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My half of an art trade with @muitamaita ! Her beautiful Rook with Lucanis, of course.

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Wilderness from my new book Faraway Dreaming. 🌱🌲 Available on Kickstarter until 24 June, 2025!

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Tumblr is super big on the "I didn't say it was good, I said I liked it" but really need to discover the value in its opposite of "I didn't say it was bad, I said I hated it".

You can acknowledge that something is good, great, a masterpiece even, and just straight-up not enjoy it.

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Mid Year Book Freakout 2025

Tagged by @howlsmovinglibrary who has been my favorite person to freak out about books with throughout this first half of the year. <3

So sorry but I will forever break the rules on book surveys and only narrow things down as much as I feel like it.

Number of books you’ve read so far: 95 (56 if you don't count graphic novels/manga since I've been on a bit of a bender with those this year)

Best book you’ve read so far in 2025: In order of reading: The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. Parry; In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan; The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling; Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn

Best sequel you’ve read so far in 2025: In order of reading: Faithbreaker by Hannah Kaner; A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett; Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz; Disquiet Gods by Christopher Ruocchio

New release you haven’t read yet but want to: The Two Lies of Faven Sythe by Megan E. O'Keefe and The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Most anticipated release for the second half of the year: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow; The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes; The Killer Question by Janice Hallett; The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino; The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling; All of Us Murderers by K.J. Charles

Biggest surprise favorite new author (debut or new to you): Sharon Shinn (new to me and I am DISTRAUGHT it took this long)

Newest fictional crush: Not to keep harping on this book, but Kent from Summers at Castle Auburn. That being said, this is the year of books about lady knights and I am in love with all of them (see also my anticipated reads).

Book that made you cry: I regret to confess that I have a heart of ice and even when very moved by books it is exceedingly rare for me to cry during one.

Most beautiful book you’ve bought so far this year (or received): I think this was technically at the very end of last year, but I can't be bothered to check when I found it at a secondhand sale because I'm obsessed with this cover and worry that no book could possibly live up to it.

Book that made you happy: Since the legit answer to this would just be my "favorites of the year so far" again, I will expand on this to say that some of my happiest reading moments this year involved reading books at the same time as a friend and getting to discuss/dissect in a way that felt equal parts feral and scholarly.

What books do you need to read by the end of the year? Outside of my "most anticipated" I have a pile of 90s/00s fantasy I've found at my favorite secondhand shop that I'm excited to dig further into. Also, The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard.

tagging @pouroverpaloma @widowling @eldritchcow and anyone else who wants to do this (this is your invite! just tag me! help me make my tbr even more unreasonable!)

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“I’ve Been Dead In The Ground For Long Enough. It’s Time To Try Living Again.” I guess I have a thing for vampires, what can I say? 😏

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Reblog and write the opposite of your URL

openfacedsandwiches → closedtoeburritos

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I love this boy a normal amount

(Prints 🐤)

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I saw this meme in the wild and I had to

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It me.

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the kiss but make it spite x lucanis

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huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

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new year new mountain goats

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Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

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being a writer is feeling like a genius and a fraud at the same time

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Saint Silvana

by Ivana Abbate