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bookishwonderblog · 2 years

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#I accidentally brought a ladybug inside for this photo #(Don't worry I carried him back out to the garden where he was happy)#I wonder if he photobombed any of my shots which I would be such a magical accident. 🤭#cottagecore #light academia #cottage core #aesthetic #academia #bookish #books #bookmarks #bookmark #bookish wonder #book haul

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starrynightsxo · 2 months

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spelling bee: how do you spell "mother"?

tfota fandom: *instantly* jude duarte

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sysig · 7 months

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Can you please draw Edgar and Johnny stargazing or something like that

Day 8 - Stargazing

#My art #Requestober #Vargas #Nny #Edgar #I actually went and looked up what constellations are most visible around this time of year lol #I've never gone looking for Pegasus :0 I wonder how much we can see from here #Gotta be a clear night for it! Chilly #So cold that their noses have gone red haha - they're all bundled up but that car hood has to be freezing #I super didn't want to draw a car so I mostly cheated lol ♪ It's close enough!#I could've drawn them on a late-night picnic I guess but them laying on the hood of the car is just the Most Correct y'know?#They're gonna be frozen solid once they're done lol #Oh no however will they warm up lol #That said they're not even touching while sitting out here haha ♪ Nny doesn't like it! His arm is fully over his waist!#Did Nny have the beanie or did he borrow it? Who's to say #Edgar would have a matching scarf to go with his favourite shirt tho he's a dork like that <3 #Same reason he'd know which constellation Nny's pointing at like that - bookish nerd ♥#Gosh this one was close to being posted outside of the usual 2:30 time! Hopefully that won't be a theme #Wish me luck ♫

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bulletnotestudies · 1 year

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similar to last year, here are the best books we read this year in the Studyblr w/Knives Server! these are just a couple of our absolute fave reads, feel free to take them as friend recommendations for the 'recced by a friend' prompt(s) in our reading challenge :)

our favourite reads of 2022:

in no actual order, these are all bomb reading experiences:

The Anthropocene Reviewed by J. Green

She Who Became the Sun by S. Parker-Chan

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

The Cruel Prince by H. Black

Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei

The Scholomance Trilogy by N. Novik

Her Body and Other Parties by. C. M. Machado

I'm Glad My Mom Died by J. McCurdy

The Dreamer Trilogy by M. Stiefvater

Hamnet by M. O'Farrell

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by S. L. Tan

All the Bright Places by J. Niven

The Six of Crows Duology by L. Bardugo

Malibu Rising by T. Jenkins Reid

Deeplight by F. Hardinge

Spy x Family by T. Endo

Whose body? by D. L. Sayers

The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by S. Turton

Girl Meets Boy by A. Smith

The Tarot Sequence by K. D. Edwards

Lost Boy by C. Henry

for our honorable mentions, check below the cut!

This year we also really enjoyed:

Iron Widow by X. J. Zhao

The Charm Offensive by A. Cochrun

Piranesi by S. Clarke

Ella Minnow Pea by M. Dunn

The Hunger Games Trilogy by S. Collins

The All for the Game Trilogy by N. Sakavic

The Importance of Being Earnest by O. Wilde

The Locked Tomb Series by T. Muir

#oop here they are! we had a wonderful reading year & hope you did too :)#feel free to drop your fave books of the year in my asks so i can check them out and publish them as recs for other people xx #knife gang #studyblr w/knives reading challenge #books #reading reccomendations #2023 book recs #reading wrap up #bookish #booklr #bookblr #studyblr #myhoneststudyblr #serendistudy #learnelle

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blackloversthings · 1 year

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People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

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petrareads · 8 days

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I haven’t read many physical books recently because of The Horrors, so it was really lovely to finally finish Heartstopper V5. I’ve kept up with the comic since I was 15 (what!!!! 8 years!!) and it was so nice to get back into it <3 AND it was a special kind of enjoyment reading it all in one go instead of waiting for the next page update haha

#now I’m wondering I should just wait for V6 before continuing to read it #cause even tho I’ve loved reading it on tumblr it was really relaxing to read it in the physical form #petrareads #petraphotographs #heartstopper #nick and Charlie #Alice oseman #osemanverse #booklr #books #reading #read #bookworm #bookish

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bookishfeylin · 2 months

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Because I haven’t been as active this month due to burnout/work stress I’m going to spend these next few days focused on Black History Month before returning to ACOTAR posting in March

#I do feel better tho #For people who’ve been wondering I had my first patient die and I’ve struggled with it #He was hospice so I knew it was coming but it didn’t hurt any less #That on top of the usual workload just sent me careening into a state of burnout #Exhaustion and grief for several weeks but Im getting better now :)#Bookish rambles #Nursing things

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wildereader · 2 months

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Library haul!!!

This is definitely a MUCH better financial decision than my last couple trips to the bookstore 😅 I have an even mix of fiction and nonfiction right now, and I’m excited to get to all of these… even if I know I’ll have to renew some of them a few times before I’m able to finish them 🫣 And this isn’t even counting the ebooks I have on Libby right now!!!

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the-forest-library · 1 year

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What was I doing out there reading other books when The Queen’s Thief series was ready and waiting?

#I say this jokingly but I also believe you do sometimes find the right book at the right time #and how wonderful that the series is complete so there’s no waiting #the queen’s thief #the thief #megan whalen turner #books #booklr #reading #bookish #bibliophile

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wilderflcwers · 4 months

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Search "(your name) core" & post 6 photos from pinterest

Thanks for the tag @floralsapphics ily!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Tagging @franfinesheffield @littlelattewanders @eyes-like-the-night @villainhore @margridarnauds @kuuutar @abnerkrill @raadelma @cozcat @lightsinthemist @tovesaiko if you want to & anybody else I missed who wants to also <3

#'what a fun mix of bookish & cottagecore i wonder how that happened' i thought to myself #then remembered that p&p 2005 elizabeth bennet exists

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bookishwonderblog · 2 years

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𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵? 🍳

#hobbit #hobbiton #the shire #aesthetic #hobbitcore #second breakfast #lotredit #lotr #bookish wonder #lord of the rings #frodo baggins

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starrynightsxo · 5 months

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I'm so sick right now I can't.

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note-boom · 2 years

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I was thinking about BSD's female characters again (as one does) and being mildly frustrated that a lot of their trauma comes from being controlled by an outside male source....and then it hit me.

Almost EVERY BSD character has a past and trauma rooted in being controlled or having a lack of control.

Atsushi under the orphanage headmaster. Akutagawa under Dazai. Kyouka under Akutagawa (and keep in mind Koyou helped get her out in the end). Yosano under Mori. Kenji losing control after his best friend dying. Chuuya under the government and then the Port Mafia. Koyou losing control over her freedom thanks to the old boss. Ranpo having no control over his own self and having been isolated from the world. The Hunting Dogs under the government. Sigma under the DoA and the Book. Even Dazai a little (more on that later).....just this persistent theme of people not getting control over their lives.

And you know what that sounds like? Characters in a story being manipulated by an author.

We have this persistent theme of literature and writing and books throughout BSD, after all. And this incessant use of a character having a tragic past rooted in lack of control or losing control and being manipulated by some superior force screams (to me at least) literary imagery. And what's most interesting is that Dazai both is a character and a manipulator.

Of course he's not the only one pulling the strings, as we know. But he does eat up a BIG part of the narrative, I think...a character who previously had no will to seek out anything to do (and thus adopted the values or reasons of the people around him) trying to craft a narrative of his own after the death of his friend. A character essentially trying to become the author (the light novel Beast just makes me wonder more about this, tbh). But also one whose story is told through the stories of other characters.

And what I find interesting about that AND Beast with regards to Dazai is this page from Vol 17...

People writing. The writer including their own self into the story. Being both a character AND an author and in that sense taking control of your own life and your circumstances....

I'm not sure where I'm going with all this, but I just wanted to really point out that part of a lot of the BSD characters' narratives have to do with this lack of control over their own lives....and we see the ADA full of people trying to take back control. Kunikida and his ideals, Yosano and her healing, Ranpo being the agency's core, Atsushi trying to save people, and Dazai trying to become the author in other people's lives if he can't be the author of his own (his inability to die, you know?).

So my question honestly is just what's the deal with that? Am I making mountains out of molehills or seeing themes and motifs that aren't there? And if not, what does the existence of the Book say about these characters struggling to write their own narratives? (Or the narratives of others, in Dazai's case). Just....literary imagery in BSD and the "toxic" relationship between the author and the character....