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Dragon room

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Trying to learn how to paint things in motion, fabric, backgrounds in perspective, and sharp light.

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This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

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the category of “woman” has since its inception been bound up in fundamentally racial, cissexual, and class terms. “Woman” has never once been a category that all women belonged to, not because they aren’t “actually” women but because gender is a structure that mediates access to personhood, and being granted personhood has historically been a privilege reserved for the very few (white, bourgeois, cis-heterosexual, perisex, etc). JKR is not being a hypocrite by saying, on the one hand, that she wants to “protect women,” and then on the other attacks women of colour, trans women, intersex women, and so on. she is participating in the centuries-old Western tradition of policing the boundaries of gender and thus who gets counted as human. expressing incredulity at this supposed hypocrisy is just revealing that you have not engaged with even introductory level writing on the subject, which is why the charge of hypocrisy is not only unhelpful but actively obfuscates the oppressive structure of gender

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Dear friend ❤️

Look to the life in gaza its not suitable for people and animals 💔😭

Look how the dog is suffering from war in gaza 💔

Please help us to evacuate from gaza 🙏🙏

@90-ghost @northgazaupdates2 @riding-with-the-wild-hunt

@sar-soor

@el-shab-hussine

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I've seen little about it so, Just an FYI what's been unfolding in England today. Far-right protestors are literally trying to kill asylum seekers in hotels.

In Rotherham, Yorkshire fascists have tried to set a hotel on fire with migrants staying there. Some signalling cut-throat gestures at the people staying in the rooms.

In Tamworth, Staffordshire the very same thing is happening. Another hotel has been set on fire with asylum seekers still inside alongside racist graffiti.

Other similar protests that are going uncountered are happening in Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stoke-on-Trent and many more areas, chances are there will be one somewhere by you if things keep going the way they are. Nazis are literally strolling about unchallenged and these people are marching happily with them. There are more sensitive videos online which I won't share here but there are groups of nazis chasing down and circling black people in cities and beating them up, indian and chinese takeaways being targetted, turkish barbers being set alight and there have been incidents of muslims being assaulted and even stabbed.

BUT... There are success stories from UK cities where riots have failed due to no turnout or due to antifascists driving far-right pricks out of the city.

Cardiff, Wales - About 5 fascists turn up compared to 500 conuter-protestors. They failed to get anyone here despite trying two times.

Liverpool, Merseyside - A significant EDL mob is marched out of the city and fought against. Counter-protestors form a ring around a mosque being targetted.

Bristol, City of - antifascists block the entrance to a hotel that nazis are trying to get into as well as a fierce citywide push against the EDL and racism.

Nottingham, East Midlands - A huge antifascist counter protest outnumbers EDL and the far-right, preventing a riot from occuring.

There are many many more of these riots planned. If you're in the UK get organised and be prepared to fight alongside the people who make our communities stong and resiliant and make our country and cities a wonderful vibrant and friendly place to be. Help by whatever means you can. If you are not from the UK then please signal boost this because this needs to stop this nastiness from spreading and to make nazis afraid again.

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y’all were so enthusiastic in your response to previous asks about books with polyamorous representation that we had to make that list happen sooner rather than later!!

check out our polyamory book list on Libby! we’ll continue adding to the list as our collection continues to grow <3

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Just a reminder that testosterone is not a magic "good at sports" potion, that humans all have both testosterone and estrogen, and that saying a woman's *natural* hormone levels give her an unfair advantage at sports is like arguing that tall women should be banned from professional basketball.

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🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this August? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of?

Part 1 of 2 due to link limits. Books listed above their respective graphics.

Note: Some dates may have changed. We haven’t read all of these books, so please check reviews for more details on queer identities represented and check StoryGraph for content warnings!

ID: A post of ten slides. Background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow for each slide. Slide one has a white square which reads "138 queer books coming out this August!". The 138 is in matching horizontal rainbow stripes and August is in red text. Text between the number and month are all caps black font. Slides 2-7 feature a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a red rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Slides 8-9 feature a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a red rectangle and book covers in four rows of 6 book covers each. Slide 10 features the same setup with only 18 book covers and the rest of the spaces are pale red rectangles. End ID.

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Wolf Bite (Outcast Pack Book 8) by TJ Nichols

The Brujos of Borderland High by Gume Laurel III

Daylan and the River of Secrets by Edd Tello

Brother’s Keeper by Quinn Cameron

Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 years by Fred D'Aguiar; Lindsay Barrett; Paterson Joseph; Zita Holbourne; Ray Shell, Tony Medina; Tade Thompson; Aurora Metro

In the Valley, A Shadow by Sam Tano

Back to Back by Jo Fletcher

Not My Circus: Triumph Over Abuse, Trauma & Family Secrets - A Journey to Self-Love, Pride and Remarkable Resilience by Delicia Niami

Riyati Rebirth (Riyati Series Book I) by Kalani Shimizu

Follow my Lead by Adrian J. Smith

Tasting Temptation by J.J. Arias

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Yours to Remember by Lily X

Taylor-Made for Me by K.C. Wells

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The Sunforge (The Endsong 2) by Sascha Stronach

The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities around the World by Lee Wind

​​Failure to Comply by Cavar

 Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase (Spooky Boys 3) Fae Quin

I Don't Want To Be Understood by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

Mammoth (Tríptic 3) by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches

New Release from SMP 

The House Where Death Lives Anthology edited by Alex Brown

The Unlikely Pair (Unlikely Dilemmas 2) by Jax Calder

Queering Reproductive Justice by Candace Bond-Theriault

Gender Explained: A New Understanding of Identity in a Gender Creative World by Diane Ehrensaft PhD and Michelle Jurkiewicz PsyD

How it All Ends by Emma Hunsinger

This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings

Better Left Buried by Mary E. Roach

Crushing It by Erin Becker

Transgenesis by Ava Nathaniel Winter

Lessons from Cruising by Martin Goodman

Idol Lives by KT Salvo

Don’t Fall For A Rockstar by Ava Olsen

New Release from Wednesday Books

Dark Restraint by Katee Robert

Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson

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Nothing Heals me like You Do by Harper Bliss

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I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies by Heidi Honeycutt

The Duchess of Kokora by Nikhil Prabala

Recovering Jilted Bride by Lindsey Pennington

​​Tied Down (Trophy Doms New York 2) by Kate Hawthorne

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Bouquets & Belonging by Duckie Mack

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Sparks Fly by Emily Hayes

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Time's Agent by Brenda Peynado

The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang

Special Topics in Being a Parent: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I’ve Learned About Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way by S Bear Bergman, illustrated by Saul Freedman-Lawson

Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)

The Dark We Know by Wen-yi Lee

Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki

Comes in Waves by Ana Harnett

Chance Encounter by Renee Roman

Can’t Buy Me Love by Georgia Beers

The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis

Untethered by Shelley Thrasher

Skyscraper by Gun Brooke

Dancing with Dahlia by Julia Underwood

You Can't Go Home Again by Jeanette Bears

The Heart Wants by Krystina Rivers

Eat Your Heart Out Vol. 1 by Terry Blas, Matty Newton, Lydia Anslow

How to Leave the House by Nathan Newman

Zombie Apocalypse Running Club by Carrie Mac

You’re Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust and Movies by Desiree Akhavan

Key Lime Sky by Al Hess

The Italy Letters by Vi Khi Nao

Settle the Score by Kris Ripper

The Avian Hourglass by Lindsey Drager

Wish You Would by ​​Meika Usher

Wild Ginger in the Rhubarb by Eule Grey

The Curse by Alexandra Riley

The Tighthead (Lincoln Knights Book One) by Charlie Novak

Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood 1) by K.M. Enright

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Take Her on by Emily Wright

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