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✊🏾 Freedom has always lived in our stories. This Juneteenth, five reads that hit different. Past, present, future. All liberation.

📖 Ours by @phillipbw_author A conjurer destroys plantations and builds a hidden free Black town. But what does freedom really cost?

📖 Blood Slaves by @markusredmond The enslaved free themselves 150 years before the Civil War. Supernatural horror meets alternate history.

📖 Caramelle & Carmilla by @vampyrevamp & Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Two vampires seek sanctuary at an Underground Railroad way station. Gothic horror. Black women's resilience.

📖 We Will Rise Again edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older Speculative fiction about protest, solidarity, and the futures we build. NK Jemisin, Nisi Shawl, adrienne maree brown, and more.

📖 The Dream Hotel by @lailawrites Detained for crimes not yet committed. A fight for freedom in a near-future surveillance state. Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Read boldly. Read free. 🤎

Writing 和風細雨 (he2feng1xi4yu3; gentle breeze and light rain) with a cat's tail on a water-writing mat.

Water-writing mats turn black when wet and return to their original colour once dry, so they are often used to practise calligraphy with water. The black colour allows you to see your writing clearly, and the mat can be reused as soon as the writing dries and disappears.

Meanwhile, Ilya: Woohoo boys let's play some fucking hockey [Timber by Pitbull blasting at full volume]

Cliff Marleau, probably: Hollander's gonna kill you in cold blood, man.

Ilya: Cliff. Cliff let me look in your eyes when I say this. I know. I will enjoy it very much. My night ends the same whether I win or lose, Marley. Anyway. [Song switches to Party Rock Anthem] LET'S MAKE THEM WORK FOR IT BOYS. WOO

Cliff: Dude what is this playlist.