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noahhawthorneauthor · 10 months

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I'm Noah, and I write queer fantasy books with disabled and/or neurodivergent characters.

The Eternal Machine was my debut book, the first in an epic and dark steampunk fantasy series. ⚔️🏴‍☠️

Phantom and Rook is a cozy urban fantasy, and the first one I went 'all out' with. I also have special news about this one. 🏳️‍🌈✨

The Rebel Foxes is the last book I released, and it's the first one under my new trans af pen name, Noah Hawthorne. It's a standalone in an interconnected dark fantasy punk series. 🔥🏳️‍⚧️

My website is here, and you can subscribe to the Crew of Misfits and get free novellas here.

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critter-of-habit · 9 months

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Not to get emotional about my big dumb bird friends but, I love my big dumb bird friends.

If you watch Sunwings in the late afternoon, they will keep their wings outstretched to catch the last sunrays on their solar panels. Then as soon as the sun sets, they panic. They'll frantically flap up towards the west, squawking and flailing, before landing and booting up their shields - they'll repeat this pattern over and over again until dawn. But why raise their shields when there is no active threat? My theory is, they're scared of the dark. Their source of energy and light is gone and their tiny bird brains don't know it'll come back again because they aren't programmed to know about "morning". So they boot up their glowing shields, wasting their power, so they have some light against the dark.

Then the sun rises in the opposite direction and they go "...OH." and turn around to sunbath and recharge again.

So dumb, I love them.

#horizon zero dawn #horizon forbidden west #Guerrilla puts so much effort into their machine programming I'm eternally impressed #not me noticing this last night after a couple of wines and getting emotional no sir #mine #critter rambles #need to book my sunwing tattoo appointment soooon

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nakachokos · 8 months

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hey everyone. i wrote some stuff and drew some things about my favorite mountain goats songs and it’s free to download. your mountain goats source of the future… now!

#the mountain goats #tmg #john darnielle #art #zine #jenny from thebes #Tallahassee #the sunset tree #goths #beat the champ #dark in here #transcendental youth #all eternals deck #the life of the world to come #zopilote machine #all hail west texas #the coroners gambit #full force Galesburg

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berlingotesque · 11 months

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could i possibly ask for some thomas doodles? if you have any? i am in love with your design for him /pos /pla

First of all, thank you so much !! I’m glad you like my design 😳

Then, as crazy as it may sound, I'm not really used to drawing Tom ! Which is odd considering he was one of my favorite characters when I first discovered Batim in 2021… So thank you for the opportunity to draw my son, anon ! :)

#when you think about it Tom really has many reasons to be as antipathetic as he is #poor guy survived ww2 only to be stuck in an eternal loop where he is a goofy cartoon wolf #batim #batdr #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #thomas connor #sammy lawrence #allison pendle #thomson #a lil bit #wally franks #ask response #berlingot’s asks

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ampleappleamble · 9 days

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Which Pillars characters would do best/worst at retail or customer service jobs? I'm imagining Aloth in a McDonald's uniform or Vatnir working at Macy's

Fassina, both. obviously.

all of these are secretly about Best Customer Service Associate Fassina. to me

#pillars of eternity #fassina #although the idea of any of these freaks behind a counter is pretty funny #edér having such good numbers at the ranch and home he works at they don't even write him up for coming in high anymore #aloth obsessively reshelving books *correctly this time* at his barnes and noble #pallegina managing her bank branch like a well oiled machine #vatnir doing the bare minimum at his cafe; drooling into the coffee and serving it anyway

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oldgamemags · 16 days

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Mean Machines SEGA #16, Feb '94 - Part 2 of the review of 'Eternal Champions' on the SEGA Mega Drive.

#Eternal Champions #SEGA Mega Drive #Mean Machines SEGA 16 #Feb '94

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grayrazor · 4 months

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There’s something uniquely captivating to stories about people living like vermin in the vents and shafts of some massive living world-machine. Its origins and purpose beyond their understanding. Constantly hunted like parasitic bacteria by its immune system.

#sci fi #fantasy #great machine #arcology #eternal engine #ringworld #i have no mouth and i must scream #scorn #prey 2006 #treasure planet #blame!#forbidden planet #zathras

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arcadebroke · 7 months

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Asura Buster & Asura Blade arrived today complete with box & arts.

a personal grail, I never expected to be able to find & buy everything all at once. I feel very lucky.

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theendofviolet · 1 year

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“dots” vs “lines”

leviathan is full to the brim of the contrasts between stagnation and progress forward. the penultimate battle and vergilius’s internal fight and discussion with carmen are an encapsulation of that.

there’s a noted repeated concept about “the flow”. to garnet, vergilius explains it as such:

the “flow” seems to be, to vergilius, this idea of something that pulls you forward in life - like water down a river, unable to be diverted. the water has no choice but to follow it. but of note is that the “flow” is still movement of a kind. the water should not stay in one place. however, to vergilius, his so-called flow has slowed to the point of being “weak” and “stalled”. he had a dream once, a dream to change the world that he shared with roland, which eventually became snuffed out by the immense tragedy of tomerry and the orphanage incident

meanwhile, jumsoon, mister “dotty” himself, is obsessed with the idea of capturing moments frozen in time. its likely why Schadenfreude was born from his body, as the very idea of the abnormality is a “gaze” trapped in a box. to him, time can be broken up into moments to be witnessed, gazed at, one at a time. “dots”. to him, a child with a vibrant life can be crushed into a single beautiful gem to witness. even the objects being sold at the auction are of things captured as representation of a flash of time - such as the man dancing, everlasting, in a glass box

this of course is why vergilius eventually succeeds against him, and also succeeds against the manipulations of carmen, because what both are focused on is “momentary satisfaction”. this is not enough for vergilius. to him, the flow is everything, and as long as the flow can be followed, “dots” become “lines”

"For a person who is moving, a point is just a fleeting moment. The dot is just a moment. If the countless moments of despair that came to me pile up and become years, the moments that were just dots will become lines and create a path of possibility."

vergilius ends leviathan with a new course, a new goal. he will move forward even if this takes him “into the hell of my karma” where he “will rest there alone”. he cannot be stagnant or stalled any longer.

after all, the flow cannot be stopped

#vergilius #leviathan #limbus company #leviathan spoilers #ME SHAKING EVERYONE LIKE AHHH GOD I LOVE THINKING ABOUT LEVIATHAN SO MUCH #even with the machine tl its so evident that the writing is just that good #love me some good consistent themes and symbolism....LOVE THE ETERNAL HUMAN QUESTION OVER HOW ONE SHOULD EXPERIENCE LIFE

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mashkara45 · 15 days

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#i spent eternity trying to get every word #bendy and the ink machine #henry stein #batim #BatIM quotes #videogames #horror games #videogames quotes

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noahhawthorneauthor · 5 days

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Happy World Book Day!

Here are all the books I've written so far. How many words do you think there are all together?

#aelina isaacs #noah hawthorne #queer books #indie books #phantom and rook #the eternal machine #the rebek foxes #adventures in levena #take me to iverbourne #cozy fantasy #urban fantasy #queer fantasy #dark fantasy books #steampunk

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archduke-enver-gortash · 3 months

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having real normal ‘god of his own religion/fervently self-imposed values as the machine. the light as a blinding, all-encompassing, conquering terror. the creator and destroyer, hands as divine instruments. metal and flesh as his material. learn the system of the world to its fullest extent, to its tiniest detail and shapes as the core of the machine, the only one functional for such a feat, everything else his tools/herd, until the world resembles its design.’ thoughts

#sorry about this having a normal one #i think you can tell from this why the pure essence of the wild might be his archnemesis #ruins it for all eternity. heightens with its destruction #each destruction #the eternity of the machine vs endless new and young life of nature/the wild etc etc #enver gortash #bg3 #gortash #baldur's gate 3

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moltengoldveins · 3 months

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”do you have any contingency plans in case your location were to be discovered?” “Yes. Me.”

(noir and molten in perfect unison: that’s hot-)

#rolling with difficulty #rwd #vr la rwd #Maxim #i hate them so much #They live in the washing machine in my mind rent free #Rotating for all eternity

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leona-florianova · 8 months

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Dad tried to get rid of one of his sewing machines cause there are too many around already n they take too much space, and the people he sold the machine to, brough him another sewing machine as bonus for the exchange...And its mechanism and size makes it even harder to store than the previous one. Its great.

#eternal curse there can be only more sewing machines #text post #hes currently in the basement staring at the new sewing machine #cause its some weird zig zag we never had before #but we wont prolly ever use either

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earthfromadistance · 5 months

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the 4 horsemen of my mentally ill apocalypse are hozier, noah kahan, matt maeson, and florence welch, wbu?

#hozier #noah kahan #matt maeson #florence and the machine #I’m constantly torn between we don’t talk about matt maeson enough and wanting to gatekeep him for eternity #that is MY silly little guy writing gut wrenching songs

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oldgamemags · 17 days

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Mean Machines SEGA #16, Feb '94 - Part 1 of the review of 'Eternal Champions' on the SEGA Mega Drive.

#Eternal Champions #SEGA Mega Drive #Mean Machines SEGA 16 #Feb '94

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