Northern Natter

It’s the day! One Smile More is now live, you can read it with your very own eye holes, and this brings me great joy.

A dark historical fantasy set in Victorian London (with a Scottish mage protagonist), this is a bloody and sweet story with murder, vampires, and more than a touch of arson.

Clocking in at just over 400 pages she is a tome, but a lovely one, and I am just delighted with the reviews so far.

Link is below should you wish to take peek and that screaming noise you can hear is in fact me.

One Smile More: (Sands of Eternity, 1) eBook : Platt, Charlotte: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

amazon.co.uk

Pinned Post Writing Chazz writes Chazz rambles It's book day! One Smile More Vampires Magic Fantasy Dark fantasy Slow burn Faster when Ena starts the fire Historical fantasy Paranormal Romance : Eventually But really we're here for the murder

strange-aeons

autophage

You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still

bibaleen

hewnhart

biancodinera-deactivated2026011

wintersoldierfell

A person in a Hello Kitty suit sitting at a counter looking at a smartphone while a fire rages in the background. The fire is labelled "all the fanfiction i have to write," the phone is labelled "tumblr," and the person is labelled "me."

dragongirl642

morepopcornplease

fake Goncharov fans don’t even realize that Scorsese did NOT direct the 1973 cult classic. he was executive producer. 🤦‍♀️

The actual director is Natted JWHJ0715, and they deserve credit!!!

onstoryladders

It's Matteo JWHJ0715!!!!! Very talented director (italian mother, license plate father)

official-lucifers-child

misscammiedawn

Honestly, crediting a movie to be by the executive producer whose name is plastered all over the marketing is just another notch to the realism of Goncharov.

Nightmare Before Christmas by Tim Burton, Him by Jordan Peele, Creed 2 by Ryan Coogler, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) by Michael Bay, Poltergeist by Steven Spielberg, Cloverfield by JJ Abrams...

The list goes on.

electricpentacle

40ouncesandamule

vamptits

UNWARRANTED?

mandywondering

I'm a pervert little leftist
short and stout
here is my handle
here is my [censored]

yeahwrite

shiningoak

What's that bro? You began interacting with a media from a different country than yours and/or was made in time period different than the recent present day? Haha that's sick bro! Keep expanding your horizons bro! You're remembering to take into account that sociocultural norms, gender roles and genre expectations are different from what you are used to and meeting the story halfway, instead of forcibly superimposing your ideals into the story, right bro? Right? Right?

derinthescarletpescatarian

narwhalsarefalling

just had a convo with my friend. she mentioned she doesnt like sake cause its sparkling.

“wait, sake is sparkling? what have i been drinking?” i said. because i also dont like sparkling stuff.

i look at the sake bottle ive been drinking from for fun events for the past year. its vinegar.

i’ve been drinking strawberry flavored vinegar.

narwhalsarefalling

in my defense:

and:

its very hard to tell for someone who only kind-of reads Japanese and just saw the component for "sake flask" (酉) and, rightfully assumed, that the bottle that said sake was probably sake.

squirrelstone

No no, you don’t get to hide this in the tags

behindnightmaresanddreams

Summary: no one involved was drinking sake.

40ouncesandamule

johnnyjoestarrelatable

i think it's fucked up that there are plants that decided they wanted to eat meat

johnnyjoestarrelatable

a plant's job is literally to just exist but the venus flytrap chose violence

johnnyjoestarrelatable

what if i gently laid an uncooked steak on the soil for it to absorb

iridescentjaq

my tree biology teacher fed her calcium-deficient tree a whole-ass bbq rib bone - she stuck it in the ground near the base of the tree (after eating the meat off of it), and when she came back to collect it to show the tree biology class it was GONE

the tree had grown a root up through the center of it & out through the sides

also there’s an old story about a man who was buried beneath a tree, and when they went to exhume the body it had been completely absorbed by the tree’s roots- you could see the shape of the body in the way the roots grew, splitting up for clearly defined arms and legs. trees will absolutely eat a steak if you bury it & they need the nutrients.

johnnyjoestarrelatable

that’s horrifying! thank you

shelikesmysparkles

c3rvida3

The last time I played Puck, the director was a huge freak about not letting us wear shoes on stage because it would "ruin the look", but we all kept eating shit, and instead of just letting us wear skintone dance shoes or something with grip, motherfucker poured Pepsi on the floor so it'd be sticky and we had to schlorp around. I fucking hate you, David.

saltykingsalty

Why couldn't this have been a one time I dreamt

c3rvida3

Coking the stage (mopping it with diluted soda so it's a little sticky) is a legitimate low-budget tactic for slick floors, but he just poured so much Pepsi on the floors that for about a whole week, it was audible.

Maybe the course of true love would run a little fucking smoother if we didn't have to ford your Pepsi river, DAVID.

spontaneous-avocado

I would just quit. Fuck people like that. It's easy to walk away

c3rvida3

No it's not. Didn't you read the post? There was dried Pepsi everywhere.

thebibliosphere

robertcapajpg

mutuals this winter we are all doing this

emungere inkblackfingers

unpretty

the thing about having been really broke. averaging $500 a month in a good year broke. using a gamestop credit card i shouldn't have qualified for to buy taco bell gift cards for food broke. is that i am SO bad with money. i have a degree in accounting and i am so bad with money. i do not think of myself as superstitious at all but money feels so cursed. not in a spiritual way, i mean literally. practically.

having 'too much' money feels so bad. money is a thing you spend as soon as you get it because it's so cursed. the more it is the more cursed it is. i save too much money and bad things will happen that cost all my money. money is a thing that summons expenses. if i have no money and the car breaks down i find a way to make it work. i scrounge and resell and pass the hat and talk to my mom's friend's friend who knows a guy and in the end i'm so relieved to be right back where i started. but if i were saving my money for a new computer and then the car broke down, the money is just gone. i spent the money i saved for a thing i wanted on a thing i needed instead and after all that hoping i'm right back where i started.

i get a windfall and i set the money aside because if i'm careful that's enough to pay for gas for months. but then i need to pay for heat and i apply for assistance and they look at my bank account and see i have money and now they won't help pay for heat. soon it's just a habit. i get the money and i spend the money. immediately, as soon as possible, get this money away from me. don't even save enough for cigarettes. i can find money for cigarettes, somehow i can always find money for cigarettes. cigarette money is a weird magical fake money i summon from dark corners whenever i run out of cigarettes. i don't know how it works either. i've tried to summon the cigarette money for things that aren't cigarettes and it never works. just get this out of my bank account. get it out of here before something notices there's money here.

anyway i'm working on it but god it's hard

unpretty

every welfare and assistance program in america teaches you that holding onto money is a thing you will be punished for and then when you finally get lucky and get a good job and spend your paycheck as fast as possible to keep the wrath of god away it's proof that you were only ever poor because you were bad with money

unpretty

tags reading: #it's the Puritan culture#kill the Puritan in your mind

i appreciate what you think you're doing here but the hypothetical puritan in my mind did not declare me ineligible for medicaid or heat assistance when i had too much money in the bank

i mean maybe the tagger meant a more general 'you', a sort of culture-at-large 'you', but it's weird how many people do treat this like a brain problem and not. idk. a perfectly rational learned behavior. saving too much money is not currently a risk to my well being, but i am one very bad day from it being a very real concern for the entire rest of my life.

when help is only available once you're in a crisis situation, you learn to always be on the brink of a crisis situation. when you're poor you get shit on for spending money on things you don't need to survive, but like. you can get help with surviving.

krchov

Northern Natter

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.