#book twitter

[weaver-z]

Sorry to all of the people who had to flee book Twitter because of Elon. I can simulate it for you right here though!

#book twitter #don't worry i'm an expert

[myjetpack]

a recent @guardian cartoon

#books #booktok #books of tumblr #readersofinstagram #book blog #tiktok books #readersgonnaread #bookblogger #readerslife #book twitter #bookstagram #readers of tumblr #book tumblr #booktube #booksbooksbooks #tiktok

[dduane]

(eyeroll) Yeah, here we go again. (Comments downthread on this issue are only the tip of the iceberg in book Twitter at the moment. Rummage around and you'll find much more.)

Tl:dr; Writer accuses another writer of copyright infringement and threatens legal action apparently without understanding that tropes/thematic concepts cannot be copyrighted.

(Disclosure: I've used versions of this trope numerous times. So have so many other people.)

Today's ruckus also involves other unsavory features—ones entirely too familiar these last couple/few weeks. :/

(Thanks and a tip of the virtual hardhat for the image to @jtronique at Twitter.)

#Book Twitter

[saintdollas]

girls icons

like or reblog if you save, please

#girls icons #site model icons #pretty girls #instagram girls #instafashion #site model girls #grunge icons #cindy kimberly icons #random layouts #book twitter #random icons #random girls icons #tumblr girls #book icons #model icons #icons

[bizzlechaos]

PERCY JACKSON HEADERS

like or reblog if you liked !

#twitter icons #icons site model #random icons #packs twitter #icons booktwitter #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson headers #percy jackson header #headers #header twitter #books headers #book twitter

[depresso-espresso-theatre-kid]

note to self: check out these books

Kamilah Cole - So Let Them Burn

Bethany Baptiste - The Poisons We Drink

Molly X Chang - To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

Frances White - Voyage of the Damned

KM Enright - Mistress of Lies

RM Virtues - the Gods of Hunger series

#cait corrain #book twitter

[frogletscribe]

Also not me watching all the book twit drama happening rn and realizing i literally knew the person responsible for the whole mess back in ye olde cosplay days lmaoo 💀 I was literally her handler all day at an anime for a cosplay contest years ago this shit is so wild.

Disclaimer, we were not close by any means, I was a teenager at the time and was trying to help out an internet friend when she needed a handler at a con that I frequented. We moved in the same circles in the cosplay community when she was still doing that, but did not talk super frequently (and not at all for several years now, we stopped being mutuals when she left cosplaying) so its not like i have ‘insider info’ or anything, its just crazy to see people I used to know come up like this.

If ppl reading this don’t know what’s going on and are curious, you can check out Xiran Jay Zhao (author of the Iron Widow books) posts on Twitter/Tiktok that explain everything.

Anyways, please support all the lovely debut authors she tried to screw over and their upcoming 2024 debuts!

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X Chang

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright

The Gods of Hunger Series by R.M. Virtues

#books #book twitter #cait corrain #crown of starlight

[thetorturedspoet]

all the bright places headers

like or reblog; ♡ credits on twitter

#headers #book headers #books #all the bright places #por lugares incríveis #livros #books headers #bookstan #booktwt #book twitter #booktok #bookgram #all the bright places headers #quotes #all the bright places quotes #theodore finch #violet markey #jennifer niven

[foundintheforgotten]

The Kickstarter campaign is LIVE HERE!

If you're interested in a sapphic, grimdark fantasy comic series featuring romance and horror, and older lady love interests, please consider checking our page out and pledging! If you are unable to, you can still help by spreading the word and reblogging!

#wlw memes #sapphic memes #lesbian memes #lgbt memes #indie comic books #book twitter

[olskuvallanpoe]

I have a certain distrust towards books popular on booktok & book twt bc all I ever see from them is the same straight romance YA novel over and over again with slight variations, and while people are valid if they like that, its really not my scene

#books and reading #books #booklr #bookworm #booktok #book twitter #I just dislike most YA in general now I think #also it takes a lot for me to read a contemporary novel with a straight couple as a main focus #but if you like it #more power to you

[metawhorephosiss]

morana - red is definitely your colour

tristan - *shrugs off his shirt* it's literally blood

morana - i know

#morana vitalio is insane #runyx #tristanmorana #romance books #booktok #books #dark verse #the predator #the reaper #tristan caine #booktwt #book twitter #bookstagram #bookworn #darkverserunyx #dark romance #mafia romance #bookblr #dark aesthetic #bookcommunity #currently reading #reading #readersofinstagram

[lorenhalesworld]

Don’t I just love Dr. Carlsen🤧🤚🏻

#the love hypothesis #love hypothesis #olive smith #adam carlsen #fortune cookie #romance books #romance #booktwt #book quotes #book twitter #booktok #books and libraries #bookstagram #book lovers #bookworld #booklover #books #ali hazelwood #love on the brain

[carlyleandco]

YA book lovers!! An amazing new YA book adaptation has landed on Netflix which I highly recommend called LOCKWOOD & Co.!!

If you love mystery, the supernatural, found family, self discovery, sword fights, taking on the establishment, coming of age, comedy, horror, and romance, I HIGHLY encourage you to watch!

#booktwt #booktok #book Twitter #ya books #ya fiction #ya fantasy #bookish #booklr #l&co. netflix #book tube #book tumblr #maggie stiefvater #leigh bardugo #neil gaiman #Lockwood and co

[sinsiriuslyemo]

When Insecurity Makes You Racist

Ya'll, I've got some stuff I wanna get off my chest.

So this morning there I was, drinking my tea, trying to decide which story I was going to continue working on, minding my own damn business for once when on twitter (I'm not calling it X. I said it, and I don't care) I saw a tweet from a mutual talking about some Chucklehead who had created a burner account on Goodreads (seriously, who the fuck does this?) and was mass one-starring books by other indie authors on there. Wait, because there's more.

As if this wasn't shitty enough, this person was also five-starring their own book, which will debut in 2024.

Did you fucking ever??

So, naturally, I did some digging as I do because I'm nosy af. Fortunately, I wasn't the only one wanting to know the tea, but unfortunately, it doesn't appear as though there's much more information out there except that this author, who I will remind you has not even published their book yet, is acting a damn fool and threatening their own career before it even kicks off.

I did manage to find this thread, which appears to be the original tweet that kicked all this off on twitter, but doesn't go into very much detail. It does, however, reveal another sickening aspect of this fuckery that l i t e r a l l y makes me want to riot, and that this...author was/is "using clearly POC names in the fake accounts to upvote every negative review on POC books so the top ones are all one and two star."

It got me to thinking about how precious and valuable reviews are. How much we crave them as indie authors because it's what will boost our books in the algorithm and get our book into the hands of the next reader. It's our lifeblood. A review and/or rating on Goodreads can absolutely make a difference, especially to indie authors since we only have ourselves and the generosity of our peers to market our books.

So, for an author to betray that is such a disheartening thing. I can't imagine taking the time to create a burner account for the sole purpose of trying to tear down my fellow indies. What's worst, and most likely the most egregious aspect of all of this is that they're weaponizing a POC identity (which I don't even know that they are actually POC) in order to tear down POC authors.

Being an indie author is hard. You're responsible for every aspect of writing, preparing, marketing and selling your book. There's an enormous amount of pressure that naturally comes with being an indie author. Not to mention the constant intrusive thoughts of "what if no one reads my book?" It's hard. But to go out of your way to sabotage other authors so that your book does well is not the way. As indies, we've GOT to have each other's backs, and yes, even call each other out when necessary. This person has not been identified as of yet, and I honestly don't know how I feel about that.

On one hand, there is zero attention on them as an individual and all the attention on their racism and blantant disrespect for the indie community, specifically the POC author community, and therefore their book, name is not receiving any attention apart from the five stars they're giving themselves. But on the other hand, does this mean they're going to be able to get away with their behavior?

It would be bad enough if this were a one-off thing, where they posted one bad review and upvoted themselves one time. I would still say expose their asses if I'm being honest. But this is m u l t i p l e instances of this and in a short period of time.

This is not okay.

And will them getting away with it encourage them to do it again or do something similar?

Personally, I want to know who they are so that I don't support them even by accident, but I know it isn't necessarily my place to demand this. We'll see what happens. As of right now, it appears the person who first posted about it is giving them a chance to knock it the fuck off, which is so incredibly generous, and in my opinion is more than they deserve.

I don't know if this person will heed their advice and stop the fuckery, but I know that I cant just sit idly by and wait for tea — though I most certainly will be watching this and waiting for any additional tea, because friends, I AM A NOSEY BITCH! That and I want to make sure this author never accidently ends up in my TBR because literally fuck them, and their racist burner accounts.

Still, this whole thing makes me want to do something. Not just talk about doing something or talk about how fucked this is — and it is, absolutely fucked. So I kept digging, hoping to at least find a list of those authors targeted so that I could use what platform I have to share their work.

The only post I've been able to find thus far is this one, calling for exactly the same thing, a list of all the authors who have been victimized by a person that should have been cheering them on, not plotting and mobilizing to sabotage them. Thus far, only one name has been identified, at least that I have found, but I will be keeping my eyes open for more, and I will update this post every time I find a new name. I implore you, if you're a reader and want to support indie authors, give their books a read. Leave them a review on Goodreads as well as on Amazon (just copy and paste the same one, I promise it's fine) so that their book gets pushed out and promoted to other readers.

The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste follows Venus Stoneheart as she avenges the murder of her mother while navigating the corrupt political atmosphere of DC. I will be reading and reviewing this book on my blog as the synopsis sounds bad ass. The link above will take you directly to Bethany's website where you can get more details on this novel.

In the meantime, don't fucking do this if you're an indie author. Don't do this at all even if you're not an indie author. It's gross, it's racist, and it's going to take all of us together to combat this nonsense.

#indie books #book twitter #writer twitter #writer #goodreads #authors behaving badly

[saintdollas]

models icons

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#girls icons #site model icons #pretty girls #instagram girls #instafashion #site model girls #grunge icons #cindy kimberly icons #random layouts #book twitter #random icons #random girls icons #random #book icons #model icons #icons without psd #icons

[lovslovs-blog]

#Bluelance 💙

“Have I told you how exceptionally beautiful you look tonight, Darcy?“

Art by: @Mememak04554938 commissioned by me✨

𝗗𝗢𝗡❜𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧

#bluelance #zodiac academy #darcy vega #lance orion #pro bluelance #za #fantasy #bookboost #book twitter #bookblr #book fanart #book characters