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BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➵ THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS BY @chloegong (★★★★★)

This place hums to the tune of debauchery. This city is filthy and deep in the thrall of unending sin, so saturated with the kiss of decadence that the sky threatens to buckle and crush all those living vivaciously beneath it in punishment.

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you can try, she guesses. you can tear yourself apart and rebuild from scratch, bring yourself to every corner of the map, sew a new self from the scraps of a thousand other people and places. you can try to escape to fill a different shape. but at the end of the day, there’s a place at the foot of the bed where your shoes hit the floor, and it’s the same. it’s always the same.

for @terranovas​ ♡

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i used to think of you as my soulmate. i still am.

happy belated birthday @keikuns​ !!

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winged victory of samothrace, louvre museum

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Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

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children of blood and bone | tomi adeyemi

“As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden all along. We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother’s arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp.”

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@storyseekers​ event 13: florals

“We were famous for a bizarre thing that had happened to us three years earlier, when I was seven, a thing I couldn’t remember and never thought about but that apparently intrigued many other people a great deal.”

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

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BIBLIOCLUBCHALLENGE: favorite location | fjerda

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”

~ Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.” ~ Siege and Storm (The Grisha Trilogy) by Leigh Bardugo

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KAZ BREKKER, DIRTYHANDS, THE BASTARD OF THE BARREL

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I have a one track mind, and that track is Wu Ji (in any version at all pls and thank you)

Subtle hand holding TW for the second one 👀

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Some shots of Paris I took back in October

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wangxian being a battle couple (episode 22)

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Aurora and Cephalus (details) by François Boucher, 1769.

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LUPITA NYONG’O by Jackie Nickerson | Vanity Fair, October 2019.

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@hogwartsonline quidditch | family :: potter family 

the young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

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rachel elizabeth dare;

I don’t have to see the future to tell you what to do, now do I?