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I swear to God, I CAN'T EVEN with Deadpool. He's using a book that doesn't even exist to make a easter egg to a 1987's movie, that is a joke about, well himself/Ryan Reynolds. I LOVE YOU, MAN!

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“I really think I’m really lucky. I’m so grateful for my family, my mom, my stepdad, they all made it possible for me to come here. For my friends, for the fact that I’m living in New York, in my own apartment in the city. I’m also grateful to have people that believe in me the way they do. It’s also a friendly reminder that life is has got to keep going, you should never feel like you’ve arrived. You gotta stay hungry. It’s all over for you the moment you don’t.” – Sebastian Stan.

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Why is diversity in books important? Diversity is not important. Diversity is reality. Human beings are not all the same. We come from many different places and have many different identities and experiences. Having only one kind of human being in the stories being told is flat-out bad storytelling. Diversity is reality. Let’s stop erasing that.

Malinda Lo, in response to a reader’s question about the importance of diversity (via bostonpoetryslam)

Yes!!

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Ilusões Perdidas - Honoré de Balzac

"O jornal, em vez de sacerdócio, tornou-se um meio para os partidos; e de um meio passou a ser um comércio e, como todos os comércios, não tem fé nem lei. Todo jornal é uma loja onde se vendem ao público palavras com as cores que ele deseja. Se existisse um jornal dos corcundas, dia e noite provaria a beleza, a bondade, a necessidade dos corcundas. Um jornal não é mais feito para esclarecer, mas para adular as opiniões. Assim, todos os jornais serão em dado tempo covardes, hipócritas, infames, mentirosos, assassinos; matarão ideias, os sistemas, os homens, e por isso mesmo florescerão. Terão a vantagem de todos os seres pensantes: o mal estará feito sem que ninguém seja o responsável."

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Ilusões Perdidas - Honoré de Balzac

"O jornal, em vez de sacerdócio, tornou-se um meio para os partidos; e de um meio passou a ser um comércio e, como todos os comércios, não tem fé nem lei. Todo jornal é uma loja onde se vendem ao público palavras com as cores que ele deseja. Se existisse um jornal dos corcundas, dia e noite provaria a beleza, a bondade, a necessidade dos corcundas. Um jornal não é mais feito para esclarecer, mas para adular as opiniões. Assim, todos os jornais serão em dado tempo covardes, hipócritas, infames, mentirosos, assassinos; matarão ideias, os sistemas, os homens, e por isso mesmo florescerão. Terão a vantagem de todos os seres pensantes: o mal estará feito sem que ninguém seja o responsável."

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Development of Celeb Crushes

Me: Wow what a classically beautiful person.

Brain: Uh-oh...

Me: No it's fine, they're not my type. Ha. I can appreciate a beautiful person without having to watch their entire back catalogue of work y'know.

Brain: You don't have time for this!

Me: Relax, it's just one film.

Brain: It's one film now, but then there's the three hours of Google Image Searches afterwards!

Me: Nonsense! I just want to make sure I'm immune.

Brain: Oh boy...

Me: It's fine. I can look at them and feel nothing.

Brain: ???

Me: I feel nothing.

Brain: Why have you spent 45 minutes looking at their pictures?

Me: I feel nothing.

Brain: You're imagining lazy Sunday morning cuddles with you as the little spoon! This is it. You're gone.

Me: I feel nothing. Maybe I am incapable of love now.

Brain: *eyeroll* Batten down the hatches, lads, she's gonna go - in three... two... one...

Me: Shit!

Brain: Here we go!

Me: They really are beautiful! Like oh my god look at them it's like they were carved by angels!!! Oh no no no no no!!! Not this! This can't be happening! Oh no! I thought I was immune! Why you play me this way, Brain?! WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP ME BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE?!?!?

Brain: *facepalm*

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(via An animated GIF)

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Yep.

i want to live by the ocean but also in the forest but also in the mountains but also in a big city but also in the countryside u feel me

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Witch Work by Neil Gaiman.

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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)

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Friendly reminder to check you’re not holding tension in your body. Let your shoulders drop, unclench your hands and jaw. Take a deep breath. Much better.

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Best. Movie. Ever!! ❤💜❤

This is a different kind of superhero story.

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I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (via thelovejournals)

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Dog owners please be aware.

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Anon writes a letter to NASA

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Oh, it's that time of the year again

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YA Fairy Tale Retellings

I’ve had several people ask for some YA retelling book recommendations, so here are a few of each! I marked my favorites with an asterisk:

Cinderella

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine*

Cinder by Marissa Meyer*

Gilded Ashes by Rosamund Hodge

Cinderella and the Colonel by K.M. Shea

Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George

Ash & Bramble by Sarah Prineas

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell

Bewitching by Alex Flinn

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas (the sequels get way better)*

Snow White

Winter by Marissa Meyer*

The Shadow Queen by C.J. Redwine

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

Mirrored by Alex Flinn

Beauty & the Beast

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge*

Beastly by Alex Flinn

Beauty by Robin McKinley

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas* (except I think this is more of a retelling of the Scottish ballad Tam Lin than anything else)

Of Beast & Beauty by Stacey Jay

Heart’s Blood by Juliet Marillier

Sleeping Beauty

Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay (about Aurora’s daughter)*

A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan

Gathering Frost by Kaitlyn Davis

A Wicked Thing by Rhiannon Thomas

Rapunzel

Cress by Marissa Meyer*

Reign of Shadow by Sophie Jordan

The Golden Braid by Melanie Dickerson

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George

Entwined by Heather Dixon

Peter Pan

Unhooked by Lisa Maxwell

Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Never Never by Brianna Shrum

Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

The Neverland Wars by Audrey Greathouse

Never Ever by Sara Saedi

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Aladdin/1,001 Nights

The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury*

The Wrath & the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh*

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Red Riding Hood

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer*

Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge

Princess of the Silver Woods by Jessica Day George