akana phenix 🌙
@AkanaPhenix
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Award-Winning Author of "The Empire Wars" Film/TV Agents: CAA Future Filmmaker 📚University: @Harvard + @MIT ⚡️ 2000s kid. Afro-Latina.
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Joined December 2016
EXACTLY. LET VILLAINS BE VILLAINS IN FICTION.
“but he murdered people” what do you want me to do abt that.
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A WHITE AUTHOR WAS PRETENDING TO BE ASIAN. THEY NAMED THEMSELVES “KIM CHI”??!!!
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She’s so gorgeous
Can you show me a beautiful image that will change my life.
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🚨Report: New York City is planning to build the world’s tallest prison. The slammer has been called “Jailscraper” The jail will hold 1,000 prisoners across a 40-floor tower.
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AUTHORS ARE BEING THREATENED WITH LEGAL ACTION FOR SUPPORTING PALESTINE. THE AUTHOR OF IRON WIDOW—XIRAN JAY ZHAO—IS BEING PUNISHED WITH THEIR BOOK WITHHELD. THEIR OWN PUBLISHER IS THREATENING THEM NOW. PLEASE SPREAD AWARENESS.
Serving me legal papers to try and intimidate me into silence instead of just giving me the edits is. wild.
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Media literacy is important. The term “queerbaiting” is strictly a media term. It was created to discuss the exploitation of media creators using the *possibility* of queer representation to lure in viewers. Real human beings, with their lives at stake, cannot queerbait.
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Sharing this again since we need it as a community lately❤️🥺
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a thread of authors that support Palestine🇵🇸📚🧵. @XiranJayZhao’s book HEAVENLY TYRANT, is still being delayed as punishment by their publisher. Zhao has spoken out against their threat of legal action. PLEASE SUPPORT HEAVENLY TYRANT! SPREAD AWARENESS!
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WE DON’T DRAG DR. SUESS ENOUGH SO IM GOING TO DO IT HERE. HE CHEATED ON HIS WIFE DYING OF CANCER!! WITH A WOMAN 32 YEARS YOUNGER THAN HER!! AS SHE HELPED HIM WRITE STORIES!!🤬 SHE KILLED HERSELF & HE REMARRIED HIS MISTRESS MONTHS LATER!!
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@Ukraine I wish my generation understood the difference between memes, shitposts, and actual political cartoons.
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For those of you who don’t know the premise of YELLOWFACE it’s about a white woman publishing under an Asian-influenced name. RF Kuang wrote this years ago and it’s happening now. Which is why I included the credit of her book. RF Kuang is not white!! She’s on Instagram!
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WE DONT DRAG CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY AUTHOR ROALD DAHL ENOUGH SO IM GOING TO DO IT HERE. HE SAID HITLER HAD “HIS REASONS” FOR KILLING 6 MILLION JEWISH MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN!!!!
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XIRAN JAY XHAO—THE POPULAR AUTHOR OF IRON WIDOW—IS BEING PUNISHED BY THEIR PUBLISHER FOR STANDING AGAINST GENOCIDE. AS A COMMUNITY, WRITERS AND READERS, WE CANNOT BE SILENCED IN THE FACE OF VIOLENCE. THAT IS DANGEROUS.
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IN ENEMIES TO LOVERS THEIR POWER DYNAMIC MUST BE EQUAL OR WITHIN RANGE OF EACH OTHER. THAT IS WHY COLONIZER ROMANCES DO NOT WORK. THAT IS WHY HE CAN’T BE 1000 YEARS OLDER THAN HER.
the day people grasp what enemies to lovers entails is the day I will find peace.
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not to be an alarmist. but booktokers like this will actively groom girls for toxic and abusive relationships. they bleed fiction and reality. they’re literally doing the violent misogynists’ work for them.
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i’m so ready for 👻🧡🕸🌙🍂🎃🦃, ☃️❤️🎅☕️🎄🎁 🌬 time.
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Apparently, this is about @XiranJayZhao's tweet. Xiran immediately told people to hold off on preorders once they remembered not buying stuff is part of the global strike. We need to be fighting ACTUAL Z!on!sts, not authors fighting genocide for MONTHS.
“palestine has been so heavy on my mind that i haven’t been able to work. anyways remember to preorder my book this week!” is insane.
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Paperback books used to be like $8.99. Kindle e-books used to be $4.99. Now hardbacks are like $33, paperbacks $22.99, kindles are $13.99. But the Libby App is $0.00.
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sorry if this is a silly question, but i've only seen pay phones in movies. did pay phones actually exist everywhere irl or is it used to create drama in films? why aren't there any?.
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PSA: Mental illness doesn’t make you racist. You were already hateful in August 2023. You harassed my book on Goodreads until I deleted it. I had no idea who it was and a new one was made. I am still recovering.
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THIS WAS THE BEST RESPONSE TO THE RACISM AGAINST THE LITTLE MERMAID. CHILLS!!!!
Are u dumb or are u dumb or are u just. dumb???
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Also RF Kuang is fun and amazing! Check out her work!! ❤️
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HOLY SHIT. CINDY IS RIGHT. IT’S STARTING AGAIN. THE SAME DAY I REFUSED TO ACCEP CAIT CORAIN’S APOLOGY, SOMEONE 1-STAR BOMBED MY BOOK, CINDY’S, AND OTHER 2024 DEBUTS. WTFFF.
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Furthermore, their biphobia is loud. Queer people do not owe you visibility. Ever.
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Cait Corrain did a new interview. With the same outlet AND columnist that interviewed me. Cait is claiming AUTISM is the reason they attacked me and other POC debut authors. I am the author who had to delete my Goodreads due to Cait’s harassment of my book on genocide. Thread. 🧵
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There was a survey conducted and released within recent MONTHS that in the entire INDUSTRY publishing is still almost 75% exclusively white. Which means you have easier odds of publishing white than the 7.8% of Asian creatives and even lower 5.2% of Black creatives.
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this should be the mentality of the entire book community ❤️🥺
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⚠️TW: SA.WE DON’T DRAG ALICE IN WONDERLAND AUTHOR LEWIS CARROLL ENOUGH SO I‘M GOING TO DO IT HERE. A THREAD🧵 . HE LURED CHILDREN INTO NAKED PHOTOS. A CHILD “INSPIRED” ALICE. THE PARENTS BANNED HIM FROM CONTACT AFTER DISCOVERING HE HAD TAKEN NUDE PHOTOS & DRAWINGS OF THE GIRLS.
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UPDATE: XIRAN JAY ZHAO—AUTHOR OF IRON WIDOW—IS STILL BEING PUNISHED FOR SUPPORTING P@LESTINE. THEY’RE NOW ASKING EVERYONE TO ASK @TUNDRABOOKS TO RELEASE HEAVENLY TYRANT IN 2024!!!. AUTHORS SHOULD NEVER BE PUNISHED FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST GENOCIDE. THAT IS CENSORSHIP.
Another day with no communication from my publisher 🙃 Can everyone ask @TundraBooks to give me my line edits so I can start working on them properly and get Heavenly Tyrant out within 2024.
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@XiranJayZhao RF Kuang, author of THE POPPY WARS, YELLOWFACE, and BABEL has spoken up in support of Palestine. It has now surfaced this why they were not nominated for the Hugo Awards despite being eligible. Xiran Jay Zhao was also excluded. This can’t keep happening.
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Also buy Iron Widow and Heavenly Tyrant by @XiranJayZhao. They’re actually an authentic Asian author (not pretending). They’ve faced ongoing racism and exclusion from awards. Please support their books!!!
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Also check out and follow @_withcindy!! She is a literary star on the rise! She’s also funny as hell 😭 She’s how I found out about this story. Subscribe to her YouTube channel! It’s amazing!.
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WHY DID WE EVEN TAKE THIS JOURNEY—TO WATCH THEM SUFFER????.
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I JUST GOT A SCHOLARSHIP FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY FOR NEXT SEMESTER!!!! 🥺🥺 My stress level just came down finally.
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KEEP DONATING. I just donated again today for Gaza and I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE all US, UK, Canadian citizens to donate because OUR GOVERNMENTS ARE USING OUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR THIS GENOCIDE. Women in Gaza need menstrual care and supplies. ANERA IS ON THE GROUND HELPING. (Links🧵)
Do people realize that cutting off funding means Canada and the US are now also intentionally starving Palestinians in Gaza and anywhere UNRWA operates?.In November, UNRWA was already forced to cut the number of families receiving assistance in Lebanon by 1/3 due to funding.
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THERE'S MORE. I JUST GOT CONFIRMATION THAT CAIT CORRAIN DELIBERATELY CHOSE THE SAME JOURNALIST THAT SPOKE TO ME. *I WILL SHARE DETAILS WHEN I CAN. IM SICKENED. THERE'S SO MUCH MORE.
HOLY SHIT. CINDY IS RIGHT. IT’S STARTING AGAIN. THE SAME DAY I REFUSED TO ACCEP CAIT CORAIN’S APOLOGY, SOMEONE 1-STAR BOMBED MY BOOK, CINDY’S, AND OTHER 2024 DEBUTS. WTFFF.
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@XiranJayZhao Sabaa Tahir, author of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, has been a strong advocate of Palestine’s freedom. She was told to “get politics out of her books” and she reminded everyone that the multimillion-dollar series takes place on AN OCCUPIED LAND.
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Leigh Barduo, author of THE GRISHAVERSE SERIES, has stated since 2020 they are Jewish against Zionism and believe in the freedom of Palestine 🇵🇸
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reading people's retro memories, i feel so nostalgic for a time i didn't even grow up in. it all seemed so social and adventurous back then. i wish we could get some of that back.
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I’m officially campaigning for more Black fantasy characters. More of her please 🥺
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dr. Seuss was also an unrepentant RACIST to Asian people. Especially Chinese and Japanese Americans. He REFUSED to remove it from his work even after the rising hatred against Asian Americans after the war.
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Chloe Gong, author of THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS, has continuously spoken out for donations to Palestine.
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The IRONY is that if Natasha Tynes had listened to the worker and minded her business, none of this would've happened. She technically warned her.
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Many people keep saying "well celebrities are brands + they generate revenue." Celebrities have high visibility and a high risk of being killed. For their own safety, protection, and humanity their inner sexuality should be allowed to be private. It's not for public consumption.
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This is how he depicted Africans…even though people claim he was a huge advocate for African Americans and Jewish people. Naked. Tribalism. Minstrel caricatures of “savages”.
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There’s more book drama. AGAIN😭😭 things really happen in threes . 1. Cait Corrain Scandal. 2. Lauren LM Davis Copyright Ploy. 3. Mark Dawson Plagiarism.
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@XiranJayZhao Their thread was about a conflict with their publisher, not Gaza. They were also disqualified from the Hugo Awards because of their advocacy against genocide. Yet because of ONE accidental slip-up, ppl are now subtweeting.
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Adiba Jaigirdar, author of THE HENNA WARS, showed support via Instagram for the recent global strike for Palestine 🇵🇸
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You stole my author photo and my copyrighted author name. This discord "conversation" is the least of your concerns. You will be hearing from my lawyers.
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@tracydeonn, author of THE LEGENDBORN CYCLE shared fundraisers and resources to help Palestine 🇵🇸
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full circle moment: my local bookstore used to call me Lavender Brown because as a kid I looked like Lavender Brown from Matilda. i used to sit in the @StephenKing section and read books all day. ❤️. i recently told them i might be signing books there, and they remembered me.😭❤️
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Hafsah Faizal, author of WE HUNT THE FLAME, continually shows support for Palestine 🇵🇸 and speaks out against the genocide.
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@dancingofpens future filmmakers everywhere are screaming with you. the nepotism is not even subtle.
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Stephanie Garber, author of ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART, terminated her book deal with an israeli publisher in 2020 and refused to work with them since.
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⚠️⚠️SA.WE DON’T DRAG LORD OF THE FLIES AUTHOR WILLIAM GOLDING ENOUGH SO I‘M GOING TO DO IT HERE. A THREAD 🧵 . HE WAS A PIANO TEACHER WHO TRIED TO RAPE A CHILD STUDENT!! DURING HER PIANO LESSONS—BUT SHE FOUGHT BACK AND GOT AWAY! THEY STILL TEACH LORD OF THE FLIES IN SCHOOLS!!!
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Ronald McNair—NASA astronaut died in the ‘86 Challenger crash. At 8 years old, McNair refused to leave the segregated Lake City Public Library without being allowed to check out his books. Police were called, McNair was allowed to borrow books. The building is now named after him
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update: TikTok is censoring Xiran’s response to the Hugo Awards deliberately excluding them from being a finalist. They need justice. Please speak up about this.
WTF MY TIKTOK ABOUT THIS GOT REMOVED FOR THE VAGUEST REASON
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Dahl firmly claimed that “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity” and that Jewish people “control the media.”. This argument fails when you realize how many atheists and Christians there are in media. WHY SO MANY CHRISTIANS!!! MILLIONS OF ATHEISTS??
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According to Ian Worthington, “Alexander was overwhelmed with grief. He petitioned the oracle at Siwa to grant Hephaestion divine status and thus Hephaestion was honoured as a Divine Hero.”. HE MADE HIM INTO A DIVINE HERO. LIKE—.
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This is racist. They misspelled Xiran Jay Zhao as Xiran Jay Zhou AND Zhoa in the same email. Also, they called IRON WIDOW by the cartoon THE IRON GIANT???. They had no intention of respect Xiran’s hard work. Please support their books!!!
So apparently emails between the Hugo Awards admin team last year have been leaked and. wow
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If you scroll Xiran's page, you'll see even before they spoke up about the Hugo or their publisher, they've been spreading awareness EVERY DAY. Yet other authors have yet to post ONCE.
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OMG!! THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO WIN GOLD IN FENCING!!! 🤺 🥇
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seeing this tweet changed how I approached creativity forever ❤️
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The MATILDA author died being anti-semitic. Also, according to the History Channel: “Dahl invented the net-wielding Child Catcher, replete with common anti-Semitic tropes such as a large nose, dark clothing/hat associated with Orthodox Judaism.”. THE CHILD CATCHER. STOP.
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Rebecca Ross, author of DIVINE RIVALS, has shown support for Palestine as well.
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Dr. Seuess was PUBLICLY DISMISSED by Teddy Roosevelt who didn’t give out him his award because they only had 9 and he was 10th in line. which made Dr. seuess permanently afraid of crowds. GOOD!. *Fun fact: Teddy Roosevelt is the reason we call stuffed animals teddy bears.🧸❤️
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If some celebrities *choose* to publicize and profit from their sexuality, it is at their discretion. But the public scrutinizing and demanding private information is not within the bounds of celebrity requirements. They are workers in an industry. Like everyone else.
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Cait Corrainwas also MALICIOUSLY competitive with other non-binary authors. She needed to be “first” and therefore attacked POC authors for our Greek mythology inclusions. She subtweeted me 24 HOURS after harassing my book.
I just realized Cait cropped this part out from the screenshots sent to the 2024 debut group (which were the screenshots publicized). I have a different version because I got it from a different source. They knew. They knew they were being racist.
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I'M GRADUATING FROM HARVARD IN 4 MONTHS!!!! I ALSO SIGNED A SIX-FIGURE BOOK DEAL ALREADY!!!! I almost gave up 😭 Never give up on your dreams ❤️
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@KimKardashian I don't care what anyone says, Kim and Kanye make some of the CUTEST KIDS 😍😍 😍 😍.
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✨✨TODAY I’M OFFICIALLY A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!✨✨. As a little Black girl I dreamed of this moment. I struggled at Harvard while I was severely ill for 3 years. THE EMPIRE WARS is a raw, passionate fantasy. I originally wrote it in high school. My wildest dreams came true. 🥹
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What bothers me about the banning of THUG by @angiecthomas is that:. Trayvon Martin was a teenager. Michael Brown was a teenager. TAMIR RICE was 12. Texas is saying these high schoolers are old enough to die of police brutality but not old enough to read/learn about it???.
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before anyone claims he was a product of his time, there were plenty of children’s books absent of racism. but also the oompa loompas who were his AFRICAN SLAVES despite slavery being abolished for YEARS prior!. they used an Indian-Sikh actor in the johnny depp version (yikes)
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Also, for context, Xiran requested more preorders to make it harder for their publisher to fuck with their book and it's a genuine concern because they're already holding their line edits hostage and delaying it.
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This is all so THE SONG OF ACHILLES coded. Also, fun fact: Many of the Ancient Greeks scholars thought women were incapable of loving men as deeply as men could love men. Yet historians straight-wash history. (idk if that’s a term, it is now).
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i am really thankful for all the answers! I'm trying to respond to as many as i can. ❤️ thanks for being kind about me not knowing this. much appreciated.
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