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Ghostly Touches by Salem Cross
~5/5⭐
*Sighhhhh* This was SUCH a fun read y'all! It's been awhile since I've enjoyed a RH novel this much, and what a refreshing story at that! With a badass heroine and a few grumpy, groveling, and monster like men, this book was everything I needed and more😩 I went into this book with zero knowledge or any idea of what to expect, and honestly that made it soooo much more enjoyable. I also feel like this is one of those books that makes more sense if you just read it your self? I know that sounds a little questionable, but trust me on this one! With that being said.....I'm gonna spare you all the long review, in hopes that you'll just trust me on this one and read this book.
As Always,
Happy Reading❤️
#books#reading#book blog#book tok#salem cross#reverse harem books#rh books#monster books#paranormal romance#romance books#pnr#book reviews#book recommendations#ghost books#ghostly touches by salem cross#tbr#book groups#kindle unlimited
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"Dyke March 1994" by Morgan Gwenwald
source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates
#lesbian#lesbian literature#dyke#dyke literature#archived#thatbutcharchivist#dyke march#dyke march 1994#lesbian history#lesbian photography#author: beatrix gates#photographer: morgan gwenwald#the wild good#year: 1996#publisher: anchor books#publisher: doubleday dell publishing group inc.#butch#butch dyke#butch lesbian#why does it look alright while i'm editing and then hitting the finished button is like unleashing an entirely different monster#ai yai yai#i'll figure it out#asian lesbian
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#girl interrupted#coquette girl#gaslight gatekeep girlboss#girl interrupted syndrome#girl interupted syndrome#girl rotting#girlblog#girlblogging#hell is a teenage girl#just girly posts#fyodor dostoevsky#lev tolstoy#classic books#bed rotting#female beauty#female rage#the feminine urge#they mistook my kindness for weakness#female hysteria#female manipulator#tumblr girls#girl group#girlhood#manic pixie dream girl#im just a girl#just girly things#pinterest girl#this is a girlblog#i'm the sweetest girl in town so why are you so mean?#just girly thoughts
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companion to this poll! feel free to add which book it is in the tags :)
also plays etc and translations count (I'm not expecting people to only include it if they read the ancient greek or something!)
#nobody complain about these year groupings lol#i'm just assuming that the pre 19th century is a small enough proportion that i don't need to be as specific#and honestly i don't know my historical eras well enough to know where to divide them before that lol#I've got two BC books (lysistrata by aristophanes at 411 and poetics by aristotle at 335)#but after that there's a big gap to othello (1603)#polls
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Celebrate Pride with Tor Publishing Group!
Rakesfall by @adamantine
They met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. Later, in a demon-haunted wood, an act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey through the ages. As they reincarnate ever deeper into the future, a truth emerges: Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell.
Running Close to the Wind by @ariaste
In this queer pirate fantasy, Avra Helvaçi has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world. To avoid capture, he flees to the open sea, where only his on-again, off-again ex aka pirate Captain Teveri az-Ḥaffār can help him survive, profit, and become a legend.
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body and wears your skin. Welcome to Camp Resolution, a queer conversion center where everyone leaves a different person. In 1995, seven queer teens were abandoned here by their parents, but survived. Sixteen years later, they’re scarred and broken, but back to face an evil that threatens the world.
Kinning by Nisi Shawl
In this alternate history where barkcloth airships soar and former colonies claim freedom from imperialist tyrants, the identity of the island of Everfair still wavers. Victorious in the wake of the Great War, a new threat looms. Can Everfair continue to serve as a symbol of hope for anticolonial movements around the world, or will it fall to forces within and without?
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by @rebeccathornewrites
Can one of the Queen’s private guard and the most powerful mage in existence leave their lives behind to settle down in their new bookshop that serves tea? This cozy fantasy is steeped in sapphic romance and nestled on the edge of dragon country.
The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab
Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. After a desperate attempt to prevent corruption and ruin in the four Londons, there are only three. Now the worlds are going to collide anew—brought to a dangerous precipice by the discoveries of three remarkable magicians.
Now available in paperback!
The Archive Undying by @emcandon
This is a story about misplaced faith, complicated love, so much self-loathing, and yeah—giant robots. Plugged into his AI god when its apocalyptic corruption renders him unfortunately immortal, sad gay disaster Sunai takes a die-again-or-die-trying approach to things. Unending life’s tough when intimacy is somehow scarier even than either of the warring police states set on turning you into a weapon or the rogue undead mecha-fragment of your old god that wants to eat you.
Now available in paperback!
The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen
A dazzling historical mystery that dives into the shadowy, closeted world of the Navy, emerging in the gay bars of the city. It’s a whirlpool of missing people, violent strangers, and scandalous photos in 1952 San Francisco.
Now available in paperback!
Celebrate Pride with more titles from Tor Publishing Group here!
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I had to turn the boops off (sorry!), so here is a little Malleus for you all to boop instead! he has no thoughts in that little brain of his!
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 6 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 6 spoilers#i don't like grouping notes so my activity page was being OBLITERATED#thank you for all the boops though!#please transfer them to the dragon#he needs love to grow up big and strong (and then trap us all in an endless dreamworld) (but that will come later)
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"Publishers accused the nonprofit of infringing copyrights in 127 books from authors like Malcolm Gladwell, C.S. Lewis, Toni Morrison, J.D. Salinger and Elie Wiesel, by making the books freely available through its Free Digital Library.
The archive, which hosts more than 3.2 million copies of copyrighted books on its website, contended that the library was transformative because it made lending more convenient and served the public interest by promoting "access to knowledge.""
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#destiel meme news#destiel meme#news#united states#us news#world news#internet archive#copyright#copyright law#copyright infringement#bookblr#protect access to knowledge#wayback machine#learning is a right#hachette v internet archive#hachette book group#penguin random house#harpercollins#wiley#open library#national emergency library#fair use#controlled digital lending
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While it's on the mind, here's my wings of fire designs too. Not as much of a brainrot but still fun. Bad take or am I cooking with some of them? Let me know in the comments. Here's some (too many) notes:
I really liked the original designs when I first read these books, but I wanted to try my hand at uhh changing them a little. Mainly making them more distinct from each other (even if this irreversibly breaks canon XD)
-Sandwings live in a mixed savannah and desert habitat and have bodies adapted for resource scarcity, effective hunting, and heat dispersion. They have large ears to help cool off and listen for stuff. They can fly, but pretty weakly in comparison to some others, mainly using flight to navigate their large territories , get onto cliffs, and scan for prey. They typically climb up somewhere and then jump off. They are built like felines, and use a solo stalk and rushdown hunting approach coupled with a sting instakill. They live in family groups, with a ‘queen’ title going to the alpha female 💪 and everyone else hunting and living together. They are immune to their own venom, which acts very similarly to a scorpion’s but in a massive dose, causing numbness, breathing difficulties seizures, and eventually death. It takes time for them to make more once they’ve expended the dose, so they rarely use it outside of hunting or life/death situations (though the prospect of being stung is very scary to everyone else, and they will instinctively raise their tail when startled or threatened)
-Skywings live in high mountainous and forested areas, with some living in the lowlands. They are powerful flyers and very acrobatic due to their tail, though this comes at the expense of their agility on land and the strength of their non wing arms. They have long legs with powerful talons for grasping prey midair or snatching them from off the ground. They hunt and live alone unless they have a partner. Communities are made up of a loose group of related individuals who rarely collect in one place at once(queendom structure are a more recent and ‘unnatural’ thing for them, but very useful for organizing military efforts and empire building). They stay aloft for long periods of time and usually only land on their cliff homes. They need a sprint or a takeoff point to get flying, though. Unlike every other tribe, they have a noticeable difference between male and female (being a nose horn and red face for males.) males are prized for these features, and having a pretty husband is seen as an attractive trait for a queen.
-Seawings live along the coast. They normally only venture out of the water for trade and other resources, since they can get everything else they need underwater. Their large neck houses gills protected by thick pads that will close when on land, while their lungs are in their mid chest. Primarily adapted to swimming, they have very strong tails and webbed fingers and toes. They will also use their wings to steer and paddle, as well as manipulate things their other arms can’t reach. They will hunt in packs, corralling fish and other animals into a kill zone. They are very clumsy on land and in the air with their short limbs and weak wings. Their bioluminescent spots can be flashed for communication, and compared to the other tribes they have pretty poor vocal ability (due to the gills in their neck getting in the way) and will supplement with other spot/sign signals. Every individual has unique spots, though their glowing ones come in consistent numbers, sizes, patterns, and places on their body so they can use them for common language across their group. However, Different groups from different parts of the ocean have different numbers of spots in different areas, making cross communication via only spots difficult. Their whiskers help navigate in close or dark areas, and are seen as a status symbol.
-Mudwings live in warmer areas, specifically marshes and other wetlands (though sometimes in some forested areas too). Their thick armor helps protect them from other mudwings/competition, while also acting as an insulator that allows them to easily venture a wider range than other tribes from warm climates. Physically, they are the strongest and bulkiest. They typically use the element of surprise and their overwhelming size and strength to take down large prey. However, unlike other tribes they tend to eat more plants too due to their large size (all of them are technically omnivores, but meat makes up the dominant part of their diet because of their energy needs and their ancestors). They are also the poorest flyers out of the bunch, having sacrificed that for size and strength, though they can do short bursts similar to a chicken to get to hard to reach areas or to surprise attack prey faster than them, they’re similar to hippos and are adapted to living in the water too, using powerful webbed arms to propel themselves and dig through the mud, and their large lung capacity to stay submerged and hidden for long periods. Their nostrils, ears, and eyes are located near the top of their head, which also gives more room for Tusks. They use these to root around occasionally defend themselves. Tusk maintenance and appearance is very important to them. They live in large groups of families in the same area and have more communal social standards than other tribes.
-Rainwings live in tropical areas and have a very small habitat range. This has caused them to look and act very different than most tribes, leading to poor perception of them. They use their long claws, strong grasping fingers, and prehensile tail to climb around, and are pretty much arboreal. They have wings meant for quick takeoffs and flight in dense areas, and are pretty agile and swift. They and aren’t that great at sustained flight or dealing with high altitudes and winds though . Their frill is delicate and used for emoting (probably originally for mating purposes) Their skin is packed with chromatophores that they can use to match their surroundings, and they have loose ridges in their skin that they can raise to enhance the effect. Their skin is constantly changing color due to their brain activity, though they have set patterns/colors for emotions and communication. They can also choose to focus on organizing their skin patterns to get coordinated colors and patterns, since normally it’s pretty disorganized. They eat a lot more plants due to their environment and due to social standards, but arent herbivores. They have the ability to spit acid out of hollow retractable fangs, and use precise shots of this coupled with their camouflage ability to get prey. They can also spray it at higher velocities for defense and offense, though this expends their supply much quicker. They don’t recognize a queen in their communities and are fairly disorganized into different cooperative groups.
-Nightwings are the result of a group that split off onto an island, though the volcanic activity on their original island escalated to the point where they had to emigrate. They are great fliers, using their wings and tail extensions to travel great distances to track prey and ambush from above. When on land, they aren’t particularly fast or strong, and instead are built for persistence. Their hunting tactic involves getting an initial bite onto prey, then waiting for it to succumb to infection. Their spines, horns, muscles, and talons are mainly for defending their kill from other Nightwings rather than hunting it in the first place. As a result of this competition, they aren’t naturally very social like other tribes, They are mainly nocturnal.
-Icewings live in the colder tundras and snowy forest environments. They are pack hunters, using their speed and persistence to take down prey, similar to wolves. Their long overlapping scales help them trap heat and survive in the cold, and while the guy i drew here is pretty skinny they also store fat much more readily than other tribes. Their bowed wings are mainly used to swoop in in prey, and like falcons they often take steep dives to grapple it. Their antlers only grow in at a certain time in the year, but royalty will wear embellished artificial ones in the meantime.
#my two vasly different dragon media interests#the httyd book dragons are also intelligent but unlike the wof ones i never imagine them wearing clothes and theyre never referenced#using tools or really wearing jewlery or building things they live in packs like animals but many of them can carry on a convo with a human#comparatively id say that the main difference is that the wof have a distinct grouping and relationship between the types of dragon while#in the httyd books those guys are just Everywhere and Everything#and also Humans are a major part of httyd while theyre just kinda weird little creatures in wof#wof art#wings of fire#wof#drawing
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The Great Library: illustration for Into the Tower (x)
#choose your own adventure#dnd gifts#into the tower#fantasy books#also i love it when people tell me they bought this for friends as a gift or read aloud to their dnd group....... thank you......#art#my art
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"Christopher Street, NYC, 1988" by Kathryn Kirk
source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings On Love, edited by Beatrix Gates
#lesbian#lesbian literature#dyke#dyke literature#archived#thatbutcharchivist#butch#butch dyke#butch lesbian#femme#femme dyke#femme lesbian#femme4butch#butch4femme#femme butch#lesbian history#lesbian photography#lesbian books#the wild good#author: beatrix gates#year: 1996#publisher: doubleday dell publishing group inc.#publisher: anchor books#photographer: kathryn kirk
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strength and nobility
#this vignette lives in my head rent fucking free. it haunts me something abt it reworks my brain chemistry#its not even a diasom vignette but it HITS its sat w me since i first saw it early on in playing the game. it ruins me. theres AUGHH#theres something so palpable in the energy of it. the confidence mal has in him as the king of heartslabyul#bestowing the rose so he exudes the majesty he already holds within. the unwavering belief in saving the group and mal's guards#AUGHHHH MY BRAIN MY BRAIN!!!!!!! looking at riddle's journey thru book 1 and seeing this as the next step of his char? RUINS ME#sorry. imemotional#twst#twisted wonderland#malleus draconia#riddle rosehearts#mallerido#suntails
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everyone loves talking about little jon in correlation to mr. spider but no one ever talks about how insufferable this kid was. i wouldn’t wish sitting next to him in class upon my worst enemy
#if i had to do a group project with him i’d be so annoyed but at least he gets his work done#hc that he’s always read his books out loud like he does with statements btw. he stopped around middle school—#— when enough people called him annoying for it#he definitely had a bowl cut until he was like 6. he looks like the type. and then THIS is what he upgraded to#real talk i love making fun of him as much as the next guy but he’s soooo relatable unfortunately#he’s just a little boy in an unending pursuit of knowledge. he’s new to the world and all he wants is to know how it all works.#and even at this age a part of him knows he’ll never be able to satiate that curiosity#or something. anyways he would love reciting fun facts to strangers (no one else finds them very fun)#the magnus archives#tma#tma fanart#magpod#the magnus archives fanart#tma art#jonathan sims#the archivist tma#jarchivist#jon sims#jon tma#jonathan sims fanart#tma jon#jonathan sims art#artists on tumblr
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You won't believe it: No sweat marketing! Take a look at Michael Barrington's approach:
You won’t believe it: No sweat marketing! Take a look at Michael Barrington’s approach:
No Sweat Marketing Marketing one’s books can at times appear to be a daunting task. Like most authors I have a well-developed plan which includes good use of social media, a solid website from which I also blog, make an occasional presentation and promote my books by writing articles for various magazines. But over the past two years I have developed an additional strategy – all due to my…
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GET BOOKT
A guide of books to gift the people in your life and yourself!
For the person who made a 200+ slide powerpoint about Neon Genesis Evangelion for a presentation party… Also for those who attend presentation parties…
The Archive Undying by @emcandon
For all former and current theater kids (affectionate)...
Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston
For the reader who prefers their off-the-wall science fiction tempered with social commentary, or enjoys social commentary in a space opera font…
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
━ ˖°˖ ☾☆☽ ˖°˖ ━
For the friend with the SHUDDER account…
Piñata: A Novel by Leopoldo Gout
For the burned-out chosen one who’s so, so tired…
The Saint of Bright Doors by @adamantine
For the tumblr mutual that fell down the wuxia cdrama hole…
The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang
━ ˖°˖ ☾☆☽ ˖°˖ ━
For the gamer who fondly remembers their confrontation with Rayquaza atop the Sky Pillar…
Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
For the “smash first, questions later” friend in your life…
Ebony Gate by Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle
For a tragic superwholockian in dire need of restorative sapphic fiction…
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
━ ˖°˖ ☾☆☽ ˖°˖ ━
For the reader who wished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was actually Jonathan Strange/Mr Norrell…
The Last Binding trilogy by @fahye, including:
● A Marvellous Light
● A Restless Truth
● A Power Unbound
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I love the relationship between Stan, Dipper and Mabel in the beginning. Like they went from strangers to both parties being like "I'd kill for these kids/this old man in a heartbeat." Like these 3 become ride and die and I adore that.
#oli talks#ooc#muns ramblings#mindless ramblings of a madman#gravity falls#gf#gravity falls book#gravity falls show#gravity falls stanley#gravity falls stan pines#gravity falls dipper#gravity falls mabel#gravity falls dipper pines#gravity falls mabel pines#stan pines#stanley pines#dipper pines#dipper mason pines#mabel pines#dipper and mabel#mabel and dipper#dipper mabel and stan#and then they add Ford into their little group and it makes my heart grow even more in affection
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