#my decade in books

[waitineedaname]

I simply don't think that's true eBooks.com but thank you anyway

#i love getting automated emails from book stores #about authors who have been dead for decades ajdbfkdjdj #i had to read nietzsche for my existentialism class. god what a pretentious dude

[pulsingvoid]

kendall being increasingly horrible to the women in his life only to get his whole life blown to smithereens by a woman... cunt is as cunt does!

#taking my wins where i can get them #and you KNOW shes the most behated female character of the decade now. yet another win in my book #kendall roy #shiv roy #succession #succession spoilers

[piosplayhouse]

"Oh dear," the unicorn thought. "I must've really mucked up the story beyond compare! The Red Bull Luo Binghe is protecting the last unicorn scum?! Unconscionable! He should have driven me off the cliff by now!!"

#dont ask why binghe gets to be a human but sqq has to be a unicorn #maybe hes prince lir in this au actually wait omg that would be good #half human half red bull sxy was freakay #the unicorn turning human to disguise herself is obviously sqqs plant body allegory #binghe sniffing around the castle: where is shizun i can still smell him? suspiciously sqq shaped human: gulp #binghe's tragic backstory in this au i guess is that he meets shen qingqiunicorn as a kid and sqq can sense that hes half fae and so #takes him semi under his wing but is like a prick about it until binghes seal breaks and they find out that hes a red bull fae #and shen jiu stabs him into the ocean something something abyss he comes back gets adopted by haggard kills every unicorn by throwing them #into the ocean as well before picking off shen jiunicorn last. and then sy fucks it all up #it's been like a decade since i read the book sorry #svsss #scumbag self saving system #scum villain's self saving system #bingqiu #shen qingqiu #sqq #lbh #luo binghe #my art #svsss last unicorn au

[anatomicalmartyr]

Book bindings for various editions of Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal”

#books #les fleurs du mal #book covers #decadent art #charles baudelaire #antique books #book bindings #art #literature #art noveau #the flowers of evil #old books #decadent movement #my posts #hannibalcore #faves

[exhaustedalien]

here's a couple of sketchy Laura's!! 2 me she is short and beefy and hairy and dresses butch just like her dad!!

#I don't usually post X-Men fan art because im chronically a decade behind reading the comic books #but im always sketching laura i love her so much she might be The Blorbo for me #laura kinney #wolverine #marvel comics #x-23 #my stuff

[jessepinkmvn]

a hill i will die on is that a little life by hanya yanagihara is not meaningless and is not torture porn and is in fact a very stark and realistic exploration of unprocessed trauma and the inability to talk and how trauma shapes the way you view those who love you and the fact that tiktok has turned it into the "you will cry at the end!!!!" book honestly breaks my heart

#a little life #every tiktok i see with someone theatrically sobbing then rating the book one star because it's “overly graphic” takes a decade off my life

[violet-thunder]

I’ve been a part of IRL queer and trans communities for almost 15 years, and I’ve watched every single one those remorselessly communities chew up and spit out transfems. None of them ever having been able to keep a transfem around for more than a year without getting a “bad vibe.” They’ve all kicked people with no other safety net to the curb, completely cutting them off from any of the benefits of an accepting community. Every transfem I know is either dead or living in poverty with no lifeline besides, perhaps, an extremely unhealthy tgirl skyrim house. Trans guys are just as quick to engage in this type of behavior as cis people! It’s like. Insane to me that I’m getting called delusional over this, I’ve watched this exact thing play out dozens of times. It’s happened to me and every transfem I’ve ever known IRL multiple times. Like. Everyone knows about the tranny hovels. Where do you think that comes from if not from the community widely excluding and discriminating against us? That’s not a situation that happens unless you have literally no where else to go. How do you think we would end up in such uniquely precarious situations if there were not power to leverage over us?

#Like yeah some of my posts about this have been a little emotional #but I have a lot of lived experiences to back this up #and then I go and read books from the 80s about transfem disposability #and find that the exact same thing was happening decades ago too #and despite all that! #I still have hope we will eventually be able to see that excluding our own is bad for all of us #because to be clear here the side that insists this is lateral aggression is the exclusionary side

[laurikarauchscat]

Yennefer about to go nuclear on someone's ass.

#traditional art #the witcher fanart #the witcher 3 #the witcher #Yennefer #yennefer of vengerberg #witcher yennefer #anya chalotra #anya cholatra #I must confess #Show Yennefer is my favourite #In terms of how I pictured her when I read the books show Yennefer is a lot closer than game Yennefer #“Geralt! We are at a funeral” She would not say that!! #I kinda just wish anya was like...a decade older

[kitefall]

"Firepaw is my apprentice now. I will deal with him."

#said lovingly <3 #i choose to believe she adored him like a son! thanks #it’s been like a decade since i read the first book but canon is whatever i make of it. so. #mentor & student dynamic my beloved :( #shes like. a fucked up aunt or something #(lol) #myart #firepaw #fireheart #firestar #bluestar #wc #warriors #warrior cats #art #the sillies

[uncanny-tranny]

I jokingly thought before that reading Junie B. Jones as a kid turned me into a feminist, but unironically, it kind of did.

I honestly think it comes down to the fact that Junie B. was not only allowed to be "weird," but her character arc never concluded like other girl characters would. In other media featuring "weird girls," the girl always ended her arc tamed - by force or convince, she would be prettied up, she would smile and be polite, and she would never speak out of turn. She would be perfect then, and would shed her veneer of individuality with the freedom that is conformity. As a kid, I noticed that girls weren't permitted to be "weird" like boys were. So when I read Junie B. Jones, I loved that she was frankly just fucking weird. She said things out of turn, she was rambunctious and imaginative and she was a realistic portrayal of a little girl. I loved reading those books because the narrative taught her lessons without punishing her for being weird, if that makes sense. So often, narratives punished weird girls for the crime of being a socially unacceptable girl, not for any true wrongdoing like lying.

Anyway, I just think it's interesting, because I watched and read a ton of books and shows and movies featuring girls and women, but none of them truly empathized with (or even tried to empathize with) weird girls on their own merits and capabilities and terms, or embraced the idea of a "socially inept/unacceptable" girl without punishing her in some way for her supposed ineptitude.

#feminism #and like junie b. got in trouble A LOT but she wasn't punished FOR being weird (honestly i thought she was adhd as a kid) #i haven't read the books in WELL over a decade but this is what i truly remember liking about the books #and i felt as a kid it said something that she was a seeming rarity among the sea of other portrayals of girls #am i looking too deep into this? honestly i don't care #and it makes me wonder if all the pushback those books got was partially because junie b. wasn't an 'acceptable' girl #like she's no more 'out there' than the portrayals of little boys that are out there and there were lessons and things from what i remember #i'm not saying you HAVE to like the books by the way but i think sometimes other people can get really angry about GIRLS acting like kids #i was ranting about these books to my dad because he didn't like them but he did still let me read them so thanks dad 🫡🫡 #i just remember them being a huge part of my personal library because of how realistic and relatable junie b. was #like i acted really similarly to her when i was a kid and i felt like i was being understood (which is why i hc she's adhd/audhd/autistic)

[tinyclowndancer]

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#the face of a man who definitely won't read a financial coaching book (he narrated as part of his job) during his leisure time #but is waaay too polite to say that #anyway - you're welcome 😇 #[unbelievable that this man right there has narrated about 50 audiobooks so far and I'm waiting a decade for Matt to do at least one. fml] #Ilkka Villi #my beloved handsome devil babygirl #tinyclowntent

[stuckinapril]

t-shirt that says “I LOVE BEING A STUDENT AND LOOKING HOT WHILE DOING IT”

#i never want to stop pursuing knowledge I never want to stop entrenching myself in tomes written from decades before me #you can pry these books from my cold dead hands #text

[mickittotheman]

Pipher, M. (1995). Chapter 1: Saplings in the Storm. In Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (pp. 19–23). Ballantine Books.

Debbie pt. 1

(click here for Mandy pt. 1)

#read this book like a decade ago. saw it on my shelf the other day and was like 'huh i bet that'd have some great insights into debbie'. 😶 #debbie gallagher #shameless #my scribblings #i've legit only reread ONE chapter so far yall. SO many more takes i could post about this. like. debbie fiona mandy karen #finally putting my child psych degree to good use AYOOO #fr tho hit me up if you want more of this/ want to yell at me/with me #also please dont come at me for my undoubtedly fumbled apa citation i havent been in college for YEARS now i only remember so much 😭 #reviving ophelia

[wiltkingart]

I just wanted to thank you for your book arts and rec list that made me find so many incredible m/m books! (İ have a huge folder of them now, hyped to read) honestly i mistakenly thought almost all m/m books were teen lit or y.a slice of life/light scifi so im glad to find some adult recs !!(also ur art is amazing)

so happy that you like my book arts!! but so so sad to hear about the second part :( the current book market is absolutely saturated with YA but i promise there are still queer adult books (not even in a smutty way) that are out there waiting for you all to read! i recently made this new list for my favorite queer books published pre-2010 if you want to take a look at that too. though i will say i tend to be drawn toward stories with difficult themes, so look up cws if you need them and make your own choices.

older (and obscure) books can also be much harder to find, but i'm always happy to answer questions to help narrow down anyone's options/search efforts. happy reading!!

#i have a vendetta against modern gay books in general unless theyre indie or self pub #or by an author thats been writing for over a decade #its dire out here. but i hope i can help introduce more people to these lesser known veins with rich stories featuring complex gay adults #This Is My Passion #ask wilt

[lee-kangin]

HARRY KANE (10) & SON HEUNGMIN (7) OF TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR The greatest partnership to ever exist in the world of football. “When you turn, I will be always there.”

BBC Sport / Kane and Son break the all-time record for Premier League goal combinations / The Guardian / Kane-Son trademark celebration during Liverpool 1-1 Tottenham, 07th May 2022 / Kane-Son trademark celebration during Manchester United 1-6 Tottenham, 04th October 2020 / Kane-Son trademark celebration during Aston Villa 0-4 Tottenham, 09th April 2022 / Kane-Son trademark celebration during Tottenham 2-0 West Ham United / Kane on Twitter after assisting Son on 4 goals against Southampton / Tottenham 1-0 Burnley, 26th Oct 2020 / Nice to Mich You, Son Heungmin / Premier League / Kane and Son hug during Manchester City 2-3 Tottenham, 19th Feb 2022 / Kane and Son hug during Tottenham 1-0 Crystal Palace, 20th Sept 2015 / Kane consoles Son during the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City / Kane and Son celebrate during Tottenham 5-2 Southampton, 26th Dec 2017 / Commentator on the Kane and Son partnership / Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal, 06th Dec 2020 / Caption from ‘Heungmin Son and Harry Kane guess their Premier League goal combinations’ / Stray Kids, I am YOU / Kane and Son celebrate during a 6-1 game against Leicester City, 18th May 2017 / Kane and Son celebrate during a 4-0 game against Everton, 13th Jan 2018 / Kane on Twitter / Frank O’Hara, ‘Morning’ / Kane wins the Golden Boot 20/21 / Son wins the Golden Boot 21/22 / Kane assists Son against Southampton / Caption from ‘Heungmin Son and Harry Kane guess their Premier League goal combinations’ / Mitski, Francis Forever / YouTube: Record breakers! Kane & Son react to becoming Premier League’s most deadly duo! / FootballJOE on Twitter, referencing Son’s trademark goal celebration, the ‘camera,’ through which he is looking at Kane / Gang of Youths, ‘Achilles Come Down’ / Kane and Son celebrate their goal against Arsenal / Kane on his relationship and link-ups with Son / Son and Kane on Instagram / Kane and Son after Kane assisted Son on four goals against Southampton / Tottenham 3-2 Ajax, 08th May 2019 / cr. Shaun Botterill, Getty Images / Commentator on the Kane and Son partnership / Tottenham 3-2 Manchester City, 19th Feb 2022 / Caption from ‘Heungmin Son and Harry Kane guess their Premier League goal combinations’

#footballedit #kaneson #tottenham hotspur #harry kane #son heungmin #son heung min #heungmin son #heung min son #tottenham #football #this is my magnum opus i spent an actual insane amount of time on this ... there is something SO deeply wrong with me. #i feel like this isn't enough to encompass the love they have for each other there needs to be MORE ... but i tried my best #in the end do you ever think about how they both grew up on different sides of the world with nothing binding them apart from a shared #desire to play football and to be the best at it. and how more than 2 decades later they found each other in london and became part of each #other's stories. because that's the crux of it isn't it? there will be no book written about one of them without mentioning the other. #they've become so intertwined over the years you can't tell where one starts and the other ends. #the amount of respect and admiration that they hold for each other is actually insane. like sonny talking about how harry is the best #striker in the world and - not pictured here - how he believed he could win the golden boot at the world cup last year which uh. #that was never going to happen but it's the FAITH. the unwavering relentless FAITH!!! that he has in him :((( #or the DIFFERENT way harry loves sonny oh i could pen tomes about it really but the point is that he opens up around him and he sheds that #stoic and untouchable persona and actually laughs and giggles and smiles in interviews with him and never doubts him. ever. #i couldn't fit in 'never in doubt' here but NEVER IN DOUBT!!! #'when you turn i will be always there.' how goddamn romantic is that then. #the thing is that they were born to be together. they were meant to play with each other. #there will never be another duo like them. #rahul.gif

[damthosefandoms]

if your copy of the lightning thief isn’t held together with scotch tape and a dream, are you really a percy jackson fan?

#shoutout to the ‘I <3 this book!’ I drew over the tape on the front cover in sharpie and then covered in MORE tape #I think I was wasting time in study hall for most of that #the back cover is like half stained purple because the sharpie on my middle school binder rubbed off on it #EIGHT DOLLARS. I think I got this at Borders before they went out of business #www.percyjacksonbooks.com cannot still be a real website #god #pjo #rick riordan #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #my post #about to become a pjo girlie again for the first time in a decade. #those who don’t learn from history blah blah blah