A.M. Tuomala

@amtuomala.bsky.social

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Author of fantasy novels about language nerds, dragonslayers, and roaming geologists. Pronouns are xie or zie/hir. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/amtuomala Website: https://amtuomala.com/

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The cover of the book The Map and the Territory, which depicts two people standing back to back. One of them is a tall Black man in elaborate wizardly robes, and the other is a short woman with brown skin who wears practical clothes for adventuring.
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The cover of the book The Map and the Territory, which depicts two people standing back to back. One of them is a tall Black man in elaborate wizardly robes, and the other is a short woman with brown skin who wears practical clothes for adventuring.
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A - [SCENE of CLIMBING TO THE BAD GUY’S LAIR ON TOP OF AN OBSIDIAN MOUNTAIN]
The cover of the book The Map and the Territory, which depicts two people standing back to back. One of them is a tall Black man in elaborate wizardly robes, and the other is a short woman with brown skin who wears practical clothes for adventuring.
Two cats lounge together on a comfy chair. One cat, smaller and black and white, is curled up and facing away from the viewer. The other, a big black cat, looks up at the viewer with weary recrimination in his enormous eyes. Behind them, the top edge of a heating vent can be seen.
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A photograph of Yayoi Kusama's art piece Infinity Mirrored Room--My Heart is Dancing into the Universe. In a dark room with mirrored walls, ceiling, and floors, there hangs an array of black spherical paper lanterns with polka-dot cutouts. The lanterns shift in hue, showing an eerie vista of vivid pinks, blues, purples, oranges, and spring greens, infinitely mirrored.
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A screenshot from the play The Bacchae. The text reads, Enter Dionysos. Dionysos: Okay ladies, up we get, no more crouching, no more sobbing.
A black cat curled comfortably on a pillow beside a window; the great outdoors can be seen beyond, featuring a neighbor's fence, a tall bunch of yellow flowers, and a tree. No birds are visible ... yet. But he is vigilant. Ever vigilant.
Two cats lying together on a coffee table--one smaller and black and white, the other larger and all black.
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Two cats, one all black, one black and white. They are curled up together on a purple couch, surrounded by throw pillows.
A passage from The Farthest Shore that reads, You exist: without name, without form. You cannot see the light of day; you cannot see the dark. You sold the green earth and the sun and stars to save yourself. But you have no self. All that which you sold, that is yourself. You have given everything for nothing. And so now you seek to draw the world to you, all that light and life you lost, to fill up your nothingness. But it cannot be filled. Not all the songs of the earth, not all the stars of heaven, could fill your emptiness.
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All the books which are in the Pride Storybundle: The Map and the Territory by A.M. Tuomala, Be the Sea by Clara Ward, Fallen by Melissa Scott, A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert, Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, Fairs' Point by Melissa Scott, So You Want to be A Robot by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, Price of a Thousand Blessings by Ginn Hale, Reforged by Seth Haddon, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein, Welcome to Boy.Net by Lyda Morehouse, Power to Yield and Other Stories by Bogi Takács
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The cover of the book The Map and the Territory, which depicts two people standing back to back. One of them is a tall Black man in elaborate wizardly robes, and the other is a short woman with brown skin who wears practical clothes for adventuring.
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A playlist created in Windows Media Player that contains the following songs: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (cover) - Lorde Lilith - Halsey and SUGA Bones - Imagine Dragons Metal - Second Person Until it Sleeps (Live with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra) - Metallica The Hollow - A Perfect Circle Rolling in the Deep (cover) - Boyce Avenue Spectrum - Florence and the Machine Feanor (Herr des Lichts) - Oonagh Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics Never Enough - Epica Wood - Second Person Every Me Every You - Placebo Rainbow in the Dark - DIO Wicked Game (cover) - HIM To Each His Storm - Rome Dangerous (feat. Linea) - Two Steps from Hell Speak in Tongues - machineheart Havoc in Heaven - Jesca Hoop