#it was in… a book of acronyms…

[tisorridalamor]

At work today I learned the acronym ‘TLA’ which stands for ‘Three Letter Acronym’ all engineers should die and go to hell no matter what

[jesncin]

Happy Pride! Now that Lunar Boy (our middle grade graphic novel) is out, we wanted to share our thought process behind queer vocabulary in media. The constant censorship, imposed western biases on queer culture, and what it means to introduce queer vocabulary to a young audience.

Check out Lunar Boy wherever american graphic novels are sold, or check it out at a library!

[benevolenterrancy]

a quick cheat sheet because @meso-mijali was preparing to kill me over the fact that one character's acronym is SQQ and the other's is SQH

[roseverdict]

The Barnes and Noble version of The Book of Bill has 16 extra pages, but I don't really have the non-B&N version for comparison. Do we know which pages are the extra ones?

[sanctus-ingenium]

I just finished reading Said the Black Horse. Possibly the most enjoyable thing I've read in years? It reminded me a bit of The Priory of the Orange Tree in scale and pacing but your characters are just so immediately irresistible and your world is so vivid and special and fresh. Amazing!

oh wow thank you, what a nice message to wake up to!!! I've never read Priory of the Orange Tree but it does interest me (let's be real here, because there's a dragon on the cover). I did deliberately choose a relatively slow pace, i'm one of those sick and twisted people who loves it when things take forever. but thank you so much, I'm really glad you enjoyed it and I hope you check out the free preview of the sequel here

[screenshotsonpinterest]

I did not walk out of tbosbas crushing on mass murder crazy poison man finnick-odair-killing president snow

But if Tom Blyth asked me to bark I’d-

[ruegarding]

I think it's a strange retcon, especially since Mrs O'leary is supposed to have some role in wotg? Apparently? So where do they even go from there? Percys, in such a bad place he can't take care of his own dog anymore? Just like everything Percy ever has, she gets taken and given to someone else?

oh yeah, you're right! i completely forgot that she was supposed to be in it. yeah, this is not looking great...maybe it means percy will have a reaction that someone will notice and he can finally get the attention he needs...my hopes for this are low. but not zero!

[sandersgrey]

"Nico solo book should be a tragedy" disagree.

Nico was Rick Riordan's first canonically queer character, and the first book queer character a lot of my generation knew about as kids- it would be a huge slap on the face of his audience if his story ended as a tragedy, and Riordan knows that. Thats why solangelo has such a solid, healthy dynamic in the background of toa.

Of now, he's also one of very few pjo-verse characters to be basically confirmed mentally ill, and he's also really disabled in the text, whether its said or not.

Nico is a queer orphan who's entire storyline til toa was just tragedy after tragedy after goddamn tragedy, and who has JUST begun to heal. He deserves a happy ending.

More importantly, the audience- the queer, disabled, mentally ill kids who see themselves in him- deserve to see him be happy at the end.

To make his story a tragedy would be to validate Nico's (and Hades') belief that kids like him don't get a happy ending. That all we're made for is tragedy.

Rick Riordan first wrote The Lightning Thief so his adhd son could finally see himself in a hero. He keeps writing after his son is grown because he knows how much other kids need those stories- his students, even. He knows.

It's even in the narrative itself: it tells us upfront that Percy's mother called him Perseus because he was the only greek hero who got a happy ending.

Nico is the queer kid's original Perseus.

The reasoning follows that he must be happy.

[rebelcharmings]

in another universe raven queen and dexter charming are waiting with 25 different mirror screens for tailor quick’s EveRAfterS (ERAS) tour tickets

[magpiefngrl]

book/fic acronym

Ooh i had an idea, have we done this one before?

Spell your name with the titles of your fave books and/or fics.

I liked this game so much I did it with both books and fics. (can you tell school term is almost over?) It was interesting to see which letters were easier to find titles for and which not. Consider everything below a huge rec.

Mo Dao Zu Shi by MXTX || Misethere by Astolat

Autobiography in Red by A. Carson || a better happier st sebastian by halsinator

Game of Kings by D.Dunnett || The god of scraped knees. by spqr

Prince's Gambit by CS Pacat (i debated putting Pawn here) || parley by cafecliche

Introducing Mr Winterbourne by J. Chambers (this was hard!) || I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor by birdsofshore and IDK My BFF Hermione? by lettered and In the dark, the light by phrynne and in the blossom season (in the pouring rain) by varnes (and I could rec a few more! What is it with the letter i and fics?)

Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo || Every Me and Every You by Bixgirl1

Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien || Fire Burn and Caldron Bubble by pastapug

Northern Lights by Pullman || Need by @bixgirl1

Girl, Woman, Other by B. Evaristo || Ghost in the Garden by thistle verse

Role Model by Rachel Reid (how was this the hardest one??? Took me ages to find a book) || run all the lights by fahye

Lolita by Nabokov || Let Me Have You and I'll Let You Save Me by frayach

Tagging anyone who wants to do this! Maybe @bloody-wonder, @doh-rae-me, @unhelpfulfemme, @sitp-recs and @wolfpants can get the ball rolling, if they feel like it?

[hanzajesthanza]

dandelion is indeed the worst but if he’s not present in the next book i would legitimately be sorrowful as the whole thing will become a slog . you basically cannot have the “short stories” era-of-the-timeline iteration of geralt without dandelion, it would be like eating unbuttered bread.

though it’s not like season of storms did them dirty, i wasn’t disappointed with it (… with regards to them), but since it’s literally been over 20 years since the saga was finished i’m trying to prepare for any potential reality

[shxdowxeverydxy]

My passion for Techwear sometimes leads me to interesting pieces, and that is today's brutal Techwear Kremlin bomber. A combination of functionality and futuristic design.🔥🥷🏿🫶

[dragonsdendoodles]

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SO GANG HOW WE FEELING ABOUT THIS ONE

[bibliophilecats]

05 August 2023: National Clown Day

ACAB = assigned clown at birth

[isfjmel-phleg]

I was looking up reviews of the book assigned for the Sunday school class I'm in, happened to glance at one particular review, and was like "wow, she really didn't like that, did she."

And then I read it more carefully.

..."Bible study" is one of those terms that maybe don't need to be abbreviated as an acronym.

[discjude]

DJ certified tier list of Could I Beat This Character In A Fight. please bear in mind I am overconfident and filled with spite and malice therefore I may unreasonably confident but I think this is all fair. Feel free to argue with my opinions. For all intents and purposes we are not allowing magic (because I don't have magic, unfair) and ARE allowing weapons (not the scims. japeth does not get the scims I do not care what it says in one true king the scims are not all individual weapons).