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samcat18 · 7 months

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Also props to samantha shannon, i have never been straight-baited as much as i have been while reading her books -- the tease of loth/sabran and loth/ead only for the canon ship to be sabran/ead and loth/his damn self, was extremely satistying in 'priory', and now wulf seems to be taking that role in 'day of fallen night' with the will-they-won't-they with glorian..? Though i might be reading this wrong, i still have 18 hours of listening left (WEEP)

#am reading #samantha shannon #the priory of the orange tree #a day of fallen night #priory of the orange tree #arteloth beck #wulfert glenn

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sailorastera · 6 months

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Loving the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

that is all.

#murderbot #am reading

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dearlyjess · 1 year

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basking in the spring sunlight, reading clarice lispector, and drinking a warm coffee.

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silelda · 1 year

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Okay, spider looking aliens are not my favorite. But reading about this labrador sized, multi-legged creature playing with a retractable tape measure is making me rethink my definition of “adorable”.

#readathon #am reading #project hail mary #andy weir

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virtuallyleslie · 5 months

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⭐TO SHAPE A DRAGON'S BREATH⭐

🍾 Congratulations Moniquill Blackgoose 🥂

Qualified for all 2024 awards for Fantasy, YA, and Debut Novel!

Now on the 4th printing and being featured on Best Book of the Year lists, such as:

Washington Post's 10 Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels of 2023

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Chicago Public Library Must-Read Books of 2023: Fantasy, Horror & Sci-Fi https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/199702383/2422351289

NPR's Book We Love

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Pop Sugar's Best New Fantasy Books

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#to shape a dragon's breath #fantasy #ya fantasy #ya fiction #gaslamp fantasy #own voices #best fantasy books #bookblr #bookish #am reading #queer sff #queer representation #neurodiversity

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punkpandapatrixk · 9 months

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☆°・. Hustlin’ a la Goddess .・°☆ | Punk Girl Culture

A while back on Pinterest I saw a really cool quote like this: ‘I hustle like a man because I was raised not to depend on one.’ I understood what it’s trying to say and where it’s coming from; and above all, it really is an empowering idea considering how many women in this world are totally loser-like because their willpower is weak HA But the thing about that quote is…

It got me reminiscing about how I used to be a terrible, terrible workaholic caused by a toxic childhood that had been the complete opposite of that. In my past reality, I hustled like a man exactly because I had been groomed to depend on one. KABOOM!

In a toxic household was a psychopath that worked devilishly hard at having little girls believe that a woman is inherently—by nature—dependent on men. That our survival is at the mercy of men’s charity. Thus a woman must seek to marry a rich man if she wishes to live a happy life. Mind you, this wasn’t a simple case of a shallow Boomer who had grown up in a different era; this really was a psychopath who delighted in creating false realities for little girls to grow up and become absolute losers, in the hope that they never would surpass—never would become better than her.

I was only seven when I began to give that narrative a fuckton of thought. I loathed the idea that a woman is this kind of a helpless creature only because she was born with a vagina; that a woman would never survive without a man’s protection or provision; that a woman’s highest priority in life is to be attractive enough (whatever that means) to seduce a rich man so he wants to marry her. I LOATHED IT. I fucking despised it. What an insult to Love!

At any rate, by age seven, I had come to notice the bullshit that was often spewed by that psychopath. I refused to accept that degrading idea so I began to think and behave differently. I thought to myself one afternoon in the shower:

‘So a marriage is only necessary because of the money, right? But that’s an old people thing. This is a different era—I will make my own money when I grow up. So then, that means I don’t need to get married. I won’t allow myself to become dependent on a man. I don’t want it.’

And so it was that I grew up to become a hustler more resilient than most men because I wanted to rebel against the grooming of the psychopath. It was like a weird coping mechanism or overcompensation or something—not sure which term is more correct LMAO I grew up wanting to be seen as tough and not needing a man’s gentlemanly assistance. I hated being helped by men like, what, you think I can’t help myself? I was always able to help myself.

The problem is… I became way too tough. Waaay too tough for one short girl. I had come to hold myself to impossible standards. I thought that if a man could manage to do this or that, I should be able to do and achieve just the same. My brain is very capable! What’s stopping me?!

The reality of the limits of my physiology (tiny!🤪) as well as my psychology as an autistic girl had not become clear to me at this point. But as the wheel of fortune would have it, at some point in Life my eyes were opened to the very idea of my girlhood and I woke up to the realisation that a woman shouldn’t have to work so hard in Life. DIVINE FEMININE, BEBEH!

One cold and rainy October evening I was lying on my bed, broke as fuck, single as a stick, hungrier and lonelier than a stray cat, feeling all defeated in Life I thought about all of this and repeated to myself quite amusingly miserably:

‘I’m a girl. I’m just a girl. And a really tiny one at that. I shouldn’t have to work so hard. I don’t wanna have to work so hard. I shouldn’t be made to work SO hard. I wanna be someone’s baby girl!’

And I cried and I cried about the fact that I had been so unkind to myself as a girl. That I had allowed society to convince me that it was okay to be so impatient with myself in the name of professionalism! And I cried and I cried because now I was realising I’m really such a soft lovely polite girl who had been forced to fight for I didn’t even know what for the longest time trying to just meet the expectations of a batshit crazy world full of terribly gaslighty psychopaths…

I cried for three days straight, no cap. My youth… My entire Life… For what… And where did that lead me? It’s given me nothing. NOTHING.

By the end of the third day, I made a resolve to treat myself more kindly, more gently because girls are meant to be held with tender care and Love♥︎For the first time in my Life I was able to wholeheartedly accept that I was a girl LMAO That sounds funny but I wasn’t struggling with gender dysphoria—no, I don’t think that ever was the case but… umm… though I always liked the fact that I was a girl, somehow, there was also a part of me that used to view myself as just-a-14-year-old-boy-who-likes-to-play-video-games. I couldn’t even comprehend why I had an appearance that would be considered attractive by men💩

At any rate, so it was that I had held myself captive to impossibly stupid standards of conducts because I wasn’t aware enough of my biology, physiology, as well as psychology as a Goddess! Thinking about it now, it’s so bizarre I lived like that and even managed to survive pushing myself so hard even on those motherfucking days of murderous cramps *wink wink* One time I shed tears feeling so sorry to my younger self because I wasn’t gentle or patient enough with her.

I think the feminine force is supposed to be the embodiment of love and comfort. I think being a girl means I am deserving of an effortless existence. Say what you want if you’re a feminazi, but I want to live enveloped in lightness and ease. I think a girl deserves to be taken care of unconditionally because she’s so complexly fragile and delicate. No, it’s not a weakness. A flower’s delicateness is not a failure. Nor is a butterfly’s fragility useless.

We, are creatures of beauty. And when I was awakened to that reality, I learnt that the first thing I needed to do was stop being an enemy to my fragile beauty. I resolved to hold my femininity in highest regard and not continue to hurt myself with unrealistic expectations based on the male standards of conduct. It had to start with myself because the brainwashed world outside of me was never going to give this to me.

‘I simply do not want to hustle like a man anymore. I don’t think it suits me at all. More important, I don’t think the way men hustle is the standard of a good character! I don’t think they know what they’re doing.’

I, am a feminine force, baby—I don’t chase; I attract. When I hustle, I’m gonna hustle a la Goddess because that’s what I AM. The feminine, the yin, the abstract, holds the magick of the creation of the Universe. Literally I can manifest all I need effortlessly by just breathing calmly and being pretty—in harmony with the melodies of the Cosmic Vibrations💗

Gosh, why didn’t I figure this out earlier?!

I think I’ve now made peace with the homme and femme within though. I think, I’ve pretty much stopped being angry about the ways I used to hustle like a man—posing numerous dangers to myself both physically and spiritually. Ecologically, bish, that wouldn’t have been sustainable in the grander scheme of things!

I still have alternating days I feel more like an homme and a femme every so often but I’ve got to say I like me best on the days I feel most indulgently girly👗On such days, I feel the world is so fine because I’m a woman👒I feel everything is just gonna fall into place eventually because my Goddess Magick is taking care of my Reality. All is well in Divine Timing, my baby girl🎀

And god forbid—I don’t need no man to give that to me either!😉

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literatureinfurs · 2 months

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on the coffee table. currently reading ‘the haunting of hill house’ by shirley jackson.

literature in furs, jessie (literatureinfurs) february, 2024.

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slightlyrebelliouswriter23 · 9 months

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thing is, i'm too much of a gossip to just put down a book i'm not vibing with. i'll continue reading a book/series that i actively hate just because i want to know the tea with a character and her neighbour's boyfriend's best friend. i am too susceptible to the latticework of plot and character to be trusted with my own spare time

#i could be learning to knit and yet #i'm reading and i hate it #not gonna tag any fandoms but y'all know the ones #yalit #lit #am reading #secret library

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quietbreeze97 · 7 months

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I've just spent the last couple of hours diving back into this GLORIOUS Lawlight fic that was one of the first stories I ever got into on AO3, as well as one of my first Death Note fic reads.

I'm still so sad to this day that it's incomplete, because I'm currently sitting here SWOONING over how good the writing is and how easily I'm drawn into this concept and AU. One of the most fascinating interpretations of L I've ever seen and so effortlessly, BEAUTIFULLY in character when writing from his POV.

If you've never read this before, you just gotta. It's a work of art.

#and indeed there will be time #fanfiction #ao3 #death note fanfiction #reading #am reading #death note #anime #lawlight #l lawliet #beyond birthday #light yagami #thoughts #quiet breeze talks

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dice-wizard · 9 months

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So I'm half way through The Priory of the Orange Tree

#tpotot #the priory of the orange tree #am reading

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beatrixacs · 5 months

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The Winter is Coming ❄ Hence why I'll re-read The Wintersmith 😊

#am reading #books #the winter is coming #the wintersmith #terry pratchett #discworld #Tiffany Aching #Tonička Bolavá #zeměplocha #zimoděj

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dngrs-untld-hrshps-unnmbrd · 2 years

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The Quarry really said “Travis Hackett hasn’t got laid in six years”

and fanfic writers responded “UNTIL NOW ✍️”

#am writing #am reading #fanfiction #Travis hackett #the quarry #ao3

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dearlyjess · 10 months

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assata is such a powerful autobiography and it’s giving me more to think of as i think of what i will concentrate on for my english ma

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iris-eyez · 1 year

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Please read my book.

Hi! A lot of you don't know me. My name is Tiffany and I have published two books. I have just finished writing my third book. I started my publishing journey is 2021 and have now published two books.

Like many of you, I got my start writing in fanfiction. Many people on here may know me from my Vampire Diaries and Killmonger x Reader fics that I posted on here and over on fanfiction.net.

I love writing and I love the world that I have created in my own book called the Voidbringer Chronicles. These books have been a labor of love for twelve years. I am so proud of them and I want to share them with the world and I have.

I have been slightly disheartened though because I barely have any reviews. I don't know if others like my story. So I have come to tumblr to offer you my book for free. Yup

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Just head over to my website, tiffanyajoissin.com/shop and download the books for you to read. All I ask is that you leave a review on Amazon, Goodreads, Kobo, etc.

Please help me achieve my dreams of becoming an author!

Thank you tumblr.

(this offer will last the whole week!)

#am writing #free book #am reading #fantasy #adult fantasy #writing #reading

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katy-l-wood · 14 days

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Boop! what book (or other piece of media) are you currently reading?

Boop!

I'm reading two books right now, both are non-fiction.

The first is "Response to Disaster: Fact Versus Fiction and its Perpetuation." It's...an interesting concept, but despite coming from a university press I don't think a single person looked at this book after the author submitted the manuscript? It certainly hasn't seen an editor. If you cut out all the repetitions and nearly identical paragraphs and sentences, you'd probably only have half the book left. Also, the way he explains his stats and studies just feels OFF. Like, I don't know A LOT about the technicalities of statistics, but I know enough to know something is just weird here. That's not to say the author is necessarily wrong in any of his conclusions, just that he's CLEARLY not a good writer/good at explaining his positions.

The second I'm enjoying a ton more, and that's "Dying for a Laugh: Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination." I'm only about a third into it, so I'll talk about it more when I finish, but so far it is FANTASTIC.

F. T. Lukens's new book also came out today, so whenever my pre-order shows up that'll immediately get cracked open, because I love Lukens's books.

#Boop #Am Reading

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curieincali · 4 months

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Me reading ACOTAR/MAF/WAR: This is great, sure there are some problematic elements, but it doesn't meet my problem-threshold while I'm thriving in fairy smut silliness :)

ACOSF: I need to fight the author in a parking lot. x

#I was gonna write my whole review in the tags #but instead i created a whole goodreads account to write my full rant #a court of silver flames #acosf #a book that could have aborted tbh #where was the editor i ask #books #am reading

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