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what are your favorite books? and writers? and poems? and artists? use this space to go nuts about every content you've consumed that changed your life and you'd like people to know about it!

oh shit anon i could spend days curating this answer D:THANK YOU FOR ASKING, i want to yell about my fav words all the time. all of these feature lgbt themes, most of them are by poc

books: - the broken earth trilogy by n k jemisin(today there was a woman in a book store complaining about fantasy and how it’s all the same and based on tolkien and i basically yelled at her to read this trilogy lol) the most impressive worldbuilding i’ve EVER read, so intricate and detailed. it’s brutal and it’s political and it’s stunning and shocking and moving. there’s a lot of wlw, there’s a trans woman as a very important secondary character and the most powerful (as in magic) and self-less person is a gay black man. (all characters are black or other ppl of color)- ari and dante by benjamin alire sáenzi was asked if i know a book that makes me feel at home and i didn’t even THINK before saying ari and dante. i could read this every month; there’s always something new to discover and yet you instantly feel familiar with the characters. - at nights it’s quiet in tehran by shida bazyarit is. written. so fucking. beautifully. all stream of consciousness but more accessible than virgina woolf etc. and all characters were extremely relatable to me which i almost NEVER feel. it begins with a man in iran who is part of the communist party before the revolution, then his wife once they’re in germany and have to adjust, then their eldest daughter who struggles to merge her experiences in germany and visiting the family in iran, then the son who struggles with his identity as a poc in general, and lastly the youngest daughter who is a lesbian :’)

- everfair by nisi shawlliterally, why do white men even still write fantasy/historical fiction when this book exists. again, beautifully written, politically powerful, wlw characters and fascinating mythology/magic.writers:- shida bazyarshe has only that one published book but honestly it knocked me off my feet, i can’t wait for what’s to come. (I don’t think it’s been translated tho, sadly) most german-persian authors are middled aged or older and even though their writing helped me understood my father and my history, i find it hard to relate to their characters. but SHIDA!! oh my god. i feel so seen.

- donna tartti mean.. DUH. she makes me cry in a single page, she hides these ABSURD happenstances in the most poetic writing (cocaine in the burger king parking lot everyone), she has these dumb, pretentious, miserable characters that feel way too relatable and all those issues between the protagonists and parental characters... my jam- benjamin alire sáenzHE! MAKES! ME! FEEL! AT! HOME! BUT! ALSO! FEEL! LIKE! SHIT! his adult fiction is sooo fucking painful to read and extremely triggering and so are his poems, but it’s so worth it. - oscar wildeDUH. my DAD. he SAVED MY LIFE. he genuinely was the reason for Me Having A Reason To Live. and just him as a person, as a persona, as an icon. (though, i am also aware of his flaws don’t worry)- audre lordei mean??? hello??? her poems?? her essays?? i learned so much from her and she has this LOVE for the world, for women, it’s so inspiring and soothing

- ali smithI’ve read autumn, winter, and spring and now i’m DESPERATELY waiting for summer. genuinely the only form of media in which i can read about brexit without wanting to bash my head against a wall

poems:- silentium amoris; taedium vitae; the new remorse; at verona; panthea; and flower of love by oscar wildejust. i love tpodg but oscar’s poems should be celebrated more widely like FUCK they’re so gay and beautiful and pretentious and Real

- a hurry of english by mary jean chanjust. this entire collection. (difficult daughter/mother relationship? check. wlw? check. bicultural? check. spirituality? check.)

- to prevent hypothermia and oh, pussy, the things i’ve pulled from you by fatima asghari read her collection of poetry the other week and it’s so moving. but these poems in particular... yeah. YEAH!

- here it is once again and what i have to sing about by benjamin alire sáenz the first one is where ‘oh, to be a tree...’ is from and the second one is GENUINELY AN ANTI-DEPPRESSANT(tbh almost all of his poems are my faves(tm) but i’m not with my books rn. i will give you an updated list tomorrow evening)- i will ALSO give you a list of my favourite poems by audre lorde, ocean vuong, and some boring white dudes in english canon tomorrow

#the romantics the modernists nd the post-structuralists are all rotting in hell #and yet i like some of their words :/#i am your fav problematique #nothig and everything #another one for the garden

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