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[aroaessidhe]

faves of 2024: YA horror/thriller/gothic

The Invocations

Don’t Let The Forest In

Have You Seen This Girl

Lockjaw

Old Wounds

All The Dead Lie Down

The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette’s

Compound Fracture

So Witches We Became

[alizalayne]

Let's make it official! A cover revealed!

BEETLE AND THE CHIMERA CARNIVAL IS COMING NEXT YEAR!

[legendarysharkcloud]

Small Gods

Small Gods is *the* great standalone discworld novel - it only features two side characters from elsewhere in the books and is a great exploration of faith, agnosticism, religion and philosophy.

[alizalayne]

BEETLE AND THE CHIMERA CARNIVAL the sequel to BEETLE AND THE HOLLOWBONES will be available NEXT SPRING, APRIL 2025.

✨You can preorder the book here!✨

You can also preorder from your favorite bookstore or request a copy from your local library. Preorders help books get noticed, so it's a good way to give extra support to books you believe in!

Thank you very much for reading Beetle and the Hollowbones💛 Music for the trailer was written and produced by @hpheisler. Find more of his work HERE!!

[neil-gaiman]

Mr. Gaiman, is there any advice you would give to a fellow human being? (asking for a friend)

Be kind.

[retroscifiart]

Gandalfs 🧙‍♂️ Art by Roger Garland (1984), Tim Kirk (1974), Tom Jung (1978), Jimmy Cauty (1976), Frank Frazetta (1975), Ted Nasmith x 2, Alan Lee

[vinceaddams]

if you're putting music over footage of someone talking, you've gotta make the music quieter than you think it needs to be

[vinceaddams]

More youtube advice:

Watch the whole thing before exporting, preferably when you're not sleepy or otherwise in a state where you'll pay less attention.

If you're making a video it should be because you want that video to exist.

It is NOT true what they say about upload schedules, you absolutely do not have to post frequently or regularly. Take your time and make a video that you're happy with and that has good pacing.

More people use subtitles than you think, so it's worth it to make them accurate if possible. I revise my script to make it match any places I re-worded stuff while recording, and then copy/paste it all into the subtitles thing, and youtube mostly does a good job at lining it all up. I only have to tweak some of the timing where it leaves the words on the screen for way too long during a break between speaking.

When watching other people's videos, take note of things that annoy or bore you, and avoid doing them.

Don't put anything important in the lower right corner of the thumbnail, because the timestamp will cover it up. Also, zoom really far out on the thumbnail to see what it looks like small.

[leona-florianova]

Zaphod from that one story where he still worked at The Beeblebrox Salvage and Really Wild Stuff Corporation.. had both of his brains still intact..got into unfortunately gory situation…and where he also learned the actual reason why Earth has to be destroyed. 

[leona-florianova]

@ky-the-squiddy​

its from a collection by different authors (Douglas Adams,Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury etc)… 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18jX9YA3TN9nEkmw6BdsumB2dXJZge8hJ/view?fbclid=IwAR3_t4zQjW18xZS8Pezb_9r3jAMcgTkyuSGyJAOT6i1dM31t2ZVPXj9YAHw

check them all out… Oh and obviously..Theatre of Cruelty by Terry Pratchett also included 

[tardigradetheking]

Ronald fucking Reagan

[leona-florianova]

[miggsboson]

A conversation I overheard between a librarian and a teen

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[bookcoversaroundtheworld]

Braiding Sweetgrass - Russia

[wiltking]

made a simple google doc for my favorite old(er) lgbt books (pre 2010) since i talk about them so damn much but their titles have been pretty scattered.

also updated some links on my blog to have a dedicated page for my all my playlists and book recs so theyre easier to find. browse at your leisure <3

[bookblogforbooks]

Book mail book mail book mail book mail

@tordotcom @torbooks

[qlala]

tolstoy saying in an 1873 letter that he’d be done with anna karenina “in fifteen days, if god grants me life” and then taking another four years to finish writing it is both hilarious and deeply relatable

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Garden of Empire | Author: J.T. Greathouse | Publisher: Gollancz (2022)

[gollancz]

Can’t wait until we can show you guys the cover for book three because they are the MOST beautiful books when they’re all put next to each other. 10/10

[bookblogforbooks]

Happy HolYdaY and an orther a to be yut closing week v editi on to all who celebrate

[vintagerpg]

Fantasy paperback week (mostly)! What a wonderful, musty week indeed.

This, my friends, is one of my favorite things. It is a set of Ace Books’ unauthorized publications of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy (1965). The story here is tortured (and you can find a fuller accounting on Kirkus Reviews). Basically, Donald A. Wollhiem approached Tolkien about producing an American edition of the books in paperback and was snootily turned down (Tolkien apparently saw paperbacks as “degenerate”). Offended, Wollhiem hunted around and found an apparent loophole in copyright law at the time (I do not pretend to entirely understand this) that had allowed the trilogy to fall into the public domain in the US. He quickly published these books, beating Ballantine’s revised editions to shelves by five months. Tolkien and Ballantine waged a war against Ace in the papers, accusing them of pirating the trilogy — eventually Ace relented, gave Tolkien royalties and let their (still popular editions) go out of print.

The cover art is by Jack Gaughan, who was featured on many Ace books. I feel like I know him primarily through covers for Jack Vance novels, but he has a distinct sort of mid-century medieval style I really enjoy. I love these covers, with their bright colors. They actually reflect the content of the books better than the covers on the Ballantine editions — Barbara Remington’s strange triptych evokes some of the books, but because of the Ace edition, she didn’t have time to read the books before she commenced painting.

[jessebloom]

hell yea