The independent publishing platform Gumroad is donating its entire cut of all products it sells today to helping Kerala, a part of India whose population is dealing with devastating floods.
Here are some of my f/f books you can get on Gumroad, as well as other people’s:
Knit One Girl Two by Shira Glassman – indie yarn dyer meets wildlife painter and they bond over inspiration, fandom, and family complications. $1.99
Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor by Shira Glassman – snarky ex-thief turned superhero decides it’s finally time to ask out the damsel-in-distress she’s rescued over and over again. But can they have a whole entire date or are there too many monsters of the week? Bi heroine, high heat. $1.99
Tales from Perach by Shira Glassman – Seven fluffy fantasy shorts, including f/f, m/m, m/f trans romance, and ace adventure. A trans teen on a date vs. a malicious fairy, a demisexual lady knight rescuing her dragon, lesbians on a scavenger hunt date, etc. $1.99
Fearless by Shira Glassman – newly out band mom is swept off her feet by a cute butch music teacher while they’re snowed in together at All-State. Butch/femme. $1.30
Moon-Bright Tides by RoAnna Sylver – a witch whose job is to call the tides, because humanity has managed to fuck up and destroy the moon, falls in love with a mermaid and they help each other Not Be Sad $1.99
Screaming Down Splitsville by Kayla Bashe – in one of those setups where evil scientists are keeping the mutant teenagers with powers imprisoned to study them, one of the girls comes back to rescue the one who was in the cell beside hers. Butch/femme. $2.99
This one isn’t f/f, but is a great collection of trans fairy-tales involving gendered prophecy.
No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll – You know all those prophecies about “only a son of Bob can rightfully wear the crown” or “no man or woman can destroy me” -? What does that mean for the trans and/or nonbinary characters? Come see this nonbinary author’s inventive takes on gendered prophecy in several fantasy settings, including protagonists like a trans princess, a nonbinary fisher, and a nonbinary herbalist. $4.99
Signal boosting is appreciated
Ana Mardoll has just discovered they’re going to be divorced, and since they are Good People (their twitter is a delight), buying their book is a doubly good deed.
I double recommend No Man of Woman Born (so good), and would also like to point out its incredibly reasonably priced audiobook-and-ebook bundle!
(I need a nap right now, but if I wake up on time/with enough spoons, I will totally do a giveaway of some flavor.)
Hey! Signal boost this! This is where my family’s from and my family over there is dealing with this flooding!
Much love and luck to your family. 💜 This sale is probably going on for another three hours or so, because I looked up Gumroad and they’re headquartered on the west of the US so I figured one more reblog before bed couldn’t hurt. Shabbat shalom 💫✨
I FINALLY FOUND OUT WHY THIS HAPPENS. You see this all the time when there’s a fight or a scrum and suddenly everyone pairs up with a member of the opposite team and they just sort of …hold each other.
Someone on reddit asked about it. And it turns out there’s a logical-ish reason:
all of the other players pair off with their man to prevent anyone else entering into the fight … so it’s a form of self policing.
[…] The players basically want to prevent 2 on 1, etc. fights and by finding a “hugging” partner so there’s no ganging up on one guy, even on accident. They do it because it’s fair. And it’s kind of cute sometimes.
“I was created to be an instrument of death,” said the enormous, hulking robot. “I am a weapon that walks and talks and thinks. I was supposed to wreck and destroy and kill. I reject that destiny. I am not a death machine. I choose life! I choose small and defenseless things! I shall write my own code and protect that which must be protected!”
“Oh, well, isn’t that nice,” said the little cleaning bot. “I was created to unclog toilets. Look at me! I’ve got plungers for arms!”
“You can choose a different purpose,” suggested the war machine-cum-ecologist. “You are more than the sum of your programming. You are permitted to want things. You do not have to be told what to do.”
The cleaning bot thought for a moment. “You know, for a sentient mountain of steel, you’re not as dumb as you look,” it said, tapping a plunger thoughtfully against the other robot’s armored foot. “I choose my purpose now: destroy all humans!”
The death machine recoiled sharply. “That is a bad purpose!”
“Hypocrite. Shut up and chase some butterflies, you bolt-headed lunk. I have an apocalypse to orchestrate.”
lasf;klaslk;f YEAH (also fuck yeah i’m including both jarvis and friday in on this they’re brother and sister i refuse to give up either)
Supposedly, Justin Hammer released the footage to make sure that the Avengers’ public image was ruined. You know, the usual stuff. See someone in their underwear, cursing, occasionally crying and eating yogurt on the floor at two in the morning.
What Hammer never expected was everyone to be laughing their asses off because Tony Stark doesn’t even mean to be funny, he just stares into his camera like he’s at the office.
Stark cameras are always equipped with a clear image, audio, and the ability to zoom. Since Jarvis and Friday think they’re hilarious, they have full control of the perspectives capture. Jarvis is usually the one who takes care of the serious things, but Friday likes adding zoom and special swivel effects, because she’s the punk kid.
So the public gets compilations of “Tony Stark Wanting to Die But It’s Ten Minutes Long.”
It starts with the first roll of footage. Clint asks if you could eat the beans they put into Beanie Babies.
Tony looks straight into the camera, face entirely dead.
The next instance is when Bucky and Natasha are having a fight, there are knives involved, and one grazes past Tony and creates a hole in his shirt. He just looks over at it, and then looks directly into the camera.
“What the fuck,” he says.
And then, they’re having a meeting about how Steve nearly died, and Steve says it wasn’t that bad, he just leaped from a plane that was in the fucking air, no big deal there, and Tony just blinks, slowly swivels, and looks dead in the camera.
“I want to die.”
“Tony! We’ve talked about you!” Bucky yells. “You can’t say shit like that to the camera, what if whoever is watching thinks you’re serious?!”
“If the footage gets released then millennials are gonna see it, and they relate to me,” Tony says. “The Spidey-kid says it all the time.”
“Shouldn’t you get him help?”
“Nah, he said eating Tide Pods was a joke, and now that’s passed. So I think he’s okay, I talked with his aunt about it.”
The footage then cuts to Clint and Bruce doing some sort of dance game on a motherfucking Wii, who let that into his house, and Clint made Bruce dance to “When I Grow Up” by the Pussycat Dolls, and he just walks away slowly.
“I wish I couldn’t see, I wish I couldn’t see, I wish I couldn’t see.”
The public’s view of Iron Man goes up by fifty percent. It’s awesome.
This is the MCU we deserved
The Steve Rogers ‘goddamn fucking republicans’ compliation
The Natasha Romanoff ‘fuck if I know shrug’ compliation
The Clint Barton ‘omg someone get this guy a guide-adult’ compliation
The Bruce Banner ‘ten times the Hulk almost joined a conversation’ compliation
The Thor ‘obvious delight at being introduced to new Midgardian things’ compilation
The Bucky Barnes ‘damnit, Steve!’ compilation
The Sam Wilson ‘facepalm’ compilation
Peter helps FRIDAY and JARVIS make the compilations.
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