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leehallfae · 2 years
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“i think there’s something about being a young woman that feels very murderous. that’s what i was trying to get with a song like ‘dream girl evil.’ it can be dangerous for people to think you’re incredibly nice. when you get, ‘you’re an angel,’ that seems like such a high place to fall from. when i see messy or violent or terribly behaved women, especially young women, there’s a liberation. to not have to try and survive by being good.”
— florence welch on her song “dream girl evil”
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farm-paws · 3 months
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I got ‘Australian Barkers and Biters’ by Robert Kaleski for Christmas, aka my arch nemesis and the man who is the most incorrect about dogs ever. I am 18 pages in, and having the time of my life. Here are some of Mr Kaleski’s hot takes, from the revised edition, circa 1933:
- dogs and cats are descended from the Tasmanian tiger. Bears are descended from prehistoric Tasmanian devils.
- brindle patterning comes from Tasmanian tigers, and cats can be brindle
- dogs and cats hate each other because dogs used to chase their prey into the jungle, scaring the cats prey away. In revenge, cats would seek out and kill dog pups.
- dogs have two sets of upper canines, or tusks, as Kaleski refers to them.
- the more sun a living thing is exposed to, the smarter it is. This is why dogs are smart and cats aren’t.
- red animals are smarter than black or grey animals because of sun exposure.
- dogs are ‘the strongest, bravest and most intelligent’ of canines, because they are exposed to more sun. Cats and wolves suck because they’re nocturnal.
- Tasmanian devils and tigers only survive on Tasmania because it wasn’t sunny enough for the dingo. ‘Hence their existence there, in their poor colours- dark brown and black respectively.’
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aloveforjaneausten · 8 months
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She was perfectly disposed to make every allowance for the colonel's advanced state of life which humanity required.
You would think this would be about a man in between the ages of 70-90, but no, he's 35! 🤣🤣
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theunstuffedpepper · 3 months
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Anyone else make the switch from GoodReads to StoryGraph?
I never used GR for the social component - strictly used it for (lazily) tracking my reading. Now that I’m getting more into reading, I decided to make the switch to StoryGraph and already I like it so much more. More options for tracking — I like that you can categorize books as “did not finish” — and it’s a much, much cleaner app experience.
Anywho! If you’re on SG and wanna find me, I’m audiopepper.
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inkcurlsandknives · 7 months
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Really enjoyed A Psalm for the Wild-Built it was the perfectly sized solar punk novella I needed to unwind. I need more hopeful stories in my life, the pace of it was a balm and as a certified tea person, once a small tea buisness owner I found the concept of a traveling monk providing tea service utterly delightful.
I really miss lazy Saturday mornings at the farmers market offering samples of tea and talking about blends and herbs with folks
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bookaddict24-7 · 2 months
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✨One of my reading goals for 2024 is reading more of my backlist TBR titles. So, here are a few of the books I hope to get to in February! ✨
P.S. I have already DNF’ed Gothikana 🫢
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plantpages · 1 year
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hell-river · 14 days
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I also read Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry, which is a historical fiction with one of the most heart breaking trans stories I’ve ever read and Parry somehow also made it a happy ending? This book made me stare at a wall for five real life minutes. It was one of the most well done multi-pov/multi-plot-becomes-one-plot books I’ve ever read. The vibes were incredible, the characters were incredible, and I really don’t know how it doesn’t have more of a following. Idk much about New York, but Parry’s descriptions of 1890s Coney Island and New York made it the absolutely perfect place to set this story.
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On days where RL clubs me with a sledgehammer, I reach for poetry. Oftentimes, there’s an uncanny correlation between my emotional state and whatever poem I randomly pick from whatever anthology I’m currently reading. Take today:
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I’m sad for different reasons, but - Misha!! Thanks for smacking me in the face with this. Right in the feels…
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serendipity-by-chance · 5 months
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reading tpm and it’s heartbreaking to see little anakin helping a tusken raider. he rescued the raider and sat with them through the night until the their people came and found them. his heart was so big and so kind. it’s heartbreaking to see how he ends up murdering a tribe of them in anger. i would have loved to see who anakin would have been if palpatine never twisted him
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leehallfae · 5 months
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“they pushed their faces toward me. / their poems toward me. / they leapt & thrashed, they were stars, / stars, stars. / i woke up weeping. do you understand? / i thought i could only fall asleep / doing that.”
— chen chen, “spring summer autumn winter,” your emergency contact has experienced an emergency
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farm-paws · 10 months
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“There is also on record a story concerning a dog named Piper who belonged to a Mr. Ainsley in about 1820; he was set on to a badger when eight months old, and from that time until he was fourteen years old was constantly at work more or less with badgers, foxes, foulmarts, otters and other vermin. He drew a badger after he was fourteen years old when he was toothless and nearly blind after several other terriers had failed.” - Harold Warnes on the Bedlington Terrier, 1932
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Mr. H. Cox’s ‘Jill of Mottisfont’, 1930s
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aloveforjaneausten · 2 months
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Hello Boromir.
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amandinemoon · 7 months
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Quite proud of this one
Bill's scars canonically correct
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mediocrefruitlover · 9 months
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