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ariaste:

So listen i have this book coming out in uhhh 10 days and I am Worried about it, because it is a Comedy, and comedy is really hard to market (why????? it’s funny pirates, what’s not to like??) even when it is, yanno, normal mainstream comedy.

It is even worse when it is Unhinged Comedy That’s Mostly Going To Be Funny To People On Tumblr. (For example, the main character being a supreme gremlin made of 90% memes by weight (examples: carries around a bag that is never called anything but his “little rucksack”; has a near-verbatim “stick me legy out real far” moment; talks about his metaphorical “orphan gruel bowl” which is a direct reference to that one Oliver Twist gif) because those are funny to me personally.) Unhinged Tumblr Comedy is difficult because tumblr is not a platform where it is easy to market things to people, because we are generally violently anti-capitalist and LOATHE advertisements and reflexively resist being marketed to for most anything. I LOVE that about this website.

Except for right now, because I have bills to pay and a cat to feed. So look, fellow tumblr gremlins, I am just trying to say that if your personal brand of comedy is laughing at the kind of jokes that could only be produced on this hell website, and:

• you like pirates
• you’re queer and want to read more books by queer authors
• you want your fictional queer characters to be a hell of a lot more Messy and Unhinged than they often are depicted as being
• you’re interested in seeing a love triangle (M/M/NB) that resolves into polyamory
• you want books where the hottest character gets to makes Passionate Speeches about rebelling against oppressive institutional regimes like governments and organized religions
• you believe that capitalism is the most oppressive institutional regime of them all
• you think it’s fun when two characters have been in a 15-year-long relationship where the vibes have been “We’re Newly Divorced” nearly since day one
• you believe that All Cops Are Bastards and want to know what to do when you get pulled over by the boat cops
• you think the Great British Bake-Off would be improved with weaponry, ritualized bribery/coercion of judges, and elaborate shit-talk

then this book might be for you. Beneath the wall-to-wall hijinks, it is political and it is righteously angry and it is the funniest thing I have ever written (which is saying something, because I have written some funny shit). It’s called RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND. Here’s a picture of it.

If all that sounds cool, you can read a review of it here and the first chapter of it here to see if it as funny as I am claiming it is, and then if you think that it is, you can preorder it here. It comes out on June 11! Ten days from now!

Thank you for letting me market to you for a minute. Signal boosting would be very much appreciated.

I manage to get an eARC of this book (highlight of my year) and can confirm it is absurdly funny. I was half worried my neighbors would call in a noise complaint with how hard I was laughing. Also if you are a fancy books™️ person like myself the broken bonding has a BEAUTIFUL signed edition with painted edges, foiling, the works

Good news: this book IS one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. Comedy is Hard but THIS BOOK is pure comedy. (With a side of horny and heart)

okay, I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about this going in, but when I got to “he’d managed to rhyme ‘strap-on’ with 'denouement`” I had to put my laptop down because I was laughing so hard I was worried I’d drop it

and I sent just that line to my partner, who I’d expect to be much more in the target audience for this kind of Gremlin Story than me, and said “I might have to buy this book.”

My preorder is heeere and I just started it! In love already but will report back. His little rucksack!

QUEER PIRATE FANS ESPECIALLY!

I devoured it in one go on release day, but I'ma read it again super soon. It is so queer and that’s so unremarkable in the world (which I also loved in A Taste of Gold and Iron). And it is so horny, at a level which would be remarkable anywhere.

It would be difficult to overstate what a fucked-up wet cat of a creature you will follow around in this story. You will be snerking loudly and occasionally just making explosive hooting noises. You will post excerpts in your group chats. You will exclaim “HIS LITTLE RUCKSACK!” at people and they will give you Looks.

The joy of the baking competition carried me through a day of people banging on my roof loudly, and I say this even as a fan of seagulls and all other garbage creatures.

Anyway, if you would like to support a queer author and also be filled with joy and whimsy, I can’t recommend this to you enough. If you love it, definitely go back and read A Taste of Gold and Iron, because fucking hello?

Yeeeessssss. Anyway, I just can’t see OFMD fans not loving this (I think there’s a couple of nods to but I can’t swear it). It also shouts out the giant of fantasy comedy, GNU Terry Pratchett. You can see that influence in all the best ways. Please read it and bother other people about reading it, request that your library buy it, review it, etc. To support the author and celebrate the representation, of course, but also so that I maybe get more. Please and thank you.

Folks, I just finished reading this last night, and it’s amazing and beautiful. I laughed SO much reading it but I also cried and cheered and got angry. All of the emotions - I felt them.

Originally posted by delenanian0812

(Pictured above: both me reading this book and also Avra every moment of every day)

When people are saying that this feels very Terry Pratchett in execution, take them seriously. It does. It’s very much its own thing as well - far more explicitly queer and with its own style of humour that is distinct from Pratchett, but the blending of comedy, social commentary, and outright rage against injustice is VERY Pratchett in the best possible way. There comes a moment near the end of the book when a particular character goes on a full-blown raison d'etre rant where I genuinely wanted to applaud at the end.

Also, all of the character voices are so distinct and entertaining that I read so much of the dialogue out loud to myself because it felt fun to just SAY.

I love everything from Alex Rowland, particularly in the Chantiverse, but I felt like this one took a step out and just GLOWED. I will be re-reading many times just to feel it all again.

Final addition: the cake competition was one of the greatest things ever.

Go read it now.

Y'all. Y'ALL. I just finished this absolutely wondrous book today on the train and lemme just say. I was moved to tears by the aforementioned raison d'etre rant and a candid little chat with a certain catlike (haha) character. I feel like Alex has taken my soul and bared it for the world to see. AND YET they did it with such tenderness and healing and goddamn consideration for the weird personal universe of truths that makes every human’s unique experience. I’ll be getting a hardcover copy which will reside in pride of place on my bookshelf posthaste.

gagbox:

Guys watch out OP is a fundamentally flawed person

stil-lindigo:

“Kamala Harris has earned an eleventh-hour show of support from Palestinian, Arab and Muslim community leaders.”

“Extreme Danger”: Harris Earns a Stunning Endorsement Over Trump

Kamala Harris has earned an eleventh-hour show of support from Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim community leaders.

The New Republic

On October 24th, a collective statement titled “Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats and Community Leaders Statement on Presidential Election” was published.

The 100+ signees include current or former leaders of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim organisations, the leader of Phoenix, AZ’s largest mosque, Jewish activists and other elected officials. All of them have been listed at the bottom of this post.

You can read the whole statement here but I’ve also copy-pasted it’s entire contents below.

Read. The Whole. Thing.

It is concise and will only take you a few minutes. While you read, recognise that these words are not representative of every single person belonging to these demographics. Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are not a monolith, and have a right to feel any way they do about this election. To those who do not belong to these groups - refrain from adding your personal commentary in the tags, and understand how excruciating of a place this statement must have come from for both the authors, signees and the communities they represent.

Keep reading

chiaki-c:

finalgirlabigailhobbs:

new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years

[fingerguns] read Running Close to the Wind

anthropologist-on-the-loose:

I’m as grateful for cellphones as the next person, but sometimes I think about how everyone having a phone on them at all times really did cause us to loose some things as a society. I mean - for example, kids these days will never experience their car breaking down and needing to find the nearest place with a phone they can use. They’re never going to have the opportunity to tentatively approach a house only to discover that it’s full of queer people having a party hosted by a transvestite to celebrate his creation of a sex homunculus, stay the night, and loose their virginity while unintentionally partaking in cannibalism. It’s tragic, that kind of gay sexual awakening just doesn’t happen these days because of cellphones.

ayeforscotland:

Voters in Iowa have the opportunity to do something very funny here.

armandtheevampire:

it’s the fact that daniel snarked to real rashid about wearing gloves with historical documents but he did NOT have that same complaint when rashidmand was giving him access to claudia’s diaries. he literally said i am not arguing with a young man with big brown eyes and his tits out. whatever you say beautiful

hunybody:

pondering the fact that lestat is going to think armand and daniel’s Whole Thing is so deeply crazily romantic that it will send him into nauseous convulsions of jealousy. louieies mon cher ze romancze….. auegh ze passion of ze blood…. he turned him, armand did, and zey know eech ozer throueugh torture and blood… the relentless chase…. loueis, it makes you long for ze days of our companionship, non?? and louis says Fuck no. Freak ass. but then he sees armand and daniel giggling together over their fuck ass smoothies made from human blood that they tortured out of someone and says Les, baby, i been thinkin…. we did used to laugh… aint we used to laugh together??

ukulelekatie:

happy daylight savings to those who observe