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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

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I am all of the days That you choose to ignore You are all I need

(All I Need - Radiohead)

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character posters: the foxhole court ↳ neil josten

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Both of the boys were unsettling […] They continued standing there, looking like a pair of horror movie twins, one dark, one light. 

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BOOKS READ IN 2021

all for the game , by nora sakavic

fight because you don’t know how to die quietly. win because you don’t know how to lose. this king’s ruled long enough—it’s time to tear his castle down.

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au: netlix making tv-series about inej ghafa — the wraith ;

❝ I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship : : ❞

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And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.

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At that time Aldarion first looked on Erendis with love; and he stood long in the stern looking back as the Palarran passed out to sea. It is said that he hastened his return, and was gone less time than he had designed; and coming back he brought gifts for the Queen and the ladies of her house, but the richest gift he brought for Erendis, and that was a diamond.

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@storyseekers event 13: florals

if he lost the respect of these white flowers around him, he lost his status. if he was no longer roma montagov, heir of the white flowers, then he could not protect those he actually cared to keep safe. — these violent delights, by @chloegong 

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Noah Czerny

“He couldn't remember the first time he'd made this choice. It was hard, now, to remember what was remembering and what was actually repeating. He wasn't even certain now which he was doing.

He quietly slid from time.”

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@librarysource event III: - pride

OLIVER MARKS & JAMES FARROW, If We Were Villains

Were you in love with him?’ ‘Yes,’ I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. ‘Yes, I was.’ It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.

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I would take all of you anywhere with me.

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     “There’s nothing better than a little danger dashed with some romance.”  

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“You are not mine to take.” He brushed his lips against mine. Softly, so softly I might have imagined them there. My eyes fluttered shut. He could persuade me to build a steamship to the moon when he kissed me. We could orbit the stars together. “You are yours to give.”

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

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THOMAS CRESSWELL [Stalking Jack the Ripper series by @kerrimaniscalco ]

Thomas lifted his hand to my face, carefully stroking trails of fire across my jawline. “True, I want your father’s approval. But I want your permission. No one else’s. This can’t work any other way. You are not mine to take.” He brushed his lips against mine. Softly, so softly I might have imagined them there. My eyes fluttered shut. He could persuade me to build a steamship to the moon when he kissed me. We could orbit the stars together. “You are yours to give.”

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@novelsnet​ event 10: ghosts — noah czerny

      ❝ depending on where you began the story, it was about noah czerny.❞