My novel, The Last Girl Scout, just went up for pre-order on Amazon (other platforms not owned by the bezbos coming soon) tba November 2nd. That’s only a month away! Wow!
It’s a dystopian adventure story about queer hillbillies going on a big adventure in the irradiated ruins of Old America. If you liked Fallout or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. then I got five bucks says you’ll like this. Plus it’s got lesbians in it &and they are in love & they even hold hands.
So in the leadup to the big day, I’m doing a thing. You (yes, you) can get a free ebook. All you have to do to become a part of this amazing and true way is: Reblog this post. On October 14th, I’ll pick 3 random Tumblr dot com users from the pool and give y’all will get a whole entire book for no dollars instead of five dollars. Cool, right? U know u want to.
The past lies like a nightmare over the world.
Two hundred years
after the War when atomic fire rained from the skies and burned the
world to cinders, human civilization has had time to rebuild within the
burned-out husk of Old America. But the old terrors of the past still
persist, and while some work to build a better world, others still dream
of reclaiming the glory of the Old World.
In southern
Appalachia, political commissar Magnolia Blackadder is sent on a mission
into the irradiated Exclusion Zone of Old DC, where an evil that
humanity thought it had vanquished centuries ago is waking up and
rebuilding its strength. Along the way, she meets a strange woman with
terrible secrets and an unspeakable past, and as they forge a bond and
brave the terrors of the wasteland together, she learns that some demons
are not so easily exorcised, and that some stones are better left
unturned.
In this her debut novel, award-winning author Natalie
Ironside delivers a new vision of the post-apocalypse, a tale of
adventure, terror, love, and that most basic and most powerful of all
human desires: Freedom.
Super looking forward to reading this, may even have to make it one for the book club
shucks <3
@wodneswynn okay, you ABSOLUTELY have my attention, but—I can’t read ebooks. I end up skipping entire paragraphs with no idea it’s happened. (I’m one of those people who uses my finger or a bookmark in paper books to follow my way down exactly which line I’m on.)
Is there hope for a physical release for this? Because I really want to read it and if it’s as good as it sounds I know at least three people I could recommend it to, but….I can’t read it 😭
There will absolutely be a physical release! I just can’t set those up for pre-order. But Yes, you should be able to order physical copies once the release date rolls around.
I don’t really like ebooks so much myself tbh.
EXCELLENT.
I love ebooks in theory. I think they’re wonderful accessibility tools for people with migraines, arthritis, lifting restrictions, etc. and great for travel and low shelf space. It’s just that unfortunately they have the exact opposite effect for me, and so I’m stuck building biceps with Stephen King.
Interest piqued, but I dont want the lesbians to die.
Oh heavens no. They live happily ever after.
Eff yeah! Im in!
:3
Wanted to add to this, in a similar vein: major props for writing a story with multiple older characters of color who actually survive through the end.
shucks, y’all <3
They live happily ever after
awesome I’m in!!!!
:3
Can confirm that this is my favorite book I read in 2020 and that the author is AMAZING
<3 y'all
Extremely looking forward to the physical release <3 might need several. To indoctrinate my friends.
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The USA of America is certainly is one of the countries
Oh good! It’s that time of the year when a dipshit Anon asks us a loaded question we’ve answeredahundredtimes already in a ham-fisted attempt to “own” us.
Let’s start with the idea that opposition to fascism = merely a disagreement. Sorry Anon, but when fascism is founded on the notion that some people should not be treated as humans/exist, then our opposition isn’t a mere disagreement - it’s a fight to secure the existence of ourselves, our families, and our friends in the face of a force that is determined to ultimately exterminate us. In the words of Bernie Farber, “genocides do not begin in gas chambers or with machetes or bullets - genocides begin with words.”
If you actually believe that fascism is just a viewpoint that some don’t agree with and therefore it should be treated like any other viewpoint and never be met with violence, please tell that to some WW2 vets or Holocaust survivors and see what they think.
a) Ignore them and hope they just magically go away? History has very clearly shown us that ignoring violent racist extremists doesn’t make them go away; on the contrary, it gives them license to intimidate, attack, and eventually murder the people belonging to groups they’ve targeted - racialized people, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, religious minorities, etc. This is because fascists take your total disregard of their presence as a sign that you agree with them. It also lets the people they target know that no one will defend or support them. As novelist Joy Kogawa put it, “if there’s just one thing that history teaches us, just one thing, it’s that bystanders and perpetrators are both on the same side.“
b) Debate them?
b) Report them to the proper authorities? he old saying “cops and the Klan go hand-in-hand” doesn’t just come from police going out of their way to protect fascists and racists while viciously attacking those brave enough to confront fascists. It also comes from decades of evidence of police involvement as members of fascist and racist groups themselves (some examples of which can be found here).
In fact in most places, the group responsible for the murder of the most racialized people are the police. So not a great option, this.
c) Take up some form of passive protest against them? The problem with pacifism is that it only works when the opposing side has a conscience. Fascists not only lack that, but they actively fetishize and valorize violence as a legitimate political mechanism, a preferred political tactic, and a philosophical principle that builds group cohesion and commitment. Pacifists quickly discover that they have to then choose whether or not they wish to be the victims of fascism, because opposing fascists necessitates self-defence. Those that don’t understand this wind up making the same mistakes of people like the White Rose Society. This essay by a pacifist who went to Charlottesville in August 2017 really explains the problem here. Or you could ask Dr. Cornel West:
So clearly the only option is to defend ourselves and our communities from fascists by any means necessary. Which you apparently take exception to because that = “political violence” in your mind.
Which is an interesting position for you to take, to be very concerned about antifascist violence but to not show an equal concern for fascist violence. Especially when you look at the data:
Seems like your concern about “political violence” is a tad misplaced, doesn’t it Anon?
Equating antifascists defending their communities from fascism as equivalent to fascist violence = the classic logical fallacy of false equivalence, Anon. It’s a bad look because it makes you out to be campaigning in favour of fascists. Don’t be that person. Let us leave you with this excellent essay on the impossibility of anti-fascist non-violence, Anon, instead of asking you to go fuck yourself.
“Bad people live so that they may eat and drink, whereas good people eat and drink so that they may live.”
— Socrates, in Plutarch’s Moralia (via philosophybits)
