#m/m book

[ryderocoxauthor]

The cover reveal for my upcoming friends to lovers MM Romance short story will be November 2! Keep your eyes here, or join my mailing list to get it early!

https://ryderocox.com

[Image ID: A graphic of an e-reader and a phone on a pink background. The screens both show a blurred image of the cover of the upcoming book Practice Makes Perfect by Ryder O. Cox. There is a quote at the top from the book which reads “Look, it’s not like it’s actual dating. I just figured we could act out a few things and you could tell me where I’m fucking up, you know?” Below the quote reads ‘After all...’ and below that is the title graphic for Practice Makes Perfect. There is another set of words which read ‘Cover Reveal November 2nd’ as well as the URL ryderocox.com /.End ID]

[cosmicriff]

Dippers internet history revealed in The Book of Bill

[soracities]

"As an educator, I don’t just want you to feel what I feel. I don’t want you to consider me correct because I said it beautifully. I want to sharpen your critical thinking skills and your world-making capacities. I absolutely do not leave emotion out of that! Emotions are as central as the written, verbal, numeric, social, ecological knowledges we are able to gain to navigate this world and the next. I am just… extra cognizant of how much I can lead viewers to feel with me without further thought. The videos of mine that go most viral are ones where I show the most emotion, whatever that emotion is: hopeful, cheery, despondent, grieved, furious, combative. We love emotion. We live such isolated, stifled lives.

The challenge of reading is to navigate the narrative without the overtures of overt feelings. There is no face to latch onto, no music that sways you. Words on a page especially cannot compete with screen-time. They’re not meant to. The boredom opens up space in your mindscape to your own thoughts, opinions, and feelings."

—Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings on Substack

[bookaddict24-7]

"A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection."

-The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente

[napoleanbonafarte]

me too, buddy. me fucking too

[tremendously-crazy]

does anyone else immediately lose interest in a book when there's a romantic subplot or is that just me

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[moriaarts]

Mando dads!au

or I’m convinced Cody would have been such a good dad and Cal would have been an amazing big brother that would have healed with Obi-wan in his life and then eventually called Cody buir by accident bc the twins do

[wiltkingart]

Asche and Vindt from Ocean's Blood by Thelma Mantey

[geryone]

Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente

[zivazivc]

this came to me in a dream

Floyd's emo ass and a techno troll could make scene kids...! Do you see my vision??? . . . Ravin is Happy Hardcore and Eddy M is Synth-Pop, that's how troll genetics work, right?

anyway...

i don't think floyd leads a proud life

[yasayanolulersarayi]

[i-stan-my-toxic-blorbos]

With M&Ms putting out more ads due to Halloween coming up, I would like to casually make sure everyone is aware...

The Peanut M&M is voiced by the same guy who voices Ford Pines and Cave Johnson.

...Do with that information what you will

[soracities]

"it's not my job to tell you that horse thieves are bad people"!!!

(Claire Mesud, interviewed by Publisher's Weekly (2013) [ID'd])

[foxstens]

matt dropping everything to get gorilla off of kevin

dan checking on kevin when gorilla tried to hurt his hand

the upperclassmen keeping an eye on kevin during the fall and winter banquets

kevin spending the winter break with nicky, aaron, and matt

nicky hiding behind kevin, nicky and kevin squabbling over food

kevin and aaron clacking sticks and renee hugging kevin after the catamounts match

[catherine-sketches]

I love how, with the way Full Moon went down, it makes the previous Fizzarozzie episodes serve as a great point of contrast.

It was not just “expanding Fizz and Ozzie character/relationship” episodes, it was also “this imp and high ranking demon love story is a narrative foil for our main imp and high ranking demon love story because Fizz and Ozzie actually TALK to each other while miscommunication runs rampant in the Blitz and Stolas corner” episodes.

Fizz is open about his insecurities, his broken horns, his fears. He has no problem vocalizing his feelings to Ozzie and he trusts him implicitly (hello hugging a fire demon while your limbs were lost in a fire because you KNOW that he would never burn you I’m still not over that)

Ozzie is over there using “I” statements (“I don’t like this” and “I don’t appreciate that” and “I think this is has gone way to far”) and trying his best to be clear of his support for Fizz even if he doesn’t like the whole pageant thing and making sex toys with his lover’s face on them.

(I’m a firm believer on the “Ozzie had a formal contract with Mammon to make the Fizzbots/Sex Fizzy™️ products making it everlastingly binding, and as long as Fizzy was the winner of the pageant and Mammons brand baby he couldn’t just stop production and tell Mam to fuck off. Meaning that it was up to Fizz to stop the whole thing by severing ties with Mammon. Which he did!)

And now in the new episode Fizz and Ozzie are work partners! They are designing toys together! Fizz is thriving and more carefree than we ever saw him before.

Meanwhile Stolitz have to learn (both of them) how to properly communicate with each other because GOD they do such a bad job of walking on the other’s shoes that it’s making my heart hurt