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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 7h

Can't pick what to get with your free bookshop shipping? THE SHAMSHINE BLIND is a good choice if, for some reason, you're looking for a story about people toppling a theocratic conspiracy to energize you

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 49m

this take couldn't be righter

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 8h

oh drat, this is disappointing, but good to know! I like Martin and Toni Collette, but was worried the show would be too intense for me, so I've been on the fence about watching it. I think I will just skip, knowing the ending doesn't feel satisfying.

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 10h

criticism is not the same thing as "being mad at" for the love of all the things

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

oh have you read the Constance Fay series? the first one did nothing for me, but I read the third one more recently and had such a great time. just like, zany hijinks in space with romance. and have you read any of Rosie Danon's more speculative stuff? very very fun.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

ooh yes, okay, what have you liked in the past, fantasy romance–wise?

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

right? gotta reread Hench real quick so I can remember where she left things. MAN it's a treat when a sequel pops up after years of no sequel.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

oh shit! yay! I had such a great time with the first book in this series, Hench, and had no idea another one was in the works.

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 1d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

it... okay, yes, arguable Nabokov also bears the blame here

NEVERTHELESS

"and neither the angels in heaven above nor the demons down under the sea" is straightforwardly Tamsyn Muir's fault.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

among the many crimes that must be laid at Tamsyn Muir's door

the many MANY emotional crimes she has enacted upon me, personally, and for which she must answer

she has made "Annabel Lee" a far creepier poem than it used to be. it makes me physically shiver now. dammit, Muir.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky has said this. So this seems to me they HAVE been explicit but it was 10 months ago and [waves arms around] we would be forgiven for not remembering

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

it is genuinely shocking how much rage @jay.bsky.team and the devs seem to have for their user base. suspending Erin Biba over an old post just because she’s been criticizing you is deeply fucked up. fix this shit.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

I think also that I *notice* this kind of writing more when the romance isn't working for me. like, there was a YA book I severely loved earlier this year, which 100% had this iterating structure, but I was fine with it because I adored the two main characters & the development of their relationship

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

it DOES really work if you're into the specific relationship, I agree with that so much. but then the author has to have the specific and challenging skillset of writing really, really good characters and a really, really good relationship. and often they do not.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

"nothing important is allowed to change or matter" really captures what I find frustrating about this. and especially if the author hasn't successfully made me care about the central characters! it just feels like we're trudging down a path of mandatory story beats.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is probably a factor in some of them! @casella.bsky.social and @thelionmachine.bsky.social both identified that it can also feel influenced by televisual storytelling in different ways, which I think is interesting to consider too.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

YES, I have been thinking about that too, especially as I read some books that I know were fics before they were books. stuff that works in fic doesn't always work in books! and it's been interesting to think in really concrete terms about my own how expectations differ for those mediums.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

and then a few things happen in between, which don't feel super significant, and then back again they go to some location to have conversations and try to fix him. with small amounts of plot and romance progress being made each time.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

what I meant was that there's like... almost a looping quality to how the plot proceeds. like I just read one where the shared goal is to fix a magical ailment that the MMC has. so they keep going to different locations to have conversations and try to fix him.

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

I just made it up hahahahaha

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

disappointing!! can I ask what the books were, out of curiosity? (or in DMs is fine, if you don't want to call a book out in public hahahahah.)

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

oh gosh, let's see, off the top of my head, I thought of A Feather So Black, Sanctuary of the Shadow, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy.... I'm sure there are others but those are some that I immediately remember

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

hahahha gosh, I felt just the same about Aisling Rawle's The Compound, which is very lightly science fictional but came from a non-genre publisher. I couldn't put it down! too many events!

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

oh yep, a classic.

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