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(source: El Paso Herald, July 9, 1910.)

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i saw a license plate this morning that said ‘drgn slr’ which probably means ‘dragon slayer’ but ‘dragon slur’ is funnier. dragon faggot. draggot if you will.

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Just a reminder that you can get a totally free copy of my new book, without having to pirate it. All you have to do is review it when you're done reading it.

I have finished assembling the ARCs and have set them up for distribution, so if you wanted to read a copy of the book FOR FREE in advance of it's release date (all you have to do in return is promise to post an honest review), then SIGN UP HERE.

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Howdy! I'm putting my comic online! The Death of Baba Yaga is an (incredibly loose) gothic western re-telling of Vasilisa the Beautiful, wherein a young woman must come to terms with her own powers while being forced to apprentice for a witch. New pages every Monday :)

www.babayagacomic.com

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there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

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This is not what I had in mind when I wrote my short story "The Once and Nowish King". But also yes, this is exactly what I had in mind 😅

Flatmates AU

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i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other, as in theyre the retelling of the same war with one saying here’s what happened, we all died, and it did not matter at all and another going hush little boy, of course we won, of course your friends came back

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If you could relive any memory of your past, what would it be?

Opening night the first time I played Annie. I was so hyped up on nerves that I don't recall all the wonderful details. I wish I could go through it all again in slowmo.

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I'll always! Whether it's about the craft or business of writing, or just anything else you want to know about me, I love when we used to ask each other questions and leave each other little messages. I miss it.

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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and what are we going to do when the HP series comes out and we start seeing a resurgence of the fandom here including gifsets and fics. like are u guys gonna bring up your neurodivergence and cry "can we separate the art from the artist!!!!! you dont need to pay to watch it!!!!!its my comfort show and I'm DEPRESSED and AUTISTIC"

what then

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I have finished assembling the ARCs and have set them up for distribution, so if you wanted to read a copy of the book FOR FREE in advance of it's release date (all you have to do in return is promise to post an honest review), then SIGN UP HERE.

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Wow those are Gorgeous 🥰. Very well done!

I am really proud of the typesetting here :)

A Game of Thrones Anthology with works by @astolat

These are some of my favourite astolat Game of Thrones fics in book form.

(I've included "Gifts", "Pretty", "Traveling Far", "The Next Time", "Raised by Wolves" and "Let The River Run")

More pictures and me yappin' under the cut

Each work begins with a title page that not only shows the fic's title but also includes a small illustration (mostly medieval-style heraldry) based on the pairing(s) of that particular story (e.g. a lion for House Lannister, a sun and moon for Tarth, ...). These images were sourced from rawpixel and further edited and combined.

I also picked the title color for each fic from a medieval frame I used on the following page. It is from a ca. 1450 Bible, which you can view here: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RTN#full-artwork-details. I cleaned it up so that the background and original text are gone and I could use just the frame.

The little b/w chapter start illustrations also appear in the header of each body text page. like this:

and on the cover like this:

The font used for the body text is EB Garamond, for dropcaps Initials TFB and for titles 2013 Albertus. (Better visible in this screenshot of a spread.)

I really love how this came out - especially how using that medieval frame makes it look like a book of fairytales.

As always: Many thanks to the Renegade Bindery Discord Server @renegadeguild for opening up the world of fanbinding to me. And thanks to astolat for writing such beauties!

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i saw a license plate this morning that said ‘drgn slr’ which probably means ‘dragon slayer’ but ‘dragon slur’ is funnier. dragon faggot. draggot if you will.

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Diver convince octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell

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This year, on the 31 March, we lost Gilbert Baker, gay artist and creator of the gay pride flag. Today we would celebrate his 66th birthday. Let’s remember him as the wonderful person he was.

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this is so sweet 🥺🥺🥺