There is a specifically Floridan smell, the stink of America (microwaved plastic, air freshener, hot oil) mixed with mildew and something else, something ancient, rotting, and sweaty, possibly life.

Brutes, Dizz Tate

can someone fundamentally understand me in every way of my soul. as a treat.

Hello sharks I am offering you friendship and magic and love and freedom in exchange for your assistance on my quest to find ancient and probably dead Welsh king Owen Glendower

“The good book says that he who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword…” “What right man would have it any other way?” said the Judge. “The good book does indeed count war an evil, yet there’s many a bloody tale of war inside it.” "It makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”

- Judge Holden "Blood Meridian"

Blood Meridian

By Mateus Roberts

favorite reads of 2022: annihilation by jeff vandermeer

"we were neither what we had been nor what we would become once we reached our destination."

the raven cycle is a series meant to be read multiple times. i love that i never stop discovering something new, that there’s always something else to make a greater meaning out of, there will always be a connection i missed in my previous read or i will make another one in my next read, i’m relearning my favourite characters, rediscovering the same world over and over but the magic never fades. the magic always stays. the love is always there and i always close the books convinced i could never care about anything the way i do about this world and these characters who are also my best friends and my family. no matter how many times i read it i’ll always go back to it excited for what i’ll discover again. nothing has enchanted me this much and nothing ever will

Molotov cocktails are decidedly less present in high school than I was promised

holding my own face in my own hands and screaming “there is no connection without an open heart! you must be brave! you must be honest! you must be true!” in the mirror

I mean this with every ounce of sincerity in my heart; the meaning and power you desire from the supernatural can be found in the study of history.

hiii sorry for spamming your blog just now but i am deeply in love with both the raven cycle and poetry so . i kinda went nuts

anyways hi new mutual ! you are very cool and epic !! 🫶🏻

Thank you so so much! I love your blog! 🫶🫶

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Sometimes I think about how I am the same age as Blue Sargent and her raven boys and realize that I am not going on quests and finding talking trees and dead kings and am made very sad

oh and you know they loved laika. the technicians? they called her laika globally but in the training facility they called her little bug and curly and little lemon and when they put her into the capsule, right before they closed the hatch, they kissed her nose and wished her bon voyage. they knew that she was not coming back and had already lived a hard life and yet the night before launch one of the scientists took her home to play with his children. "I wanted to do something nice for her: She had so little time left to live."