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🎉 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY 🎉

Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers

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Thank you SO much to the author for letting me read an advanced copy of this book.

Ruby Landers is easily one of my favourite authors and this book absolutely cemented that fact. It was fantastic, gripping from start to end.

I ADORED Lara as a character. She was just utterly brilliant. She just has so many layers underneath that prickly, ice queen exterior. I loved the gradual way she softened towards Ollie and I loved the way we slowly got to see more of her just as Ollie did.

Ollie was another brilliant character. She had so much going on in her personal life and I was so glad she made the right decision for her. Watching her find joy again made my heart swell.

There’s such a wealth of wonderful, fascinating side characters in this book too, from Tilly, Lara’s daughter, to Ollie’s Nona.

The romance absolutely consumed me. Proper enemies to lovers. The barbed comments as flirting, the push and pull, the insults delivered with just a hint of a smile. It was all utter perfection.

There’s some really heavy topics in this book, especially surrounding violence against women at the hands of men, and I felt it was really well handled. Everything from small town gossip to the reality of peoples lives felt incredibly realistic but also incredibly compassionate.

I really can’t recommend this book enough. I may love it even more than Falls From Grace.

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#2634 - Plagianthus regius - Lowland Ribbonwood

AKA mānatu and manaui mānatu. Synonyms include Philippodendrum regium, Plagianthus betulinus and Plagianthus urticinus. The binomial means 'Royal Lopsided Flower'.

The juvenile plant has bushy, interlacing branches with small leaves, like many Aotearan plants of divaricating habit, but an older tree will have larger leaves.

Densely packed small white or green flowers distinguish from the similar lacebark genus that I discussed from Arthur's Pass.

New Zealand's largest deciduous trees growing to 17 metres, and found on North, South and Stewart Islands. Coastal to lower montane. Often a prominent tree in lowland alluvial forest, which would have included most of the Canterbury Plain before it all got cleared for farmland.

A subspecies from the Chatham Islands, Plagianthus regius subsp. chathamicus, is very similar but lacks the divaricating aspect, because the Chathams never had Moa.

The bark of the tree was used traditional textiles including fishing nets. Easily grown from seed, if you can find any that hasn't been damaged by insects, and fast-growing.

Timaru, Aotearoa New Zealand

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in December 2024 🌈

Find these books and more here.

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

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❤️ Sugar-Coated Kisses - Echo Lark 🧡 Christmas at Watson Memorial - Clara Ann Simons 💛 Warm-Blooded - J Greene 💚 It Takes Three To Tango - Jem Wendel 💙 The Black Curse - N.A. Moore 💜 Heavenly Tyrant - Xiran Jay Zhao ❤️ Encrypted Hearts - E.V. Bancroft 🧡 Dangerous Devotion - Robin Jo Margaret 💛 Sew in Love - Rhea Fox 💙 Saint - Chani Lynn Feener 💜 Her Ladyship's Christmas Companion - Theresa Meiningen 🌈 A Sky of Emerald Stars - A.K. Mulford

❤️ Inked in Blood and Memory - Allison Ivy 🧡 The Key - Jo Morgan Sloan 💛 Home Between Homes - Flynn Woods 💚 A Kiss for the Holidays - C.S. Autumn 💙 Loving the Linebacker - Amaya Knight 💜 Close to Home - Allisa Bahney ❤️ Christmas Shelter - Eva Gonzay & Julia C. Brown 🧡 This Isn't Everything You Are - J. Marie Rundquist 💛 Keep It in the Dark - Justin Arnold 💙 Santa & His Elf - Bink Cummings 💜 On the Subject of Kittens and Mittens - Katie Silverwings 🌈 Winter's Whisper - M Bonneau

❤️ Boyfriends - refrainbow 🧡 Innis Harbor - Patricia Evans 💛 A Complementary Connection - Eskay Kabba 💚 Point of Sighs - Melissa Scott 💙 Bind You by Blood - Shepard DiStasio 💜 The Resurrectionist - A. Rae Dunlap ❤️ Fractured Dreamer - A.K. Adler 🧡 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💛 Becoming Disabled - Jan Doolittle Wilson 💙 A Caress of Water - Nico Silver 💜 How to Survive As a Villain 1 - Yi Yi Yi Yi 🌈 The Silent Concubine - Qiang Tang

❤️ Hadrian - Harlowe Savage 🧡 A Series of Rooms - A.J. Barlowe 💛 Inklings of Invisibility - S.L. Dove Cooper 💚 The Cobbler and His Elves - C.B. Wren 💙 A Nightclub for the Holidays - Arden Coutts 💜 Armor of Dusk - Jess Galaxie ❤️ Twisted Shadows - Allie Therin 🧡 A Deception of Courts - Ben Alderson 💛 Trial Run - Carsen Taite 💙 How to Flirt with a Witch - Tiana Warner 💜 Roughed Up - Kate Hawthorne 🌈 House of Crimson Curses - Ruby Roe

❤️ Sister Snake - Amanda Lee Koe 🧡 Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet - Samantha Allen 💛 The Rivals - Jane Pek 💚 Private Rites - Julia Armfield 💙 The Christmas Switch - Briar Prescott 💜 Ribbonwood - Ruby Landers ❤️ Shifting Lanes - Joanne Kwan 🧡 Twice-Spent Comet - Ziggy Schutz 💛 A Crush for the Holidays - E.L. Ough 💙 Resist - Lasairiona Lewis 💜 Free from Falling - E.L. Massey 🌈 The Legendary Master's Wife - Yin Ya

❤️ Tide Breaker's Curse - Ivy H. Marikova 🧡 Twist Her - Terri Ronald 💛 How to Fuck Like a Girl - Vera Blossom 💚 Dog Days of Christmas - Krystal Wolfgang & Kimberly Wolfgang 💙 Warmer, Colder - Alexia Onyx 💜 Salt in the Wind - Jenna Pine ❤️ What We Carry With Us - Joseff McKenneth Goodwin 🧡 Reinvention - Karol Yan 💛 Christmas Carols - Maxime Jaz 💙 I'm Not Your Pet - Fae Quin 💜 Something Extraordinary - Alexis Hall 🌈 I Might Be in Trouble - Daniel Aleman

❤️ Deck the Palms - Annabeth Albert 🧡 Don't Get It Twisted - Wren Taylor 💛 Ice & Sweet - Charlie Novak 💚 Speak EZ - Elle E. Ire 💙 The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish - Xue Shan Fei Hu 💜 Horns For Hell - Rafael Nicolás ❤️ Flamboyant Fictions - Ian Fleishman 🧡 Where the Heart Is - Jenni Simonis 💛 Sorry I Kissed Your Dad - Achilles King 💙 Merry Weihnachten - E.J. Noyes 💜 An Alpha for the Holidays - Emily Axon 🌈 The Blessed - Anne Shade

❤️ Our Sinful Love - Amy H. 🧡 Gambler's Conceit - Adara Wolf & R. Phoenix 💛 Fate and Flambe - Leena Metcalfe 💚 Figure You Out - Hannah Danielle & K.F. Starfell 💙 Amaranthine - Aricka Alexander 💜 Twisted Loyalties - Barbara J. Webb ❤️ Echoes of Us - Alex Cross 🧡 The Shadowbearer's Curse - Jasmyn Morning 💛 Too Many Beds - Various 💙 We Are the Beasts - Gigi Griffis 💜 Unspoken - N.N. Britt 🌈 Rainbows After Storms - Luka Kobachi

❤️ The Shutouts - Gabrielle Korn 🧡 Robin's Worlds - Rainie Oet & Mathias Ball 💛 What the Woods Took - Courtney Gould 💚 Rescue Me - N. Slater 💙 Seb & Ailin - Michele Notaro 💜 The International Love Story - Jonas Noelting ❤️ Waterlogged - Nance Sparks 🧡 The Guardians - Sheri Lewis Wohl 💛 The Changeling's Faerie Prince - K.D. Ellis 💙 Until at Dawn We Wake - Charlotte Dalwood 💜 How to Get a Life in Ten Dates - Jenny L. Howe 🌈 Hammajang Luck - Makana Yamamoto

❤️ The Rules of Royalty - Cale Dietrich 🧡 Tired of Waiting for Tomorrow - Allison K. Garcia 💛 One Last Run - Bryce Oakley 💚 Reckless Hearts - Jax Calder 💙 Christmissed - Blythe H. Warren 💜 How Could You - Ren Strapp ❤️ Blackened - Tyler Briggs 🧡 Gratification in Gluttony - Nik Knight 💛 The Mogul Meets Her Match - Julia Underwood 💙 How to Be Heard - Roxane Gay 💜 The Case of the Missing Maid - Rob Osler 🌈 Shades of Us - D.L. Sims

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 13 August 2023

Flowering over a gateway of Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen, was this wonderful Hoheria glabrata (mountain ribbonwood). This tree is an endemic to new Zealand and one of the few deciduous trees on the Islands.

Jill Raggett

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#redshank #ribbonwood (at Cahuilla Mountain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYSiyjHFRkV/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Ribbonwood by Mary-Anne Mace on Ravelry

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Current WIP! Started 3 weekends ago, now powering into colour 4 of 10. Using a set of gradients shading from yellow through to purple.

We’re finished with the oranges now, and starting into the pinky hues of the clouds under a sunset sky via coral.

Pattern: Ribbonwood Blanket.

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Lepidoptera study - 05/01/21 - Pingasa chlora, “Flower-eating Caterpillar”

Taxonomy: Superfamily Geometroidea; Family Geometridae; Subfamily Geometrinae

The Caterpillar has yet to be photographed by me, but is in the source below.

The food plants include Euroschinus falcatus “Ribbonwood”,  Rhodomyrtus tomentosa “Rose Myrtle”, Flindersia schottiana “Silver Ash”, Trema tomentosa “Poison Peach”, and the caterpillar is a pest on Nepthelium lappaceum “Rambutan” and Litchi chinensis “Lychee”.

This species has been found across south-east Asia, including: Bali, Borneo, India, Macao, New Guinea, Philippines, and Thailand. As well as NT and QLD, Australia

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Strawberries are visiting Ribbonwood Cottage- I will admit time trying to make little strawberries- but after dropping a couple and watching them roll under the table I was done 😂🤣😇😍🍓🍓🍓🍓 it’s not like dropping a stapler or pencil at work 😂😳 it’s a tiny thing that rolls around and lands who knows where 🍓I did make miniature strawberry jam though. Just sayin’ #miniatureproblems #ribbonwoodcottage #strawberries #miniaturekitchen #dollhouse #dollhousefurniture #handmade #lovelylittleminiatures https://www.instagram.com/p/B9wX27NHK4v/?igshid=aux8kyczc2c5

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✨ NOVEMBER WRAPUP ✨

QOTD: What was your favourite read from November?

It’s SO hard to choose from my 5 star reads this month but I think it’s gotta be Heretic Behaviour by EC Glynn which is OUT TODAY! Seriously go buy a copy. You won’t be disappointed.

Total books finished: 21

DNF’s: 6

Pages read: 6,497

Hours listened: 63.23

Currently reading:

📖 Make My Wish Come True by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick (11%)

🎧 The Darkening by Sunya Mara (73%)

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-Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (reread) 🎧

-Heretic Behaviour by EC Glynn*

-We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

-Elizabeth of East Hampton by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding

-Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

-Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers*

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-All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny*

-A Little Village Blend by ‘Nathan Burgoine

-A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

-Until We Shatter by Kate Dylan

-Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao*

-Spice Road by Maia Ibrahim (reread) 🎧

-Serpent Sea by Maia Ibrahim*

-A Vocation of Violence by Kerrigan Byrne

-The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons (reread) 🎧

-The Cold Ever After by Jeremy Whitley

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-Our Ship Must Sail by Lin Lustig*

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-Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

-Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao

-Odd Spirits by ST Gibson 🎧*

-Of Knights and Books and Falling in Love by Rita A Rubin

DNF

-Unholy Terrors by Lyndall Clipstone (63%)

-The Great Library of Tomorrow by Rosalia Aguilar Solace * (3% - yep)

-Comes the Night by Isobelle Carmody* (16%)

-Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells* (27%)

-The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (44%)

-The Poppy War by RF Kuang (51%)

*indicates gifted product

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#2620 - Hoheria glabrata - Mountain Ribbonwood

With a background hanging valley and waterfall off in the distance. I probably should have framed the photo better.

AKA Mountain Lacebark, whauwhi, whauwhau.

The flowers, from near Aoraki/Mt Cook a few days later.

One of the very few deciduous trees in Aotearoa, found only on the South Island and mostly west of the main divide. Where it's creeped over onto the eastern side of the mountains it overlaps with Hoheria lyallii. It grows to about 10m in height, in open and disturbed habitat.

The fibrous underbark of both species - known collectively as Houi by the Māori and the source of the scientific name - was used as a textile.

The seeds are winged mericarps dispersed by wind, and the best method of propagation for the garden. An extremely attractive species, that prefers cooler climates, and damp soil in a sunny site.

Arthur's Pass, Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Love your Wind as a humming bird comic. Any ideas for what the others would change into?? (I think Time as a kitten or something adorable would be funny)

Thank you! Wind as a hummingbird is such a wonderful idea and I have to thank and give credit to @/winkwonkblog for the prompt! I didn't really do Wind as a hummingbird justice when it came to like, drawing him well, but I had fun playing with the idea of it.

As for dark world forms! The fandom's done a great job exploring this and I really like a lot of (at least what I think are?) the more common takes! My preferences have been influenced by all the pieces of fanart, fic, and discussion I've seen - so many pieces that are tried, true, and tested! - so I don't have much to add! I like what the fandom's come up with and enjoy seeing new interpretations. It's a great big collaboration with a bunch of coexisting ideas and I love that.

These are going to be familiar lol (and I'll include some recs too, as one does!)

Time - I agree that Time being a cat or something cute and fuzzy would be funny because it would clash so much with how he's presented in the comic! Let him be something soft and unassuming so he can use it to his advantage for shenanigans! Like Legend though, I think he'd dislike being so fragile. He needs claws or something. To be honest, the hero of time being a golden wolf has never really felt right to me. I see general oot/mm Link as more of an an owl or fox. However, his characterization in LU makes it fit and I appreciate that. It's gotten me to come around to it some.

Twi - Wolfie, yeah

Wild - coyote or deer

Sky - Remlit, goose, or dove (Failure and Fortitude by sister_dear and this art by luwyv, and Untitled Goose Fic by theScrap_Witch)

Warriors - Wars as a weasel or ferret! Something with very nice and pretty fur and very sharp teeth. The thought of Legend holding him up and slinkying him around is amusing. (it's much-too-late'o'clock for me so I get to make up words)

Legend - Rabbit (read this if you haven't !!!-> Not half Pawd by SongMina, as well as Tiny Adventures by Lightning of Farosh)

Four - Hummingbird, mouse, or cat (All of @/chrispy-chimkin's LU Wing AU! Just look at Four!!! Look at him!!! &lt;3 &lt;;3 <3 See also Feline Fatale by Seeking7 and Usagisama68)

Wind - Seagull! (Again, Chris' wing au, but also @/layraket's creatures gang, and A Pear and a Portal by glowingjellyfishtreelights)

Hyrule - I'm not really sure! My joke answer is an okapi. Maybe a badger! idk! he's a dragonfly-winged fairy idk about an animal form for him. A coyote or gray fox, a brown-colored medium sized bird, something like that. Sorry I don't have the most inspired answers haha. I imagine Hyrule's Hyrule (in Zelda 1) as california chaparral so I think he'd be some kind of creature that lives there. I can tell you what kind of tree he'd be!!! Hyrule would be a ribbonwood tree (aka redshanks)! Ribbonwood bounces back quickly after wildfires, with the leaves sprouting again even after being all burned off. The bark that falls away from the tree comes off in strips or "ribbons" that are soft but scratchy and brittle when dried out. that give the tree a kind of whipsy appearance. It's wild and wiggly (I'm all out of adjectives at the moment) and very much a part of the landscape, a piece that ties it all together. The smooth bark underneath is a deep red and cool to the touch. The earthy red and vivid yellowing-green color is suiting. If you cup the leaves in your hands and breathe on them they release a soft rain-like smell. I'm just really passionate about Hyrule and this tree and ecosystem ahsfdhas do you see the low shrubs and parched dirt and the scrambling rocks and the mountains!!! the dry and hot and high altitude and dense shrubbery impassable to find hidden paths through! so much green no stranger to fire!!!!

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the san jacinto chaparral in september... the ribbonwoods are blooming and it gives the palette of fall. still have that high desert evergreen as ever, though.

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Plant of the Day

Wednesday 8 July 2020

The magical white flowers of Hoheria glabrata (ribbon tree, ribbonwood) are covering the branches with a summer display. This deciduous woody perennial from New Zealand needs a sunny, sheltered location, this one was in a border by a wall. The plant normally forms a large, multi-stemmed specimen and is one of the few deciduous trees native to New Zealand.

Jill Raggett