#now is not the time to panic

[starrlikesbooks]

It's hard to believe it's already November!

Check out how many great books are out this month!

Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun is the sapphic Christmas romcom of your dreams! When Ellie agrees to fake an engagement with the already enormously rich Andrew, the money offered makes it an easy choice- but that's before she realizes the one night stand that broke her almost exactly a year ago is his sister. This book also has demi rep, and most of the cast are POC!

Even Though I Knew the End by CL Polk is another I already had the fortune to read. This is a fantasy noir novella starring a queer detective, cast out of her magical society due to a forbidden deal.

Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson is a fantastic coming of age story set against the Satanic Panic. This is a book is awkward teenage years, guilt, and desperation to mean something.

Astrid Park Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake is the sequel/spin-off to the wildly popular Delilah Green Doesn't Care, this one focused on her sister. Just like the first, this is a sapphic adult romance.

At Midnight edited by Dahlia Adler is an anthology of fairy tale retellings! With Adler editing you know it's going to be an inclusive, entertaining collection.

Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales is another fun, bi romance! This one is set during a dating competition- that the main character enters in the hopes of revealing the bachelor, her ex, as the bastard he is. What she doesn't expect is to have to share a room with the very girl he cheated with her on. Or for feelings to start getting involved.

[desdasiwrites]

– Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

[amatchboxheart]

[lucasmaybury]

'The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.'

[wispscribbles]

you know the art you made of Soap "accidentally" giving Ghost a kiss before going on a mission? (before they started dating) what do you think happened when Soap came back from the mission? :3c

follow up to this post

They start dating of course! <3

[inkskinned]

hey btw if you're in the USA at  2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, they're testing the emergency broadcast system. your phone is probably going to make a really loud noise, even if it's on silent. there's a backup date on the 11th if they need to postpone it.

if you're not in a safe situation and have an extra phone, you should turn that phone completely off beforehand.

additionally, if you're like me, and are easily startled; i recommend treating it like a party. have a countdown or something. be surrounded by your loved ones. take the actions you personally need to take to make yourself safe.

i have already seen mockery towards any person who feels nervous about this. for the record, it completely, completely valid to have "emergency broadcast sounds" be an anxiety trigger. do not let other people make fun of you for that. emergency sounds are legitimately engineered to make us take action; those of us with high levels of anxiety and/or neurodivergence are already pre-disposed to have a Bad Time. sometimes it is best to acknowledge that the situation will be triggering for some, and to prepare for that; rather than just saying "well that's stupid, it's just a test."

"loud scary sound time" isn't like, my favorite thing, but we can at least try to prevent some additional anxiety by preparing for it. maybe get yourself a cake? noise cancelling headphones? the new hozier album? whatever helps. love u, hope you're okay. we are gonna ride it out together.

[fizzreads]

I read this entire book on a plane, and I am pretty pleased with myself. This was the second book by this author that I’ve read. I liked it. It was a fictional account of this crazy viral panic that these two teenagers in Tennessee started in the 90s. It’s narrated by one of the teens, who was awkward and lonely. She grew up to be a successful author, happily married and with a daughter she adored. (Although oddly, she mentions that she didn’t fall in love with her husband until after their wedding??) But when her secret comes back to haunt her, she basically freaks the fuck out. I did find her actual obsession with this phrase and poster that she created to be really bizarre. But overall, it was good.

[pipperoni32-blog]

Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By Kevin Wilson / 4 stars. 

This one didn't quite start the way I was expecting. Then, with Kevin Wilson, I guess I don't really know what to expect. I quickly found myself drawn into it though and read late into the night.

Our main characters, Frankie and Zeke, are both odd in their own ways. But they find each other at the pool one summer day and become friends from there. They find an old copier in Frankie's basement and decide to make art with it. Even if they aren't sure exactly what that should look like.

Zeke encourages Frankie to write, and she manages to come up with a phrase that sounds odd, but could have a deeper meaning. Zeke draws around the words, and they make copies to hang up around the town. There's something about their poster that compels and obsesses both of them. Just a few won't do, so they make a map to try and poster the whole town.

It's the reaction that isn't quite what they're expecting. Soon, the town, and eventually even the whole country is in a panic. When people start dying, they don't know what they're supposed to do. They wanted to get a response, but not like this.

A story about how one moment, or one thing, can become bigger than anything we ever imagined. And how that one thing can stick with us all throughout our lives, too.

For me, this wasn't as good as "Nothing To See Here", but it still has me certain that I'll check out anything Kevin Wilson comes out with!

[remindmetoreed]

jan 7

now is not the time to panic by kevin wilson was a book i purchased while in San Diego for thanksgiving break. the premise of the book is interesting, as it follows the story of two awkward teenagers who create a piece of art that causes a panic throughout their city...and even gets national coverage.

i wasn't sure what i was expecting, but this book has definitely been a surprise. i'm hoping to finish it by monday!

[theadmiringbog]

I thought that the saddest thing that could happen was that something inside your head worked so hard to make it into the world and then nothing happened. It just disappeared. Now that I’d put those words into the open air, I needed them to multiply, to reproduce, to cover the world.

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This was the beauty of obsession, I realized. It never waned. Real obsession, if you did it right, was the same intensity every single time, a kind of electrocution that kept your heart beating in time. It was so good.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 136

 There is a small child floating in the Watchtower. 

They’re visibly not human, a too-big cloak of purple (what shade no one knows, all they can describe about the cloak is purple, nothing else) hanging from them as big Lazarus-green eyes glare down in something of a pout. The child huffs, blowing white hair out of their face despite it shimmering and shifting on its own already. 

How the child, inhuman or not, found their way into the Watchtower- without setting off an alarm no less- is a concern. A very large concern, but it can wait because there is a four-year old (if the child is the equivalent of a human child that is) at oldest staring down at them. 

 “Do you know where the speedsters are?” the child piped up after an awkward stare-down, none of the league members present quite sure what to do in this situation. It was probably around time to call Batman… or they could call Flash instead. 

[hypewinter]

I've had a brainworm for a few days now so here me out.

After an accidental reveal gone wrong, Danny is forced to flee the country with both his parents and the giw after him. While he's trying to find some place internationally to settle down, he comes across a secluded complex.

Said complex happens to have access to an ectoplasm run off which Danny is in desperate need of. Though it has been corrupted by whatever the people of the complex have been doing to it, that's no problem for Danny as he can easily purify the portion he takes in to survive.

Deciding this is the perfect place to live off the grid, Danny sets to work figuring out how to blend in. It turns out that's the easy part. With his temporary stint as a ninja, his training with his black belt mom, and his general ghost physiology, he fits in pretty well.

He fits in so well in fact that he is told he'll be training someone one of the head bosses has their eye on. A kid his age.

Basically what follows is Danny accidentally ruining Talia's plans for Jason by unconsciously purifying his corruption and just talking him through his emotions. When Jason gets back to Gotham, he returns without a clouded mentally and realizes just how much Bruce went through after his death.

Instead of unleashing his complicated plan, he quietly takes over the underworld. He loves his father but also knows there are situations in Gotham that require a more firm hand. Jason decides to be a firm hand in his dad's place.

(I imagine he is only revealed on accident yet his reunion with his family is just as dramatic as Under the Red Hood. Tbh it probably has something to do with the joker suddenly going missing.)

Meanwhile back at the League of Assassins, Talia is impressed by Jason's training and is under the impression that his failure in Gotham is due to him getting cold feet at the last second so she puts Danny in charge of Damian's training.

Danny this time takes a more conscious role in ruining the league's brainwashing by challenging Damian's beliefs and teaching him he should use his weapons to protect, not to harm. By the time Damian gets to Wayne Manor, there is significantly less deprogramming that needs to be done.

[collophora]

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