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did you know public libraries are free and beautiful

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can't blame him for failing in this timeline

(uploaded this on inprnt btw!!)

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Too close to the sun

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my favorite trope is when someone believes they’re hard to love and someone who loves them like it’s breathing.

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This prologue was meant to be a quick lead into the story and now it just keeps getting long the more I write.

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done healing my inner child. next up is my inner teen. her highness demands a sword.

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I don't know half of Tolkien lore half as well as I should like, and I've studied less than half of it half as much as it deserves.

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I'm here to clear up some confusion about YA books. When some people hear that label, they think "meant for children." Why is it, then, that some books classified as YA have tons of explicit content that doesn't seem "appropriate"? There are actually complex and messy industry reasons behind this, mainly to do with female, qu33r, and POC authors getting pushed into the category and then pigeonholed there. (Also, totally not a coincidence that such authors get funneled toward a lower-paying category.)

I go over the main 3 reasons in this video, but basically, everyone's lives would be better if a clear distinction existed between Teen Lit and New Adult Lit, but this did not work out and forced the YA category to house more than it's nominally supposed to. Pearl-clutching at individual authors (or worse, calling for book bans "in the name of the children") is not the way to resolve this. The industry itself needs to commit to recognizing the necessity of New Adult, or it'll always be forced to room with YA and scandalize people.

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Made an arcane fan animation hehe

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In a more ideal world, all we would need is a bucket of chicken and a stretchy boy to ignite the masses into revolution to solve this problem.

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I think i’ll end up with a whole collection of tehse two clutching each other.

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When Lucy Gray says "I am not district" what she means is I am Covey. I had a culture, I had a people. You stole it from me. I will not allow you to erase it, I will not let you make me forget who I really am, I refuse to be what you say I have to be.

When Snow says "Lucy Gray isn't really district" what he means is unlike all those others in the districts Lucy Gray is practically a person. Lucy Gray is so much better than everyone else in the districts could ever hope to be. Lucy Gray is just about human.

Yet Snow is under the impression they are saying the same thing.

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Mr. Darcy is my little meow meow

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Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

— Vincent van Gogh

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when I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library pride and prejudice by jane austen

happy birthday to my darling girl @alicenthighstower !!

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pov: perishing in the cosmic rift together with ur lab partner :) [x]