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ECHO SIGHT - The Sleeper Fantasy Of 2025 You Don't Want To Miss

A disabled shapeshifter tries to save a city with the one person who could undo their whole life…or free it.

Having lost one leg already to the monstrous, parasitic senka, Enaka Adelaire tries hard to be useful among their perfect people, protecting those who can't protect themselves and hoping to earn the affection they've been denied most of their life.

But when a routine hunt becomes an assignment to track down an artifact smuggler who may have lured senka to Akert City, Enaka is thrown out of their depth into a world of misinformation and systemic oppression. Their only ally? A spycatching archmage from an opposing government who claims to know more about Enaka than they do about themself.

As the two of them race against time to stop the senka plague before the double new moons, they're confronted by forces both mundane and magical, and disturbing truths emerge that change Enaka's life forever. Will their conviction be enough to save the two million souls who call Akert home? Or are the real monsters much closer than they appear?

#Echo Sight #books #booklr #fantasy #mystery #action #paranormal #dragons #phoenixes #fungus #books and reading #bookblr #book lover #reading

creatingblackcharacters

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾

creatingblackcharacters

Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-

#I love this song so much #I also hope he's doing well #lil nas x #I do not give a single shit about respectability politics #it exists to police each other and silence our own community's voices #fuck all that since the bigots are gonna find reasons to hate their targets anyway #we might as well live in a way truest to ourselves that we can manage

theweirdwideweb

rimonoroni2

unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going

ktempestbradford

I did not come into Tumblr dot com to be called out in this way.

verati404

Hey, friends! I'm in this one!

This Pride month, check out queer indie creators who've bundled their fiction together to bring YOU, dear reader, a fantastic bargain! Itch-io is a website for all sorts of self-published works & you get to keep them forever! So support the community, share the love, and read queer authors to your heart's content when you buy these 37 books for $40, ending in 5 days.

For anyone who's been on the fence about whether to get a new book, rest assured that you'll find something in this to love. The works in this bundle are 100% human made and span a variety of genres. So if you'd like to read great books by actual, under-discovered lgbtqia+ creators for a steal of a price, now's your chance!

Pride Book Fair Bundle #2 - Pride Hard With a Vengeance: 37 items for $40.00

#pride #lgbtqia+#lgbtqia #lgbtq #queer community #transgender #gay #lesbian #nonbinary #books #novels #fiction #mlm #wlw #bi

corviiids

etiquette i made up in my own brain that i for some reason observe religiously

"OP": equivalent to ma'am/sir. polite form of address for a stranger when referring to their post.

"[platform] user [username]" e.g. tumblr user corviiids: equivalent to Mr/Ms/Mx. polite, full title, used when talking to or about someone i don't know very well (or a friend, for emphasis).

"[name] [username]" e.g. rook corviiids: equivalent to a full name. addressing someone i know but am not really friends with. a polite amount of distance and regard.

"[name]": i know names are there to be used but calling someone i don't know by their name is a horrifically inappropriate intimacy akin to ogling their bare ankle under the hem of their skirt.

#I'm not this strict but this is cute

n0rtist

Here are the stylized icons of box-legendaries I drew for my latest video (See below)

sevdahalma

most fantasy books or fics i’ve read that contained a desert biome fell back on real world prejudice and misconceptions in place of authentic worldbuilding for a place and people, and it is so telling that the trope seems to repeat itself

things like

the desert as a lifeless wasteland where ‘life is crushed underneath the shifting sands and blazing sun’ blah blah blah. deserts are full of life and they are beautiful and people have lived and prospered in them for eons. please read a book

the desert as an ugly or barren terrain where everything is harsh and threatening

the desert as something scary

the inhabitants as backwards religious zealots

the men as overly violent and oppressive

the inhabitants in need of outside instruction/intervention, i.e. “civilizing the savage”

the “harem” and women as exotic, sensual, mysterious

writing tribalism with no knowledge of how tribes actually function

djinn (or for the westerners, genies)

Islam Lite (the aesthetics or spiritual practices appropriated and stripped of meaning)

sprinkling random arabic words for ✨flavor✨instead of expanding your worldbuilding to include language as well

clothing as oppressive or mysterious, instead of serving its actual purpose (protecting you from the elements, which should be obvious but i guess it isn’t. covering your skin keeps you cooler and safer in most deserts)

people who live in deserts as ignorant, superstitious, uneducated

this isn’t worldbuilding, it’s just ignorance and bigotry

merrimentsmight

U dont understand i had to write the first 70,000 words because if i didnt the sex wouldnt be as perilous or emotionally fraught. Which is the POINT.

#exactly lol

only-cat-memes

everythingfox

DOG

dog dog dog

svlc

Hey, friends! I'm in this one!

This Pride month, check out queer indie creators who've bundled their fiction together to bring YOU, dear reader, a fantastic bargain! Itch-io is a website for all sorts of self-published works & you get to keep them forever! So support the community, share the love, and read queer authors to your heart's content when you buy these 37 books for $40, ending in 5 days.

For anyone who's been on the fence about whether to get a new book, rest assured that you'll find something in this to love. The works in this bundle are 100% human made and span a variety of genres. So if you'd like to read great books by actual, under-discovered lgbtqia+ creators for a steal of a price, now's your chance!

Pride Book Fair Bundle #2 - Pride Hard With a Vengeance: 37 items for $40.00

#pride #lgbtqia+#lgbtqia #lgbtq #queer community #transgender #trans joy #gay #lesbian #nonbinary #books #novels #fiction #mlm #wlw #bi

O light, beyond the window breaks

It's 5am, and I'm awake.

The birds are loud, the stomach tight,

Probably from some imagined fright.

I'd like to go right back to sleep

But consciousness is all I keep.

O light, incessant, rude, I scorn

The times I'm up this early morn.

mysteriousbeetle

How to look for indie comics from Black creators!

As you may know, there was recently a DC Comics boycott as a part of the DCSoWhite movement since DC has not had a mainline ongoing solo with a Black lead for over 1200 days. You can read more about this here, here, here, and here. The boycott has been cancelled (link), but that doesn't mean we can't still show support for Black comic creators!

One of the things the movement called for fans to do was to "[Support] Black creators through independent and creator-owned projects." So this post is meant to provide tips on how to do this.

Check out other works of Black creators you're already familiar with

The Black comic creators you're already a fan of who have made comics for DC or Marvel have likely also made comics for other publishers too. You can usually find out about other comics they've worked on through their Wikipedia page, social media pages, and their own website if they have one. And it's a good idea to follow their social media to learn about any of their projects in the future!

Look through indie publisher websites

A great way to find out about indie comics is to check out indie publishers' websites. There will almost always be a page on their websites with all their comics so you can easily look through them and the creators will be listed so you can look into the creators too. This is one way to find out about Black comic creators who you might not already be familiar with.

The publishers that are listed as examples in the webpages linked above are Image Comics, BOOM! Studios, Vault Comics, Ignition Press, and Stranger Comics.

Check out existing lists

There are already lists online that specifically recommend Black creators to check out and comics by Black creators. You can also find recommendations and lists on social media. This is another great way to find out about Black comic creators you're not yet familiar with.

Speaking of lists, I would like to point you to this post by @bimboopo which includes a list of many Black webtoon creators which you can go check out!

Hopefully this guide will help people find out about more comics by Black creators. Support these creators by reading, buying, and talking about their comics. And even if the boycott is over, still make sure to sign the petition.

kropotkindersurprise

May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]

chronic-illness-resources

yes!!!!!!!!

estrangeloedessa

Lots of well-intentioned (I hope) but extremely condescending comments in the notes like “maybe don’t film yourself doing crime.” Respectfully… This man knew what he was doing. He didn’t just film himself, he invited media to film him. He did this to make his own statement, with his own voice, with his own face. He wanted himself and his actions to be visible.

Collin Kennedy died in 2018, just two years after this video was taken. What would anonymity have achieved for him in those last two years? Avoiding punishment? His whole point was that these parking fees are already a punishment on the sick.

Is public protest dangerous? Sure. Is it more dangerous than merely existing as a sick or disabled person navigating a hostile healthcare system? I think that is for every individual experiencing it to decide for themselves.

A Winnipeg man who filled a city parking meter with spray foam to protest the high cost of parking for sick people around hospitals has died

Collin Kennedy, 50, lived with multiple myeloma — a type of blood cancer — for 19 years.

He invited media to watch him fill a parking meter with spray foam to raise awareness about the high costs of parking for cancer patients and other sick people getting treatment. Video of Kennedy vandalizing the meter was widely shared on social media. It led to a Canada-wide petition to end the practice of charging for parking near hospitals.

He was a man who fought the only way he knew how, even if that meant taking matters into his own hands and disabling parking meters. He wasn’t in the boardrooms or corridors of power, he was on the streets trying to make a difference. (CBC News, December 12, 2018)