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i just want team biscuit to have fun adventures and be happy let me have this

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What’s big and white and will kill you if it falls out a tree?

A freezer.

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If, at any point in the past year, you and I have talked to each other to the extent of saying three sentences strung together, I have probably mentioned Natalie Ironside and “The Last Girl Scout”. To recap, The Last Girl Scout (hereafter TLGS) is one of the most moving, genuinely captivating stories about love, hope, and the process of healing that I’ve ever read, very cleverly disguised as 600 pages of rollicking post-apocalyptic road-trip adventure novel about two transbians who shoot Nazis, save the world, and h*ld h*nds.

Well, Ms. Ironside has gone and done it again, in the form of her new anthology “Lead and Roses”, a collection of short stories exploring the characters and world of TLGS. It’s available right now for preorder (links below) and yours truly managed to get her grubby little anarchist hands on a copy to review!

I don’t want to spoil too much, so I’ll just say a sentence or two about each piece in the Anthology.

Stories: Two women love each other very, very much. An exploration of the different kinds of leadership needed to create something wonderful.

The Last American: Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a strong right hook.

The White Goddess: Young love and a double-bit felling axe can overcome any obstacle.

Werewolf: A young man experiences regret. From a write-craft standpoint, probably the best depiction of the mental experience of near-starvation I’ve ever seen in a work of fiction.

That’s A Christmas To Me: One young woman’s journey to find the true meaning of Christmas. (This one is a longer piece, featuring the principal characters of TLGS)

You don’t have to have read TLGS to read “Lead and Roses”, although again I cannot recommend TLGS strongly enough. Set either far before or in the years immediately following the events of the first book, the stories in “Lead and Roses” are perfect for existing fans wanting more and for new readers who want to sample Ms. Ironside’s wasteland world before deciding whether to pick up TLGS (you should).

A word of caution, though. Ms. Ironside’s work deals with some real heavy shit at times. That’s why both TLGS and “Lead and Roses” come with thorough content warnings in the author’s notes at the beginning. Read the warnings, heed the warnings, abide by the warnings, and you shouldn’t have any trouble enjoying these books as much as I have.

If you want to take a look for yourself, “Lead and Roses” e-books are available for a $3 preorder through either Amazon or Gumroad. Help out a new author and get yourself a damn fine read in the process. 

Pre-order on Amazon

Pre-order on Gumroad

Paperback release is July 1

Yours, humbly

Me 

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As done as it's getting

A DnD au for FMA where Ed addidentally on purpose becomes a tiny necromancer

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Nap time

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In theory, these two were not connected but I love this

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From a potential AU-crossover where, when quirks appeared, animals developed into pokemon at the same time. There are still normal animals, but also pokemon when specific quirks were bred for.

A lot of heroes have pokemon to fight with them. But, there is a belief that, unless you have a quirk, you can’t handle a pokemon, so Izu never gets to have one (legally). Then, one day, he finds an injured magikarp and accidentally on purpose starts a wild pokemon rescue.

The magikarp (deemed useless just like quirkless Deku) is never reported and Izu grows up surrounded by wild pokemon who are willing to help out every once and a while.