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no mourners, no funerals.

Ketterdam Duology - Jesper Fahey

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Allison grew up a modern-day princess and a celebrity through her association with her family’s clients. Rumor had it she lost her inheritance when she chose Exy and public schools over joining the family business, but Allison still looked like a catwalk star.

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the raven cycle + friendship

while i love the magic and the adventure in the raven cycle, what i love most about the series is the friendship that is developed throughout the books. a friendship that within itself is magical and dreamy. a friendship that has grown and adapted and matured so beautifully. a friendship between characters that feels alive and genuine. that is what i love most about the raven cycle and it is something i hope to see in call down the hawk.

*an entry for @maggie-stiefvater ‘s cdth sampler contest

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. 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓲 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓻𝓮𝓶𝓪𝓲𝓷

[ I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain - Dune, Frank Herbert ]

...i made another dune illustration

#dune #absolutely beautiful #best of artists

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✦ @booksociety​’s It Is a Mystery event: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo For the first time in weeks, she looked at the girl in the water-speckled mirror, watched as that bruised girl lifted her tank top, the cotton stained yellow with pus. The wound in Alex’s side was a deep divot, crusted black. The bite had left a visible curve that she knew would heal badly, if it healed at all. Her map had been changed. Her coastline altered.

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In the mirror, he saw himself, a knight with bowed head, offering his service, a sword in his hand, a sword in his back. He felt no pain, only the ache in his heart. Choose me. There were tears on his cheeks, even as he felt the shame of it. She was no one, a girl who had lucked into her gift, who had done nothing to earn it. She was his queen.

“Darlington,” she said. But that was not his true name any more than Alex was hers. 

If only she would choose him. If only she would let him…

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Books Read in 2021: Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

“The truth between two people always cuts two ways.”

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hc for jeans next book that jean ends up being like gifted at ceramics and it comes so easily to him and jeremy is mad bc hes TERRIBLE at it

#love this

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we learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. we learn to wring magic from the ordinary. that was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins.

Ketterdam Duology - Inej Ghafa

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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the thing about el higgins is that terry pratchett would have loved her.

I’ve never encountered a character or a series that I could call a spiritual successor to tiffany aching but el is perhaps the closest possible thing. the way that tiffany’s righteous anger is her magic, born from a sense of deeply rooted love and identity with her home and blossoms into a tempered, powerful ability to see what is in front of her. the way el rages against the systems of oppression she can see and how she follows that rage to the very core and from that core she dismantle those systems. how in both doing the right thing is a choice, always a choice, and one that requires choosing again and again and again. “this far and no further.” “you’re already dead but stay anyway.”

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Good Morning, tumblr friends! What a glorious and happy day to be alive. You are - and write this down - amazing exactly the way you are and I’m glad you are in the world.

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This is Penryn Young, Daughter of Man, Killer of Angels.

for @alekzandermorozova 💙

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all for the game edits │ kandrew for @dadwymack.

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ninth house by leigh bardugo

take me back. make me into someone who has never been done harm. go as far as you can. make me brand-new. no bruises. no scars.

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@literatureladies mission 00 : get to know our members       — [ kady grant | “she runs. not away, but toward.” ]

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cursed with "do you still like me?" "are you mad at me?" "did i do something wrong?" disorder