R. Dawnraven

🏳️‍🌈 YA and 18+ Fantasy Author linktr.ee/rdawnraven

[rdawnraven]

The Crystal Chronicles is a queer YA fantasy series about elves and dragons figthing against darkness that threatens their world.

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[canadiangold]

I don't WANT my laptop to be the Thinnest Model Yet

I want a battery that will outlast the sun, a screen big enough to blind the person behind me, more USB slots than there are apple fanboys in the bay area, a fucking disc reader/writer

[canadiangold]

i will pay extra for it to be heavy enough to bludgeon someone to death

[kjscottwrites]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

How many indie, self-pub, and small press queer books are you reading this month!!!?!

100!!!

1,000 ✨🎉🏳️‍🌈 !!

🗣️ A MILLION

Remaining time: 1 day 4 hours

Tag some authors here on tumblr (or share some of your favorite reads!) I'll start with a few!!

@aritany @ashen-crest @mayakern @effiecalvin

[felixjoyful]

@nothwell @sweetfirebird

[noahhawthorneauthor]

@nothwell historical fiction extraordinaire

@ashen-crest cozy fantasy for the win

@crossroadart-seabear selkie comics and gorgeous art

@ninawolv3rina feral vampire on a ship, and pathetic fella with Issues meets Bard with Issues

@tesscarletta sensual plant fantasy world with bodyguards and princes

@authorkarajorgensen whoops you died let's fix that and be gay

@authormicahflowers haven't read but damn those covers are pretty

@franklyn-newt trans starship captain in Dudes Rock

@magicariot magical trans girls

@kay-claire full moon problem; imo werewolves are not a problem

@ladzwriting dark fantasy; need to hurry up and read fealty of monsters

@robinjomargaret monster fucking and aro ace in all it's forms

@wolfehorror has a ton of horror books and put together an anthology with @marsadler

@hedonsgaybookshelf haunt that man

@tjalexandernyc more historical fiction for the win

[ladzwriting]

Thanks for the shout-out!!

@theivorytowercrumbles for your dyke knight needs

@ghostpoetics for gothic romances across many pairings

@ninawolv3rina for more vampires and dark fantasy

@tdcloud for freak fantasy

@vexcorvine for urban fantasy lesbians

@glitter-goblins for gothic romantasy

@taylor-titmouse for illustrated shorts and novellas

[awesomebutunpractical]

"He wouldn't say that" has a beautiful cousin, and her name is "That's Not What This Story is About".

[rin-claymore]

Drew my larp character, Scorpius, in his Tomodachi Life yukata. Featuring acrunchy photo I took at Fushim Inari in 2016.

[tdcloud]

LAMBENT has been out for five months now and it could use some more love, so here's a nifty intro overview to the novella to show you why you may want to pick it up!

The current LGBT+ romance titles offered by T.D. Cloud

[catchymemes]

[herssian]

online numbers can really fuck you up when it comes to your creative work because you're sharing something you worked on with all your heart but it's very important to remember there's actual people behind those numbers. even if it's 1. that's one whole actual person. that's a human being who said "haha nice". that's a connection with a REAL person with a REAL life and REAL thoughts and feelings and experiences. like. damn. that should mean something

[memory--box]

shout out to the mutuals ive never spoken to. i am sitting in the same room as you doing my arts and craft while you read your book. we are vibing and chilling.

[renthony]

Every time I see a post that says traditionally-published books are better because they've "been vetted for quality" or some shit, I cringe.

Do y'all have any idea how many marginalized authors are passed over because their work isn't "marketable" enough? Do y'all have any idea how many people I've known who gave up writing entirely after facing rejection after rejection after rejection because the trad pub industry deems their identity and their work too "niche" or "controversial" or "hard to market"? Do you know how many authors have been pressured by trad pub to "tone down" their work?

Trad pub isn't sacred. If you genuinely want weirder art, more diverse art, more experimental art, you have got to look outside the incredibly narrow mainstream publishing industry. Fuck's sake. Indies and self-pubbed books are not lesser just because some random lit agent in NYC decided that books about marginalized people won't sell enough in the current market.

I've been running in publishing circles since I was 14. Fuck the pedestal that folks have trad pub on. Trad pub is a fucking nightmare. I've watched it eat people alive and destroy the art they actually intended to make, all for the sake of "marketability." I've known multiple other authors who have confided in me that they wish they'd gone indie or self-pub instead.

Trad pub works well for some people. I wasn't one of them, and neither were several of my other author friends, because we're too weird and queer and disabled and don't give a shit about being palatable to a mainstream audience.

Read indies. Read self-pub. Reject the idea that the traditional publishing industry is the most important arbiter of quality.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Are there still people out there who think that trad pub is a mark of quality? What is this, the fucking eighties? Op is right, read what you want and ignore the publication method. If you limit yourself based on publication method you're going to miss out on a lot of gems and possibly entire genres you might love.

[vamplire]

i love you vampires. i love you gothic horror. i love you unsettling themes. i love you religious imagery. i love you doomed narratives. i love you rot and decay.

[bevsi]

more and more I’m seeing the sentiment “why would you write about (fictional character) in pain and at their lowest point???” and it shows such a fundamental misunderstanding of fiction, like as a concept

[9fruit]

Started using phone time to read library ebooks instead of scrolling and it’s made me back into the crazy voracious reader I was at age 12. i’ve been averaging a book a day this week. everyone delete your social media and get your ass on libby

[meltedvinyls]

swooping in to let ppl know if they ask their public library alot of them have ebook apps associated with their library and all you need is to register for a library card you can also use it as a way to check for books you want or reserve/request books for pickup at your local public library

i fucking love libraries

[taahko]

i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes

[taahko]

protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later

[mapswithoutwyoming]

And sometimes "narrative fulfillment" doesn't mean "the character overcomes their flaws" or even "the antihero is punished for their flaws"! sometimes it means the narrative says "wow was that fucked up or what? anyway i'm rod sterling"

[grasseeee]

have a reference