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In case you haven't heard yet Trans Rights Readathon is this month!
It's set during March 22nd to March 29th in preparation and support for Trans Day of Visibility on March 31st!!! The goal is to read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and 2Spirit authors and characters.
There's a huge list of books with trans characters and/or trans authors available on their carrd here as well as places to donate for trans causes.
Happy reading!
#i had fun with this last year so let's go again!#building a tbr but i didn't finish half the ones i wanted to in 2023 so i've got lots of options#i'll try to put together a little rec list before the 22nd#trans representation#trans rights readathon#lgbtq rep#books
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Kapaemahu
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu (Author) Dean Hamer (Author) Joe Wilson (Author) Daniel Sousa (Illustrator)
In the 15th century, four Mahu sail from Tahiti to Hawaii and share their gifts of science and healing with the people of Waikiki. The islanders return this gift with a monument of four boulders in their honor, which the Mahu imbue with healing powers before disappearing. As time passes, foreigners inhabit the island and the once-sacred stones are forgotten until the 1960s. Though the true story of these stones was not fully recovered, the power of the Mahu still calls out to those who pass by them at Waikiki Beach today. With illuminating words and stunning illustrations by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, and Daniel Sousa, KAPAEMAHU is a monument to an Indigenous Hawaiian legend and a classic in the making.
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This is how it feels to read a classic that everyone in the world has already read and loves
#me having just finished THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD#thank you people of tumblr for making that the winner of my 'what should i read next for Black History Month' poll#i have a lot of feelings
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Help me choose the order for my Black History Month reads?
Feel free to suggest things also, these are just the audiobooks I know I can get through my libraries. I've already picked out my first one (GHOST BOYS by Jewell Parker Rhodes).
#reading#books#black books and authors#black history month#i've never read any james baldwin except for some essays on theatre and it's really a shameful lapse on my part#might do some posts later of picture book biographies and middle grade recs because man there's some fantastic stuff out there
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*dusting off the old vampire book review blog* hi hello, welcome to my wheelhouse.
seconding LET ME IN (sometimes translated as LET THE RIGHT ONE IN), so good. the movie is also excellent, though the American remake is so similar as to be useless, imo.
SUNSHINE by Robin McKinley - my favorite book of all time. super neat voice, worldbuilding, character arcs, etc. i've read this like eleven times. has a kind of Buffy-esque vibe. the relationship between the protagonist and her vampire is not a romance, not a friendship, but a secret third (more complicated and angst-invoking) thing.
COMPANIONS OF THE NIGHT by Vivian Vande Velde - i've read this multiple times, love it. the title/covers are not indicative of the tone at all. takes the teenage fantasy of being swept up in a supernatural adventure with a lot more groundedness than one might expect. VVV also has an excellent dragon shapeshifter novel, DRAGON'S BAIT, that you'll probably enjoy if you like this.
FLEDGLING by Octavia E. Butler - fascinating, complex, i mean, it's Octavia Butler. lots of neat vampire lore with a scifi twist. maybe check content warnings, because it is a bit of a mindfuck.
HAWKE'S HARBOR by SE Hinton - no one on earth has read this book but me, someone read this book and talk to me about it. yes this is the SE Hinton, of OUTSIDERS fame, i'm pretty sure this is her only adult book. i remember being so so fond of the main character.
WICKED GAME by Jeri Smith-Ready - this one was just really fun, i got more invested in the main couple than i usually do. every time the author teased some cool worldbuilding thing she actually delivered on it. also, vampire DJs specializing in the music from when they were alive is such a funny concept.
CERTAIN DARK THINGS by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - the dual POV is so rewarding because the human guy is like "oh this vampire girl is so hot and suave" and then she's like "aaaaaagh what the fuck am i doing." also found the AU version of Mexico City really intriguing.
i could go on but i will refrain.
give me vampire book recs and i'll love you forever <3
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“Number 12 Looks Just Like You” | The Twilight Zone
#twilight zone#this episode and the UGLIES series are inextricably linked in my head#anyway the social dystopia twilight zones are some of my favorites and this one is really good
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loml, the libby app
#between libby and hoopla i have read approximately a bajillion percent more books per year#audiobooks my beloved
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We’re winning.
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Kidlit author Leah Johnson is launching her independent bookstore, Loudmouth Books! I recently read and loved her sapphic YA debut, You Should See Me in a Crown, which won a Stonewall Honor in 2021. Very exciting to see new Black-owned indie bookstores, especially when they're focused on diverse and banned books!
You can support Loudmouth Books by ordering through Bookshop here (they've got some cool recommendation lists already), or donating to the Loudmouth Fund to help offset opening costs and hear more about the bookstore's mission here!
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not to be problematic but i literally do not give a shit about age gaps when dating vampires. they thirst for your blood. "but it's predatory!!!!" yeah. it is. "they're preying on you!!!" they're vampires. they do that. "it's a power imbalance!!!!!!" what part of vampires are you not getting
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Celebrate Pride With These 10 Incredible LGBTQ+ Characters
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that specific brand of vampire media that’s like “you’re a late 90s-early 00s vampire in a leather jacket and sunglasses in some sleazy underground goth club that’s playing electro industrial/aggrotech/goth rock music” ruined me on all other vamp media, I too want to be a vampire in a leather jacket & sunglasses in some sleazy underground goth club that’s playing electro industrial/aggrotech/goth rock music
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donate to Move to Higher Ground! also, support vampire/fantasy books by BIPOC and marginalized authors! perhaps in time we can have adaptations that will be fresh and exciting instead of, y'know, this.
I’d best be seeing that anti JKR energy for this twilight show too bc Smeyer continuing to profit off the Quileute tribe is not cute
#twilight#racism cw#wildly unnecessary for this series to have another adaption#my guess is that they want to give the whole series the midnight sun treatment#explore non-bella POVs more than they got to in the movies#hypothetically i'd be interested in some volturi shit but even so i do not want to give this franchise any more of my money
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Aro books by authors of colour!
DEATHLESS DIVIDE / historical zombie fantasy / aroace MC (dual pov, she’s a side character in book 1)
THE LAST SESSION / contemporary/dnd-fantasy graphic novel / one of the MCs is aro
SAL & GABI BREAK THE UNIVERSE / contemporary sci-fi / aro probably-ace MC, mentioned briefly but he talks all the time how annoying it is when people assume he & gabi are dating
NOT YOUR BACKUP (sidekick squad #3) / YA superhero sci-fi / aroace-spec questioning MC
SO MANY BEGINNINGS / historical little women retelling / while it’s not super explicit, Jo is probably aroacespec, her ‘relationship’ reads as a QPR
KAIKEYI / adult historical fantasy/retelling / aroace MC
THE BRUISING OF QILWA / adult fantasy novella / MC is aroace
ELATSOE / contemporary fantasy/paranormal / aro-coded ace MC
COME DRINK WITH ME (TALES OF THE THREAD) / adult historical fantasy / short story series centred around platonic relationships from an aro perspective
see also: It Sounds Like This, Summer Bird Blue, If It Makes You Happy, Take Me To Your Nerdy Leader
*as a note, some of these only briefly explore aromanticism, and/or explore the ace part of the aroace character more. If you want more details on how much things are explored, see my database!
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A bride recently asked me to make her a necklace for her wedding that looked like a fancy throat slash. This was a really fun project.
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