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The illustrated cover of SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE by Olivia Dade (subtitle: "A Harlot's Bay Novel") is a warm peachy pink, with golden light coming from an overhead light fixture. The picture is set in a bakery, with racks of golden-brown pastries and loaves of broad. In the foreground, a pretty fat woman with long brown hair is sitting on a table, with a handsome fat man with ruddy hair and a beard standing between her legs. She has a hand tugging on his apron, and he has a hand on her thigh. They are nearly kissing and gazing at one another with desire and adoration.

SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE is warm, cozy, & out today. I hope you love it! 💗

The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!

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That Way Madness Lies: XV of Shakespeare's Most Notable Works Reimagined That Way Madness Lies: XV of Shakespeare's Most Notable Works Reimagined - Kindle edition by Adler, Dahlia, Adler, Dahlia. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading That Way Madness Lies: XV of Shakespeare's Most Notable Works Reimagined.

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narrator: 50 years ago...

me: [nods] in 1945

narrator: in 1975...

me: what

Proof of end times = autism speaks being on the right side of the statement 🙃

why does it make my vision go all fuzzy???

Frankly, if I can manage it at all I'm going to wait to upgrade my phone until the AI bubble bursts and I can get one I don't have to struggle to de-gunk before I use it 🤷‍♀️

I think those 12 day "advent calendars" are an abomination BUT, if you give them as a Christmas present THEN they become an appropriate way to celebrate the entire holiday.

Let me (again) put this in the simplest possible terms:

If I subscribe or share a link to your substack, I'm supporting you, but I'm also complicit in funding Nazis.

I'd like to read your takes on music/animation/film/comics/culture/art/politics, but that's a hard line for me. Wish it was for you.

Ugh, I didn't know about this one. Of course it has all my books. Not only is that money I could use, but every sale helps those of us hanging on in the midlist keep publishing at all. Love to see hundreds of downloads on series that people complain haven't continued with more books. Yeah guess why.

it's "how dare you say Christmas is a Christian holiday" time of year again

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

I don't have too many books, I don't have enough bookshelves, and you NEVER KNOW WHEN I MIGHT NEED THOSE CABLES, OK??

Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear. As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.” Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ." Attached are two images. Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids” Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

A smug, drugged up tortoiseshell cat laying on a rug. She has her front paws curled under her. It is Wilma, who is loved by everyone who hasn't met her.

This isn't your house.

The baby is just really excited to offer additional opinions on Chess the musical and couldn't wait

I have some issues with the casting more than anything, but I am also not in your Delicate Condition

Hilariously, the version I am most stuck on is the 2018 Kennedy Center one, not the just-opened Broadway revival. Why? Who knows! Also it is not as compelling as Tick Tick Boom at this time, but I'm trying to have multiple interests

i do also have Chess Mania, to be fair.

little on the nose, is all I'm saying

Me: impending Milestone Birthday only a couple of months before my first book comes out

Also me: haha, how random that I'm going through a Tick Tick Boom phase all of the sudden! What fun!

I truly hope Author Instagram can be happy with pictures of the woods by my apartment and sometimes my neighbor's cat, because those are the only remotely interesting things I'm ever able to point a camera at.

All great stories share one special ingredient. Epic Fantasy? Steamy Romance? Hard SciFi? Look carefully and you'll find it: someone getting hit with a briefcase full of bees.

The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher? In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...

we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant

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PLEASE, retail workers

from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round

(factcheck: true)

the public space stuff this time of year is a lot

(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)

PLEASE DO THIS

it is a kindness

everyone get ready for our blissful 5-7 hours of Trump being a socialist before they get someone in there to deprogram him

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

It was literally preferable in some school districts to imply the Roanoke settlers all starved to death, were murdered, or sucked up by UFO tractor beams than to acknowledge a local tribe went "Dang, dude. You need a hand? Come sit by the fire. BTW I think my sister likes u."

Screenshot of a text conversation between me and my brother, that says: Me: Your job is weird. Stay out of the one little dorm room with the angry ghost. It doesn't like company. (Unless you aren't at the Ursuline Center and there's another one I don't know about) Him: Nope, that's the one. Him: We actually have two people in various programs that refuse to come back here because of the ghost Me: Yeah, I think it's the second or third room on the left? It doesn't want you in there. Him: Both had encounters, both have sworn never to come back Him: It's fun! Him: Third on the left

There's a well known haunted spot in great falls and when I went there I was like "yep, sure is!" But what that means is simply not my business.

I believe in hauntings but refuse to say it's ghosts doing it.