Autumn2May

Neurodivergent stay-at-home mom from New Jersey with 3 autistic boys, fantasy writer, Editor of Fantasy-Faction, computer addict, and lover of geeky things.

[autumn2may]

Today Angela Boord reviews @oleandercraw's upcoming novel, Devouring Fortune! 🐉

"Easily the best book I’ve read this year, trad or indie … a character-driven dark science fantasy standalone that absolutely breathes its world."

Background image by Christian Bass.

[weepingwidar]

Mauro C. Martinez (American, 1986) - Trust (2022)

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PAINTING, SCROLL BACK UP

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Today Tom Joyce reviews Mike Shackle's The Last War series! 🐉

"It’s a brutal analysis of the oppressed under the choke of occupation, and what happens when victory stops being a possibility."

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Today our judges say goodbye to our third five books in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO)! 🐉

Background image by Ruslan Sikunov.

[lostinhistory]

Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped

He's such a little guy!

[comicallysmallcereals]

Happy sunfish Sunday

[montereybayaquarium]

¡Hola mola! 🩵🥞

We recently welcomed an ocean sunfish (Mola mola) to our Open Sea exhibit! Watch to learn 5 interesting facts about the pancake of the sea. 🥞

How long will this buoyant buddy stay with us, you ask? We’re not quite sure, so come visit us to catch a glimpse of this mola-marvelous marine animal before it’s tagged and released into the wild.

There's wonder in ocean life and caring for it helps us all!

[aughtpunk]

So it's been a really bad fucking month for me.

It started with a horrific stomach bug, which led to an UTI that almost hospitalized me, to then the flu which did hospitalize me, and now I'm suffering from a gastric infection most likely caused by the super strong antibiotics they gave me for the UTI. May has really, really sucked.

And with these illnesses have come a lot of expenses. I couldn't eat any of the groceries I had or anything from the food banks this week because I've been on a very restricted diet, so there's been more grocery expenses than normal. I had to pay for ubers because I've been too weak/dizzy to drive myself anywhere. I had to buy various medicines and medical devices which finally wiped me out.

To help get my account back in the positive I'm having a sale on my ko-fi to help raise some much needed funds. Click here for a discount link or use code SICK at check out for 10% off until the end of May.

If you haven't already, why not pick up a copy of my novel Echo of the Larkspur? It's diverse, queer, and features a paranoid scientist failing in love with a snarky robot!

There's also my Midwife Fables novellas! Featuring the Midwife dealing with the aftermath of The Little Mermaid, The Midwife trying to solve the murder of Little Red Riding Hood, or you can read the first Midwife short story for free!

If you want to help out but don't want anything in return you can also donate to my Ko-fi directly! Even a single ko-fi helps!

And if you don't have the money then you can help by reblogging this post and sharing it with others! I need at least $200 to help cover my Internet and power bill at the end of the month, so please spread this along!

Thank you so much for everything, really. Now I'm going to go back to bed and try to get some sleep until my digestive system turns inside out again.

[quicksilvermad]

SOUND ON.

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Today Colleen McMillan reviews Widow’s Bay, the new supernatural horror comedy series on AppleTV! 🐉

"For those who enjoy Stephen King, uncanny shows like Picket Fences, or comedy-horror like Santa Clarita Diet, and films that blend genres like Cabin in the Woods."

[autumn2may]

Today Summer Hanford reviews Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn! 🐉🦄

"[It] has a universality that transcends time, cultures, and genre…Beagle speaks to hopes, fears, and aspects of human frailty found at the heart of us all."

[turquoisemagpie]

Eridian OC Generator.

(Idk, just having some fun. XD)

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[cambriancrew]

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

Gonna make one hundred soups this year. Starting off with kapustnyak, carrot soup, chickpea soup, and parsnip soup.

4% complete.

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8% complete baybeee. This may end up being a long post. Hope you like the colour of the soup.

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

Can't stop won't stop. 15 soups so far.

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Slowed down for a minute because vet bills ate up my grocery budget but made it to 20%, baybEEEE.

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Whoops I slowed down but BAM, 25%. I'm gonna make a comeback baybeeEEEE.

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I AM BECOMING SO POWERFUL

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Four new BEAN BASED SOUPS, the first one trailblazing because it was a taco soup recipe courtesy of @alex-of-1000-dumbasseries. 61 IN THE BAG, 39 TO GO.

I am also linking my soup planning doc because I can, and it's easier than tagging all of them individually.

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Have I lost all my followers yet? NOT YET. Time for more soups. I'm up to 70 now.

[themythicalcodfish]

OP this is a gorgeous post and I’m so proud of you

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Thank you, I will take these codfish words to my grave. Also, I have achieved 8 more, putting me at 77 soups. How is 70 plus 9 photos 77? I'm glad you asked.

Earlier, I forgot to include a photo of my cock-a-leekie-soup (#57) - pictured above as the first one of this set - and also I MADE TARATOR TWICE by accident so I've struck one from the record since I'm trying to make 100 soups here, not 99 and one twice.

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A new bowl approaches. Bought myself some soup bowls from the 70s with goofy little geese on them for my own birthday (though I did not get them in time for my miyeok-guk), because what else is free will for. This puts me at 86. I JUST MIGHT MAKE IT? SOMEHOW?

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A COLOURFUL BATCH featuring another Certified Tumblr Soup because people kept recommending Yeto's Soup, and they were right.

How am I at 92? ALL MY LIFE I'VE BEEN A QUITTER.

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

100/100!

[feefal]

At the party with my best friends🪼

[benjaminbadger]

I think there's some medias that you just cannot meaningfully engage with if your main priority is shipping

[benjaminbadger]

(Tired aroace voice, metaphorical cigarette in hand) You don't have to make them kiss... they don't always have to kiss...

[bear-ylee-stable]

So many other kinds of human connection get put to the wayside with our current culture’s obsession with romantic love.

Don’t get me wrong it’s ok to ship romance but it doesn’t have to be the only type of relationship we celebrate in media, fandom space included.

[benjaminbadger]

[moninils]

And all of this at once.