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I'm considering transitioning this blog into a multifandom blog because I have a million interests, and I don't have the patience to manage five different side blogs dkfgdfg.

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from your friendly neighborhood librarian:

all books are good books.  you are not a “lesser reader” if you only read manga or comic books or a “better reader” for reading academic heavy texts.

reading is reading no matter what it is, be it a graphic novel, a romance, a classic, an audiobook, a picture book, a cookbook, fanfiction, fucking whatever, read what makes you happy

reading is supposed to be fun and don’t let elitism sap any joy out of it

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i am going to shout this from the rooftops:

Katniss, Haymitch, and the Seam inhabitants are all described as olive-skinned, brown-eyed, and dark-haired.

Peeta, Maysilee, Katniss’ mother and the Merchants are largely described as blond haired, blue eyed, light-skinned.

The Hunger Games adaptations have a huge weakness to their casting because they allowed their white audience to overlook this very important fact, that the Mockingjay is a brown girl, that her mother was disowned for having a mixed-race and mixed-class marriage, that Katniss and Haymitch were long shots not just because they’re Seam but because they are brown… because the only brown characters in the movies (i.e. Rue, Thresh, 11 in general) were there to be tragic, not to be saviors.

Katniss Everdeen is brown, and I won’t forgive or forget the movies for erasing that part of her character.

this has been another tea time with hawk ☕️🦅

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fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.

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yall

jem carstairs is the love my life. everyone who says the best characters are only herondales can kiss my jem-loving ass. this boy had to deal with a deadly drug addiction, racist victorians and canonically said “hm fuck colonisers” in an extract and also had to put up with the most angsty love triangle of all time and was ALWAYS a good-hearted person who tried his best to be kind and respectful in the age of toxic white bad boy love interests in YA. in this essay i will–

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I just finished Sunrise on the Reaping and I am UNWELL!!

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I'm a little under half way through, and it's just one horrible thing happening after another!

Poor Haymitch is going through the wringer 😭

I'm gonna pause my LoS reread once Sunrise on the Reaping comes out tomorrow because it simply cannot wait to be read 🤭

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I'm gonna pause my LoS reread once Sunrise on the Reaping comes out tomorrow because it simply cannot wait to be read 🤭

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why are the silent brothers running a continuous commentary inside jem's head? shoo away and mind your own business smh no one lives rent free in jem's mind except will and tessa

in his head, brother enoch said— well doesn't brother enoch have some bones to sniff or something????

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I’ve seen some posts on Reddit talking about theories for how TWP will end, and it got me thinking what the epilogue for The Last Shadowhunter could be like??

A theory I have is that it could either be like the Clockwork Princess epilogue where it takes place years in the future, or like the City of Heavenly Fire epilogue where the whole cast comes together in celebration. Either way it’s gonna break us all 😭

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off to battle he goes! (count your days b1tch @ seelie queen) here's the sketch

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shoutout to everyone

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She had worked in mundane hospitals in New York for decades. She saved orphans. She healed the sick. She’d always been the voice of reason in the trio that was Ragnor, Catarina, and Magnus.

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Happy International Women's Day to the amazing women of The Shadowhunters Chronicles!!

Credit to @oblivionsdream for this beautiful art!

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I forgot how much of an asshole Alec was in COB dfgjdfkg.

I love you Alec, but none of that was necessary 😭

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“The world is a wheel, when we rise or fall, we do it together.” ~ Jem Carstairs to Will Herondale from The Infernal Devices by @cassandraclare

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Also remember that Magnus helped invent the portal, so he probably is the one who's been training other Warlocks how to open one.

Soooo, Catarina can open portals. Which begs the question of, can all warlocks open a portal, except for Tessa? Or is it something they have to learn?