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WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON: COVER REVEAL
✨WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON✨— Coming MERMay 2025 in the USA and UK!
It’s with immense gratitude (and a racing heart) that I share the cover artwork for my debut historical romantasy, WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON! Links to preorder the novel and add it on Goodreads are now live and linked below, with details about Digital and Printed ARCs coming soon. **Note: If you’re preordering — SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS for the upcoming preorder campaign!**
I can’t overstate how grateful I am to Erewhon Books and Kensington Publishing for the joy of being able to fully illustrate a novel for adult readers! Thank you to my peerless editor Diana Pho and incomparable agent Saritza Hernández for embracing this book’s potential, as well as to the brilliant Cassandra Farin for her artistic oversight on this cover. I would also be remiss if I didn’t thank @argylefetish / @penpanoply and Alicia.MB.art on Instagram for their incredible beta help!
Finally, endless thanks to legendary authors TJ Klune and Freya Marske for their early praise of TIDES. I am undone with gratitude and just so humbled by their enthusiastic support of my work!
More details about the cover art, Benny & Río’s story, and what’s included in the hardcover edition will be coming soon. And in the meantime, I will be PINCHING MYSELF.
Preorder WTTHTM:
🚨Barnes & Noble members can preorder WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON today and get 25% off the book with the code: “PREORDER25”!🚨
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You know what?
I love you, fics that take months to update. I click on the newest chapter and have no memory of this place and get to go back some chapters and rediscover how much i love everything about this story.
I love you, fics that take years to update. I think of you fondly, and know your names, go search for you and see an update from this year and scream, diving in uncaring of any missed details (i will finish the update and read you in reverse because this is a treat you have bestowed)
I love you, fics that probably will never update again. Thank you for being a roman empire for my mind, thank you for teaching me about the ephemeral fandom experience, for inspiring a thousand million what if-s, for being a comfort read and a nostalgia read and a reread.
I love you fic writers, who jump into projects and stories with enthusiasm. I love you when you succeed in pumping out those chapters and that love doesn't go away when you stop.
I love you fic writers who post and then get in your own head and never feel confident enough to update, whether it's at all or whether it's just that one story.
I love you fic writers, who have a fandom or media hurt you to the point of abandoning or having a hard time with their WIPs.
I love you fic writers, who lose interest or have life changes or illness or bad memory. Thank you for being part of the fandom, a core part of the fandom. Thank you for the time spent in the fandom.
I love you, fic writers who try out something new and then stop. You're so valid.
I love you, WIP fics that may or may not ever get finished. Thank you for brightening my day in the way only you could have.
The grip this show has on me
I mean, the amount of times I’ve listened to The Chain by Fleetwood Mac is frankly embarrassing
(tap on the pic for high quality and please do not repost without credit)
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Saying goodbye to the Olympics with the Hexsquad doing some sports!!
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fyi
this post has been up for five hours and has two notes. i think tumblr shitcanned it because it has pictures of women wearing bras on it. very cool. no censorship message, just vanishing it
AHHHHHH someone put all the info from the now-extremely-hard-to-read, 10+ year old bra post into one nice infograph! THAT POST WAS MY BOOB BIBLE. Yay Boob New Testament!
official boob post
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biggest mindfuck is the fact that it can be so so difficult to tell the difference between when it's time for "do it bored/scared/stupid but by jove just do it" and when it's time for "if it sucks hit the bricks"
This is it. This is the entire summation of what it is to be a person.
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There are almost no beautiful things left
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2024.08.02
Strawberries And Cigarettes [M, 2.3k] by Ice_Insanityy
It was a strange contradiction—A part wanting. A part denying. Baz didn’t dare move. A soft scratch of someone’s lips ghosting over his ear jolted him out of his murky haze. Snow sounded more earnest than Baz had ever heard him as he said; "you gave me much more than a glimpse today, pretty boy. What more could I possibly want?"
O p e n Ending [T, 26k] by @ninemagicks / NineMagicks - Fic complete!
There's a story unfolding in the kingdom by the forest, but it's not the one you think. There are knights, true, and a princess bored out of her skull—and like any good story, this one has its fair share of villains. But it's also got pits, and pitfalls and prophecy. Problems popping out of the woodwork, and the threat of an unwanted ending looming large. Simon's going to have to keep his eyes and mind open to get out of this one, pride intact. And he'll really have to watch where he's swinging that legendary sword...
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Full artwork of Baz in the bonus content room for @thewholelemon ! Go read Chapter 3 of their fic “Just Remember Me When” https://archiveofourown.org/works/57161218/chapters/145389706#workskin
This piece holds the record for digital painting I’ve spent the most time on, just 20 minutes shy of 50 hours! It definitely felt longer, somehow😅 i practically painted the whole background with the knowledge that i would blur it in the end. I felt if i didn’t draw it all, the blur would look incredibly unrealistic and weird.
Jenny and I talked extensively about how the composition should look. Or rather, originally i wanted to fit all 5 people from the scene into the drawing, but just couldn’t not make it work. Jenny was incredibly nice and flexible, and told me that i didn’t need to, since Baz looking at Simon was the important part. Thats how we ended up with this composition
We also talked about how we wanted to represent the bonus content room, and settled on drawing inspirations from long exposure photography. I tried my best to get the effect via combining procreates different blurring options, using a bit of perspective blur and motion blur. Perspective blur was used to keep Simon’s face as a sort of focal point in the blurring, making sure his face was still intelligible. Im not quite sure i actually managed to make the blurring look specifically like long exposure photography though😬 maybe in the future if i get to draw something like this again, i might try some different methods!
Im incredibly happy i could be part of Carry On Big Bang this year! Ever since i read the books in November 2021, I saw fics written for the project and thought it was the coolest thing. Since i adore this project so, i knew i had to give it my everything (something my mother was really unhappy about. At the same time i was in this project, i was chosen for a project to illustrate one of many stories for a book about loneliness, one that would be published, which my mother thought i should prioritize and basically shit on this project🙄 safe to say i didnt agree. In the end i managed both. Take that mother.) (although i did actually put way more time into COBB whoops… but the carry on fandom deserves it)
See you next time, when i might post an artdump of all the art i did for artfight this past month!
✨Mark your calendars!✨ The cover art reveal for my debut historical romantasy WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON has a date! Meet me back here for the announcement on August 13th! 🧜🏼♂️💙🗽
It’s been a minute since I’ve been active on Tumblr, but I’m going to do my best to get back in the saddle this August! TIDES is breaking some new(-ish) ground in traditional Western publishing by being a fully illustrated novel for adult audiences, and I am so excited to share more about it with you in the coming weeks!
In the meantime, if you have questions about the book—or just want to squee with me—leave me a comment or an ask!
See you on the 13th! 🌊🧜🏼♂️💙🗽🎢🎊🎟️🎡🌛
Hotel California on Guzheng by Moyun.
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Hello Tumblr pals- I've been neglecting you with my Olympic diving information so I've decided it's time to pop it up here, too.
You may or may not know that I wrote an Olympic diving fic for the Our Flag Means Death fandom, featuring newcomer Stede and veteran Ed at the Paris 2024 Games, who compete for different countries but fall into a love that goes beyond borders. Synchronicity is very spicy, very full of love, and very full of diving, so having written it because I've been obsessed with the diving since I was a kid, it's been LOVELY hitting the actual Olympics and having friends to watch with.
But that also means I have information, which I've put together into infographics that might help you enjoy the events!
First up, the diving events by height! You'll see that there are lots of different boards, but only two are used in competition- the fixed surface 10m platform, and the flexible surface 3m springboard.
You can see a calendar of the Olympic events this time around here.
The synchronised events are completed in a single round of five dives for women and six dives for men, while the individual events include three rounds of five (women) and six (men) dives.
Most divers only compete in either the 3m or the 10m, but some (like the legendary Greg Louganis) compete in both. Only some divers compete in both the individual and the synchronised events, but if you were to compete in all of the men's events, here's how many dives you'd do!
The synchronised events feature only eight teams.
The individual events can have up to 30 competitors in the preliminary round. The top 18 go through to the semi-final, and then the top 12 from that round go through to the final, where they compete for the gold, silver and bronze medals. The scores are reset in each round.
Women must complete dives from five different groups on springboard and platform.
Men must complete dives from five different groups on springboard, and five different groups in the synchronised platform events, and six different groups in the individual platform events (the sixth group being the armstand group, which can't be used on springboard).
The armstand group is allowed but not required in the men's synchronised events (I'm not sure if this is a recent change but I really thought it was required there, too, until I realised nobody used it in the recent round of synchronised diving! So where you see me stating it's required in these infographics, that's only for the men's individual 10m platform events).
An illustration of the diving groups and the direction of launch and rotation they represent include forward, back, reverse, inward, twist, and armstand (only used on the 10m platform):
Every dive has a dive number that explains all the elements of it, and these are explained below.
Non-twisting dives have three numbers and a letter. The first shows the diving group, and the second whether there's a flying action (this is rare in Olympic competition and will almost always be zero). The third shows the number of half somersaults completed (going from upright on launch to head down on entry will always result in an odd number). The letter is the dive position.
The numbers for twisting dives are similar, but they include four numbers and a letter. The first number is almost always 5 for a twisting dive (but can be 6 if it starts from an armstand position). The direction of rotation is next, or the equivalent to the other diving groups. The number of half somersaults is next, followed by the number of half twists. And the letter also shows the dive position.
The diving positions- straight, pike, tuck, and free- are shown below.
Straight involves no bend or curve to the body. Pike means legs straight and body bent at the waist. Tuck is the legs bent and tucked against the body. And free includes a combination of positions, and is generally used in twisting dives. Each dive is given a degree of difficulty based on a chart that calculates the complexity of the combination, which can be found in the appendix here.
In the synchronised events, everyone's dives receive a degree of difficulty of 2.0 for the first round, no matter what their normal degree of difficulty would be, which is why you often see divers using the simplest possible types of dives.
Speaking of scoring, there's a fair bit of complicated math involved! But hopefully this might help break it down a little.
In individual events, seven judges assess each diver and how successfully they completed the listed dive, which has to be submitted in advance. The top two and the bottom two scores are eliminated. The three remaining scores are added together, and then multiplied by the degree of difficulty for the total score. The scores from each dive are added together for the final score.
It gets a little more complicated in the synchronised event!
Eleven judges assess each synchronised diving round. Six score the divers (three for each) and five score the synchronisation. The top and bottom scores for each diver are eliminated, as are the top and bottom synchronisation scores. The remaining five are added together, and then multiplied by 0.6 to reduce five scores to the equivalent of three. This is then multiplied by the degree of difficulty for the total score. Each round's score is added together for the final score.
The actual scoring of the diving includes many different factors, but most importantly, they're measured against the specific planned dive and how well it's executed. Failure to complete the planned dive can result in zero points. You can see all the detailed rules here!
So there you go! That's all the info on how to understand Olympic diving across the 16 events that take place during the Olympics. I hope this helps! To see the upcoming events (make sure the filter is set to your local time) check out the Olympic diving schedule here.
And if you'd like to see our historical pirates transported across to the world for a modern AU and a sweeping sports romance, check out Synchronicity and the Love Beyond Borders series.
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“One spell. Then I’m gone.” A small laugh punches out of him. I don’t know what it means. I don’t know if I want to. “Fine,” he says after thirty seconds, squeezing his eyes shut. He says it like he’s about to face the Humdrum again. “Fine. Cast it.” I don’t need to be told twice. I level my wand at his chest, right where I know his heart would be. I hear it pounding in my ears; he smells like cinnamon buns and fireplaces. “Time is an illusion,” I cast, my voice a hoarse whisper, and I shut my eyes too so I don’t have to see the way he tenses before it lands. I know what that looks like. Bunce has cast on him enough that I’ve memorized which of his muscles clench before her magic runs through him. He can hit me, he can scream at me, I’ll take it all. He can break up with me now. For real. At least I tried. But when I open my eyes, Simon is gone.
Simon Snow won't get off the couch, and he won't go America. Baz is ready to give up, ready to let Simon's break up speech finally reach its conclusion. He only wants to cast one spell first: Time is an illusion, a forbidden work of magic sent to him by his aunt.
When it goes sideways, Simon finds himself back in time. Specifically, he is back to September of 1996, with Ebb, Fiona, and Nico still studying magic at Watford. There's something else, too. His magic is back.
In an attempt to follow him, Baz and Penny find themselves also thrust back in time, but they open their eyes to May of 2002 and watch a headmistress with a child on her hip walk by.
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merry @carry-on-big-bang to you all and a big thank you to @ic3-que3n for being a wonderful fest mod and @shrekgogurt for being the best big bang partner ever and writing a SONG (!!!) for this fic. peep the preview trailer mary made, it's amazing and the full song WILL make you cry
chapter 1/5: 7.4k out of a probable 50k
updates (hopefully) every other week!!
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