for it's the song that makes you sing

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[alvoskia]

ARC Readers Wanted

So one of the wonders of doing a hybrid publishing thing (aka Indie but not self published) is getting to have ARC ebooks to send out. A.R.C (advanced reader copies) are typically sent out for free 3-6 months before the book release, so we're right in the sweet spot.

If you are interested in a YA SFF novel that's like queer gothic ATLA meets Percy Jackson, this is right up your alley! Read the book for free, and leave a review on Goodreads (or Instagram or Storygraph) / wherever you leave book reviews. Ratings/reviews on Amazon are also much appreciated, all ideally by Jan/Feb 2026. The book is a little over 110,000 words (so a decently long fanfiction).

I have people I'm hoping / planning to send to as well, but I thought I might as well come to the almost 100 of you here first as a Big thank you for following and being interested in the book. If anyone would like to read the first chapter first before agreeing to an ARC, feel free to let me know here / in the form itself, and I'll get back to you!

ARCs for Alvoskia: Call of the Infrans

Queer YA SFF, 110k words, centring on a group of reincarnated chosen ones trying to stop a war before it begins. Think queer gothic Avatar:

Here are some of the reviews the book has received so far:

BOOK BLURB:

Ally Hatten is tired of waiting to be believed in.  As the Infran of Life, she's supposed to be one of Alvoskia’s eight admired reincarnated protectors—if she still had her powers. When the Infran Claiming ceremony comes to call, it seems she’ll be left behind. Again.  But when war is brought to her doorstep, all of the Infrans are thrust into a world of deceptive politics on a ticking time limit: two weeks to travel to the enemy capitol and negotiate a peace treaty, or war will threaten their world like never before… whether they’re ready for it or not.  Joined by her embittered twin, Jamie, the Infran of Death, and her friend / one-sided rival — the sweet-hearted Infran of Fire, Flames, a prodigy with a rare skill not seen for centuries — all three of them have demons to face in the city of Serkdan, with danger lurking around every corner.  To stop the war before it begins, Jamie must confront the monster who raised her, and Flames the shadows of a past she can’t quite burn to ashes. And perhaps, Ally can finally find the secret to unlocking her powers, if the last Infran who was dormant like her isn’t the monster everyone says he is.  Haunted by the Infran who went off the rails, and struggling to find her place in a world that seems determined to shut her out of it, Ally and the Infrans must rise to the challenges set before them, or risk losing the only family they have left: each other.

Preorders for both Ebook (around $7.00) and physical soft copies ($27.00) will go up in January 2026, if you're interested in waiting till then, or you like the ARC so much you want to buy it for yourself!

[loveridden1999]

when england lose, women bruise

[osmanthusoolong]

Seen in downtown Toronto as well

[primulaceas]

this gif is like a poem to me

[a-flickering-soul]

"June" by Alex Dimitrov. to ME.

[boldkatte]

[oneheadtoanother]

[tachyon-log]

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

[fishmech]

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

[bunniope]

can we focus on the gnome for a second

[bunniope]

wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat

[ladyofspoons]

these are the people i have to share a highway with

[fyterx]

[darkspaceboytoy]

The truth of the matter is that if you’re going to seriously pursue writing, not every line can go hard. It can’t be hard 100% of the time, or the hard just becomes soft. Sometimes the line just has to get the writing from point a to point b.

[freakcliff]

it's sad to me that cs lewis decided that after living in Narnia all the pevensies started talking in high fantasy early modern english mostly because it's so much more fun to imagine that what's considered a Narnian accent is just a London/cockney one given where its rulers have historically been from but Also because I feel it deep in my soul that High King Peter the Magnificent starts all of his important council meetings by going Aight chaps whotve we got to do today

[teaboot]

how could you like the colour yellow

see a therapist immediately

I actually used to hate it! Like, actually despise it! Yellow was too bright, too loud, discordant, unruly, and clashed with everything. Nothing like what I wanted in my life, nothing I wanted to be.

When I first moved away from home, everything I owned was black. Jet back. As black as I could get. Smooth, cool, sleek, discrete, calm, unassuming. Flexible, cohesive, agreeable black. Fashionable black.

I had a really, really bad time. Unrelated to the decor. It was my first year out of a toxic place I'd grown used to my whole life, my first year acknowledging a mental illness I'd believed to be normal, my first year fending for myself with very little money or sleep or companionship.

I'd grown up on instant white rice and unseasoned ground beef. One day I realized that everything I'd been raised on tasted like cardboard. While out on an assignment, I passed a tent with a woman selling spices, and bought myself some turmeric. I went home and tried making curry with it. It was so yellow.

Another time, my professor took us out to a modern art gallery. I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but when we got there, the whole building had been painted bright sunshine yellow.

The artist's theme was "happiness".

What it is. How we make it. How to share it.

All bright, lovely yellow.

The house I grew up in was beige. The walls were white. The appliances were post 9/11 stainless steel. My job was to be quiet, compliant, presentable and agreeable.

Black goes with everything. Black is neutral. Black is quiet, reserved, elegant and mysterious.

Yellow is warm. Yellow does what it wants. Yellow tastes sweet and spicy and hot and cool, like a summer breeze, like sunflower petals, powdery like dust on a long dirt road and soothing like well-worn linen.

I still like the look of black. I like the look of most colors. But I like the way that Yellow makes me feel.

Do you understand?

[raspbrrytea]

[teaboot]

DUDE

[misty-anne]

Adamtots

[creekfiend]

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

[animperfectangelsblog]

[voldemo]

My friend really changed once she became a vegetarian 

[voldemo]

its like ive never seen herbivore

[thethiefandtheairbender]

reading "hamnet," a book about hamnet dying, is so fun because you read the whole book knowing that hamnet is going to die, because it tells you on the very first page, and is what the book is about. and then you're still not prepared for when he dies

[menloathe]

"that man is not stimming he's on cocaine" true he is. but he's also autistic

[thethiefandtheairbender]

SOMETHING INSIDE ME WAS ALWAYS STEERING LEFT

There is a werewolf in the town / The Village, Wrabel / Call of the Infrans, @alvoskia / Family Line, Conan Gray / Sympathy Magic, Florence and the Machine / via @ toricrocky6 - Pinterest / Tolerate It, Taylor Swift / Wish I Was Here: Stories; "Little Tern," Jackie Kay / via @ This__Is__John - X / on being raised on fairy tales in which you are the monster, a. m. h. / If It's Not God, Maddie Zahm / from “Poems From An Email Exchange,” Hanif Abdurraqib

[thethiefandtheairbender]

fucking weird to live life for like, 24+ years and never have to file a single police report, and then have to file two in the span of like one year

[princesssarisa]

Elizabeth Bennet is a heroine whose characterization rarely goes to any kind of extreme, but always has a balance of traits. She almost never has too much of one trait or too much of another, but is always somewhere in the middle.

The song "In-Between" from Lerner and Lowe's Paint Your Wagon could be rewritten with new lyrics to be about her.

*She's not very rich or of high status compared to others in her circle: that fact is an essential plot point, especially for how socially beneath Darcy she is. Yet she's still a member of the gentry, she is rich compared to most of England's population, and her circle also includes people of lower status than hers.

*She's not outstandingly beautiful: her own future love interest dismisses her looks as just "tolerable" at first. But neither is she plain: other characters consider her very pretty, as does Darcy eventually.

*She's in her early 20s, so she's more mature than Austen's teenage heroines, yet not approaching spinsterhood either.

*There are several characters who don't like her and aren't very nice to her, yet she's no outcast, but is well-liked in general.

*She's her father's favorite daughter, but her mother's least favorite daughter, so she has some experience of being both "the golden child" and "the black sheep" in her family.

*She's not a perfect refined lady, but neither is she a tomboy.

*She's not conservative about manners: her liveliness, playfulness, and willingness to speak her mind are some of her defining traits. Yet she's not so liberal as to ignore basic decorum: on the contrary, she's second only to Jane as the most polite member of her family, and sometimes she judges other people's character too much by their social graces.

*She's prickly, judgmental, and outspoken – obviously not the traditional sweet, innocent heroine type like her sister Jane. Yet she's not mean either, but has a strong undercurrent of sweetness, caring, and (as mentioned) politeness to her character.

*In her relationship with her emotions, she's neither an Elinor Dashwood nor a Marianne Dashwood: she's not reserved or stoic, but neither does she let passion control her.

*Compared to her ultra-pragmatic friend Charlotte, she's a romantic. But compared to her tender-hearted sister Jane, she's very down-to-earth and practical.

*She's willing to question certain social norms (e.g. mercenary marriages) and to criticize the bad behavior of people who outrank her in status. Yet she's not a total revolutionary, but knows when the most practical choice is to play by society's rules (e.g. reluctantly accepting Lydia and Wickham's marriage as necessary).

*We get a strong sense of her physicality: she loves to go for long walks, she's a fast runner, she blushes, etc. Yet she's not just a strong physical presence, but is also a very intellectual, thoughtful heroine.

*She's not always right, but not always wrong either. She learns from Darcy, but he also learns from her.

*By the end of the novel, she grows and changes in important ways: she becomes humbler, more considerate, and a better judge of character. But in equally important ways, she stays the same: she never loses her wit, liveliness, courage, or fundamental self-respect.

Maybe these careful balances are the reason why she's such a successful and popular heroine. They're what make her complex like a real person. But maybe they're also the reason why people claim that in adaptations, her portrayal always feels slightly "off," because the scripts lean her more toward one extreme or another. Rarely do we see a heroine who in so many ways is "in-between."

[lyaios]

very silly image i couldn't get out of my head

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

why do cherries have to be sexual & strawberries get to be all innocent. why are we slut shaming fruit. what is the sexual valence of a blueberry