K.A.Arlo

We are not broken by the storm.
We become it.
We are the current, the lightning, the untamed pulse of the world.
Will you adapt or sink?
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And tomorrow we do it again! Saddle up! We ride at dawn!!! #writingcommunity #booksky

Second house of Academia Primoris.
When you're in this house, they'll call you ruthless. Let them. Because here in the shadows ... we thrive.
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The first of the Six Houses of Academia Primoris. Where leadership is legacy, loyalty is sacred, and no secret stays buried forever.
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I can't even be surprised by these announcements.

I should be dead a couple times over. I wasn't protected and now I'm quite broken. Diagnosed w/ PTSD at only 3 & it got worse from there. I do remember the moment when something snapped in me, and made me into a fighter. I get called angry & crazy a lot, titles forced on me that became my armor.

1/3 definitely feels closer to the actual numbers

Men never seem to know "men like this" but absolutely every woman I've known or talked with has encountered and had to endure, at the minimum, one. Myself, however, and most I've known, deal with multiple and it often begins when we are young.

Me all week: Really really REALLY want to write.
Also me: #Adhd procrastination.

Please tell me I'm not alone. It is frustrating to be so ambitious but also being exhausted by my own mind while also being entirely unproductive.

🕊️Trans people are NOT the enemy🕊️

Anyway… support trans authors. Support trans creatives. Buy gay books. Start a queer book club.

Things I want from Target 🎯 other than an apology:

The names of the people who decided to rescind the DEI program for public shaming after they’ve been fired

An internship and scholarship program targeting HBCU’s

A dedicated “diverse book section” in every store

or more like Onijah says

I tried to watch it again, because childhood nostalgia, and It shouldn't be this funny. It's so bad. I clearly had no standards as a child 😆. Now I couldn't make it past the first episode. The low budget stuff wouldn't have been an issue if the characters and dialogue wasn't so bad.

I try to make this point every time I see someone say something along the lines of "we are living in the handmaid's tale". I don't think it's out of malice but it's always worth mentioning that this has been a reality. I don't usually get a response, I get it, it's not comfortable but it's truth.

I love the cover and the title sounds like some d&d hijinks 😆 Sounds amazing

Sold about 13 books, half my business cards are gone and met some new people; not bad for my first event as an Author!

More to come!!!

#BookSky #AuthorSky #BlackBookSky

Books Listed from left to right 1st row: The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna, 100K Kingdoms by NK Jemisin, This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron, Crestahn Kingdom by Dartanyan Johnson 2nd row: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clarke, The Blood Trials by NE Davenport, Sing Me To Sleep by Gabi Burton 3rd row: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko, May A Divine Awakening by Michael Tinsley, Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, Bad Witches by H.B. Akumiah

Happy Black History Month bookies 💙

#booksky 🪐📚 #Blackbooksky #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

The Final Strife and The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi

Pet and Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur and The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

Masquerade by O. O. Sangoyomi and Some Other Now by Sarah Everett

Book haul!! So excited to add these to my shelves
Just look at these books 😍

#booksky #blackbooksky #diversebooksky

A view of the cosmos on the profile of a face. The book cover for The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime & Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescott-Weinstein.

I’m so glad this came in yesterday. More people should try it ordering directly from the publisher or from your local bookstore vs amazon.

Anyway, I’m happy I chose this as one of my non-fiction reads. @chanda.bsky.social is brilliant. I can’t wait to dig in. #Booksky

Black history month

This month we celebrate #blackhistorymonth in the #littlefreelibrary. #booksky , I have lots of cool books to share with you 💕 #blackbooksky 📚💙 👀📚 📚⏰

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Snippet from The Hunted Hollow, Book One of the Vaire Legacy

A digital graphic with a beige background, 15 book covers are on it across 3 lines and text at the bottom reads "Black & Queer Books" in black capitalised serif font. The books, starting at the top left are as follows: The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi, Faebound by Saara El-Arifi, King And The Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender, The Unbroken by C L Clark, The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon, Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjeh-Brenyah, The King Is Dead by Benjamin Dean, Ace Of Spades by Farídah Abíke-Iyimide, Pet by Akwaeke Emezi, The Death Of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi and finally How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones

February marks Queer History Month in the UK and Black History Month in the US so here's a bunch of Black Queer books that you can read in February, and beyond, no matter which side of the pond you're on 🖤🌈📖

#diversebooksky #booksky

She said everything she wrote about in that book has already happened. The biggest difference is that it isn't just bipoc women who are affected.

Happy BLACK History Month. I read Black books every month but I got two stacks for y'all.

First stack is books by Black authors I loved and the second are the ones I’m getting to.

#booksky

While I was hiding in my office, trying to stay off social media and write, My 8 year old came in to show me the comic book he is making. I love it.
(Godzilla vs Superman)

This was a required reading for us in high school. It's a book that has stuck with me for the rest of my life.

I am definitely going to need to add this to my library.

Oh it looks like they have the movie on YouTube though. We are gonna try to watch it once my oldest is up.

I hope it's accessable for you somewhere else. I just looked and it's only available on Amazon Prime and behind an additional subscription.

They had an animated show I would sometimes get to watch too. I'd hum the theme song to myself a lot as a kid. I had forgotten about the show, I need to find it again to show my kids. But I can relate with the struggle, that blank stare response is always so much fun to get 😆

I was obsessed with these books growing up and thrilled to say that my kids now love them as much as I did.