#AwesomeCharacters Emily is such an impulse buyer. 😅 Koujaku actually knows what she's doing and would get plenty that'd last on the ship, as well as lots of spices to vary things up, but she'd have to spend half of the shopping trip making sure Emily doesn't put too much extra stuff in the cart.

As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...

#JanuaryWorldbuilders As the book 1 villain, Sakris uses gauntlets for her weapon~ ...and sometimes her teeth >.>''~

#JanuaryWorldbuilders Emily uses a very big hammer~ It comes out of the moon pocket on her dress--the little thing the ribbons are attached to. Marty uses a bow that creates energy arrows using the surrounding mana when the string's drawn, and she has some trick arrows made with monster parts.

There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds. The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.

Today on how the heck did this textbook get released like this, we have a capital i in place of the 1 on the 10.

My kids marched and I’m so proud, particularly of the care and organization that went into this student-led action. They had enough snacks, water, and hand-warmers for days. The 11th and 12th graders looked out for the middle school kids. It was beautiful.

#Critterary Again, we have a difference of demons and monsters~ So for demons, there's gremlins~ They use earth and darkness magic, and in their demon forms, they're usually reptiles that stand on two feet. And then for monsters... So far, I have basilisks. >.>~

#AwesomeCharacters Marty and Seth already like playing a wide variety of games. They used to play mobile games together, and they like RPGs. Meri likes racing and fighting games--anything competitive. Plus she likes rhythm games and would totally have to have the top score.

Not. Even. Once. NOT EVER. What… I should *pay them for using what they already stole from me*? And *thousands* of my friends and colleagues? HARD PASS. *Some* things are worth starving for. 😡

#Critterary I'll admit that I haven't dipped too much into aquatic monsters, but there are aquatic demons?? Undines use water and ice, and they take on a mermaid-like appearance in their full demon form, complete with webbed hands. The MC's an undine, and she definitely favors water--

Knew this was coming. Something I've been noticing happening slowly for a while now. It's also happening in conjunction with the aging up of YA and the influx of romantasies that tend to feature cisallohet relationships and dabble in fascism-adjacent storytelling themes.

Entirely unsurprised that this is happening

It's been real bad for authors writing acespec and/or arospec YA, from what I hear from those on sub the last few years. Most I know of have been told to de-ace/de-aro their characters or give them a romance arc.

#AwesomeCharacters It's complicated for Emily. She has her moments when she does admit she was in the wrong, but then others where she stubbornly thinks she's right. Most of it's from butting heads with Seth, so she goes back and forth with it partially depending on his attitude.

When her whiter-than-white-bread crush finally asks her out, Ashley will do anything to get her parents to revoke their “only date Asians” rule--even fake date the infuriating boy whose family owns the "Chinese" restaurant trying to put her parents out of business. #BluePit📖 #YA #R #POC #DIS

Every Summer After x Whispers Of You #BluePit After ten years of hitchhiking in the States, a Swiss woman discovers new love…and her dead fiancée? As she uncovers family secrets, she’ll have to choose which half of her heart to follow. #A #SP #R #W

Already missing Trails in the Sky after only beating it three days ago 😭

Aromantic and asexual joy is so important, yet it's often overlooked because our identities are viewed as inherently isolating or limiting, which ignores how much love, connection, and meaning can exist when you're able to express the weight of it in the same way that you feel it

100% Yes!!! I remember telling my first therapist that I would feel nothing but unbridled joy about being aroace if it wasn't for the aphobia baked into the culture I live in. The isolation I struggle with isn't because I'm aroace, it's because I'm not allowed to live an authentic aroace life.

THE LUNAR CHRONICLES X FF7 X FRIEREN 🔨 Female MC with a really big hammer 🎭 Multi-POV 👓 Sentient glasses ✨ Magical fights 🍃 Elemental creatures 🚀 Crew of misfits traveling space 🐲 Angels and demons (and a dragon guy!) ❤️ Love triangle ❔ Lots of mysteries~ #BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #F #SF

FFXIV x TENSURA When luckless Mick agrees to be his best friend Eleanor's adventuring partner, he expects to keep her safe, not be turned into a divine dragon. Now he and Eleanor must face his mission to lead a war against the gods—but is destiny as inevitable as it seems? #BluePit #BluePit📖 #W #F

AMARI X JUJUTSU KAISEN 13yo Maeve will do anything to avoid spending the holidays with her estranged family—even visit the glorified, underground prison of the Seven Deadly Sins on a deadlier journey to stop Pride from rising up and wreaking havoc on Earth. #Bluepit #MG #F #Q

ANIMORPHS X HUNGER GAMES The clock is ticking for Raquel to become a Touranimal champion before she loses her ability to transform into a bird. When a recruiter arrives, she gets her chance. Can she and her team, The Underdogs, overcome a rigged series of games in time? #BluePit📖 #W #YA #ND #F

Rayna Clay is a world-weary monster hunter with a reckless streak that tends to get her in trouble. Simon is a naïve incubus having second thoughts about the deadly conspiracy he's found himself wrapped up in. The question is, is there enough time left for them to stop it? #BluePit 📖 #LGBT #F #C

His mother's a dragonslayer, his father a mage, but Pathi is a failure. In reaching for magic, he is traumatically changed into a fire-breathing drake... and he's not the only one. Feat. 🐉 Dragons! 💫 Transformation 🪄 Symbol-based Magic System 😈 Enemies-to-Friends #BluePit #F #Q

ICE is knowingly and intentionally traumatizing an entire city.

THE LUNAR CHRONICLES X FINAL FANTASY 7 X FRIEREN After being betrayed and trapped in a stasis, Emily finds the life she knew gone, replaced by the demon lord’s encroaching rule. Having escaped him before, she knows the might of his magic—and that she can’t win alone. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #YA #F #SF

And honestly, I think in general this attack on my city shows a total lack of understanding the basic character of Minnesotans, underestimating our tenacity, stubbornness, resilience, communality, and absolute willingness to volunteer for shit and show up. The revolution has a Sign-Up Genius.

I’ll vote for whoever’s platform is abolish ICE and give all of the money to PBS.

I like how every week we get to learn about an old-fashioned war crime together!

#AwesomeCharacters For Orkus, all I can say is that there's literally one person he actually cares about. And there will be ~drama~ around that eventually. For the major book 1 antagonist--Sakris... She has a friend among Orkus' followers who she sees like a little sister.

You’re doing amazing, sweetie 🫶

Hate to inform you all that we've been doing math wrong this whole time. Because 4+1 totally equals 7.

Make a Bond movie casual. Dance Another Day 💃

Mamdani showing up every other politician in this country 💕

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.

Candlelight service in memory of Renee Nicole Good in Anchorage tonight.

Glad to see more artists speaking out against ICE.

As an Indigenous person, watching Trump make plans to invade an Indigenous territory is fucking terrifying. Everyone is making this about Denmark, but it will be Inuit facing this new wave of violent colonization.

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

#Critterary I mentioned space dragons before, and there's also other space monsters, like klisterns that stick to spaceship like barnacles and star mimics that eat them. The star mimics are otherwise really cute?? They like floating through space and playing around~

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#AwesomeCharacters Oh gosh, that's... kinda complicated. The POV characters all meet--most of them are part of the same crew already. But there are plenty of key characters (in that they were vital to the story in some way) who some have met, but others haven't. I'd say most of those are--

help sama'a!

Come join us for the final dungeon and bosses~ For real this time!

I hope that one day, some random gamer will find my book in the wild and have that slow realization that yes, I am alluding to series like Tales and Kingdom Hearts every now and then. It's a silly dream, but still~