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Is the ending of the queen below different in the purchasable/published books?

I have no idea when this was sent because I haven’t been active on here but no, not really! The Queen Below didn’t have to undergo any major edits, pretty much just typos I missed the first time around and a few minor things I wanted to change/add in.

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books i read in 2022: house of hunger by alexis henderson

“I’ll let you in on a little secret that will serve you well in the North - the whole world runs on blood. Who has good blood. Who has bad blood. Whose blood is shed and whose isn’t. That’s what it all comes down to in the end. And you southerners like to pretend that isn’t true, but you’re just as bloodthirsty as the rest. Blood is everything in the South. It’s everything everywhere.”

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@storyseekers event 18: 2021 debut — There’s a monster in the shadows, and now it knows my name.

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I can finally post this!

Gift art to celebrate the book birthday of LAKESEDGE by Lyndall Clipstone, which you can buy here

Congrats on your debut my dear!!’ 💕

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2021 Books. ⋙ Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone

“Maybe I just want to be the girl who held the hand of a monster.”

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Love’s Messenger (detail), c. 1885. Marie Spartali Stillman

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I am both wound and knife

Maria Nephele: A Poem in Two Voices, Odysseus Elytis ( @feral-ballad ) |  Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne, Fede Galizia | Judith, August Riedel | Ideology, Aria Aber ( @cithaerons ) | Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle,  James Sant | Vigil, Clementine von Radics

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— Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo van Gogh

[text ID: So often, in the past too, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me and reminded me that there are good things in the world.]

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i want to be a vampire so bad. it would open up a whole new world of procrastination. puts off finishing a novel for 100 years. i don’t do the dishes for 20. oh wait i don’t have dishes because i suck blood. another fucking win

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a significant amount of my current problems would be solved by vampirism

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intercourse with a vampire or whatever

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Favorite books: A Dowry of Blood by @stgibsonofficial

“What is more lovely, after all, than a monster undone with wanting?”

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in celebration of @avasreid joining tumblr: a picspam edit for their debut, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“A bargain between a Woodsman and a wolf-girl already seems a fragile and terrible thing. Whose god would approve of it?”

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Listen.... last night I made a very important discovery about the endings of both Deathless by Catherynne M Valente (published March 2011) and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (published September 2011)

when Baba Yaga tells Marya:

and when Thetis says:

and when Marya, in the land of the dead, does this, as the very last paragraph of the book:

and Patroclus, his spirit finally free, does this, in the very last paragraph of the book:

Both protagonists dead, reuniting with their dead soulmate in the land of the dead, hands meeting, light pouring out. The exact same ending. The exact same emotion.

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Marbre de jeune fille, Musée de Rennes, France

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What if God played God?

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