Because JKR is a bigot, here’s some better middle grade fantasy to light up your life! Here's a 14-tweet thread, complete w/ cover art collages, of middle grade books you can buy & fall in love with instead of supporting HP.
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There’s an itch in my heart. An urgency, an ache.
It begins as a simmer with the light and as the fire of sun is doused by earth, so does the boiling steadily roll.
It churns. Shakes up the blood inside my limbs like a tree in hurricane winds.
I feel t… https://t.co/kYk8wXd4sE
It is now I see your thick poison.
It is now the Knowing touches my lips.
The Moon, Gaia, my soul—they whisper and tangle my wild hair.
I am wild. I am discovering how I cannot be tamed.
I know.
I am seeing myself for the first time.
I am drinking wate… https://t.co/rUgg1y7sZ3
It’s been a long while, friends.
I don’t have anything remarkable to say. Actually, I do. But now is not the time. I’m still working on it. Elaborating.
I’ve been taking the last couple of months to work on my own life. I’ve been dealing with traumas. … https://t.co/kXs6zetX8F
I’ve always been, and always will be, more comfortable behind the camera/canvas.
It took a long time to get used to being in front. To be the subject, not the artist.
But it’s a really good creative-muscle-stretch. Even if it’s me drawing or photographin… https://t.co/kymXqTIhwv
Still just so in love with my growing gallery of @paperbump art!
I’ve made a real effort to buy only from independent creators and small businesses this year.
I know how much it means when people buy from me instead of a big box store or something.
I … https://t.co/MrASwWdqdF
Got bored and drew on the back of a granola bar box.
Art in the background by @paperbump 🖤
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New PODCAST episode coming tomorrow!
Also, more novel excerpts being posted on P@tr3on! Link in bio to read my first draft💀 hopefully you still like me aft… https://t.co/Czrap83eh1