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secrets-i-whisper-to-the-moon · 1 month

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Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice

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begaydoslay · 6 months

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Spoilers for OFMD:

Okay but like I love this show but killing a character off who’s just gotten a redemption arc is my least favorite trope ever (see Celeste Newsome, The selection) or making them loose their memory (see Peter in Divergent) and I hate this shit! However Stede and Ed reuniting and opening a cafe warms my soul

#ofmd spoilers #OFMD s2 e8 #spoilers #divergent #the selection book

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egophiliac · 2 months

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don't think I'm not still deep in the episode 7 brainrot. because OH BOY AM I

(also one more extremely, obnoxiously self-referential thing, I'm -- I'm so sorry)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 #twisted wonderland book 7 part 7 spoilers #and so ends the saga #(this time for real i promise)#malleus post-episode 7: shroud...i should have heeded your warnings...now tell me more about how i may hunt this elusive 'snipe'#alas poor puppies :( i'm glad they had a little aside about how they can fix them after this whole mess #let ortho have his dogs!#man i love that this has come down to malleus vs technology though #MY FAVORITE #ortho: you can destroy the shell that links me to this mortal world...but can you select the CORRECT DOWNLOAD LINK???#malleus: (downloads a billion viruses and dies instantly)#also i'm probably the only one who thinks idia complaining about his own mental tartarus prison is funny #but there we go #idia has two modes and two modes only #he's either in the middle of a metaphor where he finally forgives himself for his brother's death and takes charge of his own destiny #or he's like 'fuck yeah i'm about to get isekai'd into the internet! (immediately falls over making dying whale sounds)'#wait no he has a third mode: actively suffocating because silver and sebek won't stop squishing him #look he's just delightful no matter what's going on okay

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ale-arro · 7 months

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been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

#replace this with any other type of significant relationship too #also! this book actually rules btw i really recommend it #i didnt read it when it first cane out bc i was like. well i am already pretty familiar with asexuality and not rly interested in 101 stuff #but it turns out it doesnt feel 101-y at all its a super awesome piece of queer theory and also chen has Good opinions #and not weird watered down ones that i am sometimes wary of in aspec communities (frankly especially ace ones)#i think maybe if more people approached asexuality the way chen does (including and maybe even especially ace people)#i would be more inclined to still ID as ace #but anyways!#aro #aromantic #<- tag selections that reflect how i personally engage with this quote #also #described in alt text #also also #j tag #:/#aro media

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derangedrhythms · 1 year

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so I wandered devouring darkness

Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

#alejandra pizarnik #selected poems #poems uncollected in books (1956 1960)#poetry #excerpts #darkness

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mournfulroses · 1 month

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Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship or, The Book of Delights written in 1969

#lit #clarice lispector #prose #quote #words #the book of delights #writings #selections #fragment #p

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historicalfictionenthusiast · 7 months

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There’s nothing stronger than the bond between two girls who read the same semi-embarrassing ya series when they were in middle school

#ya books #i’ve read too much fanfic about this to ever be normal #reading #young readers #warrior cats #erin hunter warriors #romance #the selection series #arc of a scythe #does anyone remember the scythe books?#they were so good #land of stories #lunar chronicles #twilight

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maculategiraffe · 10 months

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#was just idly browsing fake books with holes inside. and intrigued/baffled by the selection of titles #my poll

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thegirlwhorideslikeasamurai · 2 days

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There's a post going around with screenshots from a tweet showing costumes worn by Yuuri and Viktor in the cover art for the Yuri!!! On Ice Select Book. However, the tweet falsely claims they were made for the movie.

So, let's do some debunking!

Here are the reference images from my copy (note the description in the 2nd and 3rd image):

Here's a translation of the costume descriptions in the book. Yes, that's right. They made the costumes exclusively for the book.

This page shows the title of Yuuri and Viktor's programme (Phantom of the Opera).

The costumes have been designed for two adult characters and all the sketches show Yuuri and Viktor as their adult selves as well, not as teenagers.

That's all the debunking I can offer you because there's really no big secret behind it.

If you don't own a copy of the YOI Select Book, it takes only 5 seconds to find all the necessary information about these costumes on google. For example, the YOI Wiki has a page about it as well.

I'm asking you in all kindness to please be careful what information you spread!

Edit: Added two pictures for clarity. Also thanks to @blonndiec for providing additional information in the comments 🩷

I'm not going to reblog the post because I'm loathe to give misinformation a platform, but I guess that most people have already seen it anyway.

#yuri on ice #yoi #katsuki yuuri #viktor nikiforov #viktuuri #yoi select book #ice adolescence #but not really #I'm so fucking tired

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anghraine · 8 months

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One of the few parts of Wickham's alleged backstory that I find purely comedic is his whole deal about how right before his father died, Darcy's father promised to provide for young Wickham, because he was just so grateful to Wickham's father as well as loving young Wickham so much.

—but in the letter, Darcy (without having heard Wickham's account in this case, beyond what Elizabeth threw at him in the rejection) mentions in passing that Wickham's father outlived his. His father did voluntarily recommend giving Wickham the living in his will, so Wickham isn't lying about that, but the whole dramatic deathbed promise thing is pure theatrics and Wickham's father didn't actually die until after the late Mr Darcy was already dead.

His own father did not long survive mine; and within half a year from these events Mr Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved against taking orders, he hoped I should not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate pecuniary advantage...

#i love the tiny details in this book afdk;adj;kf #most of what wickham says are carefully selected half-truths with plausible deniability etc #but then he goes and lies about an actually verifiable fact for ~the drama #anghraine babbles #george wickham #austen blogging #fitzwilliam darcy #pride and prejudice #jane austen

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secrets-i-whisper-to-the-moon · 2 months

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

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a-ramblinrose · 4 months

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Spent this week stuffing the local little free libraries!

I went through all my books, read and unread, a massive undertaking that took days. Also sweat and tears. Plus some screaming. Maybe some screeching.

But: ✨️ Over 100 Books Unhauled!!!!! ✨️

#little free library #books #unhaul #book photography #about rose #not out of void but out of chaos #this was an incredibly hard task #necessary but evil #most of the books will end up in LFL or donated #but a select few are destined for trade for credit at a couple bookshops

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2001hz · 1 year

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selected model for body art book 'The Art of The Tattoo' By: Henry Ferguson (1998)

#selected #model #body #body art #book #tattoos #the art of tattoo #henry ferguson #1998 #my scan

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uhbasicallyjustmilex · 8 months

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quotes from alex turner's favourite authors that make me want to put my face through a wall:

"although i have never been an actor in the strict sense of the word, i have nevertheless, in real life, always carried about with me a small folding theatre" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"there is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts," - albert camus

"there is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself" - raymond chandler

"at eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air" - vladimir nabokov

"no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge" - joseph conrad

"everything i've ever let go of has claw marks on it" - david foster wallace

"we're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. how else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?" - david foster wallace

"i turn over a new leaf every day, but the blots show through" - keith waterhouse

"the truth will set you free. but not until it's finished with you" - david foster wallace

"curiosity is insubordination in its purest form" - vladimir nabokov

"i'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think i am or say i am, that's what i'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me" - alan sillitoe

"we live as we dream; alone” - joseph conrad

"i liked, as i like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unwares" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"whatever you get paid attention to for is never what you think is most important about yourself" - david foster wallace

"i continued to stir my tea long after it had done all it could with the milk” - vladimir nabokov, despair

"i remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind" - edgar allan poe

"all the information i have about myself is from forged documents" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"how odd i can have all this inside me and to you its just words" - david foster wallace

"you will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. you will never live if you're looking for the meaning of life" - albert camus

#all of these are from books/authors alex has explicitly mentioned being a fan of #god i wish he talked more about what he reads because i find the books and authors people are drawn to fascinating #it's such an insight into someone's psyche #then again maybe that's why he doesn't talk about it a lot - the books you love are quite a personal thing #but yeah #having read a few things i just thought i'd compile a little selection of quotes from his favourite books/authors that #idk - stuck out to me as being very alex #and it's safe to safe i have well and truly destroyed my own heart in the process #i also now absolutely have to read despair by vladimir nabokov #it's one of his that i haven't read but i had a little flick through it and oh my god i can totally see why alex is so into it #this list was almost entirely just quotes from that book #there are SO MANY that are just painfully alex #(in my mind anyway)#anyway #enough rambling from me #i might have to do a part two of this at some point #alex turner #arctic monkeys #lulu posts

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fairydrowning · 1 year

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"I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brush her hair, wash her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more."

– Michelle K., "I Know I Deserve More" (via "michellekpoems" on Tumblr)

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derangedrhythms · 10 months

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[...] summer is a slow plague.

Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

#alejandra pizarnik #selected poems #poems uncollected in books #poetry #fragments #killing the spring #months and seasons

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