#reading city to go

[ruoyeming]

Ghost City stroll <3

[obsob]

to be loved is to be held!!! print

[katabay]

some other fake byzantine empire ocs! completely unrelated to the other ones, these guys are for a story focusing on the viscera of the imperial household

[presidentkamala]

Im gonna be so real people who pounce on any message of hope or anyone who speculates about anything other than the absolute worst-case, "we are all doomed, doomed you hear!" scenario while all this is going down and the fed gov is totally upended are pissing me tf off!!

I get it these are powerful emotions its an incredibly difficult and politically dangerous time right now but we're also barely 3 weeks in folks. The admin has ALREADY backed off two hugely unpopular initiatives and is currently testing the checks and balances.

Like WHY is it so important to you that i affirm to you that we're all definitely going to die in gitmo concentration camps within the year. WHY is it so necessary for you to naysay even entertaining the thought of midterms. WHAT do you want me to say?

"The experiment is over" "we lost our democracy" "there won't be any more elections so why bother thinking about midterms" "whats the point of these federal judges the admin is just gonna ignore them" "fascism is already here"

Like ok??? And???? Why fold so easily? Why even give them the satisfaction of admitting defeat in this, the opening salvo? There is so much left to be saved, there are so many excesses that CAN be stopped with effort and focus.

I feel burnout and defeated like 10 times a day since the inauguration but THIS is the test. There will ALWAYS be an opportunity to take up truth and responsibility and justice, every second of every day, for the next four years. I just can't with anyone who thinks that now, after everything, is the time to check out even more and totally abdicate power

[surreal-duck]

some business to take care of

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Azriel running back to tell Rhys that Bryce stole Truth Teller

[helenofblackthorns]

Jace trying to convince Alec of his plan to get the Mortal Cup back by saying if they did their names would never be forgotten...... he has no idea what the future holds huh 😭

[soupdweller]

illustration for @divinit3a. one of my fave scenes from the one-shot he wrote for my au :') pls read it <here>

[hannartx]

Sophie (12) at the museum

I also just created an instagram account so go follow me there as well (@hannartxx)

[creatureprofessor]

i love you "he's in hospital bc of bottom surgery" JFJ truthers, peace and love on earth to you, and i also think modern Fitzjames would still heed the siren call to die an absurd, hamsterlike way, so she's a popular travel vlogger who gets into all sorts of shenanigans that can and will end up w him in a hospital, despite her saying she's fine. she's got shot at. got stuck in a cave. got bitten by venomous animals. dived and climbed without an oxygen tank. he's decided he wants to go for a swim in the Bolton Strid, she's going to live forever baby!!

[ann-lol]

Young Prentice because it hurts for some reason and I like hurting…

Tag list under the cut

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[lainalit]

Links for why SJM is a problematic author

Good Summaries

Video: Sarah J Maas | AUTHORS BEHAVING BADLY

Tiktok Slideshow: Why I know longer support SJM

Zionism:

TikTok Video: Zionism in Acotar

TikTok Video Zionism in Crescent CIty

Post: SJM's husband's ties to a zionist organization by @ladydeath-vanserra

TikTok Analysis of SJM mentioning Breonne Taylor in her Instagram Post about Acosf

POC Characters existing for the superior white main characters: Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 by @ofbreathandflame-archive & @feyres-divorce-lawyer

Anti Irish sentiment in Acotar: Blogpost TikTok

The cultural Appropiation of mehendi in acotar

Eugenics & Ableism writing in SJM's Books by @ladydeath-vanserra

Sarah J Maas: plagiarism or inspiration by @alexcollix7

Sexism, misogyny, romaticism of abuse & SA in Acotar

Before you read/ watch any of the links under this topic here are SJM own words of what Rhysand (& Tamlin) represent in this cosmopolitan interview (so I don't want to hear the morally grey/dark romance argument anymore)

Video: The Villain in the Story: Abuse, Feminism and Choice in SJM's ACOTAR Series

Post: The relationship between misogyny and romance: a SJM study by @howlsmovinglibrary

Post: What Makes Feyre’s Pregnancy Plotline in A Court of Silver Flames so Upsetting? by @theweeklydiscourse

Article: SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN TEEN FICTION: AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF ACOTAR

Post: Rhysand and Tamlin's abusive behaviours in contrast by @bookishfeylin

Post: Don’t Worry Feyre, Darling: the relationship anxiety to coersive control pipeline by @wishcamper

The Nesta Problem: Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 by @wishcamper & @ofbreathandflame-archive

EDIT: the Tiktok links should work now (hopefully), I also included the eugenics/ableism post by ladydeath

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I think my life would be fixed if I fell asleep at a beautiful 8 pm and woke up at a beautiful 4 am bc it means I’m asleep when most people are awake and I’m awake when most people are asleep and honestly? Couldn’t ask for more

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

TransTech Shockwave

[magpiesketchins]

I'm sorry I didn't sign up to be emotionally eviscerated by Sam Vimes reading to his son.

[schcherazades]

grief will make you do crazy things. it will electrify the elegant, flower-stem neurons in the amygdala of your brain, will pluck them like an instrument. in ancient rome, grief made men twirl in their thin, leather sandals and pirouette until their feet bled; in india, it walked widows onto pyres waiting for fire. the persians gave the bodies of their deceased beloveds to dogs; the egyptians buried them with their servants. grief will make you laugh at the funeral, weep over the cereal bowl; it will buzz your feet until they start dancing in the middle of the night. it’s grief that inspires the unlikeliest of bedfellows. it will convince you, tugging at the hem of your ragged cotton robe — the one you’ve had since your father bought it for you in latakia when you were fifteen, the one that will always smell hazily of summer — that the building is on fire, the world is on fire, and you’ll only find water in one place: a city as far away from here as you can imagine. grief will pack your bag, quit your job, buy a white dress. it will make you say yes.

the arsonists’ city, hala alyan