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“Love one another, even if it scares you” ༚ he/they/she ༚ Proud Andean Native ༚ SFF Author & Editor-to-be ༚ #LandBack ༚ #AllEyesOnRafah
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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! 🏳️🌈
I’m Riviera, I write middle grade fantasy books ft. trans, nonbinary, and qariwarmi MCs as dragon riding necromancers, fairy mecha pilots, and spellbound ghoulish cowgirls, all in a new fantastical epic portal fantasy world where Andean gods take the lead!
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I’m a complete sucker for the “they use last names for each other until an emotional scene where they call each other by their first names for the first time” trope
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Okay, yes, but how about villain using the “power of friendship” that we see slowly bleed into the much more powerful “power of love”. Friends-to-Lovers poly relationship between the hottest scums of the earth.
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okay so like, that, but it’s coming from Character B as they watches from a distance as Character A rejects happiness in pursuit of vengeance they’ll never get. Character B bittersweetly filling the role of loyal righthand because it hurts too much to truly leave Character A
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character A treating the cut on character B’s lip but lingers for a moment longer
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only if you tip their chin up to make them look you in the eyes since they kept trying to turn away in embarrassment with a decorated knife.
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If you’re going to describe your magical hidden world as a “utopic” and then have no place for disabled people, queer people, religious people, or any culture that isn’t vaguely reminiscent of Anglo-Saxon Europe, you are legally required to catch these hands.
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And that thing where the object of their affection does wake up, but thinks they’re still sleeping and looks up at the other and smiles lovingly, them goes back to sleep and leaves that character in a blushing mess
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"there was only one bed" trope but they the object of their affection tore down the pillow wall and hugging at their waist, calling out their name softly when they tried to move ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
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This is not a “when characters” type of tweet but… characters goofing off… and sarcastically insulting each other in front of their friends… but calling each other “lover” or “my love” quietly in private… fUCK
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I’m BEGGING fantasy authors to double- no, TRIPLE CHECK your fantasy words are actually made up. I just picked up a book thinking it’s an urban fantasy by a black indie author cuz she said it was based on her childhood only to find out that her “Eritrea” is just FANTASY BRITAIN.
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EVERYONE LIKES YOUR IDEA!! YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A KILLER FIRST/SECOND DRAFT!! ITS GOING TO BLOW UP ON EVERYTHING!!! YOU WILL GET THE COOLEST DISPLAY TABLE AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE!!!! MANIFEST IT WITH ME BESTIE 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️
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found family trope but found family trope but they have all tried to kill each other at least once because it’s made up of villains and heroes ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
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Repeat after me: if you have enough time to establish slavery in your fantasy world, then you have enough time to establish that your characters are against it.
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Now how tf is your behavior so disgusting that you make XIRAN JAY ZHAO, who had furiously rededicated their whole platform to support and bring awareness to what is going on in different parts of our world, to stop for a second and basically call you a little bitch???😭😭😭
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the restraining them by lining them against a wall by their wrist, then whispering in their ears while pressing their chest against the opponent’s back.
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I think Shimin would’ve been popular in the book community on the sheer fact that he’s hot and dumb (IRON WIDOW by
@XiranJayZhao
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I was expecting some of the things that are coming out because the recent debut’s drama, but being caught pretending to be an author of color was not one of them.
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acotar contains pro-colonialist rhetoric but it seems you are the one who’s not ready for this conversation yet.
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let’s hurt more, characters kissing each others tears away and holding each other in their arms tightly but refusing properly kiss each other as they don’t believe they deserve them since the impending doom is a result of being with each other
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found family of morally fraudulent characters who commit crimes together but share a total of 1.023 brain cells when they’re together ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ★★
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How many backflips do you have to do mentally to come to the conclusions that taking ideas from unpublished works is the same as using using comps during a pitch event.
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The School of Good and Evil adaption is absolutely vile, I have never seen a more disjointed book-to-screen adapting in my life. Not to mention the added antisemitism, for what????
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The way I could do a whole thread of just dissecting the L*ghtlark marketing strategy from pre-deal to post-drama because it's so much more fascinating than the actual book is and could ever have been.
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that same absolutely amazing moment but NO ONE TRIES THE INTERRUPT THEM ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
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“I really want to be published soon”, I tell myself, having never finished a single WIP in my life before starting a new one
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Hunger Games comps will tremendously backfire on you if you only input the games and not the commentary. The oppression is the games, you cannot have one without the other.
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Hot girls redo their first chapters instead of accepting that first drafts are not meant to be perfect
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If you support Israel, not only do I want you to unfollow me, I want you to block me. I want there to be no chance that we interact again.
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TW! R/\PE
If I have to put down your MG book in visceral rage and text my reading friends, “bestie help [book] is justifying rㅁpe” I genuinely believe you should stop writing. For not only writing that, but marketing it to impressionable kids. You can’t come back from that.
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Guess what I’m doing
The way I could do a whole thread of just dissecting the L*ghtlark marketing strategy from pre-deal to post-drama because it's so much more fascinating than the actual book is and could ever have been.
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this person also pretended to be Quechua and have runa ancestors I REPEAT THEY WERE FAKING BEING NATIVE TO TAKE OPPORTUNITIES AWAY FROM ACTUAL ANDEAN AUTHORS
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Are authors “forcing diversity down your throat”, or are they representing everyone in the classroom? Some of you forget that YA is targeted towards 13-18 year olds. The “woke main cast” you’re crying about looks like an regular 9th grade English class but with magic.
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LOOK AT IT!! 😍🧚🏽🤖✨
this dazzling cover for ALBA DE LUZ, my MG fantastical sci-fi horror about an autistic native 🏳️⚧️ girl w/ a speech tablet forced to attend a flying mecha war college run by vicious name stealing fairies, was created by the incredible artist
@lauravidarteg
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Characters confessing to the object of their when they are severely injured, just when they believe they are about to lose, only to come back stronger, knowing they are fighting together, now and forever: ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
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this is my agent year this is my agent year this is my agent year this is my agent year this is my agent year this is my agent year this is my agent year this is my agent year this is my agent year this is my agent year this is my agent year this is my—
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Lies, Privilege, and L*ghtlark: A Long 🧵 On How To And To Not Succeed At Book Marketing (Part 2)
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this post inspired me so here’s a story in three parts
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ITS HERE!!!✨✨ It was hard to keep this a secret from y’all but no longer!! I’d like to everyone who was there for me during my process, you guys are the best!! FALL 2023 AAAAHHH!!!!
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It may not be in the format I dreamed of, but I’ll take it! ✨🐉💖 Still cannot believe that A Gathering of Dragon Flame, the deadly dragon middle grade fantasy book of my dreams will finally be out in the world Fall ‘24!!😭😭 Thank you everyone for all the love you’ve shown me!!
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guess she doesn’t want my MG dragon rider manuscript anymore🫢
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Characters kissing the object of their desire’s tears away as they clean and apply medicine to their wounds: ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
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All my characters are asexual unless I explicitly say differently.
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When the fantasy rebellion book you bought is actually not led by a civilian but a princess and fellow nobles so it doesn’t break the cycle of tyranny in any way nor change the distribution of power and autonomy and you’re just reading about a privileged person’s coup.
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@julzbanks
@stampepk
Because she’s a blatantly racist and transphobic bigot and we support, or should be supporting, people’s right to exist as a person and be treated like one too
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not even faintly touching, seeing each other after being separated for a week minimum should make every nerve in their bodies fucking explode and die while they gap like a fish at how stunning the object of their affection is or it isn’t worth it.
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Thank you Maas for comparing asexuality to being soulless. Really loving that representation, I truly feel seen as a person.
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can’t believe zhao momentarily became a protagonist in a “i transmigrated into a fantasy world” type light novel
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Allanpunchu
#writersoftwitter
! I am Riviera (or River), and I am an Indigenous SFF writer and aspiring literary editor! I write in both Adult and Middle Grade, and a currently working on and Adult Fae romance in 1910s America and a MG dragon rider urban fantasy! 💛
hi
#writersoftwitter
! I'm Tiffany, a Taiwanese writer and photography hobbyist. I'm a plotter/outliner, a notion & scrivener user, and like writing stories with a studio ghibli vibe! I'm working on a YA fantasy about an island in the sky & the connections between souls 🌸
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dreaming about having to write
the scenes that chapter 1
I made this first
WIP for
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They defeat the one who is hurting the hero, the object of their (affections) undying fury, and the villain keeps shaking the hero awake, saying “how dare you? how dare you try and leave me on someone but our own terms? I will NEVER forgive you if you die on me!”
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Fine then, I guess I’ll go write some fluffy scenes for my characters since you won’t stop making me yearn 😤
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the writer // the writing
the writer // the writing
in which my AO3 tag sweater matches my book dynamic
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN SARAH UNDERWOOD DIDN’T ACTUALLY READ THE ODYSSEY
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the book community saw indigenous readers and writers talk about how T.J. Klune repurposed the cultural genocide on many of our tribes for House in the Cerulean Sea and collectively decided that his whimsical found family novel was the hill they’re willing to die on.
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“That high fantasy novel isn’t groundbreaking, it doesn’t even let disabled people exist” — Me every other day
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The book community’s silence when it comes to blatant racism towards south asians is absolutely deafening.
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Hot take but if your MC shows up to the war strategy meeting in a thigh slit dress, I’m not gonna take you seriously at all. You’re deciding the lives and deaths of thousands of your people right now, why do you look like a shein model?? 😭
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Fairytale retelling needs more whimsy!!! The MC strapping a dagger to her outer thigh underneath her ballgown does not make up for the fact that I cannot bargain with the four winds to help me steal the gems in the sun’s crown in exchange for trading away my memories of love!!!
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Nobody:
Fantasy authors on their way to start their pitch with “when the”:
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"don't go where I can't follow" but the undyingly loyal personal guard and the heir to the throne they yearn after that’s preparing to run away from it all to lead the rebellion brewing beyond the castle walls
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#wipfeast
secret WIP time?🫣
Introducing: BURNSAINT
Taken across the sea as labor, Nare finds herself the false prioress of a Front County after her ability to see visions in flames is discovered as the Second Age of Miracles begins.
BABEL X WARRIOR NUN IN 19th CENTURY SPAIN
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Not going to ask for a follow, I’m just happy y’all are yearning with me this afternoon
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If you like the sound of:
🎐ANASTASIA meets OCEAN’S ELEVEN
🎐Reimagining of the Snow Queen
🎐Ink Based Magic System
🎐Heists during bloody coronations
🎐Found Family of Liars
🎐Murderous queens and lost princesses
🎐Amputee MC
Then you’ll love SIX LIVING CREATURES
#2kAesDay
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Me: I don’t have a favorite trope
Piece of media: they pretend to be drunks making out so they don’t get caught sneaking around by the guards
Me, visibly shaking: oh.
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The boys, the girls, they all want Carmen~~~ (I’m going insane)
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Fantasy is when indigenous people don’t exist, sci-fi is when indigenous don’t exist. It’s very different you see
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When their tears turn the same glowy color👀👀: ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
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