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sublecturas · 3 months

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"La luz negra", de María Gainza

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lazycranberrydoodles · 8 months

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this is what manhua hualian looks like to me

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fairycherrysworld · 24 days

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Ben giderken gözlerinde kocaman bir hasret vardı.

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aldoodles · 1 year

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I doodled Maximum Ride abt a month ago and totally forgot to post it. I tried to draw her EXACTLY as I imagined her when I read the books in 2008

#obviously she was the coolest looking teen 12 year old me could fathom.#maximum ride #ve been rereading the Hunger Games and doodling while I listen but thinking about books I read in middle school reminded me that #this drawing lived in my camera roll #i tapped out a good few books in. i read fang in highschool and was like ‘k I’m done’#i really enjoyed them in middle school tho!#al chatters #doodles #my art #fanart

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fuckvictorvale · 1 year

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this singular page disconnects me from every ounce of sanity i possess in my body

#I WANT TO SCREAM FOR REAL #THIS IS THEE PAGE IN THE ENTIRE BOOK #had to take a break after reading this #vicious #vicious ve schwab #villains series #victor vale #eli ever #evervale #fuckvictorvale

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indigoreed1 · 5 months

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Currently thinking abt Kell lifting an eyebrow, raising his chin, imitating Alucard and going “Excuse me, I’m a privateer.”

#this scene sent me #I love these characters so much #the inside jokes😫#I need the second book now #injected into my bloodstream immediately #the fragile threads of power #Kell maresh #ve schwab #adsom #a darker shade of magic #reading #books #fantasy

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alexanaraxadel · 4 months

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every day this app surprises me anew because what do you mean there's an active sisters grimm fandom in the year of our lord 2024. *banging on the walls* LET ME IN

#this was the very first Big Kid series i read as a kid #in like first or second grade #i still remember it #you know how ve schwab talked about doors into reading in that tolkien lecture #the sisters grimm was my door #my first love post magic tree house/rainbow fairies-esque chapter books #puck was my first ever fictional crush i was so obsessed with him #in fact to this day i have such a weakness for curls and it honestly might be because of that brat (affectionate)#i wanted his room so bad as a kid #also the whole strange cocoon plotline gave me my thirst for angst and it's remained ever since #sisters grimm #part of me wants to do a reread but also i'm scared it won't hold up (also i have no time)

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bigcats-birds-and-books · 7 months

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Books of 2023. VILLAINS by V. E. Schwab.

Time for a NaNo Prep Reread! I love Victor and this vicious little family with my whole chest. This'll be my second time rereading VICIOUS, but only my first time rereading VENGEFUL.

#books of 2023 #villains #vicious #vengeful #ve schwab #books #book photography #seriously i love these so much #shades of magic was good but vicious as my heart lol #vicious held up on the first reread a few years ago so im excited to dissect it for the Revenge Arc this time #i feel vaguely bad because i remember nothing about marcella but. tbf. how could i when victor and sydney and mitch are RIGHT there #also this is just. so much better. than hench....#i finished hench at three o'clock this morning just to be Done #the pacing was Messy™ and it didn't get better #definitely brutal and fucked up (that body horror at the end was epic actually) but. overall mediocre for me....#parts did make me laugh and i'm love the spreadsheets take but. i couldn't get over the pacing #WHICH AGAIN I KNOW IS RICH COMING FROM ME #sigh #anyway i read the first scene this afternoon but now i'm gonna watch nate wreaking havoc in heist fambly while my laundry goes #and THEN bedtime reading

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batcavescolony · 4 months

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Awwwe Luke gave Percy a gift to help him on his quest 🎁 that's so...sweet of him. So gentlemanly. 🥰☺ He's so...Kind isn't he?

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy pjo #luke castellan #percy jackson show #disney #ive read the books #ive read yhe books #i ve read the books #notice the... pause

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kazz-brekker · 4 months

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listening to a darker shade of magic on audiobook in preparation for fragile threads of power, and maybe i'm putting too much thought into this, but i wonder why adoption and meritocracy-based governments aren't more normalized in red london? kell is adopted, obviously, but his feelings about this and the general circumstances with the whole amnesia spell imply it's somewhat unusual. however, the book also states that everyone in red london knows that magical talent isn't inherited through bloodlines, but is actually pretty much random. so in that case, you'd think they would develop a society that was less about bloodlines and inheritance and more of a meritocracy, but they still have a monarchy and noble classes. (white london on the other hand is a weird combination of monarchy/survival of the fittest, but i really wouldn't count that as a good society structure). plus, there's a lot of emphasis in the red london chapters that rhy is old enough to get married and father and] heir but like…why does he need to have a biological kid to inherit after him? it's not like the maresh family has some particular magic talent that needs to get passed down to their children, and rhy himself is a clear example that being royalty doesn't mean you have strong magic. maybe it's because i've studied other societies like the roman empire where it was totally normal to adopt your heirs, but it feels like a bit of a missed opportunity not to explore how randomized magical talent in red london affects their society.

#idk if this makes sense it was just some random thoughts i was having while cleaning and listening to the audiobook #i suppose if you've got randomly inherited magic and a system of adopted heirs #that would start a lot of drama about who is 'worthy' to be a heir and such #also if inheriting the red london throne WAS about magical talent than rhy wouldn't even be in the line of succession and everything change #pie says stuff #pie reads #adsom #a darker shade of magic #shades of magic #ve schwab #books

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highqualitykhakis · 2 months

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Hello lads, I'm back on my bullshit because of another fiction man. Kell Maresh, you deserve the world.

#kell maresh #a darker shade of magic #a gathering of shadows #i just started the second book #this is the first book I've read were found the family trope betrayed me #ve schwab #lex's post #rhy maresh #delilah bard

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sublecturas · 5 months

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“Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy”,

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thereadingmoon · 8 months

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so i’ve read yellowface and babel now and realized rf kuang isn’t for me even if i would’ve loved the opposite to be true. i love the high concepts of her stories but on a stylistic level, they’re very tell not show, especially babel. i’d hoped that quality was in yellowface due to it being a novella, but it’s kind of sad something as expansive like babel had that quality as well. i’ve seen people describe her writing as if she doesn’t trust her readers to connect the dots, and i agree with that. for example, when talking about a word that could be read as a homonym in chinese and english, the impact of that realization felt spoilt when she explained the pun to the reader in the same page.

her works are also definitely targeted for another demographic of reader and that’s alright. to me, they’re a racism 101 for white readers or readers with a background within the hegemony or for readers who grew up where being (east) asian is a minority. it’s also how i felt about kim ji-young: i recognize the importance of the book’s existence, but i accept that it wasn’t made for me.

yan lang

#rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #yellowface #Also there’s something that needs to be said about how booktok seems to gravitate towards books that follow tell not show #I have the same gripes with the works of VE Schwab #she has lovely purple prose and turns of phrase but reading ADSOM felt so repetitive and dry to me #moonymovetheglass.txt

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fabricatedgeek · 7 months

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I’m not a fan of training montages.

Especially in books.

But goddamn when it’s a training montage of progressively brutal fights between your otp I am HERE for it.

#am I a predictable bitch #yes #am I thrilled my favorite trilogy now has a sequel #also yes #but goddamn this book already has my heart #if you’re going to break the rules do it well #Fragile Threads of Power #seriously I will read anything ve schwab writes at this point #goals

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evenstarfalls · 7 months

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Happy 10th birthday to Vicious by V.E. Schwab!!

If you have not read it... now would be a great time ;)

#i have not been the same since i read that damn book. it's so good #vicious #villains series #ve schwab #villains duology #eli ever #victor vale

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rotzaprachim · 6 months

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*breathes in and out through mouth* everyone is scared and grieving and still waiting for news of their families everyone is scared and grieving everyone is scared and grieving*

#Jewish communal leader hurt me very and I mean VE TU deeply today #I mean very #I think in what was to her mind a not passive aggressive way she felt the need to explain the Israeli Side and Israeli history #But like the nail in the coffin was implying that I don’t feel as deeply for the people in Israel #I don’t understand the depth of suffering of the people in Israel #Because I was bothered on Saturday zoom Torah by how Netanyahu has used this for more war crimes #That the fact that I care about Gazans means I don’t feel enough grief or a normal Jewish grief as she sees it for Jews #To me this is jsut unconscionably cruel #Also that the majority of Jews don’t support a ceasefire or at least local Jews #Well if that’s true I want no part of it. Not now or ever again #I can’t believe she felt the need to like. Explain the news cycle to me #I didn’t get this off a tiktok ma’am #I read yo@v g@llant in fucking haaretz. I heard what he said #*no one in Israel is calling for mass death* clearly they are #Anyway she told it was whataboutism to care about the reprisals on a civillians population from what Hamas did #And to feel better being part of a community or doing soemthing active. Maybe read this book on feminism I’ve already read #I’m just so hurt by it all!#Telling another Jew they don’t feel or care enough for ‘am yisrael is the deepest cut there is

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