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REVIEW: Rot And Ruin by Jonathan Maberry 

 2/5, I don't recommend this unless you really really love being morally beaten and reading about zombies. Easy to put down and doesn't really draw you in at all. Only finished it for the sake of finishing the review and seeing just how dumb the ending could possibly be.

 Alright I must have bad luck with books this year, cause just like the first book I read this year, this book sucked. This book would have been better if the first half of it didn't exist. The book doesn't get actually good until chapter 47. Everything before that is Moral throat stuffing, excessive talking and near pointless filler. The main over arching aspect of this book is morality, and the book beats you over the head with it. 

 For summary: The main character, Benny, is the younger sibling of Moral token hunter Tom. Everyone loves tom but the "evil" people because he is "Moral". Benny thinks he's weak but that's cause he doesn't know anything. All teens know nothing, all teens are bratty and childish. Benny had to get a job because he's 15 and eventually caved to being trained as a hunter by his brother. They go out into the rot and ruin and "everything changes". From there it's just a bunch of pointless talking, moral high ground and destroying a devious plot. The people behind the plot are evil, but only evil because of "morals". But at least destroying the devious plot is actually enjoyable to read and is the books only saving grace. 

 For characters: Benny is relatable only in that he doesn't want to work and is frustrated at being talked down to constantly and people sticking their heads in the sand. This only last a few chapters. Other than that Benny is weirdly immature for a 15 year old. It's off putting. Seriously he sounds more like a 9/10 year old. Not only that but he's a bratty egotistical nosey 10 year old. He goes from being cold, calm and tough kid. To being a weak emotional mess that bares almost no resemblance to the previous person. Unless everyone now has emotional disorders this makes no sense and is emotional manipulation by the author and moral baiting for the readers. "If you act immoral you will be destroyed by emotions" *eyeroll*. Benny loves hearing gory stories from Charlie about torturing and killing zombies but then turns around and gags at it? This doesn't make any sense. Tom, now no one ever shuts the hell up about tom. The entire book. He is a high as twenty horses morally righteous sword wielding sunshine glowing behind his head role model. I don't like him. He babies the hell out of Benny and constantly is right about everything. The lost girl, she has a name but that would spoil things. Best character in the book. Insane, crazy, weird, tough and free. Of course that goes away when the righteous good moral guy gets involved. However she is completely out of place in the book. A book entirely about her and her expirences would be fantastic. Charlie is a badass but of course badass tough people must be evil. That's all there is to his character. Nix is just a token love interest and her BOOBIES are talked about more than she's in the book. 

 Stereotypes: There's a fair amount of these and the book treats all these stereotypes as if they are totally true. (Hint most of them are rarely to never true.) * The "girl has BOOBS, so she's a girl now" thus "I feel awkward around her now" stereotype. Very annoying stereotype at that. * "Well your not a girl so you couldn't understand" Cringe. * "These teens don't understand how the world works" and the book treats this tope as if it's a constany true thing. This is infuriating and insulting. * Of course cool badass tough dudes are "evil" people *eye roll* * Our generation messed everything up, your generation has to fix it. See at least this stereotype is true in the real world but it's framed horribly in the book. 

For world building and story telling: A couple of the chapters are just a page long and others are over 20 long. Frankly chapters should be at least reasonably the same length. One chapter is just a page devoted to "old Benny wouldn't have done this" being repeated in different ways plus he's on a horse. One chapter is just about children smiling creepily. Sure I enjoyed it but still, an entire chapter? One entire page is just filled up with one person talking, no breaks. This is not how your write a book. The author choose to go right from a traumatised emotion wreck of a kid weeping to a joke about zombie playing cards (collect them all!) this book doesn't know what it wants to be. It makes no sense for a boy who's just been traumatised by zombies and now sees them as people to immediately buy some zombie trading cards that's not how trauma works. A news reporter has shot themselves on camera in real life before. No one I knew said or thought "oh god". It was more like "wow" "hahaha" "well then" "that was neat" that's how a real teenager responds. Spends a long time trying to build a relationship between Benny and tom and tring to make the reader feel close to and attached to tom. It doesn't work at all. The build up to the romance and relationship thing is painfully obvious and doesn't feel remoelty "real". The two second love triangle is creepy and is obviously there for no other reason than tension. The entire relationship/romance thing is out of place in this book and shouldn't have even been included. They try a little to pass the loner off as being bad speaker but she speaks far far far better than someone who never talks would. There's some pretty great word play in the last two chapters. Pretty much no where else tho. "The right and left fist of violence" I love this description. Finally, the 13th chapter is the most melodramatic thing I have ever read. 

 The book is broken down into 4 parts and these parts can be really easily summed up: First part: 15 year old behaving like a 10 year old. Teenagers being babied and a bunch of religious Moral throat stuffing. Second part: two guys in a cabin. Excessive pointless talking. Conspiracy! Murder! Kidnapping! Got find that girl gotta find that girl gotta find that girl...... Third part: tracking, talking, tracking, talking, tracking, talking, tracking, BOMB! Trap! Death! Fourth part: get the girl, really get the girl. Family destroyed and time to be sneaky. The kids have gone mad. A bunch of death and steoryoyical good ending. But everything is not the same! We're all changed! Home isn't home any more! Let's hit the road for the sake of the author being able to make a second book and leech some money out of people! 

 Some other things: I hate the word "zoms". Like really hate it, you could probably see my face physically wince every time I read that word. Which was unfortunately a lot. The word Noms is even worse but is less frequent in the book. The amount of babying everyone does to benny is infuriating and this shit is why teens get pissed at their parents and other like minded adults. When the religious zealots came with their little bit of religious nonsense I really hoped that would be the end of the Jesus, God, almighty etc stuff. I was sadly mistaken. the book acknowledges "The Children" as being crazy but then it doesn't and paints them as the right moral ones and everyone else as idiots or evil. Zombie pit fighting sounds like an awesome read but the book goes evangelical moral try hard on you. The 47 chapter was great. Bunch of kids sitting around smiling dark bloody murder. To bad it's only just over a page long. Not sure how many pages you could devote to kids smiling like maniacs tho. The epilogue is the best part of the book, the most real part of the book and it's not even one of the actual chapters. Then there's "cards" in the end of the book. And good god is the lost girl's card sexualised. Underboob? Really? Shirt so tight and wet you see the entire outline of her breast? Really? A dagger pointing right at her crotch and slightly sticking under belt/into her pants? Really? Wtf. 

 Finally for the cover: This cover is actually pretty darn neat and visually appealing. Will definitely catch the eye of any zombie fan and makes it very clear the books about zombies without telling you anything other than the main character is a boy and that the book is "dark". "This book is full of heart..." hahahahaha no more like filled with moral evangelicalism. Being exclusively moral doesn't equal having heart. The font and word placement is grade A good. To bad the cover looks better than the book reads. 

 Over all it was a dead read, even by zombie standards (haha). The women are oddly sexualised and at the most random of points. The entire point of the book is moral preaching and it tries to cover that up with zombies. This feels more like Christian fiction that YA zombie fiction. Finally it's far far too long for its content.

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the Victoria in my head by Janelle Milanes

This book would be pretty good for someone who likes close to real-world teen stories. If you feel any connection or relatability to the main character it's worth the read. Now this review is coming from someone who experiences maladaptive daydreaming. The back of the book frames the main character as if she has maladaptive daydreaming herself and that's why I was drawn to reading the book. Further this book has characters that are LGBTQ+ and alternative, I myself am both these things.

Now this particular genre is one I don't read and I wouldn't have read the book if it hadn't been free. I strongly stick to fantasy, horror, supernatural and sci-fi. I did enjoy this book but I wouldn't buy it. This was me giving this genre a chance and I'm satisfied but not impressed and I've got little desire to read more. I'd recommend this book as a preteen/tween novel, around 11-14. I'd class it as being better suited to the children's (9-12) section than YA section if it wasn't for the alcohol consumption and point blank sex mentions. 

A book summary is pretty straightforward as not a whole lot happens. Basically the main character (Victoria) lives a boring life where every day is the same but this makes her parents happy. She dreams of being a singer and loves to make oddly specific playlist. Eventually these dreams get a chance to be reality and on top of that she falls for the sight of two boys. She also has a best friend named Annie who is far too tight laced of a person. The book also delves into dealing with parents wants and child's wants clashing. That's pretty much all there is to the book. Frankly the book is at least 20 chapters too long for the material and there's tons of filler. 

World building is bare minimum which is unsurprising since the world it's in is just the real world basically. 

Characters: All the characters are simple straightforward and cookie cutter Victoria is your shy "please the parents" girl who learns to break the rules for her own happiness. Annie is your school obsessed neat freak that learns to loosen up Levi is your work before everything unattached boy who really learns nothing. Strand is your bad boy womaniser who learns to be a little less of a creep. Krina is your edgy alternative badass lesbian who gets some genuine love (honestly this is the highlight of the book). A note in Annie's character: she's framed as this supposed happy positive good influence character. But she's actually painfully depressing. Whenever she thinks she's rights she just forces people into stuff, by whatever means, it's to the point of being cruel. A note about Victoria's character: She is for a lack of better words (plus this suits the book which attempts to be "edgy" and "vulgar") a whiny bitch. 

Stereotypes: (yes I had to make a section just for this because the amount of stereotypes in this book is physically painful) The Book can't even go two pages without throwing puppy dog love at you. Plus the boy is "unobtainable" and a "bad boy jackass" talk about a stereotype. On top of this there's instalove with a totally different boy. Not even two chapters after the onset of puppy dog love for Mr.bad boy. Queue stereotypical good guy geek vs womanising bad boy love triangle. And of course, it turns into quite nervous shy sheltered girl makes a loyal decent man out of the bad boy. Plus good guy geek being Nice Guytm. Heavy emotions are mentioned to be always premenstrual which is a massive incorrect stereotype that women are bloody sick and tired of hearing. The book is wholeheartedly unable to sperate romance from sexuality. Apparently not kissing somehow equals "sexually stunted" (what? O_o). Feeding into the stereotype that relationships need the sexy stuff. The Mohawked alternative girl Krina is a walking stereotype. Fake id to get into bars, drinking pigs blood, being a "sexual deviant", scary, rebelling against society, hates beauty standards etc if you're going to do an alt girl do it right instead of low key insulting any alt folks that might read the book. But at least the author had the sense to make her a left-leaning feminist. As most alt folks actually are left-leaning feminists. Making the alternative feminist a lesbian was pretty stereotypical even if alt folks have higher rates of being LGBTQ+. Thankfully this stereotype is offset by the two other LGBTQ+ girls. However queue Stereotypical cute girl prep dates stereotypical edgy alt girl. (Not sure how much I can trash this stereotype tho as cutesy pretty girl is exactly my type). However Krina being a lesbian doesn't feel like an attempt at brownie points and neither do the other LGBTQ+ character. Victoria's father was a ladies man who "knows what boys are like", hello stereotypical overprotective dad. Her parents overall are stereotypical "we know what's best for you" "your friends need to be good kids" "rock music is a bad influence". But they truly appear to care and have heart felt-ish conversations with her. As soon as the Victoria is introduced to alcohol she practically becomes a drunkard and regrets everything she does whenever drunk. Hello stereotypical demonisation of alcohol and being drunk. Lastly, There's the "cats are cold distant pricks" stereotype thrown in for good measure. 

Some stuff that's simply wrong or ridiculous to reality or to me: Again with the Author chalking up emotional behaviour as "premenstrual", that's not how that works at all. Someone being emotional doesn't equal them being on or near the period. The Book can't wait even 4 chapters before shoving it that the main character is vegetarian. Which I just have a personal issue with as no minor should be intentionally having an unbalanced and less healthy diet. The author throws in a "veal is baby animal and makes you vomit" scene just to guilt trip the reader/meat eaters, it's very rude and is shitty vegan/vegetarian agenda/propaganda. Thankfully Victoria drops the whole vegetarian thing and the entire book would have been far better off without the vegetarian thing thrown in. Plus removing the vegetarian thing would have removed an awful lot of the filler. Victoria is a total mess yet is also day in day out the same. It's illogical. The character can go from freaking out to the point of near vomiting to being good to go in two sentences. Real people aren't like this. The book summary makes it sound like the main character has maladaptive daydreaming, she very obviously doesn't. Daydreaming is rarely mentioned and even then it's nothing more than a mental scene to go along to music. I'll give the author slack for this tho seeing as the author and book never directly says Victoria has maladaptive daydreaming. However when you literally describe the main character as "living inside her fantasies", further to book title is a very unapologetic nod to living side your own head; the author might as well have said maladaptive daydreaming. As mentioned earlier the book can't sperate sexual from romantic. In real life no ones relationship (especially a minors relationship) has romance and sexual behaviour so heavily tied. This will be extremely off-putting to any asexual readers or really anyone who understands romance without sex. 

Some other things: The quotes at the beginning of chapters are unfitting and just don't belong. Tossing cheerios into Krina spiked Mohawk was freaking adorable. "Cutlet-related violence" is actually pretty hilarious. And I like that it becomes a running joke. The book does a decent-ish job at points for making you feel bad or relate to the main character even if every attempt is covered in tons of stereotypical stuff. The 40's chapters do a great job of making the main character totally soul crushed almost to the point of being full blown depressed. Annie and Krina are adorable together and the book sets them up for perfect chemistry. The last 10-ish chapters are actually fantastic and do a great job at surprising and satisfying the reader. The cover is somewhat creative, has an old-timey feel (which I know is popular with hipsters *sigh*) and is a nod to the book being predominately about music. 

Overall the book was passable but would qualify as good if you like the specific genre. However, it is filled to the brim with stereotypes and unnecessary attempts to be "edgy". It feels like an adult trying to pass as a hip teen. The representation of LGBTQ+ teens is nice and done decently. The representation of subcultural/alternative teen is nice to see but done quite poorly. I'd say give to book a go for cheap.

[thetribalmoth]

Hell I remember when people got into fights over who "owned" what warriors name back on MySpace and sometimes on deviant art. I remember one time a girl said I couldn't used the warrior name I was using at the time because it was the same as hers and "her boyfriend gave it to her" so she had more emotional claim of the name. Wild times.

Hell I got my first commission piece ever and it was of my old edgy warriors OC way back in junior high XD didn't even have a phone back then (hell I got the commission via dial up).

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REVIEW: We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

*warning: suicide, rape, drug abuse, parental abuse, depression, assault, severe relentless bullying, violent psychotic breaks, miscarriages* If you can easily relate to the main character or any of the characters really, please seek professional help. 

 1/5, if it was possible to rate this thing a zero or in the negatives on goodreads I would. 

This entire story is sad, drespessing and horribly screwed up. And not in a good way. I'm all for telling a real, hard and unpleasant story but this isn't something anyone should subject themselves to. Reading it makes me concerned for the mental state of the author. If you are suicidal or depressed in any way DO NOT read this. This might as well have been a How To on how to push someone towards suicide. Sure a good chunk of the book is all about trying to convince Space boy why he should save the world and thus not die. But it comes off cheap and is immediately followed by a reason to die and how everything is completely pointless and how he should just be dead. Further I'm convinced the author is severely pessimistic and either has repressed sexual aggression or thinks all teenagers have severe repressed sexual aggression. 

I do not want any preteen or young kid reading this and thinking this is how teenagers are, it will mess them up. I do not want teenagers reading this book and thinking this is the way other teenagers are or what the adult word is like. It will mess them up. An adult can read this and recognise that it's inaccurate crap but even then it's not a healthy read. I recommend this book to no one. Further no one should read it. I have hated books before but this is a different kind of hate. This book shouldn't exist, it shouldn't have been written. 

Now I'm going to be calling the main character by his nickname/insult Space boy. Largely cause I hate the book. Also because Space boy is all the main character thinks his is or will ever be, he's right. Also I'm going to be swearing and the like a bit, it fits the book. 

For the writing style, it's egotistical yet completely self depricating. The intro is like a small child writing their first book. The chapter titles are just dates, which fits the whole "this is a journal" narrative but it feels lazy and childish. Right off the bat you're hit with the vulgarity of a small child who just learned what swears are. Frequent swearing, references to crotches, describing pensis as arms, pissing yourself, masterbation, porn, etc. Teenagers are often vulgar but not like this. It's supposed to sound like it's been written by a teenage boy, but it feels more like a weirdly sexual small child. Completely unrelatable. At many points it tries to be poetic, but it tries TOO hard to be poetic. The little "chapter" things were it's just a blurb about science stuff is pointless and slightly pretentious. The book near the end explains why it's in what's basically a boys journal. But the explanation is just totally annoying and weak. The ending is a non-ending and that's mildly infuriating. There are many parts that are freakishly sexual: Every. Single. Interaction between Space boy and another male that he isn't related to is filled with sexual stuff. Everything is sexualised. Being dead? Sexualised. Getting electrocuted? Sexualised. Paint? Sexualised. Mirrors? Sexualised. Even a damn trash can lid is sexualised. Dear author: see a sex therapist. 

Some more quotable sexual shit: "Wearing a grocery bag as underwear, covered in hickeys I couldn't explain" that's someone's fetish probably. "Ejaculated a chorus of baby angels from every pore of my body" look another fetish. But why babies? That's just fucking creepy. "You used to love when I jumped you in the showers" with the circumstances this is both extremely sexual and complete horrifying. 

Now for characters: The characters are all really messed up, half of them are walking embodiments of stereotypes, one dimensional and unrealistic. It would make more sense if all the characters, save for one character (not the main character), were the aliens. Since they don't behave or think like real human beings. Diego is the only half decent or half enjoyable character. When he behaves like a regular teenager would, the main character thinks the behaviour is psychotic. Funny enough I figured Diego was an alien desguised as a human the minute he was introduced in the book. Partly cause he seems like a real human person (and no one else does) and partly cause he thinks the world's worth saving. I would have far preferred the book to have been about Diego, he's a character that would have been genuinely interesting to read from the point of view of and he's the only one who isn't one dimensional. Audrey has the occasional cute moment but she's a completely broken mess of a person. It would be fitting for an adult but not for a minor, specially when that brokenness is her entire character. Further she seems to only exist as a crutch for Space boys emotional blame of Jesse's death. Space boys mom has only one real moment of humanness and it's all about a damn mirror. Also, Apparently the main character doesn't have fingers? Or the wording is god awful. This is mentioned only once and never affects anything. 

Some completely unrealistic or wtf moments that aren't spoilers: Sorry but A gay boy isnt able to hook up with 3 different boys in the span of a few months in the middle of Highschool while also being consdiered the biggest freak and loser in the school. "Teenage boys who are dead probably can't masturabte" wtf " it made me sad to think about Jesse stuck in the after life, lonely, frustrated, and unable to get off" WTF. "He believed in Jesus" "but he believed in Meth more" wtf. I like this line but still. You don't tell your basically boyfriend you big secret but you imdeiatily tell his family the minute they ask? That is beyond stupid. 

Some other things: There's no build up to the whole suicide thing. Just oh yeah and Jesse hung himself so his advice is shitty. But from then on the main character is practically obsessed with Jesse killing himself. "Books are for ugly people" really? Really? Fuck you to then. I never want to see the word "tut-tutted" again. I also never want some to say "eat the bacon" in reference to lover ever again.

Finally the cover: the cover hints to some things that happen in the book however due to the whole "we are the ants" premise, it renders the cover lazy. The number one thing any one relates to the idea of alien ubduction and be "like ants" is the sky. But the cover isn't horrible. 

Over all: do not read this book, it's horrible and not a good time. If I hadn't gotten to read this book for free via Riveted, I would be furious at my self for spending money on it and I would be destroying the book. If you take this book to heart and really get into it you will come out miserable, pissed off and a little bit more screwed up.

[thetribalmoth]

Playing ultra moon has reminded me just how much I despise Hau. Worst character ever and beyond annoying. Literally every time he appears or does anything I audibly say "fuck Hau" or "fuck you, Hau" or "fuck off Hau". I have never hated a video game character as much as i HATE Hau.

The only way to make him redeemable is to make it possible to spend half an hour beating the sweet obniouxious crap out of him.

On the other hand team skull, Guzma and Gladion are gifts and pure sweet crazy cinnamon rolls. Give me more of them.

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REVIEW: the Diabolic by S.J.Kincaid

This book as quite frankly amazing, I'd highly recommend it to all. The premise alone is very unique and new. Further there is no instalove at all really. It's been I while since I've read a book that left me positively stunned and giddy. I'm quite eager to read the second in the series. 

It's overall a whirlwind of insanity, showing the cruelty of religion and why it's very very bad to have religion controlling those in power (a stark reminder of the importance of separation of church and state), and showing the affect classing someone as a monster or lower just cause of their creation/DNA has on people.

 Now for a summary: The main character is Nemesis who is a diabolic. Diabolic's are manufactured creatures made to serve and if needed violently protect one person. This one person for Nemesis is Sidonia. Sidonia is a sweet innocent lamb (as described by her mother) who is the daughter of a know heretic and cunning mother. Eventually, her fathers' heresy forces Sidonia to be summoned but Nemesis goes instead to protect her by pretending to be her. In going instead we get many "a fish out of water" moments due to be diabolic's being vastly different and quite terrifying to normal people. Uncharacteristically, For a diabolic, she makes a genuine friend tho she, characteristically for a diabolic, never really trusts her. This serves her well in fitting in and is all in all just a nice positive thing. Later due to particular spoiler events Nemesis makes an alignment and great questions of power, lies and if a Diabolic is truly a "person" come into play. The ending of the book is quite spectacular, glorious, poetic and fitting; I love it.

For characters, the hilariously insane clever Tyrus, the sweet cinnamon role Sidonia, and the overtly violent Nemesis; are the stars of the show and they play off each other fantastically. However within this book practically all the character are either some level of extreme or are borderline insane. And I have to give basically a "trigger warning" about there being two characters in the book who are flat out serial rapist, all the other characters know they are but do nothing about it. I also absolutely love that the main character is a violent and dangerous person, no soft weak girl that needs to be cared for to be found in her. On to the stars of the show firstly with Nemesis. Her personality is extreme, rash, often without emotion, and devoted. Her devotion is obviously shown frequently via her reactions to anyone being even slightly unkind or threatening towards Sidonia or towards her when she's pretending to be Sidonia. Her extreme and violent nature, as a diabolic, is shown easily via how she will just flat kill some or snap at people. But these kills and snaps are darn near completely unpredictable to the reader. The mere idea or dream of Sidonia's death causes completely rage and lashing out. Most of Nemesis's interactions with Tyrus are either totally insane or completely adorable. All of Nemesis and Sidonia's interactions are adorable and filled with devotion (to the point of hinting at being gay, as it's very mutual devotion). Now Sidonia is a total sweetheart and just wants Nemesis to be happy and to believe that she is not just someone's property. Sidonia is a lot less seen in the book so there's not much to say about her. Tyrus on the other hand is a massive ball of insanity and complication which is impossible to explain without spoilers. But just like Sidonia, he helps (practically utterly unintentionally tho) Nemesis in seeing herself a person deserving of life. I find it quite hilarious to see the madman that he is, do literally anything in the book. Even when you think him might be sane he does something completely insane right after or during. Just to point out one action of insanity that isn't spoiler worthy there is just outta no where a naked royal man. Just naked like it was nothing. 

As for world-building: The book starts out running, barely giving you time to foot yourself in the world before treason and heresy come into play. Quite the rush. But it explains things that need be explained, like the hellonic religion, in proper time. Without it feeling like it was just there to be explication to the reading. The hellonic religion is a cruel and unkind religion that's just plain ol' bad, the book explains this quite well. This religion remains a driving force of the entire book behind many characters actions or inaction. The religion is extremely anti-science and oppressive of knowledge/information. But they also use their religion as a jab at the old religions that "worship human-like beings". Studying math and science specifically is banned as it's blasphemous. The build of Diabolic's being less than humans and just being emotionless devout killing machines is harsh and feels cruel; as it should. While it also manages to be touching and hinting at the diabolic's being more human-like than believed. Nemesis herself believes her kind to be monsters and without souls. Even the religion beats diabolic’s being monster in as diabolic's can't be blessed under the religion. The only way the reader knows that this all takes place off of earth and in basically spaceships. Is the occasional mention of things like starships and of the people who still live on planets. This separates the story from traditional sci-fi stereotypes and is warmly welcomed. This will also make the book more appealing to people who are less fond of the sci-fi genre. 

Some other things: There are multiple points when Nemesis gets some hope for being an equal person/having a soul, but this is basically constantly crushed either by her or someone else. It's crushing to read but fits the story and character typical to a Diabolic. The cover is unassuming but, just like the book it's self, is clever and well thought out. Lastly, I find Nemesis to be highly relatable even tho she is framed as this emotionless inhuman monster. 

If you're in the mood for a book that's quite stabby, is constantly on the high of insanity, and is very fantastical I'd highly recommend this read.

[thetribalmoth]

Guess who just bought two giant pairs of wings

This kin bitch 🙋🏻

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Guess which gal also got 34 more books when she already has 400+ to still read

This book addicted dumbass with a fear of missing out on a quality book

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So I've seen a fair amount of blogs doing the "don't follow me if......." or "unfollow me if...." thing and want to say: ANYONE CAN FOLLOW ME! I don't care if you have/hold an opinion I disagree with or think is dumb. I don't care if you just follow for aesthetic or just for the politics/feminism stuff. You can follow me if you hate/ignore the angel stuff, goth stuff, lgbtq+ stuff etc. You can follow me if you're anti-feminist, vegan, cat hater, neo-nazi.... whatever. It doesn't matter to me, and I'll probably never know if a follower of mine is one of those things because I don't really care and I don't ever check. Anyone can follow me for any reason Anyone can reblog from me Anyone can ask me shit etc. I don't "gate keep" who can follow or reblog my blog. Sure if your reblogging my selfies to porn blogs or goth hate blogs then yeah I'm gonna be slightly annoyed and confused (cause that's my real life face y'all). But I'm still not gonna go ape shit and try to "ban" porn blogs or whatever from following me. Hell, I follow blogs whose political opinions or other opinions I heavy disagree with, I just ignore those posts for the most part. This same sort of thing goes for blocking and the blogs I reblog from. I don't block people for their opinions, interests etc I only block in the case of my own physical safety. As for the blogs I reblog something from, I don't care what kind of blog it is or what that blogs about. If it posted something I randomly saw and liked, I'll reblog it and I won't delete the reblog just cause someone tells me "OP's a terf!". Stupid people can occasionally post something decent. So again: !ANYONE CAN FOLLOW ME!

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Happy good times!

Omg all the aphobes have like fucked off from my aphobia in lgbtqai+ community post and now people who are actually against aphobia and are for including ace/aro folks in lgbtqai+ community, where they belong, are reblog my original post!

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Please get a fake one and send me a picture of it. Would love to see that. 🙏🏻☺️😁🙏🏻

lol i may or may not get a fake, they’re less common and probably harder to put on, tho if i do a pic will certainly end up on tumblr 

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You should get more piercings would look good on you 🙏🏻☺️😁🙏🏻

I agree it would look good tho my ear piercings act up/get infected unless I wear Spencer’s fake plugs/tapers. Rather not have more finicky piercings lol plus fakes are cheaper.

But I do love bridge and medusa piercings.

[thetribalmoth]

If you believe being agender or gendefluid is automatically transphobic, you’re a piece of shit. Not to mention wrong.

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My new tail made by JayeCreations!

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Just got home from katatonia concert and they must've said "thank you" a good 15 odd times. And y'all thought Canadians were overly polite 😆

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Recent pen ink piece I did! With progress pics! Final photo is finished uncoloured piece! ~don't trace or repost~