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I'm walking away from Goodreads and am now hanging out on StoryGraph!

I see The Vampyres already has a page--and reviews! :0--up on there.

If there are any readers out there, I'd be grateful x1000 if you stopped in and gave it a couple stars or a review ⭐🌟✨💫

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THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

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reading dracula is crazy bc you realize how fucking dumb dracula is. area idiot fucked over his own immortal life bc he couldnt just have little sippys from a bunch of different people he had to be toxically obsessed with a select few and keep draining them dry and then become an anglophile. all other vampires get such a bad rap bc he is a toxic bitch AND stupid

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From the Writing About Writing Facebook page.

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Re reading A Study in Scarlet and thinking about thin haggard nosy John Watson and young manic showoff Sherlock Holmes

Also got very emotional about the idea that Holmes has bad hair because he doesn’t see why he should care and dislikes barbers (being touched by a stranger!) so Watson cuts it to look more distinguished so Lestrade will take him more seriously

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You can fight AI in indie publishing by leaving reviews.

Seriously.

Ai-generated garbage is flooding the self-publishing market. It works as a numbers game- put out ENOUGH fake crap and eventually someone’s aunt will buy them the ebook as an unwanted gift, and you’ll have made two dollars. This tactic works at SCALE, which means real independent titles are now a needle amongst a haystack of slop.

If you have read a book this year that has less than 5 reviews, your rating is an algorithmic spotlight on that needle.

A one sentence review helps. Really. A star rating helps if you really can’t think of anything to say, but if you can muster up even “I laughed at the part about the tabby cat” you are doing indie authors a favor like you cannot believe.

(Also if you left a review on one of my books this year I am kissing you so softly on your forehead and I adore you)

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1 million reasons there will never be a good movie that is also a good dracula adaptation but one is that on the one hand i have come to believe you need someone with the genuinely spielbergian combination of a capability for true thrills and a sincere appreciation for and willingness to indulge in unrepentant sentimentality (jurassic park, like dracula, is both actually scary and unapologetically corny), but also you need someone who’s enough of a freak to recognize that the blood transfusion sequences need to be at least as horny as anything else going on. and those two things don’t usually go together.

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GOD!!! is this My Very Favorite Moment In All Of Dracula? it might be, friends. it might be. let's consider:

as always i love bram's concern for the practical logistics. mina has no reason to expect that dr. seward is talking to himself to record his diary, so she thinks he has company and then enters all, "uhhh...."

techbro seward finally able to show off his gadget to someone who gives a shit

MINA HARKER DOCUMENTATION NERD SUPREME dorking out about the incredible coolness of the phonograph ("why, this beats even shorthand!" just absolutely kills me

they have known each other for five minutes and are brought together because of wildly unrelated circumstances but they immediately fall into being dweebs together which is so awesome because it's so true to both of them and also a wonderfully bittersweet belated confirmation that lucy knows her friends and was right when she said they would get along great

seward is so excited about playing his little high-tech phonograph diary for someone that for a moment he lives in a world where it's not him rambling on about his his favorite homicidal maniac's spiders buffet occasionally punctuated by expressions of depression and heartbreak before turning into an accounting of the horrific death undeath and redeath of mina's best friend with whom he was in love

i think i actually missed last year the detail that when he first says he can't find a particular spot he's just trying to lie and doing it so badly he both is totally transparent to mina and accidentally says something true

and, also, HE REALIZES JUST NOW THAT HE HAS SPENT FOUR MONTHS KEEPING A DIARY OSTENSIBLY FOR SEMI-PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES AND HAS NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED THE QUESTION OF HOW TO FIND A PARTICULAR SPOT!!!!

bram your MIND

jack is such a loser i love him so much

"with the naivete of a child" kills me like he got so distracted by his own dumbassery that he forgot that he's trying to play the serious and impressive doctor

mina can't help but laugh at what a loser he is and he gives her a little :[ about it

but then it's like once the jig is up he can't find it in himself to bother anymore

in general after months of mr. serious doctor muttering darkly into his phonograph this is i believe the first description we've had of seward's behavior from another character's perspective since may, and it sure does match with the guy playing with a knife to try to seem chill and accidentally sitting on his hat!

before she got there seward was like "gotta keep things chill for the Lady" and mina is like "oh lucy died by vampire got it i gotta get my hands on those the vampire details"

she is DETERMINED she is RESOLUTE she is PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER which can only mean one thing: TIME FOR THE TYPEWRITER!!!!!!

scene of all time book of all time characters of all time everything about this brings me so much screaming joy it makes me wanna punch the sky

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Friendly reminder

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What I can tell you as a transgender woman is that occasionally I will read trans woman characters written by cisgender authors. And I can pretty much always tell when the author is cis, even if the character is portrayed respectfully, because they get some details wrong or something. But I certainly don’t think that they shouldn’t be allowed to take a stab at it, and I actually appreciate any representation that isn’t egregiously harmful. And I certainly don’t think that only transgender women should be allowed to write transgender women because then it falls on me, and that’s rather tokenizing, isn’t it?

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don’t hesitate by Mary Oliver

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The truth of it 🤣

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this is your reminder that fanfic should be fun and you can do whatever you want. writing full fics isn't fun anymore? try drabbles, or ficlets, or single line prompt fills. having difficulty starting a scene? jump in halfway. don't know how to end it nicely? don't. go wild. there are no rules

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An early Halloween cartoon for Guardian Books

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This was all I could think of when I saw this post.