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I am in love with the Stardew Valley secret lair drop! I can’t wait to create a stinky card draw engine… I mean group hug deck 👀 - - - - #FNM #magicthegathering #mtg #commander #secretlair stardewvalley
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AD | We’ve just finished Serial Chillers: Horror in Hazard & my 12-year-old is officially giving it a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Having read the previous Serial Chillers books, she already knew what to expect from Jennifer Killick, creepy moments, plenty of laughs, mystery & characters you quickly get invested in, but she said this one was her favourite so far! She loved following Travis, Zayd, Danielle & Seline as they headed into Apocoland, especially because every zone brought something unexpected. She said it was spooky without being too scary, really funny in places & kept her wanting to read “just one more chapter”. If your 9–12-year-old loves Goosebumps-style scares, mystery, adventure & friendship, this is definitely one to add to their autumn reading pile! 👻📚 Author @jennifer.killick.56 Publisher @farshorebooks Cover illustration by @rbessaaa #SerialChillers #HorrorInHazard #JenniferKillick #FarshoreBooks #AD KidsBooks MiddleGradeBooks ChildrensBooks BookReview KidsBookReview BookstagramUK UKBookstagram ReadingWithKids KidsWhoRead YoungReaders TweenBooks BooksForTweens SpookyBooks HorrorForKids ScaryBooks AutumnReading AutumnBooks BookRecommendations FamilyReading ReadingTime BookLoversUK ChapterBooks AdventureBooks MysteryBooks BooksForAges9to12
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Update: All sessions booked PORTFOLIO CHATS NOW AVAILABLE this Friday, the 4th of September! Link in bio (https://portfoliochats.appointlet.com/s/free-30-minute-portfolio-chat) ONE BOOKING PER PERSON with only ONE mentor. These chats are for people from marginalised and oppressed communities (please use your own judgement as to whether this applies to you). You can be of any ability and at any point in your career. Each FREE half-hour chat is a one-to-one conversation with somebody in the industry for you to use as you like Please look at each mentor’s bio to understand whether they are a good fit for your needs, and check the languages they speak align with your own. These professionals are taking time out of their day to talk to you for free, so if you book a session, PLEASE turn up. If you can’t make it, please get in touch with them to cancel or reschedule. These chats are usually done using free video chat software. After you’ve booked a session, your mentor will contact you shortly before the event with details of the meeting. You can discuss any accessibility needs with them then. The link to the sessions is in my bio (Portfolio Chats) - if you can’t see it, it means they’re all booked up - if you can’t see many mentor names, it means that some mentors have been booked up - if you click on a person and no chats are visible, it means that mentor’s sessions are all booked up too, so try checking somebody else’s availability instead. These usually book up each month, but we will be back again next month. If you're interested in becoming a mentor, please DM me or send an email to owen@owendavey.com
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“Don’t be afraid of being too much…” I love this tagline from this book. It challenges the idea that we’re often conditioned to believe we should blend in and suppress our individuality. ‘Jackson Bright in the Spotlight’ is full of joy and so much of that comes from the way it celebrates self-expression, being true to yourself and having the courage to take up space on every page of the book. It tells the story of Jackson, who wears a dress on his last day of school. He expects people to admire its design but instead finds himself in the principal’s office. He can’t understand why people tell him he needs to “dress like a boy”, and he begins to question how people like his best friend, Eva, who is non-binary, fit into these expectations. So, he decides to enter his local beauty pageant in drag and, in doing so, embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Along the way, he pushes the boundaries of gender, learns how to better support Eva and other non-binary children, and discovers the importance of embracing his true self. The message that shines through this narrative is that everyone deserves to be accepted for who they are and that’s a message I wholeheartedly agree with! @eurekaohara @danpoblockibooks @rbessaaa @abramskids
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TBR + TOTAL FAVES ✨ it feels a bit wild to be sharing a 2027 release already, but when it comes to Taylor Grothe, there’s pretty much nothing i wouldn’t do! i truly adore Taylor and everything they write; i was on their street team for their YA debut Hollow last year, i’m on the team for their adult debut Lethal Kiss (out in october!), and i’m SO fucking honored that Taylor sent me one of their prized ARCs of their next YA book, MONSTROUS BEAUTIFUL THINGS (2/9/27) too! it’s a gothic, sapphic body-horror fantasy set in the worlds of gods, cults, and monsters; the protagonist Ediva is plagued by intense aura migraines, seen as a superstition within her provincial village. inside the auras, however, she enters the Otherworld — but will she be able to choose between monsters and the girl she now loves? i absolutely cannot wait to find out. and speaking of queer disability rep, there’s another upcoming release (much sooner than 2027!) that you should all add to your tbr: Ship Happens by Mason Deaver! out 8/18/26 from Avon, this is a second-chance romance starring two trans man exes who end up on a cruise to alaska together thanks to their scheming mutual friends… and despite their best efforts, the pair are drawn together, reflecting on what broke them up in the first place and what they truly want from their future. Owen, a tattoo artist, has psoriatic arthritis, and as someone with RA (rheumatoid arthritis) i really resonated with the discussions of medical trial-and-error, unpredictable flares, and navigating pain alongside a desire for “normalcy” that maybe never existed to begin with. i loved the slow burn, the honesty of Jacob and Owen’s conversations, and perhaps most of all, the iconic chapter titles! we need to bring back funny chapter titles in adult books, i swear to god. t4t books are the best books:) ✨ qotd: what’s a book with disability rep on your tbr list? title + author please! vibrant puzzle background with a pale white hand holding two ARCs: Monstrous Beautiful Things (“to be read: dark sapphic horror fantasy; migraines”) and Ship Happens by Mason Deaver (“t4t second-chance romance; psoriatic arthritis”)
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Happy Pride! #mtg #lgbt #prideacrossthemultiverse #magicthegathering
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Jackson Bright in the Spotlight [Ad|Gifted] When Jackson Bright wears a dress to the last day of school, he gets sent to the principal’s office. Jackson doesn’t know why people are saying that he needs to dress like a boy, and he wonders where people like his best friend Eva, who’s nonbinary, fit into all of this. Or why he felt so confident and happy while wearing that dress. When Jackson sees a flyer for the town’s beloved Little Miss pageant, he comes up with a plan: dress in drag in order to compete and show the town just how fabulous he can be! With the help of Eva and Uncle Aaron, Jackson scrambles to come up with an array of dazzling costumes, a crowd winning speech, and a killer talent act. As he navigates the ups and downs of the competition, Jackson will have to figure out how to stand beside his friend, unpack questions about his family and identity that he’s been hiding from, and learn how to stay true to himself and hold his head high no matter what. From drag superstar Eureka O’Hara and bestselling author Dan Poblocki comes a beautiful, buoyant middle-grade novel about a boy who enters a local pageant, as a drag queen! 🖋 @eurekaohara 🖋 @danpoblockibooks 🎨 @rbessaaa 📚 @abramschronicle ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
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✎ 8 MEANINGFUL books that beautifully CELEBRATE PRIDE ೃ࿔*:･ 1.📖The Glamorous Grandmas ✍️ @jodielancetgrant 🎨 @rosegerrard_illustration 📚 @oxfordchildrens ✨One of our favourite Pride books, it follows Archie’s two glamorous grandmas, who he loves very much. When they go out, they people look at them suspiciously because they’re a different couple who loves colour, dresses and thinks differently.Luckily when a new (full) gallery art opens in their dull town, they have a plan to change things and guess what, it works! It’s fun, positive and gorgeously illustrated! 2.📖Grandad’s Camper ✍️🎨 @harrywoodgateart 📚 @andersenpress ✨This board book is ADORABLE!It tells the story of Grandad who still misses Gramps and their adventures together in their camper van. Luckily their grandchild is about to transform those memories into something positive and more adventures! 3.📖The Silly Frilly Dress ✍️Jake & Hannah Graf 🎨Lucia Soto 📚Hachette ✨After sharing this post, I was very sad to learn Jake and Hannah Graf’s position regarding Israel and Palestine - they’re pro-Israel - so I no longer feel comfortable to recommend this book. Please consider the other options in this list. 4.📖The Boy with Two Mums ✍️🎨 @officialmelelliott 📚 @farshorebooks ✨The tale of a boy who invites their classmates to his mum’s art exhibition. That’s when Pearl, his friend, learns that he has two mums and realizes their families are not that different. 5.📖Princess Pete ✍️Zoey Allen 🎨 @frencisan 📚 @walkerbooksuk ✨It’s a positive, inclusive celebration about a Pete, who is sometimes a prince and others a princess. 6.📖Jackson Bright in the Spotlight ✍️ @eurekaohara & @danpoblox 🎨 @rbessaaa 📚 @abramschronicle ✨It follows Jackson Bright, who bravely decides to enter Little Miss Pageant, but that’s also when he starts thinking about his identity. 7.📖The Pronoun Book ✍️Chris Ayala-Kronos 🎨Melita Tirado 📚Farshore ✨A celebration of people and their pronouns. 8.📖A Year of Pride and Joy ✍️curated by @simonjamesgreen 🎨 @ruthburrowsillustration 📚 @magiccatpublishing ✨A celebration of LGBTQ+ with contributions from 52 changemakers. a d | p r
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Scored 3 signed tokens from @rbessaaa today! Thank you so much man! They're beautiful! #happypride #ricardobessa #mtg #tcg #gaybear
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Just received my Bear 🐻 MTG tokens from @rbessaaa these beautiful works of art will be framed as they are signed copies, which is also why I bought a few sets so I have them for my decks as well. Time to work on a Bear deck!
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Collective Voyage {G} Sorcery Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player searches their library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way, puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles. Illustrated by Ricardo Bessa #mtg #magicthegathering #pride #pridemonth #ricardobessa
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Join us on Friday 05/06/26 for Magic Presents: Pride and our Charity Raffle. We’ll be raffling off the above to raise money for @mermaidsgender Huge thanks to all the wonderful artists who have so kindly contributed: @peomichie @rbessaaa @kieranyanner @princetegoblin (not pictured) and to @luckofthedrawtcgs for helping organise the raffle and sourcing these amazing prizes! In Magic Presents: Pride, you’ll treat all eligible commanders as though they had the partner ability. Take your favourite legendary creatures (or qualifying planeswalkers) and build a deck with both at the helm. As a special treat, all participants will receive a ride-themed Gilded Lotus promo card with brand new art by Merlin G.G. Entry and raffle tickets can be pre-booked at: https://1cfgsy-ms.myshopify.com/products/magic-presents-pride?variant=57534175936860 and raffle tickets can also be purchased at the Cafe!
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