I Don’t But My Mum Does! So Much So That Sometimes I Just Find Myself Just Randomly Singing The Theme

Obviously, I hope that everyone in Ukraine stays safe and Ukrainians deserve all of our support right now but I also wanted to say that my heart goes out to all people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia who have been living with the fear of Russian intervention for years and now see their worst fears come true. I see so many posts about how "we shouldn't worry as Westerners because the war will not affect us directly" and while this is absolutely true, I wanted to take a second to acknowledge those who do have to live with the fear that it might affect them directly. I don't have anything more to offer than words and it's not worth much but if you are from Poland, Estonia, Kazakhstan or any other country close to Russia or Ukraine and you are afraid because you don't know what the current events means for the future of your country, I am with you in thought and sending you a warm hug with this post.

Jesús Christ, these are insane. That ice skating one is straight out of a Victorian novel, only in that version you’d die tragically. The canal one is funny as. Irene and Kai’s ones are ridiculously relatable. I once walked straight into a metal sign because I was reading and I had a red imprint of it for the rest of the day.

Invisible Library characters as stupid things that I've done

Irene: missed her stop on the train because she was reading not once, not twice but four times on three seperate occasions

Kai: fallen down the stairs of a bookshop because he couldn't see over the top of the pile of books in his hands

Vale: set fire to a science experiment because he was bored

Silver: fallen over laughing and been too drunk to stand up again.

Everiste: missed a train so he burst into tears

Li Ming: went ice skating, fell through the frozen lake and got pnemonia

Ao Shun: got stuck three miles from home in the middle of a thunder storm because he thought he could run faster than a storm

Ao Guang: fallen into the canal because he didn't want to cycle through a patch of mud.

I would really recommend Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan. It’s set in small town Ireland and the atmosphere super close and secretive. They live in a castle with secret passages- awesome! It’s hilarious and I love the characters and it’s a fast paced read as well, I tore through it.

do u know of any wlw witch story lines?? ty!!

There is a Goodreads list for Sapphic Witch Books! Personally, I can recommend

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue (Fairytales)

Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas, #1) by Zoraida Córdova (Bruja bisexual main character)

The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer (Another fairytale-ish story)

I haven’t read Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle yet, but I’ve heard really good things about it!

I’m also excited to read Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe, which I’ve been told includes some F/F stories.

The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta doesn’t come out until the Spring of 2019, and all I know about it is that the blurb promises queer witches in the woods, but that’s enough for me.

Also check out this Autostraddle post: Read These 10 Books with Queer Witches

Kai is out here straight up speaking the truth we all need.

Kai: Chillax!

Vale: That’s not a word

Kai: Sometimes the ones who deny ‘chillax’ are the ones who need to chillax the most

Yeah, he just wants someone to break silver’s pretty face, if not permanently. Preferably him but he might be gracious and let Irene do it as she also suffers from Silver.

Silver: one day, I’m going to say “fight me” and someone really is just going to fucking deck me

Vale: believe me, that day is closer than you think

Immediately begins frantic excitement!

*Enters a bookstore*

me to myself: be calm

Is that a word in his world? Cause otherwise he’d just be majorly confused like most people are with Irene.

Vale: We’re not gonna burn it

Irene: C'mon dude, you never let me burn anything

Wow, that would be amazing! Selkies are fabulous and I love anything with them in, especially since you’re writing it. Please do this, it would be fantastic! I’m a bit too excited but you’re such a talented writer and I know for sure that I’ll love it.

Need to get in an ask about orcas committing murder 😌

there's actually two in here! but the premise essentially is selkies, i just couldn't decide which version pleased me most. both are set in australia because Leopard Seal Selkies Are The Coolest, but one involves a lot more highly specific mythology, the other is more straightforward selkie time. the highly specific mythology one involves percy's dad a bit more, because he was not a selkie, he was ripped from obscure germanic folklore, about water shapeshifters who lure people to the water with their beautiful voice and are shapeshifters. they commonly take the forms of people, horses, and people with fish tails, but there's not really an upper limit there. percy had some shapeshifting abilities, but in order to use them he had to be Seal Mode, haha! i couldn't decide whether specific pr straightforward was better and i wrote a bit for both.

they both have the same basic premise of annabeth leaving california and moving in with her weird australian everyone-says-he's-my-uncle-but-i'm-not-convinced, chiron, and she works at a soda shop in town and tries to get her portfolio and life together in her spare time. percy comes once a week because the soda shop sells bright blue raspberry cola. there's love, there's a parallel with how gabe steals sally's seal skin and how percy willing gives annabeth his, and at some point annabeth is key in finding sally's seal skin and then sally gets to drown a guy. as a leopard seal. i admit it's pretty weird even for me, but isn't just a bit fun? to be weird?

And that’s his treat: Irene gets some arson, Kai gets some grievous criminal assault. They’re both very happy.

Vale: We’re not gonna burn it

Irene: C'mon dude, you never let me burn anything

This is wonderful! Kai just laughing in the background, like this is gonna take forever to explain.

Vale: We’re not gonna burn it

Irene: C'mon dude, you never let me burn anything