#source: book

[goodomens-fanmadequotes]

"Why are you always this cynical?" Asked Aziraphale "I said. Because is my job"

[resistancequotes]

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus The Rebel

[roseworth]

i think theres this idea in the general public that the "best" fanfic gets turned into real books like 50 shades of grey. but the truth is that the best fanfic can never be published as an actual book because its intricately woven into the canon material so its inseparable even if you change the names

[catbrarian]

cats and libraries ۫ ꣑ৎ

[shakespearesdaughters]

[jolivers-wonder]

ᵃ ᵖⁱᵉᶜᵉ ᵒᶠ ʸᵒᵘ ʷʳᵃᵖᵖᵉᵈ ⁱⁿ ᵃ ᵖⁱᵉᶜᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵐᵉ

[lilliankillthisman]

what are you talking about

[lovelettersandjournals]

— james joyce.

[hazelnutcoffeeshop]

"𝓑𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽"

[chaoticaesthetician]

abnormally large trees please lend me some of your centuries worth of wisdom

[goodomens-fanmadequotes]

(The table in front of the angel and demon was full of wine bottles)

Crowley: "The point is. The point is..." (Trys to focus on Aziraphale and give him a point) "The point is. The point I'm trying to make...Is dolphins. Thats my point."

Aziraphale: Mate out of water?

Crowley: Don't think so. Pretty sure that's not it. Something about their young. Whatever.

[resistancequotes]

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence; it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.

Audre Lorde A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer

[briechyne]

It's the simple things in life. I want to live.

@briechyne on Instagram

[mercymornsimpathizer]

a non-exhaustive list of butch literature

a (very ad-hoc) list of butch reading and writing, (mostly) by butch authors. books I've read myself in bold; take the rest with a grain of salt. additions, addendums, and commentary welcome :)

(you can find my list of femme literature here)

general/literary fiction:

mrs s by k patrick

stone butch blues by leslie feinberg

boulder by eva baltasar

running fiercely towards a thin high sounds by judith katz

tipping the velvet by sarah waters

a crystal diary by frankie hucklenbroich

godspeed by lynn breedlove

cha-ching! by ali liebegott

the ihop papers by ali liebegott

greasepaint by hannah levene

lucy and mickey by red jordan arobateau

the bull-jean stories by sharon bridgforth

development by bryher

notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin

america is not the heart by elaine castillo

the slow fix by ivan coyote

the swashbuckler by lee lynch

old dyke tales by lee lynch

sci-fi, fantasy, and horror:

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

the unspoken name by ak larkwood

vermilion by molly tanzer

metal from heaven by august clarke

scapegracers by ha clarke

the unbroken by cl clarke

fire logic by laurie marks

the seep by chana porter

these burning stars by bethany jacobs

feast while you can by mikaella clements and onjuli datta

non-fiction, memoir, and autobiography:

hijab butch blues by lamya h

gender failure by ivan coyote and rae spoon

fun home by allison bechdel

butch is a noun by h bear bergman

female masculinity by jack halberstam

burning butch by rb murtz

when we were outlaws by jeanne cordova

leaving isn't the hardest thing by lauren hough

odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman

another mother tongue by judy grahn

boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky and madeline davis

the persistent desire ed joan nestle

persistence: all way butch and femme ed ivan coyote and zena sharman

dagger: on butch women ed lily burana

[shakespearesdaughters]

[catbrarian]

a solid visual representation of me in a bookstore