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This is the only tiktok you’ll ever need, I’ve made about 13 of these and I’m not stopping anytime soon

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Me duele la cabeza

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Devin Elle Kurtz on Instagram

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y’all i promise this is not gonna become a full time boots blog, but he just came home from getting neutered and ... let’s just say that one of us was practically traumatized by the separation and risk of a routine surgery today and the other one of us got home and was like oh shit a bird!!!!

anyway we now return u to ur regularly scheduled memes

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Picture me, a puckish satyr gamboling thru a field on this shit.

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It is under two weeks until Winter’s Orbit comes out!

If you preorder and apply before release, you can claim:

A ‘space is gay’ pin if you are in the US or Canada and bought a US edition

A signed bookplate if you are outside North America and bought a UK edition

The US/CAN pin distribution is being professionally fulfilled, but the signed bookplates are me frantically putting things in envelopes in my day job breaks, so please be kind! Open to everywhere except North America while my postage budget lasts, may be limited to UK if more people take up the offer than my vague guess (I will update this post if so).

Unofficially, if you’d like a dedication or have a favourite quote from the ao3 version, I’m very happy to put that on the bookplate with the signature; please include it in your email.

There will be a small flurry of posts on avoliot and courseofhonourupdates over the next couple of weeks as it turns out release week is super important to the people who make decisions in publishing. It is a very weird time to have a book coming out, but thank you to everyone who has followed along! I am really excited for the new version to get into people’s hands. VERY SOON NOW.

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ALERT, ALERT, MY BOOK HAS A COVER AND IT’S UNBELIEVABLY BLOODY GORGEOUS

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i don't know if the person who made this posted it here already so i sincerely apologize if i'm missing an original post but i am begging you all to watch this!!!!

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Witch Aesthetics

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fuck dude. end of an era. 2020 has taken everything from us

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This is one for the OGs

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If I was Elizabeth Bennet my entire family abandoning me at the dinner table when Mr. Collins requested a private audience would have been my villain origin story.

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i’m gonna get so bullied for this but after doing my english language A level, i’m critical of how much the british accent is mocked—specifically the variant of the accent that’s mocked. this variation (with t-glottalisation, so like wa’er instead of water) is also treated badly within the uk for being predominantly associated with the working class.

accent discrimination is a huge, un-talked about issue here, given that there’s a vast variation of accents and dialects in the uk. i wouldnt expect overseas people to know this, but people really do lose out on jobs etc because of this discrimination, or are judged because they don’t sound “upper-class” and “respectable” enough. there have been instances of schools forcing children with “undesirable” accents to speak “properly” (historically this is very pervasive—the standardisation of english in schools sought to eradicate regional dialects. the linguist john honey believes standard english should be mandatory so that working class people could sound smarter and get better jobs).

and you can see it in pop culture: in movies with british bad guy goons, the baddies usually have a working class or cockney accent (the one people find so funny) as a direct reflection of the notion that working class = bad (101 dalmations is a prime example). on the flip side, suave, smart british villains speak in standard english, reflecting the classist notion that upper class accent = smarter (howard giles’ accentism study showed that “upper class” accents are considered intelligent).

colloquialisms like “innit” are features of working class accents (see cockney english, estuary english, multicultural london english) and yes, these are practically demonised in the uk too, by the upper class and mainstream media to maintain the age old presentation of the working class as rough, uncultured and unintelligent.

this is a good article about how accent discrimination affects employability

this has an infographic about british accents and discrimination

it’s legal for schools to ban specific dialect features

what i’m saying is if you’re gonna make fun of the accent, maybe go for the snobby ones like received pronunciation because these don’t have a history of being used to demonise the working class. boris johnson is literally right there and ready to be bullied

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Somewhere else

#pascalcampion

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PEOPLE. Look at this GLORIOUS COVER they made. This book is QUEER AS HELL and they just went for it.

The official cover bit: While the Iskat Empire has long dominated the system through treaties and political alliances, several planets, including Thea, have begun to chafe under Iskat’s rule. When tragedy befalls Imperial Prince Taam, his Thean widower, Jainan, is rushed into an arranged marriage with Taam’s cousin, the disreputable Kiem, in a bid to keep the rising hostilities between the two worlds under control.

But when it comes to light that Prince Taam’s death may not have been an accident, and that Jainan himself may be a suspect, the unlikely pair must overcome their misgivings and learn to trust one another as they navigate the perils of the Iskat court, try to solve a murder, and prevent an interplanetary war… all while dealing with their growing feelings for each other.

It’s out on February 2nd, you can preorder independently here, or on Kindle etc here!

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James Flint + text posts 

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They’d grown so close, it was hard to know where one ended and the other began. I worried that the act of separating them might destroy them both.

BLACK SAILS (2014-2017)