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johnwgrey · 2 years

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#wayward son #simon snow #rainbow rowell #my photoset #book: ws

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pumpkin-wants-a-cherry-scone · 5 months

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Day 8: Sick

Pippa Stainton in Welbelove's office in 5th year. post-tape recorder. I wanted to write something with it, but I'm not sure if it is kinda lame

i feel like the "was" should be "were", but I'm not sure.

#I may have made myself cry coming up with this #(though that's not saying much since I cry easily)#I had to get into character #there's a reason I draw and don't write #anywho #pippa stainton #COC 2023 #Carry On Countdown #just barely before midnight #woohoo #drawing the sitting position straight on was confusing #I have CO and WS but not AWTWB so my depiction of pippa may not be accurate #I knew I should've gotten all the books

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samwisethewitch · 7 months

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TW: This post contains explicit discussions of white supremacy and the alt-right, including mentions of racism and antisemitism.

One of my most impactful recent library reads was Sisters In Hate by Seyward Darby, and I want to take a moment to encourage other white Americans to check it out as we prepare for next years' presidential election and all the shit it's going to kick up.

Sisters In Hate is a book about the role of women in American white supremacist movements and specifically in the alt-right. Darby does a really excellent job of showing just how critical white women are to these hate movements. The book also gives us a detailed look at what radicalization looks like and how that process can be different for different genders.

The book is divided into three sections, each of which follows a real woman through her radicalization into the alt-right. I especially want to draw Tumblr's attention to the story of Ayla, a self-proclaimed "polyamorous, raw foodist-vegan, feminist, pagan" whose radicalization started in college with natural living and homebirth and ended with her running a popular tradwife blog and speaking at the Unite the Right rally.

I think a lot of leftists and liberals feel that we're too smart, or too educated, or too savvy to fall for white supremacist recruitment schemes. We are not. Intelligent, college-educated, left-leaning people are radicalized every day. Some of them are less overtly hateful, like your college friend who starts voting Republican in their 30s. Some of them are like Ayla, and their radicalization takes them all the way to the other end of the political spectrum until they're openly and genuinely calling for a white ethnostate with the same passion they once used to advocate for feminism, racial equity, and queer rights. And we need to remember that any one of us intelligent, college-educated, left-leaning white folks could be in her position, which is why it's so important to learn about radicalization tactics so we can recognize and resist them.

I'm not gonna lie -- this book is hard to read. The text contains racial slurs, white supremacist rhetoric, antisemitism, and anti-Black racism. All of this is condemned by the author, but Darby doesn't shy away from showing just how vile this movement is. I had to take a lot of breaks from this book and read it over several weeks, but I'm very glad I did because I feel like I needed this information.

White supremacist recruitment efforts are going to pick up in the next year, especially if Tr*mp is the Republican nominee for president. Stay informed and stay ready.

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halfdeadhalfpaniced · 9 months

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I want Macaque to use Wukong being public domain as an insult or just bring it up as a quick dig.

#before you say anything yea I know macaque is also public domain in our world I don’t think he is in lmk #from what I can tell he ws either written so poorly that his book version became a barely recognizable parody #or he just wasn’t in the book at all #leaning towards that one #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #monkie kid macaque #monkie kid sun wukong #shadowpeach #lmk macaque #lmk wukong

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asoftepiloguemylove · 1 year

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Hi, i found your page and i love what you do.

i wanted to ask if i could request poetry with a hanahaki disease inspiration/theme? i'm kinda going through some stuff right now and found an obsession for it that's helping me cope.

thanks in advance if you find any, and sending lots of love

finding things related to/about hanahaki disease specifically was really hard so this is mostly about heartbreak but i tried my best. i hope you're doing okay <33

unknown / W.S. Merwin / Lidia Yuknavitch The Chronology of Water: A Memoir / Taylor Swift & The Chicks Soon You'll Get Better / unknown / unknown / Lucille Clifton The Book of Light / Seema Reza This Poem Is Want-; A Constellation of Half-Lives

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mostlymaudlin · 1 year

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here's my quarterly plea that if you have not reread Wayward Son since Any Way The Wind Blows came out, that you should! i mean everyone gets different things out of books -- but i think that when you know that things will work out for the characters, its easier to see how fucking poignant the hurting of the middle book is!

i have also always been of the mind that WS will make u laugh as often as it punches you in the face, so that balance is probably more effective if you're not past your pain tolerance

#IDK I JUST LOVE WS SO MUCH I WANT IT TO BE LOVED #it doesnt have to be for everyone but i just really do think its the book that makes this series so unique and special #and its FUNNY!!!!!!! its so fucking funny #its my favorite book wahhhhhhhh

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disqualifiedasahuman · 3 months

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here’s a perfectly toasted, buttered bagel.

(Nah cause all these blogs make me wanna join but I’m not far into the anime 😣 like all I’ve got is an oc and a small obsession with Akutagawa 😨)

Thank you.

#well to be fair im not. far into the anime either #im just basing dazai off no longer human #bc i ws hyperfixated on that book before bsd #bsd #dazai osamu #bungou stray dogs #dazai bsd #osamudazai #osamu dazai #dazaiosamu #bsd dazai #bungo stray dogs #bungostraydogs

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have-you-read-this-short-fiction · 4 months

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#short stories #short story #angela an inverted love story #angela: an inverted love story #w.s. gilbert #ws gilbert #english language literature #british literature #book polls #completed polls #have you read this short fiction?

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tytonidae-times · 1 year

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FOUL

#i've gotten to book 8 of my rereading and just. why :[#kathryn lasky i am in your WALLS #his death upset me so much as a kid #i thought it ws unfair & didnt understand that just cause he lost a wing that automatically made him die (i didnt know what blood loss was)#but anyways #tyto posts #guardians of gahoole #guardians of ga'hoole

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johnwgrey · 2 years

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→ Quotes from Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

follow the link for more!

#wayward son #simon snow #baz pitch #penelope bunce #rainbow rowell #my photoset #book: ws #not me looking at the last one and sobbing because BAZ LOVES PENNY ENOUGH THAT A FAMILY SPELL WOULD WORK ON HER 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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ilovenights · 1 year

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Due the hunger games ✨renaissance✨ i remembered when they were interviewing Jen and Josh after the first movie and asking them if they had read the books, and they both said yes but after doing the film, and the interviewer proceded to ask Jen if she had pictured herself as Katniss and she said no, BUT JOSH said he did.

Jen: Did you picture me as Katniss?

Josh: No, I pictured me as Katniss

#i randomly remembered it when i woke up #yeah the movies are nice and fun #but go read the books honey 💖#i remember Katniss became my whole personality and I ws fucking as cold with everyone #and so rude #ANYWAY #the hunger games #thg #thg katniss #katniss everdeen #peeta my beloved #thg peeta #peeta mellark #jennifer lawrence #josh hutcherson

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dallonwrites · 7 months

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16. 29. & 48. for the ship ask game!! 🙏🏿

16. Would they ever get matching tattoos? If yes, what would these look like?

Omggg I actually don't think they would seriously like I think if they actually did it would be an impulsive drunk decision in their shared ~reckless~ era with not much thought put into it 😭 they'd wake up together and realise they both have some shit like just MADONNA <3 tattooed on their wrists

29. Describe their nighttime routine.

Okayy one thing I am excited for with RR book 3 that I haven't fully figured out yet is that Beau and Felix live together then and! The potentials for domestic night routines!! I don't know what it looks like but I feel like it's quiet. I need to know their dish cleaning routine and what shows they're watching. But in lieu of a specific answer for that here's Beau wandering about routine in a Lover Boy flashback of the first night they spent together (cw for sex but I don't think it's NSFW just ~sensual):

Felix fell asleep first, and Beau knew he wouldn’t sleep much, the room still unfamiliar even in its welcoming, but he found himself content to lay there like this, cuddled against the coolness, his fingers curled into Felix’s hair. He found it easy to lay there, familiarise himself with the rhythm of it, and wonder if this was all going to be a routine, going home together. Going out together knowing they would then go home. The wine and the new records, soft arguments over which song was better, Felix’s animated excitement over a bridge, an arrangement of synth. Making each other laugh in that sharp way, where you’ll never remember what it was all about but just the laughter, collapsing into one another. The kissing, all the kissing, across their hushed bodies, finding new ways to press together, the quiet fucking amongst the ambience of this carbonated city, where they can hear the outside but the outside can’t hear them, can’t hear Felix’s breath hot and urgent at his ear, whispering God, you’re everything, you’re everything I’ve ever wanted. He’d kept his window open, cool air gauzed around them, because he must have known, how Beau falls asleep better with the window open, and he must have remembered being told that, found it important, even though Beau does not remember admitting it.

48. Do they talk about their future together? Why or why not?

In RR it is a very important point that they do NOT talk about it, not intentionally avoiding it but like, in RR their relationship is a lot more intense and obsessive and very present driven, especially because they're also leaning on each other as a means to try and avoid all the things happening around them + in the future that they can't control. Meanwhile in Lover Boy all the things they were scared of happening back then have already happened and being on the other side of all that + knowing how they behaved before has them. a bit more considerate of these things! So there's probably going to be a lot of dialogue just talking about future possibilities and I think it'll contrast RR in that they actually find it comforting/grounding to do so

ship ask game

#last line of that excerpt might make more sense w the context that felix does Not like to sleep w the window open #one thing about me is i love when verbs like fucking are juxtaposed with the softness of emotionally driven intimacy #also i think when i talk about beaulix it's important to know the different flavours of beaulix #RR beaulix is like. beautiful friendship for half the book and then codependent loveboming obsession in the second half #their relationship is definitely not healthy but like. not malicious. they dont realise that they're hurting each other until the end #(the beaulix fight at the end of RR....it's messy and i only know a bit of it!)#LB beaulix is like. almost scared of their yearning for one another but they don't really run away from it. really delicate #and then WS beaulix is like i dont even know they claim to find each other so annoying but then they just end up having angry sex 🙄#anyway i love them! thank you!#ask games #lover boy

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cleaningbones · 8 months

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thinking abt the fact that sharon is a super cool hippie in the exorcist book. we were so robbed.

#love u movie sharon but. who r u. and what did u do to my girl.#this 🤝 the j@ws post i made abt that one lesbian 🤝 complaining abt miniscule changes made in 70s horror book adaptations #the exorcist 1973

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theloverspeaks · 2 years

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