The draconian policy package prepared by The Heritage Foundation in preparation for a second Trump administration was so extremist that in the final months of the campaign the former president took great pains to publicly distance himself from the project. Its contents, which include a broad expansion of executive powers; a de facto national abortion ban, increased restrictions on contraception; brutal policies against undocumented migrants; and the elimination of several federal agencies (including the Department of Education), didnāt sit well with prospective voters.
Trump feigned ignorance of the plan, despite his close ties to those involved in crafting it, while Democrats did all they could to warn about the conservative blueprint for a second Trump term.
Sure enough, less than 24 hours after the election was called for Trump, his allies, advisers, and prominent supporters were celebrating the now-open road to Project 2025ās implementation.
On Wednesday, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon ā who just weeks ago completed a four-month prison sentence on a contempt of Congress conviction ā- lauded Christian Nationalist Matt Walsh, a commentator at The Daily Wire, on his War Room broadcast.
Walsh had written on X, formerly Twitter: āNow that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda. Lolā
Right-wing podcast Benny Johnson also gloated about the project. āIt is my honor to inform you all that Project 2025 was real the whole time,ā he wrote.
In a separate post, Tarrant County GOP Chair Bo French wrote, āSo can we admit now that we are going to implement Project 2025?ā
Regardless of whether Trump explicitly endorses Project 2025 as a guide for his second administration, the overlap in its proposals, staff, and goals means the two are inextricably linked. Republicans just donāt have to pretend anymore.
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#politics#election 2024#project 2025#donald trump#republicans#heritage foundation#christian nationalism#autocracy#kleptocracy#lies and the lying liars who tell them#white supremacy
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Popping in to remind everyone that my book, The White Liar, is available for sale on amazon! It's an epic fantasy with a transfem lead about the complex nature of identity and the subjectivity of truth. I can not stress enough how informed this book is by my own struggles with feeling like a fraud or a villain for living in my identity, and I have a strong inkling it will resonate with many trans (and cis) readers in this time of unprecedented hate and transphobia being targeted at our community, and hopefully provide a means of escapism and catharis as well.
Furthermore, I'm a very small independent author with no external support in publishing. This is my passion project, many years in the making. The book itself is $5.99 in ebook formats and free with the use of kindle unlimited!!
Please like and share to support trans art, joy, and longevity ā”
#mine#indie author#indie fantasy#gaslamp fantasy#lgbt fantasy#the white liar#trans author#trans fantasy#trans pride#trans joy#trans art
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#this is why we can't have nice things#fight the patriarchy#lies and the lying liars who tell them#smash the patriarchy#woke is wonderful#trump sycophants#trump supporters#traitor trump#fuck trump#trump indictment#trump is a threat to democracy#never trump#trump crime family#segregation#abortion rights#abortion#back alley abortions#internment camp#child labor#white supremecy#end of democracy
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scopOphilic_micromessaging_1072 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.
#scopOphilic1997#scopOphilic#digitalart#micromessaging#streetart#graffitiart#graffiti#brooklyn#nyc#photographers on tumblr#original photographers#ArtistsOnTumblr#2024#The Freak#Take Pic N Put BW#Fear Is A Liar#1000 + Work#blackandwhite#red#white#black#grey#orange
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task force 141 headcanons: whoās their celebrity crush?
MDNI, hints of NSFW, mentions of a breeding kink, all that stuff
price: does not pay attention to celebrities. absolutely refuses to. who gives a shit about some random stranger who can half-decently sing or act and is only āattractiveā after theyāve been photoshopped to hell??? yeah sure maybe he liked some predetermined-to-be-famous bombshell as a teenager but nope, heās wayyyy too mature for that now ā until he discovers Sabrina Carpenter. pretty, naughty but still cute, and probably a bit too young for him?? oh, itās a wrap. and with his tinyyyyy not tiny, not tiny at all breeding kink, heād be jerking it to Juno every day for a month straight after he finds out about her
ghost: Megan thee Stallion. No further questions.
soap: stereotypically, a name like Megan Fox would just roll off of his tongue. Itās what everyone expects him to say, itās what he liked as a teenager, so he just says it. keep it easy and keep up appearances. But seriously? itās Sophie Turner post-divorce from Joe Jonas. she looked hot in those āhanging out with TSwiftā photos! and sheās a MILF nowā¦ š
gaz: why would he have a celebrity crush when the only girl he sees is you? š„ŗ (currently follows Zendaya on instagram and likes every single one of her photos) he would neverrrrr even look at anyone else, how could you think thaaaaat š„ŗš„ŗ (and Bella Hadid) he doesnāt even care about insta or those kinds of movies or even listen to any of that kind of music š„ŗš„ŗš„ŗ (and also Chloe Bailey)
#simon ghost riley#captain john price#john āsoapā mactavish#kyle gaz garrick#call of duty#task force 141#Iām sorry but I do not think Gaz is this perfect little prince the fandom makes him out to be#Idk yall I like him characterized a littleeeeee bit toxic#a touch manipulative a touch of a white-liar a touch jealous and a touch projecting#and as anyone who follows me would know I like Ghost and Soap psycho crazy#and price to have control issues and reverse daddy issues where he has daddy issues but instead of seeking subconscious reassurance from#a paternal male figure he instead subconsciously needs to exert authority over whatever poor pretty young thing he manages to find
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#girlblogging#coquette#hyper feminine#tumblr girlies#this is a girlblog#2014 tumblr#lana del rey#lizzy grant#cinnamon girl#girl interrupted#ralph lauren#old money#gossip girl#pretty little liars#americana#nyc girl#it girl#pink pilates princess#burberry#new york#blair waldorf#femininity#divine feminine#ballerina#ballet#white swan#lana unreleased#rich girl#autumn#pumpkin spice
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