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[icarus-suraki]

No, you know what? While I'm all fired up about modern art and outsider art, let me introduce you to the works of James Hampton.

Pictured above is his monumental Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.

With scant education and no formal art education, James Hampton made these pieces out of his intense religious fervor and his own desire to create:

In 1950, Hampton rented a garage on 7th street in northwest Washington [DC]. Over the next 14 years, Hampton built a complex work of religious art inside the garage with various scavenged materials such as aluminum and gold foil, old furniture, pieces of cardboard, light bulbs, jelly jars, shards of mirror and desk blotters held together with tacks, glue, pins and tape. The complete work consists of 180 objects, many of them inscribed with quotes from the Book of Revelation. The centerpiece of the exhibit is a throne, seven feet tall, built on the foundation of an old maroon-cushioned armchair with the words "Fear Not" at its crest. The throne is flanked by dozens of altars, crowns, lecterns, tablets and winged pulpits. Wall plaques on the left bear the name of apostles and those on the right list various biblical patriarchs and prophets such as Abraham and Ezekiel. The text The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly was written on the objects in Hampton's handwriting.

He constructed all his pieces from materials he found or scavenged himself, "such as aluminum and gold foil, old furniture, pieces of cardboard, light bulbs, jelly jars, shards of mirror and desk blotters held together with tacks, glue, pins and tape."

It's not clear if Hampton himself regarded himself as an artist, a visionary, a prophet, or none of the above. His work, however, is regarded as art in the same way that Michelangelo's Pieta is regarded as art: art of a religious subject or concept.

He also "kept a 108-page loose-leaf notebook titled St James: The Book of the 7 Dispensation. Most of the text was written in an unknown script that remains undeciphered. ... Some of the text was accompanied by notes in English in Hampton's handwriting. In the notebook, Hampton referred to himself as St. James with the title 'Director, Special Projects for the State of Eternity' and ended each page with the word 'Revelation'."

The art was not discovered until after Hampton's death in 1964, when the owner of the garage, Meyer Wertlieb, came to find out why the rent had not been paid. He knew that Hampton had been building something in the garage. When he opened the door, he found a room filled with the artwork. Hampton had kept his project secret from most of his friends and family. His relatives first heard about it when his sister came to claim his body. When Hampton's sister refused to take the artwork, the landlord placed an advertisement in local newspapers. Ed Kelly, a sculptor, answered the advertisement and was so astounded by the exhibit, he contacted art collector Alice Denney. Denney brought art dealers Leo Castelli and Ivan Karp, and artist Robert Rauschenberg, to see the exhibit in the garage. Harry Lowe, the assistant director of the Smithsonian Art Museum, told the Washington Post that walking into the garage "was like opening Tut's tomb."

His work is now on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

[cyarsk52-20]

congratulations Grammy nominees

Grammys 2025: Here Are the Nominees

BY: Walker

Published 16 seconds ago

It’s music’s biggest night! Or it will be on February 2, 2025, when the 67th Annual Grammy Awards take place inside Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The 2025 Grammy nominations were announced on today (November 8).

Check out the full list of 2025 Grammy nominees below. 

Pop Solo Performance

“BODYGUARD” Beyoncé “Espresso” Sabrina Carpenter “Apple” Charli xcx “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” Billie Eilish “Good Luck, Babe!” Chappell Roan

Pop Duo/Group Performance

“us.” Gracie Abrams Featuring Taylor Swift “LEVII’S JEANS” Beyoncé Featuring Post Malone “Guess” Charli xcx & Billie Eilish “the boy is mine” Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica “Die With A Smile” Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars

Dance Pop Recording

“Make You Mine”Madison Beer Madison Beer & Leroy Clampitt, producers; Mitch McCarthy, mixer “Von dutch” Charli xcx Finn Keane, producer; Tom Norris, mixer “L’AMOUR DE MA VIE [OVER NOW EXTENDED EDIT]” Billie Eilish Billie Eilish & FINNEAS, producers; Jon Castelli & Aron Forbes, mixers “yes, and?’ Ariana Grande Ariana Grande, ILYA & Max Martin, producers; Serban Ghenea, mixer “Got Me Started” Troye Sivan Ian Kirkpatrick, producer; Alex Ghenea, mixer

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

Jessi Alexander

Amy Allen

Edgar Barrera

Jessie Jo Dillon

RAYE

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Alissia

Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II

Ian Fitchuk

Mustard

Daniel Nigro

Rock Album

Happiness Bastards The Black Crowes Romance Fontaines D.C. Saviors Green Day TANGK IDLES

Dark Matter Pearl Jam Hackney Diamonds The Rolling Stones No Name Jack White

Alternative Music Performance

“Neon Pill” Cage The Elephant “Song Of The Lake” Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Starburster” Fontaines D.C. “BYE BYE” Kim Gordon “Flea” St. Vincent

Best New Artist

Benson Boone Sabrina Carpenter Doechii Khruangbin RAYE Chappell Roan Shaboozey Teddy Swims

R&B Performance

“Guidance” Jhené Aiko “Residuals” Chris Brown “Here We Go (Uh Oh)” Coco Jones “Made For Me (Live On BET)” Muni Long “Saturn” SZA

R&B Album

11:11 (Deluxe) Chris Brown VANTABLACK Lalah Hathaway Revenge Muni Long Algorithm Lucky Daye Coming Home Usher

Melodic Rap Performance

KEHLANI Jordan Adetunji Featuring Kehlani SPAGHETTII Beyoncé Featuring Linda Martell & Shaboozey We Still Don’t Trust You Future & Metro Boomin Featuring The Weeknd Big Mama Latto 3:AM Rapsody Featuring Erykah Badu

Musical Theater Album

Hell’s Kitchen Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis & Meleah Joi Moon, principal vocalists; Adam Blackstone, Alicia Keys & Tom Kitt, producers (Alicia Keys, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast) Merrily We Roll Along Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez & Daniel Radcliffe, principal vocalists; David Caddick, Joel Fram, Maria Friedman & David Lai, producers (Stephen Sondheim, composer & lyricist) (New Broadway Cast) The Notebook John Clancy, Carmel Dean, Kurt Deutsch, Derik Lee, Kevin McCollum & Ingrid Michaelson, producers; Ingrid Michaelson, composer & lyricist (Original Broadway Cast) The Outsiders Joshua Boone, Brent Comer, Brody Grant & Sky Lakota-Lynch, principal vocalists; Zach Chance, Jonathan Clay, Matt Hinkley, Justin Levine & Lawrence Manchester, producers; Zach Chance, Jonathan Clay & Justin Levine, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast) Suffs Andrea Grody, Dean Sharenow & Shaina Taub, producers; Shaina Taub, composer & lyricist (Original Broadway Cast) The Wiz Wayne Brady, Deborah Cox, Nichelle Lewis & Avery Wilson, principal vocalists; Joseph Joubert, Allen René Louis & Lawrence Manchester, producers (Charlie Smalls, composer & lyricist) (2024 Broadway Cast Recording)

Country Solo Performance

16 CARRIAGES Beyoncé I Am Not Okay Jelly Roll The Architect Kacey Musgraves A Bar Song (Tipsy) Shaboozey It Takes A Woman Chris Stapleton

Country Album

COWBOY CARTER Beyoncé F-1 Trillion Post Malone Deeper Well Kacey Musgraves Higher Chris Stapleton Whirlwind Lainey Wilson

Song of the Year

A Bar Song (Tipsy) Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Chibueze Collins Obinna, Nevin Sastry & Mark Williams, songwriters (Shaboozey)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish O’Connell & FINNEAS, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

Die With A Smile Dernst Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars)

Fortnight Jack Antonoff, Austin Post & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone)

Good Luck, Babe! Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, Daniel Nigro & Justin Tranter, songwriters (Chappell Roan)

Not Like Us Kendrick Lamar, songwriter (Kendrick Lamar)

Please Please Please Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter)

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro & Raphael Saadiq, songwriters (Beyoncé)

Gospel Performance/Song

Church Doors Yolanda Adams; Donald Lawrence & Sir William James Baptist, songwriters

Yesterday Melvin Crispell III

Hold On (Live) Ricky Dillard

Holy Hands DOE; Jesse Paul Barrera, Jeffrey Castro Bernat, Dominique Jones, Timothy Ferguson, Kelby Shavon Johnson, Jr., Jonathan McReynolds, Rickey Slikk Muzik Offord & Juan Winans, songwriters

One Hallelujah Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Erica Campbell & Israel Houghton Featuring Jonathan McReynolds & Jekalyn Carr; G. Morris Coleman, Israel Houghton, Kenneth Leonard, Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Naomi Raine, songwriters

Latin Pop Album

Funk Generation Anitta

El Viaje Luis Fonsi

GARCÍA Kany García

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran Shakira

ORQUÍDEAS Kali Uchis

Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)

Diamantes Chiquis

Boca Chueca, Vol. 1 Carín León

ÉXODO Peso Pluma

De Lejitos Jessi Uribe

African Music Performance

Tomorrow Yemi Alade

MMS Asake & Wizkid

Sensational Chris Brown Featuring Davido & Lojay

Higher Burna Boy

Love Me JeJe Tems

Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

American Fiction Laura Karpman, composer

Challengers Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, composers

The Color Purple Kris Bowers, composer

Dune: Part Two Hans Zimmer, composer

Sh?gun Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross, composers

Song Written for Visual Media

Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma [From “Twisters: The Album”] Jessi Alexander, Luke Combs & Jonathan Singleton, songwriters (Luke Combs)

Better Place [From “TROLLS Band Together”] Amy Allen, Shellback & Justin Timberlake, songwriters (*NSYNC & Justin Timberlake)

Can’t Catch Me Now [From “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”] Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters (Olivia Rodrigo)

It Never Went Away [From “American Symphony”] Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson, songwriters (Jon Batiste)

Love Will Survive [From “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”] Walter Afanasieff, Charlie Midnight, Kara Talve & Hans Zimmer, songwriters (Barbra Streisand)

Record of the Year

“Now and Then” The Beatles

Giles Martin & Paul McCartney, producers; Geoff Emerick, Steve Genewick, Jon Jacobs, Greg McAllister, Steve Orchard, Keith Smith, Mark ‘Spike’ Stent & Bruce Sugar, engineers/mixers; Miles Showell, mastering engineer

“TEXAS HOLD ‘EM” Beyoncé

Beyoncé, Nate Ferraro, Killah B & Raphael Saadiq, producers; Hotae Alexander Jang, Alex Nibley & Stuart White, engineers/mixers; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer

“Espresso” Sabrina Carpenter

Julian Bunetta, producer; Julian Bunetta & Jeff Gunnell, engineers/mixers; Nathan Dantzler, mastering engineer

“360” Charli XCX

Cirkut & A. G. Cook, producers; Cirkut & Manny Marroquin, engineers/mixers; Idania Valencia, mastering engineer

“BIRDS OF A FEATHER” Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish & FINNEAS, producers; Thom Beemer, Jon Castelli, Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, Aron Forbes, Brad Lauchert & Chaz Sexton, engineers/mixers; Dale Becker, mastering engineer

“Not Like Us” Kendrick Lamar

Mustard, Sean Momberger & Sounwave, producers; Ray Charles Brown Jr. & Johnathan Turner, engineers/mixers; Nicolas de Porcel, mastering engineer

“Good Luck, Babe!” Chappell Roan

Dan Nigro, producer; Mitch McCarthy & Dan Nigro, engineers/mixers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

“Fortnight” Taylor Swift f/ Post Malone

Jack Antonoff, Louis Bell & Taylor Swift, producers; Louis Bell, Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea, Sean Hutchinson, Oli Jacobs, Michael Riddleberger & Laura Sisk, engineers/mixers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

Album of the Year

New Blue Sun André 3000

André 3000 & Carlos Niño, producers; André 3000, Carlos Niño & Ken Oriole, engineers/mixers; André 3000, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau & Carlos Niño, songwriters; Andy Kravitz, mastering engineer

COWBOY CARTER Beyoncé

Beyoncé, Terius “The-Dream” Gesteelde-Diamant & Dave Hamelin, producers; Matheus Braz, Brandon Harding, Hotae Alexander Jang, Dani Pampuri & Stuart White, engineers/mixers; Ryan Beatty, Beyoncé, Camaron Ochs, Terius “The-Dream” Gesteelde-Diamant, Dave Hamelin, S. Carter & Raphael Saadiq, songwriters; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer

Short n’ Sweet Sabrina Carpenter

Jack Antonoff, Julian Bunetta, Ian Kirkpatrick & John Ryan, producers; Bryce Bordone, Julian Bunetta, Serban Ghenea, Jeff Gunnell, Oli Jacobs, Manny Marroquin, John Ryan & Laura Sisk, engineers/mixers; Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff, Julian Bunetta, Sabrina Carpenter, Ian Kirkpatrick, Julia Michaels & John Ryan, songwriters; Nathan Dantzler & Ruairi O’Flaherty, mastering engineers

BRAT Charli xcx

Charli xcx, Cirkut & A. G. Cook, producers; A. G. Cook, Tom Norris & Geoff Swan, engineers/mixers; Charlotte Aitchison, Henry Walter, Alexander Guy Cook, Finn Keane & Jonathan Christopher Shave, songwriters; Idania Valencia, mastering engineer

Djesse Vol. 4 Jacob Collier

Jacob Collier, producer; Ben Bloomberg, Jacob Collier & Paul Pouwer, engineers/mixers; Jacob Collier, songwriter; Chris Allgood & Emily Lazar, mastering engineers

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish & FINNEAS, producers; Thom Beemer, Jon Castelli, Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, Aron Forbes, Brad Lauchert & Chaz Sexton, engineers/mixers; Billie Eilish O’Connell & FINNEAS, songwriters; Dale Becker, mastering engineer

Chappell Roan The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess Chappell Roan Daniel Nigro, producer; Mitch McCarthy & Daniel Nigro, engineers/mixers; Daniel Nigro & Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, songwriters; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift

Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner & Taylor Swift, producers; Zem Audu, Bella Blasko, Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea, David Hart, Mikey Freedom Hart, Sean Hutchinson, Oli Jacobs, Jonathan Low, Michael Riddleberger, Christopher Rowe, Laura Sisk & Evan Smith, engineers/mixers; Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner & Taylor Swift, songwriters; Randy Merrill, mastering enginee

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[nanuthoughts]

♡₊˚ 🦢・₊✧entry January 7. ♡₊˚ 🦢・₊✧

I started reading again after so many months: "The Revolution is an eternal dream) by Andrés Rivera.

¿Acaso hay alguna revolución que pueda compensar la pena de los hombres o se trata de un sueño imposible?

Los turbulentos días de mayo de 1810 han quedado lejos. Tras ser uno de los representantes de la Primera Junta y el gran orador de la revolución, Juan José Castelli está confinado en su casa, derrotado como hombre político y consumido por una enfermedad que lo llevará a la muerte. Con las pocas fuerzas que le quedan escribe ahora, en un cuaderno de tapas rojas, sus pensamientos y recuerdos. Ya no hay lugar para las acaloradas polémicas entre adversarios. Es que “el invierno llega a las puertas de una ciudad que extermina la utopía pero no su memoria”. Y ese deseo malogrado de forjar entre todos un país libre y justo se convertirá en la obsesión de sus últimos días: ¿acaso hay alguna revolución que pueda compensar la pena de los hombres o se trata, simplemente, de un sueño imposible?

Trad: Is there any revolution that can compensate for men's pain or is it an impossible dream?

The turbulent days of May 1810 are long gone. After being one of the representatives of the First Junta and the great orator of the revolution, Juan José Castelli is confined to his house, defeated as a political man and consumed by an illness that will lead to his death. With the little strength he has left he now writes, in a red-covered notebook, his thoughts and memories. There is no longer any room for heated controversies between adversaries. It is that “winter arrives at the doors of a city that exterminates utopia but not its memory.” And that ill-fated desire to forge a free and fair country among all will become the obsession of his last days: is there any revolution that can compensate for the pain of men or is it simply an impossible dream?

[justchalametthings]

Did I really spend a stupid amount on a notebook to have the same one as Timmy?

You bet I fuckin did 😂😂

(Spotted in WH Smith's randomly)

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[bmwiid]

My work have sent a wee 'care' package around I know a lot of people dislike energy companies - employees also dislike em - although my company does not PRODUCE energy, it sells it, and the energy it sells is mostly renewable (you pay more for it, but its better) but I will say, getting little... gifts?... to make working / life a little easier is really nice!

I've always said i like my job so i feel okay in posting this, but they sent out like, this box with all eco-friendly things in it and a card explaining HOW they are eco friendly.

So I got a ceramic mug with the logo lazered on it, because thats actually better than getting inks and filters AND it uses less electricity - and a 100% cork mat to put it on.

A stainless steel water bottle by Black & Blum (who are very eco aware, I love their stuff)

A 100% recycled hardback notebook by Castelli Samoa (zero plastic content and completely re-recyclable)

A Bio-plastic pen that offers a lifetime of free refills (senator nature plus) and most of it is made from sugar cane (? that is so cool ?)

and a charger called Mr Bio that is made from wheat-straw and tyvec paper (the paper that your festival wristbands are made of) and it's got like... 5 different ports to charge shit.

I haven't seen anything like this before and I think it's really cool!

Anyway, on top of this, the box all this stuff came in isn't branded, so it cuts down on ink and filters, the courier they used to deliver is carbon neutral and the card inside is 100% chlorine free and 'infinitely recyclable'

Anyway, I think it's really important to kinda... notice and shout out when a large company does something really nice for it's employees AND when they take into consideration the actual ethics they preach?

Like one of my work perks was getting to plant trees to offset my carbon footprint, and I added some more because I do think that every little helps, and I'm actually carbon negative now without having to change anything in my day-to-day (I drive less because I don't commute to work, I recycle my paper, I eat mostly veggies out of ease)...

Like... it was really NICE of them to send a gift, but it's also really nice to see them actually DO the thing they advertise. Like it feels not like lip service?

[finalfantasyandnerdiness]

🌸 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not 🌸

Huh. Hm.

I have a wall in my apartment that's covered with dozens of extremely random pictures. Ugly selfies with friends, blurry pictures of people in the middle of doing something, saved snapchats with text and everything, those kinds of pictures. It's a total mess, but every photo represents a happy memory caught on camera. I love that wall.

I'm a total snob when it comes to pens and notebooks. If I'm going to get some productive writing done by hand, I need my Ballograf Epoca pens and my Castelli notebooks.

I'm not only a sleep talker, but also, apparently, a self-aware sleep talker. According to my boyfriend, I often wake him up in the middle of the night by saying something incomprehensible, followed up by a slightly more comprehensible "nevermind, I'm sleep talking", and then I'm out again.

Yup. Random facts.

[new-sandrafilter]

Rachel Ruysch  A Vase of Flowers (1706)

Castelli  We have been making paper notebooks and diaries in Bergamo, Italy for over 50 years.

[meatmarionette]

4, 9, 11, 18, 29, and 33 for CONNOR please i need to know more about viv’s depressed dad

LOL thank u sm ami. but connor isn’t depressed :) he’s doing great :) idk why you’d say that :)

4. would your character sing along to a vaguely familiar song, even if they messed up the lyrics as they went?

OH yes. connor likes to sing bc he loves the sound of his own voice. i think he has a good repertoire of songs from marcenza about being a dashing little rogue or taunting the cops that are pretty fresh in his mind, but his favorites are the songs he heard in castelly when he was a kid that he only half-remembers. so he probably does this often

9. if someone gave them flowers, what would they do with them?

completely depends on the person. for the most part he'd probably just drop them in a gutter on the way home LOL. the exception to this is if the flowers are a useful ingredient for beverages, recreational drugs, or poisons, in which case he would grind them up and use them. if he liked the person, he'd make a show of gratitude but do the same thing if they aren't useful. but if it was someone he really loved he'd hang onto them for a while, and probably sketch them in his notebook before they get too old and crumbly and fall apart

11. how do they feel about casual endearments? (babe, etc)

words like babe, love, sweetheart etc are alien to him. he's never in his life been called by them. connor also generally does not want to be referred to with any kind of diminutive. just use his name. if the love is in your voice he will hear it. however, nicknames are his only language of casual endearment. even though he usually doesn't like when he gets a nickname, connor loves to GIVE them to other people. they’re mostly of the shortened name variety because he's not that creative, but words like 'kid' or 'pal' or 'buddy' or even ‘bastard’ also count, and can be very full of love. the issue is that these same words can also be a taunt or threat so it’s hard to tell

18. would they sing a lullaby, if the opportunity arose?

aw. i think yes. he might be a bit bashful about it because the man is mildly allergic to / not especially practiced in tenderness, but he would do it for someone he loves

29.  if they wear any, where did they get their jewelry?

connor has a ton of rings, necklaces, and the gold hoop he has in his ear. i think most of them he stole from random houses in marcenza. some of them were given to him by friends, after also being stolen from random houses in marcenza. I think a lot of them have some story attached to them. like, look, this nice garnet ring I swiped on the job where i fell in the canal from the fourth story window and got dragged out of the water in some fishwife's net, and thank the gods for that, she saved my stupid ass, now THIS pretty little chain was from the job where we forgot to check for dogs first....blah blah blah ad infinitum

33. where are they in a group hug? (dead center, outside, etc)

very outside and the last to join. it’s bad form to expose your back!

[serenityyou]

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#moleskine #castelli #leuchtturm my top 3 (in reverse order) _ #HarryPotter @moleskine looks pretty cool, but still, Black&Gold Castelli is still the prettiest #notebook I've ever seen. and @leuchtturm1917 - the base. in perfect army green colour. #perfectNotebooks #stationeryaddict #bujo #BulletJournal #journaling #NaJoWriMo

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 Branded Notebooks,  Branded Castelli Notebooks

[perfect-notebooks]

Castelli Baroque from Black & Gold series

It’s one of the most beautiful notebooks I’ve ever seen!

[theinkstainsblog]

10 Questions Tag

I was tagged by the wonderful @git-writing-good for this one, thanks!

1) Day writer or night writer?

Mostly a night writer as I’m not the best at going to bed at a reasonable time but I carry notebooks around so I can write anytime, anywhere.

2) Coffee, tea, or other?

Tea! I will drink coffee and hot chocolate is wonderful but tea will always be my one true love.

3) What’s the most you ever wrote in a day?

Not sure exactly, probably about 2k during nanowrimo.

4) What is your least favourite book?

Oooh damn, tough question. Probably The Roanoke Girls - it romanticises incest so fucking much and at the end blame the rapist’s wife (who was like 17 when she met him and has clearly been manipulated and gaslighted herself) for him raping their daughters. Like what?? He gets away with it cause he’s handsome but she gets arrested, its the worst.

5)  Which writing program do you prefer? Or if you don’t own a computer, your preferred medium of writing in general? (Journal, Typewriter, Backs of Envelopes, etc.)

I use Google Docs when I’m on my laptop but I much prefer good old-fashioned journals. Moleskine and Castelli are my favourite brands. 

6) What’s your zodiac star sign?

Sagittarius. 

7) Pineapple on pizza: good or bad?

Good!

8) Emojis: cute or tacky?

A bit of both!

9) What is the one thing about your WIP you think will be the strongest selling point of your book?

How character driven they are as well as witches and faeries and other magic in the modern world (urban fantasy still seems pretty popular). But mostly that it’s queer af, we need the rep.

10) Do you have any signed books? If not, which book in your possession would you most like to be signed?

Nope unfortunately not. But I would kill to meet Neil Gaiman and have him sign any of my books by him. 

Tagging: @quillwritten @koalascribbles @draconako

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[ivy-brevity]

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