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Bi.🩷💜💙 She/Her. 🏳️‍🌈 POC. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇬🇱🇰 I like Transforming robots, and Elves and Dwarves and Hobbits. Writer. Cosplayer. Crafter. Conjunx Endura of @TheLlamaGod.bsky.social Craft account: @minibotcreations.bsky.social

Okay Bluesky, which of these books should I read next? Tideborn is a sequel to Fathomfolk; SEAsia-inspired maritime fantasy. Dunvegan Castle: 3rd installment of Edinburgh nights. Gothic dystopian Scotland with magic and Zimbabwean-inspired folklore. (continued below):

Four books facing up. 

Top left: Tideborn by Eliza Chan
Top right: The Mystery of Dunvegan Castle by TL Huchu
Bottom Left: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey
Bottom Right: The River Has Roots by Amal El-MohtarBook spines from Top to bottom

Tideborn
The River Has Roots
The Mystery of Dunvegan Castle
The Formidable Miss Cassidy

Idk why a lot of Asian supernatural fantasy involves death and the afterlife, but they just do. And they’re not always horror. This one was a fun adventure. I liked our lead female chara and it has a cast of delightful eccentric supporting characters. A few flaws, but didn’t stop me enjoying it.

The Girl who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh. 

An illustrated cover featuring a dark haired girl falling beneath colourful storm waves; wearing a pink skirt and blue jacket. Red ribbons trail from her wrist. 

She falls towards four ornate pagodas. In the centre is a giant flower resembling a lotus. Sea creatures are interspersed throughout. Everyone in Mina's homeland knows the legend.

That when the Sea God meets his true bride, he will end the deadly storms that have ravaged them for generations. So every year a beautiful maiden is sacrificed to the sea... and every year the storms return.

When her brother's beloved is chosen, Mina knows the loss will cripple him - and at the last moment, she throws herself into the water instead. Swept away to the magical Spirit Realm, she comes face-to-face with the Sea God, trapped in an enchanted sleep.

The only way to save her people is to help him. But Mina doesn't have much time: a human cannot live long in the land of the spirits. And there are those who would do anything to keep the Sea God from waking ...

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea is a magical feminist retelling of a classic Korean legend, perfect for fans of Uprooted and Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

I have so much LOVE for this. Queer female lead, supernatural elements of Malaysia (and Singapore). Yet what I loved most was the dialogue cos of how familiar it felt (to me). This was a Ride; Ah Ma was wonderful, and the story hit just right. Brilliant stuff. Would read again.

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

She was trouble
So is her ghost

The title in white text on a background of blue with tropical leaves, flowers and fruit  painted nonya styleHER GRANDMOTHER MAY BE DEAD.
BUT SHE'S NOT DONE WITH LIFE ...
YET

As Jessamyn packs for Malaysia, it's not a good time to start hearing a bossy voice in her head. Broke, jobless and just graduated, she's abandoning America to return 'home'.

But she last saw Malaysia as a toddler - and is completely unprepared for its ghosts, gods and her eccentric family's shenanigans. Jess soon learns her 'voice' belongs to Ah Ma, her late grandmother. She worshipped the Black Water Sister, a local deity. And when a business magnate dared to offend her goddess, Ah Ma swore revenge. Now she's decided Jess will help, whether she wants to or not. 

As Ah Ma blackmails Jess into compliance, Jess fights to retain control. But her irrepressible relative isn't going to let a little thing like death stop her, when she can simply borrow Jess's body to make mischief.

As Jess is drawn ever deeper into a world of peril and family secrets, getting a job becomes the least of her worries.

Goodreads really took down all the comments pointing out a book is AI slop because the thief went crying to them about their sloppery being pointed out? After the author of the original book that was stolen talked about it. What absolutely useless cowards.

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

For those wanting to join in the weekly #TROPRewatch on here, just a wee reminder that we start Season 2 this Friday the 18th of Sept. It’ll all be done just in time for S3.

Autobot Proudfellow 💍@jobot935.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Okay #TROPSky! The majority have spoken so here is your Schedule for #TROPRewatch - Road to Season 3! 9pm your local time on Fridays (weekends are there to catch up if you can't make Friday). Use the hashtag when you post so the Feed picks you up. #RingsofPower #TheRingsofPower #TROP #ROP

TROP Rewatch - Road to Season 3

Season 1

24 July - S1E1 - A Shadow of the Past
31 July - S1E2 - Adrift
07 Aug - S1E3 - Adar
14 Aug - S1E4 - The Great Wave
21 Aug - S1E5 - Partings
28 Aug - S1E6 - Udun
04 Sept - S1E7 - The Eye
11 Sept - S1E8 - Alloyed

Season 2

18 Sept - S2E1 - Elven Kings Under the Sky
25 Sept - S2E2 - Where the Stars are Strange
02 Oct - S2E3 - The Eagle and the Sceptre
09 Oct - S2E4 - Eldest
16 Oct - S2E5 - Halls of Stone
23 Oct - S2E6 - Where is He?
30 Oct - S2E7 - Doomed to Die
06 Nov - S2E8 - Shadow and Flame

Join the rolling, global watch-along Fridays @ 9 pm in Your Local Timezone
Use #TROPRewatch on BlueSky

Season 3 Begins: 11 November

I don’t really have any feelings on whether romance books as a publishing genre are Supposed To Have happy endings or not, but I will die on the barricades before I see it spread as a broader expectation to AO3. WHAT is this fuckery, I ask you.

reddit comment: “That's not completely true if you're writing in a romance genre. In romance stories, a happy ending is explicitly defined as the main couple being together so that's the expectation when someone comes across a romance fic tagged with "angst with a happy ending." (Doubly so since HR is a book from the romance genre so fans of the series are also fans of the romance genre”“If you're going to use optional tags then those tags should be accurate. If you're going to write in a fandom for a book that is in a specific genre (in this case romance) then your readers will expect you to follow genre conventions.
A romance-fandom fanfic that's tagged with happy ending and reconciliation sets up reader expectations.
If you lie to people then they get mad.
Readers are perfectly within their rights to be upset when they've been
promised a certain type of story via tags and genre conventions and then that doesn't happen.”

When Scraplet started P1 last year (4-5yos) much of the homework they were given involved using a screen to do online puzzles + a couple of actual writing letters exercises. End of the last term they sent out a homework survey and I duly informed them that I would be continuing to send homework ➡️

@ravens-rambling.bsky.social · 4d ago

This reminds me of an article I saw recently that a kindergarten teacher, at least once a year, will have at least one kid who has never written or drawn with anything physical. That kid has only ever been on an iPad for their entire short lifespan that they don't even know how to hold a pencil.

Right then, time for #TROPRewatch S1E8 finale! And the first time it began with me and the Llama screaming at the TV screen cos we knew that location where they filmed the Stranger and the Mystics. Cos it's the same place they filmed the Trollshaws for An Unexpected Journey, and we'd been there.