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Zakiya N. Jamal 🩷 | #FreePalestine 🍉

2 months

💕 COVER REVEAL 💕 I'm so excited to finally share the cover for IF WE WERE A MOVIE. Get all the details and pre-order here: Illustrator: @juststeffiart Designer: Laura Mock @EpicReads @harperteen

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Zakiya N. Jamal 🩷 | #FreePalestine 🍉

@ZakiyaNJamal

4 years

close that tab beloved. you're not going to read it later.

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2 years

if twitter actually goes down what happens to all the instagram accounts that are just tweets on nice backgrounds

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2 years

saying a film based on a series written by a queer author of color "yassifies Harry Potter (derogatory)" is an interesting thing to say when comparing it to a series written by a violently transphobic person but go off i guess

Paste Magazine

@PasteMagazine

2 years

#TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil yassifies Harry Potter (derogatory). @kathymchacon 's review of Netflix's dismal YA wannabe:

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4 years

happy to report i am now "ready to settle for mr. collins" years old

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5 years

@NinaLMohan The fact that they haven't taken this down yet is hilarious and also a big yikes. Someone's getting fired for this.

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10 months

I know the Goodreads Choice awards are inherently a joke but getting rid of the poetry, graphic novels & comics, and middle grade & children's categories while adding a romantasy category is wild

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@ZakiyaNJamal

2 years

Now would be the perfect time for Scholastic to speak up about the book bans and destruction of books by, about, and for marginalized people. For many kids the Scholastic Book Fair is the first time they have the autonomy to buy a book for themselves.

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4 years

Your pets and what they’re named after (just pictures) ➡️

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1 year

I get this but I also wish the fat girl wasn't given the "I'm in love with my best friend but they don't realize they love me until someone else is interested" trope. She deserves to be loved unapologetically from the jump, not because of jealousy.

chloe maron 🌱🩸

@theelvenqueen

1 year

I know everyone hates Colin Bridgerton but you all better SUCK IT UP because we’re getting a fat girl as the star in one of the biggest romance series and I will NOT have that ruined.

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@ZakiyaNJamal

5 years

PSA there are no interns running social media accounts. Y'all wild if you think anyone's letting an intern tweet to tens or hundreds of thousands people. If you think our tweets are funny it's because we crafted that voice. If we fuck up it's because we literally just fucked up.

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3 years

✨ hello i've been promoted to senior manager of social media at scholastic! please clap 🥰

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2 years

I'm the new Marketing Manager at Atria Books 🥰

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@ZakiyaNJamal

2 years

*whispers* i return to publishing on monday lol

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@ZakiyaNJamal

3 years

as a "late bloomer" reading romance novels, it's always so weird to me when a major plot point is getting the MC laid because they haven't had sex in a while (current novel is saying two years). that's not a long time and also is it that deep lmao

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3 years

a thread for anyone keeping track today:

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@ZakiyaNJamal

4 years

what if instead of making a separate BIPOC imprint you actually work on increasing diversity in the imprints that already exist and retaining those BIPOC employees?

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9 months

I don't work at Del Rey so idk theit plans but a pub date this far out isn't a real date. It's a placeholder. Most likely they haven't decided what to do with it so they just dropped it on this arbitrary date since the title has already fed out to retailers.

Mayo Agard-Olubo

@MayoPoetry

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@DelReyBooks I really hope you're not planning to wait for this all to die down then publish this book anyway because that would be a big yikes 😬😬

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@ZakiyaNJamal

2 years

the number of BIPOC women, particularly Black women, who have left their publishing jobs either voluntarily or by force this year is telling and if you're not acknowledging this mass exodus you're part of the problem

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@ZakiyaNJamal

2 years

TL;DR: I quit. 😬

Leaving Scholastic

First, let me start by saying I’ve debated a lot about posting this but I don’t know how else to say that I quit without telling the whole story of why so here we go. If you would’ve to…

zakiyanjamal.com

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4 years

BIPOC stories gotta be universal but no one ever says that about yt stories. What if instead of selling BIPOC books as universal you applaud them for telling the stories marginalized groups need. It's ok for books to be specifically for BIPOCs, I promise.

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2 years

what if we stopped calling a movie where the man in the wheelchair chooses to die a romcom? 🤔

rhaenyra targaryen's lawyer

@Targ_Nation

2 years

the most romantic thing ever done in the history of romcoms

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2 years

I've been debating a lot lately if I'm courageous enough to post this review into this huge pool of positive praise but I have to speak my truth ✌🏾

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2 years

you're allowed to not like something but words mean things and as we've said 1000 times y'all love to accuse authors of color of ripping off your fave yt books when in reality books set at a magical boarding school existed before harry potter and will continue to exist after.

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3 years

if your entry-level/mid-level employees are consistently leaving and you still refuse to work on retention that tells me you don't actually want your employees to grow you just want them to work until they burn out and you can replace them 🤷🏾‍♀️

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2 years

this is why i always remind people YA is not a genre it is literally an age category. YA books are written with teens in mind. those books in my LRT are not. period. teens by read them sure but they shouldn't be shelved that way.

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2 years

At this point if you still have your Hogwarts house in your bio it's a red flag. There's no way you don't know.

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1 year

you just had to be there

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@bethrevis

1 year

You think all the illustrated romance covers look the same? *takes a long drag* Lemme tell you about pretty-dresses-on-all-YA in the early aughts.

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3 years

i personally know four people leaving their jobs/publishing this week and one more leaving next week. if i hear one more person blame this on "the great resignation" and not acknowledge the specific issues in publishing i may finally yeet myself into the sun 🤬

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2 years

per that little letter this is the most up to date list of baseline salaries i have so idk what he's going on about 🤪

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@ZakiyaNJamal

3 years

new girl for making winston a cop

adrie rose 🇯🇲

@adrierising

3 years

i want discourse. what’s the one thing you’ll never forgive from a tv show or movie?

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2 years

Respectfully, Adam is yt passing and the majority of POC who have found success on BookTok are light skinned. The truth of the matter is TikTok is anti-black. The algorithm makes it incredibly difficult for Black/dark skinned people to be viewed.

Malinda Lo

@malindalo

2 years

“Primarily” yes, but I do wonder why the coverage of booktok often seems to leave out one of its hugest success stories: Adam Silvera. He’s a gay Puerto Rican writer. Also, my novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club was a booktok success — not as big as Adam’s, but still.

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4 years

everyone needs to see this because my brain hurts #WandaVision

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2 years

the creators of encanto, turning red, and everything everywhere all at once probably

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4 years

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talking to people who aren't late bloomers about dating is so funny because they'll be like "ugh i'm having a dry spell" and they've been single/haven't hooked up for like a few months lmao

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4 years

You had to be there.

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@ZakiyaNJamal

2 years

✨some personal news✨ After working in publishing for over three years, I'm sorry to say that I will still be working in publishing as I enjoy having a steady income and books are cool. I hope you'll follow along with me as I embark on this same journey. ♥️

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@ZakiyaNJamal

8 years

Beyoncé to George and Amal Clooney:

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2 years

just say you don't like that the coloreds and queers are doing it (successfully might i add) and be done!!! your yt faves are unfortunately fine and still making money. what is your problem????

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and i'm not even doing this to be grim about things i just want people to actually see the numbers from today alone and dare anyone to say this isn't a publishing or even editorial specific issue.

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5 years

"He doesn't get to withdraw from you what he never deposited into you." - @crissles Damn I really needed that word today. 👏🏾

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2 years

if you're married/with your life partner, how old were y'all when you met? i'm trying to see something 👀

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@ZakiyaNJamal

2 years

. @rgay please tell us who your nemesis is before it's too late

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2 years

Publishers for the love of god just tell authors when their books aren't going to be in B&N. You do not find out this information on the day or week of on sale! You been knew! Stop it!

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@ZakiyaNJamal

1 year

they really got Katherine Heigl and Ellen Pompeo to sit down for a conversation. whoever set this up deserves a raise my god.

Film Updates

@FilmUpdates

1 year

Variety’s Actors on Actors: Jennifer Coolidge & Jeremy Allen-White Jennifer Garner & Sheryl Lee Ralph Jenna Ortega & Elle Fanning Theo James & Brett Goldstein Katherine Heigl & Ellen Pompeo Steven Yeun & Pedro Pascal Hayden Christensen & Diego Luna Meghann Fahy & Elizabeth Olsen

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@ZakiyaNJamal

4 years

It's the Fourth of July. Buy a book by a Black and/or Indigenous person today ☺️

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3 years

"history, huh? bet we could make some" purple ink for bi representation 💜

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4 years

please tell me about a book that features an interracial couple where neither one is yt. so far i have: - the sun is also a star - take a hint, dani brown ...that's it 🥴

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@ZakiyaNJamal

4 years

hi yes please pre-order locally because it absolutely helps authors (and bookstores) but also bookstore managers should not be expected to know every single author and if they don't have a particular book it most likely has nothing to do with their management.

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what if we didn't publish all the big books in the fall and spread them out throughout the year? haha that's crazy...unless??? 👀

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2 years

a fun lil update before bed 🥰

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4 years

what if three black women debuted on the NYT list today to shake things up? haha that's crazy...unless? 👀

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@ZakiyaNJamal

5 years

@dancingofpens "We'll allow it. Since it's two r's and two t's" really sent me 😂

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7 years

Me at this damn episode #GreysAnatomy #TGIT

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3 years

i went to santorini and all i got was stunning photos 🥰

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@ZakiyaNJamal

4 years

On 9/11 many lives were tragically lost and caused many first responders lasting health issues that effect them to this day. The response to 9/11 led to increased islamophobia, attacks against all brown people, and wars we're still in today. Both are true. Never forget both.

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2 years

disrespectfully, publishing is fucked for everyone so it's real weird to me that authors are taking this moment to say "but what about us?" those who are striking are not the people you need to be fighting with

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3 years

i just know the performative allies are shaking today trying to decide between asian or black books or new releases

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@ZakiyaNJamal

3 years

before things get out of hand i'm just going to say right now BIPOC people calling out yts is not "spilling the tea" or "bullying". we have whisper networks to keep each other safe, however when that shit ain't working we have the right to call it as we see it.

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4 years

someone wise once said, "if you don't have my phone number, please understand you don't actually know me." i've made a lot of great friendships through social but please understand we're not all friends and i have the right to unfollow whoever i want.

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2 years

y'all be so weird about dating bi men meanwhile if a man tells me he's bi/queer that's a green flag

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2 years

this is the last i'm going to say on this but it is funny but not surprising how yt people are bending over backwards to defend this author. did she do something especially heinous? no. but she made comments that were not only incorrect but belitted people's work.

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i need y'all to sit down and really think about why an innocuous tweet about wanting book recs for a 15 year old led you to make long threads about "age appropriate romances." so you read explicit fanfic as a kid? congrats! i watched porn. but no adult was giving me porn to watch

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2 years

y'all are so unserious lmao

Rebecca Baumann

@arkhamlibrarian

2 years

This is the photo in question—don’t want to tag anyone b/c I see where they’re coming from. But my hot take is that almost every book here is (or should be considered) YA. I’m sorry but this is what teens read. They have shit to figure out & books are a safe place to do that

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disrespectfully, if you don't support black creators any other time of the year besides mlk day and bhm kindly shut the fuck up 🥰

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@ZakiyaNJamal

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IF WE WERE A MOVIE by me dropping winter 2025 with @harperteen 🎬🎥🍿👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏾 Big thank you to the whole EPE and New Leaf teams, and all my friends and family who've gotten me to this point. I can't wait to share this book with y'all 🥰

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3 years

instead of making new imprints what if publishers: a. paid their staff more b. paid authors (not celebs) more c. hired more staff to support their already understaffed imprints just a thought 🥰

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Having worked on Dav Pilkey books for two and half years, I saw first hand how his books helped kids not only get into reading but fall in love with it. Every single day, without fail, we would get tagged in a post about his books. Kids dressed up as the characters or made crafts

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3 years

when you ask a writer how their book is coming and they say, "how's yours?"

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it's so wild to see these articles about publishing being so yt because these are conversations i have almost every day on both sides of the publishing process. it's even more mind boggling to see people be "shocked" or like "i had no idea."

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have we given Kenny Ortega his flowers yet? it's way past time

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i find it interesting that myself and many of my bipoc friends all know yt people in professional spaces who would probably say we're friends when we are not

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all five of the books they're launching this imprint with are straight romances written by yt women in case you were wondering

Children's Bookshelf

@PWKidsBookshelf

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Delacorte Press has announced Delacorte Romance, a new YA imprint dedicated to highlighting love stories for teens

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not Taylor making her whole brand reclaiming her music and then dating a man who owns someone else's masters. oh girl...

Pop Base

@PopBase

1 year

Rina Sawayama calls out Matty Healy before playing her song ‘STFU!’ at Glastonbury: “I wrote this because I was sick & tired of these micro-aggressions. This goes out to a white man that watches Ghetto Gaggers & mocks Asian people on a podcast. He also owns my masters. I've had

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if you or a yt person you know feels it is their responsibility to write books from the perspective of a marginalized person because there aren't enough of them please call 1-800-BITCH-NO

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I'm a queer social media manager at Scholastic and I will always stand with trans people.

Zack Loran Clark

@zackloranclark

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I'm a queer editor at Scholastic and I will always stand with trans people.

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friendly reminder that this is a "people with uteruses" issue not simply a "women's issue." that is all.

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it is actually not that easy or simple for everyone to have sex. also, some people genuinely either don't want to have sex at all or aren't comfortable with hook ups/one night stands. and that's fine! let people not have sex and stop making them feel bad about it!

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Lord, let me one day be able to drag people like Nora Roberts. Give me the power, the vocabulary, the skill of a good read, the big dick energy. All of it. Amen. 🙏🏾

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Disrespectfully, a lot of y'all wouldn't have to replace inventory quickly if y'all actually printed enough books the first time around but you consistently underestimate books, usually by BIPOC and queer authors, and that's why books that should hit the list don't.

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@JasmynBeKnowing

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love y'all making BIPOC book rec lists but please make sure the authors are actually BIPOC i beg of you

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progress 💪🏾

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and i'm not saying having sex can't be the focal point of a story, particularly a romance novel. i think the kiss quotient does this very well actually. but i'm tired of reading about MCs being told, mainly by their friends, that it's "appalling" they haven't had sex in so long.

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a photoshoot in four parts

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especially when the MC has had a traumatic break-up and/or was dealing with depression/mental health battles. maybe getting them laid shouldn't be the priority???

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6 years

Wait so does that mean Ford put DNA in Bernard? Damn he really thought this through. 👏🏾 #westworld

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4 years

slj really said the only reason we need diverse books is because WHITE kids need them with their whole chest

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3 years

some of y'all don't want to hear this but respectfully we don't need any more author/celeb led imprints. happy for sanderson and his success but being a successful author doesn't mean you have the necessary skills to run an imprint, and usually the work falls on someone else.

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2 years

a thread of everyone the queers are teaming up with:

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@ZakiyaNJamal

2 years

if y'all think this Ali Hazelwood stuff is crazy wait until you find out about packagers and non-licensed IP. writers who are "given ideas" are not less than and many of your faves got their start because someone gave them a jumping off point.

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4 years

i'm actually really pissed lmao. black women are finally seeing some success in SFF specifically but across publishing as well. and when i say some i really mean a smidge. the nyt said you can hit the list for a week as a treat.

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@ZakiyaNJamal

4 years

y'all remember when authors were like they wouldn't sign arcs at events unless they were personalized because they kept seeing signed ARCs end up on ebay? yeah i'm gonna need y'all to keep that same energy mmmk

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6 years

Someone should let Sam know that female empowerment isn't about not expressing your sexaulity it's the idea that women can be and do whatever they want. If Sam wants to be "old fashioned" fine but don't use that as an excuse to pull other women down. #bb20

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4 years

Four stills from a movie you believe is a masterpiece, no title

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4 years

Four stills from a movie you believe is a masterpiece, no title

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2 years

miss ma'am good luck to you if you're caught because this is insanely out of pocket

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5 years

Low key obsessed with my own photo so I'm sharing it here #PrideMonth

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10 months

Whoever's writing this romance novel I need this scene in both POVs. one can be the bonus chapter in the B&N edition. this one is free you're welcome!

The Eras Tour

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10 months

🚨| Taylor Swift running to kiss Travis Kelce after tonight’s show of ‘The Eras Tour’ in Buenos Aires, Argentina! #BuenosAiresTSTheErasTour

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4 years

hey what if we stopped using animals as substitutes for marginalized groups in picture books? just a thought

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3 years

ayyy here it is!

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1 year

I'm looking at reviews of a YA novel and people are mad that it uses "TikTok language", "genz references", and talks about Riverdale and BTS. What exactly do y'all think kids are talking about??? If you don't want that read an adult novel idk what to tell you lmao

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