Happy Pride everyone!

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"I wasn't ready!!" 🦇

Neither were we, Guillermo. Neither were we...

[ID: Two full body drawings. The first is of a young woman with light skin and chin-length light brown haid. She wears a long, blue skirt with a matching jacket and a light blue collared shirt. She is smiling and holding some papers.

Second is of a young man drawn in a very stylized and blocky style. He has brown skin and short, brown hair. He has two large things on the side of his head, resembling headphones. He stands casually, wearing brown pants, a green shirt, and a long, tan and orange coat. He also holds a messenger bag. /End ID]

Hazel was made by @mauvecatfic with the art by @gncrezan

Ezra was made by @unichurro

Hazel Aubrey:

• It's 1933, and Hazel dreams of becoming an author. She writes about murder and ghosts and vampires, and she prides herself on being clever and observant. Unfortunately, she has a bad habit of not noticing things happening right under her nose. She's oblivious to the weirdness and misery under the surface of her small Iowa town, and it never occurs to her to question why she's never had any interest in boys... or why she always seems to pay scrupulous attention to pretty young ladies. She's convinced she's the smartest person around but she usually isn't. In a nutshell: Hazel is a main character with a bad case of Main Character Syndrome.

Ezra Bolívar

• Ezra is an amnesiac government experiment with the ability to weaponize and control soundwaves using his guitar and headphone ears. He is trying to figure out his past whilst being chased by a government organization and trying to figure out how exactly his powers work. He's got a snarky attitude and prefers doing things his own way but at the end of the day he's willing to do anything protect the people closest to him.

despite staff's recent changes, we're... winning??????

Welcome to our hellsite, Redditors!

libby app guide

aka how to support libraries and get books and audiobooks for free without pirating them.

disclaimer: this is so easy. it is also really fun.

one: download the libby app. you'll open it and it'll ask you to add a library.

two: get a library card. don't have one? good news, it's really easy and i am saying this as the laziest person on earth. it varies what you need to have to get a card library to library but almost all libraries will let you get one online. i have a card for my home town and for the town i moved to. sometimes you only need an email address, sometimes you need an area code. to get mine it took me about 5 minutes of lying on the couch aimlessly tapping on my phone. follow your heart. you can get cards for places you don't currently live. i will leave the ethics of that up to you but it's probably better than pirating and either way you're creating traffic for libraries which is what they need to exist.

three: add your card. you can add multiple cards for multiple libraries. you need the number. i have never had libby fail to recognize a valid account.

four: search for your book! some will be ready to borrow right away. others have an estimated delivery time. libby will always pick the one that's the fastest from the options available at all the libraries you have cards at. you can borrow audiobooks and ebooks. libby will send you a notification when you're book is ready to borrow. in my experience it's a lot faster than the estimate. if you aren't ready to read it, you can ask to be skipped over in line so you keep your place at the front but let someone else read it first.

five: read it!!! kindle is the most common way to do this. you can go to your loan and click read with kindle. it'll download it to all your devices where you have kindle. as long as you have the loan, it'll act like your book. when the loan ends, if the device is connected to the internet, it'll automatically be returned. it will save all your notes and highlights. (if you disconnect your device from the internet, it won't return the book. weewoo.)

anyway in case anyone else has been wondering about it, i really love it. is a nice surprise to see what i'm going to get and it's cut my reading costs down big time! it's also neat because i get to synch my books between devices unlike downloading books through cough cough other means. good luck!

Moving Again

Just when I thought I had stable housing...

Short version: my spouse and I moved into the lower half of my in-laws' house a year and a half ago. We are now making active plans on moving out and completely cutting ties once we are out. (Apparently I'm a hypochondriac who is faking both Long Covid and a hernia, for starters, and it gets worse from there).

So we're hunting for housing. There are several points that render us unable to move out as quickly as we would otherwise--like the surgery and recovery period for the aforementioned hernia--but given everything, we can't stay here any longer.

Normally, this would be the point where I would ask for financial help, and while I won't turn any of that down, what I will do instead is as follows:

As noted by the pinned post on this tumblr, I'm trying to go pro as an author. I'm currently independently publishing my own work serially online, which you can find at @fractured-legacies, with weekly updates. I have a Patreon there.

So what I'm asking is please help me gain an audience. Give my original writing a try. Support it if you like it, or pass it on to people who you think will enjoy it.

And to seed that, here's the general blurb for the current novel being published, Imprudent:

The world of Nephaas is old, with deep histories lost and unknown to those who dwell there. It is a tumultuous world, with nations vying for influence and power, and with seasons whose power and fury shape the lives of those who live on the world.

Raavi ava Laagan is a young man, trained as a simple ironworker, facing his first winter as an adult. Months will pass before he sees the sun rise again, before his family wakes from their winter hibernation... and in that time, he and his companions will travel far, learn secrets long lost and forgotten, and attempt to stop events in motion that will result in the deaths of entire nations.

Thank you for your time and attention, and I deeply appreciate any help and support you can toss my way.