helloooooo. I’m e (she/they) & I write contemporary fantasy, and also other stuff. how often will I be here & what will I post? your guess is as good as mine.
before I share more about me, here's the Chuffed fundraiser for a family in Gaza that I've been in contact with for a while now. they are using the funds for day-to-day needs like food, medicine, and diapers, the prices of which have skyrocketed in the last two years: link to Chuffed
check out my about page for my ~author bio~ and publication credits, learn more about my books at my books page, or or drop an ask in my ask box - I love talking about my writing! pages are linked in this list.
link to about page
link to books page
link to short stories page
link to ask box
visit my website for a list of upcoming book events: link to events page
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Unfortunately while it’s fun to watch the World Cup and all the celebrations and good vibes going around. It is also important to remember that domestic violence rates in this country go up when England plays.
Research shows that when England loses a match domestic violence rates increase by 38% and 26% if they lose or draw. And given everything going on lately I’m sure racial hate crimes will also increase. Essex police are already putting up precautions in place.
People are gonna get pissed off their heads and that along with the us vs them mentality that football spurts on doesn’t exactly create a safe environment for others to be in.
So while this is a time for celebration we should all be mindful of what impact such an event has behind closed doors.
Linking to some resources:
National Domestic Abuse helpline: 0808 2000 247
Refuge (UK’s largest Domestic Abuse organisation)
Mankind (Supporting Male victims of Domestic Violence)
SARI (Stop Hate against Racism & Inequality)
Galop (LGBTQ+ anti abuse charity)
I hope everyone can have fun during all of this but that most importantly that people are safe.
I went to a conference showing off this tech back in 2013 and I am so glad to see a TikTok because it means that the technology is getting more popular and ubiquitous
So I follow N. D. Stevenson (comics writer and animator, most famous for Nimona and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and his husband Lee Ostertag (also a comics writer and animator) on Instagram. When I started following them, they were both publicly presenting as women, and then a few years ago N. D. came out as transmasc nonbinary, and then earlier this year Lee also came out as transmasc. Anyway this is all setup to say that Lee had the chance to make the funniest post of all time and he took it:
I want to throw in that part of the context behind this meme was N.D. talking about how he sometimes gets hatemail for marrying a man as a former lesbian, and how many people seem to think he divorced his wife.
I have not managed to find anyone who thinks that in the wild, but it is so damn funny.
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colugos are amazing!! there are only two species of them and they’re found in southeast Asia. they may resemble bats, but they’re in their own order (Dermoptera) and their closest relatives are primates!
they’re also sometimes referred to as flying lemurs which is funny because they neither fly nor are lemurs :) they ARE able to glide though, and they eat fruit, leaves, and flowers. their incisors are super cool and have grooves that help them feed and also groom themselves!!! they are so interesting and amazing and more people need to know about them!!!!!!!!
“Ensconced in a chair, I eagerly began to describe my work [to the white medical professor], only to be cut off before I had completed the first sentence. Bolting upright in her chair, she vehemently informed me that the topic of this book was taboo. “It’s a terrible thing that you are doing. You are going to make African Americans afraid of medical research and physicians! You cannot write this book!"
As she glared at me, her face became contorted with anger, suffused with blood, and her breathing grew rapid. For a moment, I was stunned into silence, because nothing had prepared me for her reaction. After all, freedom of speech and academic freedom are sacred in this country. I was also a bit surprised that a white academic whose discussions and syllabus had events no interest or expertise in the matter should lecture me, and experienced African American medical writer, about health communication with African Americans.
She proceeded to inform me that there had been no medical research utilizing African Americans before the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, certainly not in the antebellum past, and when I asked her how she knew this, she countered, "Can you prove that there was?" When I responded simply "Yes," she disgorged a clumsy inquisition, unleashing a barrage of questions that showed she knew nothing about the subject at hand. I responded that my work was well researched and that she had raised an interesting question:
Was it indeed my work that would make African Americans wary of health care and medical research? Or had the work of those whose abused I proposed to chronicle already achieved this? The answer was all too obvious… Black Americans did not need me or anyone else to inculcate a fear of medicine. Medical history and practices had long since done so.”
Introduction- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington
"other people had it worse" bitch! I don't care! just from looking at you it's plain and obvious that you've had a time of it! a person can drown in six inches of water, it doesn't matter if someone else is drowning in ten feet! you're both still fucking drowning! show yourself a little bit of compassion before I come over there and do it for you. this is a threat
I'm trying to remember a book I read but maybe I gaslit myself into believing it exists
"the last few years": a phrase which here almost certainly means "in the early to mid 2010s because what is time" so if it was published in the last 3-5 years, it's probably the wrong book
(I know I read it prior to 2020. I think I may have read it prior to 2016, but I'm less sure of that)
additional info:
I'm positive it was an adult book, not YA
I'm positive it was contemporary fantasy bc the witch kept her gingersnaps in a Tupperware container
I don't think it was a mystery, but I'm less sure of that
I remember literally nothing of the plot, which is probably why I'm having such a hard time finding the book. literally all I remember is that the MC was a disabled witch who managed her symptoms with magic-infused gingersnaps
does anyone know what this book is. did I imagine reading it. does it even actually exist
I don't think so! the pub time works (I think) but I looked at that one yesterday and I don't think so? it's deeply frustrating not to be able to be sure, but I am at least sure the MC was already a witch who knew magic, whereas it seems like at the start of this series she first learns about the existence of magic from her aunt?
(I'm not sure it wasn't a mystery, but I'm also not sure it WAS a mystery and honestly brain I am begging you to remember literally anything about the plot)
three years later I'm still searching for this book and at this point I fear the only way I might find it is by writing my OWN book about a witch with CFS who treats her symptoms with magical gingersnaps she keeps in a Tupperware container, then the original author will see it and sue me for plagiarism and AT LONG LAST I'll have found the original book
other books people have recommended across socials that do not appear to be it:
Deborah Wilde's Nava Katz series
Deborah Wilde's Jezebel Files series
The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
The Undetectables
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
all excellent books, I'm sure, but none of them are the book I am looking for
(the last three were published too recently anyway, especially The Unfortunate Side Effects which was published just a couple months before I originally tried to find this book back in 2023)
additionally someone recommended posting on Reddit, which I am not on, but three years ago a friend posted on Reddit for me and never got a single response
this book haunts me. it is my white whale. my rosebud. one day on my deathbed I'll mumble "gingersnaps" and those with me at that moment will go on a journey to discover what that possibly could've meant, only to come up with nothing because I don't know what book this was
What is that book (https://whatisthatbook.com ) suggests based on your description here Cinders and Sparrows by Stefan Bachman but I suspect from the cover art that's not it. Try a search there in your own words!
...I fear I am going to spend my entire evening on this website now instead of writing, but at least it's giving me some different options!
(Cinders and Sparrows looks very good, but the main character was an adult)(it may go on my TBR however)(and damn the cover is actually gorgeous though)
“I’m just doing what I’m told. If I am ordered to remove gold fillings from refugees theeth then that’s what I’ll do”, says police officer Michael Hansen.
Just thought I’d add this since not a lot of people outside of the nordic countries seem to have seen it. This is a danish police officer discussing a new danish law that says the police should seize the possesions and money of refugees to finance the integration.
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I'm trying to remember a book I read but maybe I gaslit myself into believing it exists
"the last few years": a phrase which here almost certainly means "in the early to mid 2010s because what is time" so if it was published in the last 3-5 years, it's probably the wrong book
(I know I read it prior to 2020. I think I may have read it prior to 2016, but I'm less sure of that)
additional info:
I'm positive it was an adult book, not YA
I'm positive it was contemporary fantasy bc the witch kept her gingersnaps in a Tupperware container
I don't think it was a mystery, but I'm less sure of that
I remember literally nothing of the plot, which is probably why I'm having such a hard time finding the book. literally all I remember is that the MC was a disabled witch who managed her symptoms with magic-infused gingersnaps
does anyone know what this book is. did I imagine reading it. does it even actually exist
I don't think so! the pub time works (I think) but I looked at that one yesterday and I don't think so? it's deeply frustrating not to be able to be sure, but I am at least sure the MC was already a witch who knew magic, whereas it seems like at the start of this series she first learns about the existence of magic from her aunt?
(I'm not sure it wasn't a mystery, but I'm also not sure it WAS a mystery and honestly brain I am begging you to remember literally anything about the plot)
three years later I'm still searching for this book and at this point I fear the only way I might find it is by writing my OWN book about a witch with CFS who treats her symptoms with magical gingersnaps she keeps in a Tupperware container, then the original author will see it and sue me for plagiarism and AT LONG LAST I'll have found the original book
other books people have recommended across socials that do not appear to be it:
Deborah Wilde's Nava Katz series
Deborah Wilde's Jezebel Files series
The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
The Undetectables
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
all excellent books, I'm sure, but none of them are the book I am looking for
(the last three were published too recently anyway, especially The Unfortunate Side Effects which was published just a couple months before I originally tried to find this book back in 2023)
additionally someone recommended posting on Reddit, which I am not on, but three years ago a friend posted on Reddit for me and never got a single response
this book haunts me. it is my white whale. my rosebud. one day on my deathbed I'll mumble "gingersnaps" and those with me at that moment will go on a journey to discover what that possibly could've meant, only to come up with nothing because I don't know what book this was
What is that book (https://whatisthatbook.com ) suggests based on your description here Cinders and Sparrows by Stefan Bachman but I suspect from the cover art that's not it. Try a search there in your own words!
...I fear I am going to spend my entire evening on this website now instead of writing, but at least it's giving me some different options!
(Cinders and Sparrows looks very good, but the main character was an adult)(it may go on my TBR however)(and damn the cover is actually gorgeous though)
If you are going to have literally no criteria for being queer, then how can you say that anyone isn't? How can you refer to any person in any context as cis/straight?
If someone tells me they’re queer I believe them. If someone tells me they’re straight I believe them. This isn’t that hard
What problem, exactly, are you so concerned about? I don’t know if you’ve noticed but queerness is still very much marginalized, it’s not as “trendy” as people try to act, and straight people aren’t tripping over themselves to call themselves queer. And if you’re worried about being “tricked” by “infiltrators”, like, you know those people can just say that they’re gay? Like they can lie? They’re not going to try and “sabotage” queer spaces by saying “hey I don’t have any marginalized orientations or identities but I’m still totally queer”, they’d just say “hey I’m super gay, love people of the same gender”
What, concretely, are you worried about happening? What’s the worst thing that could happen due to inclusivity? Because the worst things that can happen due to gatekeeping are very well-known, and I’m much more scared of that
It’s less that it’s trendy and more like, I like having my queer-only spaces. Also queer is a bad word. All our words are bad words. They aren’t oppressed, and for a cishetallo to use a slur as their identity feels a little demeaning to me. Like I dont hate them of course but the A was never for Ally . It’s not queer to be normal
Interacting with them is cool and having them at pride I’m not opposed to but as a person who’s queer it does feel like they’re kinda dressing it up
Im gonna be honest Ive never seen people like that but like, I’m allowed to not like it
immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand
#at least once a month I think about that one post about laminating a paper towel#and how that makes it immortal but also forever prevents it from fulfilling its true purpose#yes you will live. but at the cost of everything that makes you You
I'm trying to remember a book I read but maybe I gaslit myself into believing it exists
"the last few years": a phrase which here almost certainly means "in the early to mid 2010s because what is time" so if it was published in the last 3-5 years, it's probably the wrong book
(I know I read it prior to 2020. I think I may have read it prior to 2016, but I'm less sure of that)
additional info:
I'm positive it was an adult book, not YA
I'm positive it was contemporary fantasy bc the witch kept her gingersnaps in a Tupperware container
I don't think it was a mystery, but I'm less sure of that
I remember literally nothing of the plot, which is probably why I'm having such a hard time finding the book. literally all I remember is that the MC was a disabled witch who managed her symptoms with magic-infused gingersnaps
does anyone know what this book is. did I imagine reading it. does it even actually exist
I don't think so! the pub time works (I think) but I looked at that one yesterday and I don't think so? it's deeply frustrating not to be able to be sure, but I am at least sure the MC was already a witch who knew magic, whereas it seems like at the start of this series she first learns about the existence of magic from her aunt?
(I'm not sure it wasn't a mystery, but I'm also not sure it WAS a mystery and honestly brain I am begging you to remember literally anything about the plot)
three years later I'm still searching for this book and at this point I fear the only way I might find it is by writing my OWN book about a witch with CFS who treats her symptoms with magical gingersnaps she keeps in a Tupperware container, then the original author will see it and sue me for plagiarism and AT LONG LAST I'll have found the original book
other books people have recommended across socials that do not appear to be it:
Deborah Wilde's Nava Katz series
Deborah Wilde's Jezebel Files series
The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
The Undetectables
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
all excellent books, I'm sure, but none of them are the book I am looking for
(the last three were published too recently anyway, especially The Unfortunate Side Effects which was published just a couple months before I originally tried to find this book back in 2023)
additionally someone recommended posting on Reddit, which I am not on, but three years ago a friend posted on Reddit for me and never got a single response
this book haunts me. it is my white whale. my rosebud. one day on my deathbed I'll mumble "gingersnaps" and those with me at that moment will go on a journey to discover what that possibly could've meant, only to come up with nothing because I don't know what book this was
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Please call your representatives: VOTE NO on the FEDERAL BOOK BANNING BILLS HR 2616, HR 8705, and HR 7661!
Transcript below the cut.
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There are currently THREE FEDERAL BOOK BAN BILLS aiming to ban all TRANS BOOKS from U.S. public schools! HR 2616, HR 8705, HR 7661
June 2026 / Maia Kobabe (a trans author, for three years in a row the most challenged author in the U.S.)
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HR 2616 threatens to cut federal funding from public schools if they “teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology,” as defined by an Executive Order signed by Trump in Jan 2025. It would also cut funding from schools unless they require “parental consent before changing a minor's gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name on any school form.” HR 2616 HAS ALREADY PASSED IN THE HOUSE! Please call your Senators to say NO ON HR 2616!
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HR 8705 threatens to cut federal funding from public schools which teach “discriminatory equity ideology or gender ideology,” as defined by two Executive Orders aimed at suppressing “critical race theory” and trans representation. This bill is named after the late far-right activist Charlie Kirk, “The Charlie Act.” HR 8705 has passed out of committee, but has not yet been introduced in the House. Please call your House Reps to say NO ON HR 8705!
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HR 7661 threatens to cut federal funding from public schools which offer material deemed “sexually oriented," treating any LGBTQIA+ identity as sexual content. It specifically forbids “gender dysphoria or transgenderism,” and “lascivious dancing” (drag). This bill, titled “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act,” has 22 co-sponsors and has passed out of committee but has not yet been introduced to the House. Please call your House Reps to say NO ON HR 7661!
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CALL SCRIPTS
“My name is [name] and I’m calling from [city, state, zip code]. I’m asking [Senator] to vote no on HR 2616. I oppose HR 2616 because it would restrict student’s access to books and it would specifically harm trans, nonbinary, and intersex students. Please stand against book bans and protect queer students!”
“My name is [name] and I’m calling from [city, state, zip code]. I’m asking [Rep] to vote no on HR 8705 and HR 7661. I oppose these bills because they would restrict student’s access to books and accurate history, and would especially harm BIPOC, trans, nonbinary, and intersex students. Please stand against book bans and support public education funding!”
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Author Maia Kobabe: If HR 2616, HR 8705, or HR 7661 pass, it would be almost impossible for any public school in the U.S. to offer or teach my books, unless they’re willing to risk their federal funding. Students would be even less likely to learn about trans stories or accurate U.S. history.
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Please call your representatives: VOTE NO on the FEDERAL BOOK BANNING BILLS HR 2616, HR 8705, and HR 7661!
Follow AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS on insta & bluesky for updates on these bills!
insta / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my books / print store / bluesky
Maia always makes these actions clear and accessible and I so appreciate eir work.
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Once you've got names, you can look up and save your Reps' phone numbers in your phone. I find this makes it easier when I'm wavering about feeling brave enough to place a call. Just pressing a button instead of going and looking up the phone number all over again makes it just a liiiiittle easier, and sometimes that makes the difference between calling and not calling!
