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♾️ Books for World Autism Month + Neurodiversity Celebration Week
♾️ The last week of March was Neurodiversity Celebration Week. My post is (obviously) late, but April is also World Autism Month (beginning with World Autism Awareness Day on April 2). To generate additional awareness, here are a few books by autistic authors and/or about autistic characters. On the last slide, you'll also find books with additional neurodiversity rep (including characters with ADHD, dyslexia, and OCD).
✨ The Bride Test - Helen Hoang
✨ Daniel, Deconstructed - James Ramos
✨ Tonight We Rule the World - Zack Smedley
✨ Paige Not Found - Jen Wilde
✨ Something More - Jackie Khalilieh
✨ Uncomfortable Labels - Laura Kate Dale
✨ The Luis Ortega Survival Club - Sonora Reyes
✨ Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl - Brianna R. Shrum and Sara Waxelbaum
✨ The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White
✨ The Brightsiders - Jen Wilde
✨ The Boys in the Back Row - Mike Jung
✨ Hating Jesse Harmon - Robin Mimna
✨ Queens of Geek - Jen Wilde
✨ The Maid - Nita Prose
✨ The Heart Principle - Helen Hoang
✨ The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
✨ Even If We Break - Marieke Nijkamp
✨ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
✨ Unseelie - Ivelisse Housman
✨ This Could Be Us - Kennedy Ryan
✨ Act Your Age, Eve Brown - Talia Hibbert
✨ The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
✨ On the Edge of Gone - Corinne Duyvis
✨ Against the Stars - Christopher Hartland
✨ Tell Me How It Ends - Quinton Li
✨ Izzy at the End of the World - K.A. Reynolds
✨ Late Bloomer - Mazey Eddings
✨ Fake It Till You Bake It - Jamie Wesley
✨ Whatever Happens - Micalea Smeltzer
✨ Gimmicks and Glamour - Lauren Melissa Ellzey
✨ Last Call at the Local - Sarah Grunder Ruiz
✨ Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling - Elise Bryant
✨ The Charm Offensive - Alison Cochrun
✨ A Prayer for Vengeance - Leanne Schwartz
✨ Tilly in Technicolor - Mazey Eddings
✨ If Only You - Chloe Liese
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Wanna make the silliest shaped ducks in the future!
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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD. If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?
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Starting today same-sex couples can apply for marriage in Estonia! Whoo~!
I decided to draw my Estonian OCs Kadri and Mai again (I drew them when same-sex marriage was legalized in Estonia), but this time I drew them getting married! It was fun to think about what kind of outfits they would wear when getting married~
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Let’s Go Lesbians! 32 Books for Lesbian Visibility Day
TODAY! is Lesbian Visibility Day, the first day of Lesbian Visibility Week – April 26, 2024. We are, I’m sure you’re shocked to discover, celebrating with LOTS of lesbian books! 15 people contributed to making this list, all of us sharing our absolute faves, from graphic novels to epic novels, from memoirs to horror fiction, with explicit rep and implied. With this many awesome books to share, we’re prepared to guarantee that everyone who loves wlw lit can find something new to them on this amazing list!
Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa
Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw
She Wears the Midnight Crown Anthology
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
The Scapegracers & The Scratch Daughters by H.A. Clarke
Spinning by Tillie Walden
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Those Who Wait by Haley Cass
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough
From Here by Luma Mufleh
Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
A Memory Called Empire & A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Female General, Eldest Princess by Please Don’t Laugh
Clear And Muddy Loss of Love by Please Don’t Laugh
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Can’t get enough books with lesbians? Yeah, us neither – this new list for 2024 is on top of THREE rec lists of titles featuring lesbians that we posted last year.
Lesbian Visibility Week Recs Part 1
Lesbian Visibility Week Recs Part 2
Duck Prints Press Short Stories with Lesbian Characters
You can also view this list (along with all our other wlw faves!) as a shelf on Goodreads!
See a book you want to buy? You can grab it through the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate shop!
What are YOUR favorite reads with lesbian characters?
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A Pair of Mandarin Ducks by Isoda Koryusai (colour woodblock print)
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Upcoming Event: A Big Gay Market!
This Sunday, April 28th, we’re thrilled to be among the 100+ vendors who will be selling their wares at Albany’s quarterly A Big Gay Market! We’ll be there with our latest books and merch, and all our old favorites, and a few new never-before-seen things too, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Washington Park on the Knox Street Mall in Albany. The forecast is looking gorgeous – high of 73, partial sun, chance of showers in the afternoon and evening. Definitely a day to wear sunscreen!
Even better? 10% of our net profits will be donated to Camp Unirondack!
So, if you’re anywhere near the Capital District of New York and are looking for an awesome opportunity to do some shopping, get some fabulous stuff, and support a great cause, make sure to come say hi (and claim your very own free tiny duck…)!
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Sustainable fashion for the Solar Punk
If you enjoyed this, consider checking out my Ko-Fi for a printable zine version (or just to support my art :))
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Coming Soon: May Trope Mayhem 2024!
It’s almost time for May Trope Mayhem!
What is May Trope Mayhem? It’s Duck Prints Press’s annual multi-fandom/original work creation event! Our creators have shared their favorite tropes, and we’ve picked 30 (+1 free day!), one per day of May to make an awesome, fun, diverse list of prompts to inspire your creativity. Come May 1st, we invite everyone to create a ficlet, artwork, gif set, photo montage, or whatever else they feel like, inspired by the trope of the day. We’re open to any fandom or no fandom at all, original characters and old faves, any ship (yes even that one) or no ship or reader inserts or, or, or… basically, if you can imagine it, we can accommodate it!
This year marks our fourth-annual May Trope Mayhem. Curious about the event? You can learn some by checking out our previous three years!
the 2021 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
the 2022 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
the 2023 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
the AO3 Parent Collection
The rules for 2024 will be about the same as in the past, so the only big change will be in the tropes – some are repeats, some are not. And of course day 31 is still a free day – we’d love to know YOUR favorite trope, especially if it it doesn’t end up our list for this year!
The 2024 list goes public on May 1st. Mark your calendars, tell yours friends, and get ready to create with us! And follow us on social media to make sure you don’t miss a thing!
Backers on Patreon can see the list early! It’s up now – become a backer and check it out.
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Because I circulated a call to action about it here that got some traction: to those of you who contacted Maine legislators when it counted, thank you— it worked. Maine just passed sanctuary-state-level protection for trans rights.
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Let’s Go Lesbians! 32 Books for Lesbian Visibility Day
TODAY! is Lesbian Visibility Day, the first day of Lesbian Visibility Week – April 26, 2024. We are, I’m sure you’re shocked to discover, celebrating with LOTS of lesbian books! 15 people contributed to making this list, all of us sharing our absolute faves, from graphic novels to epic novels, from memoirs to horror fiction, with explicit rep and implied. With this many awesome books to share, we’re prepared to guarantee that everyone who loves wlw lit can find something new to them on this amazing list!
Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa
Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw
She Wears the Midnight Crown Anthology
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
The Scapegracers & The Scratch Daughters by H.A. Clarke
Spinning by Tillie Walden
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Those Who Wait by Haley Cass
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough
From Here by Luma Mufleh
Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
A Memory Called Empire & A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Female General, Eldest Princess by Please Don’t Laugh
Clear And Muddy Loss of Love by Please Don’t Laugh
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Can’t get enough books with lesbians? Yeah, us neither – this new list for 2024 is on top of THREE rec lists of titles featuring lesbians that we posted last year.
Lesbian Visibility Week Recs Part 1
Lesbian Visibility Week Recs Part 2
Duck Prints Press Short Stories with Lesbian Characters
You can also view this list (along with all our other wlw faves!) as a shelf on Goodreads!
See a book you want to buy? You can grab it through the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate shop!
What are YOUR favorite reads with lesbian characters?
#duck prints press#wlw characters#lesbian characters#queer books#queer fiction#queer non-fiction#lesbian visibility day#lesbian visibility week
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Calling all LGBTQ+ horror and scifi authors!!
I want to promote your work, as it is hard for us to get our books out there on Tumblr :)
Send an ask with your novel, cover, and blurb, and I'll include your book in a master post, as well as an individual post if you're comfortable with being @'ed there!
Stay strong, fellow authors!
#signal boost#well we're a whole-ass publisher...#and most of our titles are lgbtqia and virtually all our creators are#and some of our titles are horror and sci fi
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I like ducks. I also like Totoro. Totoro is next.
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What are you currently reading?
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Drawing Birds. Written and illustrated by Maurice Wilson. Published in 1965.
Internet Archive
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Bruno Liljefors - Evening, wild ducks (1901)
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Fave Five: Queer Roller Derby Books
Kenzie Kickstarts a Team by Kit Rosewater (MG)
Blood City Rollers by V.P. Anderson and Tatiana Hill (MG GN)
Mighty Millie Novak by Elizabeth Holden (YA)
Bruised by Tanya Boteju (YA)
Roller Girl by Vanessa North (F/F Romance)
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