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SRLevine

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Professional chemist. Amateur baker. Bike commuter.

Favorite stars don't cost money and can make someone smile (or at least feel seen) so I use them often. I'm not being weird at you specifically, I'm being weird at everyone...

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Just finished a book where I was clearly not the target audience, but it was a compelling read. I think there were some drawbacks to it being YA (there were some time jumps and lack of exposition at times), but the whole concept was really cool.

17 year old Malik starts college at an HBCU that is only open to Black people with magic. It's got some plot twists regular YA readers will see coming, and some you won't.

"Blood at the Root" by LaDarrion Williams

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18+ SRLevine , to bookstodon
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Controversial opinion time:

Gideon and the Ninth was ok (but not my favorite), but I wasn't a fan of Harrow the Ninth. I get that Muir is a good writer and it's impressive. And I felt like I was pulled into a mental health crisis for a couple of hundred pages that could have been represented in 10% of the words without that much loss of impact.

Also it took me well into book 2 to realize it was Harrowhark and not Harrowhawk because I read too fast.

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Hey
Any recommendations for books with nonbinary or transmen main characters? Feeling like I could really use the representation, but all I'm finding are transwomen, and that's... not me. As long as it's fiction, any genre is okay.
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@CrescentSays @bookstodon Jay Northcote (who is trans) has at least 2 romance novels with transmen leads: Second Chance and Starting From Scratch.

TJ Klune has a bigender protagonist in one of his romance novels: Why We Fight (he also wrote some blog posts about his writing it and how he got feedback since he's a cis white man and the character is very much not). I can probably dig up some more (also probably romance, I used to read a lot of queer romance) if you give me a little more time.

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I'm thinking about Mastodon in a wide view, in the world of social media, this feels a little outsider, while at the same time it also feels like it might be the future. So, let's talk about it!
What do you get out of Mastodon?
Why are you here?
How has it compared with your other social media experiences?
What do you see for the future of Mastodon?
What do you want to see?
And basically anything else about it you want to say about Mastodon.
LET'S TALK!

SRLevine ,
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@mambearpnw One of the best ways you can use hashtags (other than sticking them on the end of your posts) is that you can follow them like people. Some communities will coalesce around unusual ones (ex: people who ride bikes use , people who take photos of moss use ). What people tag can vary wildly in specificity, and they are only "discoverable" if the post is public. This post is unlisted so I don't spam people who follow those tags.

SRLevine , (edited )
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@mambearpnw Maybe? With the new search feature you might be able to just search for Holly or Stephen King, but the or hashtags will work if someone used them. I don't get many hits on the first, but I get plenty for the second.

If you're a reader you can follow or the auto-boosting group @bookstodon (this makes it easier to find people who use the hashtag), people love to talk books with those.

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