Kara Jorgensen: Queer Paranormal Romance Author

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A full step by step guide, if you or someone you know is owed a refund by Milo Winter and the World of Gardian LLC.

Before you start the report, gather the following:

Order confirmation (order number, date, and amount paid)

Screenshots of the February 20th cancellation

Screenshots of any communication about the refund queue (emails as well, if you emailed them to ask for an update)

Marketing materials showing that a book was the product being sold along with the bookmarks

Business name: World of Gardian LLC

If you need screenshots, no worries! They will be at the bottom of this post.

How to report:

Go to reportfraud.ftc.gov

In the top right corner, click “report now”

On the next page, click “online shopping,” then click “A problem with an online purchase or sale”

Fill out the Report details page, including how much you spent, when you paid, and the name of the company and individual (World of Gardian LLC, Milo Winter).

Do not ignore the comment box. When filling it out, you want to include:

That you preordered a book, not just a bookmark, with documentation of that intent

That a bookmark was shipped as a platform workaround

That the second edition was cancelled February 20th

That no refund has been issued despite four months passing

That a refund queue exists but has produced nothing

The approximate total you're owed

Upload any supporting documents you have, including screenshots gathered beforehand.

Enter your contact info. They may not follow up on an individual basis, it’s more for record keeping.

Hit “Submit Screenshots of the February 20th cancellation, Milo changing the orders without audience consent, and proof of a book being sold as well as the bookmarks:

Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.

These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.

With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.

Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.

Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.

Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.

This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.

Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.

The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.

Tag some authors here on tumblr (or share some of your favorite reads!) I'll start with a few!!

@ashen-crest cozy fantasy for the win

@crossroadart-seabear selkie comics and gorgeous art

@ninawolv3rina feral vampire on a ship, and pathetic fella with Issues meets Bard with Issues

@tesscarletta sensual plant fantasy world with bodyguards and princes

@authorkarajorgensen whoops you died let's fix that and be gay

@authormicahflowers haven't read but damn those covers are pretty

@franklyn-newt trans starship captain in Dudes Rock

@magicariot magical trans girls

@kay-claire full moon problem; imo werewolves are not a problem

@ladzwriting dark fantasy; need to hurry up and read fealty of monsters

@robinjomargaret monster fucking and aro ace in all it's forms

@wolfehorror has a ton of horror books and put together an anthology with @marsadler

@hedonsgaybookshelf haunt that man

In this world where women are already subjected to the sexual whims of their male partners and their own desires are often ignored or belittled, I very decidedly don’t wish to read about that exact same thing happening to the FMC. Now, if the FMC is living her best life whilst being subjected to these tropes and shadow-daddy MMCs, then good for her!

I just really wish that the FMC’s pleasure and desires would be centered, rather than just assumed to be submissive and then executed as such without first asking.

But for things happening between the characters, if the FMC is scared-AND-horny or whatever, that's what the fantasy is supposed to be and you as the reader are expected to do some basic suspension of disbelief in order to engage with the idea that (just like in a kink scene!) this is not real, this is just for pretend, everyone is safe and no one is actually getting hurt. On account if it is fiction.

Now, if you're not into that, that's perfectly fine, I am not saying you have to be into reading things that you don't like. If you want to see some kink negotiation, that's cool. Sometimes, there are books that are about diagetic kink, and they do include those negotiation scenes. But for non-diagetic kink (aka the thing you're "taking issue" with), I don't think that it's fair to say that it's wrong for those books to be written that way. A woman's desires ARE being centered -- either the author's own desires or what the author is envisioning the reader will desire. If you're not into it--again, that's perfectly fine, it's just not the right book for you or the right genre for you. Read something else.

You missed the point of the first post, @atinymekanie, so let's read it together again:

women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.

It's like how a bunch of celebs were big on body positivity and fat liberation...until Ozempic dropped and it turns out no, none of them ever believed any of that! They just pretended to bcs up until now healthy, long term weight loss was impossible so they had no choice but to cope by learning to love themselves no matter how they looked...but now that it's here we can go back to the truth! Being fat is ugly and gross and unhealthy and you should starve yourself and take experimental meds right now so you can be skinny which is what ALL humans are clearly supposed to be!! Yeah that body positivity stuff was fun, but come on. We know you actually just wanna be skinny and think being fat is a fate worse than death.

That's what it feels like to me. Every single time. Honestly in a lot of other areas too, one of the big issues with the left is that they really do seem to think that Republicans are right about how things work and should work but we just pretend otherwise because it's the right thing to do and it reduces suffering. Which seems fine, but you cannot be an effective leftist like this. You do actually have to deconstruct your beliefs and biases and world systems, you can't go around like "well yeah we aren't gonna kill disabled people that's eugenics and it's wrong" when you clearly don't actually think it's wrong. You think eugenics would work but implementing it would be uncivilized, and it shows. You have to actually understand that racism and ableism and all other forms of bigotry are not just cruel, but entirely incorrect.