I’ve had this one on my list since I saw it done by Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads and was tagged by Sam @ Fictionally Sam.
Tag: about me
Liebster Award
Again pulling from the vault/ hoard for today’s post, because I can and I want to. I was very flattered to be nominated by Keira @ Headphones and Hyperboles for the Liebster Award for a second time — or technically third: I combined two nominations and the accompanying questions in my first Liebster Award post — and I look forward to sharing my answers to Keira’s questions!
Behind the Blogger Tag
I was tagged by Kal @ Reader Voracious and Haley @ The Caffeinated Reader, both of whom are wonderful people with terrific blogs — definitely go check them out if you haven’t already!
[Bookending Spring] Autism Acceptance Character Tag (Original)
Hello and welcome back to Bookending Spring on the Nine Tale Vixen blog! If you’re new to Bookending Events, they’re quarterly (seasonal) events aiming to bring the book blogging community closer together; this spring, the optional theme is organization and cleaning. If you’re new to my blog — hi, I’m Isabelle and it’s nice to meet you! If you’re a returner — welcome back, friend!
It’s easy, in hindsight, to talk about all the ways my life would’ve been better if I’d encountered autistic protagonists early on — I wouldn’t have had so many misconceptions, which would have led to less internalized shame when I was finally diagnosed at seventeen, and in fact I might have recognized myself and found helpful resources much sooner.
But in any case, autistic protagonists do exist now. Although it’s still a bit of a search and definitely not yet widely accepted, there’s some great #ownvoices representation and I wanted to shout it out!
Celebrate Autism Acceptance Month with prompts inspired by stories by and about autistic people. (You don’t need to have read the books or to identify as autistic/neurodiverse.)
This post is part of Bookending Spring 2020, which is organized by Sam & Clo!
Today’s prompt, originally titled “Neurodiversity Acceptance Tag,” is hosted by yours truly — if you do this prompt, don’t forget to link back to this post!
The Currently Reading Tag
There’s already a version of this tag up on my blog, but it was actually written by Soph @ Bookwyrming Thoughts as part of the 2019 April Fool’s blog swap! So I figured I’d share my actual answers and we could see how well Soph did.
The Book Interview Tag
Thank you to Haley @ The Caffeinated Reader and Clo @ Cuppa Clo for adding to my tag hoard! Honestly, I save them exactly for moments like this, when my life is in shambles but I refuse to abandon my blog. Because #priorities.
Mystery Blogger Award
It’s always such an honor to be nominated for blogger awards, and today thanks are due to Ren Strange @ Strange Storyteller. This one looks like lots of fun, so let’s just get right into it!
Best of 2019
Now that 2020 has officially begun, I wanted to take a moment to commemorate everything that happened in 2019. It was an eventful year, with lots of ups and downs, but for better or worse it set the stage for 2020.
So here’s to what has been, and to what will be. Happy new year! 🥳
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