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[thebibliosphere]

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Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more…

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn’t to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he’d never felt before.

Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn’t been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn’t been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that’s the problem.

Torn by their allegiances—to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves—the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

One thing is for certain, nothing will ever be the same.

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra

Available now on Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and more…   Or directly form me on Gumroad :) Fluff & Fangs: COMING SOON Audio: COMING SOON

Paperback now available through Barnes and Noble, Amazon  and more links as they populate (<-this link should take region into account for those of you outside the US!).

Orders placed through Amazon Prime are supposedly arriving on/before Christmas Eve in select territories, so if you’ve got someone in your life who needs the gift of vampires, werewolves and terrifying eldritch entities smooching—and let’s be honest, who doesn’t?—order now, December 20th! And if it doesn’t arrive for Christmas, you’ve still got the gift of vampires, werewolves and terrifying eldritch entities smooching coming in the mail for the new year. And frankly, I can’t imagine a better way to start 2021.

Thank you to everyone who has been supporting my work and leaving such wonderful reviews! It means the world to know you love the characters and the world. And thank you for your patience in waiting for me to get all the links and formats available. You’re the best readers a totally-not-a-vampire gal could have.-Joy x

[disappointingyellowhighlighter]

To anyone pissed at Nevada right now,

I get it. And the memes are hilarious. However, as a native Nevadan, I also think y'all deserve an explanation. Trump is currently suing Clark County, the most populous county in Nevada, for voter fraud. So every single disputed ballot is being reviewed by a judge, and a lot of the actual counting has slowed down for diligence sake so his suit has very little to go off of. That's why it's taking so long. Keep making the memes, they're hilarious, but the actual villain here is still the shitstain in the White House.

[bakuyonce]

🚨ATTN NEVADA VOTERS🚨

THE FOLLOWING LINKS ARE TO CHECK YOUR MAIL IN BALLOT:

TO CHECK ONLINE:

https://nevada.ballottrax.net/voter/

BallotTrax

COUNTY CLERK NUMBERS TO CHECK AND CALL FOR MAIL IN BALLOT STATUS:

https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/elections/voters/county-clerk-contact-information

[army-of-mai-lovers]

[ID: tweet that reads “NEVADA. IF ANYBODY FROM NEVADA SEES THIS ON THEIR TIMELINE, PLEASE GO TRACK YOUR VOTE IF YOU DID A MAIL IN BALLOT! If it says the vote wasn’t counted, you still have time to fix it!” Below that is screenshots of the links that op has provided as part of their post to check your ballot and call the county clerk/ End ID]

[maramahan]

The greatest tragedy of Among Us is making friends and then accidentally disconnecting before you get to say goodbye

[maramahan]

I just... I wound up hosting for a bit, and a player by the name “Dad of 3” came in to join my game

He was... well. Clueless is an understatement. When I say he has no idea what was going on, I mean the second round he was in he SLAMMED the alarm button and said “my screen said imposter what does that mean”

“It means you’re the bad guy this time, dad,” We explained. “But next time try and keep it secret, okay?”

“Okay”

The next round, he killed another player right in front of me and immediately self-reported.

“I got my first kill,” he said.

“Good job, dad!” we all replied. “You’re getting it”

He was so proud, next round, when he helped us catch the killer. And we were proud for him. He was trying so hard.

His kids showed him the game, he said — “Look dad a meme” — so he was playing it for them.

“What’s sus” he had to ask. “Is it inappropriate?” “No dad. It’s short for suspicious, because suspicious is a lot to type.” “What’s gg?” “It means good game” “ok. Thank u. gg”

Two rounds later, he slammed the alarm again. “My map looks different,” he said. “There are buttons on it”

“That means you’re the bad guy again, dad. You push them to sabotage us. Try it out”

We spent that round watching Dad of 3 gleefully pop in and out of vents at random and press all the buttons just to see what they did

“Have you killed anyone yet dad?” “No. It feels strange.” “It’s okay. It’s just a game. You can kill us if you want to practice.”

He was trying so hard. I don’t know if he’d ever even played a video game before, but he was trying so hard to understand this thing his kids enjoyed, and my little group of strangers was doing our best to help him get there.

I’m so proud of that random father’s effort, and I’m proud of all the other players who were so willing to help him learn.

Then out of nowhere he was gone. Mid-round, Dad of 3 vanished to a bad connection, and I’m legitimately sad. I’d hoped we’d get the chance to play a round for real, and I’d have liked the chance to wish him luck and say goodbye.

But since I can’t do that, I’m throwing this into the void: I hope you have a nice time, Dad of 3, and I hope we were able to help you learn so you can have fun with your kids.

Good luck out there, buddy.

Daybreak says hello.

[jay-kwellyn]

Idk why I’m cryin in the club right now

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Queen to receive government ‘bailout’ to top up income after Crown Estate hit by economic slump | The Independent

Queen to receive government ‘bailout’

‘This royal bailout will be tough to stomach for people who love the Queen but have lost their jobs,’ says Tax Justice UK

Multimillion pound shortfall covered for the Queen. Nothing for ordinary people who are struggling.

Socialism for the upper classes. Capitalism for the rest of us.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

It's just blatant

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Evictions are starting up again this month and Buckingham Palace is basically lying empty just saying.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

And millions of newly unemployed people will be claiming what they can on dole to try and survive, while the queen gets millions on dole

[twitblr]

Protesting is a FELONY in Tennessee now…Facism at it’s finest (x)

[sonic-wildfire]

I’m sorry, but people need to know this. This is LITERALLY the most blatant telltale sign of totalitarianism and this needs to be spread like wildfire. DO NOT LOOK AWAY.

[headspace-hotel]

Here’s an actual link, since the one above seems to just go to Reddit:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/13/tennessee-camping-felony-capitol/%3foutputType=amp

Protesters have camped for months at Tennessee’s Capitol. So lawmakers made it a felony.

“This is all about criminalizing peaceful protesting,” said Justin Jones, an organizer of the protesters who have camped at the state capito

It’s important to point out that protesting generally hasn’t been made a felony, but rather the camping that the protestors are doing (and the legislation also includes other things to discourage protesting).

This is still really bad though, because the right to peaceful protest is protected in the Constitution, and even if protesting isn’t outlawed outright the government is still criminalizing an act of peaceful protest just because it’s a protest.

Furthermore:

According to tn.gov felons in Tennessee lose their right to vote. This is called Felony Disenfranchisement

So this means that the Tennessee government just passed legislation that would render the protestors unable to vote.

I’m sorry lemme repeat that again

the Tennessee government just passed legislation thar would render the protestors unable to vote

[calder]

vegans make peace with honey

no shut up do it

[calder]

vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects

[blackwashedmax]

Honey is literally murder but go off

[kasaron]

Prove it.

[blackwashedmax]

They literally puke their guts up to make your honey

[kasaron]

I have not seen any evidence tonsugges they are harmed or die in the process of production. They do regurgitate the nectar as part of the process to concentrate it into honey (an interesting process) but they do not suffer any injury during this process. If they did, the cost to produce honey, which is done naturally as a measure to survive over winter and through times of lower availability, would outweigh the benefits. If you kill several bees to produce enough honey to make one more bee, It makes no sense. Any animal that did that would die, even with human intervention.

Do you have any sources which suggest otherwise? I’d be interested to hear of this (relatively publicly available) information was false or misunderstood.

[blackwashedmax]

Bee farmers use whats called a honey maker. It’s a crude devices. It similar to a meat grinder. They force the bees in and grind them up. What comes out is a paste. That paste is later filtered into what we know as honey

[hematite2]

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

[leonardo-nierman]

@zoologicallyobsessed please show us pics of your bee grinder

[gemstone-gynoid]

they might be falsely thinking about a honey extractor machine. but all these do is you place the beehive frames inside and a motor rotates it at a speed that removes the honey, which is then tapped through a tap at the bottom. 

[darkenedyeastextract]

…do they think they put bees in that and spin them around until they vomit…?

[demonius-darkblade]

bee carnival

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

bad and naughty bees get put into the b e e c e n t r i f u g e to extract their honey

[bastlynn]

Vegans coming after beekeepers is one of my major teeth grinding annoyances. For many reasons, because there’s so many lies. And to go one step further because it’s such a waste. You see, the strongest vegan argument is that they don’t want to exploit animals or take from them without their consent.

… but… Bees consent. NO. I’M NOT KIDDING.

How? Bee hives aren’t kept on leashes. They’re outside, the bees can travel miles every day. They follow their queen. Who is also outside, not on a leash, and can travel miles every day. If she doesn’t like the hive for any reason - for example: it got too hot, too cold, too messy, too filled with sugary stuff and they need more space… then the queen leaves. And with her the hive.

The queen stays in the hive because the hive is the best place to live. Period. Done. End of. If the hive is staying with the beekeeper it’s because the keeper is doing their job correctly and keeping them happy because the bees can, and do, leave bad beekeepers.

Of all the animals we have domesticated as livestock, bees are the ones you can most easily argue are consenting participants in their keeping.

[godh8er-deactivated20220626]

WATCH THIS VIDEO

a very, VERY important post. spread everywhere and screen record the video to your phone. or message me and ill happily send you the video. give to every woman and girl you know.

bc as they both said / demonstrated, its not only super easy to do, but super easy to miss.

[thanos-the-dad-titan]

Ladies be aware and careful. Guys call out assholes who even think about doing that to someone.

[fierceawakening]

And not just ladies. Last time I circulated one of these sorts of post, a gay male friend mentioned a similar thing happening both to him and somebody he knew.

[jay-kwellyn]

Here’s more of me juggling!!

[deliriumsetin]

The amount of times I would have hit myself in the face... this was so cool to watch

Also, your shirt is so cute!

[beast-in-the-beauty-deactivated]

Doctor of War & Sorrow

[darken-wolf]

Madame of Fire & Madness

[thebibliosphere]

Lady of Thorns & Madness makes me sound like an elder scrolls god. I’ll take it. 

[deliriumsetin]

Lady of Night and Melancholy... Sounds like the patron saint of goth kids everywhere

[anxietyproblem]

[theflashisgone]

@thebibliosphere

[lesliebwrites]

Who needs a distraction?

It's got two cute guys, a bakery, a happy ending, and more pie than you can shake a stick at (if you were, for some reason, inclined to shake sticks at baked goods)!

It's 99 cents!

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Easy as Pi by Leslie Bond

[kedreeva]

So, yesterday, a friend of mine visited for a bonfire, and he asked me to come look at something weird on his car. In the seam of the door, there were 4 little mud cocoons. I crumbled the first one on accident (it was empty), but the second one came off cleanly- but it was empty, too. I took a photo of them to see if I could get an ID later, and then I pulled off the third one- empty.

The 4th one though. The 4th one… something had Happened.

It looks like a spider, but I couldn’t think of any spider that would live in our area that makes cocoons like this, and the cocoon really looked like something a wasp or a bee would do, so I was stumped!

TURNS OUT. Michigan has a really beautiful little wasp called a blue mud dauber, and their MO is to sting spiders, shove them into mud cocoons, lay an egg on it, and close the lid.

(source)

But the REAL kicker here, is that their FAVORITE spider, the one they are most well known for using…. is the black widow. These docile little nectar-eaters know how to snatch them right out of their webs or lure them off of their webs in order to sting them to use as baby food. So NOT ONLY are these things Friends, and beautiful as heck, but they are complete badasses too. I have seen them around here and there over the years, but I never thought to wonder what they might be doing. I’m glad to find out!

[incorrect-trekquotes]

kirk: everyone talks like vulcans reading minds is a big deal. but i can do it too

bones: what.

kirk: yes, except i can only read my mind

bones:

bones: THAT'S JUST THINKING, DUMB ASS

[ironychan]

TIL astronaut Jack Schmidt discovered he was allergic to moon dust, which is a thing millions of other people have probably gone their whole lives never knowing.

[ironychan]

Imagine being one of only twelve guys ever to have the honour of walking on the moon and then when you get there you're allergic to it.

[sanctferum]

NASA scientist: you’re back early

Jack Schmidt: moon’s an allergen

NASA scientist: ...what?

Jack Schmidt, loading an epipen and climbing back into the shuttle: moon’s an allergen

[redbeardeddevil-deactivated2022]

I laughed at the last bit, but the nerd in me cringed.

[thebibliosphere]

Logging in to Twitter to see ‘N*zi Romance’ and ‘Harry Potter’ trending like 

[wtf-kryll]

ExcUSEmeWHAT??????

[wtf-kryll]

Alright, I don’t see it trending so 🤷‍♀️

[thebibliosphere]

You might need to be in the romance tags like I am, but basically this is what is going on: https://twitter.com/JenReadsRomance/status/1306007409341628421 the  book is called The German Officer’s Girl, and the tag line is ‘There’s a price to pay for survival.’

The author is J/ina B/acarr and she also writes books like *gestures* these.

My face was 😬 the whole time I was scrolling.

And then Harry Potter is just off to the side. I think a game came out or something. But it was Wild seeing both of those things in my sidebar. 

[aphnxrising]

And here I thought you were talking about the Holocaust a/b/o original fic on ao3

[thebibliosphere]

The what?

[copperbadge]

If you’re feeling angry about today’s news of JK Rowling’s ongoing fuckery, I have an idea other than forcibly removing Harry Potter from her possession and declaring it property of fandom (which is not actually a bad idea, just not super executable).  

There are 48 fanfics in the Harry Potter tag with the additional tag Trans Character without any comments on them.  

Or check out every Harry Potter fic tagged Trans Character and find some new favorites to comment on. 

I’m sure those authors could really use the boost right now. 

[copperbadge]

Rowling is back on her bullshit so here’s a reblog of the Trans Character links. Last time we dropped the count of fics with no comments to zero, but there are 22 new fics since then for your delectation and delight! Remember to show your authors love! 

[copperbadge]

Rowling has set up official camp on her bullshit with a clear eye to building a cabin there, so here’s a reblog of the Trans Character links, including 29 new fanfics with no comments that could use some love! And courtesy of @thebibliosphere, here is a list of books by trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming authors!