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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

11 months

hi! i'm bri, a queer & jewish illustrator & bookish creator! find me on: 🗝goodreads: 🕯storygraph: 🌿spotify: 🪬insta: ⚔️TT: 🦉email: beforeviolets @gmail .com

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

I need everyone to see this fucking gem I scored at the used book store today

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

If you're asking: "Do I need a Jewish sensitivity reader?" Let me ask you: Does your story have witches/goblins/vampires/etc.? How about a secret society? Are you writing a fairytale or folklore retelling? Is there blood magic in your book? If you said yes to any of those: yes.

bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

✨🌿I'M OFFICIALLY OPENING UP BETA/SENSITIVITY READING! 🌿✨if you're interested in hiring me for beta reading, sensitivity reading for Jewish characters, LGBTQ+ characters, avoiding antisemitism in fantasy worlds/stories, etc., fill out the form in my bio or below!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

CW: antisemitism PSA: these gnomes are anti-Jewish. it’s fine to think they’re cute, but I want to make it clear that this is now becoming a dogwhistle. i’ve received death threats from people with these as profile pics. they want you to dehumanize jews.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

"my heart leapt from me. you smile now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth. and what's left of it, I listen to it tick. every tedious beat going unknown as any angel to me." #GoodOmens2 #GoodOmensFanArt #aziracrow (this artist supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes)

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

10 months

so honored and humbled to have been a part of this project! here’s my frame, 27! #EVERYFrameMatters #GoodOmens2 (more info in thread on inspiration and where to buy prints!)

🔍Dots🪽 || #DeadBoyDetectives era

@Dots_D0TTY

10 months

To get a better look at EVERY frame, here's a slowed down version. If you want to take your time looking at the frames and respective artists, they are all listed on the website!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

how do we get publishers to understand that they’re gonna sell books WAYYY more if they send ARCs to people that fit that book’s niche and are incredibly excited about it, rather than just people that have large following counts.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

actually, the epigraph is the best part

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

hey friends who are looking to get published!! make sure you negotiate IN YOUR CONTRACT that your cover art will not be developed with or assisted by AI. I also suggest trying to negotiate having a say in your cover artist but at the very least, ensure that you won’t have AI.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

just some of the quality interior content for y’all

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

✨🌿I'M OFFICIALLY OPENING UP BETA/SENSITIVITY READING! 🌿✨if you're interested in hiring me for beta reading, sensitivity reading for Jewish characters, LGBTQ+ characters, avoiding antisemitism in fantasy worlds/stories, etc., fill out the form in my bio or below!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

can someone PLEASE write a queer retelling of R&J that leans into the tragedy as a cautionary tale about what happens when you keep queer kids away from information about their identities and prevent them from freedom of expression? i'm sick of watered-down romanticized R&Js.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

we’ve been cast as trolls, goblins, owls, witches, dragons, and now gnomes. they want you to fall for their pipeline by using fantasy creatures so they can imbue you with hateful rhetoric hidden under metaphor. so then you don’t notice or are desensitized when it turns into hate.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

as a book reviewer, here’s my advice for authors who feel they have to sell their own book: consumers tend to listen to reviewers more than the authors marketing their own work. find the community that resonates with your work and build relationships with those creators.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

jfc the amount of people responding to my tweet calling me some wild things for mentioning the way that antisemitism is baked into most fantasy creatures and folklore/fairytales is WILD. deny that all you want but you can't know until you've been targeted with it.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

eliminating one of your most diverse imprints (and especially one that specifically features diverse content for younger readers) is… a choice

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

here's some resources for some FAQ: (vampires), (goblins), (fairytales), (fairytales), (blood libel), (witches)

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

finished legendborn and… holy shit y’all were not lying about this book.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

hot take: can we stop saying "religious/religion" as if it's a synonym of christianity? cuz when y'all say things like "religious trauma/religious symbolism/etc." and specifically mean christianity, its not only wildly inaccurate but also erases other religions.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

hey guys! this is just a tweet to advertise my sensitivity reading services for authors who want to avoid antisemitism and don't know where to begin. if this doesn't apply to you, or you're here to debate the legitimacy of antisemitism through fantasy/folklore, keep scrolling.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

this is your regular reminder that shrek is jewish (and his story is a metaphor for antisemitism)

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

idk what author(s) need to hear this but i’ve had to inform a few author friends of this already: stop describing your bad guys’ or scary guys’ noses please. especially if they’re large/hawkish/hooked/etc. it’s antisemitic rhetoric that’s been deeply ingrained in our culture.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

BABE WAKE UP NEW OFMD FLAG JUST DROPPED AND ITS MERMAID SKELETONS HOLDING HANDS #ofmds2

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

I honestly genuinely highly recommend all fantasy authors hire a sensitivity reader familiar with antisemitic and racist tropes in fantasy, even if it's not myself. And I'm just so ecstatic to start offering these services I care so much about.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

when to report a review: -it contains ⚪️ supremacy dogwhistles -it uses slurs/hate against marginalized communities -doxxing or harassing -it’s spam when NOT to report a review: -it says the book was bad (even if you disagree w/ the reasons, even if you disagree w/ the “tone”)

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

there’s been so much weird (and bad) discourse about ace books recently on here so… recommend your fav book with arospec or aspec rep!!! (and authors: promote your own book if it fits!!) as an aspec person myself I wanna share the love 🤍

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

begging indie authors (and authors in general to not use AI art for covers or characters!! it literally steals from other small creators. most artists WILL work in your budget if you just ask. and if you don’t wanna pay for artwork, make your own or use picrew!!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

why is it every time thinly-veiled fanfiction gets trad published its always a ship that exists so people can simp over a nazi stand-in?

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

and not a single one of us were invited. over and over again, large companies use our names, our work, our time, to their own benefit without giving booktokers pay or recognition in the slightest. how can you have a booktok festival without the titular community?

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

it’s actually staggering to see the amount of 🕰️ followers I lost over asking people to take their h**warts house out of their bio. so many people care more about defining themselves via a piece of media that defines me as something to be eradicated than me as a person.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

6 months

I hate when books are pitched as like: "a riveting exploration of gender" or "balancing themes such as gender politics" because i'm always like: okay but like.... in a gay way? IS IT EXPLORING GENDER IN A GAY WAY?

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

what’s a book by a marginalized author that you think everyone should read? i’ll start: parable of the sower by octavia butler

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

@kaleidosode yeah, they’re a huge like holiday/seasonal decor trend rn as well so it’s definitely nerve-wracking and frustrating

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

alright guys: give me all your diverse pirate book recs! (they must CENTER characters that are POC, LGBTQ+, Jewish, etc.) indie authors, you too! promote yourself plz!!!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

6 months

Over the moon with joy to announce that I got to make some art for A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE by Allison Saft! This absolutely gorgeous sapphic, Jewish, folkloric fantasy is out this September, and these guys will be stickers in the pre-order incentive!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

11 months

@ironandsilverr as a jewish person, the one thing i do like abt the return of the nazis is that outside of them, good omens never discusses definitively what sends humans to heaven or hell, but that without a doubt, nazis go to hell. but they still had FAR too much screentime for my liking.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

11 months

thinking about her again #GoodOmensFanArt

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

5 months

It's wild to look at the rubble on the ground and think: those were people's THINGS. in there is someone's curated book collection, their favorite sweater, an art piece they worked really hard on, a thrifted mug, a special perfume. imagine your things turned to dust like that.

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@AlnaouqA

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This is how the Israeli army left Khan Younis, south of Gaza.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

5 months

publishers: we do NOT want AI covers. how many times do we have to tell you that? how many times do you have to make bad AI covers that we put on blast for you to understand that it will never be worth it?

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

10 months

ive been seeing lots of vampire WIPs & upcoming releases on my feed lately, so let me remind y'all that some vampire tropes/narratives easily fall into antisemitic territory! do your research, & if you want a sensitivity reader, I specialize in avoiding antisemitism in fantasy!🧵

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

11 months

yeah so i'm gonna need these idiots to start paying rent if they're gonna take up this much space in my brain #GoodOmens #GoodOmensFanArt (this artist supports the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes!)

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

like why am I fighting uphill battles to get ARCs of books that are so perfectly in my niche that I could convince anyone to buy just by holding it up in a video? (jewish books, SFF shakespeare retellings, books with sapphic non-binary protagonists, queer dark academia, etc.)

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

also!! it's important that I mention, I understand that a lot of authors have budgets, especially indie authors. and ESPECIALLY marginalized indie authors. I am so happy to negotiate something that works for all parties, and want my services to be accessible.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

reminder that this month and always, engage w/ Black booktokers. specifically when they promote Black books or talk about Black issues. by commenting with love and support, you’re protecting those videos from being sent over to sides of tiktok where they will be met with hate.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

information, rates, and my form can be found here: (and if you want to book me for future projects, DM or email me!)

Beta/Sensitivity Reading Request Form

Thank you for your interest in my beta/sensitivity reading services! I am currently offering slots for April-June 2024. If you are interested in hiring me for a project in April-June, please fill out...

docs.google.com

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

11 months

if you like diverse horror, rich commentary, queer rage, and feeling like someone has ripped you open and forced you to look at the rawest and ugliest parts of yourself that you didn't know were lying dormant, waiting to be known and loved: maybe read AJW's incredible stories!

Andrew Joseph White 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

@AJWhiteAuthor

2 years

wait wait wait here we go, i have it, i got it

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

im sorry I think I just found out that my most anticipated release of this year is not just jewish but queer?????? i’m gonna THROW UP WITH EXCITEMNT

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

hot take: if you’re writing a fantasy/sci-fi/horror you should ALWAYS have at least one Jewish, Black, and disabled sensitivity or beta readers. because our oppression has been baked into metaphors and lore to keep it strong and hidden from the average eye.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

10 months

oop new profile picture just dropped!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

brb gonna cry about #Willow being removed from Disney+. the only thing that would make this okay is a big rerelease with a season 2. fantasy deserves to be not only inclusive and diverse but accessible. #KeepWillow

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

5 months

not on my 2024 bingo card: removing a book from my TBR because the author plagiarized my goodreads reviews

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

tbh I wish there were more audiobooks with narrators that voice act rather than just narrate. like andy serkis’s narration of LOTR. I just want some more dynamic rhythm and sound. (this is truly me stating a preference, not saying one is better than another)

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

my recent favorite bad faith response to my sensitivity reading post was someone saying that it was absurd to them as a lover of folklore? I love folklore too. (literally its in my bio) that's why I want people engaging with it to not be antisemitic.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

5 months

hey y’all! MY COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN and I have some upcoming room, so if you’ve been wanting to get some art from me, the form is in my bio! (id also love to work on some bigger projects this year, so if you have me in mind for something bigger like cover design, please hmu)

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

so many of y’all are ONLY talking about the way the eARCs thing with HC will affect readers who prefer physical ARCs. i’d like to remind y’all that myself and so many others don’t have a choice. it’s bad marketing yes, but it’s ableist first. disabled reviewers are valuable too.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

hey friends, if you’re also feeling frustrated about wanting to support authors you love but not wanting to cross the HC picket line, check out those titles as often as you can via your library! (or on libby!!) itll help them make money to make up for the sales they’ve lost

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

@NicLesperance tiktok is such a flawed platform and there are so many of us diverse creators on booktok trying to push diverse books and authors and the algorithm actively just works against us

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

me, unashamedly correcting people when they forget to mention a book has jewish rep but will mention Its other representation

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

@thelaynierose the literal foundations of this project are based on antisemitism that has been criticized for YEARS. and if he “didn’t know,” he still could’ve tried to leave the project when he found out.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

no one is questioning whether you believe trans women are women. we are questioning why you’re still profiting off of a violently antisemitic and racist game that puts money into the pockets of transphobes and right wing game developers. glad you got that quotable statement tho.

Sebastian Croft

@SebastianCroft

2 years

I was cast in this project over 3 years ago, back when all Harry Potter was to me, was the magical world I grew up with. This was long before I was aware of JK Rowling’s views. I believe whole heartedly that trans women are women and trans men are men.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

3 months

Happy Jewish American Heritage Month! if you're writing a Jewish character or you're writing a fantasy/horror story with vampires, witches, goblins, blood magic, etc. and want to avoid antisemitic rhetoric, just a reminder that I offer sensitivity readings and consultations!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

4 months

hey lovelies! I have commission available in the upcoming months! I love to draw work heavy with symbolism, fantasy elements, academia, etc. and love featuring diverse identities, bodies, and relationships! i'm also open to working on larger & commercial projects!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

bookish things I want to see in 2023: -full-length sapphic fantasy romance novels -ACTUAL enemies-to-lovers -queer trad pub thinly veiled fanfic (🤞🏻 for thasmin & catradora!!) -BIPOC and Jewish takes on witches -adult SFF without romance -late bloomers in SFF what about you?

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

also reminder that on holocaust remembrance day, the times crossword resembled a n*z* symbol. cancel your NYT subscription.

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)

@QueenOfRats

1 year

Cancel your NYT subscription. Do it now. Schools and libraries, that includes you. Take a stand for your trans and nonbinary patrons and staff. You cannot claim neutrality on this. And we are clear in our policies about not providing access to hatespeech and bad info.

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@beforeviolets

1 year

If i had a nickel for every time I read a novella that was a sleeping beauty retelling that turned out to have kinda ableist narrative framing despite an in-text attempt to not be ableist, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's sad that it happened twice, right?

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

we need more loser representation in books

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

how do y’all read white cishet neutrotypical christian-centric fantasies all the time??? diverse fantasy books go SO much harder.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

like the amount of dr*m*one and r*ey*o-coded characters in these stories compared to literally any other ship is SO annoying. when can we get queer thinly-veiled trad pub fanfic? where's my samfrodo? catradora?

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@beforeviolets

1 year

the goods have been secured

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@beforeviolets

5 months

white women shop shipping Nazi-coded characters with Jewish/Black-coded characters just because you find the actor of the Nazi-coded character hot and feel like a “quirky underdog” and can project yourself into the relationship challenge

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@beforeviolets

2 years

hey reminder authors: if you’re writing any kind of a fantasy book, please have a jewish beta reader or sensitivity reader who knows a lot about jewish stereotypes in fantasy, because SO MANY fantasy creatures and lore are entangled in antisemitism!!! (vampires, goblins, etc.)

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@beforeviolets

2 years

hey besties as people are starting to share lists of holiday books, just a reminder that if you mean christmas-themed books, just say that. don’t feign inclusion if you’re not actually including books of other winter holidays.

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@beforeviolets

1 year

If y'all ever hire me for art or for beta reading or sensitivity reading, I BEG you to please actually read my terms and conditions. like I wrote those out for a reason, and there's some really important terms in there that protect both of us.

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@beforeviolets

2 years

i’m just a girl, standing in front of all the authors writing/editing vampire books, asking them to please do research into antisemitic vampire tropes so they’re not included in those books 🙏🏻

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

not at all related to recent events, everyone reply or QT with your favorite jewish book(s)!! (and jewish authors: promote yourselves here!!) 📖🪬✨

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@beforeviolets

1 year

thanks for commissioning me steph!!!I honestly loved getting to make this one 🤍

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@beforeviolets

2 years

@ashantifortson agree agree!!! though i’d like to add that a branch of it also began in jewish storytelling as well :)) so it may extend itself to jewish works, though of course still using the magic as a way to discuss those same themes.

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@beforeviolets

1 year

also the amount of people just detailing their plot for some sort of virtue signaling Is bizarre. y'all that was just a tweet advertising my services as a sensitivity reader for authors who want to avoid accidental antisemitism.

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@beforeviolets

1 year

"but you rose, because she was a saint and you were nothing, because no one has ever needed you before." #TheSixDeathsOfTheSaint (p.s. this is now available as a print!!)

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@beforeviolets

2 years

obviously, if you like using your social media to market yourself, hell yeah! keep doing it! but I know so many people don’t have the energy, and the way to do that is to build a good rep and relationship with the people who do want to promote your book and get it out there!

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@beforeviolets

1 year

she's everything and he's just aziraphale (enabled to some late-night-sketching by @fonziqor and @peskysaku ) #GoodOmensFanArt #aziracrow (this artist supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes!)

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@beforeviolets

1 year

something y’all don’t see BTS of those of us who educate about harmful representation is just how often people use our offering of information as an invitation to ask us to do further free labor for them.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

4 months

are people not aware that different tenses and POVs have different purposes? if you don’t like reading one or another, that’s fine, but they’re all valid options with different uses!! I love thinking about why a book chose its POV & tense and how it aids the story at hand!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

4 months

@angryrobotbooks I'm glad to hear you're not using this for this round of subs, but there should be a stronger statement here to never using AI for submissions. this previous announcement betrayed a trust that reviewers, authors, and industry professionals had in Angry Robot.

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@beforeviolets

1 year

recommend me a book that you don’t see enough people talking about !!(indie, upcoming, backlisted, your own book, etc) 📖✨ i’ll start: The Four Profound Weaves by RB Lemberg- a queer fantasy novella featuring two older trans folks, magical textiles, assassins, and ancient gods.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

2 years

hey lovelies!! recommend me some books with some sapphic knights that should be on my TBR!! ⚔️📖✨

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@beforeviolets

10 months

hey y'all!! reminder that I have a print shop!! if you want to get some of my art and hang it up on your wall, there's a link in my bio where you can do that!

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

hope you all haven’t forgotten to include A STUDY IN DROWNING as a part of your pre-order haul from B&N pre-order sale! this folklore-stuffed dark academia YA fantasy has absolutely captured my heart 🫶🏻 my all-time favorite YA book.

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@beforeviolets

1 year

I know we’re reading for the #TransRightsReadathon , but if y’all want something to watch and haven’t watched dead end: paranormal park on netflix yet: GO NOW! spooky, diverse cartoon with a trans gay jewish MC and a sapphic autistic south asian MC! (there’s also graphic novels!)

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@beforeviolets

5 months

@arsonistdyke this explains the behavior I witnessed at the hozier concert, it was an odd mix of ppl genuinely excited to hear his music and ppl screaming “bog daddy” and “how is he real omg” to a point that it made his music hard to hear at times + making inappropriate jokes about his opener.

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@beforeviolets

1 year

signed my lease today!!! officially gonna be living in MA next month!!! wasn't where I expected to end up but I trust the universe has its reasons. anyways... need to start making some western mass friends :)

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@beforeviolets

1 year

I want to take a second to gush about my experience as a freelance content creator for @InkyardPress !! I was amongst an incredible and diverse set of creators, I was always paid well and fairly (which unfortunately isn’t common), and was always celebrated for my perspective. 1/2

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@beforeviolets

1 year

apparently the new hozier album is dante’s inferno themed and suddenly i need to read the whole divine comedy

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@beforeviolets

1 year

@anjaxuanreads yep! "shrek" means "fear/fright" in yiddish, and it was originally a story written by william steig as a way for him to discuss his experiences with antisemitism

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

11 months

hot take that shouldn't be a hot take: confusing media isn't bad actually (and maybe media that makes you think a little bit harder and reach outside your comfort zone to do a little research and reflecting is... not only good but the most important and powerful type of media)

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@beforeviolets

1 year

yes i'm essentially asking for bare a pop opera in book form and no I wont apologize for it.

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@beforeviolets

1 year

hearing people talk shit about c*lle*n ho*ver at the bookstore and then praise six of crows is restoring my faith in humanity

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@beforeviolets

2 years

guys i’m a fool. I literally have an ARC for a fantasy romance that takes place in literal hell (it’s also rivals to lovers 😏) and i’m out here asking for hadestown recs 🤦🏻‍♀️ ignore me

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@beforeviolets

1 year

*googles: how to meet people in the town i'm moving to who are equally gay and neurodivergent and deteriorating from good omens brain rot*

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@beforeviolets

1 year

the thing I hate most about people inaccurately applying the term "bury your gays" to everything where queer people die in any capacity is that we end up being robbed from having more good gay tragic stories.

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bri ✡︎ (they/them)

@beforeviolets

1 year

@AroFrom there's more than just blood libel! i recommend reading the article in the FAQ. unfortunately, if you have a vampire in a text, you do need to be careful as to which tropes you're utilizing & what the narrative framework of your vampires are, lest you fall to unintentional harm.

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