Lady Jenna

Absolutely over the moon to be included in this Entertainment Weekly roundup of the best romance novels of 2022! Heartbreaker was a tricky book for me -- I wanted to give Adelaide and Henry an absolutely perfect HEA, because I don't think I've ever written two characters who deserved it more...and I'm so happy to hear that Entertainment Weekly thinks I got close!

"It's a story of loving women for their muchness, rather than in spite of it — all wrapped up in tantalizing love scenes and rip-roaring adventure. What more could you possibly want from a romance novel?"

A new challenger appears.

Go tell them how you feel about it.

I’m serious.

This post has been live for 19 hours, and they’re not pulling in nearly enough attention, I assume because everyone’s so fucking exhausted by the shit with CSP happening just last week.

I cannot stress enough: ADOBE IS THE IMPORTANT TARGET. Way more important than Clip Studio.

They set industry standards. They can force changes like this without giving a fuck about individual customers, because by and large their products are licensed hand over fist by everyone in the entertainment industry.

My very spoiled boy, Duncan.

But there’s a world of difference between doing what you love for you, and doing what you love for a paycheck. 

I went to undergrad for graphic design and 3-D design–art and more art, I usually say–and I loved it. You know what I didn’t love? Trying to collect my fees from clients. Trying to meet unrealistic, over-simplified or over-specific briefs from people who didn’t know what they were talking about. Coming home, having worked creatively all day, with no creative juice left for the things I wanted to do.

You know what I would tell you instead? Do something that you can be interested in, with people you like.

You don’t have to love it. Loving your work can be a lot, and it often means you have to live in your job 24/7. Some people can do that. Not everyone can, or should.  But if you can find work that’s interesting enough that it doesn’t feel tedious, and people you can enjoy spending your 9-5 with, and you can make money, that’s great! It means you can do the things you love for you.

I’m in law school now. It’s interesting work, and difficult, and I like doing it. I like how complicated it gets, and I like the stories it tells. But I don’t come home and read law journals for fun. I come home, and I sculpt, and I draw, and I paint, and I read. I do these things for me.

due to relentless bombing for more than 40 continuous days, much of our cities and villages in Artsakh have been destroyed. houses, buildings, streets, churches, cultural centres. on top of the destruction and death this war has brought to my people, we are struggling to cope with covid - number of new cases have been steadily increasing since the war broke out, for obvious reasons. Armenians of the diaspora have been donating since the war broke out (and even before that, because it is with our donations that we built Artsakh after the first war 30 years ago). we are a small country, with limited resources, and this war and pandemic has put a strain on us. we were struggling before, but now we need all the help we can get.

donations are desperately needed - you can donate here: himnadram.org or here: armeniafund.org

other ways to support:

https://helparmenians.carrd.co - a really useful page with plenty of resources, you can learn about armenia/artsakh, there’s petitions to sign, and donation pages

@armenianblog​ also has a lot of posts with helpful infographics to educate yourself and others on the subject.

you can buy System of a Down’s newest album - proceeds are going towards the armeniafund (alternatively, you can stream the songs on Spotify or Youtube)

watch this YouTube video (beginning to the end, don’t skip ads, don’t mute the video, don’t play it on a loop) all proceeds are being donated

Armenian jewlery maker, all proceeds are being donated

Armenian creator on Etsy, all proceeds are being donated (link to tumblr post you can reblog)

My redbubble shop - all proceeds for November and December I will donate to himandram.org (redbubble is currently having a sale of 20-60% with the code GIFTS60, fyi)

Telo Jan, all proceeds made from their ARTSAKH IS ARMENIA, DEFEND ARMENIA and RECOGNIZE ARTSAKH designs are being donated (and at least 10% is being donated from everything else). There are other items where 100% of the proceeds are being donated (shown here*), but if you go through their Instagram or Facebook page other items may have been included since that October 13th post. (*UPDATED)

TruVibe, all proceeds made from the Armenia Collection will be donated to the ArmeniaFund.

Armenian artist gazellian on Etsy, all proceeds made from the ARTSAKH prints collection will be donated to the Hayastan All Armenian Fund.

Armenian creator dvinojewelry on Etsy, all proceeds made from the Artsakh necklace will be donated to the ArmeniaFund.

MidoriMTL on Etsy, all proceeds made from the Artsakh Strong stickers will be donated to the ArmeniaFund.

Armenian creator legendoftamar on Etsy, all proceeds made from the Artsakh Strong stickers will be donated to the ArmeniaFund.

thank you @ottomanliest for finding the creators/artists below (i offered to put them together in this post)

Armenian Artists/Designers/Bakers/Creators

MirelliChocolatier (based in Glendale, CA) donating all proceeds from the sales of these products

Kinarmat, all proceeds from Arstakh collection are being donated to the ArmeniaFund

Tatik.ca, from their website: “In support of Armenia and Artsakh, we partnered with Armenian Artists from around the globe and created a limited time collection ‘ՀԱՂԹԵԼՈՒԵՆՔ’ to donate 100% of profits from the sales to Armenia Fund.“ (they have so many cute designs from a whole bunch of Armenian artists!)

Kristenkesho.com, ‘Armenia strong’ collection - portion of proceeds being donated to various charities to help Armenia and Artsakh

Artsakh flag hat, 100% proceeds donated to ArmeniaFund

Only within Australia - Armenian pomegranate cookies, all proceeds donated to Hayastan All Armenia Fund

Hay-Hay I’m HUMAN charity campaign - 100% of proceeds from sale of the tote bags will go towards the Hayastan All Armenian Fund

QurShop - 100% of all sales will be donated to ArmeniaFund

Coal A - proceeds from հաղթելուենք + IAmArmenian + ArtsakhStrong hoodies will be donated to ArmeniaFund

Etsy creators:

NairiDiary, 100% of proceeds from *featured items* being donated to ArmeniaFund

Noarkstudio, partnered with ArmeniaFund, all proceeds donated

FamilyClothingAlt, sales from Armenian mask/pouch donated to ArmeniaFund

Armenian fundraiser enamel pin by hypepins (they also have a BLM pin and many other cute designs!)

Artsakh buttons, and tote bag, 100% proceeds donated to ArmeniaFund

Armenian wooden letters, all profits donated to ArmeniaFund

Armenian flag, 100% proceeds donated to ArmeniaFund

SilvArt, proceeds from the “Armenian Art” collection will be donated to the Armenia Fund. (seller has a note with amount of money raised so far and will keep updating)

Passively donate

(when watching youtube videos, make sure to not skip any ads, watch beginning from end, do not mute the video, and do not play on a loop)

https://youtu.be/xqrsHQvp4TU - 100% of revenue goes to the My Step Foundation in Armenia (”My Step Foundation is an amazing charity that is spearheading many meaningful initiatives within Armenia focusing on public health, education, culture, social welfare, environment along with other sectors in need, including the current crisis surrounding COVID-19.”)

Updated Link

to my redbubble shop, because apparently tumblr messed up the first link (i have updated in original post, but cant edit in the reblogs lol). if the link doesnt seem to want to fucking work, here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/hugsnguineapigs/shop

or follow the link from here idk im done

Francis Minoza and Laurence Minoza are two brothers who make up the design team Nicebleed. Hailing from Cebu City, Philippines, they began creating back in 2008 and haven’t looked back.