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YALL. Holly Black has a list of resources she's used for writing her books on the fair folk. I'm OBSESSED. I love her work and world building. it's so true to the heart of faeries

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10 Flaws to Give Your Perfect Characters to Make Them Human

If you're tired of the usual vices like arrogance or impatience, here are some unique (or at least less basic) character flaws to give your perfect characters: 

Pathological Altruism

A character so obsessed with helping others that they end up doing more harm than good. Their inability to let others grow or face consequences creates tension.

2. Moral Narcissism

A character who sees themselves as morally superior to others, constantly justifying selfish or harmful actions because they believe they have the moral high ground.

3. Chronic Self-Sabotage

A character who intentionally undermines their own success, perhaps due to deep-seated feelings of unworthiness, pushing them into frustrating, cyclical failures.

4. Emotional Numbness

Rather than feeling too much, this character feels too little. Their lack of emotional response to critical moments creates isolation and makes it difficult for them to connect with others.

5. Fixation on Legacy

This character is obsessed with how they’ll be remembered after death, often sacrificing present relationships and happiness for a future that’s uncertain.

6. Fear of Irrelevance

A character-driven by the fear that they no longer matter, constantly seeking validation or pursuing extreme measures to stay important in their social or professional circles.

7. Addiction to Novelty

Someone who needs constant newness in their life, whether it’s experiences, relationships, or goals. They may abandon projects, people, or causes once the excitement fades, leaving destruction in their wake.

8. Compulsive Truth-Telling

A character who refuses to lie, even in situations where a lie or omission would be the kinder or more pragmatic choice. This flaw causes unnecessary conflict and social alienation.

9. Over-Identification with Others' Pain

Instead of empathy, this character feels others' pain too intensely, to the point that they can’t function properly in their own life. They’re paralyzed by the suffering of others and fail to act effectively.

10. Reluctant Power

A character who fears their own strength, talent, or influence and is constantly trying to shrink themselves to avoid the responsibility or consequences of wielding it.

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would anyone wanna do a readathon next week?

say from, the 24th to the 30th? in your own time zone, to keep it simple

basically we would just be trying to read as much as we can over the week, sharing updates, reviews, photos etc. and chatting amongst ourselves as we go

reblog if you're interested and if we get a nice contingent together, I'll make up a tag for us to use ^.^

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drink your coffee. read your books. it's chaos out there.

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isnt it interesting that two people can read the same book and one will just move on and the other will have their entire dna changed by the characters i just love that reading is such a unique and entirely human experience

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"You should always make time for books."

―The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick

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a girl and her books

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I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

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Gentle reminder to not put too much pressure on yourself to finish a book

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2024 is the year where I stop listening to people on the internet telling me what to read. I did a poll on my ig story about which book to read, both of which I was recently excited for. Unanimously they all suggested one book over the other and so many people told me the other book was bad. Well. The book everyone told me to read was really boring and the book they all told me was bad is so much fun and I’m having a great time reading it.

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My local bookstore is so fed up and tbh I love that for them they should choose violence more

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yea but it either takes me 4 goddamn months to read a book or i read four of them in 2 days, i don't even know how i do it.

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Credit to diego_fonsecaa

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I am stuck in an eternal state of yearning in which i romanticise and fantasise about all the lovers and all the lives i will never experience.

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That feeling of putting a book on your finished pile/shelf

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Book Recommendations: Vampires

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The Lost Boys (Comics) by Tim Seeley

The Vampire: A New History by Nick Groom

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

Certain Dark Things by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

The Awakening by L.J. Smith (and the rest of the 'The Vampire Diaries' Books)

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

Already Dead by Charlie Huston

My Roommate Is A Vampire by Jenna Levine

Empire Of The Vampire by Jay Kristoph

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin