About halfway through This Safe Darkness by Alexis Maragold and it's soooo good. The dystopian elements being linked to infertility and how society punishes women who can't or choose not to have children is so on point. #dystopia
Restarting a WIP is hard, but it can be necessary. If it's not working and you know yourself well enough to know that you Have to have the front half to effectively write the back half, then do it. Wiping the slate clean and letting the idea twist and turn beyond what was planned can be effective
the US in #Olympics singles skating, women's figure skating at the 2026 Olympics has been deeply healing.
Between #AlysaLiu incredible comeback and unbridled joy during her performance, Lee Hae-in's KPDH tribute in the gala, Nakai Ami, Sakamoto Kaori, and Alysa's happiness for each other's accomplishments, and Amber Glenn being the first out Queer woman to represent
#Ejae: *releases a new song*
Me: OK, what WIP playlist is this one going on?
Nine images with a dark, forest feel, including a ship sailing the mist above the treetops, ferns, a hooded figure, a girl with a dagger, a black mist, a lemur, butterflies and a jellyfish
The same nine images overlayed with text that reads 'a jaded pirate, a killing mist, a runaway princess, ships sail the canopy, monsters stalk below'.
The same nine images overlayed with text saying 'sounds like' and eight songs listed. Moonlight Serenade from Pirates of the Caribbean, I See the Light from Tangled, Test Drive from How to Train your Dragon, Vanilla Twilight by Owl City, The Reason by Hoobastank, Dust to Dust by the Civil Wars, This Love (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift, Just Say Yes by Snow Patrol.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN x TANGLED x J.C's AVATAR
On the run and searching for her abused sister, Cass is captured by pirates riding monsters through a cursed sea of trees. She could save them, but only by risking her own life and the chance to save her sister.
#CuPit #RoFa #YA #amquerying
My unserious graphics for my very serious novel.
SINNERS x IWAV
Angeline wakes up with a taste for blood and a two hundred years of missing memories. As visions reveal flashes of her past, she must uncover the truth before danger crosses her doorway.
#Cupit #A #RoFa #LGBT #BIR #Q
If you're a fan of food history, I really recommend checking out Wick'd Confections on YouTube. She has a whole series this month on Black American recipes and it's been eye-opening to see the part box mixes played into recipes being lost
I did an interview with the lovely #BrittanyJohnson for her debut YA Sapphic #romantasy. With fun fairy tale vibes, exploration of themes like abuse and the right to be angry, and plenty of flowers, Deadly Ever After delivers two soft and strong female leads
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#kpopdemonhunters will save me
Read Black authors year round. Here's a few to add to your TBR if you're a big fan of romance #romance #blackauthor
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The FaRo Society Book Blast is today!
Hundreds of #romantasy and #paranormalromance ebooks are just $0.99, including Drained and Blackened.
#FantasyRomance #RomanticFantasy #BookSky #ReaderSky
This was such a creepy YA horror and I have THEORIES as to whether or not something supernatural was happening. #thedeepwell #lauracreedle #yahorror
Happy Bridgerton Series 4 day to everyone who celebrates!!!!*
*it’s me, I celebrate
Super, super cute contemporary middle grade that made me see the color orange in a whole new light. I have never liked orange before reading this, but now I think it's an awesome color. #berryparker #tanitasdavis #middlegrade
I'm not sure if I'd say the film is as successful at conveying its themes and ideas as I felt Belle and Ookami no Kodomo were, but I see the vision and I respect that vision especially in a time when it seems like we're becoming more fractured instead of more connected
be messy and angry while also handling child abuse. Ookami no Kodomo is about rural communities aging and giving children space to become their own people and how a parent’s perception of their child is not the end-all-be-all of who they are. Both deal extensively with the idea of community.
Stephen Baxter approach and puts a bunch of people from different societies together. I walked away from the film feeling that it was trying to say something about multiculturalism, immigration, and borders and how we are all part of one world.
Belle was a grief narrative that let its main lead
but I have a lot of respect for it, and for him, for trying something new for the studio in regards to animation and in using art to say something.
Like Summer Wars and Belle, the film touches on a globalized society, but goes past the online space by taking a Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and
I'm a huge fan of Ookami no Kodomo/The Wolf Children and Belle, so I was absolutely going to see #Scarlet, which was sold to me as a genderbent Hamlet with a science fantasy twist. Scarlet is not my favorite of Hosoda Mamoru’s films,
Love, love, LOVED how this book explored the Chinese Queer experience, both past and present, and had really fascinating characters to explore the world outside the romance arc #justinianhuang #theemeperorandtheendlesspalace #speculativefiction
'So take my hand, it's open/We can't erase what's broken/But the pain and shame was what kept us in chains/let the weight fall away and/Maybe we can finally be free'
And now that I've had this thought, I really, really need this
Don't know how many people remember Munto, but as I was listening to the What It Sounds Like demo (again), I had this idea for the #KPDH sequel of #Rujinu reaching across the barrier a la Munto as they sing the lines from the Free verse for a Free Reprise
Newton! Bestest boy!
This was such a cute, well-done YA romance. One of my favorites last year #yaromance #tashiebhuiyan #i'llpretendyou'remine
Congratulations to the #kpopdemonhunters team for winning the Critics Choice Award for best song! This award was so well-deserved!
This is so disappointing to hear. Translators are so undervalued for their skills and this is only going to make their jobs more difficult
