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the thing that's so delightful and just presses ALL my buttons about making money (and the truth w william de worde) is that vetinari just decides to start treating moist von lipwig like his son and giving him all this paternal advice but never tells him that's what he's doing

and it's the funniest thing in the world. your insane gay italian dad, a dictator, who knows you better than anybody else in the world except your matches-your-freak sadistic just-as-bisexual-as-you girlfriend, nearly had you executed last time he talked to you like this

and now he's being so casual and so friendly but why would he act like this if he WASN'T going to execute you again, given that he's unfortunately quite LIKE your girlfriend and would probably also put cigarettes out on you if he didn't hate the smell of smoke

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If you want to escape from it all this summer, make sure you don't end up in this fucked up paranormal-riddled seaside town in East Sussex. You may never leave.

Start anywhere in the series - yes THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD is out, it is indie pubbed so you will be able to give the ISBN to a local indie bookstore to order in. The other 2 are published with Canelo, recently acquired by DK Publishing (Penguin Random House).

EDIT: links here:

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As a reminder that there are aromantic people who are not asexual, I wrote a whole fantasy novel with 2 aromantic allosexual MCs, both non-monogamous and both bisexual. A lot of monster fucking takes place, and a deep platonic affection, but no romance.

That's my Dark Gothic Fantasy YELEN & YELENA, a Beauty and the Beast reimagining for aros and monster fuckers.

There is a sapphic riff on Orpheus & Eurydice as a subplot, an HEA, an orgy of the dead, rot plague, and village clearances in a time of civil unrest.

It is unashamedly political and community focused, and a critique of social isolation, so

There's that

And it is £1.99 across all platforms for the Monster Manor Book Fair.

You can also grab it in the Monster Manor Bundle on Itch.

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As a reminder that there are aromantic people who are not asexual, I wrote a whole fantasy novel with 2 aromantic allosexual MCs, both non-monogamous and both bisexual. A lot of monster fucking takes place, and a deep platonic affection, but no romance.

That's my Dark Gothic Fantasy YELEN & YELENA, a Beauty and the Beast reimagining for aros and monster fuckers.

There is a sapphic riff on Orpheus & Eurydice as a subplot, an HEA, an orgy of the dead, rot plague, and village clearances in a time of civil unrest.

It is unashamedly political and community focused, and a critique of social isolation, so

There's that

And it is £1.99 across all platforms for the Monster Manor Book Fair.

You can also grab it in the Monster Manor Bundle on Itch.

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Reading a lot of WW1 nurse diaries and memoirs for a new sapphic supernatural story set in a field hospital and loving how the weather features so heavily in all of them because it is fucking wet in Northern France same as here and my god will they tell you about it

I love that gas-gangrene is dealt with very matter-of-factly and then you get lots of lyrical descriptions of a sunset, or the weather, or flower picking in the woods. People have to cope.

Also I can't read these entries especially the shell strikes and terrible injuries without thinking of Gaza rn.

Devastating.

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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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Monster Manor Book Fair is on now - don't miss out! Get 118 DRM-free eBooks for $25, and directly support queer and trans creators. #BookSale #DiscountedBooks #LGBTQIA

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Monster Manor Book Fair is on now - don't miss out! Get 118 DRM-free eBooks for $25, and directly support queer and trans creators. #BookSale #DiscountedBooks #LGBTQIA

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it's almost pride month again. what a great reminder for Please Be Normal about these people:

- aromantic people who aren't asexual.

- asexual people who aren't aromantic.

- cishet aromantic and cishet asexual people.

- aromantic men in general.

- intersex people who are trans.

- intersex people who are are cis.

- intersex people who are cistrans/tris and those who are neither.

- intersex people who are cishet.

- intersex people in general.

- nonbinary people who don't personally identify as transfem or transmasc.

- nonbinary people who don't want to be androgynous.

- cis people who use neopronouns and/or xenogenders while still feeling cis fits just fine.

- people who feel gender dysphoria or misgendered when referred to by they/them, especially after telling you not to use they/them.

PART TWO.

⚠️ Do not use they/them if talking about me to others in reblogs/comments. I have neopronouns in my pinned post ⚠️

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Asexuals were always part of pride and it really fucking shows when people think it's a recent term.

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Time for another #poet interview! V. Walker shares her poetry collection THE FRAGILE HUMANS WE ARE with us. #poetry #AuthorInterview #AuthorSpotlight

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Me & My Books

My name is Robin Jo Margaret. I write mostly monster and paranormal romance and erotica, but I sometimes write about normal humans, too.

You can find me on instagram, tiktok, patreon/subscribestar (for the NSFW art and bonus content), bookbub and bluesky.

Subscribe to my newsletter to stay up to date with me and my books.

My Fantasy and Monster Books:

Supernaturals of Balkwill Series:

#1: In the Care of Magic - F/X, witch/sex demon, plus size, bisexual, agender, neopronouns, aromantic, queerplatonic, cozy, cottagecore, magic used for and during sex, unique anatomy, fantasy erotica

#1.5: The Witch and Her Demon - F/X, bonus content of ITCOM with a sneak peek to the main character of book 2

#2: Coming Soon - M/M/M, trans man, human/ghost/sex demon, plus size, fantasy romance, erotica

Monster Mixer (Anthology) Series:

Monster Mixer Volume One - collection of short stories, sex club, M/M, F/F/M, M/F, human/minotaur, vampire/werewolf, werebunny/demon/demon, orc/fairy, trans man, trans woman, bisexual, gay, pansexual, polyamory, plus size, autism, contemporary fantasy romance, erotica

Standalones:

Blessed by the Cupid Distribution System - F/F, human/cupid, white trans woman, ace-spec, plus size Black woman, interracial couple, inexperienced MCs, autism, paranormal romance

Rescuing Krampus: M/F, human/Krampus, Black bisexual FMC, autistic coded awkward old man Krampus, he’s plus size and she’s mid size, cock pocket and knotting, holiday monster romance

Short Stories:

Dangerous Devotion - F/X, nun/God, dark fantasy with no romance or happy ending, religious trauma, sex-cult adjacent religion, God is genderfluid, plus size and mid size rep

The Cursed Woman (part of the anthology She Was Monstress Volume One) - F/F/F/F, human/sex demons, plus size & mid size rep, one unexpected night of passion, hidden pussy and tentacle cock, erotic fantasy

[ CURRENTLY FREE ] Love At Orc's Sight (originally part of the anthology One Monstrous Feast): T4T M/M, orc/dragon, childhood friends to strangers to lovers, hermit blue collar plus size MMC, high school teacher twink MMC, he brought the strap, tail play

My Contemporary (and Human) Books:

Sandwort University Adventures Series:

Pillow Forts and Hurricanes - M/F, new adult, slice-of-life, bisexual, aromantic, discussing the potential of a queerplatonic relationship, PCOS, autism (main character but also side characters), plus size & nonbinary side characters

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Saw a post about how halal and kosher meat will likely be the only reliably safe options in the US because their safety and cleanliness standards aren't dictated by what's the barest legal minimum that government food safety regulations demand.

So you're like 5 years away from "ever notice how the musulmans and jews never get sick from bad meat? clearly this is proof that they are poisoning us" right now.

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Its obvious to me when people who post about canaries in mines have never met a canary. Like yeah the miners had a special device to revive the canary because canaries are one of the most adorable creatures on the planet and they make adorable little chirping sounds and honestly probably loved the sounds of machinery and people talking so it was probably loud and friendly with the workers. Whatever though maybe meet a canary sometime and youd understand

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"Pride is not a party"

Yes the fuck it is, stop being a baby

Yes pride is a riot and a fight and yadda yadda yadda but you are not revolutionary for sucking the joy out of queerness. Sometimes, pride is a party. It is a celebration of the fact that we are here, we're queer, and we're not going anywhere. And that is just as important as throwing bricks and fighting cops, actually.

If your activism doesn't allow you to enjoy the fruits of your labors you will burn out babe. Go suck some dick. Hit on that lesbian. Get the faggy haircut!!! Dance, for the love of god.

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Tl;dr how you can personally make Neil Gaiman lose money (and not be a jerk to others.)

I see a lot of folks upset that NG will financially benefit from residuals and other compensation surrounding his involvement in the adaptation of Sandman and Good Omens (and he will.) But the answer isn’t “rage at the fans who are so emotionally attached to their blorbos because they grieve differently, and then somehow NG will be financially punished.” That’s lower-class/middle-class thinking. NG is too rich and financially diversified to really be hurt by little boycott or a couple of show cancellations (though said cancellations can cause life-changing poverty to the little guys who signed contracts and turned down other opportunities before all of this came out. Boy does NG love women in poverty 🤮)

So if you want to substantially reduce the wealth of someone at NG’s financial level—you need to do it with professional services fees.

Details below the cut:

The firm that NG has apparently engaged for online reputation management (ORM), called edendale, was once paid for their professional testimony in an unrelated slander lawsuit, which was delivered in the form of a report (2) outlining the strategy ORM firms use and (2) just how ludicrously expensive those professional services cost. (Credit to horrornobody77 for digging up the report.) We’re talking hundred of thousands of dollars for a small potatoes case, where NG’s could easily get into the millions for ORM and associated legal fees.

It’s not that long of a read, but to summarize the key action items you can take:

📆 -ORMs wait for the discourse to die down, because active discourse is much more expensive to counter. Wanna cost NG money? Talk about the accusations over time. Set a quarterly calendar event in your phone to remind yourself to post (and otherwise engage on other people’s posts) about the Vulture article. This needs to happens for years, so that NG has to pay for more comprehensive ORM and for longer.

✅-Make discourse that is Google-friendly. Use the words edendale will find concerning (they’re already running fluff pieces with the terms Neil Gaiman Uncovered to try and bury the similarly named subreddit.) If you just post a link without much comment, it’s not gonna be prioritized by search engines. Similarly, if you make a low effort post and then no one else engages with it—it’s not going to make it to the top ten search results. Engage with each other, for heaven’s sake!

🦾-Don’t let the fluff sit unaddressed. If you see random bot posts sharing NG quotes captioning random fantasy art (possibly AI or misattributed /stolen) with the comments turned on? Respond! Make it hard for the bots to understand your comment but easy for humans. “Nice quote! Mega bummer about what NG did, I used to really like him,” is hard for a bot to auto-delete. “Fuck NG,” is practically doing the bot’s autodelete command for it.

✍️ -If/when you post fan works for properties strongly related to Neil Gaiman, leave a lil callout in the author’s notes. Nothing that will get you sued, just a few words like: “I would definitely personally choose to not ever meet Neil Gaiman at a comic con.” Maybe throw in a link to your fav tumblr summary.

Anyway, to the person being paid hundreds or thousands of dollars per hour by Neil Gaiman for professional services—you’re welcome for the extra billable hours 😘

Also Edendale sounds like a law firm in a Good Omens legal AU fic, and I can’t believe it’s real.