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Finch
@rainbowfinch.bsky.social
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Lost on a little blue and green planet. Dogs are my passion, love, joy, and special interest. Fueled by tea, stories, and art.
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Book 34: Annihlation by Jeff Vandermeer
July 2nd
3.75⭐️

What a weird book. I liked it but it didn't really capture me. I personally wish there was more explanation but understand why there wasn't, what a weird little fungusy book. 💙📚🪐
The cover of the book Annihlation by Jeff Vandermeer. It is a pale yellow beige cover with a vibrant green planet coming up from the corner and wrapping around the black title. The plant is alien looking, almost animal like. There is a dragonfly flying away from the plant.
July 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Book 33: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
June 30th
5⭐️

A Reread for me. I wanna catch up on series, so I decided to start at the beginning. Not as impactful as the first time I read it, but still beautiful and dark. How I wish I could have found a doorway as a child. I'm still wishing. 💙📚🪐
The cover of Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. A doorway sits half open in a forest clearing, the sun setting and casting a flare against the door frame. The white words of the title are entering the door, fading away where the letters are through the door.
July 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Book 32: When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
June 29th
3.25⭐️

I am in the minority here, not enjoying the book. It should have worked, I have no father and the fear I have is clinical, but maybe that is why it didn't hit. Since I deal daily with debilitating fear. I did like THAT Santos part.💙📚🩸
The cover of When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy. It is from the inside of a cabin looking out a window at a giant wolf snarling back. The colours are black, gray and red.
June 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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The fungi I found hiding in my yard.
A photograph of a yellow mushroom peeking through green grass. A photograph of a brown and beige mushroom in green grass. A photograph of a yellow mushroom in green grass. A photograph of a grey and brown mushroom in green grass.
June 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Book 31: Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
June 24th
4⭐️

More difficult to get invested in than the last romance, but I really enjoyed it by the end. Wendell is my favorite and the reason I am continuing the series with my best friend. I do love sassyness in my couples. 💙📚🪐
The cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. The novel is a deep green in colour, almost black, with white and Lilac writing. Vines of green and snowflakes border the edges of the cover, with a bunch of mushrooms and some antlers at the bottom. It is a very winter foliage feel.
June 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Have my boy Murphy really wanting dinner early!
A black dog named Murphy lays with his head on an iPad, looking up at the camera with the biggest, saddest, puppy dog eyes because he wants dinner.
June 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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I finished up Lucky's reference yesterday, for my first ever Art Fight. My duel personality embodiment of fate/destiny and chance. They love messing with mortals.
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A drawn reference sheet of a greyscale humanoid with messy silver hair and ear wings. They have trans scars that look like black starts and a black star on their chest. His name is Lucky, and I love them dearly, any pronouns for her.
June 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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This is my fist year! I am uploading Lucky and Temprance today.

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The artfight card for Team Fossil. It is a yellow brown colour. Five personal character headshots sit at the bottom.
June 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Book 30: Strange Houses by Uketsu
June 21st
2⭐️

I liked Strange Pictures much more. This one felt convoluted and jumped to a lot of conclusions. I didn't really find it mysterious and the final twist was fine I suppose. I still like the style of the author, so I will pick up more in the future. 💙📚
The cover of Strange Houses by Uketsu. The cover is a berry red eugh a floor plan of a Japanese house on it.
June 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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A big thank you to @igotbigbooks.bsky.social for mentioning Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove. I just finished it and it has taken the spot of my favourite book, so far, this year.
A photo of my copy of the book Of Monsters and Mainframes by Badbra Truelove.
June 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Book 29: Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
June 16th
5⭐️

This may have taken the spot of my favorite book of the year; so far. A monster mash full of heart and characters I fell in love with. Queer monsters in space with A.I. Parents. I would do anything for Demeter, I love her. 💙📚🪐
The cover of the book Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove. The cover is solid black, with the mouth of a vampire open wide in the center. An explosion of colours (pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue) stream out of a spaceship and fill the monsters mouth along with the title and author. It is quite a psychedelic cover.
June 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I think Carwyn the Incubus would look great in your style
A screencap of a character named Carwyn from art fight.
June 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Book 28: The Geographer's Map to Romance by India Holton
June 7th
5⭐️

Another warm hug of a book. I love the humour, the ridiculousness, the low stakes drama. These people are never cruel to each other and I like that in a romance. Just so soft and what I need when the world is on fire. 💙📚
The cover of the book The Geographer's Map to Romance by India Holton. It is a lush green colour with a gold frame around the edge. There is a gold compass in the center, with gold mountains and stars in the back. The title sits in gold banners in the bottom third of the cover.
June 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Here is my Succubus Tempeance (Tempy). Her tail and horns change colour depending on emotion and she's a sex worker who loves her job. She dyes her hair and can wear anything or nothing. She is just my fun girl who loves life and passion.
The drawing of a pink skinned woman standing looking up. She has a cat tail and small pointy horns.
June 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I am trying to get back into art and fight against the negative thoughts that remain from school. If I keep trying and pushing eventually it will look more like how I wish it looked. It has to, right? Anyway this is Temprance my Succubus character. Pose from @adorkastock.com
A coloured sketch if a pink skinned woman with blonde and blue hair, looking up toward the sky wirh a hand shielding her eyes. She has a tail and small horns.
June 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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She should have the snow leopard tail in her mouth like all those snow leopard pictures. Or maybe he could be holding it in his mouth.
A photograph of a snow leopard holding their tail in their mouth.
June 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Book 27: The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton
May 29th
5⭐️

A cozy hilarious romantic comedy across a fantasy historical England. I loved this. A breath of fresh air and sweetness, sometimes you just need to read happiness. This is happiness bound in a book. 💙📚
The cover of the book The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton. It is a hot pink colour with gold framing detail around the entire front cover. Inside the frame are the gold name plates with the title of the novel. Flying behind the title is a golden bird with a long fire tail. There are gold stars around the cover as well.
May 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Got my hands on this lovely piece of dark fantasy. 💙📚🪐 📚🩸
The book The Devils by Joe Abercrombie is lying on blankets on a bed. The cover is dark red with a bright red skull in the center. The skull has lit candle horns. The naked hardback of the book The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. It is a black cover with metallic red inlaid design of skulls and vine patterns. A pentagram sits in the center with the words The Worst Monsters make the Best Allies, circled around it. There is a skull st the bottom and a crown at the top. The two end papers of the book The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. The left image is a painting of a black werewolf and the right image is a painting of a white praying monk looking up at the heavens. The end two end papers of the book The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. The left image is a painting of a holy woman looking scared and holding a long stick with a feathery looking end. The right image is a painting of a pointed eared creature, almost like it is just a shadow or someone destroyed the painting. There are no features, just a silhouette
May 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Book 26: This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman
May 12th
4.5 ⭐️

For a book so diverse and forward thinking on disabilities it is so heternormative and binary. That is the main reason it is not 5, but I did love the ideas, the world, the views and quotes about humanity and our nature. Also autistic MC 💙📚🪐
The cover of This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman. There is a purple strip up the side with the author's name in block white letters. Leaning against this pillar in the main cover is a white girl with long red hair. She is in a gold dress and holding a gold circlet. Behind her is a stairway, with buildings and a teaming city. A bunch of different aliens and humans walk around behind her. The title sits in the top right in purple blocks.
May 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman 💙📚🪐
A photo of a page from the science fiction novel This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman. At the top is a square days chip design that's turned on a corner, and below it is written: "God save us from an Earth in which all men are the sane. God save us from a colony where that is the goal, or a culture which assumes that is the norm. Give me a thousand people speaking different tongues, worshiping different gods, and dreaming different dreams, and I will make of them a greater nation than you can make with ten thousand of your gengineered duplicates. For mine will have the spark of greatness in them, while yours will live for conformity, worship mediocrity, and take their carefully modulated delight in redirected dreams. " Reining in Chaos: thr founding of Guera Colony (Historical Archives, Hellsgate Station)
May 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Book 25: Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
May 6th
4.75 ⭐️

Probably was a bad idea to read this right before bed. Horrifing and gross, I tried not to think too hard about some descriptions because some big phobias for me. I loved it! So weird and so good, arachnophobes be wary. 💙📚🩸 📚🪐
The cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud. A painted textured woman's head floats at the top of the cover in a background of slate gray. She has green eyes with black hair that extends out in Spider legs around her head and over the cover.
May 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Book 24: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
May 6th
4.5 ⭐️

I love T. Kingfisher's writing. A young girl with an abusive Sorceress mother, who learns to fight back and find a true family. This is a fairy tale. Dark edges and cruelty, but also hope, love, and courage. 💙📚🪐
The cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher. A dark grayish purple cover with an almost black circle in the center. Beige gold trees wrap up the two sides of the cover, they are a solid colour with brown outlines. Stars of the same tree colour are scattered across the cover. In the center is the title, coloured in a purplish white.
May 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Book 23: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
April 28th
3⭐️

This is a gothic romance with a small edge of horror. I wish it more balanced between the two, but the turmoil of the relationship was the main focus. I found the pacing of the novel off as well, rushing through certain plot points. 💙📚🩸
The cover of the novel Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas. A twilight cloudy sky is the background with a Mexican desert horizon at the bottom. A woman in red runs across the ground, a lightning bolt strikes the ears in the distance behind her. The colours are teal and reds.
April 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Book 22: Area 51 by Robert Doherty
April 6th
3.5⭐️

Apparently I forgot to update with this book. If you want a 90s Action Scifi Thriller packed into novel form. This is the one for you. Tasted like the movies I watched as a child, all crazy action and unbelievability. 💙📚🪐
The cover of the novel Area 51 by Robert Doherty. A saucer shaped UFO flies above the words Area 51, which is written in giant red letters. Below this is a mountain range and a military base lit up with electric lights.
April 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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A girl needs a queen sized bed to stretch out on.
A medium sized black dog stretches out across a bed among a bunch of dog print blankets.
April 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM