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Hey everyone guess whose birthday it is!!

Happy birthday Juice!! Everyone throw some lunchables into space for our friend Juice

#Happy birthday to the funniest fucking satellite in existence #juice #17776 football #17776 juice

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*coughs up blood* themes… motifs… *dies

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Why doesn’t casey become a personal stylist?? That is big money right there, like girl— the connections to fashion houses and designers you could have!! the events you could visit!! the outfits you could curate!!!

#Midway through this book and i’m confounded by casey’s lack of imagination for an interesting life for herself #STOP LIVING UP TO THE EXPECTATIONS OTHERS HAVE OF YOU!!!! #casey han #min jin lee #free food for millionaires #Pachinko #moonymovetheglass.txt

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The Making of a Monster

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reblog only if you’ve received less than 1000 boops! we can all get each other to “max”

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reblog only if you’ve received less than 1000 boops! we can all get each other to “max”

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stone butch blues is like war and peace for the queers but ten times worse because whenever you get to the joyful loving parts you feel the dread set in and you wonder how homophobia/transphobia/capitalism will attack in the next chapter

#Stone butch blues #leslie feinberg #jess goldberg #War and peace #moonymovetheglass.txt

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I’m so so sorry but i must speak my truth: i really don’t like how the audiobook narrator speaks in cursive

#i’m willing to suspend my disbelief at baru—who i headcanon as futch—sounding femme #but i draw the line at cursive. #also some part of me is wondering if it’s an orientalist stereotype…? i’m not sure of the inspiration for taranoke #except for being vaguely pacific islander/polynesian/austronesian #but sometimes the delivery makes me think of a scheming madame butterfly cocking her head and simpering in her cheongsam ngl #something about it… #the traitor baru cormorant #seth dickinson #baru cormorant

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Heavily considering making a venn diagram for encyclopedia of faeries, half a soul, the monstrumologist, and howl’s moving castle…

don't you love it when your gender nonconforming protagonist rages against the capitalist machine for the few people in the vast universe worth saving and caring for

#moonymovetheglass.txt #half a soul #howls moving castle #encylopedia of faeries #the monstrumologist

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I gotta give it to Emily Wilde, she said this bitch Wendell Bambleby ain't normal and proceeded to cite her sources.

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Emily Wilde is THE neurodivergent rep queen. Her parents find her weird and off-putting. She gets to a new town and immediately offends them. She has to constantly remind herself to show empathy. She pulled a faerie king with the power of autistic rizz. Truly the representation we all deserve.

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A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

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Idk if it's obvious but...

(spoiler)

Effie often embroiders emotion without knowing

So, given, These emotions are something only Fae (Juniper) can see,

When Effie, who has clearly fallen for Juniper without even knowing it, puts hours upon hours of thought and emotion into his jacket,

The love that she isn't even aware of is placed in Junipers hands,

To him, she essentially just gave him a love letter...

And then immediately got engaged to another man,

no wonder this man is speechless what a confusing and devastating experience

#juniper jubilee #ten thousand stitches #half a soul #when you put it THAT WAY—

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I read Olivia Atwater’s  REGENCY FAERIE TALES series over the weekend and enjoyed them so much I was compelled to doodle some fanart for them. If you enjoy books like HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE, STARDUST, or anything written by India Holden, I would recommend giving these a read! (Her website also has short stories from this universe)

#half a soul #a thousand stitches

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abigail rlly looked at her mother loving her father and said “i, too, want a dense, temperamental, anti-elitist fae-touched magician who has never had an elocution class in their life to spend all my days with”

#olivia atwater #half a soul #long shadow #longshadow #regency faerie tales #abigail wilder #elias wilder #theodora wilder

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so i work in a well-known library, right, as a part-timer, and it's been great working with the books, they're real friendly and everything. but this is a very exclusive library, right, you have to send in an application and maybe get interviewed to get in because we're dealing with really old archival material here; i've had to dust crumbled paper off of desks and some of the spines of these hundreds-of-years-old books have been replaced with electric tape with their titles rewritten with wite-out from how much the spines have fallen out. i look up and see dead white men glaring down at me from murals and paintings and busts from the ceiling, probably aghast and wondering how a fucking little island girl is handing their precious books and poking at their dutch-painted glass windows with her grimy brown fingers. this is just set-dressing, so you really know where i'm coming from.

anyways, you know those memes that go around writing communities? doesn't matter if you write fics or manuscripts, we've all seen them, liked them, reblogged them.

"writing a slash fic instead of writing i've been googling what jewelry young german women wore in the 1700s"

"i'm pretty sure i'm on the fbi and interpol hitlists because of my search history"

"story prompt: overly helpful serial killer sweetheart x clueless crime fiction writer"

"when you don't know long division but you can talk about the taxation laws in victorian england because you needed to find out how taxes work to make your story believable"

they're memes that make you chuckle, guffaw, and nod because they're relatable! everyone hates the idea of being corrected by a random poindexter who can call you out on your bullshit on victorian tax laws, you uncultured fool, or who happens to know how blood sprays look if you shoot a person a certain way, you gormless coward, not because they were shooting the gun but they were part of the forensics team, pinky promise, i wasn't there on the 15th of november. and it's a bit absurd. like, who exactly knows - or cares - about victorian tax laws? does it really matter to write about reality in all its facets into fiction? majority of your readers probably aren't vampires or other extant immortals so does it really matter if you don't hold history up as accurately as possible in your 30k friends-to-enemies-to-lovers dark academia yuri slashfic? does historical accuracy matter when you're writing about samurais in the heian period in modern english with modern sensibilities? who would even know what stuff was really like back then? some things aren't googlable, and you can't always trust google anyways.

i don't know the answer to all these questions. but i know the answer to one.

so, back to the library.

one day, i'm shelving history books one after the other, listening to an audiobook from a public library using a library card of which i faked my address for me to use. reparations. and way more ethical than piracy in my eyes. support authors, patronize libraries, and all that. when i shelve books, i like to wonder about who reads them and why. what research they're doing. what they're doing here. whether they know how lucky they are. i envy this library where i work. i envy the people who live in this town. i envy the readers. they have all of this because someone recognized the value of hoarding, the value of taking and tabulating and preserving. one could argue it's the colonial way. but enough of that, i'm shelving books, books that i sometimes wonder at, because i never could have imagined so many books on so many topics, and sometimes they are topics that are so trivial and-

and i'm holding, in my hands, a book about the jewelry young german women wore in the 1700s.

being in a university town, you come to understand that academics have their pet projects; the drive to understand the minutiae of their field, of humanity, of nature. think of a topic and there's probably a dissertation for that. you also understand there is a lot of publishing politics, that researchers' papers are paywalled behind exorbitant fees for which they receive no royalties from. you also understand that academia can also be elitist, even when the people inside it call for open access.

to other people, i'm sure i sound incoherent and raving. but i'm sure that there are people out there who understood why i took several moments staring at this book, recalling all those fucking memes about historical accuracy, of people joking that they're looking for things even the internet has no answer for. because the answers do exist. someone's written about them. someone took the time to look at and tabulate and write about german jewelry. someone else, tax laws. some other person, blood sprays, either through study or applied experimentation. the knowledge is out there. they just aren't available to you.

#rbing this onto my main account because it deserves to be seen by all my anti-colonial and anti-capitalist freaks mutuals and followers here #i have a love-hate relationship with my privilege #my world studies teacher in high school allegedly said it isn't wrong to have privilege; what matters is what you do with it #on one hand i know my privilege is useful and often no fault of mine #other times i wonder if i'm utilizing it enough in uplifting others and challenging the status quo or if i verge on perpetuating it #this past month ive had to confront myself more on this topic... #i'm working on things... #booklr #moonymovetheglass.txt

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“I have committed a terrible crime,” she said, voice firm, controlled, machined to a polish. “So terrible that I feel I can do anything, commit any sin, betray any trust, because no matter what ruin I make of myself, it cannot be worse than what I have already done.”

— Seth Dickinson (The Traitor Baru Cormorant)