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[colubrina]

⁠But would it have mattered if she’d been someone else? If she’d been a social butterfly, they would have said she liked to drink away her pain. If she’d been a straight-A student, they would have said she’d been eaten alive by her perfectionism. There were always excuses for why girls died.

⁠—  NINTH HOUSE, LEIGH BARDUGO.

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i don't like that word. call me grisha. call me zowa. call me death, if you like.

Nikolai Duology - Nina Zenik

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they were twins, whether they wanted to be or not, whether they could stand each other or not, and it was as much a blessing as a curse. a childhood apart meant nothing, and andrew’s drugs were inconsequential in the end. aaron still saw himself on every inch of andrew’s skin and in the tiny gestures and tics they shared.

happy birthday, andrew and aaron!

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Feyd Rautha, pointing to Chani: Who's that? Your pet?

Feyd Rautha pulls out his phone and opens the gallery in the same second: Look, I have three too! This picture here is of them eating a human, this one too, and this one.... They're pretty voracious. I love them.

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the four times ronan calls adam “adam”

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books i read in 2021: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia

I pray I will see you again. You must come for me, Noemi. You have to save me.

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Ninth House: Leigh Bardugo


❝You don’t get to turn this into some kind of feminist manifesto. You forged your new path from the lives of other girls. Immigrant girls. Brown girls. Poor girls. 


                                 Girls like me.❞

[colubrina]

it’s nearly time

you can almost smell the paprika

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It's incredible how people have been protesting pants and skirts not having pockets but not a single peep is heard over the fact that skirts no longer have underskirts by default. Underskirts (or lining) was a thing when I was a child, no skirt would be made without lining, you didn't have to think and check if your whole ass is visible in a skirt because lining was a thing!!!! Now most skirts don't and it's simply because it's cheaper, fuck the fact that a customer doesn't want their panties shown in broad daylight, it saves a couple of cents on material.

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Imagining trying to explain Goncharov to a non internet person. Well it's a homoerotic 1970s film about a Russian-Italian mafia that never existed. People are adding bits of canon on according to their own tastes like it's arthuriana. It came from a shoe.

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Books Read in 2022: Gallant by V E Schwab

“But the truth is, death is everywhere. Death comes for the roses and the apples, it comes for the mice and the birds. It comes for us all. Why should death stop us from living?”

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“As the inheritor of both female and male genetic memories, what slurs can Paul Atreides reclaim?” greatest comment thread in Arakeen history. Locked after 12,901 pages, billions of comments and two planets purged.

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no mourners, no funerals.

Ketterdam Duology - Jesper Fahey

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Allison grew up a modern-day princess and a celebrity through her association with her family’s clients. Rumor had it she lost her inheritance when she chose Exy and public schools over joining the family business, but Allison still looked like a catwalk star.

[colubrina]

the raven cycle + friendship

while i love the magic and the adventure in the raven cycle, what i love most about the series is the friendship that is developed throughout the books. a friendship that within itself is magical and dreamy. a friendship that has grown and adapted and matured so beautifully. a friendship between characters that feels alive and genuine. that is what i love most about the raven cycle and it is something i hope to see in call down the hawk.

*an entry for @maggie-stiefvater ‘s cdth sampler contest

[colubrina]

. 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓲 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓻𝓮𝓶𝓪𝓲𝓷

[ I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain - Dune, Frank Herbert ]

...i made another dune illustration