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Real and true.

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taking a break from spending time with my good friend murderbot (reading murderbot) to spend time with my good friend murderbot (watching murderbot)

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i think it is unrealistic for fans to expect sequels to be published a year after the first one and also want the book at its highest quality. it's okay to expect a few years in between and i think it weird how much pressure authors face to publish their next book immediately. that's a lot of stress on authors and i think it often leads to books being put out before they are ready.

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2025 Progress Pride Reading Challenge

The Goal: Populate every spot on this progress pride flag with a queer book with the corresponding cover color.

The Rules:

Any genre, age range, and length is allowed. Trad published, indie published, and self published are all welcome--though fanfiction is not. (I mean, I'm not a cop. Do what you want. But the goal is to read original fiction.)

Use your own best judgment for whether a cover "counts".

You can include books you've already read--you don't need to start from scratch.

Each color needs at least one book with a female main character.

Hard mode (optional):

Don't repeat authors.

All white, pink, and light blue books must have at least one trans and/or non-binary main character.

All black and brown books must have at least one queer BIPOC main character.

For red, at least one book needs a bisexual main character.

For orange, at least one book needs a lesbian main character.

For yellow, at least one book needs an intersex main character.

For green, at least one book needs an aromantic main character.

For blue, at least one book needs a gay main character.

For purple, at least one book needs an asexual main character.

Participants: Anyone who wants to join and also can read.

The End Date: Whenever you want! I will be aiming to finish by June 30, 2025 aka the last day of Pride.

The Prize: Honor, glory, and having read some more queer books.

You can follow along with me at my Instagram, and if you want some suggestions, you can check out the pride-flag-in-book-covers post that insipired this.

If you have any suggestions, stick them in the replies (and if you're an author, feel free to suggest your own books)!

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oh yeh!! i need to post here my bad

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My bold take is that R.F. Kuang and Suzanne Collins are actually doing very similar things with their books/writing and both are doing it very well (but notably only one is getting criticized for it, for which there are many reasons, some fair and most not).

They are both making very specific and strategic points about the way that class, class consciousness and allyship, exploitative systems, propaganda, and rebellions work, just to name a few themes. And it’s far more interesting to examine their respective fictional worlds, both of which are heavily influenced by real-world events and history and hold it as a parallel to our own.

[It is also far more interesting to not boil their work down to shipping, “capitalism is the bad guy,” and oppression olympics for fictional characters with far too much projection into the real world.]

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In 2016, I took you all to school with Every Heart a Doorway, introducing a world of portals and peril, and all the strange, loving, deeply damaged people who lived there.

In the years since, we've been to worlds almost without number, from the sweet shores of Confection to the watery wonders of Belyyreka and everywhere in-between. But most of us have never forgotten Nancy Wolcott, the first wayward child whose tale we followed, and which went to stillness with Nancy herself, when she returned to her calling as a living statue in the Halls of the Dead.

Now the Halls are in danger, and Nancy is coming home to save the world she chose and the people she loves, but there and at the school.

January 6th, 2026. Come with me, Through Gates of Garnet and Gold.

Pre-orders are open now.

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‘If you are willing to commit to me – if you grant me the privilege of your trust – then in return, I offer myself as your steadfast companion, who faces all things at your side. I will honour you in body and spirit. You will be my highest calling. Neither of us has a home, but as long as you want me, I will do all I can to be your harbour.’

The Dark Mirror, Samantha Shannon

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Not mentally prepared to find out the answers to these questions...

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gotta love Suzanne Collins' dedication to dropping a banger every few years, re-traumatizing a whole generation and disappearing back into the abyss without a single word

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something to be said about how the arena from haymitch's games was a poisonous paradise where you could never truly trust your senses and how sunrise on the reaping is a book about the dangers of propaganda and how easy it is to fall victim to some pretty lies.

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58 year old tyrannical President Snow choking to death on the poison he consumed to murder the parade master

Teenage Haymitch:

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my fav thing about sunrise on the reaping was when haymitch was like yeah caeser i'm a lone wolf 😏 i'm with the newcomers but i'm not WITH the newcomers, yknow? they call me a rascal. a rebel against the gamemasters. I scored a ONE and that is a THREAT. you do not want to mess with me 🙅

cut to him with like 20 kids following him around like ducklings, him hiding in his t-shirt, him letting a bunny guide him to safety because it reminded him of his girlfriend, and him making nightlights out of potatoes.

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haymitch saying “I don’t drink” hahaha so funny I have a gun in my mouth

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I am reading Sunrise on the reaping. And, I totally get it now why this book's theme is the propaganda and false narrative pushed by the media to manipulate the masses.

We collectively thought we knew what happened in Haymitch's game. Kateniss tells us what she watched in the recap video prepared by the capital. But, it's not even close to what really happened. The story we knew for years wasn't the truth. And, if this isn't the best example to prove how the media can manipulate the narrative. I don't know what it is.

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Haymitch being all "I'm an ally" and Clerk Carmine being all "you're a loser" lol

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maysilee donner really said if i have to fight to the death im gonna serve rupaul levels of cunt while doing so and i just think that's really cool of her