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Just bought the kindle version. Can't wait to read it!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, who wants post-apocalyptic wasteland adventure lesbian romance?  We got post-apocalyptic wasteland adventure lesbian romance.

I, Tumblr luminary Natalie H. Ironside, have written a Book, which I know you’re going to love.  Available in ebook and paperback (wow!).

The  Last Girl Scout is a dystopian adventure story about queer hillbillies  going on a big adventure in the irradiated ruins of Old America.  If you  liked Fallout or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or all things American Gothic then I  got five bucks says you’ll like this.  Plus it’s got lesbians in it  &and they are in love & they even hold hands.

“But Natalie,” you say, “How can I become a part of this amazing and true way?”  Well, I will tell you!

Buy on Amazon:

Buy on Gumroad:

Cashapp five bucks to $NatalieIronside or venmo five bucks to @RennieQueer and include an email address and preferred file type

(If u don’t have five bucks, message me an email address and your X number)

The past lies like a nightmare over the world. Two hundred years after the War when atomic fire rained from the skies and burned the world to cinders, human civilization has had time to rebuild within the burned-out husk of Old America.  But the old terrors of the past still persist, and while some work to build a better world, others still dream of reclaiming the glory of the Old World. In southern Appalachia, political commissar Magnolia Blackadder is sent on a mission into the irradiated Exclusion Zone of Old DC, where an evil that humanity thought it had vanquished centuries ago is waking up and rebuilding its strength.  Along the way, she meets a strange woman with terrible secrets and an unspeakable past, and as they forge a bond and brave the terrors of the wasteland together, she learns that some demons are not so easily exorcised, and that some stones are better left unturned. In this her debut novel, award-winning author Natalie Ironside delivers a new vision of the post-apocalypse, a tale of adventure, terror, love, and that most basic and most powerful of all human desires:  Freedom. 

(Cover art by the eternal @soul-hammer​)

Here’s what the gay on the street has to say about this book:

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Buy on Amazon:

Buy on Gumroad:

Cashapp five bucks to $NatalieIronside or venmo five bucks to @RennieQueer and include an email address and preferred file type

#book #lastgirlscout #support small artists #dystopian novel #queer representation #trans representation #lesbian representation #Natalie ironside #wodneswynn

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“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

— Voltaire, b. 21 November 1694 

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“Do you never tire of your own intelligence? Has it never seemed wearying, demanding or inadequate? Having discussed everything, clarified everything and understood everything, isn’t there still a shadow or a light beyond your reach? […] I’d like to know if, beyond the little certitudes that you cultivate, you ever stumble across the shadows of the dead…If you have ever shuddered at the feeling that what you do is petty, useless, vacuous, that all these “experiences” are barren, that you’re missing out on life…I’d like to know if you’ve ever had a sudden, irrational urge to throw everything to the wind and surrender to chance, letting fate take you where it will…

You’re a sane, well-balanced person, but you’re too sane. You lack that little grain grain of instability without which life never reveals itself to us, without which our immediate horizons never open further. You lack a sense which is less precise than sight, but more essential: “a sense of the tragic”.”

— Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years

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Hey, who wants post-apocalyptic wasteland adventure lesbian romance?  We got post-apocalyptic wasteland adventure lesbian romance.

I, Tumblr luminary Natalie H. Ironside, have written a Book, which I know you’re going to love.  Available up above in ebook and paperback (wow!).

The Last Girl Scout is a dystopian adventure story about queer hillbillies going on a big adventure in the irradiated ruins of Old America.  If you liked Fallout or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or all things American Gothic then I got five bucks says you’ll like this.  Plus it’s got lesbians in it &and they are in love & they even hold hands.

The past lies like a nightmare over the world. Two hundred years after the War when atomic fire rained from the skies and burned the world to cinders, human civilization has had time to rebuild within the burned-out husk of Old America.  But the old terrors of the past still persist, and while some work to build a better world, others still dream of reclaiming the glory of the Old World. In southern Appalachia, political commissar Magnolia Blackadder is sent on a mission into the irradiated Exclusion Zone of Old DC, where an evil that humanity thought it had vanquished centuries ago is waking up and rebuilding its strength.  Along the way, she meets a strange woman with terrible secrets and an unspeakable past, and as they forge a bond and brave the terrors of the wasteland together, she learns that some demons are not so easily exorcised, and that some stones are better left unturned. In this her debut novel, award-winning author Natalie Ironside delivers a new vision of the post-apocalypse, a tale of adventure, terror, love, and that most basic and most powerful of all human desires:  Freedom. 

(cover art by the very cool and good @soul-hammer​)

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"All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal."

John Steinbeck

#war #quotes #bookish

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If you haven’t yet picked up your very own copy of the hit new post-apocalyptic wasteland adventure novel The Last Girl Scout from award-winning author Natalie H. Ironside, this is the Content™ you’re missing out on

#spoilers #books #reading #library #book #reader

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I believe very strongly in “I didn’t say it was good, I said I liked it” 

but what might be even more important is “I didn’t say it was bad, I said I hated it”

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#readers #reader #reading #booklover #read #reads #book #long reads #books #writing

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If you like Julian Barnes, check out A History of The World in 10 and 1/2 Chapters.

The Lemon Table and Love, Etc., Julian Barnes

#reading #books #library #julian barnes #love etc. #the lemon table #bibliophile #fiction #lit

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Ooo I’d love a copy of this 👻

The Penguin Book of the Undead

#happy halloween! #the penguin book of the undead #penguin books #undead #halloween #horror #books #library #bookblr

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[Text reads: The gothic house is often synonymous with a person or a mind. “One need not be a house” to be “haunted,” Emily Dickinson reminds us; “The brain has corridors surpassing/ Material place”, and in Wide Sargasso Sea Antoinette opens “doors” in her mind to be “somewhere else, something else. Not myself any longer.” Text End]

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big, Jane Healey

#she herself is a haunted house #body as haunted house #books #library #book #bookish #bookblr

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No thanksgivings in my country anyway, but this sounds awesome

thanksgiving is cancelled in 2020. instead, november will be a month of Dionysian madness, casting curses, moonlight revelry, dubious self-care methods, ritual sacrifice, and mashed potatoes. 

#thanksgiving is bad but it really gets potatoes bread and desserts right #addition: donating and supporting your local indigenous groups #thanksgiving #holidays

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Bookoween: Pumpkin

Black and orange books–I’m actually surprised I have as many as three orange-spined books, it’s not common in my reading–and tiny pumpkin stress toys, they’re wonderfully squishy.

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so for my english class we’re reading the well of loneliness, except we’re reading it from a website, which i cannot do, so i turned it into a pdf, and was about to print it out, when i was like “oh i should do it as a booklet” except you cant do all those pages as just one booklet so i split it up into bunches of 8 pages of papers, the way book binders do, and then i ended up on a “bind your own book” site and uh

long story short i’ve never been so pleased with myself

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“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

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