I'm opening up my commissions again and donating profits to evacuation funds. I can do everything from site design to typography + I draw everything by hand.
examples of my work below + next tweet
look, review bombing is bad but my friend is one of the people being accused of review bombing when she has left a thorough as fuck review about why this book IS a colonizer romance and i still keep seeing tweets like this
the reviewers of To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods have been continually harassed by the author and friends for posting their book reviews on Goodreads, this is their statement from Instagram that I’m reposting here.
today on bookstagram I saw a latinx bookstagrammer point out the anti indigenous themes in w*ven in m*onli*ght and immediately a white person said that it’s fantasy and people can write what they want AND THEN said it was racist when people responded “ok whitey” 😭😭😭
this has nothing to do w the cait corrain situation, that was fucked up and being mad about that is completely valid. what is not okay is stalking your Goodreads reviews and calling the negative reviews “review bombing” when it’s NOT
all the reviews i’ve seen that dislike the book have been from people of color, and the friend i’m talking about is from a place that’s STILL under colonial rule. i need people to shut the fuck up because these reviews aren’t coming from a place of ignorance
if molly doesn’t want her book to be labeled a colonizer romance, maybe she needs to make her writing more clear because i’ve read it too and it reads like a colonizer romance.
there are plenty of asian authors that write ~dark~ romance and do not get hate lol maybe think about why this one specifically was disliked instead of assuming review bombing
this is not applicable to only her but i’m tired of easian authors thinking they have the monopoly on colonialism books and i’m tired of easian authors speaking over us. what happened to authors staying away from reviews??? delete your goodreads app PLEASE
i just want to add that while only a few reviewers made a statement, the author and their friends have done this to many other reviewers. they have proof it was the author and the author is aware of that. this is not "drama", this is doxxing and harassment.
also it’s the first book in a series, if it’s not a colonizer romance just prove it in the next book ?? ain’t that deep and don’t even come for me for making a thread about this when i’ve seen this discourse being recycled for the past month or more
subtweeting a reader who aired a valid dislike of a book is never a good look from an author, especially when they're literally on a book tour for YOUR book
i heard my mom yelling “i do so much for you and you give me nothing in return” and i was like oh shit im sorry but she was yelling at her dying bamboo plant.
if you "didn't know" about the typhoons that happened in the philippines or literally ANY OTHER ISSUE bipoc creators are talking about, maybe fucking follow some bipoc creators instead of staying ignorant holy fuck
hi 🤡 redesigned since seeing someone copy my previous one ruined it for me. if i see the person that copied me the first time copy me again i'll tag them publicly and throw them to the wolves :)
A white dietian said with her whole chest that salsa wasn't a serving of vegetables. Like, onions, peppers, and cilantro turned into chocolate bars and cake the moment you turned them into salsa.
I need ppl to deal in reality bc living on this planet w/ppl like this is painful.
mentioned my partner to one of the interns and she was like “oh your boyfriend” and i was like “no i said partner” and she’s like “omg sorry i misheard you i’m not homophobic my mom’s a lesbian wait i mean i have two moms” LMAOOOO
if you’re more mad at a caste marginalized person for rightfully being upset that a certain religion has always discriminated against them than the religion for doing the discrimination then please unfollow me.
I don’t know if anyone will believe me, and I know this is long and I was told not to post a long statement because people might not read or take it out of context but I want to give everyone the whole truth. I am innocent. Please believe me.
i know twitter is dying but i would like everyone to know that i think i passed all of my classes this sem, i took an useless research class that made me lose half of my hair + i got zero credit for it, and i do have to take 19 credits and pass all of it to graduate next sem
i absolutely loved this book! tara not only wrote a good story, she wrote about caste-marginalization in hinduism in a very self aware way and i wish more people would write hindu mythology books with even a fraction of the care and research she did
also, the book IS a colonizer romance, full stop. you can totally explore dark themes in your book and that's all fine. the reviewers were blindsided by the colonizer romance being romanticized by the author and general book marketing. they also didn't like the book for other-
aapi month rant because im tired of y’all: aa and pi are shoved together bc it’s a shared political identity, not a cultural one so it’s annoying to me when non american diaspora or asians in their motherland get mad that it’s america centric. like yes, that’s the literal point
i got an internship at a tech company and there’s an intern gc and they’re all introducing themselves and what college they go to and i was feeling a lil insecure bc they all go to top schools and then i realized we all ended up at the same internship so now my ego is inflated
hey y’all, i just got fired from my job because of office politics. if you could donate to my kofi while i look for a new job in this recession, i would really appreciate it <3
I’m privating my account. yall have dragged my name through the mud when for the past few days you’ve SEEN me getting harassed by her fans. I’ve been called a Han supremacist, a white supremacist, and god know what else if I check my dms
“go water the plants, you’ll feel less depressed!!” my mom said and i scoffed but she was right 😭
anyway here we have green onions, arugula, cilantro, and lettuce
hey guys just a reminder while you’re voting in the goodreads awards that br*ndon s*nderson is homophobic, amer*can dirt is racist, cassie cl*re attacks minors on the internet (among other things lol), and that j*mes patters*n is an overall piece of shit :)
"have you ever held the entrails of an englishman? or bit the beating heart of spanish men? can you shoot an arrow in some french guy's eyeball? can you paint with the red colors in these men?" he did great w these lyrics hfdkljghdfkg
today at the bookstore this white person recommended me a book and i said no thanks because it was hindu mythology written really poorly (read: racist) and she’s like “yeah but who cares it’s still a good book, you have to pick and choose your battles” HUH???
i love Ramzan season because all the desi grocery stories do sales and i buy my year’s supply of falooda box mixes. here’s today’s drink ft rose milk, jello (no gelatin), basil seeds, and vermicelli
a lot of yall threw a lot of shade at Belle last time she called out Freydis. idc if you were manipulated, you owe her a fucking apology. you fools are on booktwt and get manipulated more easily than ppl joining cults
whiteys get called out and decide to go on a social media cleanse make no sense bc the people who called them out are on social media. correct me if I’m wrong but it just feels like they can’t take the heat and decide social media breaks are the way to avoid their critics
In making amends, what damage is done cannot be undone. I will be taking an extended leave of social media because I recognize that I have a lot of work to do on addressing and rectifying my behavior,
my grandma is deeply religious and i’m an atheist but we’ve always been able to talk about literature to bond. my favorite telugu proverb is one she taught me when i was young – nee chuttu andaru yedavalu unnaru
readers keep saying they want “more morally grey fmcs” and that “they support women’s wrongs” in books but god forbid a woc author actually writes a book with both
being away from home is so weird?? i can just leave the house when i want to??? i walked to taco bell for a baja blast and nobody asked me anything when i came back home?? my friends can just barge into my apartment and my dad can't interrogate them??
Goodreads says it's a great book but you all, please don't forget that Meet Me in Bombay is a white romance set during the British Raj in colonial India — a period of oppression and a time that's traumatic for very many generations.
i mentioned in passing that i was stressed and the next day there was a one pound bag of the fanciest tea i’ve ever seen outside my door. when i asked my partner about it, he was like “oh yeah you said you were stressed” like it was no big deal
years ago i made a friend at a rick riordan event and introduced her to my booksta and she eventually made a booksta too and then she met her bf via that community and he proposed so now they’re engaged!! anyway i have an undefeated matchmaking record
i always see posts like “this author or this book got me into reading” and i’m over here like “my mom classically conditioned me into loving reading when i was three”
literally crying because a few years ago i would've never expected to reconstruct a family tree that went back more than 2 generations and now i've finally learned my great great grandparents' names
yesterday i met up with my boyfriend for the first time since we started dating and i am pleased to say that we immediately started arguing without any awkward silence <3
plato really cooked w allegory of the cave bc that’s y’all’s hivemind - you can’t comprehend that marginalized people can be bad people because it shatters your worldview lol
i'm so glad i've reached a point in my life where all of my friends and i love and support each other unconditionally without any drama (ie this is your sign to throw toxic friendships to the curb)