Spinnefo

she/her pronouns.

her name means "spider foe".

quiet. chill.

specializes in fire magic.

teammates with Joru and Elliya. They're calling themselves Team JES for now, but they might rename it later.

"Dress go spinny~."

the most evasive of Team JES on land. She's pretty agile from growing up in a forest, weaving through all those trees. However, Joru gets an evasion bonus when he's underwater. Too bad hardly any of their adventures involve being in his element.

Pexels collection.

Coolers Palette.

Current Favorites:

• She Never Came Out by Life of Bria.
• Mastering the Crown by George Korede.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot created by Rob Renzetti.
• Les Mis (the movie version) directed by Tom Hooper.
  • "She has burst like the music of angels. The light of the sun."
    
    "A heart full of love.
    A heart full of song."
    
    "No fear, no regret."
    
    "Something has scarcely begun."
    
    "Every word that he says is a dagger in me."
    
    In My Life / A Heart Full of Love by Alain Albert Boublil, Claude Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer, and Jean Marc Natel.
• Walking the Clouds edited by Grace L. Dillon. Unlike me, she loves the slipstream section. Good for her! I wish I could appreciate it properly, but unfortunately, it's a little too slippery for me. However, one lesson I took away from this anthology was in the introduction to The Black Ship by Gerry William. "It's been noted that in western novels one finds oneself by leaving home, while in Native American storytelling one finds oneself by returning home."
• Access-Ability by Laura Kate Dale.
• Somewhere Nowhere 🌸 Deep Lofi Beats by Dreamhop Music.
• The Abyss 🌿 Deep Lofi Beats by Dreamhop Music.
• Judge Issues Arrest Warrant to Hawaiian Man for Speaking His Native Language in Court by Jorge Rivas.
  • “I do not want to be held in contempt of court. I don’t wanna be fined. I don’t want to go to jail for this,” Ka’eo told Hawaii Public Radio. “But if there’s any reason for me, Kaleikoa Ka’eo, to go to jail, it would be to defend our right as a people to speak our language in our own homeland.”
  • "'...the state government continues to place barriers on ‘Ōlelo Hawaiʻi, 40 years after Hawaii’s constitution was amended to recognize the Hawaiian language as an official language of the state,' OHA executive director Kamanaʻopono Crabbe said in a statement."
• The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores by Joshua Clark Davis.
  • "As late as 1966, black-owned bookstores operated in fewer than a dozen American cities, and most of them struggled to stay in business. Within just a few years, however, the number of stores had skyrocketed. Dozens of new stores opened throughout the country in the final years of the ‘60s, roughly tripling their numbers since the start of the decade. As The New York Times reported in 1969, 'A surge of book-buying is sweeping through Black communities across the country.' What had been about a dozen black bookstores operating in the mid-1960s grew to over 50 by the early 1970s, and around 75 by the middle of the decade."
  • "In Hoover’s eyes, black-owned bookstores represented a coordinated network of hate-spewing extremists. His clumsy invocation of the phrase 'African-type bookstores' betrayed his lack of understanding of pan-Africanism, a philosophy that people of African descent around the world should unite in pursuit of shared political and social goals. To Hoover, radical anti-government organizations actively fomented black Americans’ growing fascination with Africa in the hopes of using it as a weapon against whites. But Hoover grossly mischaracterized the organic groundswell of popular interest in African history, culture, and politics spreading throughout African American communities."
• Racial Equity Tools Glossary.
• Epigenetics by SciShow.
• Regulating Guns vs. Regulating Prescriptions: Between the Scenes on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
• Scales and Arpeggios cover by Sierra Nelson.
• Drawfee Host: Julia.
  • Impossible Coloring Challenge.
  • How to Improve Any Drawing with DRAMATIC SHADING.
  • Artists Draw Themselves Into Their Favorite Anime.
  • Room Full of Vampires.
  • Digimon Evolution Drawing Challenge.
  • Artists Draw Digimon (That They've Never Seen).
  • Artists Redesign The Looney Tunes.
  • Random Photoshop Tool Drawing Challenge 2.
• The Amber Ruffin Show.
  • Sister vs. Sister, Who Is the Biggest El DeBarge Fan?
  • Black People Deserve Proper Healthcare.
  • Black People Freed Black People, Get It Right History.
  • America's History of Stealing Vulnerable Children of Color.
  • Anti-Lynching Bill Is 100 Years Too Late.
  • Enough of Your Sh*t Florida, It’s Pride Month!
  • Beyond Tulsa: The Secret History of Flooding Black Towns to Make Lakes.
• Break My Mind by DA Games.
• 🕯️ Mythical Village of Wizards ◈ Music & Ambiance by Life When.
• Evelyn Silver (a good friend).
  • Colonialism in Lord of the Rings.
  • Edith and the Fairies.
  • Crimson Wax.
  • Breathless.
  • Galit's Golem.
• The Green Corn Rebellion on Encyclopedia of the Great Plains.
• The Lover delights in Her Beloved by Olmos Poetry.
• Vegalia:
  • digital art brushes.
    • Gumroad (higher percentage for the artists).
    • Etsy (tends to work better for non-USians).
  • What is Juneteenth art thread.
• Micro Flash Fiction.
  • You cannot find the edges of the mask.
• Hummingbird Skeletons.
• Fetus MRIs.

TBR list:

• Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman.
• What Makes a Witch by Linnea Capps.
• The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
• Sensory: Life on the Spectrum edited by Schhumn. I got my copy from the Kickstarter campaign.
• Out of Darkness edited by Dan Coxon. Again, got my copy from Kickstarter. Which in my mind is basically the same thing as buying it from a bookstore (as least as far as "this reviewer's spent money on something, that means they may be biased to give it a more positive or negative review" thoughts are concerned). Like James Stephanie Sterling, I wouldn't back it if I didn't want it to succeed. Plus, I don't act like what I'd consider a traditional reviewer anyway. I'm poor enough, and also hard-of-reading enough that any book I talk about is a money and time sink for me. I'm a hype man, not a salesman. If I'm talking about someone else's work, there's a 99% guarantee that I like it.
• Brooklyn Brujas by Zoraida Córdova.
• The Dark Star Trilogy by Marlon James.
• Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth edited by Isabella Oliveira and Jed Sabin. Obtained thru Kickstarter.
• Transcendent published by Lethe Press.
• “From White Deaf People’s Adversity to Black Deaf Gain”: A Proposal for a New Lens of Black Deaf Educational History by Rezenet Tsegay Moges.
• Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis by Anon M. Anon.
• Rethinking Rufus : sexual violations of enslaved men by Thomas A Foster.
• Sexual Exploitation of Black Women from the Years 1619-2020 by Dominique R. Wilson.
• Estimated share of African slaves who did not survive the Middle Passage journey to the Americas each year from 1501 to 1866 published by Aaron O'Neill.
• What was Life Like Under Slavery published by Digital History.
• How Slavery Changed the DNA of African Americans by Michael White.
• Who Is Black? One Nation's Definition by F. James Davis.
• Death Toll from the Slave Trade published by World Future Fund.
• Lower Kootenay Band demands halt to Argenta-Johnsons Landing logging by Bill Metcalfe.
• Indigenous knowledge settles question of a Bornean tree species: Study by Carolyn Cowan.
• Indian Affairs Living Languages Grant Program to Help Sustain Indigenous Knowledge by Native News Online Staff.
• Exclusive: Thousands of U.S. cattle buried, dumped at Kansas landfill by Tom Polansek.

She loves buying her books from Reparations Club, Glad Day Bookshop, Firestorm Books & Coffee, Afriware Books, Loyalty Bookstores, Semicolon Bookstore and Gallery, and Space Cowboy Books―when she can't find things locally.

She likes talking about the books she's reading on Storygraph: a Black-owned alternative to Goodreads.

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