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Limerick - Jemsbooks - Lamby the Lonely Lamb!
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#adorable children&039;s books#animal stories#Award-winning book#Best children’s books#books in rhyme#colorful illustrations#Lamby the Lonely Lamb#Mom’s Choice Award Winner#Reading#summer reading for kids
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do you see my vision
#gravity falls#bill cipher#the book of bill#billford#book of bill#gravity falls memes#deadpool#deadpool & wolverine#iris goo goo dolls#lol#bapple lols#my award winning tweets#hehe
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do yall ever think about bruce/batman!clone danny standing in front of his bathroom mirror after finding out he was a clone and silently tracing his face. The slope of his jaw and point of his chin. The high angle of his cheekbones and the shape of his eyes, the curve of his brow bones and the shape of his nose. The volume of his hair and the way it curls and gets fluffy when it gets too long.
His hair is black the same way a crow's wing is black. His dad's hair is black the same way a black bear's fur is black. His dad's eyes are blue like the ocean is blue. Danny's eyes are blue the same way a glacier is blue.
His dad has a square jaw and straight flat hair, and he tans and gets a face full of freckles when he's out in the sun for too long. Danny burns like a lobster and his face remains untouched. Danny has a sharp jaw and tall cheekbones, and Sam says when he's not smiling there's almost something regal about him. You would never call Jack Fenton "regal" when he's not smiling.
Sam says when he's not smiling he looks scary the same way a stone statue is. Jack Fenton when he's not smiling looks scary the same way that german shepherd staring at you across the street is.
Do you ever think he grew up wondering if he was adopted. Because of course, he has black hair and blue eyes like his dad. But having the same color doesn't make you someone's child.
Or, worse, things he's heard from the other kids and the other parents and even some of his teachers growing up; that he was the product of an affair. And that his dad was just too stupid to notice. And Danny would defend his parents until the day he died, because Jack Fenton wasn't an idiot and Maddie Fenton wasn't a cheater.
But doubt comes in with fickle tongue. his parents swear up and down that he is their child when he asks about either. That Danny just had his grandparents' features, but he was their son and they loved him.
But Danny doesn't look like either of his parents. His mom's eyes are blue like an aquamarine and Jazz's too. And they burn like lobsters in the sun too, but Jazz gets freckles on her face and so does Maddie. And as Danny grows up he doesn't bulk up or get stocky like his dad did, and when he hits puberty he doesn't shoot up like a tree like Jack Fenton did.
He stays small, and they say he's a late bloomer (and he is), or that he just has his mom's height. But he's fast and has good stamina, and some days it feels like he's built entirely different from his family. That the things they went through growing up just didn't apply to him. Jack and Maddie Fenton both had acne and breakouts when they hit puberty, and Jazz inherits it and he's seen the amount of skincare products she keeps on her side of the bathroom.
And then he hits puberty and breaks out maybe once or twice, but his skin stays clear for the most part and the problems and changes his dad went through just don't happen to him.
And the truth is worse than all of the lies.
How horrifying.
#dpxdc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc crossover#dpdc#danny fenton is a clone#clone danny fenton#clone danny#thinking about the inherent trauma that comes with growing up as a clone and not knowing and questioning everything about yourself#thinking about the amount of effort and lying that Jack and Maddie would've had to to do if they wanted to pass Danny off as their bio son#the MEDICAL RECORDS#danny's medical history is completely different from theirs. any generational health problems the waynes have would/could be passed down to#danny and he's completely oblivious to it up until the reveal. he'd have no idea about any medical risks until they hit him before that.#so many little things and inconsistencies that would just build and build and build until it finally came to a head and the truth came out#forever and ever and ever fascinated by the underlying horror of being a clone. there's a horror in being cloned but there's also a horror#in BEING a clone. like yes he could've always known from the start and that comes with its own set of issues BUT. just. him not knowing#for the longest time. the lies and deceit and betrayal. you know how adopted kids come out and talk about how they didn't know they were#adopted for the longest time and how traumatizing and betrayed they felt when they're finally told 15-20 years down the line? yeah that#i imagine finding out you're a clone is a lot like that.#i read a book in middle school once abt a girl moving to a new town with her family and getting these horrible nightmares and noticing how#everyone was acting strange around her. one of her nightmares was about the 30yo police officer being a shambling corpse talking to her#and at the end of the book she finds out she's actually the clone of a dead older sister and the police officer was her sister's boyfriend.#and she was in gymnastics but quit and her parents were so disappointed bc the og sister was a champion/award winning gymnastics player#and i never did finish the book but god am i reminded of that.#i love reading the dpxdc clone danny posts and they usually have him brush off being a clone which is literally totally fine but duUUDE#just imagine his own horror over it. its SOOO good
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"I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd."
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
#hanya yanagihara#a little life#jude st francis#trauma#life#new york#missing#love#books#bestseller#city life#literarure#award winning#longing
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#a boss and a babe#a boss and a babe ep7#Book Kasidet#mike chinnarat#gmmtv#thai bl#bl drama#STOP that was so cute 😩#jack wins a bestie award#also watching this after that prank call video 👀👀#we have no choice but to stan mike#4 life
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losing my mind over this goodreads review of Mission Child by Maureen F. McHugh a little bit like did they read the book with their eyes closed 😭 yes wearing men's clothes for practical reasons does not make you queer. but i would argue that not only continuing to do so even after it is no longer necessary/needed, but also jumping at the chance to take HRT and alternating between (repeatedly and over the course of decades) stating you are both a man and a woman/that you are neither does, in fact, probably make you queer. what do i know though
#like it is not subtext. it is not subtle in the least. this is literally & textually a genderqueer story 😭#.txt#books#anyway i was sooo ready to be mad that it didn't win the 1998 Otherwise Award#but apparently the winner was the short story Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by Raphael Carter (*now Cameron Reed)#so. yknow what. yeah fair enough + that story fucks + Deserved#old gay scifi saga
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I just thought y’all might appreciate my sisters texts after she finished Queen of Shadows
#throne of glass#queen of shadows#empire of storms#tower of dawn#shes on the tandem read now#I should win an award for tabbing the books for her
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I highly recommend local bookstores because nowhere else can you pick up a book that is no different from any other books around it, which include publications by such authors as Ursula fucking Le Guin, and discover only once you get home that it's printed in batches of 200 and doesn't even have an associated ISBN. This has happened to me multiple times, and it is the best. This is not ironic, it's the funniest experience and you really will only get this kind of appreciation and uplifting of local and small artists in indie bookstores.
And also those books will usually knock your fucking socks off.
#the copyright page on this book says#'copyright of original writing asserted by author do not reprint without permission but like tbh permission would be easy to get. just ask.'#truly incredible iconic showstopping award winning#i also got a book of palestinian folktales which I'm very excited to read#i did NOT know there was a poetry specific bookstore in seattle but like. if you're interested and local. open books in pioneer square#VERY lovely and delightful shop#megs is reading
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wow isn't it cool that All Quiet on the Western Front won some Academy Awards in 2023, the same year in which Germany started to ban pro-Palestine protests :) isn't that amazing how we have learnt absolutely nothing?
#so Germans decide to make the most anti-war movie based on the most anti-war book there is and WIN academy awards for the#first time in forever because german cinema is. not. that. good.#and then a literal genocide is going on. war is happening. and gov decides to be a piece of shit#so many people are commenting under news sites on insta and prolly twitter too about the gov's failure and the news keep reporting about#israel but there is barely any coverage for what is happening in Palestine. one look at the comments tells you everything you need to know:#Germans do not support this genocide#I know I am not a politics blog but being against genocide is not political. thats called being a human.#no writing
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a collection of Pride-related picture books I read this June!
#queer lit#queer books#pride month#lgbtq books#two spirit#picture books#kid books#canadian#canlit#kidlit#children's books#book lists#award winning#parents#babies#weddings#i WILL be doing more indepth posts about these just like i normally do#but ha.... the queue is a bit backed up to say the least#so i'll probably be sitting on them for a while#but i wanted to give people a sampling in case anyone was itching to go out and find some queer kidlit!#'pride puppy' / 'mama and mommy and me in the middle' were probably my 2 personal favourites 🤔 but all were pretty solid#well i have Opinions about some but i have Opinions about all kidlit so nothing knew there but there were none that i disliked here#does anyone else have some personal favourites for queer lit? just the existence of queer stories oriented for kids is kinda mindblowing#this did not exist when i was a kid
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Showcasing - Drystan the Dragon and Friends Series Book 4: Delfina Solves a Problem - a Children's Book!
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#Award-winning book#award-winning books for children#award-winning series#books for children#books for PS-Grade 3#Delfina Solves A Problem#dragons#Drystan the Dragon and Friends Series#Drystan the Dragon and Friends Series Book 4#fantasy#Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner#Reading
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Day 12: JOMPBPC: Should Win An Award
#justonemorepage#jompbpc#should win an award#darius the great is not okay#adib khorram#beautiful book#beautiful cover#amazing author#lgbtqia+#pretty flowers#chrysanthemum#i love books
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It’s literary prize season & I don’t care but also I am secretly rooting for the books I’ve read to win
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Anne Leckie returns to the world of her Ancillary trilogy for a second independent novel in the setting. This one rotates between three protagonists. An heir to an old family shuffled off world on a diplomatic mission to find someone who meant missing three hundred years ago (explicitly a sinecure - there is no expectation she makes more than a token effort to find them). An adoptive child working an ordinary job who finds he may be the descendant of the disposed ruling dynasty to a deceased station. Lastly and most interestingly a young translator one of a species created to server as an intermediary between humans and the incomprehensibly alien
The beginning of the book is attention grabbing. Each of the protagonists are interesting in their own way. After that initial burst of promise it never felt like it reached it's potential.
Getting a perspective from a Translator was great. They were one of the most interesting parts of the Ancillary books but the best chapters about that were all early in the book and the facts that a point of view was a translator felt less and less relevant as the story continued despite it being crucial to the climax.
By the end of the book the diplomat Enae's perspective became increasingly superfluousness. The other two protagonists are deeply tied in to the climax and Enae is also there.
My biggest complaint about the POV's is that we didn't get to see Reet and Qven's viewpoint after they matched. It would have automatically made me like the book a lot more if we saw that and it was even half decently executed.
It's not a book with surprising twists. It telegraphs everything. The first idea you have about what will happen will nearly always be what actually happens. It does this all well in advance of events happening. You can see plot points long before they actually eventuate. I don't need shocking twists but events happening exactly how you would have expected a hundred pages ago gets tiresome.
There's references to the setting's history but they feel like isolated events with no real connection to each other rather than a detailed fleshed out history.
The depiction of polities and how those with influence in them act was simplistic. Leckie only seems to view them at a very high level and an individual level and is blind to anything in between. A lot of the political beliefs of background characters are more like caricatures rather than what someone would genuinely belief. In other cases the beliefs are plausible but the manner in which the characters frame them or justify themselves rings false.
The arcs of the main characters are didactic and the book is equally opinionated about events that are only focused on in passing. We can never just be shown or told about something; we must be told what to think of it. Leckie's views aren't objectionable but the messages imparted aren't complex or novel. It often seems as if Leckie simply doesn't trust the reader to draw their own conclusions rather than her having something she feels is important to say.
All this combines to make the world feel wooden and hollow. A mere facade constructed by Leckie to attempt to wow the reader rather than a fully realized world.
I am being somewhat harsh here. This isn't a bad book. It's certainly better than the average SF novel but I see Leckie in general and this book in particular in the context of award nominations and accolades and it doesn't meet that standard.
Simplistic is the word I keep coming back to for it. The world, the non-POV characters and the messages it intends to impart all lack any real complexity. It was a reasonably enjoyable read albeit frustrating at times but ultimately not anywhere near as good as the accolades suggested.
#this has been sitting half finished in my drafts for a while#still ahead of Witch King in my Hugo rankings this year and definitely ahead of no award#but not in the two and a half books I'd be happy to see win#misc reading#hugo awards
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Ayo Edebiri did the THING!
#I wanted her to win so badly and she did#She’s such an amazing actress#Can’t wait to see her win all the awards#Ayo ‘golden globe winner’ Edebiri#She looks so gorgeous#her eyes are just so pretty#ayo ‘booked and busy’ edebiri#ayo edebiri
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"is this movie featuring female empowerment roles ACTUALLY bad or are men just sexist" - me whenever a movie with unconventional and/or very powerful female leads gets super bad reviews from male movie critics and youtubers lol
#funky's personal tag#I'm always like... ok#maybe it's not Oscar worthy#but why can't women leads have dumb overpowered roles too?????#like for christs sake men have been writing themselves into those kind of roles for CENTURIES be in movie or books#god forbid women do Anything#also LITERALLY not every movie needs to be worthy of critical acclaim or win awards???#sometimes (most of the time tbh) i just wanna see fun entertainment. Why can't women fulfill those kinda roles too??#doesn't mean it's a BAD movie it's just fitting a different purpose
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