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dracoqueen22 · 8 months ago

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BlorboWriMo - Day One

Dart can’t sleep.

His bedroll is solid, unmoving, soft. The blankets twist around his legs no matter if he sleeps in pajamas or nude. It’s too quiet, despite Weaver’s snoring and Clare’s nose-whistling and Lucas farting because they ate beans for supper, and Lucas ate too much. He always eats too much.

There’s no window, by design, and though the room is dark and small and cramped, it’s not the right kind of darkness. It’s not the right kind of pressure.

Dart’s been sleeping on Dryland for the better part of a year now, but he still hasn’t gotten used to it. Is that his problem tonight?

He frowns and flops over onto his front, burying his face in a pillow that smells of earth and stone. Goatmilk and lye – recently scrubbed. Pungent. Dart’s still not used to the way things smell on Dryland. So dry and burning in his nostrils.

Bleh.

Dart tosses the blanket back and heaves himself out of bed, feet bare on the cold stone floor. He wriggles his webbed toes, appreciating the chill. He slings Sirene and her sheath over his shoulder, tucking her in place. She’d fuss if he left him behind, even if only for a walk.

“I can’t take myself, I don’t have legs!” she chimes in, but Dart does not dignify that with a remark. Not where conversation could wake someone else at any rate.

Clare snorts and flops on her belly, tail whipping into the air once before it settles back over her rump. With her face buried in her belly, the nose-whistling is muffled. Now it’s even quieter.

Nope. Not sleeping now.

Dart picks his way across the floor, careful to avoid Lucas and Lysia tangled together in their bedroll, as if they’d fallen asleep mid-wrestle. Telemus is curled into a tiny ball in the corner, barely visible in his mound of blankets. Weaver sprawls across the bed, the only one given the honor of four posts and a mattress.

“Age before beauty,” she’d cackled, and no one dared argue against a woman likely to knife you in your sleep. Or hack off your limbs with her favorite double-headed axe.

No one stirs before Dart gets to the door. At the last minute, he grabs Lysia’s dayrobe and shrugs it over his shoulders. Drylanders get squirmy if you wander around naked. Dart eventually got used to wearing clothes, but every now and again, the cotton and leather chafe. He misses the cool glide of water against his skin, the teasing brush of the kelp forest, the flittering sideswipe of a darting fish.

The narrow corridor outside their sleeping room is quiet, lit only in bare intervals by bioluminescent moss. Nothing that might look out of place if someone were to be sailing along the shore, and happened to glance up at the rocky face, where pits and caverns hint at a twisting tangle of karst channels.

The Templar have no idea the Ori use these caves as a secure base. The longer they can keep it a secret, the better.

Dart fights off a yawn and shuffles down a hallway, into the inner loop, hopefully toward the kitchen if he remembers correctly. Maybe a snack or some tea will calm his nerves enough to sleep. Does it count as anxiety if he’s excited? He doesn’t know.

Tomorrow’s his first mission where he’s lead. Dart’s been on Dryland for a year, and a member of the Ori for just as long, but always as support. He does recon through the water, or helps take down search parties, but he’s never in the thick of it. Never doing anything important.

This is his chance to prove himself!

“You just want to impress Valon,” Sirene says. She coils restlessly at the back of his mind, her blade rattling in her sheath. “He didn’t even know you existed until six months ago.”

Dart folds his arms into his voluminous sleeves. “So? Is there something wrong with wanting to make my father proud?” He still stumbles over the word now and again. Dart hadn’t come to Dryland with the intention of finding his father. It had been a happy accident.

“It is a predictably mortal desire,” Sirene says, her voice taking on that cadence of instruction she adapts every now and again, like she feels it’s her duty to educate Dart on any topic where she believes he’s lacking.

Dart sighs. He pads into the kitchen, relieved to find it empty, though kitchen is a strong word. Crates of food supplies line the walls, and there’s a small cookpot and cookplate in the center, both powered by magical glyphs. The Ori have to be ready to abandon their hideout and flee at any moment, so they never install anything permanent.

Dart is not interested in cooking. He’s still not sure he likes Dryland cuisine. They cook their fish too thoroughly, they season their produce too much, and everything carries the faint taste of char. Gross.

He rummages in the nearest produce crate and produces a handful of berries, an apple, and a few carrots. He doesn’t know what it is he likes about carrots so much. Maybe because they’re orange? He’s always been fond of orange.

“It’s the crunch,” Sirene says. “Vesper likes food that makes noise, too. She says it feels like eating by proxy.”

Dart shoves the handful of berries into his mouth and pushes the lid back into place with his hip. Mmm. Boysenberry. Very sour and tangy. “You don’t eat?”

“Not in the way mortals do, no.”

“Sucks.”

Sirene says, her voice like a light wind across the waves. “Not as much as missing Vesper does. There are many things we cannot do on the physical plane, but at least we can twine our energies when we are close.”

Dart turns for the other door, intending to walk a loop around the interior, and hope that’s enough to tire him out for sleep. “Can you ever touch each other?”

“Yes. If our wielders are willing.”

“Why wouldn’t they be?” Dart wrinkles his nose at his apple. There’s a soft spot that’s all brown and mushy. Gross. “Feels like a small concession, if you ask me– oof.”

Oof being the way Dart steps into the hallway without looking and runs face first into someone else. Or face-to-chest? Since he’s slammed into their chest and left a spray of chewed apple on the unfortunate person’s shirt.

“Oh, sorry about that,” Dart says, rubbing the back of his wrist over his mouth. “I didn’t mean to– ah.” Heat stains his lightly-scaled cheeks.

Valon, his father, looks down at him with a completely unreadable expression. But that’s probably because Dart’s still working on reading Drylander faces. “Midnight snack?” he asks as he bends down to grab the carrots Dart dropped.

“Just a small one, sir,” Dart says. He can’t shape Father with his mouth yet, and honestly, he’s not sure Valon’s ready to hear it either. Valon, by his own admission, never planned to have a family.

Dart barely looks like his father. Maybe they have the same nose. They definitely have the same legs since legs don’t run in Dart’s seamer family. Mom doesn’t have legs. Just a long, sinuous lower half courtesy of her krait heritage. She gave him the faintly blue hair, the scales, the fins, the gills.

Maybe Valon’s eyes. Valon has bright blue eyes that wouldn’t be out of place under the sea, but everything else is Drylander. He’s taller than Dart, then again most Dryland warriors are, and his shoulders are broad. His hair is short and brown, his ears small and curved, his smile big and wide, with a pair of tusks jutting out in a curve to either side.

It was probably his smile that hooked Mom. She’s a sucker for a nice smile, and there’s something kind about Valon’s smile, for all that he’s usually set with a stern face. Dart blames that on his position. Valon’s one of the higher ranked members of the Ori and with that comes a whole heap of responsibility.

It’s impossible to say which of them gave Dart his blue skin, since both Mom and Valon have a blue tinge to their skin.

“I hope you’re well-stocked for the mission tomorrow,” Valon says. He looks Dart up and down, raises a brow at the flowing silk that is his current garb, but says nothing. “Do you feel adequately prepared?”

“As ready as I’ll ever be, I guess,” Dart says. He tries to smile, and shows too much fang.

It discomfits some folks, even with all the Lamina around, his fangs make people uncomfortable. He’s no more likely to bite and envenomate than any of the other snakekin, but he’s a Kelple, and no one trusts a Kelple.

Valon, fortunately, doesn’t blink at Dart’s fangs either. He must not be too concerned about them, since he fucked Mom and everything, and sometimes, Dart really wants to know how that happened. Mom never talks about him. Riptide knows, up until Dart went onto Dryland and met Valon, Dart didn’t even know his father’s name.

“I’m sure you’ll do fine,” Valon says. He lifts a hand, but then awkwardly tucks it behind himself, clasping it with his other. “Look to Weaver for guidance. She has more experience than anyone in your party put together.”

Dart grins. “I’m lucky to have her.”

His entire team has been put together to support him. Weaver for her experience, Clare for her knowledge, Lucas and Lysia for Dart’s good working relationship and friendship, and Telemus because… because he needs the experience, too, Dart supposes. Or because Weaver insisted. If her favorite grandson is going to go on missions, then she’ll be damned if he goes out with anyone but her.

Honestly, if they fail, it’ll be due to Dart’s leadership and no other reason. No pressure or anything.

Valon nods and stares off into the middle distance, somewhere over Dart’s left shoulder. “You should get some rest, Dart. You have an early start.”

“Before dawn,” Dart says with a groan. “I remember.”

His father chuckles and steps to the side, leaving room for Dart to pass. “Good luck, Dart. May the Mother watch over you.”

Dart tips something like a salute with two fingers – he saw Lucas do it once. “Yes, sir. Uh. Good night.”

“Good night.” Valon’s amusement chases him down the hallway, the long tails of Dart’s borrowed over robe flapping around his legs.

“That went well,” Sirene says once Valon is out of sight and Dart slows to a loitering stroll. He bites into the apple viciously enough to splatter juice in all directions.

Dart rolls his eyes. “I don’t think you were paying attention. He practically told me that this is a tadpole run, and I better not fuck it up.”

“He did not use those words.”

“The implication was there,” Dart insists. He shoves the rest of the apple into his mouth, core and all, which would horrify Telemus had he seen.

He says it’s dangerous to eat apple seeds. That they’re toxic or something? Dart’s never had to worry about toxins in his entire life, and he hasn’t gotten sick yet. Telemus is just a picky eater, always plucking seeds or gritty bits out of his meals and flicking them away.

“I don’t like the texture,” he says, all while slanting a look at Weaver, praying his grandmother doesn’t notice him wasting so much as a bite.

Sirene sighs and floats around his thoughts like she’s caught in an eddy. “Eat your carrot,” she says. “Then go back to bed. Your father is right. You need rest.”

“If they want me to get rest, they shouldn’t make me get up before dawn,” Dart grumbles, but Sirene’s right, and Valon’s right, so he picks up the pace.

He takes the long route, dragging his feet through the narrow corridors, turning to the side a few times to let other members of the Ori pass. Most he doesn’t recognize, so they get a head tip and a greeting as he gnaws on his carrot. This outpost is really just a glorified waycamp.

Dart’s team leaves in the morning, two other units will be gone by midday, and the rest will be out by nightfall, leaving a handful of folks to mind the supplies until the next planning session. Dart won’t be coming back here after mission. They’re supposed to check in at the Reeds, another glorified waycamp smack dab in the middle of a marsh.

Fun times.

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Day 1 Word Count: 2095 Running Word Count: 2095

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creare-site · 8 months ago

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Creare Site pentru Frizerii

Într-o lume digitalizată, frizeriile nu mai pot conta doar pe locația fizică pentru a atrage clienți. De ce sa apelezi la serviciul de creare site daca esti frizerie? Un site web bine realizat îți poate transforma afacerea într-un magnet pentru noi clienți și poate fideliza pe cei existenți. Iată cum serviciul de creare site web pentru frizerii te poate ajuta să-ți crești vizibilitatea și să îți optimizezi afacerea.

1. Design prietenos și intuitiv

Un site web pentru frizerie trebuie să fie atractiv și ușor de navigat. Oamenii caută rapid informații despre servicii, prețuri și program. Un design simplu și organizat, cu meniuri clare și accesibilitate rapidă la secțiunile importante (precum programările și contactul), va îmbunătăți experiența utilizatorilor.

Ce să incluzi:

O pagină „Despre noi” pentru a te prezenta pe tine și echipa ta.

Galerie foto cu exemple de tunsori și alte servicii.

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2. Funcție de programare online

O caracteristică esențială pentru orice frizerie modernă este posibilitatea de a face programări online. Aceasta oferă flexibilitate clienților, reducând timpul petrecut la telefon pentru a verifica disponibilitatea. Integrarea unui calendar interactiv le permite clienților să-și rezerve rapid locul preferat și să primească confirmări automate.

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Când potențialii clienți caută „frizerie în [numele orașului]”, site-ul tău trebuie să fie printre primele rezultate. Optimizarea pentru motoarele de căutare (SEO) te ajută să fii găsit mai ușor în căutările locale. Asigură-te că site-ul include detalii precum adresa exactă, cartierul, numărul de telefon și orașul în titlurile paginilor, meta-descrieri și conținut.

4. Galerie foto profesională

O imagine bună poate spune cât o mie de cuvinte. O galerie foto cu tunsorile pe care le oferi îți poate convinge potențialii clienți de calitatea serviciilor tale. Include fotografii clare și de înaltă calitate care prezintă atât frizuri simple, cât și complexe, pentru a arăta diversitatea și profesionalismul echipei tale.

5. Prezentarea serviciilor și prețurilor

O pagină dedicată serviciilor și prețurilor este un must-have. Clienții vor să știe dinainte cât va costa un serviciu și ce include acesta. Structurarea clară a acestor informații îi ajută pe vizitatori să ia decizii rapide, crescând șansele ca ei să rezerve o programare direct de pe site.

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zemaniacom · 9 months ago

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creare-site-prezentare · 9 months ago

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Creare site prezentare profesional

"Creare site prezentare" se referă la procesul de dezvoltare a unui website dedicat promovării unei afaceri, unui produs, unui serviciu sau unui individ, având ca scop principal informarea vizitatorilor și crearea unei imagini pozitive. Un site de prezentare este, de obicei, mai simplu decât un magazin online și nu include funcții complexe de comerț electronic, ci se concentrează pe furnizarea de informații relevante și atragerea de clienți potențiali. De ce este important procesul de creare site de prezentare si care sunt principalele caracteristici ale unui site de prezentare?

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webdesignersalley · 1 year ago

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cssmonster · 2 years ago

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n7punk · 2 years ago

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Clare you're a madlad and I love it.

Read mores contain more merch and missing photos of some previously mentioned stuff.

Addition lost in the splitting reblog chains: Tippen's post on the Print On Demand merch hidden but still purchasable on Amazon. The second link is broken for me on web (Tumblr's stupid referrer stuff breaking links) so here's an updated one that will hopefully work. How hidden all these designs are just further compounds the "what the fuck are you doing" of it all it's truly incredible how they handled merch for this show.

why did they make these

#everybody say thank you clare #okay i have been seeing some of those shirts and could not figure out if they were official or not #because if someone says they definitely don't say where it's from (aside from the one i found from hot topic)#and especially the chibi art looks super unofficial. i have a fanmade shirt that looks way more legit than that LOL #the her universe shirt with the strip in the back... what the fuck #also they had that sword fabric made and then DIDNT USE IT FOR ANYTHING ELSE?#IT'S SO COOL. WHEN WILL LOST POTENTIAL IN SHE-RA MERCH STOP MAKING ME MAD CHALLENGE #she ra #spop merch #spop meta #words and things

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webdesignmayo · 3 years ago

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If your website takes too much time to open, your customers will lose interest and quit your page. As a result, that advantage will be obtained by your rival company. Thus, this is the foremost reason that you should look for a trustworthy web design company.

#Web Design Clare

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accentwebsie · 4 years ago

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#Web Design Clare

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clarestrand · 3 years ago

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A Boring Grey Jumper and An Over Complicated top. Filet Gallery. 22nd Sept -2nd Oct.

In 2020 Clare Strand and Steffi Klenz met at a Private view. Strand commented on Klenz’s over complicated top and in response, Klenz remarked on Strand’s boring grey jumper.

One year later Klenz was asked by Chapters (a web-based organisation that encourages artists to collaborate) to select someone to engage with her in written dialogue. Klenz asked Strand.

The conversation began and, after a year of back-and-forth emails, Klenz and Strand decided that the lengthy, occasionally over complicated and, at times, boring result was of little practical use… but had some ornament potential. Each of the seven posters on the walls are the result of Klenz and Strand’s year-long exchange. Their words input and gobbled up by a number of web programmes - those that can detect, change, mutate, interpret and output reorganised data. From software designed to identify profanity or collate punctuation to programmes that examine percentages of nouns, verbs and adjectives used in a given text.

The video work offers yet another version of the discussion, which explores the essence of communication; Manet's and Charles Ephrussi's exchange over a bunch of asparagus and the tribulations of Rattlesnake Kate, amongst a plethora of other weird and wonderful events that Klenz and Strand were minded to toss into the conversation. Swinging from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again.

Filet is a Space for Experimental Art Production hosted by Rut Bless Luxembourg and Uta Kogelsberger.

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aelingalathyinius · 5 years ago

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17 Questions, 17 People

Thank you for tagging me, @d3monp0xx!

Nickname: Alina

Zodiac: Libra

Height: 155 cm

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

Last Thing I Googled: Maia Roberts *for my next edit*

Songs Stuck In My Head: Fire on Fire - Sam Smith

Number of Followers: 2.4k

Amount of sleep: 7-8 hours

Dream Job: Art director

Wearing: ....my sloth pajamas

Favourite song: A Million Dreams - The Greatest Showman

Favourite Instrument: Piano and violin but I can’t play any instrument

Aesthetic: pastels, vintage, boho, minimal

Favourite Author: Cassandra Clare and Leigh Bardugo

Favourite Animal: raccoons and foxes

Random: um, I finished some web design courses yesterday??

Tagging: @herwndale @zofias @wrayburns @wilhelminakecarstairs @oscar-fairchild @hqmlet @phantomness @downtuwn @williamsherondales @christopherlightwood @tofeelawake and anyone who wants to do it because I can’t remember 17 urls sorry ppl

#tag games

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creare-site · 9 months ago

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In ce consta procesul de creare site

Crearea unui site web este un proces complex care implică mai multe etape, fiecare dintre ele având un rol crucial în obținerea unui produs final de calitate. Fie că este vorba despre un site de prezentare, un magazin online sau un blog personal, înțelegerea pașilor implicați te va ajuta să îți realizezi viziunea. Iată cum se desfășoară procesul de creare a unui site web.

1. Planificarea și Definirea Obiectivelor

Primul pas în crearea unui site web este să definești clar obiectivele acestuia. Ce anume dorești să realizezi cu site-ul tău? Vrei să vinzi produse, să oferi informații sau să creezi o comunitate online? Această etapă implică și identificarea publicului țintă. Înțelegerea nevoilor și preferințelor acestuia va ghida toate deciziile de design și conținut.

2. Cercetarea și Analiza Concurenței

Odată ce ai stabilit obiectivele, este esențial să efectuezi o cercetare a pieței și a concurenței. Analizând site-urile competitorilor, poți obține informații despre ceea ce funcționează bine în domeniul tău și despre eventualele lacune pe care le poți umple. Această analiză îți va oferi idei valoroase pentru design, conținut și strategii de marketing.

3. Alegerea Platformei și a Tehnologiilor

În funcție de obiectivele tale și de tipul de site pe care dorești să-l creezi, trebuie să alegi o platformă potrivită. Există numeroase opțiuni, cum ar fi WordPress, Shopify, Wix sau Magento. Fiecare platformă are avantajele și dezavantajele sale, așa că este important să alegi una care să corespundă nevoilor tale specifice.

4. Designul și Structura Site-ului

După ce ai ales platforma, următorul pas este să creezi un design atrăgător și funcțional. Acest proces include:

Crearea Wireframe-urilor: Acestea sunt schițe ale paginilor site-ului, care îți arată structura generală, inclusiv locul unde vor fi plasate textele, imaginile și butoanele de acțiune.

Selectarea unui Template sau Crearea unui Design Personalizat: În funcție de preferințele tale, poți alege un template existent sau poți colabora cu un designer pentru a crea un design personalizat. Este important ca designul să fie nu doar estetic, ci și funcțional, pentru a facilita navigația utilizatorilor.

Aspectul Responsiv: Întrucât utilizatorii accesează site-urile de pe diverse dispozitive, asigură-te că designul este optimizat pentru toate tipurile de ecrane, inclusiv smartphone-uri și tablete.

5. Crearea Conținutului

Conținutul este esențial pentru atragerea și menținerea vizitatorilor pe site-ul tău. În această etapă, trebuie să:

Scrii Texte Clare și Convingătoare: Fiecare pagină ar trebui să conțină informații relevante, prezentate într-un mod ușor de înțeles. Nu uita să incluzi cuvinte cheie relevante pentru optimizarea SEO.

Adaugă Imagini de Calitate: Imaginile contribuie la experiența utilizatorului și pot îmbunătăți aspectul general al site-ului. Asigură-te că sunt de înaltă calitate și relevante pentru conținutul paginilor.

Include Elemente Multimedia: Videoclipurile, infografiile și animațiile pot îmbunătăți angajamentul utilizatorilor și pot face informațiile mai accesibile.

6. Optimizarea SEO

Optimizarea pentru motoarele de căutare (SEO) este un pas crucial în crearea site-ului tău. Aceasta implică:

Utilizarea Cuvintelor Cheie: Identificarea cuvintelor cheie relevante și integrarea lor în titluri, descrieri și conținutul paginilor.

Crearea de Meta Tag-uri: Asigură-te că fiecare pagină are un titlu și o descriere unică, care să atragă atenția și să îmbunătățească clasarea în rezultatele căutării.

Structura URL-urilor: URL-urile ar trebui să fie scurte, descriptive și ușor de citit. Aceasta nu doar că ajută la SEO, dar și îmbunătățește experiența utilizatorului.

#crearesite #creare website

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southeastasianists · 4 years ago

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The promulgation of a resurrected “fake news” law by the Malaysian government in early March has drawn widespread condemnation from press freedom, civil society and human rights groups. This disquiet is magnified because the new law was not enacted by Parliament, which is currently suspended following a controversial declaration of a state of emergency in January but issued as an executive Ordinance. Critics questioned why Parliament was suspended under the emergency—and continues to be closed despite businesses and schools re-opening.

It was perhaps, unsurprising but all too predictable, that the emergency declaration would provide just the political moment for a new “fake news” law. The Anti-Fake News Act (2018) was passed by the UMNO government of former Prime Minister Najib Razak flush with the fashionable Trumpist anti press sentiment in a move critics said was designed to stifle dissent, and to strike a blow against a resurgent opposition just weeks before Najib lost the May 2018 election. The 2018 law drew stringent criticism and was finally repealed by the 2019 Pakatan Harapan government after a full agonising year of obstruction by Malaysia’s Senate.

Any hope that this suspect and discredited nomenclature would have disappeared from the language with the defeat of Trump was a naive hope that failed entirely to account for the shamelessness of the heirs to Najib.

The new ordinance contains a “definition” of fake news in two parts. The first part stipulates that “fake news” includes any news, information, data and reports, which is or are wholly or partly false relating to COVID-19.

Special note should be made of the weasel words contained in this so-called definition. A statement will qualify as “fake news” even if it is substantially true. It only has to contain something which is “partly false” for the whole statement to be impugned by the new Ordinance.

The second part of the definition, however, goes much further extending the idea of fake news to include reports about the proclamation of emergency itself (‘or the proclamation of emergency’). The use of the conjunction ‘or’ sets up a separate and distinct class of subject within the purview of the Ordinance.

...includes wholly or partly false relating to COVID-19 or the proclamation of emergency...

The predictable approach taken by authoritarians when confronted with the probable impact of such tricky legislative schemes is typically to ‘tut tut’ and suggest that such predictions are far-fetched. Not so here however.

This particular cat leaped from the bag fully formed almost immediately when a senior Minister conceded that any claim that the government sought an emergency declaration because it had lost its majority in the Parliament (Dewan Rakyat) would itself violate its fake news ordinance. Minister Takiyuddin is quoted as saying: “It is an offence”. It may now be accepted without quarrel that legitimate criticism of the government’s decision to obtain the state of emergency declaration is now a criminal offence under Malaysian law.

Thus continues a long discredited approach taken by authoritarian governments—of which sadly, Malaysia is an exemplar—to enmesh the legal system in a web of anti-press laws crafted to impair and chill dissent and free expression.

So drearily recurrent have these imprecise offences and inchoate legal standards become in the region that in Indonesia, a counterpart law became notorious for its “pasal karet” or “rubber articles”. It is reminiscent of the parody of 15th century English law, whose application was said to vary with the length of the Chancellor’s foot.

Add to this the notorious practice of selective prosecution and the chilling effect is complete.

Little wonder that American journalist William J Dobson bracketed Malaysia with Russia, China, Venezuela and Egypt as among the world’s authoritarian regimes who were keen to disguise themselves as democracies in his prescient 2015 Book the Dictators Learning Curve.

Journalists have been charged—and threatened—routinely with sedition and like offences. In 2015 internationally acclaimed cartoonist Zunar was charged with nine counts of sedition for critical tweets!

One case, among the most notorious, was the prosecution of a University of Malaya law professor for sedition for expressing his legal opinion that actions taken by the government in the Malaysian state of Perak more than six years earlier were illegal!

The current fake news ordinance adds yet another law to a raft of laws which remain on the books aimed at chilling press freedom—including the Sedition Act, the Printing Presses and Publications Act of 1984, the Communications and Multimedia Act of 1998, and the Penal Code Sections 499-502: Criminal Defamation, among others.

To add insult to injury, the ordinance also purports to operate extra-territorially, being expressed to apply to any person, whatever his nationality or citizenship, in any place outside Malaysia, who may be dealt with in respect of such offence “as if the offence was committed in any place within Malaysia”. So, the author or publisher of any commentary which dared to suggest that the Malaysian government contrived the emergency declaration because it lost its majority in the Parliament would violate its fake news ordinance.

No real surprises here, as the experience of British journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown attests. One of the key journalists responsible for breaking the 1MDB scandal, editor of the courageous Sarawak Report, Rewcastle Brown was under no illusion that she would face prosecution for her journalism in exposing the scandal if she dared to set foot in Malaysia while Najib was still the Prime Minister. How many international journalists now also can entertain real fears about visiting Malaysia in the light of legitimate analysis of this latest law.

A number of NGOs including journalists’ organisations have challenged the legality of the Ordinance. No one should hold their breath about the Malaysian Courts’ preparedness to hold Malaysian politicians to account. The recent imposition of draconian financial penalties—twice the amount called for by the government’s prosecutor—on the independent on line publication Malaysiakini offers little hope on this score.

#Southeast Asia #Malaysia #Fake News #Media Freedom

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theheartsmistakes · 5 years ago

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The Last Night Part III

(Author’s Notes: Hello readers! Here is Part III of The Last Night, a Jordelia fanfiction, from Cassandra Clare’s Chain of Gold. As always thank you for reading and please do give it a like, reblog, comment, and let me know if you’re interested in more. Happy and safe quarantine to you all!)

Here is Part I

Here is Part II

Thunder crackled over the carriage as it drove down central London. The streets were empty this time of night except for those wayward travelers and the few patrons on their way home from the pubs. Rain fell in torrents in a way that Cordelia hadn’t seen it rain in a long time. With her head resting on Alastair’s shoulder, their hands bound together like when they were small children, she watched the city that she’d grown to love blur past her through the window. Alastair had taken her hand when she emerged from the Institute and hadn’t let it go since. Her skin, just a bit lighter than his own, but still similar. He smelt like their father she noticed: a warm spice mixed with smoke. It was comforting in that it reminded her of home: of white hot sand, open kitchen windows, and colorful tapestries that her grandmother said were known to capture spirits. As a child, the intricate black designs reminded her of runes by the way they swirled and bent and stood out amongst the other colors, because of that, she believed there to be magic in carpeting.

When they’d visit Sona’s family in Persia, Cordelia felt a deep and dormant part of her come alive. She’d join the other children in the sand coated streets and run barefoot in the shadows of the clay buildings. Men would fill the hallways with laughter; women, adorned in their colorful silks and intricate beading, would throw flowers from windows as the children ran by. When it would come time for them to leave, she’d wish that she was a tree with roots so strong that nothing could uproot her.

How desperately she wanted to share that part of her with James. To run with him in the warm shadows, barefoot as their own laughter filled the alleyways. They would drink spiced tea in the garden while exchanging their favorite pieces of literature by the trickling water fountains.

No, she couldn’t let herself think that way any longer. He wasn’t hers to fantasize about anymore. She would need to learn to fold up those thoughts and bury them away into a distant part of her. It was the only way to survive. The hardest parts aren’t the goodbyes, she thought, but the flashbacks that follow. The memories and what-could-have-beens.

“Layla?” Alastair stirred her gently. “Where have you gone to?”

“Home.” She answered sleepily.

He patted the back of hand gently. “We’ll be there shortly.”

“Not that home.” Cordelia sat up and turned to face her brother. “Do you remember going to grandmam’s house, in Persia? Do you remember their house on the top of the hill that looked out over all the clay city? Do you remember the way the kitchen smelt like abgoosht?”

Alastair nodded. “I can’t believe you remember it. You had been so young.”

“I remember all of it,” she said. “Do you think that we could ever go back there?”

“Of course, Layla.” Alastair reached up to cup her cheek in his gloved hand. “We can go wherever you’d like. Idris won’t be like it was before. We’ll have each other, and before long our new sibling to keep us busy. Lucie can come to visit, Anna, and—” His voice trailed off with his thoughts. Cordelia wondered if he thought about Thomas. She had wanted to ask him what happened between the two of them, but if Alastair felt anything like the way she felt upon simply hearing the name James, she didn’t want to be the catalyst for his pain.

She hadn’t told him of her plans to join the Iron Sisters. She hadn’t told anyone. It seemed terribly cruel to keep it a secret from her brother who was about to uproot his entire life in London to live with her in Idris. He tried so desperately to make it sound like a fairytale and the adventures that would follow.

“Alastair,” she began, “I need to tell you something.”

“What is it?”

“I’m—“ She noticed for the first time the thin webs around his eyes and the deepening crease between his eyebrows. He’d already put so much of his life on hold because of her, to protect her, she couldn’t allow him to do it any longer. “I’m not going to stay in Idris and I don’t think you should either.”

His dark eyebrows drew together. “What do you mean? What are you talking about?”

“There’s nothing for us there.” She took a deep breath, trying to draw strength. “Because of what I’ve done, the Clave won’t likely allow me to join in missions, and by affiliation you’ll be excluded as well.”

“Where would you go?” Alastair’s tone grew more firm.

“To the Iron Sisters.”

“No.” Alastair shrank away from her as if she’d struck him. “The answer is no, Cordelia.”

“I’m not asking.”

“Well as your older brother and your guardian, I’m saying no.” Alastair moved to the other side of the carriage and rapt twice on the glass window.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m turning this carriage around that’s what I’m doing.” Alastair nearly shouted at her. “Had I known your intentions of joining that underground cult, I would have never agreed to leave London.”

“They’re Shadowhunters,” said Cordelia, “just as you and I are Shadowhunters.”

“I would never be able to see you, Cordelia.”

The carriage merged onto the side of the road and came to a stop.

Alastair turned back around to face her and slowly slid down into the seat. “You’d be isolated, worse than Jem, it’d be like—like you were dead.” He turned to look out the window as the rain fell in crooked streams over the glass like translucent veins. His jaw shook the way it did when he was adamant about something and could not be budged.

“I want to be known for something other than scandal,” said Cordelia. “The Iron Sisters offer me the chance to change my fate, to take back a semblance of my honor, and do something with the life that I have been given. Alastair?” She reached for him but his expression had gone cold. “I won’t let you waste another moment of your life because of me. I made my choices and I’m ready to accept the consequences for those choices, but I will not let you shield me from this— the way you did with father.”

“You had a childhood because of what I did.”

“And you will have a beautiful life because of this.”

Alastair dropped his hand from his mouth and shook his head. “No,” he whispered. “No, I will have nothing.”

He had said once, offhand, when he thought no one was listening, you don’t actually end up with the people you love, but with the ones who stay. At the time, she thought it cruel and the thought made her sad. She felt as thin as a piece of paper. The last thing she wanted to do before leaving was upset her brother. He will heal one day, she thought. One day, he will forgive her. He’ll find someone to love and to stay.

Their driver came around to stand at the carriage window awaiting further instruction.

“Dâdaš.” His eyes that mirrored her own flashed to her. They were red and full of rage: at her, at everything. She reached for him again when their carriage jolted forward, nearly throwing Cordelia into Alastair, except she didn’t quite make it and instead ended up sprawled out on the carriage floor.

“Bloody hell.” Alastair turned to the window where the driver had been standing, but he was no longer there.

“What was that?” Cordelia asked, pushing herself up to her knees.

“I’m not sure.” Alastair reached for the door. “Stay here. I’ll see what’s going on.”

“I’m coming with you.” Cordelia successfully got to her feet and followed her brother out of the carriage— the rain so thick she could hardly see in front of her.

“Martin?” Alastair called for their driver. “Martin, what’s going on?”

Cordelia glared down the dark road where she thought she saw a figure standing in the middle of the street, but it very well could have been a trick of the mist. Rain dripped down her face, flattening her hair, and drenching her clothes in minutes. A horse screamed in agitation behind her, but when she turned around to investigate, she felt her foot catch on something. She looked down, expecting her boot to be caught on a stone, instead finding a blood red hand wrapped around her ankle.

“Martin!”

“Run, Miss Carstairs, run.”

She fell backward when the carriage started moving again. A scream only comparable to nightmares ripped from her throat as the wheels rolled over Martin trapped underneath it. Afraid to open her eyes, Cordelia fumbled to her feet again. The skirt of her dress becoming increasingly heavy with water but she managed to find her footing.

“Martin.” She sobbed, turning around slowly, when a pair of arms reached out for her. She screamed, but recognition settled in, as Alastair’s face appeared before her own. He pulled her into his chest and whispered in her ear not to look.

“What’s going on?” She demanded over another ripple of thunder.

Alastair had a spear in his right hand, held out in front of them ready to empale whatever or whomever came near. At some point, he had abandoned his waist coat and tie. “I don’t know.” His eyes danced sharply around them. “Draw Cortana, I believe we’re under—“

Before he could finish his sentence, a great wind beat down on top of them and for a moment the rain stopped. Simultaneously, they looked up as a Diggoron demon with a wing span of twenty feet, a body the length of a whale, and the jaws of a dragon screeched above them. Its sharp tail, barbed with spikes, swung down towards them.

Alastair shoved Cordelia aside and took the brunt of the hit sending him flying through the air and into the darkness.

Cordelia landed painfully on hands and knees, but in a moment, her hands reached behind her and grabbed the hilt of Cortana. Instantly, she felt warmth radiate through her palms as if she’d grabbed the end of a burning log and not the metal end of a sword. The blade rang as she drew it from its home and held it out in front of her.

Her breath came out in a white cloud as the air around her took on a great chill. Rain dripped into her eyes marring her vision. The air smelt heavily of sulfur and the metallic tang of freshly spilt blood.

Her feet slipped on the pavement as she ran in the direction Alastair had been thrown. The streets were empty and unnaturally dark without the glow of the moon. All of the lamps had been snuffed leaving her alone in complete darkness. She hadn’t enough time to draw a night vision rune, besides her Stele was tucked safely in her bag on the runaway carriage.

When she was a child, as a part of her training, she would wrap a blindfold over her eyes and let loose a Revarrt demon, a small seemingly harmless bug except it packed a terrible sting if one allowed it too close. It had a particularly high pitch buzz. With her eye sight gone, Cordelia would hold out her blunt weapon as if it were Cortana and wait for the buzzing to come close and swing.

It felt as if she were back in the training room in Idris again, waiting for the buzzing to get close enough to her.

“Cordelia!” She heard from her left and stopped. It came again from behind her. “Cordelia!” Her name took on different voices: Alastair, Lucie, Sona, Matthew, Elias, James.

“Cordelia.” Something hissed right behind her ear. She swung Cortana in an ark but whatever had been there had left in a wave of smoke.

“What do you want?” She yelled into the darkness. “There’s no need for games.”

She felt something brush the side of her neck. In a flash of gold, Cortana cut through the air, but once again she was met with nothing. Movement caught the corner of her eye on her left. A dark mound lay in the middle of the road.

Alastair.

She stumbled into a run, Cortana’s weight in one hand, as she raced to her brother’s side. A slow, dark current circled his head and ran down the street.

She fell down beside him, Cortana clattered to the pavement beside her, as she carefully picked up his head in her hands. There was blood everywhere, more blood than she thought she’d ever seen in her life. Head wounds bleed the worst, she told herself. It was fine. He would be fine.

“Cordelia.” More blood seeped from between his lips, staining his teeth. “You— It wants—“

“Don’t speak.” Quickly, she found a hole in the hem of her dress and ripped a piece from it. It was wet and filthy but she pressed it to his head and picked up his hand to hold it in place. “I’m going to find the Stele. We’ll put an iratze on you and it’ll be fine. Hold that in place.”

He mumbled something as she stood up again.

A gust of wind, so powerful it nearly pushed her forward, swept past her again. As she reached for Cortana, a moment too late, the spiked tail of the Diggoron demon connected with her chest.

A spike lodged into her ribcage, but she hardly noticed, looking out at the glistening city of London from such great heights. For a moment, while her body lay suspended in the air, she thought about how quiet it was. Without even a chance to scream and all of the air knocked from her chest, it was inexplicably silent- as if time and space had stopped.

The bliss, however, was short lived. Her stomach flew to her throat as her body fell through the air towards the earth and landed back on the street sliding across the stones like a limp doll until her back slammed against a wall.

Sound and pain rushed back to her. Unable to draw breath into her lungs, her heart rate elevated in her ears, it felt like she were drowning on dry land. Rain ran into her eyes and spilt down her cheeks as she looked up at the blackened sky swirling with rain and mist.

A figure came to stand over her. For a brief moment, she thought the face familiar. The tangle of dark hair lay limp now and the eyes, went from warm yellow to black. His fingers grazed her cheek as he spoke her name. James. A great pair of wings spread out from his back and the darkness seemed to swallow her whole.

#chain of gold #jordelia #Cordelia Carstairs #alastair carstairs #the last hours #shadowhunters #james herondale #lucie herondale #Matthew Fairchild #will herondale #cassandra clare #the infernal devices #anna lightwood #thomas lightwood #christopher lightwood #the merry thieves #will herondale #tessa gray

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~ Queer Lit 30 Day Book Challenge ~

I decided to do this challenge I came across for June! Originally it was designed as a “day-by-day” thing, but my June was way too hectic to do a write up every single day… so I decided to make a nice compilation for the end of the month instead!

This is perhaps not the “purest” form of the challenge but I wanted it to be personal for me. Growing up when I did and where I did, I had very little exposure to queer books, especially age-appropriate queer books. That being said, there’s some books on this list that are really only “queer” by technically, or through a secondary character rather than the main character. I debated whether to include these but finally decided that, yes, I would. I owe it to myself. Even though some of these books that aren’t “as queer” as other, they were (or are) really important to me as a queer person and my journey is understanding that, so I wanted to acknowledge them!

More info about the books and the challenge under the cut!

Day One: First Queer Book You Remember Reading

Color by Taishi Zaou and Eiki Eiki

Remember how I mentioned a lack of available, age-appropriate queer books? I was one of those kids who was definitely exposed (probably too young) to queer manga/yaoi. It wasn’t necessarily what I wanted, especially as a wee ace teen, but it was the best I had at the time and it meant the world to me at the time, to see same-sex relationships even if looking back on them is very “YIKES”.

I’m sure I read others before this, but Color is one of the first that I really remember and which I a) actually owned and which b) wasn’t completely repellent in hindsight! I haven’t reread it in probably over a decade so I have no idea how it stands up, but at the time it read like a much more “realistic” account of two teenagers developing a crush and starting a relationship and as a questioning teenager it really helped me realize that this was a real, viable option.

Day Two: Queer Book That Reminds You Of Home

The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag

I hummed and hawed about this one for a long time because honestly I tend to read books that make me feel far from home. I decided to go with The Witch Boy though because it’s a story that challenges gender norms and stars a large family out in the woods, running wild and exploring magic, and honestly it gives me vibes that remind me of vacationing with my extended family. We’re also partially ginger and inclined to run wild in the woods. If we knew magic we’d have used it for sure.

This book is about 13 year old Aster, who lives in a family where the women all become witches and the men all become shifters. Aster, however, has no interest in shapeshifting and instead finds ways to study magic and learn the arts of witchcraft while constantly being pushed out by his female relatives… though everything might change when a new danger, that may or may not be connected to Aster studying magic, begins to appear.

Day Three: Queer Book That Has Been On Your TBR Too Long

Beneath The Citadel by Destiny Soria

That was an easy choice, this has been sitting on my bookshelf for months, staring at me accusingly every time I enter my room. I’m really excited to read it (Magical heist? Rebellion? With an asexual protagonist? Yes please) but for some reason I have not gotten around to it. Some day, baby, some day.

Day Four: Queer Book With A Name Or Number In The Title

George by Alex Gino

George is an absolutely charming middle grade novel about a child named George who the world perceives as male… but who knows she’s definitely a girl. The novel begins when her class decided to put on a play about the novel they had just read: Charlotte’s Web. George is desperate to play Charlotte, her favourite character, but isn’t even allowed to try out because it’s a “girl’s role”. George and her best friend struggle with how to handle this problem and manage George’s secret amid elementary school and home drama.

This book is really adorable – it was a nice, easy, cozy read for an adult, and would also make a great read aloud to elementary-age children if you want to introduce them to transgender characters.

Day Five: Queer Book Where The Protag Has A Fun Job

The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris

Not actually a queer protagnoist, but a queer side character who plays a major role in the series. Mister Vernon, one of Leila’s fathers, has arguable the coolest job: he’s a retired stage magician turn magic shop owner, which is complete with large rabbit, hidden room, and tons of fascinating gadgets to help a young practical magician learn their trade. He is hands down one of the neatest character in the series and is a major catalyst throughout the series.

The first book follows Carter, a runaway orphan who practices street magic to get by, as he runs away from his horrible uncle and winds up meeting a gang of magic-loving friends in a small town. Hiding from his uncle is only the beginning though, and the mysteries surrounding the town and Mister Vernon become thicker and thicker as the series goes on.

Day Six: Favourite Queer Graphic Novel

Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu

There’s lots of fantastic queer graphic novels out there, but I have to name Check, Please! as my favourite (and not just because I’m Canadian and am legally obligated to at least show interest in a hockey story). Check, Please! is the friggin cutest story about Eric “Bitty” Bittle, former figure skater and avid baker, who joins the Samwell University hockey team. The story is told in the form of Bitty’s vlog as he recounts the bizarre quirks of the Samwell hockey team, his struggle to overcome his fear of checking, and his growing crush on the team captain, Jack. Seriously guys, this is cavity-inducing sweetness and you can read it all online for free, here on tumblr @omgcheckplease or at its own website, checkpleasecomic.

Day Seven: Queer Book You Often Reread

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

Another book I haven’t reread in years, but this was the first queer novel I ever read (and owned!) so I read it obsessively, first the copy from the high school library and then my own copy (which is, let us say, well-thumbed by this point). It was pure fluff, in an aggressively diverse, relentlessly accepting, rainbow-coloured high school and it was exactly what I wanted in high school, and it still makes me happy whenever I remember it. It’s a straight-up high school romance, pretty traditional to the genre, but it has the most delightful supporting cast you could ever ask for. Maybe I should reread it again this summer…

Day Eight: Queer Book With A Happy Ending

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst

This was a bit more of a “yeah it was fine” book for me, but honestly… queer people deserve some average, run-of-the-mill YA fantasies. As far as my normal reading preferences go, run-of-the-mill YA fantasies are my bread and butter. And this one has a cute sapphic romance to go with it. It’s about Denna, a princess with a dangerous secret: she has a magical Affinity for fire, despite being betrothed to the prince of a kingdom that aggressively prosecutes and fears magic-users. So now Denna is in a strange land, trying to hide her increasingly volatile magic, solve an assassination that rocked the kingdom, and deal with the growing connection between her and the prince’s wild sister, Mare. It has court intrigue, a murder mystery, horses, and lots of confused sapphic pining so it’s totally worth picking up if you want a light summer fantasy adventure.

Day Nine: Queer Book With (Over) 100 Pages

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

I decided to try to get as close to 100 pages as possible! River of Teeth is a 114-page novella that I haven’t quite finished (work and covid stress happened) but which I am fucking losing my mind for. I can’t recommend it enough. It’s peak alternative history, about queer hippopotamus-riding cowboys in Louisiana during the early 20th (late 19th?) century. Like… I don’t know how to emphasize how unbelievably cool this book is. Genderqueer demolition expert with a giant crush and a penance for making things blow up and attempting to poison guests when they’re bored?? Check. Gay gunslinging hippo-riding cowboy with an angsty backstory (and also a giant crush)? Check. Sexy, fat, badass lady con artist with an albino hippo that she spoils? Check. Like damn guys. I’m not done the book and I’ve already bought the sequel because I know the second I pick it back up I’m not gonna stop until I’ve ploughed through it all. This book is the epitome of “refuge in audacity” and “rule of cool”. Is it over the fucking top? Absolutely but that’s the point.

Day Ten: Favourite Queer Genre Novel

The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare

I’ll be honest, I’m a little shaky on what counts as a genre novel (isn’t… everything… a genre??) so I decided to interpret it as “slightly trashy YA supernatural fantasy” because that sure is a hella specific genre I’m weak for.

I really thought I was done with the Shadowhunter novels, I thought they were a goofy series I left behind in teenagerhood that I could look back on with amused indulgence. And then I found out that there was a novel specifically about Alec and Magnus and! Oh no! Ding dong I was wrong. I fell back in hard because listen… I love them. They were one of the first canonical same-sex relationships I ever read about in an actual novel, they meant a lot to me then and still mean a lot to me now. I have nothing to say to defend myself here except that this book wrecked me and I can’t wait for the sequel.

Day Eleven: Queer Book You Love In A Genre You Don’t Read

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connel

I am very rarely a slice-of-life / romance genre sort of person. I like my stories cut with a heavy dose of fantasy, scifi, action-adventure… something. So a graphic novel that’s not only a romance, but one about an unhealthy relationship and infidelity is like… super outside my usual range of reading material. But it was very much worth the read! The art was stunning, and the complicated emotions it tapped into really touched me. I’m very happy to have read it, and was so damn satisfied by the end.

Day Twelve: Queer Book With A Strong Sense Of Place

Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller

Linsey Miller is one author I very actively follow, I love her works and they always have very distinct, complicated worlds with unique societies and magic systems. Belle Révolte was her latest book and followed a prince-and-the-pauper type of story, in which wealthy Emilie des Marais is determined to learn noonday (magical) arts in order to become a physician, someone who can actually work to make her home a better place… but this is not something a proper lady would ever be allowed to do. So she flees her finishing school and meets poor, but magically gifted, Annette Boucher and offers her the chance to switch places. Annette goes back to school as “Emilie” and gets to hone her skills at the midnight arts while Emilie will use her name to sneak into medical school and fight her way up the ranks to physician. This is a challenging enough task, with rebellion roiling just beneath the surface and the country about to slip into a arrogant war that threatens the lives of hundreds…

Day Thirteen: Queer Book That Really Made You Think

Our Dreams At Dusk by Yuhki Kamatani

This is a four book manga series that is completely breath-taking. It’s touched by magical-realism and completely drowned in visually stunning metaphors and symbolism. Seriously, I’ve reread these books multiples times trying to digest how the wide variety of symbols overlap and contradict and compliment and challenge each other. I still haven’t really gotten a solid handle on it, it’s very fluid, so yeah… definitely makes me think.

The story starts with Tasuku Kaname who believes he may have just been outed as gay by a high school friend, and feels like he’s watching his entire world crumble around him. He is seriously considering taking his own life, when he runs into the mysterious woman “Someone-san” and winds up leading him to a drop-in center that’s run by a local non-profit, and is also a hub for a number of queer people in the community. The books follow Tasuku as he grows, learns, makes mistakes, and confronts his feelings, along with a number of other members at the drop-in center. It is completely beautiful, optimistic, but also quite stark and harsh at its look at homophobia and transphobia in modern Japanese society and how it can effect people in different ways. I just bought book four and can’t wait to read it and see how everything ends.

Day Fourteen: Queer Book That Made You Cry

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Holy shit guys. Listen. Listen. If you don’t read any other book on this list, please consider reading The Marrow Thieves. It is hands down the best book I’ve read so far this year. Another book that doesn’t have a queer character as the protag, but as one of the main supporting characters and listen, his story fucking destroyed me as a person. That romance just… aaaaaaah. AAAAAAAAH.

Anyway. The Marrow Thieves is a Canadian dystopian novel. It takes place in a post-climate change world in which society has been ravaged – partially due to the wildly different and extreme weather patterns, but also through a strange disease that has spread through the population that has left people completely incapable of dreaming. Now unable to rest, process their lives, and dream of a future, people are being driven insane and only one group appears to be immune: North America’s First Nations people appear to be unaffected. And so they begin to be harvested, rounded up and collected in “school” in order for people to suck the marrow out of them to give to white people afflicted by this disease. The Marrow Thieves follows a First Nations boy named Frenchie as he flees the recruiters and tries his best to survive in this post-apocalyptic like wilderness, banding together with other First Nations people who are heading north, where they hope to find communities of their own people with whom they can shelter and start to rebuild their lives.

It’s a YA level novel, not very long, and such an insanely good read. I cannot emphasize enough PLEASE GO READ THIS BOOK.

Day Fifteen: Queer Book That Made You LOL

Mostly Void, Partially Stars by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Welcome to Nightvale always makes me laugh and it was a lot of fun to get to read the transcripts of the episodes. I’m a sucker for novelizations/transcripts of shows. It was a nice nostalgia trip and gave me an excuse to go back and relisten to some of my favourite episodes too! If you’ve never gotten into Nightvale… hey, it’s a classic! Podcast is fucking stunning if you’re into podcasts, and if you’re not but would enjoy a weird, queer, eldritch horror comedy then try the book! It’s the first “season” compiled in text form, exactly how it’s heard in the show.

Day Sixteen: Queer Book That Is Really Personal To You

Jughead volume 1 by Chip Zdarsky et al

Including this one because gee golly it sure did make me want to fight a lot of people for quite a while. It was one of the first stories I ever found/read that had an explicitly asexual main character… (and a character I already really loved! Which I now got to feel an even stronger connection to! It was so fun and validating!) so it was super awesome how like half of tumblr decided for a year there that this was apparently a cardinal sin. Imagine… one single version of old, long standing comic series deciding to retcon a character to represent a heavily under-represented community… imagine being so fucking angry about that that you decide to start a hate campaign on the internet. So much fun to live through that as an ace person. Anyway, these comics were nothing amazing but I sure do love them aggressively out of pure spite, even now that the aphobia on tumblr has died back down I will hold this to my chest and adore it.

Day Seventeen: Favourite Queer Book Sequel or Spin Off

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

Honestly do I even need to say anything here? Is there any queer person who hasn’t read Mackenzi Lee’s The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue series? If you are someone who hasn’t read it yet… go do that?? Absolutely stunning, one of my all-time favourite book series. It’s the perfect combination of hilarious and goofy, intense action, heartfelt character development, and a dash of “wait was that supernatural or??” This sequel was fantastic, this time focusing on Felicity, Monty’s sister, and her quest to become a physician despite being a woman in the 18th century. Awesome look at femininity, feminism, asexuality, and race. (Also… OT3? OT3.)

Day Eighteen: Favourite Queer Book By A Favourite Author

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

One of those “ehh is this technically queer? Not really but close enough, it is in my heart” books. It was one of the books I read as a teenager when I was still beginning to seek out and try to explore queer lit in so much as I could.

Terry Pratchett is, hands down, my favourite author, and though he doesn’t tend to write explicitly queer literature, his exploration of gender through allegory is top fucking tier. Everything to do with the dwarves in his series is fascinating, and a really great challenge/critique/exploration of gender, and this is the book that takes it to the next level (and brings in at least implicitly queer characters). It’s about Polly Perks, who lives in a small, war torn nation, choosing to join the army in order to find out what happened to her brother. However, as tradition dictates, she can’t join as a girl… so she disguises herself as Ozzer, a young man. There’s a lot of twists and turns, and as always Pratchett delivers fantastic humour and just absolutely delicious satire.

Day Nineteen: Queer Book That Changed Your Life

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

This was the book that made me realize that I, as a queer teacher, could have queer kid lit in my future classroom. Maybe a comparatively small revelation, but a really important one to me. It made me realize that this didn’t need to be something I kept a secret in my professional life and which could really positively influence children, especially queer children. It was the first queer children’s book I ever bought.

Day Twenty: Favourite Queer Book Series

Candy Color Paradox by Isaku Natsume

Alright… I’ll admit it, this isn’t actually my favourite series, but I’ve used my favourites in other spots. And this is a good one! Definitely more of an actual “yaoi” than the other manga I’ve included (here there be sex) but it has a very different vibe that what I’m used to from that type of manga. The main pair are actually both capable, mature adults, with careers they actively care about, and who get together in the first volume!

The rest of the series is less about them angst-ily toeing around their relationship, and much more about them learning to grow as a couple and balance their work and relationship and society. It’s funny and sweet, and I really enjoy these two losers. It’s a very low-stakes enemy-to-friends-to-lovers story, in which Onoe (a reporter) and Kaburagi (a photographer) are paired up on a news story they’re supposed to dig into together. What starts as a bickering rivalry gradually becomes respect, friendship, and love~ Onoe is a gremlin of a protag, so he’s a treat to follow.

Day Twenty-One: Queer Book That You Recommend A Lot

Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller

To repeat myself: Linsey Miller is awesome! This is my favourite book of hers, the first of a duology. It’s kind of like an intense, edgy Tamora Pierce novel with murder. In this world, the Queen has a team of assassins known as the Left Hand. They’re an elite group that keeps the Queen safe and does the dirty work that needs to be done to protect the kingdom and keep the encroaching nations at bay. When the assassin Opal is killed, a contest is announced to find the new Opal. People from all over come to complete for the honour of being one of the Queen’s royal assassins, including gender-fluid thief Sallot Leon. Sal has some deep motivations to become Opal that go beyond a loyalty to their kingdom, but they’re going to have to survive their competitors if they even wants a chance at it… (Sal generally goes by either she or he in the books, but I’m using they in this instance since it’s in a more general sense.)

Day Twenty-Two: Queer Book That Made You Take Action

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Uhh, I don’t really have any books that made me take action per se, but this one sure gave me a lot to think about. It’s about deep sea mermaids who originated from the pregnant slave women tossed into the ocean to drown during passage to North America. From those dying women, this race was born and were taken in by whales, raised and protected until they could descend into the deep ocean waters, to form their own safe society. Their collective past is so painful though that as a species they’ve developed a very short term memory. But a people can’t live without any ties to their roots and so one of them, the Historian, holds all the memories for their entire species and shares it with everyone once a year so that the community can be connected to their ancestors before once again returning the memories to the Historian for safe keeping. Yetu, the current Historian, is so overwhelmed by these memories, that she can no longer take it – she flees her people, her responsibilities, and her pain and escapes to the surface instead...

Day Twenty-Three: Queer Book By An Author Who I Killed Is Dead

Cybersix by Carlos Trillo

I cannot emphasize enough, this is not actually a queer comic, it is in fact a very homophobic, transphobic and sexist comic written by a horrible person.

That being said, he’s dead and I own it now the TV series was essentially about a genderqueer superhero and a very confused bi biology professor who has a crush on both personas. I had a passionate crush on both personas as a child, and I will cherrypick this comic until I die in order to enjoy the only kickass genderqueer/genderfluid noir antihero I’ve come across. I am valid and I am not open to debate or discussion. Do not read this comic it’s horrible (but consider watching the show).

Day Twenty-Four: Queer Book You Wish You’d Read When Younger

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

This is such an incredibly soft story with the nicest art. There’s so much understanding and compassion in it and its exploration of gender and self-confidence and being true to yourself would have been very reassuring to me as a child, especially by late elementary/middle school.

Day Twenty-Five: Queer Book In A Historical Setting

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

A retelling of Achilles’ and Patroclus’ relationship from childhood to the Trojan war. So yeah, you can imagine that this was also a candidate for Day 14 :’) I haven’t read this one in years but god it was lovely and emotionally destroyed me as a person.

Day Twenty-Six: Queer Superhero Book or Comic

Overwatch: Reflections by Michael Chu and Miki Montillo

I don’t really read superhero stories very often (the comics have always driven me a little bonkers, trying to find a way to enter the totally unapproachable Marvel/DC canons, and the MCU burnt me out years ago for every other sort of superhero story) so this is the closest I can get. Tracer’s a superhero yeah? Anyway, I, like every other queer person in the Overwatch fandom, lost my fucking mind when this dropped for Christmas a few years back and officially declared Lena Oxton not only the face of the entire franchise but also a lesbian. It’s an adorable little comic and Tracer’s girlfriend is a sweetheart.

Day Twenty-Seven: Favourite Queer Children’s Picture Book

Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack

There’s a number of sweet queer children’s books that are popping up these days, but this is my favourite just because it’s less about “explaining the gays to children” (though those books also have their place) and more of a cute little fantasy adventure in which the actual protagonist is gay. It’s about a prince who sets out to find himself a bride who can help rule by his side, but it quickly becomes clear that he isn’t interested in any of the girls. Instead, when a fire breathing dragon threatens his kingdom, he meets a brave knight who fights along side him. It’s very supportive and the art is lovely.

Day Twenty-Eight: Queer Book That Made You Feel Uncomfortable

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

This is a book with an asexual protagonist that I was originally really excited for. I know there are a lot of people out there who really enjoy this book and connected with it, but it didn’t do it for me. Maybe because my expectations were too high, but the protagonist’s experience with asexuality was vastly different than my own and the narrative voice ended up rubbing me wrong (and let’s be honest, slice-of-life romance is NOT my usual genre at all). So it’s not “made me uncomfortable because it’s Bad And Wrong” more just… totally vibed wrong with me. Maybe the perfect book for other people but definitely not for me, I had to return this one unfinished because it’s portrayal of asexuality just made me so deeply uncomfortable.

Day Twenty-Nine: Queer Book That Made You Want To Fall In Love

The Gentleman’s Guide To Vice And Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

This book had to make it on here somewhere, and honestly it could have gone in a lot of different spots, but I chose to put it here because the relationship between Monty and Percy is so incredibly sweet and authentic it really does make you want something like that. TGGTVAV (for anyone who has somehow not heard of it) takes place in the 18th century, and is about Monty, his best friend (and crush) Percy, and his sister Felicity going on a final “hurrah” tour of Europe before Monty's father finally tries to pin him down in England and force every part of Monty that’s deemed “unacceptable” out of him. So Monty intends to live this summer up… until everything goes off the rail and the three of them are suddenly fleeing across the continent with assassins at their heels and a strange, stolen artifact in their possession.

Monty has a lot of growing to do in this novel, and that’s one of my favourite things about it. For his and Percy’s relationship to ever have a chance, Monty needs to learn and change and actually communicate with other people, and it makes the relationship feel strong. Not a fluffy, surface level romance that often happens in YA but something built from the ground up by two friends who really want to make it work. Ahh, it’s lovely. One of my favourite novels.

Day Thirty: Queer Book With Your Favourite Ending

My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame

A two-book manga series that was completely stunning. It deals with queer relationships and homophobia in a very stark, real-world manner that you don’t often get in manga, while still being incredibly loving and sympathetic. The book is about Yaichi, a single father whose estranged brother (Ryoji) recently died. One day, a Canadian named Mike arrives, introducing himself as Ryoji’s widower. Mike had come hoping to visit his late husband’s homeland to try to get some closure, and Yaichi ends up inviting Mike to stay. The whole story looks Japan’s societal biases, through Mike’s experiences, Yaichi’s thoughts, feelings and prejudices, and those of his daughter who adores Mike.

Seriously, this is one of the kindest, most earnest looks I’ve ever seen to internal prejudices that critiques them without demonizing the person who feels them. Instead it lovingly embraces grief, growth, and love. This series made me cry multiple times, was good enough that even my straight brother practically ordered me to go out and buy the second book when he finished the first, and the ending was just *chef’s kiss*

Honourable Mentions

A few books I really wanted to fit on my list somehow but couldn’t quite manage it, so here: All Out an anthology of historical fiction short stories about queer teens. The Tea Dragon Society series and Princess Princess Ever After, graphic novels by the amazingly talented Katie O’Neill. Heartstopper a webcomic turn graphic novel by Alice Oseman about a pair of rugby players. The Different Dragon a cute picture book in which the boy has two moms and which is about accepting different ways of being. And Lady Knight a part of Tamora Pierce’s Protector of the Small series because because Kel is word-of-god aro(and/or ace) and I’ve adored that series and Kel since I was about thirteen so by god I’ll take it.

Now for those that wanted to do their own challenge, I found it on @gailcarriger’s blog.

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