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The Tortured Heroines Department

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Ninth house super standee: incoming!!

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“the locked tomb trilogy has four books” is actually very much in line with the vibe of the series, of course the locked tomb trilogy has four books

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Everyone should be able to express their small and mean opinions to someone who won't clutch their pearls about it. Being a bitch is a human right

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Bryce and Hunt - Crescent City

Artist: @ssahhartt

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many of you need to be more unapologetically indulgent about your hyperfixatons. make shitposts, let yourself get emotional, be so Normal, have stupid fun.

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All three Locked Tomb covers together with a new lettering style! I’ve posted all of these so many times now lol but I like having them all together :)

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congratulation tamsyn muir for creating a complex magic system based on "theorems" without ever giving an example of a theorem. she went just as far as she needed to go and then said "i'm not doing this today"

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I disapprove of most book changes but making hotd a lesbian divorce drama is the best adaptational change in the history of adaptations. give me all the milf on milf violence

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The corpse looked at her in such mute, helpless appeal—spoke to her in her first language—that Nona did not have to think about what she did next.

And my first official Nona feelings explosion manifest as a request for my beautiful friends who kept me best company as I was losing my mind

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In the original draft of Gideon, Harrow doesn’t say ‘Oh, I have hurt your heart,’ she says ‘Oh, I have rustled your jimmies.’ She says that purely because that’s what my brain thrust into my hand and I liked the way it sounded. Carl said, ‘You can’t put that in a novel’ […]

drawing out my feelings on the most recent tazmuir interview

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come on barbie let's go party (å̷͖̕h̸̪̓ ̴̝̗͈̌̉̽ḁ̴̰̈́͗ĥ̷̪͂̓͜ ̶̦͗̉͋ȃ̴͚h̸͎̍ ̶̣͊y̴̧̋̕͠e̷̹̎̇͊ạ̷̗͒͝h̴̪̮͛́́)

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Jude and Cardan, again.

These are all the endpapers I did for the German special edition of The Folk of the Air by Holly Black published by Chest of Fandoms. Unfortunately it’s sold out. I like collecting all the books I’ve worked on, so I was very sad when even I couldn’t get the trilogy because there were no more copies left.

Instagram  - ArtStation - Website - Art Prints

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The corpse looked at her in such mute, helpless appeal—spoke to her in her first language—that Nona did not have to think about what she did next.

And my first official Nona feelings explosion manifest as a request for my beautiful friends who kept me best company as I was losing my mind

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"if I were harrow I simply would have fallen in love with the hot butch and not the apocalypse corpse rip to her but I'm different" ok but are you fully incorporating the psychological burden of being 200 dead children in your self insert reader x gideon fanfic here. because I think you are not!! loving gideon means accepting your own existence and the possibility of being loved back. loving the body is impossible. it's destruction of the Tomb and thus destruction of the self.

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People keep being like “If you liked Gideon the Ninth, try this other book about lesbians and space and empires!” And some of those books are very good but what the recommenders seem not to grasp is that Gideon the Ninth is fun to read. Even funny. If I want space adventures, I can go to any sci fi book from the past century or so. If I want to see lesbians, I can just go on Instagram. If I want to see an empire brutally attempting to maintain its stranglehold on those it oppresses, I don’t need to go anywhere. What I want, and do not get, is, “I did offer him a stupendous work of a titty nature, and he got offended.”

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