Meg Darcie

I’ve wanted these for the last couple of years or so, and my birthday was two weeks ago today, so these were a kind of happy birthday to me. They were delivered today!

Nightblade Epic Volume One & Nightblade Epic Volume Two by Garrett Robinson ( @garrettauthor )

I’ve been interested in these books for a while now. Garrett Robinson drew me in with an article he wrote about how poorly women are treated and portrayed in fantasy games, movies, books, and tv shows. He of course in turn, pissed off a lot of misogynistic men, so I had to follow him here. I didn’t regret it. I learned even more on how he makes sure to make sure his books and books he publishes as diverse as possible because he understands how diverse the real world is and how important that representation is in general and to the people who don’t get to see themselves represented often enough, if at all. I love diverse books with important lgbtq+ characters and characters of color, and he gives us that. So I’ve been beyond eager to get my hands on his books.

These books are so sexy and thicc. Lol. As an asexual, books are the only things I generally will say that about. Lol. But I’m so exited to get into these!!!

Orphaned baby bats are often swaddled tightly like teeny burritos to mimic being cuddled by mom and help ease separation anxiety.

They also seem to find pacifiers soothing.

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Alright, so. Coffee. I don’t drink coffee. I have no desire to drink coffee. I find people who enthusiastically go on about the flavor differences of lattes, espressos, and french press brews, both amusing and mildly baffling. All the coffee ads. Coffee jokes. Bustling coffee shops. To me, all coffee is similarly bitter and unpleasant. I have been through so many “Try this, it’s sweet! You can’t even taste the coffee!”  Alas, I always can. And I’m  sensitive to caffeine anyway. So, I don’t really think about drinking it when I wake up or am tired.

 Yet I love the smell of coffee. I love the idea of coffee. The feeling of a warm cup taking the chill from my fingers, the cozy ritual of having a drink and chat. I might try someone’s coffee. If they ask, if I want to please them and share in something they enjoy. I am also perfectly capable of learning the preferences of those I care about and creating a cup for their pleasure. 

But I don’t want coffee, generally speaking. I will probably make a face after trying their coffee and wash the taste out with something else. They may rush to reassure me that it is an acquired taste. And I’ll have to reply that it’s a taste I don’t particularly care about acquiring in the way they did. ‘Drink it till you like it’ will never work for me.

An entrancing school for wizards. A family name shrouded in evil. Harry Potter meets The Godfather in this wizard school saga.

A dark plot is brewing upon the High King’s Seat, and slowly Ebon finds himself at its center. If he is to learn to become an alchemist—indeed, if he is to survive at all—he must cast off his family’s black legacy, and become the wizard he was always meant to be.

An entrancing school for wizards. A family name shrouded in evil. Harry Potter meets The Godfather in this wizard school saga.

At the beginning of Nightblade there is a quote in the dedication:

“Don’t forget why you left the woods”

We have some amazing readers. One of our readers, got this quote tattooed in elvish, on his arm.

An African fantasy based on the Angola folklore of the kishi! The Kishi—shape-shifting demons who lure young women to gruesome deaths. They can’t be real, can they? Something has slain a villager, and the locals point their fingers at Amana, a pacifist monk running from his dark past. But Amana knows there’s something else, something much darker, lurking in the village. Can he save the village, his name, and his principles? To save one would mean the sacrifice of the others, if he has the strength.

Terry Crews came out and admitted he had been sexually assulted by someone in the film industry, and is now being blacklisted. I have been a fan of his since Idiocracy, and will continue to support all of his work.