A Heart Made Fullmetal

Novah. 23. USA. Library Aide. Future Librarian. Hufflepuff. INFJ. Gemini. Just another book & comic book blog. Please note that this is a side blog; asks and follows are from marcelineandthediamonds

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So I haven’t read The Fall of The House of Usher (the inspiration for this retelling) but that didn’t matter a bit - I was thoroughly interested and creeped out in that slow and steady way gothic horror does best. I was definitely feeling the Mexican Gothic vibes and there were some Dracula vibes, too - but that’s gothic literature for you: sleepwalking ladies, mysterious illnesses, dead people walking out of crypts. Whatcha gonna do? (Don’t trust the fungi, that’s what.) |Completed 2022.12.10

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there’s something very funny developing on reddit today

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If anyone is curious as to why the second poster is calling them out, the comments explain it but basically: the Westboro Baptist Church really isn’t a large group, it mostly consists of a single family. Apparently YesThisIsHappening is an actual, confirmed ex-member of the WBC who has been on Reddit for years and has even done an AMA (Ask Me Anything) about his experiences. 

Because the WBC is so small and outside members coming in is so rare, YesThisIsHappening was able to eliminate possible ex-WBC members as suspects and realize Elys was full of shit. But according to people who have reblogged this post, the mods of r/HarryPotter have taken down YesThisIsHappening’s rebuttal post while keeping up Elys’s post (probably because it’s driving traffic to their sub and painting the series in a positive light). 

Tbh this is so fucking funny. Anyone who knows even a little bit about the WBC knows that despite its notoriety it’s extremely small and close-knit and therefore very easy to prove if someone is lying about being part of it. Elys could have just said they were from a Quiverfull family or even a FLDS cult but I guess they had to go with the flashier name instead. 

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Archived links:

How Harry Potter saved my life and gave me the courage to escape from a Cult.

I am an actual ex-Westboro member here to set the record straight. ‘Elys’ is NOT a former Westboro Baptist Church member.

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using a 20 year old computer to look at gandalf pics at 12:30am

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Inktober 2022- Day 29: Uh-Oh

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Hey this is why you stop fucking buying her shit btw

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Everyone! Buy HP stuff second hand or on etsy (which HP is much cooler than official merch btw). Dont let this terf fu*ker get more money

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Don't buy any fucking merch you fucking moron is it so fucking hard to detach yourself from this stupid fucking book series

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How you're enby but work for Lockheed Martin as a nepotism baby and publish YA books all at the same time

How many layers of evil is this

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— Mary Oliver, Upstream

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November 1, 2021

Starting the month off with some Emily Dickinson 🌼🌻🌼

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Mary Oliver, from “Toad”, Truro Bear and Other Adventures : Poems and Essays

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By: Janelle

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What happened with Jay Kristoff:

I’ve gotten a couple questions about what happened with this Jay Kristoff. So here is what happened, with receipts:

For those who don’t know, he is coming out with a new book in the fall called, Empire of the Vampire.

This book is getting four special edition ARCs, which as we know, ARCs are produced for early reviews. One of the biggest controversies surrounding this is how it’s already hard enough for BIPOC authors to even get arcs of their own novels, so why is an already successful, white author getting SE of arcs????

this leads into the next point, of how Jay Kristoff uses Asian aesthetics in his novels, in racist and ignorant ways, and how the publishing industry continues to promote these racist authors. There’s a thread on Twitter about this, and I’ll leave it here:

Devin Madson on Twitter

“Anyone using the “he’s successful and deserves this, MERIT! MERIT!” or “ITS JUST BUSINESS!” arguments must not understand how this industry

Also, there’s this screenshot (gotten from @/readbytiffany on Twitter)

I’m sorry, but he’s disgusting.

Here are more screenshots of people coming out about him.

Btw, Adonai is hebrew for god.

This is about Amie Kaufman, his co-writer. So fuck her, too.

He also attacked a black woman blogger, so like... okay you gross and racist motherfucker.

Jay Kristoff is someone who profits off of Asian culture and refuses to defend the Asian community, and people of color as a whole. He doesn’t deserve the platform he has. And he needs to be held accountable.

But unfortunately there’s a repetition of white authors never needing to take that accountability due to the large platform they have, and it’s become a huge problem.

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Kyoko Imazu - Beetle Spotting. 2018. Etching and Aquatint.

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Day 5 - Magic

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I know people assign human traits to a lot of things but you really don't need to anthropomorphize books. People act like dog -earing pages is a slippery slope to book burning

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"they are books not things" they are stacks of paper glued together. They are a medium for conveying information. I will eat your entire copy of the hunger games in front of you and you will be too distressed to stop me. How do you people have this much reverence for books and yet no literary analysis skills

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so was anyone gonna tell me peyton beachdeath/lalondes refurbished their south park fanfic and got it published as an actual book or was i just supposed to piece that together from booklr vagues

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the first time I read Dracula, it was in translation into Latvian, and the cover was pretty boring, just the title of the book on the red background, so today I decided to google if there are any other Latvian editions/covers because why not, and I found this.

look at this lil bat! look at him go!