#buy my book!

[gothiccharmschool]

Longtime listener, first time caller. It looks like the book you published through Harper Collins will be discounted at Amazon's Kindle store tomorrow (Feb. 29). I know that's 100% a publisher thing, not an author thing. I don't know if promoting such is a good thing or not for an author. Or if it's something to be shared with a select few. Questions well above my pay grade. I simply wanted you to know that it appears it will be on sale (probably in the $2-$5 range) in the Kindle store. If you look on Today's Deals, you'll see it listed as a Kindle deal that will start at 3:00 AM EST tomorrow. Big fan of your blog. Love your advice to the Young Ones. Love your supportive and encouraging presence out here, even as you want people to remember Their History and Roots. Like I said, an FYI for you to do what you want with. Take care.

It is?! I had no idea!

Promoting that sort of thing always helps the author! Book sales are book sales, and that is always good.

Hey folks! Did you know I wrote a book? Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them is available on all major bookseller sites, and can be ordered by your favorite indie bookseller!

The book was published in 2009, so some of the content is dated; I would love to write an updated version, but that depends on if I can talk HarperCollins into it.

[divinebunni]

// fixed tasty read link ~ my amazon ebook store // // free of //

[leviticus101st]

You could use the internet distractions for good. Like how I'm hijacking this tumblr post to promote my book.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DC8P2K23

if I had to see this while I literally was writing and being distracted by instagram (and now by tumblr since I am posting this instead of writing), y’all shall suffer the same fate

[bobauthorman]

Cardboard cut-out of Professor Port: Buy my book! Buy my book! Buy my book!

(Dr. Oobleck shoots the cut-out, silencing it)

Port: (Gasps)

Oobleck: Sorry, it had to be done.

Port: Why? All he said was, "Buy my book! Buy my book! Buy my book!"

Oobleck: (Aims Antiquity's Roast at Port)

Port: I'll be quiet.

[egophiliac]

since Eng is getting 7.5 soon(?), I felt motivated to go back to my Meleanor rig and make her a couple of lesson animations! ...except for alchemy, because the cauldron bubbles proved too hard to photoshop around, whoops.

maybe she just got lost on her way to the classroom...?

(credit: backgrounds are from the game, I just put her on top of 'em)

(aside from the backgrounds, this is not an edit, I drew her from scratch! please do not tag or treat as an edit!)

[stump-not-found]

A Lifetime Served in a Little Cup

pt.1 / pt.2 / pt.3 / pt.4

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bill, babygirl, the red flags get outta there

[deadpansal]

90% of social dysfunction can be solved with some Yes And.

why is so much of allistic humor just Lying -_-

[mo-mode]

The Biblically Accurate Trio in TLT

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[amnestyliketaz]

in honor of the nimona movie (it’s so good i’m gonna scream and cry for the next million years) i must share my favorite nimona art ever

drawn by ND stevenson ofc and posted on twitter a few years ago i believe

do i even have to SAY anything? the shark, it’s not rocket surgery, baby nimona, the DOMESTICITY of it all im gonna explode

UPDATE!!!! GAY DADS AU THREAD https://twitter.com/gingerhazing/status/1676058949504892928?s=46

[gothiccharmschool]

do you have (or know of) a crash course kind of post on goth culture for baby bats who have no idea where to start?

Oooh, shameless self promotion time, I love this! :: wink ::

You could get a copy of my book, Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them. Available at the usual large online bookstores, and independent bookstores can order it from HarperCollins.

The Never Ending Goth Debate and A Slight Reprise of the Never Ending Goth Debate on the Gothic Charm School site may also be useful.

Finally, back in 2009 when preparing for the book launch, I recorded some videos! (Featuring Dark Decorum, the Gothic Charm School theme song by Celadon!)

I hope that helps! Thank you for prompting me to do some self promotion.

[benevolenterrancy]

honestly. if you decided to create giant fucking corpse-head-spiders to populate your world with then this is exactly what you deserve.

[hearts-a-heavy-burden]

Am I the only one who feels spoiled by reading Tamora Pierce as a child and then never finding something that hit quite the same? She really had it all. One of the only authors I’ve seen do multiple generations well (because the previous generations aren’t just offed or all of their progress backtracked). Ambient vs scholarly magic systems is still one of the coolest magic systems to this day. The friendships are perfect and just the right amount of romance to make it fun. Redemption stories that fit the characters and don’t make them perfect angels even as they grow for the better. Tragic regression stories that haunt the characters (and me).

[horseonvhs]

[EDIT FROM FUTURE PREORDERS ARE NOW CLOSED THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT] ATTENTION PRINT MEDIA ENJOYERS: Nothing Doing #1 is now available for preorder!! This 24 page b/w minicomic collects the first 20 strips, and will only be available from now til 12:30pm EST on Thursday, October 10. Books should start shipping around mid-late November. Get your copy here!!!

[proselles]

Getting older is realizing bill cipher was sexier as a triangle anyway.

[vaspider]

If you have celiac or otherwise can't eat wheat, btw, and you like bread, I highly recommend investing in a breadmaker. Even the best store-bought gluten-free bread does not hold a candle to the stuff that comes out of our breadmaker, and it's cheaper per slice even when we buy bread mix in single-loaf bags.

This is our breadmaker. Evie got it on sale, but it is an investment. I'm not going to pretend it isn't a chunk of change up front. There are cheaper ones, but the reason I like this one and think it's worth the money:

It has two smaller paddles, where our older bread maker that my mom got us and got destroyed by getting construction dust in it had one big paddle in the middle. This leaves a big hole in the middle of the finished loaf, which makes the bread much less useful for, like, sandwiches.

Zojirushi is not as well-known a brand in the US, but it's a Brand Name in Japan for good reason. Evie's had our Zojirushi rice cooker for over a decade & we had to replace the inner bowl once bc someone used metal utensils in it and scratched the non-stick coating. We expect to use this machine for at least a decade.

You can program your own cycles, which we found really useful. Evie built a custom cycle that removed the punch-down sections (gluten-free bread tends not to rise as much) and that made our perfect loaf.

A lot of bread machines produce very tall, square loaves, which are awkward to slice, store, and make sandwiches with. This produces loaves that make good sandwiches and toast, and the French toast slices don't crowd the pan.

The top heating element on this gives a really amazingly browned top crust that we definitely didn't get on our old machine.

It's so pretty.

So how is it cheaper in the long run if the machine costs $300+? A little like this:

We use Pamela's Bread Mix bc it's really consistent and easy - you need the bread mix, water, yeast, 3 egg whites, and oil. (We use avocado oil and find it best and most consistent, but regular vegetable oil works!) We buy Pamela's in bulk, and without any subscription discounts or whatever, the $48 pack of 3 bags makes about 11.5 loaves. With the cost of yeast and eggs and stuff, it ends up costing about $4.50 a loaf. (If you buy your yeast in larger bags & store it in an airtight container, you can create less waste and it's also cheaper.)

By comparison, a loaf of Franz GF Bread costs $7-8, and Canyon Bakehouse usually runs about the same.

However, that's not an apples to apples comparison because the Franz loaf is an 18 oz. loaf, whereas our breadmaker makes a 2 lb. loaf. Assuming even the lower-end cost for getting a Franz loaf at the store, an equivalent amount of bread would cost $12.42, and it's not nearly as good.

(Yes, gluten-free bread is fucking expensive. That's part of why I'm writing this post in the first place.)

Anyway, assuming you eat 2 lbs. of bread a week in your house - a breadmaker loaf, basically, to make the math simple - you'll end up spending $7.92 less on bread every week. That means that even at the most expensive cost for the Zojirushi, if you buy it at its highest price (don't do that! wait for a sale!) it'll take 50 weeks - about a year - before the breadmaker pays for itself. If you manage to get it on a 25% off sale (which we did), it pays for itself in about 9 months.

Nine months, I must stress, in which you are eating much more delicious bread.

We tend to go through a couple of loaves a week because toast, sandwiches, and melts are great food for people with low spoons.

Evie and I perfected the Pamela's mix recipe for this particular machine - I'll get it typed up when I'm downstairs next, along with the quasi-babka recipe. (Really, it's like a marble cake and babka and bread had a baby, and it's a family favorite.)

Bread good. The end.