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... Ingram Spark is reducing indie author royalty rates.

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

#guess book prices are going up #sorry guys

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Akiko Sakagami

https://www.instagram.com/bxw_works/

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NGL, I'm kinda getting sick of many of these historical romance novels having the same female lead. "Suzanne was virginal, tiny, whispy and walked with grace but also spunky and somehow modern so the duke loved her."

Nah bro. I want "Bernadette was an absolute unit. With broad shoulders, deep wrinkles, six children and no time for nonsense, she once punched a handsy drunkard so hard his grandmother felt the blow in heaven."

#romance books #romance writing #done with your virgins #give me a brickhouse widow please

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A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

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Three field mice on a bed of walnut shells in the bottom of a trash can at McVay Park.

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I think it’s time for us to all collectively return to the library. Get a card, go to a club meeting, volunteer on an off day, rent some equipment. You don’t even have to read a book. But since the digital world is rapidly becoming a subscription-only hellscape requiring a criminal amount of private personal information to use even CASUALLY, the library has become our last safe haven to just exist with information present and not have our labour or information exploited for money.

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"why do you ship that, those characters hate each other, they tried to kill each other" babey that's why I ship it

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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

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People who judge you for liking villains have the same energy as a wet wipe.

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Tip: You can replace therapy with fifteen hour of unrealistic romantic fantasies daily. But watch out.