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Hello Tumblr, delighted to share with you (and simultaneously doxx myself with) the breathtaking UK and Commonwealth cover of my debut novel, Mirrorwoven, out July 2 2026 from Harper Fire! (North Americans, news coming soon 👀)

Art by the incredible @eliotbaum.

Mirrorwoven is a sapphic young adult fantasy in a Renaissance Venice-inspired setting, pitched as The Priory of the Orange Tree meets Gossip Girl. The blurb and further info below the cut:

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North Americans! I can finally share with you that Mirrorwoven will be coming to your shores on August 25 from Feiwel & Friends, and with a slight twist on the UK cover:

So mysterious! So demure! Thank you once again to @eliotbaum for the breathtaking artwork, and the additional tweaks for the different market. (I'm so glad they kept the base illustration! And the COLOURS!)

Preorders in both the UK and US/Canada are OPEN, and I would be extraordinarily grateful, if the book appeals to you or you think it might appeal to a teenager in your life, if you would preorder a copy or request your local library to stock it or just tell a friend or three about this fun new book you heard about on tumblr. And if the book doesn't sound up your alley, I would instead ask that you do the same for whatever upcoming queer release/s - especially debuts - do pique your interest. It's no secret that in the US in particular queer books for kids and young adults are facing an increasingly hard time, and unfortunately in today's landscape of late stage capitalism the only way to ensure publishers keep putting out queer books in the face of legislative pressure and book banning is to keep them profitable. There has been a huge and accelerating increase in the number and diversity of queer titles being published over the past years, and it would be a massive shame if that were to turn around, precisely when kids need stories in which they can see themselves more than ever. So if keeping queer books on shelves is something that's important to you, please support them in whatever way works best for you. 💞

#mirrorwoven #wlw #bookblr #booklr #books #ya fantasy #ya fiction #sapphic #queer ya #queer books #Eliot Baum

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Hare’s-tail Cottongrass/tuvull. Värmland, Sweden (5 June 2016).

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Two red fox/rödräv cubs playing in the early morning mist. Värmland, Sweden (31 May 2026).

toddsolondz

STOP BEING HONEST STOP BARING YOUR HEART 2026 IS THE YEAR OF RIDDLES AND ELABORATE LIES

herpsandbirds

shoveller ducks... hamerkop... do u know of any other birds that are named after (and maybe shaped like) common household tools?

Hmmmmmmmmmm...

Shovel-headed Tree Frog (Diaglena spatulata), family Hylidae, Mexico

photograph by Juan Ma Gonzalez Photography

Spotted Shovel Nosed Frog (Hemisus guttatus), family Hemisotidae, Phoenix, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

photograph by Tyrone Ping

Shovel-billed Kookaburra (Dacelo rex), T - female, B - male, family Alcedinidae, order Coraciiformes, New Guinea

photograph by John C. Mittermeier

Southern Shovel-nosed Snake (Brachyurophis semifasciatus), family Elapidae, southern Australia

Mildly venomous.

photographs by Artur Tomaszek

Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea), T- winter plumage, B - breeding plumage, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes

Breeds on the coast of the Bering Sea.

Winters in SE Asia.

photographs by tareq’s photography

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, Hillsborough, Florida, USA

photograph by Peter Hawrylyshyn

Fork-tailed Woodnymph (Thalurania furcata), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Colombia

photograph by Diego Jaramillo R

Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana), male, family Tyrannidae, order Passeriformes, LA, USA

This bird is usually found in Mexico, Central and South America, but sometimes wanders into the southern U.S.

photograph by Dania Sanchez

Longcomb or Green Sawfish (Pristis zijsron), family Pristidae, found in the Tropical Indo-Pacific

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

The longest species of sawfish, this species grows to a length of up to 7.3 m (24 ft).

photograph via: Sydney Aquarium

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pray tell, do you have any interesting facts about the humble shoebill?

Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), family Balaenicipitidae, order Pelicaniformes, found in freshwater marshes in east-central Africa

This bird is the only member of its family.

The taxonomic affinities of this bird have long been debated. It currently rests within the order Pelicaniformes. (It was, in the past, often places in the Ciconiiformes). Its closest living relative is most likely the Hamerkop.

They grow up to 152 cm (60 in) tall!

They are not noisy birds, but communicate with bill clapping, moo like noises, and high pitched whines.

Mainly piscivorous (fish-eating), they also feed on a variety of small vertebrates (even preying on small waterfowl) and large invertebrates.

photographs by Gian Luca Tognon & Prelena Soma Owen

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Chillon Castle, Switzerland

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Eurasian nuthatch/nötväcka. Värmland, Sweden (4 May 2019).

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Common carder bee/Bombus pascuorum/åkerhumla visiting a flowering currant/rosenrips. Värmland, Sweden (20 April 2020).

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Ruffed Grouse

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Greylag goose/grågås. Värmland, Sweden (19 April 2020).

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i’m losing it omg LOOK AT HIM…he even looks like M’aiq

defilerwyrm

Let people grow.

When I was younger I was very right-wing. I mean…very right-wing. I won’t go into detail, because I’m very deeply ashamed of it, but whatever you’re imagining, it’s probably at least that bad. I’ve taken out a lot of pain on others; I’ve acted in ignorance and waved hate like a flag; I’ve said and did things that hurt a lot of people.

There are artefacts of my past selves online – some of which I’ve locked down and keep around to remind me of my past sins, some of which I’ve scrubbed out, some of which are out of my grasp. If I were ever to become famous, people could find shit on me that would turn your stomach.

But that’s not me anymore. I’ve learned so much in the last ten years. I’ve become more open to seeing things through others’ eyes, and reforged my anger to turn on those who harm others rather than on those who simply want to exist. I’ve learned patience and compassion. I’ve learned how to recognise my privileges and listen to others’ perspectives. I’ve learned to stand up for others, how to hear, how to help, how to correct myself. And I learned some startling shit about myself along the way – with all due irony, some of the things I used to lash out at others for are intrinsic parts of myself.

You wouldn’t know what I am now from what I was then. You wouldn’t know what I was then from what I am now.

It distresses me deeply to think of someone dredging up my dark, awful past and treating me as though that furiously hateful person is still me. It distresses me to see others dredging up the past for anyone who has made efforts to become a better person, out of some sick obsession with proving they’re “problematic.”

Purity culture tells you that once someone says or does something, they can never go back on it. That’s a goddamn lie. While it’s true that some remain unrepentant and never change their ways and continue to harm others, it’s important to allow everyone the chance to learn from their mistakes. Saying something ignorant isn’t murder. Please stop treating it that way. Let people grow.

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Still call it out and question it ….

defilerwyrm

Bruh. No. Listen. Call out what people do now, absolutely. If they haven’t changed, call them out on their record. This post is explicitly not about people who HAVEN’T changed. What this post IS saying is, if someone is making an effort to be a good person, don’t go digging around in their past for evidence that they were once for what they’re now against, or once against what they’re now for, as “proof” of what they “really think,” because people’s opinions and beliefs can change.

The obsession with finding shit in someone’s past and then claiming that a questionable or even sordid past negates all possibility of a good present needs to become extinct. Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

If someone has changed for the better, don’t harass them about what they were like before they fuckin’ changed. That’s shitty and it needs to stop.

sepdet

We can’t change the world if we decide people can’t change.

sarasa-cat

Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

We really need to start asking where this purity bullshit came from. I’m not Christian and was not raised Christian but there has been a lot evidence that much of gold star activism and purity culture originated in of evangelical youth movements and then infiltrated progressive left-wing and center-left politics when those youth left their churches but failed to leave behind the black-n-white puritanical “you’re going to hell if you stray one inch from the righteous path” style of thinking they were taught.

I distinctly remember some conversations I had in the late 00s and very early 2010s with long time social justice activists who were baffled and disturbed by the new crop of youth activists who were practicing something that was decidedly NOT social justice despite stealing that phrase from us.

In the decade and a half that has passed since then, all of this gold-star activism and purity culture has done exactly what I predicted back then: empowered the far-right while sowing division everywhere.

Folks. This shit needs to stop.