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“I’m Jack, short for Jacqueline,” said the one in the glasses. She pointed to the one in pink. “This is Jill, short for Jillian, because our parents should never have been allowed to name their own children.”

For Halloween, my sibling @aelin-ashryver-galathynius and I dressed up as Jack and Jill Wolcott from the Wayward Children series by @seananmcguire! We had fun pretending to stab each other with scissors :)

(ok to reblog)

seananmcguire

Oh this is amazing, and you both look fantastic!

seal-of-unknown

me, begging, tears in my eyes: please. please just tell me what the book is about. the plot. please

a book annotation on the cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep And Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself

sitpwgs

― seanan mcguire, every heart a doorway

lily-from-fire

She's the one who went and became beloved of a monster. She's the one who wanted to be just. Like. Him.

Jillian "Jill" Wolcott - Wayward Children series

kissingcullens

I see #MidnightSun trending on Twitter, and as a recovering Twilight fan myself, I just want to urge fans to consider making a donation to support the Quileute Tribe’s Move to Higher Ground Project: a project dedicated to moving the community from a tsunami disaster zone at the edge of the Pacific Ocean to a safer, better and higher ground. –and also to support other causes that directly benefit Native people such as the Navajo Hopi Covid Relief Fund. https://www.gofundme.com/f/NHFC19Relief As we speak, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is fighting against disestablishment by the Trump administration- you can learn more about how to help on their website and this great article in Teen Vogue: Native Tribe’s Rights to Permanent Homelands Are at Risk. As someone who LOVED the Twilight series, read fanfic, made fanart, and will most definitely have a raucous, drunken read-aloud party of Edward’s inner monologue if Midnight Sun does actually drop… I think it is so important to never erase that Twilight perpetuates racist and othering ideas about Indigenous people, and the series’ success did not benefit the Quileute Tribe monetarily while SMeyer and the franchise rocketed to mega-success, fame, and wealth. There’s a lot of talk about the series’ misogyny, which is important, but I think that in 2020, anybody who’s White and who’s still participating in the fandom should centralize critiques of the series’ racism, learn about the issues, and more than that, should back that up with funds and material support.

oblivionsdream

I finished Sorcery of Thorns and I just couldn’t stop thinking about twelve year old Nathaniel summoning Silas for the first time.

bulbiedorf

Crookshanks was a fantastic kitty and the fact that Crookshanks wasn’t repeatedly praised and doted upon by most of the people who saw him for the entirety of his time spent at Hogwarts is evidence that Rowling doesn’t know how cats work.

croctus

‘and then crookshanks blinked slowly at harry while emitting a strange low rumble. you know, like a jackass’

bulbiedorf

‘Crookshanks lept upon Ron, and angrily pressed his paws into his lap while stabbing his pants with his wretched claws before curling up into a disgusting ball of fur and rage in an attempt to trap Ron on the chair’

fangilringwithleah

“He’s gorgeous, isn’t he?” said Hermione, glowing. That was a matter of opinion, thought Harry. The cat’s ginger fur was thick and fluffy, but it was definitely a bit bowlegged and its face looked grumpy and oddly squashed, as though it had run headlong into a brick wall. Now that Scabbers was out of sight, however, the cat was purring contentedly in Hermione’s arms.

bulbiedorf

Rowling is the kind of dog person to label every cat in existence as evil because they aren’t dogs CONFIRMED

novas-grimoire

Mrs Norris is also a very good kitty that gets a bad rep. And more examples that Rowling does not know how cats work.

McGonagall is the best portrayed cat in the series and she’s not even a cat!

(Also I remember Hagrid saying something about not liking cats)

bulbiedorf

Mrs. Norris was straight up trying to prevent children from committing illegal activities half of the dang time. Most of the times she rats on Harry it’s because he was in the restricted section which had books about freaking how to become immortal through murder so naturally she ratted him out. Also. I can’t believe the irony that Rubeus “acromentulas are misunderstood creatures” Hagrid would straight up dislike cats when Rowling misunderstands all cat behavior the entire franchise.

bulbiedorf

Apparently Rowling’s reason Hagrid doesn’t like cats is because of a mild cat allergy. Which. You are telling me. Hagrid. The man who deals with poisonous animals on a daily basis. Who has been burned by animals. Who in the books gets all sorts of minor injuries from animals. WOULD DRAW THE LINE AT SNEEZING FOR DISLIKING AN ENTIRE ANIMAL SPECIES.

deity-of-insanity

She just doesn’t like cats and doesn’t want anyone in her books that isn’t a mean person to like cats either.

bulbiedorf

For a magical world that cats are so integrated into their culture and society that it allows cats to go to boarding school with 11 year old children despite the fact that the cats have no magical properties there is a stunning lack of people who actually will tolerate being near a cat for 10 full minutes.

stalker-among-the-stars

Someone needs to rewrite the entire series with cats appreciated the way they ahould be.

blujayonthewing

#don’t even talk to me about umbridge [X]

‘Only creepy assholes love cats’ – JK Rowling, an idiot

erin-riwen

I 100% agree with the entire franchise needs to be rewritten to fix things. Thank God for fanfiction

welcometotheravenclawcommonroom

Also Mrs Figg the cat-lady…

dragonending

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

deadcatwithaflamethrower

I reject JKR’s canon and replace it with this: Hagrid secretly loves cats, but Fang is terrified of them. Hagrid doesn’t want Fang to feel like he’s less of a Good Dog, so Hagrid tells people he’s allergic to cats and doesn’t like them as a reason why he doesn’t have a cat or three dozen lurking around the hut, and Fang gets to sleep without having nightmares.

emjenenla

Odette struck a dramatic pose, her right hip hitting forward as she gestured toward Bastien. “Pray tell, just who are you supposed to be?”

“The Minotaur.” A rich voice emanated from behind the bull mask, amusement rounding it’s tone.

“Is there a Minotaur in Shakespeare’s play?” Odette queried.

Bastien shook his horned head once.

—Odette Valmont and Sébastien Saint Germain, The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh

#the beautiful #renee ahdieh

alwaysbewoke

Ummm....

iamverity

My goth fem hero

moonfaery

Goth as fuck

fluffy-raccoon-artist

All hail the queen of goth!

radicalposture

when im in a bookshop or library and im trying to read the titles of the books on the shelves

screw-gravity

when the titles aren’t written in the same direction

whitepeopletwitter

mythosphere

pennybxnce

writing playlist: on

google docs: open

mind: ready

ionlywantosleep

Page: Blank

lilithsaur

My ruthless Zoya, I’ll load the gun myself

lbardugo-deactivated20210617

Happy new year, Grishaverse!

jenniferrpovey

Okay.

There is a new Wattpad competitor called Dreame.

I suspect a lot of people here read stories on Wattpad.

Dreame is similar in concept.

BUT.

Dreame has been attempting to headhunt writers from Wattpad. Sounds good, right?

Nope.

One writer was offered a $60 advance…to sign over the RIGHTS to his book. They’ll license the print book rights back for 30%.

Please do not sign with these people as a writer.

And please do not give them money as a reader…they are either a scam or just completely clueless. Either way, you’re better off sticking to Wattpad and tracking down writers you think deserve money to pay them directly ;).

copperbadge

Dreame also tried this on AO3. They got an account, posted what looked perfunctorily like a fanfic but was actually a recruitment pitch, and then ran around on high-volume fanfics making comments asking writers to join up and directing them to their recruitment post, in violation of AO3’s TOS. I had a comment from them and AO3 took down the post after I reported it.

Although I will say if you check out their site there’s some real fun badfic reading amongst their paid authors.

mumblingsage

They’re doing it on Fictionpress as well. I got an email from them back in December & ignored it, figuring there was something off in the offer, but I didn’t realize just how scammy it was in its terms.

jenniferrpovey

You’re smart.

They are claiming for one of their “contests” that they will “invite professional book reviewers” to review your books. No professional book reviewer is going to review a web series.

Some more gems, because I went to their site so you don’t have to:

To get the reward for daily updates, you have to update DAILY. You get two days off a month.

They are allowing fanfic authors to claim that they have the rights to their work. And yeah, I’m sure there’s fun badfic reading, but let’s not give them too much traffic, okay? :P

h-brook-writes

This is the first I’ve heard of Dreame, but that all sounds at least a little shifty. I’d encourage any writer - regardless of whether they plan to publish - to do some research on how legitimate publishing works and what the red flags are.

Here are a few articles on red flags and publishing scams, which can help writers make a more informed and safer choice:

Writer Beware

Publishing Companies To Avoid And Nasty New Author Scams

Best and Worst Self-Publishing Services Reviewed & Rated by the Alliance of Independent Authors

softguts

Guys, seriously beware! I used to write on Wattpad and had a short story on there called “Molly, Molly” anyways a Dreame “Editor” pm’d me asking to me to switch over there and that I’d get paid. Right off the bat I said no, and they still pressed and pressed. I SAID NO 3 TIMES before they finally got the message.

princessparadoxical

The Copyright License Agreement is here and it looks dodgy as hell.

heywriters

In case y’all didn’t hear/believe me the first six times^^^

heywriters

They’re back.

In bold are names/sites you should avoid:

“Dear Author, [you guys know my name by now, gimme a break]

This is Monnie, an editor from STARY PTE. LTD, which is based in Singapore and owns two fast-developing fiction-reading platforms: FicFun, focusing on presenting thrilling stories for male readers while Dreame, a community featuring romance stories for girls. […] You can learn more about us by visiting our website, or joining the FB Group “Online Fiction Writers & Readers Union”.

Fifth time’s the charm, eh creeps?

no seriously, this is the fifth time I’ve literally told them to “fuck off” and they won’t

writeawaytrain-deactivated20250

Please, please, please reblog this to spread the word that Dreame and FicFun are scams. In general if something looks too good to be true, don’t take it and do extra research/talk to other writers in the community about it. Be careful and stay safe, everyone.

rammbook

@ao3commentoftheday

elfwreck

… oh look it’s FanLib 2.0.

And while they may be soliciting fanfic, their TOS says:

1.1 Work means all or part of the [ ] or its derivatives originally created or written by Author, who owns complete copyrights of such Work under any applicable law or regulation.

4.2 Author guarantees that they shall not plagiarize or infringe another person’s legal rights and that the Work is completely original.

And look what else!

4.3 Author shall uphold the reputation of Dreame and will not engage in activities that harm Dreame nor its interests.

This is a HUGE WHOPPING RED FLAG (argh, why can’t I do red text on a PC?) Nope, nope, NO HELL NO - never never NEVER accept any contract that says you will not engage in activities that harm “[company] or its interests.”

This means authors can’t even say, “ugh, this posting schedule is rough.” Can’t tell other people your manager is abusive. Arguably, can’t talk to a lawyer if they’re not paying you on time!

(Courts tend to allow for that. Can you afford a lawyer to defend that right, as well as your right to get paid?)

4.4 Author agrees to provide necessary assistance or support for Dreame’s marketing and promotion for the Work, including without limitation necessary information or other promotional materials.

AGAIN HELL NO. This means you never get paid, because they insist you’re supposed to bear the full cost of marketing. They can even charge you for marketing your work! “We made an ad for YouTube; it cost $4,500 to produce. Pay up.”

4.5 Author can self-publish the Work in paperback form only and all earnings will be Author’s own. However, Author shall not publish or sell the Work on any other third parties’ online platforms. If Author wishes to publish or sell the Work on a third party’s platform, Author must get Dreame’s express written permission by giving prior written notice to Dreame. Any future earnings made in this way shall be charged a further 30% commission by Dreame.

Aaah… wot? You can publish in paperback (but not digital forms?), but you… can’t sell on Amazon? AND Dreame wants to insist on a 30% commission? (Which is not defined… is that 30% of list price, or 30% of net? When and how do they think you’re supposed to pay them?)

This is a VERY BAD WRONG contract.

jenniferrpovey

It appears that they don’t want anything from paperback sales, but want a commission if you sell online anywhere else, and you have to beg their permission first.

(And also, technically, you can’t publish a hardcover or a special edition either…)

unpretty

the rwa really is just burning to the fucking ground rather than admit they fucked up, huh

courtney milan is one of the best romance writers in the genre and i look forward to whatever she and other writers build in the ashes of rwa’s racist mess

unpretty

a summary of my understanding of the situation

courtney milan is a chinese-american romance author and was the chair of the romance writers of america ethics committee

she wrote a twitter post where she called a book by kathryn lynn davis ‘a fucking racist mess’ (because it was)

davis and suzan tisdale file a complaint because How Dare She

are you guys seeing this because oh my fucking god ARE YOU SEEING THIS

“it was the nineties and she did a lot of research into chinese people, you’re just racist against white people”

they kicked courtney off the board because of this

immediately people started resigning because that’s horseshit

so many people resigned

SO MANY

it turned out the people resigning were some of the only people keeping the absolute bugfuckery of the people in charge at bay

the decision was rescinded like “oh whoops our bad” but like?? too late????

all the dirty laundry is coming out on twitter

there are petitions to get the president, president-elect, and executive director of rwa recalled because they’re clearly fuckups

either the rwa is going to need to go through some big changes, or a lot of authors (particularly queer authors and authors of color) are going to have to make their own org

the founder of rwa was a black woman so bigots taking over is especially fucking galling

courtney milan is also the reason we have dinosaur emojis

that’s not really relevant except who the fuck steps to the woman who got us dinosaur emojis

ryanlewisandclark

Courtney Milan is my hero and more people should know about how she is why we got dinosaur emojis.

ruffboi-mags

I want to know why she’s the reason we got dinosaur emojis but seriously this bullshit is a TIRE FIRE.

she points out racism in racist book from the 90s

author gets pissed and makes multiple ethics complaints about it

milan is asked to step down as chair rather than simply recusing herself like would be more reasonable

the above firewalled secret sub-panel is formed

also apparently due to how easy it is for social media likes and tweets and retweets and shit are to remove without a trace unless you ALREADY have a screenshot, there is an EXCEPTION for social media stuff in the RWA ethics rules since it’s so difficult to prove fuck all with any accuracy on either side of the complaint due to that, which means that technically speaking, the ethics complaints based solely on those tweets should not have even been VALID as far as I can tell.

ALL SORTS OF SHIT STARTS COMING OUT FROM PEOPLE FROM OVER THE YEARS

turns out also that as recently as september there were ethics complaints being made that were NEVER TURNED OVER TO THE ETHICS COMMITTEE.

People are asking to have their membership removed/their dues refunded/their books submitted to their awards removed from consideration/etc

people were struggling to get a response on the dues refund despite being already removed from having access to the website

at least one writer emailed to complain about the situation but did not express a desire to be removed as a member, just mentioned she would not be renewing membership in january, but WAS removed already from membership

seriously just look into this shit it’s so maddening

Also the president of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) spoke up on twitter to let the RWA authors dropping the org like flies that if there is even a HINT of specfic to their novels, they can apply to the SFWA instead. (Is there reincarnation? premonitions? ghosts? IT’S SPECFIC!)

Which, at the very least it’s nice to see the president of the SFWA being so welcoming of romance, and these many minority romance writers, into their ranks should their works have even a tenuous connection to SF and a desire to join.

seal-of-unknown

me, begging, tears in my eyes: please. please just tell me what the book is about. the plot. please

a book annotation on the cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep And Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself

valtsv

character in a fight scene: *restrains their opponent by pinning them against the wall by their wrists*

me:

icantwritegood

character in a fight scene: *pins their opponent down by straddling their waist and holding their wrists to the floor*

me:

ladylike-foxes

character in a fight scene: *lifting their disarmed opponent’s chin slightly with the business end of their weapon*

me:

g3ncyho3

character in fight scene: *pins down the opponent and leans in close to whisper in their ear*

me:

breyito

character in fight scene: *restrains the opponent by twisting their arm/s behind their back and pinning them to the wall chest first with their own chest pressing against the opponents back*

me:

abandoned-as-mustard

Character: *distracts their otherwise equally good/better opponent by flirting*

Me:

bmarvels

Character in fighting scene: *restrains opponents arms in a lock hold with their own, entangling their arms together forcing their bodies to be pressed together and faces in close proximity*

lime-on-my-side

character in fight scene: *holds opponent by the collar, lifts them and brings them close to their face*

me:

miqojak

Every time this crosses my dash it gets better.

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