#dailyaoc

[lunaathorne]

every sapphic book i love → the color purple by alice walker*

I wash her body, it feel like I'm praying. My hands tremble and my breath short.

* as a trans person myself, I do not support alice walker. but this book, and what it represents in the canon of black lesbian literature, is deeply important to me.

[ohwarnette]

knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.

[daykevin]

BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➙ this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down. 

[augustsjanes]

@dailyaoc event 04 : meet the members — ARISTOTLE & DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE.

↳ to be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.

[rhodeslibby]

@storyseekers event 10 : written by a Black author — [ legendborn by tracy deonn ]

— “Don’t make your life about the loss. Make it about the love.”

[blacktwiste]

THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS

The pain of it was almost physical. The years had worn on between them, had aged them into monsters with human faces, unrecognizable against old photos. Yet no matter how much she wanted to forget, it was like no time had passed at all.

[kahans]

emma's first 100 celebration: sring venka or reyna ramirez-arellano for @hennaswars

“I don't need your pity. I need you to kill them for me. You have to kill them for me,” Venka hissed. “Swear it. Swear on your blood that you will burn them.��

[dogsyears]

@dailyaoc​ event 04: meet the members  —  the poppy war by r.f. kuang

children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. when you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. they were soldiers.

[creganstarks]

And then there was K i t a y.

[ourravenboys]

books read in 2020: cemetery boys

he was a boy made of fire who’d been turned to frost. he was meant to burn.

[princekiem]

“Memories were beastly little creatures, after all—they rose with the faintest whiff of nourishment.” — these violent delights by @chloegong

[lunaathorne]

every sapphic book i love → girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan

I don't want an easy life. I want a meaningful one.

[caliphamoved2]

@projectliterature event 01 : 2020 releases   —   mexican gothic      —  the world might indeed be a cursed circle; the snake swallowed its tail and there could be no end, only an eternal ruination and endless devouring.

[elwinged]

@storyseekers​ event 16: color palette

The magic wakes at midnight. It arrives in the form of a song.

[evasjacks]

A thousand leagues and a thousand sands. For you, a thousand times I would defy the sun.

[rhodeslibby]

@booksociety​’s Momento Mori Event: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

While death wasn’t the end, he wasn’t done living yet.