Jamie Sands Author

‘F*** off’, Auckland mayor Wayne Brown tells Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance An email screenshot sighted by RNZ showed Wayne Brown's "unambiguous" reply to the Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance.

Imagine the calls to resign if this was a leftwing Maori women Mayor ... #nzpol

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yeah I know but like, if youre going to use Gen Ai why not go the outlandish Miku route or something, you know?

ughh. These people have never watched anime and it shows

WHY is it that when authors use Gen Ai to imagine their characters, or when Hollywood gets excited about an "AI actress" the results are just the most boring looking, stock photo white people. Like there must be a thousand girls in L.A. alone that look like "Tilly"

The cover for Garden of Secrets shows a green background with lush trees silhouetted against it. The title is depicted in metallic gold in Gothic style. The border is white with flowers and vines forming an almost art deco look. Author name Drake Lamarque and "Misselthwaite" is the subtitle

Magical university with a cast of LGBTQIA characters, Secret Garden retelling, the grumpiest lead ive ever written, a trans non-binary librarian in the series library ever AND there's a hot new hardcover available?
Sounds too good to be true? it's real!

one of the new owners of tiktok, kids

This only happens to you once

Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino Has Kind of Lost It The nepo baby’s jump into conservative politics

Friendly reminder to not use 🚫 Sticker Mule! 🚫

May I suggest StickerApp or Sticky Brand?

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Kier, the young kelpie who just wants to learn more about humanity

(and maybe eat some people? 🥹)

in my Detective Duarte books

#pretendpanel

*trans folks

people will really say a lot of words in order to justify ignoring teams folks and reading barely veiled n4zi Romances

"Where fanfic is famously queer, the normative biases of corporate publishers are clear to see in the ships and fandoms that make it to market."

6am, Sept 24 NZ time. Still not raptured.

Happy Rapture Day to all who celebrate 💋

It was never a Monetary Policy Problem
It was always a Fiscal Policy Problem aka Luxon and Willis being absolutely shit at their jobs with their slash and burn budgets that have directly sent us into a tripple dip recession

Aka Depression Economics

Janine is standing up on her back feet on a step stool with her eyes wide in anticipation. She is a small black and white tuxedo cat with white paws and chest and jaunty white whiskers

Janine fully standing tall on her back two feet looking for her leaf

Janine receiving her leaf

time lapse of Janine receiving her baby spinach leaf

my problem with Gollum is that he was always my favourite because of the voice my dad gave him, reading me the Hobbit as a kid. So while objectively its a terrible idea, I'd hug Gollum

and hed probably bite my face off but NOSTALGIA

An assortment of NZ native bird enamel pins.

An assortment of native bird stickers

If you’re a #BOTY fan (Bird Of The Year NZ), I have SO MANY THINGS you might like, all designed by yours truly x pepperraccoon.com #NZ #Kikorangi

There might be a sneaky peek of a few new things to come soon here 👀

So:

Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime

And also:

It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

4 strip comic. first frame, we see Horst Wessel and two other storm troopers carrying a large nazi flag. text reads : Horst Wessel was a young storm trooper recognized as a skilled public speaker by the nazi party. he also wrote the song that became the partys anthem and german co-national anthem until 1945. second frame, we see a portrait of Horst. text reads : in 1930, his landlady hired two men who happened to be communists to evict him over unpaid rent and alleged proxenetism. He died in the fight. thrid frame, we see Goebbels speaking in front of a large crowd. text reads : Goebbels, the nazi chief propagandist, had been looking for someone to turn into a christian martyr for the party and drum up enrollment. he turned wessel's funeral into a major propaganda event full of speeches antagonizing leftists. fourth frame, we see the State Farm Stadium with a large banner advertizing Charlie Kirk's funeral. text reads : thinking about him today for no particular reason.

No particular reason

always forgotten, forever bitter

uhhh...

-looks at my bevy of queer, anxious characters who have to be convinced they're deserving of love-

... somewhat?

perfection

No new pictures, where are you at, mentally?

is that a The Dead Zone still???

Education is the enemy of fascism.

me too! I've written two and I'm gonna try and get one out for this Christmas too ❤️❤️❤️

ooh that does look cute!

book stack on a wooden desk: Carry on by Rainbow Rowell, Husband Material and Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall, What if its us? by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, Red White and Royal Blue by Casey Mcquiston and Heartstopper by Alice Oseman There's a partially obscured plush fluffy Stitch beside the stack, and a window showing branches of a lemon tree behind

I read a lot from the library, but I scoured my shelves for my favourite romcoms.

I guess its fair to say these are my inspiration when I write books like Finding Tane, along with all the many romantic comedy movies I've seen 💖♥️🌸😘

#bookstack
#romcom
#mmromancebooks