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Alix Laimite (she/her)
@alixlaimite.bsky.social
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Daughter of a librarian. Mother of an early reader. I write intersectional thrillers and strive to read 100 books a year.🐊 Even a dying world needs love.
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ouroboros can have a little ouroboros as a treat.
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When CJ throws a party, the world shows up. See you tonight?
The government is the company store.
I love my friends; I would do anything for them. But I only have max six text messages in me per day.
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:checks increasingly terrifying news:

uhhh... guess i'm gonna, um, get to work on this rewrite...
Harriet Tubman Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen is the best fanfiction I have ever read in my life.

Like how dare you.
I am so proud of the friends who are getting their books published. When I plug their names into my Libby app and they show up it makes it so real!
I love her work. Especially her piece on meeting the pope. I am excited for her new book.

Patricia Lockwood on Her Favorite Books and Her New Novel - The New York Times share.google/yku4EpGvHDzW...
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Nearly 2mn Australians living in coastal areas face rising sea levels by 2050. Australia—among the largest polluters per capita—has already breached warming of 1.5C. At 3C of warming, heat-related deaths in Sydney could rise by over 400%, and almost triple in Melbourne.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rising seas will threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050, landmark climate report warns
Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment predicts more frequent and severe climate hazards.
www.bbc.com
I WANT TO BETA READ

Thrillers, horror, suspense

DM me I'm serious.

#betareaders #writingcommunity #tbr
Everything is expensive. Doom scrolling on tiktok feels the only "free" form of entertainment.

As notable is the rise and mainstreaming of fanfic, an art that legally cannot be monetized.
Just hit a reader milestone; a book I'm interested in became available on my Libby app and I was first online for my library's copy. I'm number one!
There are bridesmaids and groomsmen. We need a new title for special trans people in our lives. I propose:

Bridesguard / Groomsguard
Millennials were told by every college professors that "This class is more important than anything else you're doing. It will take up all your time. Prioritize it"
Then we went on to invent hustle culture. Coincidence?
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A GAME IN YELLOW is out today! 💛

Join Carmen, Blanca, and Smoke as the hunt to spice things up in the bedroom takes a maddening turn when the cursed play The King in Yellow becomes a misused toy in my queer erotic cosmic horror, new from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social 🎉

As always, make horror gay AF!
I'm reading @tonytula.com's Rejection and I need to know, do you hate me?
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Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
The point of weird girl fiction is that you're not supposed to "get it" unless you're a weird girl.

People are out here upset to discover that their parents loved them and they have a healthy relationship with food. Sorry you're regular.
Is it just me or does it feel like they release the #bookerprize long list every three months? It's nonstop.
I know. I'm going to have to remortgage the house because my kids only like one kind of bougie yogurt.
Anyone else remember when bananas were 33¢ lbs. Or am I just becoming my mother?
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.

- Emily Dickinson
Is it a bad omen that I have walked through six different spider webs on the regular morning walk?
Keeping a reading log is magical, because even after years I can see the title of a book I read in February 2021 and the plot blows back into my mind on the winter winds.