One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig 🍁🍒🖤

Little weekend moments. I’m trying to get everyone in my life to read “To A God Unknown” so they understand why I needed them to read it.

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Omg so im reading the mortal instruments/ shadow hunters series and it seriously is a THAT GIRL BOOK! Like it is literally the book where you can annotate the words, put highlights on some of the pages, etc. i absolutely love this series it’s so beautiful🥹

OH AND THE ROMANCE. THE ROOOOMMAAAAANNNCCEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! Omg omg omg it’s so AAUHHHHGG omg it is just AMAZING.

Kmuse’s Book Reviews (December 11th, 2023)

It is the holiday season which means there are many times we introverts are stuck at parties and just want to sneak off to a corner and read a book. If you are like me and this is a common occurrence, here are some of my recent favorites for you to choose your next winter read. Continue reading Untitled

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kicking a hornets nest.

imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

"internet historian's alt-right anyways" "great day to have never liked james somerton" "never even heard of illuminaughtii before this lol"

that's great buddy but don't go around thinking you're immune to this. if you're not looking for plagiarism, you likely won't notice it unless its egregiously obvious. hell, you've probably consumed plagiarized content without even realizing it. even hbomb pointed out that these people disguised what they presented pretty well as long as you didn't try and dig deeper. don't come away just thinking of this as a callout piece, take this as an important lesson about vetting your sources. if googling scripts in quotes was enough to expose the original, we should all start doing that shit!!

edit: it got a little too doomer-y a little too fast so one quick addition

this is hbomb's curated playlist of queer creators, many of whom were victims of plagiarism

this is producer kat on reddit calling for any more plagiarism discoveries and for queer content creators to be uplifted

please take some time to uplift these creators and recommend any you know! if you can help uncover more of the original creators whose work was lifted that would be great too :)

UPDATE- From Hbomb's twitter: "We're in the process of cataloguing everyone James Somerton plagiarised and finding their contact information. Which is quite a task, so to help us out: If you see this and happen to be one of the people Somerton stole from, please email us at [email protected]"

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Was looking for a book today when I saw these various animal books all on the same shelf and noticed their titles made a nice little impromptu poem about veterinary medicine

Hey tumblr I need book recommends or a good satisfying fanfic with tropes including but not limited to grumpy loner guy, enemies to lovers, childhood friends finding each other after decades, you know some well written romance.

Also for fanfics can be Star Wars, Marvel, or whatever thank you!

As long as it’s decently written!

Often when trans women ask me when I'm performing next, and I tell them that it's a queer/trans event, they will tell me that they'd rather not go because they do not feel comfortable or safe in those spaces, that they have been dismissed or belittled at such events before. Even trans women who are dyke- or bisexual- identified often don't feel welcome or relevant in queer/trans spaces. And whenever a trans woman or ally points out aspects about the queer/ trans community that contribute to these feelings of irrelevancy and disrespect—such as the way our community coddles those who support trans-woman-exclusionist events or who make trans-misogynistic comments—we are described as being "divisive." This use of the word "divisive" is particularly telling, as it implies that "queer/trans" represents a uniform movement or community—a "oneness"—rather than an alliance where all voices are respected.

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl. Published 2007.

Not Chalice of the Gods continuing the trend of Percy having no clue how his own sword works, six years and two wars into having owned it.

Iconic.

🦋🦋🦋Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries🍄🍄🍄

This may just be the autism speaking, but I fucking hate when customer surveys ask me 'how likely are you to recommend this or that to a friend' because they are lying about what they're asking. I am 0% likely to recommend almost any product to any friend and especially not by brand if at all possible, but what they want to know is 'did you have a decent experience with the thing' and that's a whole other fucking question if you want that answered fucking ask that. Except if I answer the question they're asking instead of the secret question, they yell at their employees on my behalf which I never wanted either. Terrible system, would not recommend it to a friend.

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

Kmuse’s Book Reviews (April 5th, 2023)

So many amazing books to recommend this week. #WhatHaveWeDone #OfMannersAndMurder #TheLonelyHeartsBookClub #TheSoulmate

It is a new month and I have a whole stack of new five-star recommendations for my readers. From cozy Victorian mysteries to nailbiting modern suspense, and ending with a dash of emotional healing in the form of a book club, there is something for everyone. (more…) “”

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it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!