25• ✡️🏳️🌈• illustrator • shakespearean • beta/sensitivity reader • lover of folklore and sentient forests
the forest of arden
Joined August 2020
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So excited to FINALLY reveal this beautiful character art of Jude & Maeve by the supremely talented @beforeviolets for my debut The Sacred Space Between out next year with @HarperVoyagerUK ✨
this was my little gift to myself when the book sold and I can't! Stop! Looking at it!
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seeing the uptick of AI art being used in book marketing is disheartening, but particularly so when I’m seeing an uptick of it in the indie sapphic space
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reminder that 50% of all sales (but particular emphasis on library acquisitions) go to 🍉🍉🍉 in May and June 💓
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I’m donating 50% of my profits to 🍉🍉🍉 for the months of May and June (possibly July), and it doesn’t need to cost you anything. ask your libraries to stock SMILE AND BE A VILLAIN!
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look ma!!!!!
ALT sophia's article from the orbit books new voices 2024 page
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i feel like it's important to be clear-headed that every time you interact with generative Al, it's bad. there is no harmless, just-for-fun interaction with generative Al. every single prompt is an ungodly environmental drain, and every share is normalising the software
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ICYMI: We've got @maddiesmartinez's #TheMaidenandHerMonster, coming Fall 2025 🧚 reactormag.com/book-announce…
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happy autism month! every time a bigot weaponizes autism against trans ppl as a way to prove we're confused or misled, i get to write another book where an autistic trans kid will see themself and their anger and their survival on the page. idk, seems like a fair trade to me
ALT A line of three covers in Evangeline Gallagher's signature gritty, striking style. Left: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US by Andrew Joseph White. Red, pale blue, white, and black color scheme. Features a trans boy with six eyed wings, in a Christ-like pose, with a background of destroyed buildings. Center: THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH. Gold, lavender, black, and white color scheme. Features a trans boy in a dress clutching a shard of glass, surrounded by anatomical diagrams of eyes. Right: COMPOUND FRACTURE. Drab green, orange, black, and beige color scheme. Features a trans boy in a bandana covering his eye and a dog, against a background of trees, barbed wire, and antlers shedding velvet.
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characters learning their folkloric history <<<< characters who must relearn it after they are told a false & wicked version of it
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rapunzel is a story about white feminine identity as a part of nation & christian purity in opposition to the jewish/romani child stealing witch. her blonde hair is an extension of her pure christian identity, which is destroyed when she has sex with the prince/discover the world
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ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED!! 🍓🍄 ty so so much to my incredibly talented friend @beforeviolets (besties pls remember me on your feed)
I CAN’T WAIT to show you all my new finished profile picture. I commissioned @beforeviolets to draw me one and just the sketch was already INCREDIBLE 🍓🌿🍄
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Let’s Split Up is out September 26th! 🔍 #pitlight
😟 teenagers behaving stupidly
🏚️ scooby-style haunted house
🏳️🌈 friends to confused to lovers
✨ a vengeful ghoul (?)
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there is an actual VIOLENT anti semitic threat in the US. its these fucking sleeper cell white supremacists. its not palestian students and their poc allies begging you to stop being genocidal little freaks.
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okay it's fine be cool, be cool, be cool...
SMILE AND BE A VILLAIN IS OUT IN TWO WEEKS!
thank you for all the preorders, adds on goodreads, kind reviews, messages, shares, etc, i value every single interaction on here. thank you for supporting my dream ❣️
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PROTECT THE INTERNET ARCHIVE.
It's important because you'll be able to access stuff that you can't find on the internet anywhere else. It's good for research.
If we lose Internet Archive, it would be like losing the Library of Alexandria on the internet.
PASS IT ON.
Friend of the Court Briefs Filed in Internet Archive’s Appeal — Hundreds of librarians joined prominent library organizations & non-profits in filing amicus briefs in Hachette v. Internet Archive. Read why they believe our appeal should succeed: blog.archive.org/2023/12/29/…
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hoping to give you news quite soon ("soon" indicates, as these things usually do, that I don't have a date, which unfortunately means weeks/months rather than days—but soon!) but as you've all been brave, and it is stabbing season, the smallest teaser:
every day without news about the sequel to THE STARS UNDYING by @emwrobin (@orbitbooks) is a day of tragedy
