Crooked Queendom

Farren. 30something. She/her. Queer. Tell your dog I said hi.

[carys-the-ninth]

A SUGGESTED READING ORDER FOR TAMSYN MUIR'S SHORT FICTION FOR LOCKED TOMB FANS

1. The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time. 5k. It's short, it's the very first thing she published, it's sweet, you can think CamPal thoughts while you read it.

2. The Magician's Apprentice. 4.8k. Let's get into it. Simply one of the best things she's written, has all sorts of echoes for the Locked Tomb and altogether a barn burner. (tw: grooming)

3. Chew. 3.7k. Zombie fiction set in WWII. (tw: sexual assault)

4. Union. 5.5k. I love Union and think it doesn't get enough hype. Deeply, deeply Kiwi and also quite unsettling. A great follow-up to Nona.

5. Princess Floralinda and The Forty Flight Tower. 216 pages. A novella, get it from your library or as an ebook, alternatively, Moira Quirk does a great job with the audiobook. This is a fairy tale satire, as pointed and black-hearted as you can imagine. A main course & a must-read.

6. The Woman in the Hill. 3.9k. I'll be honest, I think this one is skippable, but then you can say you've read them all. Lovecraftian horror, told in an epistolary format between settlers in the New Zealand bush.

7. Undercover. 59 pages. Plop your money down (or find a pirated version), it's worth every penny. A undercover cop risks her life to investigate rumors of a ghoul in a gangster's speakeasy. Blood, devotion, deceit--everything you could want in a TMuir story.

8. The Deepwater Bride (links) Dessert. Available through hoopla, your local library or several ebook anthologies. Teen Hester Blake, from a family of seers, determines that blonde, Converse-clad Rainbow Kipley is destined to be the bride of an uncanny god. 22 pages and it'll change your life.

BONUS: self-published webcomic APOTHECIA, illustrated by Shelby Cragg. Space monsters, teenage girls & corruption, oh my.

[agnesmontague]

ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs

[stellarskyes]

after the hyperprocessed foods, do you take tranquilizers to simulate getting captured by animal control and returned to the wild?

[agnesmontague]

i would settle for melatonin gummies but well. knock yourself out

[okayyoureacab]

Hexagon Quilt

[spankerella]

Happy Lizard Fashion Day to those who celebrate.

[cat-source]

[rabbitindisguise]

love the use of adverbs in this

[brideofsevenless]

Today I had a job interview, at a job I felt very passionate about and that I had actually interned with in college. I was interviewed by the director (a man), the assistant director (a woman), and a supervisor (a woman). One of the first questions the director asked me was, "How does your husband feel about you changing careers?" Reader, I tell you, I'm fuming. I said, "My husband does whatever I tell him to do." Which shut the director up a little. Needless to say, I will not be working there, and plan to explain that, whether he was serious or joking, comments like that weren't even appropriate in the 1950s.

[dagnydestroyed]

Eowyn is finished, and my Lavender and LOTR series is officially a series!

Adapted from the patterns Celtic Spring and Celtic Winter by Marilyn Leavitt-Inblum

[falseknees]

Coo coo

[kvothes]

oh someone told me something useful yesterday. she said she’s been thinking about her tbr less as an overwhelming list of books she Must Read and more like she’s cultivating a wine cellar. making a rich collection that will provide the perfect thing when needed. a bottle will get uncorked when the time is right

[milfsisyphus]

easier for the owner of LED headlights to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of heaven.

[northirish]

Shipping update: Your parcel has been torn asunder by ravenous hogs

[brideofsevenless]

One time I had a package delivered to my house, and instead of leaving it by the front door like a normal person, the delivery driver left it by my backyard gate. Which wouldn't normally be a problem except my four geese lived in the backyard (in plain sight of the delivery driver). Geese are like toddlers in that they put everything in their mouths, so my package was, indeed, torn asunder by the time I got home later that day.

[fantasyarcanum]

When among crows, you must caw as one.

[eleonorpiteira]

Baba Jaga, Ala, and Niko that I painted for the lovely Veronica Roth - all characters from her new novella 'When Among Crows' (that I also did the cover illustration of!) ✨

[cherubinas]

the single most unrealistic thing about the old guard 2 is that nile freeman didn't look tuah right in the eye with the most unimpressed look mankind has ever seen and said "like the fucking app?" when he told them the villain's name is discord

[vamptits]

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

[halberdbooks]

Yeah

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[frontmansdefender]

Source

[deletedbeanss]

imagine "official cat namer" is your job title. I'm moving to wherever that is