It’s Wednesday! Heck yeah!
We are just barreling toward election day and while I feel like this election cycle has lasted 84 years, I’m both terrified and relieved it will be over soon.
And let this serve as a reminder to VOTE if you haven’t already. (Also, vote in local elections when you can!)
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If you’ve enjoyed books by Simone St. James, she has some recommendations for you on where you can get more haunted building mysteries!
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Check out this adorable paper doll with costumes inspired by Mexican Gothic. I’m going to browse social media to see if anyone has printed it out and used it yet!
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If you want to embrace the spooky season, here is a list of the most haunted place in each state. Road trip anyone?
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I love this quiz on which aesthetic are you. I got “mooncore.” Both my roommate and a close friend got “goblincore.”
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Disney is launching a new publishing line that will imagine classic Disney princesses as the stars of contemporary adult rom-coms! I am very interested. First on the schedule is Julie Murphy’s take on Cinderella:
Hi! I have news! I wrote my first adult book! It’s a modern day rom-com Cinderella retelling for @DisneyBooks! Spoiler: Cinderella is plus size! https://t.co/FVPTYypc4w
— Julie Murphy (@andimJULIE) October 6, 2020
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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
I got Piratecore
Cryptidcore? Probably right, but I wish it were a bit more onomatopoeic.
Incidentally, Amanda, I LOVE your Wednesday links post. You’ve gotten me involved in some of the most bizarre things following your links, including coding messages in crochet-work, starting with your link to temperature blankets at the beginning of the year. Thank you!
I too am Mooncore. Apparently, I’m dreaming of my future wife…which is amusing on a whole number of levels.
Goblincore. I’ll just be over here in the forest with my rodent companion kthx
Goblincore here!
I got Piratecore, which is funny because for years my husband and I have acknowledged that he’s a pirate and I’m a ninja.
@Qualisign: You’re so welcome! It’s always nice to hear that this post is helpful.
As a native Kansan and ghost story buff, please don’t visit Stull cemetery. First off, local rumor is that a KU sociology professor started the rumor as a social experiment gone wrong. For maximum creepiness do visit Achison, especially the Sallie house. https://visitatchison.com/highlight/sallie-house
There’s this adorable 32 page picture book on twitter called “New Names”, uploaded by the author. (You can buy a physical copy) Here is the link: https://twitter.com/freshlypeeled/status/1315655342856921089?s=20
Off to the aesthetic test.
Fairycore. I honestly don’t understand this “aesthetic” thing everyone is obsessed with. EVERYTHING is “an aesthetic” now. Can I just circle back to the aesthetes of Oscar Wilde’s day, when they loved beauty for beauty’s sake and things like blue china and flowers? Give me a green carnation and call it a day.
Fairycore, but I want to be a pirate!
Much to my chagrin (dismay?) I am lovecore. Truly goblin or pirate would not have surprised me, but this?
I got Skycore. Apparently I am looking up at the sky and wishing I were traveling, so, yeah. Pretty much.
Kidcore. Wanna play blocks?
Also, Re: HeatherS
“-core” aesthetics are mostly an excuse to make moodboards. I encourage you to make Wildecore a thing, mostly because it sounds really cool.
I got goblincore and spat my beer out at the “with your rodent companion” bit because my answer to the freestyle “tell me something” question was “I like my pet guinea pig.” This quiz clearly saw my very soul.
Skycore I apparently “tend to get lost in your own head, but that’s the best alternative you have to travelling at the moment” well that’s… not wrong!
Are there any romances with plus-sized heroes..? I see quite a few with plus-sized women nowadays (thank you Jennifer Crusie for paving the way here) but the heroes are all skinny. I can only think of one romance hero I’ve seen described as ‘a little’ overweight, and he stood out to me because they all seem to be chiseled tall gods etc.
@Tam. Exactly. You get a plus-ish sized H with m/m occasionally, but unrealistic bodies are unreal no matter what, gendering be damned (and I do mean gendering be damned).
Fairycore: “you feel trapped by all the rules that society forces you to follow.” As I take the quiz while putting off filing my extended tax return, yup.
@Tam and @Qualisign Worked Up by Tessa Bailey has, if not a truly plus size hero, at least one who isn’t all washboard abs. In the novella Cover Me by Olivia Dade reference is made to the hero’s belly. I seem to recall the hero of At His Countesses Pleasure by Olivia Waite is described as having a realistic body & during one of the last sex scenes the heroine is contemplating his body and her own with a sort of love for the way they are and how they will be as they age… Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon apparently has a truly plus size hero. It’s in my TBR and got a B+ here (which is why it’s in my ever expanding TBR!). But yeah that’s all I can come up with. Agree 100% that there really need to be more body types in romance!
Fruitcore. Huh, didn’t even know that was a thing. But I like the description.
I got goblincore…I did used to have rat companions, so….
Fairycore. Actually that quiz got some stuff right that I haven’t even realized. Thanks for the link!
Goblincore here, which — I guess works? Because I love being in the woods, have a back yard frequented by wildlife, and I guess my pet rabbits qualify as rodents?
Also, I found it hilarious that the place I had my wedding, reception and wedding night was named as the signature haunt for Connecticut. Probably all the bad mojo from my family, who really hated my husband.
I can only think of one best hero I have seen described as ‘a little’ overweight. I encourage you to make Wildecore a thing. . Apparently I am looking up at the sky and wishing I were traveling. I found it hilarious that the place I had my wedding.