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I guess this is what would happen if a werewolf bit a skeleton.

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Please check out me friend’s newly published book, there is even a free prequel you can download to check out first:

A necromage and a graverobber need to hunt down a magic-resistant zombie they accidentally set loose to avoid having their crimes discovered.

In 1880 Charleston, disguising herself as a man is only the start of what Wilhelmina Ashton must do to succeed in the Medical and Magical College of South Carolina. As a necromage, she needs something truly exceptional to satisfy her ambitions��such as a corpse that’s rumored to reanimate by itself.

With the hired help of Dirty Henry, a gruff graverobber, she sneaks into the cemetery to steal this unique cadaver. The lynch pin of their plan is Ashton’s magic, but at the crucial moment it has no effect on the revenant. Thrown into a desperate fight for survival against this malevolent undead creature, they must resort to extreme measures. Using a dangerous and poorly-understood spell, she and Dirty Henry barely manage to escape with their lives.

Now stuck within twenty feet of each other at all times as a result of the spell, the unlikely allies are forced to work together. It’s a heart-pounding race against time to stop the creature they let loose before it can slaughter the townsfolk. Or worse, fall into the scheming hands of Ashton's academic rival, Valois.

A Gaslamp Fantasy, Horror Comedy, Southern Gothic, Adventure with a sapphic MC and a unique magic system.

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Some helpful info for trans folks. If you are thinking about or getting hrt, this is the most up to date guidelines for gender affirming care with the starting dose and max dose for hormones and other info: https://transcare.ucsf.edu/guidelines

For those in the US that are looking for a doc, I would highly recommend checking out your local family medicine or internal medicine residency clinics. A residency clinic is staffed by resident doctors who completed medical school but need to have 3 years additional training under a board certified doctor called an attending before they can practice independently. Residents tend to be young millennials and gen Z’s with a great will to learn. Now to be fair they probably have never prescribed HRT and are learning how to do it on you, but most are friendly and eager and they have an attending keeping an eye on them to make sure they don’t do anything stupid. I tell my patient’s it’s like getting two doctors for the price of one. The visits tend to be longer and sometimes the hours get wildly out of hand, but we are still learning and we also take the sickest patients in the community (homeless, no insurance, fired from other clinics, etc) so sometimes the visit before yours can go an hour long because they are trying to save someone’s necrotic foot or once in my case, run across the street to deliver a baby.

I currently only have one trans patient that I started on HRT, but am eager for more. I feel kind of bad for how enthusiastically I responded to their end of the appointment request. I told them flat out that I didn’t know what I was doing, and I wanted them to come back in a week so I could do some research. I started slow and cautious because I didn’t know what I was doing, but I explained my plan and reasoning to the patient and asked if they wanted to do things faster and they seemed happy with the slow approach. I started with spironolactone because it helps decrease testosterone. I didn’t start estrogen at the same time, even though you can, because I hate prescribing two new things at once, because it’s difficult to figure out what could be causing side effects. You don’t really need base labs, but I wanted a basic metabolic panel and a testosterone level. The bmp is mostly to check potassium because spironolactone can cause it to increase which can cause deadly cardiac arrhythmias. Most people with healthy kidneys handle it fine, but I have seen it spike and in hrt you use way more than you usually use for like cirrhosis. The testosterone baseline is just nice for seeing where you are starting from. Then I added estrogen 2mg at a time with a max of 8mg a day. After that it’s just checking testosterone and estrogen levels to shoot for goals of afab people but it changes depending on person. Some people still want erections so you don’t want testosterone levels under 100 some don’t, everyone is different and happy in different levels, and of course this is all mtf specific, I haven’t actually prescribed ftm yet.

But anyways for people thinking about hrt, give your local residency clinic a try. I bet they will be more eager and understanding and explain things more than a lot of older docs.

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This is absolutely gorgeous

The lovely people of Renegade Bindery collected a volume of tumblr “folktales”.

Here’s my spin on it!

A three-piece Bradel binding featuring:

🦀 covers in all the fun shades of tumblr blue with the post that started it all on the back cover;

🦀 logo linoprinted on dark blue linen spine;

🦀 crab party on the endpapers;

🦀 my first attempt at sewing double core endbands;

🦀 edges painted to look like ✨space✨

🦀 custom bookmark because more memes is always a good idea, right?

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Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

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My adaptation of the God of Arepo short story, which was originally up at ShortBox Comics Fair for charity. You can get a copy of the DRM-free ebook here for free - and I'd encourage you to donate to Mighty Writers or The Ministry of Stories in exchange.

Again it's an honour to be drawing one of my favourite short stories ever. Thank you so much for the original authors for creating this story; and for everyone who bought a copy and donated to the above non-profits.

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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Must draw…eventually

the rabbit said to the wolf, "I do not carry my guilt on my back, for I have such powerful legs that I might run far, far away from it."

licking his lips, the wolf replied, "I too am free of guilt, and its hold upon this troubled heart."

"like me, you run?" asked the rabbit, confused and curious.

"oh, no," said the wolf, smiling wide, smiling furious, "for my teeth are sharp,

and I dine on it."

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Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries

Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn’t making enough money, so they’re shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of its customers acquired effective July 1.

Customers will receive refunds.

This puts the difference between DRM-locked media and unencumbered media into sharp contrast. I have bought a lot of MP3s over the years, thousands of them, and many of the retailers I purchased from are long gone, but I still have the MP3s. Likewise, I have bought many books from long-defunct booksellers and even defunct publishers, but I still own those books.

When I was a bookseller, nothing I could do would result in your losing the book that I sold you. If I regretted selling you a book, I didn’t get to break into your house and steal it, even if I left you a cash refund for the price you paid.

People sometimes treat me like my decision not to sell my books through Amazon’s Audible is irrational (Audible will not let writers or publisher opt to sell their books without DRM), but if you think Amazon is immune to this kind of shenanigans, you are sadly mistaken. My books matter a lot to me. I just paid $8,000 to have a container full of books shipped from a storage locker in the UK to our home in LA so I can be closer to them. The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some kind of fucking software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I can imagine: if the publishing industry deliberately set out to destroy any sense of intrinsic, civilization-supporting value in literary works, they could not have done a better job.

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html

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the rabbit said to the wolf, "I do not carry my guilt on my back, for I have such powerful legs that I might run far, far away from it."

licking his lips, the wolf replied, "I too am free of guilt, and its hold upon this troubled heart."

"like me, you run?" asked the rabbit, confused and curious.

"oh, no," said the wolf, smiling wide, smiling furious, "for my teeth are sharp,

and I dine on it."

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This is so gorgeous exactly the kind of art style I love. Such a good representation of Cas too, both radiant and a little sad. Go give this artist @art-rover some love looks like their blog is new.

the gayest angel of them all

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Art for DCBB 2021 for The Presence of Feathers by arcticfox007

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Partners and Coworkers

Partners and Coworkers— a 2021 romantic comedy film starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan. The story centers around Sam Wilson, aka the Falcon, a superhero who flies solo. But when the evil Baron Zemo threatens the wellbeing of the entire population of Earth, Sam's supervisors decide to pair him with another superhero, Bucky Barnes, aka the White Wolf, aka Sam's ex. Stopping Baron Zemo might just become the least difficult part of this new mission.

Special thanks to @magnificentcookie and @wenellyb

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What anxiety? I have CHEEKBONES!