Welcome to Noah's Place, where I share resources for indie authors and content for readers. You can find writing resources like character and worldbuilding sheets, indie publishing talk, and how-to posts. For the readers, you can find short stories, excerpts of upcoming work, art, NSFW writing and art, and many other things. Book recommendations and the art museum are free!
I've been wanting to open a Patreon for awhile now, but I didn't feel like I was in the right space to do it. But with a few more books under my belt and a bigger community than ever, I feel that now is the perfect time. This year I plan to expand on the ways I support indie authors, and this is a step in the right direction. Also, it's a good way for readers to become involved in new projects.
Speaking of new projects, do you like choose your own adventure? That's on the roster for this year, along with the next Noah Hawthorne book, a Levena novella, and book three of the Levena series.
[the raven king, maggie stiefvater / normal people / extremely loud and incredibly close, jonathan safran foer / skam / strawberry wine, noah kahan / our flag means death / the good place / ted lasso / the raven king]
Where did this idea that aggressive harassment, sending death threats, bullying, doxxing, telling people to kill themselves, using homophobic and antisemitic slurs, attacking people’s looks, encouraging hate crimes, threatening to release sex videos, and engaging in a wide range of genuinely psychotic behaviors from behind a screen is reasonable and acceptable and even necessary “progressive” activism come from?
Yes, this is about the Noah Schnapp situation, but it’s about more than that, cause I’ve noticed this kind of mindset becoming more and more normalized, and I’ll never agree with it. How does this kind of behavior help the Palestinian people (or any other cause you’re being an “activist” for?) How does this kind of behavior encourage Noah or anyone else to change their views? How does wishing for Hamas to brutally murder the entire Schnapp family lead to peace and justice? How does saying Noah should dig up his dead dog and eat it stop bombs from dropping on Gaza???
I think all of us can agree that what’s happening in Israel/Palestine is horrible and stomach-churning. And I think most of us can agree that Noah wielding “Zionism is sexy” stickers when children are dying is tone-deaf and extraordinarily foolish at best. Please don’t mistake my words for saying that no one should ever be criticized or an endorsement of Noah’s reckless actions. But if you don’t have ANY compassion for the anxieties Jewish people face at a time when antisemitism is skyrocketing, that’s very concerning to me. Why can’t two things be true at once?
There’s this insidious notion that cruelty/calls for suicide/bullying are tools to weaponize against “bad” people, as if human decency, kindness, and empathy are food items to be snatched away whenever folks are deemed problematic (whether the reason is valid or not). People fancy themselves radicals, as if they are fighting in the French Revolution, when they are… not. I promise you that tweeting like this all day doesn’t make you a hero. It makes you look foolish:
And I love Vermont, but it's the season of the sticks, and I
Saw your mom she forgot that I existed and
It's half my fault, but I just like to play the victim
I'll drink alcohol 'til my friends come home for Christmas
And I'll dream each night of some version of you
That I might not have, but I did not lose
The first post in the How to share a story series is up on Patreon! It's a big one at 4900+ words, and I actually had a lot of fun writing it. Next week we'll be talking about phase two. 💪
okie idm being the messenger, here are the past two days of byler mentions people are talking about! and yes the live really did disconnect in the middle of chanting byler endgame 😭
there was also another byler mention where he says "I ship byler more than anyone else" but wasn't captured, maybe someone else did!
(and then after this he said his favourite byler scenes were the rain fight and the miwi hand hold in st2 oh--)
not my recordings (friend's with permission!) sorry the tiktok comments cover parts lmao, any necessary credits are in the videos!
{all picture creds are from the beautiful people who upload them to pinterest}
and so much credit to @artificialbreezy for basically planting all of these thoughts in my mind. I read her headcanons for these boys on the daily and her writing is incredible!!!
~reads you bedtime stories/just stories in general when you ask. he does a voice for each character and is very animated when reading to you
~loves making food for you
~he bought the cat ear headphones because when he was looking for new gaming gear you saw them and immediately started pointing and asking him to buy them. of course he did
~while checking out at the grocery store, there was a rubiks cube amongst the gum, chapstick, and lighters they had on display so of course you tugged on noah's sleeve and asked him to get it for you and because he can't say no to you, he bought it. after a couple hours of playing with it you got frustrated because you couldn't solve it so you asked him to do it
~does all the self care things with you
~he’d let you braid and play with his hair when he had it long
~loves all your stuffies as much as you love them. gives them all special voices and personalities