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One Night in Hartswood and All the Painted Stars ebooks are $0.99 across US & Canada stores throughout June! That's Kobo, Google Books and Kindle that I know of - but check your preferred ebookstore!

Come get your gay medieval yearning and read 'em before Book 3 announcements start happening ✨

One Night in Hartswood is about a guy who runs away the night before his wedding with a Mysterious Hunter (who, uh oh, is the brother of the woman he was supposed to get married to. Woops).

All the Painted Stars is about a woman who steals her brothers' armour and dresses as a knight to save the woman she loves her best friend from being given as a prize in a tournament. Also, there's beer.

Read more about ONIH here and ATPS here!

Not sure if medieval queers are your jam? Read the first chapter of One Night in Hartswood for free here!

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the more things change the more they stay the same

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Hey im gana leave my dog here can you keep her safe?🐕

yes yes of course i will keep your dog safe

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Hear y'all like rats.

You can get your rat ass prints also:

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US AGAINST THE WORLD by Gavin Aung Than

This is the third appearance of the Ballet Boy and his father. You can read PART 1 and PART 2.

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I am happy because everyone loves me

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Kieran, whenever he compiles information for Lauren and she's pleasantly surprised and impressed with him:

THANK YOU @annamlynska for the thought fodder that Kieran presented the lead for Chow's case and Redcliff's file to Lauren "in the same way that other men give flowers or small gifts to girls they like. If he could, he would tie a bow on them for Lauren and put them in a fancy box. :D" I LOVE YOUR BRAIN

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at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:

like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"

and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.

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Nosy ass plant

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You'd think writing a chapter would make you one chapter closer to being done with a fic. You'd think that, wouldn't you??

But no, you are in fact 3 chapters further away.

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i was seeing all these little blue flowers everywhere and kept thinking "dang what are these bitches, i can't remember..." well guess what. they were fuckin forget-me-nots. can't believe i failed step fucking 1, the hot girls on iNaturalist are going to laugh at me and i'm gonna flunk out of hobby botany school.

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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FILMS WATCHED IN 2025:

24. A Knight's Tale (2001) dir. Brian Helgeland

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Darius painted his first art piece today

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something fun about all those "could granny weatherwax defeat kira" "could the infinity train fix izzy hands" sort of tumblr polls is like. there's a smug answer that's just "it depends whose story they're in," like, bugs bunny always wins if the genre is a looney tunes short but if he's in some sort of grimdark action drama then he's just a rabbit and gets shot by a hunter. but the other way to look at those polls is that's the whole question: whose genre rules have priority? there are some characters whose genre rules take priority over whatever story they're in.

here's what i say, granny weatherwax would always defeat kira precisely because granny can't exist in the death note universe without her own genre rules taking over; there's no "if it's a light yagami story then light wins" here because if granny's there it isn't a light yagami story. bugs bunny always wins because whatever story he enters becomes a looney tunes short, he cannot by his nature exist in any other context. the answer to "which our flag means death character could survive black sails?" is stede bonnet and only stede bonnet, because if any other ofmd character enters black sails they become a black sails character and most black sails characters die. but stede is the one who carries the romcom aura and that's part of who he is, if stede enters the world of black sails then black sails is now a romcom, and he's absolutely fine