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@tansyrr
Apr 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
36 hours to go on the Castle Charming Kickstarter, and we’re at 153 backers! Get your pledges in now.

For every new backer from now until close, I’ll recommend one fairy tale themed book that I love.

kickstarter.com/projects/castl… #fairytalerecs
154! Let me tell you about Beauty by Robin McKinley, which imprinted upon my teen heart. Beauty is one of the most sympathetic protagonists I’ve ever read & her Beast is LOVELY. In a revolutionary twist, her sisters are basically awesome & worthy of her sacrifice. #fairytalerecs
Thanks, Backer 155! Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is a glorious historical novel version of Rapunzel, dipping between Italian witch history and French court fairy tale author history. Unforgettable. #fairytalerecs
Thanks, Backer 156! The Girls of The Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine is a recent adaptation of one of my all time faves - the 12 dancing princesses! Set in the 1920s, the sisters escape an oppressive house and find new identities & destinies dancing in speakeasies.

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Mar 2, 2022
So hello, I’m an author who’s run two solo Kickstarters, two small press Kickstarters for Twelfth Planet Press, & been involved in a bunch of other book crowdfunding projects.

Yes, I have thoughts about the Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter! (thread)
My first thought is mostly ‘wooooooooo’. I can’t keep my eyes off that number scrolling upwards. As one of a niche community who has regularly watched a Kickstarter like it’s my sport, this is our Grand Final. It’s our Olympics.
(It’s over $16 million US right now, which is an even more impressive $22 mill in Australian dollars. It’s literally made half a million dollars while I finished a cup of tea)

More importantly (yes, really) the number of backers is over 65,000. That’s a fascinating number.
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Jun 16, 2021
Art and Craft preferences of the Siege of Troy! Helen and Achilles, both hardcore knitters. Sadly they never meet but if they did they’d talk mostly about their respective yarn collections.
Hector: thoughtful charcoal sketches, mostly of pets and stray animals spotted around the city.
Paris: says art is a waste of time and yet documents his daily outfits on Insta and has been known to spend hours working on his hashtags.
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Jun 16, 2021
OK I saw a book described as ‘a gritty retelling of the siege of Troy’ and… does Troy need a gritty retelling? It’s already pretty gritty what with all the rape and war and death and grief.
I want the cozy retelling of the siege of Troy. All the knitting and sourdough recipes from the first 9 years they were all walled up together.
I want the fluffy sitcom of the siege of Troy! Give me deadpan shield-mates and cranky spear-holders!
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Sep 27, 2020
I know it feels deeply unreal and bizarre that people are wandering around blithely denying we’re in a pandemic, but… humans do this. I just, for example, started casually researching green dye for a murder mystery I’m writing...
The Victorians were so obsessed with emerald dye (made from arsenic) that they happily kept wearing it, even though doctors all told them it was poisonous, even with newspapers publishing pictures of skeletons in ballgowns...
...even with reports of hands blistering from wearing green gloves!

What was the alternative, wearing DULL COLOURS?

Some people believed it was fine as long as you did not lick the fabric. IT WAS NOT FINE.
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Aug 18, 2020
Coming tomorrow to my Patreon (subscribers only): Holiday Brew, the second Belladonna U collection of stories & novellas about Australian student witches.

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What’s an Aussie witch to do for Halloween when the weather is all spring sunshine and happiness? What’s the appropriate ritual for breaking up with your boyfriend on the Summer Solstice? And who did Ferd Chauvelin kiss on New Year’s Eve?
Follow our Belladonna U student witches through three holiday festivals with their usual romantic disasters, friendship dramas, and magical explosions.
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Aug 17, 2020
That conversation with @penguinpastiche got me thinking — what art are you making in the year of pandemic? What new art have others been making this year that makes you happy? (ALL ART IS ART)
@penguinpastiche I hope when people write about this year they remember all the cool shit people did to keep each other sane. Like ballerinas dancing in the street, and Fraggle Rock coming back, and all those fanfics where they are in love but they can’t visit each other yet.
kids drawing chalk rainbows on the pavement, Aussies dressing up in ballgowns to take the bins out, teddy bears left in windows to cheer up solitary walkers, SOURDOUGH STARTERS PINNED TO TELEGRAPH POLES.
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