@rippledragon Linked This To Me And A Good Time Is Being Had.

@rippledragon linked this to me and a good time is being had.

Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription

Me: My pills make me not want to die tho

They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal

Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills

Katara: I truly believe water solves all our problems

Katara: dehydrated? drink some water

Katara: want clear skin? drink some water?

Katara: need to rid yourself of an enemy? drown them

I just checked, for those who have a library card its available as an ebook on Hoopla.  Adds to my TBR pile.

I’m reading this queer anthology and the first story is a fairytale about a queer Latina girl whose anger was so fierce it literally poisoned the rich white men who unfairly captured the transgender soldier she was in love with and my heart is literally bursting I’m going to cry

I’m glad @jordanlhawk likes my Griffin stress-baking headcanon. Now I have tons of headcanons thanks to it. Here goes:

Griffin excels at anything lemon custard. The old ladies of Widdershins love his lemon custard filled cupcakes. He brings them extra, and they use them as finger food for their late night occult gatherings.

I can totally see Widdershins having Gilmore Girls type town meetings with the Arsenic and old Lace type of insanity like: “The Dweller of the Deep occult gathering has been moved to Tuesday at midnight, leaving the Librarian’s stealth and espionage classes to move to another night since both need the town gazebo. Also, remember no blood rituals at the Whyborne and Griffin fan club, it’s for all ages and during teatime. Blood at a tea gathering, honestly, yes I’m glaring at you Ms. Crabfeathers.” 

Yes!  The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (book 1: Dealing With Dragons)  and Young Wizards (book 1: So you Want to be a Wizard) were my childhood.  I didn’t discover Tamora Pierce until college but she quickly became one of my favorite authors. 

Even at the height of my participation in HP fandom, as much as I enjoyed the HP books, the above books were the ones I loved. I have really great memories from when I was active in the fandom and I still enjoy many parts of HP (and there are still many parts that I do not enjoy/am frustrated by) and I won’t let the author take that away from me.  But there are so many fantastic books and authors that deserve so much more attention who are not actively targeting and hurting vulnerable groups.  So lets promote them.  

Seanan McGuire and Tanya Huff are both fantastic fantasy authors (mostly adult market) with positive LGBTQIA rep in several of their books.  . 

DO YA'LL WANT SOME FANTASY AND SCI-FI BOOKS/SERIES/AUTHORS TO REPLACE HP/JKR? THEN BOY DO I HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOU!

TAMORA PIERCE HAS 8 SERIES (9 IF YOU INCLUDE HER MOST RECENT ONE) ABOUT LADY KNIGHTS AND A DEMIGOD WITH ANIMAL MAGIC AND A COP WHO CAN TALK TO THE DEAD AND THERE'S 4 MAGES WITH A MAGICAL PSYCHIC BOND AND ONE OF THEM IS A BLACK LESBIAN AND THERE'S A SPY WHO HELPS WITH A REVOLUTION AND THEY'RE AWESOME. (there's some attitudes that are a little outdated but TP started writing in like the 80s so)

BRIAN JACQUES (OBM) WROTE THE REDWALL SERIES WHICH IS ABOUT ANIMALS WHO LIVE IN AN ABBEY CALLED REDWALL AND THERE'S HEROES AND WARRIORS AND PIRATES AND BADGERS WHO LIVE IN VOLCANOES AND SAILORS AND OVERTHROWING TYRANTS AND DEFEATING VILLAINS AND GENERAL BADASSERY AND THEY'RE JUST REALLY COOL OKAY? GO READ THEM

NEXT UP WE HAVE KA APPLEGATE WHO WROTE ANIMORPHS. I DIDN'T READ THEM BUT APPARENTLY THEY'RE GOOD BOOKS WITH RELEVANT THEMES AND KIDS TURNING INTO ANIMALS. ALSO KA APPLEGATE ISN'T A TERF.

RICK RIORDAN. YOU LEARN ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY AND NORSE MYTHOLOGY IN AN EASILY COMPREHENSIBLE WAY. ALSO THERE'S A FAIR AMOUNT OF BIPOC MAIN CHARACTERS AND QUEER CHARACTERS AND DIVERSITY AND HUMOR.

ARTEMIS FOWL BY EOIN COLFER. I LOVED THAT SERIES GROWING UP. MORALLY COMPLEX MAIN CHARACTERS AND THEMES OF OVERCOMING SEXISM AND MAGIC AND TIME TRAVEL AND I'VE ONLY READ THE FIRST 5 BOOKS BUT THEY'RE GOOD. EOIN COLFER ALSO HAS ANOTHER BOOK THAT'S ABOUT FIXING YOUR MISTAKES AND I LIKED IT A LOT.

THE ENCHANTED FOREST SERIES BY PATRICIA WREDE. MAYBE IT'S JUST BC I'M ACE AND I THEREFORE LOVE DRAGONS BUT IT'S A GREAT SERIES ABOUT SUBVERTING TRADITIONAL FAIRY TALES AND JUST BEING AWESOME IN GENERAL.

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. FATE USES 3 ORPHANS AS ITS PUNCHING BAG BUT IT'S KINDA EDUCATIONAL AND FUNNY IN A DRY WAY AND HAS A VERY GOOD REDEMPTION FOR THE MAIN ANTAGONIST. 13/10 WOULD RECOMMEND.

YOUNG WIZARDS BY @dduane. FOLLOWS TWO WIZARDS WHO SAVE THE EARTH/UNIVERSE OVER AND OVER AND OVER. HAS AN AUTISTIC CHARACTER. ONE OF THE MAINS IS HISPANIC/LATINE (I'M NOT SURE WHICH IS THE CORRECT TERM SORRY). REALLY COOL BOOKS.

UGLIES BY SCOTT WESTERFIELD. IT'S GOT 4 BOOKS ABOUT A SOCIETY OBSESSED WITH PHYSICAL BEAUTY AND THERE'S REVOLUTION. ALSO SCOTT HAS A SERIES ABOUT VAMPIRES THAT'S REALLY COOL.

THE HUNGER GAMES SERIES. LITERALLY ABOUT CLASS OPPRESSION AND REBELLION AND THERE'S GOOD DEPICTIONS OF TRAUMA AND WAR AND PTSD AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF (/s). REALLY GOOD.

WARRIOR CATS. NEVER READ THEM BUT IT'S CATS WHO ARE WARRIORS. HOW COOL IS THAT.

Anyway that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Feel free to add on.

PEOPLE. WHEN I MADE THIS POST, IT WAS MY INTENTION TO NOT INCLUDE BIGOTED WORKS/AUTHORS. PLEASE RESPECT THAT IF YOU WANT TO ADD RECS. THANKS.