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Book cover for Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle. The background is turquoise and it features soft pink writing that turns into a soft yellow ombre at the bottom, saying first the author's name and then the book title. In the middle of the cover is a pair of pink, heart shapped sunglasses reflecting blue water, with a splatter of blood across the right side. At the top it says "USA Today bestselling author." At the bottom it says "Never meet your heroes." Under that, in soft blue text, it says 'A masterly ride across terror and wonder, Olivie Blake New York Times bestselling author"
Book cover for She Knows All The Names by Michelle Jabès Corpora. Brightly colored with reds, oranges, yellows, and things of blue, green, and purple. Two spears criss cross the front of the cover
A human hand flipping off an orange cat, whose head is tilted back with his mouth open and eyes squinched partially shut, making it appear as if he's screaming. He's sitting in a chair. Above the cat's head is the word "me." In the human hand, it says "The threat of world war three"
A human hand flipping off an orange cat, whose head is tilted back with his mouth open and eyes squinched partially shut, making it appear as if he's screaming. He's sitting in a chair
Book cover for Sleep Like Death by Kalynn Bayron. The cover mostly shows a young woman in armor, holding out a vibrant green apple that is leaking green liquid on the bottom. The background is a nighttime, snowy scene
Collage of 6 book covers. From top left top to right, we have Oathbound by Tracy Deonn, A Thousand Pieces Of You by Claudia Gray, and Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton. From bottom left to bottom right, we have Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan, His Face Is The Sun by Michelle Jabès Corpora, and Sunrise On The Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Book cover for The Things Gods Break by Abigail Owen. Mostly in orange, it shows two crossed weapons that remind me of beetles
My husband and I dressed up as Bob and Linda Belcher from Bob's Burgers. I have my arms around my Bob
Book cover for The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink. The cover is split in two, like a reflection of a house over water. The top half shows a giant, orange moon with stars and some clouds. There's a house with a little upper window that shows a person's shadow. A tree sits on either side of the house. The lower half, upside down, shows a distorted version of this house
Book cover for The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah. The background of the cover is a white Islamic geometric pattern. In the center, between the title and author, is a golden compass with a palace, a person on a horse on a sand dune, a hooded, cloaked figure, and a lamp in its center. Red and orange fire, which appears almost like ink in water, splashes across the cover in a horizontal line, under and around the compass. Across the very top, it says ""A THRILLING ADVENTURE ABOUT FOUND FAMILIES, ANCIENT MAGIC, AND STORIES THAT LINGER." S. A. CHAKRABORTY, AUTHOR OF THE CITY OF BRASS"
Book cover for A Thousand Pieces Of You by Claudia Gray. Starting with a white background, the cover looks to be a watercolor painting with splashes around the edges. The top half shows the London city shape in blues ans greys. The bottom half shows a Russian city, in pinks and purples and oranges, with some green and white
A black smoke Maine Coon kitten named Kor is resting on a grey and cream cat bed on a dark hardwood floor. His head is on his paw, which is slightly over the edge of the bed. A colorful fish toy in turquoise, pink, and orange is on the floor nearby
A man holding two Maine Coon kittens: an orange polydactyl kitten on the left, a dark gray kitten on the right
A video clip from Xena Warrior Princess. Xena and Gabrielle are facing the camera, talking to Ares whose back is to the camera. He walks between Xena and Gabrielle, then looks over his shoulder at Gabrielle and says "don't touch me" before continuing on his way. Gabrielle looks at her hand, then Xena
A screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess. It shows Selma Blair
Book cover for The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. The title, in a green to white ombre, takes up most of the cover. The background is a space scene with some stars and a subtle blue nebula. There is a small, reddish Planet behind the word "The." The spaceship from the book is tucked under the word "way," next to the word "small," and above the word "planet." It's a bulky hodgepodge of a ship either a green dome on its back right side. The words "Great fun! - Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice" graces the bottom right corner. A green circle with the words "Winner of the Hugo Award for best series" graces the top right corner
A triptych photo made up from screengrabs from Xena Warrior Princess. Top left shows two boys with a lot of people behind them. The boy on the left is a human-urchin hybrid and the boy on the right is a human-manatee hybrid. The image on the bottom left is Gabrielle in water with a mermaid tail. The image on the right is of Gabrielle in front of a pool, wearing a yellow bikini with a matching sarong, holding an apple in one hand and the handle of a cart in the other. In the cart is a squid like baby creature with a human face
Half of my face is done up in a diagonal pride flag, with the skin around the edges in the middle of the face contoured to look like the skin is being pulled up to reveal the pride flag underneath. My lips are done in the trans pride flag. The eye not in the pride flag is done in the pansexual flag colors of pink, yellow, and blue. My shirt is black and says "You will have to go through me" in trans flag colors. In this photo, I am posed as if pulling the skin on my face along the contouring to expose the pride flag underneath. My hair is shaved on one side, the length of which is blue to white ombre and shoulder length
A video clip from Xena Warrior Princess. Xena and Joxer are shopping for supplies, which are laid out ok wooden, handmade shelves that mimic grocery stores. Joxer picks a doll up from the shelf and places is in a wooden, handmade shopping cart
A diptic photo. The top photo is a screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess and shows a woman in old-style, red, Chinese clothing with a gold and red headdress. She's saying "death was only the beginning." The bottom photo is a screengrab from the 1999 masterpiece The Mummy, showing Imhotep as he de-generates back into his mummy form as he sinks in water. He's saying "death is only the beginning"
Book cover for Di Curious by Erin Branch. There is a d20 di, with the 20 up, in between the two words of the title. The tagline along the top reads "a sapphire tabletop RPG romance." The cover is set in a fantasy, d n d style library with soft wood colors everywhere, a bookshelf behind the two characters, and a table with an open book, a video game controller, a d4 di, a red dragon figurine, and an oil lamp in front of the characters. The bookshelf behind them also has a quill, the lesbian flag, the nonbinary flag, and a crystal ball on it. The two characters are both Tieflings, a humanoid horned race. The one on the left has pink hair with a flower crown and is wearing leathers and fabrics and has a pink tail in frame. On the right is a paladin with metal armor and short, teal hair
A triptych photo of 3 screengrabs from Xena Warrior Princess. Top left shows a man in a ton of leathers with a cowboy style leather coat and hat. Bottom left shows a stereotypical cowboy shot of a standoff, where one person's butt and thigh is taking up roughly the right half of the screen as he shows off his gun, while the rest of the screen shows his duel partner across the way. The photo on the right shows a woman in stereotypical cowboy getup, with the addition of a sword on her side, moving her coat out of the way to show off her gun
A screenshot of the stories reel on Facebook under the "what's on your mind" prompt for making new posts. It shows 3 story slots. The first is for me, it's empty as I dont post stories. It has my profile photo and the words "create a story." The second is a friend's story, which I have censored with a red flower sticker with a green leaf, and I drew over the name and profile photo. The third is an AI photo of me that I did NOT generate, an old photo of me with my hair styled by AI and dressed in an old timey outfit, also done by AI. It says "Meta AI" underneath. Again, I DID NOT make this image
Book cover for Galaxy The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor. The cover shows a gorgeous purple-skinned alien with teal hair and darker purple horns, wearing a trans flag crop top, sitting on top of a water tower next to her corgi, who has a navy blue bandana with thin white stripes tied around his neck. The rest of the cover is the sky with the moon and some clouds, as well as some leafy vegetation off the side. The words across the top read "As a metaphor for transness, Galaxy: The Prettiest Star is refreshing, original, and fun! With breathtaking illustrations and beautifully written characters to fall in love with, it's a brilliant new addition to DC's YA lineup." -Nicole Maines, actor, activist, writer
Book cover for Straight by Chuck Tingle. The cover features a photo from the California desert at night. The landscape is still light enough to show some color, and you see cacti and Joshua Trees with a butte in the distance. The sky is covered with stars and a branch of the milky way, but the stars are clustered in such a way that the sky has a skull shaped into it
Book cover for Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle. The background is stark black. The author's name is in big, pink letters. The letters of title itself are brightly colored purples, pinks, and oranges with an LA beach vibe with palm trees inside each letter. A sledgehammer is angled diagonally across the letters, and its head is dripping with blood. The tagline reads "You can make a killing in Hollywood."
The book cover for The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton. Floating in the center are two women. The woman on the left is floating higher, wearing blue clothes and matching glasses with her blond hair in a ponytail. She's slightly see through. The woman on the right is floating less high, wearing brown and gold clothes, with short curly brown hair. She's not see through. Behind them are swirls of color. The caption reads "it was love at first spaceflight"
A pride flag made from close up photos of dyed hair. This flag is the most recent updated flag that includes intersex people, trans people, and BIPOC
A screenshot of an Instagram post by pandaspansinstitute of Westwood, New Jersey The image is a watercolor style painting in blues and tans with a green awareness ribbon on the left. It says "lyme awareness month"
A dual image. On top is a screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess of Callisto, with short blonde hair, saying "ah, so you're not the only clever girl." On the bottom is a screengrab from Jurassic Park of a velociraptor coming out of the bushes to attack Muldoon, whose profile appears on the left third of the screen. While the words don't appear on screen, this is the scene where he calls her a "clever girl"
Book cover for The Knight And The Moth by Rachel Gillig. The cover, mostly in dark blues, silvers, and black depicts a woman floating on her back in water. Her hair covers her eyes. Her clothes are half gossamer dress on the right and half knight's armor on the left. There's a flower in her hair and flowers and greenery in the water. There are a few soft pink moths, one on her hand, one on the G, and one on the M. In the top right corner, it says "prepare to meet your next obsession - Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals"
Two images from Xena Warrior Princess. The top image shows a man in gilded leathers and a demon-like mask, lying on dirt with a staff pressed to his chest. The dialogue reads "We were ordered to stop you from reaching the Avatar" The bottom image shows Gabrielle, and blonde woman, and Eli, a man with long, dark hair and a dark beard, walking in a village. The dialogue reads "it's the avatar"
A video clip from Xena Warrior Princess. Xena throws a watermelon at a woman in India who is possessed and swinging her two swords around at inhuman speed. She shreds the watermelon with her swords
Two photos of me in mermaid makeup, looking straight at the camera in the first photo and off to the right in the second. I have a seashell and jewel crown on with gold stars hanging down on a gold chain and a fake diamond encrusted moon dangling at the center of my forehead. I have one shaved side, the rest of my hair curled and past my shoulder, dyed in an ombre of blue to purple to a pink purple. I'm wearing a scale maile necklace in silver, teal, blue, dark Grey, and purple. My makeup mimics scales in an ombre that matches my hair, pink eyebrows and black lips. My eyes are done in Greys with a big, black wing
A bright blue background with two red warning lights, like you'd see on an emergency vehicle. The text reads "Warning, ICE in Dundalk Maryland!!"
Book cover for His Face Is The Sun by Michelle Jabès Corpora. The cover is bright golds and teal. It shows what looks like a throne with cobras for the arm rests. A wooden staff is in the center with one black and one red cobra twisting around it
An educational infographic in blue and green. The background is a faded image of a person hiking a mountainous area. In green it says "did you know?" Below that, in blue, it says "Ticks carry multiple pathogens that cause disease other than Lyme in humans, including anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Colorado tick fever, ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Pacific Coast tick fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, tick-borne relapsing fever, and other coinfections." At the bottom, it says "May is tick-borne disease awareness month" and then has a green Lyme ribbon and the letters "Igx", which is short for Igenix. I want to add that this infographic left off bartonella as a coinfection
Book cover for In The Shadow Of The Fall by Tobi Ogundiran. The cover shows three women. On the left is a woman in blue with glowing blue-white eyes. Her body is facing away from, but her face is turned toward, the woman in the center, to whom she is reaching an arm. On the center is a woman in white with a red sash across her waist and a satchel. She's stranding on a boat with her arms outstretched. Her eyes and the runes along her skin are glowing. On the right is a woman in soft yellow and golds, mirroring the position of the woman on the left. Her eyes also glow. It appears to be raining, and lighting is forking behind the center woman. Across the top, it says "The novella of the year has arrived! - Mark Oshiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author"
A four panel meme. The top panel is Evie from The Mummy, moving a big metal mirror, saying "and then there was..." The second panel shows a light beam bouncing around a cavern, and it says "...light." The third panel shows the Death Star's green beam, from Star Wars, heading toward the planet Alderaan. The fourth panel shows the planet exploding
A series of 4 screengrabs from Xena Warrior Princess. It shows a middle aged mannin leather armor in the first three and Xena, looking up at him in the fourth. The words read Prison Warden: You're a real hero, aren't you? If I say you're a hero, you're a hero! Now [laugh], you're a real hero, aren't you?" To which Xena replies "I'm a hero"
A screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess. Bruce Campbell, playing Autolycus, is wearing a black robe that covers part of his neck and a wide-brimmed black hat with a black veil coming off the back. He's on a platform, addressing a crowd. His arms are raised, his face open and bright as he calls out "praise her!" People in the crowd also have their hands up as they chant "praise her!" back
Book cover for Fan Service by Rosie Danan. The title and author's name are shown on a film clapperboard, taking up a good chunk of the lower cover. Above and behind it are the two main character's. Devin, upfront, is a man with shoulder length brown hair and a smirk as his clawed hands rip off his shirt. Alex has black hair and a septum ring and is holding a werewolf book with note tabs in it. Behind them is a moonlit sky. At the top, it says "Grumpy meets sunshine - with teeth! - New York Times best selling author Ashley Poston"
Photo of a key lime pie on a cooling rack
Book cover for Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan. The tagine reads "it's time for your Villain era." The cover shows a woman with wavy brown hair in a silky white dress tinged in blood red at the hem, and a silver breastplate. One hand is in a silver gauntlet with a snake twining around it. She's sitting on a Throne made of bones and skulls with her legs over the armrest. The background is black in the center with a golden archway on either side and over the woman's head. Two reviews are on the cover. One reads "Brilliant - Holly Black," the other "audacious and supremely satisfying - Leigh Bardugo"
A woman with glasses, a shaved side, and blue hair slightly above the shoulder is facing the camera. I'm wearing a black shirt with a pink and purple galaxy print bear face. I'm standing in front of a bookshelf and looking off to the side with an incredulous but almost amused expression
A video clip from Xena Warrior Princess. Joxer, wearing a floral pink nightie, has been cursed by Aphrodite to be a monkey man, very Geroge of the Jungle. He has captured Gabrielle and is holding her in a tree. He hears Xena coming and calls to animals for help. The compilation of animals includes a gazelle, a lion, giraffes, a goat, elephants, and an eagle. After none come to his aid, he calls out again. It shows many of the same animals, as well as a monkey and hippos, all acting embarrassed, hiding, or yawning. He curses them, grabs Gabrielle, and comically wings away on a vine
A screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess. The photo is of two men, sitting shoulder to shoulder, mostly straight on to the viewer. On the left is Autolycus, played by Bruce Campbell. He has short dark hair and a goatee of sorts and is wearing purple and green robes. On the right is Joxer, wearing black studded leather. They have similar, grimace-like expressions on their faces
Book cover for Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton. The cover is mostly of space with a planet taking up a large chunk of the bottom, two moons, and nebula and stars. There's a human floating above the planet in a space suit. The cover says "a brisket, spirited sci-fi romp...hugely enjoyable- Max Barry, author of Providence"
A Kobo eReader in a space themed case. The case is in a few shades of darker and navy blue, some very light greyish-blue to represent whiter spots, and gold. The bottom is a rocky landscape with a river running through it. The sky has several moons, some crescent shaped, a lot of stars, and a few planets, one with rings near the northern pole)
A screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess. On screen is a middle aged man with black hair and a very long, black goatee. He's wearing black studded leather with sizeable brown leather lapels with silver metal dragons on it. In the background is a large, lit candelabra, green stone walls, and a purple drape over the doorway. The man resembles the original klingon design from Star Trek The Original Series
A video clip from Xena Warrior Princess. Xena is talking to Meleager when her head pops up and she grabs an arrow seemingly out of thing air inches from Meleager's face. Xena calls to Gabrielle to get down, who moves offscreen. Xena catches a second arrow, also inches from Meleager's face. He runs offscreen and throws himself onto the grass, landing on his back. There is a man hiding in a tree, aiming his crossbow. Xena throws herself toward Meleager, the camera follows the arrow. Xena jumps in front of Meleager. She catches the third arrow with her teeth while still holding the other two arrows, one in each hand
A screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess. Karl Urban is playing Julius Caesar. He's sitting down. His body is angled to the left if the screen but his face is forward toward the camera. He's in the typical brown, Roman, leather armor
A screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess. At the end of a beauty pageant, the winner, wearing the tiara and holding a bouquet of roses, is dipping and kissing Xena while women applaud around and behind them
A screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess. Xena, in a blonde wig, is wearing a gold and cream dress with a matching fabric crown. She's in front of a giant, fake opened clam and is in the process of raising her arms above her head. She has a coy and excited performance smile on her face
A screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess. A large man with shoulder length white hair and an equally long beard is wearing a red hat and a red coat with a thick black belt along the waist. He's facing the camera and his right arm is raised in a fist. The captions read "But I just grabbed my sack of toys and ho, ho, ho, down I came"
A screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess, comprising of 4 photos, portraying a conversation between Meg (played by Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle. The two women are seated next to each other. In the first two frames, the camera is on Meg, who says "I've been on my own since I was 10 years old. I'm tougher inside than you'll ever be." The third frame shows a concerned looking Gabrielle, who says, "since you were 10?" In the fourth frame, which is back on Meg, Meg says, "my father died in childbirth."
A screengrab from Xena Warrior Princess. This image is two photos. On the left, Xena is facing the camera. She's wearing a gorgeous red and gold dress and has on a gold headpiece and two gold armbands on each arm. On the right, two Xenas, both in the same outfit, are facing each other. One is standing upright while the other is slouching
A screenshot from Xena Warrior Princess. The photo is of Callisto, leaning against a tree. She's wearing leathers and has a sword strapped to her back. While her body is mostly straight on to the viewer, her head is tilted slightly to the side
A video clip from Xena Warrior Princess. Xena is attacked from behind by a flying bacchae (kind of like a vampire lady). Xena grabs the woman and throws her. She flies into a wall and explodes. The video then cuts to an second clip in which Bacchus, an evil god, stands in a cavern with his hand to his chest. He is tall and broad red demon with rams horns. The hand to his chest is holding a weapon that has impaled him, a rib bone. He screams and then he, too, explodes
A photo of Lyceus from Xena Warrior Princess on the left, compared to a photo of Ted from Schitt's Creek on the right. Both men are somewhat tanned with dark blonde hair and light eyes