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@seananmcguire this explains so much.
DO NOT EVER ARRANGE TO MEET SOMEONE IRL WHO IS FROM OHIO
they are corn
Also, speaking as a librarian who buys books for my library, when we discard a worn out book, I look at the circulation stats. If it has been checked out a lot and is still getting checked out, I buy a new copy. That is another sale. If I see that a book is often checked out when people ask for it, I'll buy another copy.
Talk to your librarians. Tell them about your favorite books. People ask me for recommendations all the time. If they know why a book is so awesome, librarians can recommend it to other people, getting your favorite author into the hands of new readers.
Sometimes I feel guilty because all of my books come from the library. Even books I really love, like yours. I just read so fast and so much that buying books isn't a good financial choice. Do authors receive any benefit from library readers?
Oh my gosh, honey*, no. No no no. Please, please don’t feel guilty for using the library, or for going to the used book store, or for borrowing from a friend. All these things are built into the literary ecosystem, and publishers have had literally centuries to get used to them.
Do authors receive any benefit from library readers? Absolutely. We receive readers. Maybe you will never personally buy a book in your life. But. You have friends who will. You can leave reviews on places like Amazon and Goodreads. You can make sure the world knows which books you enjoyed, and that our publishers know that you want to see more.
Libraries pay for the books they loan out. With physical books, they pay for an object, which will stay in circulation for X number of loans before it gets purged due to wear and tear. With electronic books, they pay for a license, which allows the book to be loaned a certain number of times before it needs to be licensed again. Yes, this means a single sale can represent dozens of patrons, but there is still, at the root, a sale.
Piracy is a problem because there is no root sale; because the e-book “license” doesn’t exist and hence never expires, meaning our publishers have no way of measuring a book’s popularity; because it’s outside the feedback loop. But the loop is large, and meant to accommodate those of us who can’t buy alongside those of us who can. I promise.
(*We do not know each other and I am not trying to offend: this is just where my speech patterns go when I am worried I have hurt someone accidentally. If you dislike “honey” from a parasocial acquaintance, please substitute the respectful term of your choice. I suggest “High Inquisitor Sugarbat.”)
I agree!
October Daye Drinking Game
With love and apologies to Seanan McGuire.
Toby ruins a pair of jeans: Take a sip.
Toby is up and fighting within minutes of an injury that would kill a human: Take a drink.
Toby is up and fighting within minutes of an injury that would kill a full-blood fae: Take two drinks.
Seanan starts repeating descriptions of just how bad pain can get: Finish your drink.
Someone is a dick to pixies: Take a drink.
Tybalt quotes Shakespeare: Take a sip.
Quentin sasses his knight: Take a sip.
You want to pet Raj, and it might be worth losing a hand for it: Take a drink.
Someone around Toby is lying about who they are: Take a drink.
Various authority figures already knew about the lie: Take two drinks.
A teenager is kidnapped: Take a drink.
The teenager is Toby’s family: Finish your drink.
Bridge Troll Taxi Service: One sip per barghest.
Dianda has to be restrained from killing someone: Toast the only woman with any sense here.
Deus Ex Luidaeg: Finish the bottle on her behalf.
Blue-mood-blue’s tags: #on one hand let toby be smooched#on the other hand#i am keeping an eye on you alex#>_>
Just finished Local Habitation and I had the same reaction. Torn between: Let Toby be happy and enjoy some uncomplicated flirting and This is going to End Badly isn’t it?
Re: your update: HARD SAME
Me: Oh my, this Alex is flirty
Alex: Lays a smooch on Toby within a few minutes of meeting her
Me: OH MY
Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in, A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin’. She made her escape, went from gray into green, And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean, But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas sky Where color’s a fable and freedom’s a fairy tale lie.
Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can’t blame her; They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her. They say she went mad, and she never complained, For there’s peace of a kind in a life unconstrained. She gives Cheshire kisses, she’s easy with white rabbit smiles, And she’ll never be free, but she’s won herself safe for a while.
Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly. They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly. They never once asked to return to their lives To be children and chattel and mothers and wives, But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned; And one queen said ‘I am not a toy’, and she never returned.
Mandy’s a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries, And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries. Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks, While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks, And the rules that we live by are simple and clear: Be wicked and lovely and don’t live in fear
Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane, Susan and Lucy, we’re calling your names, All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain And chose to go back on the shelf. Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree You have to break rules if you want to break free. So do as you like — we’re determined to be Wicked girls saving ourselves.
For we will be wicked and we will be fair And they’ll call us such names, and we really won’t care, So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes, There’s a place they can go if they’re tired of chains, And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost, But we’ll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost — We won’t take our place on the shelves. It’s better to fly and it’s better to die Say the wicked girls saving ourselves.
(Seanan McGuire)
So this is Toby's next ' I am being forced to dress up' dress. When it gets covered in blood it will just add to the design. 😁
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Yes! The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (book 1: Dealing With Dragons) and Young Wizards (book 1: So you Want to be a Wizard) were my childhood. I didn’t discover Tamora Pierce until college but she quickly became one of my favorite authors.
Even at the height of my participation in HP fandom, as much as I enjoyed the HP books, the above books were the ones I loved. I have really great memories from when I was active in the fandom and I still enjoy many parts of HP (and there are still many parts that I do not enjoy/am frustrated by) and I won’t let the author take that away from me. But there are so many fantastic books and authors that deserve so much more attention who are not actively targeting and hurting vulnerable groups. So lets promote them.
Seanan McGuire and Tanya Huff are both fantastic fantasy authors (mostly adult market) with positive LGBTQIA rep in several of their books. .
DO YA'LL WANT SOME FANTASY AND SCI-FI BOOKS/SERIES/AUTHORS TO REPLACE HP/JKR? THEN BOY DO I HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOU!
TAMORA PIERCE HAS 8 SERIES (9 IF YOU INCLUDE HER MOST RECENT ONE) ABOUT LADY KNIGHTS AND A DEMIGOD WITH ANIMAL MAGIC AND A COP WHO CAN TALK TO THE DEAD AND THERE'S 4 MAGES WITH A MAGICAL PSYCHIC BOND AND ONE OF THEM IS A BLACK LESBIAN AND THERE'S A SPY WHO HELPS WITH A REVOLUTION AND THEY'RE AWESOME. (there's some attitudes that are a little outdated but TP started writing in like the 80s so)
BRIAN JACQUES (OBM) WROTE THE REDWALL SERIES WHICH IS ABOUT ANIMALS WHO LIVE IN AN ABBEY CALLED REDWALL AND THERE'S HEROES AND WARRIORS AND PIRATES AND BADGERS WHO LIVE IN VOLCANOES AND SAILORS AND OVERTHROWING TYRANTS AND DEFEATING VILLAINS AND GENERAL BADASSERY AND THEY'RE JUST REALLY COOL OKAY? GO READ THEM
NEXT UP WE HAVE KA APPLEGATE WHO WROTE ANIMORPHS. I DIDN'T READ THEM BUT APPARENTLY THEY'RE GOOD BOOKS WITH RELEVANT THEMES AND KIDS TURNING INTO ANIMALS. ALSO KA APPLEGATE ISN'T A TERF.
RICK RIORDAN. YOU LEARN ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY AND NORSE MYTHOLOGY IN AN EASILY COMPREHENSIBLE WAY. ALSO THERE'S A FAIR AMOUNT OF BIPOC MAIN CHARACTERS AND QUEER CHARACTERS AND DIVERSITY AND HUMOR.
ARTEMIS FOWL BY EOIN COLFER. I LOVED THAT SERIES GROWING UP. MORALLY COMPLEX MAIN CHARACTERS AND THEMES OF OVERCOMING SEXISM AND MAGIC AND TIME TRAVEL AND I'VE ONLY READ THE FIRST 5 BOOKS BUT THEY'RE GOOD. EOIN COLFER ALSO HAS ANOTHER BOOK THAT'S ABOUT FIXING YOUR MISTAKES AND I LIKED IT A LOT.
THE ENCHANTED FOREST SERIES BY PATRICIA WREDE. MAYBE IT'S JUST BC I'M ACE AND I THEREFORE LOVE DRAGONS BUT IT'S A GREAT SERIES ABOUT SUBVERTING TRADITIONAL FAIRY TALES AND JUST BEING AWESOME IN GENERAL.
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. FATE USES 3 ORPHANS AS ITS PUNCHING BAG BUT IT'S KINDA EDUCATIONAL AND FUNNY IN A DRY WAY AND HAS A VERY GOOD REDEMPTION FOR THE MAIN ANTAGONIST. 13/10 WOULD RECOMMEND.
YOUNG WIZARDS BY @dduane. FOLLOWS TWO WIZARDS WHO SAVE THE EARTH/UNIVERSE OVER AND OVER AND OVER. HAS AN AUTISTIC CHARACTER. ONE OF THE MAINS IS HISPANIC/LATINE (I'M NOT SURE WHICH IS THE CORRECT TERM SORRY). REALLY COOL BOOKS.
UGLIES BY SCOTT WESTERFIELD. IT'S GOT 4 BOOKS ABOUT A SOCIETY OBSESSED WITH PHYSICAL BEAUTY AND THERE'S REVOLUTION. ALSO SCOTT HAS A SERIES ABOUT VAMPIRES THAT'S REALLY COOL.
THE HUNGER GAMES SERIES. LITERALLY ABOUT CLASS OPPRESSION AND REBELLION AND THERE'S GOOD DEPICTIONS OF TRAUMA AND WAR AND PTSD AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF (/s). REALLY GOOD.
WARRIOR CATS. NEVER READ THEM BUT IT'S CATS WHO ARE WARRIORS. HOW COOL IS THAT.
Anyway that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Feel free to add on.
PEOPLE. WHEN I MADE THIS POST, IT WAS MY INTENTION TO NOT INCLUDE BIGOTED WORKS/AUTHORS. PLEASE RESPECT THAT IF YOU WANT TO ADD RECS. THANKS.
If Seanan McGuire has not seen this, she needs to see this.
Part 1 of my insane quest to draw the entire (book/story appearing) Healy-Price family from the fabulous Incryptid series by @seananmcguire! This section of the family tree takes us from roughly 1906ish to 1952ish!
I’m not sure how I’ve going to eventually present these when they are all finished but some people on Twitter did ask about making coloring pages out of the lineart, so that might also be a thing! Stay tuned!
