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The way IM SO HYPED FOR THE NEW BALINI SINGH BOOK. LITERALLY LOST MY DAMN MARBLES FOR IT. LIKE AFTER THE INTENSE HATE FOR ILLIUM AND AODHAN AND NOW WE ARE GETTING ARWEN AND PAVEL??? LITERALLY SO HYPED AND EXCITED AND THE BOOK IS COMING OUT IN JULY?? MY BDAY MONTH HELLDHAKYHSKDHD

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I miss when I was desperately waiting for this so much.

THE WINGS ARE BLUE AND SILVER. 

I am dying.

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I joked a few minutes ago about how in internet discourse anyone over 25 is a “queer elder” but come to think of it most of these young discoursers don’t even believe such a concept exists. Gay men who watched their entire friends groups perish to AIDS are “privileged cis gays,” older trans women who use dated terminology to describe their own experiences are problematic, elders are just a conservative old guard to rebel against, and anyone over thirty who speaks to you at all must be a predator. The first time I heard the phrase “okay groomer” online, it wasn’t coming from self identified conservatives but from tiktok teens reacting against leather at Pride. You guys are ignorant and uncultured and proud of it!

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there's a Czech transdude in one of my servers who was like going through the complex process of trying to get binders from the UK and it's like my dude. that's gonna cost a fuck ton cuz of brexit shipping and so i told him about an online shop in amsterdam. in the process of getting that info one of the irl trans guys i know is like "i have two old binders from that shop, why don't we just mail it to him?"

so i'm mailing him two free binders (it'll be super cheap to send within' the eu) and in exchange i'm getting his grandma's secret recipe for Žemlovka

this is the pinnacle. community is actually about secret grandma recipes and sharing used gender affirming clothing

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🐈‍⬛📦

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Five Princes by Tomas Honz

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Alexander's muscles tensed, his skin rigid - and it had little to do with his hatred of Rumaia. "Is this our future, Callie? An aimless existence devoid of challenge or growth?"

"I hope not, "Alex," Caliane said, but he knew the fear would haunt her, as it did him.

"Let's vow to stay young in our hearts. Always." He held out a forearm as snow began to dust their shoulders. One of his ravens landed on his shoulder at the same instant, stark black against the falling white.

Though Caliane returend the hold in the way of warriors, her expression was solemn through the snow. "I'm not certain that's a vow we'll be able to keep. Immortality is a slow and relentless march that crushes everything in its path. We are but its foot soldiers."

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Nalini gets me

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Illium / Aodhan Question from Nalini Q&A with with Sarah J. Maas: Archangel's Sun

Interview in January 2021. Sarah asks the Illium / Aodhan question starting at 35:37

https://youtu.be/f4gtXMrI2YI

Nalini says:

“When I started, Angel’s Blood was meant to be a one off. It was meant to be this one book that I wrote. Completely one book. So I never wrote the secondary characters as anything but to be in that one book, and so who I thought they were then is not who they’ve become. It’s been this learning curve for me, especially with Illium and Aodhan.

When we began - when we first see them interacting - I think it’s very clear that Aodhan is the damaged one and Illium is the stronger one. As it’s gone on, I feel like particularly in this latest book and the book before it, it’s becoming more clear that Illium is actually the more vulnerable one and Aodhan is starting to find his strength. So their relationship is the definition of that Facebook status, you know: ‘it’s complicated’.

 So for me, it’s complicated as well. I’m very open to wherever they’re going to take me, but I’m very wary of predicting it at all because I have been surprised multiple times through this series. I could not have predicted that vulnerability in Illium that we’re seeing. So, I guess, my answer is that the book for either character - both characters, however it may be - will come when they’re ready, and there is a hint to what’s happening in the end of Archangel’s Sun and that is all I’m going to say. The end.”

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your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. i would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

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So now that the blurb is out, I’m waiting for some teaser content. Now that it’s out I can’t think about anything else even more.

Like Storm Echo is almost here, Archangel’s Resurrection, she signed another contract for more Guild Hunter books. How am I supposed to think about anything else? 😭😭

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THE BLURB IS HERE AND I LOST MY MIND AND SOUL IT’S ALEXANDER AND ZANAYA

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I would die to hold one

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Do you see this behind me Fernando? FERNANDO DO SOMETHING THE RESPOSIBILITIES ARE COMING CLOSER?

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which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

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Be gone siren, my only desire is sleep without these horny mofos trying to jump into water FORGETTING THAT THEY CAN’T SWIM.

okay but a story about an asexual pirate who gets made fun of by the crew until he saves all of them from sirens