#bookls

[outsassing-nero]

05.07.24// had a really productive week and managed to write quite an important part of the introduction to one of my phd sections :) I'm also currently revising my talk for the phd student conference on monday!

listening to: sixtones - fast lane

[manuscripts-dontburn]

Listen, but...

..new Becky Chambers when?

[canisalbus]

I've followed your art for I think a handful of years now across a few accounts/platforms and while I always admired and love your art, i just wanted to say how much I ADORE your Vasco and Machete art. They bring me so much joy and I keep sending them to my girlfriend who isn't on Tumblr. I love learning more about them!! I love seeing them interact!!! I want to know more but I'm awful at coming up with Good Questions so also a big thank you to the other people prompting more art and info about them!!

That's so sweet, thank you! I'm glad to hear you like them! ;_;

Somehow it always makes me just a little bit emotional when people tell me they're showing my art to their non-tumblr friends and family.

[gardenfeather-book-reviews]

"The Spirit Bares its Teeth" by Andrew Joseph White

Silas Bell, a young autistic transgender man living in the 1880s in England, wants to be a surgeon. Not a wife and mother. After a botched escape from a future devoted to a husband, he is diagnosed with “veil sickness,” a disease that causes violet eyed women to open the veil and communicate with the dead, an act that is illegal for women to do. 

        He is sent to Braxton's Finishing School and Sanatorium and engaged to a wealthy lord's son. But Braxton might not be what it seems. And Silas is the only one who can save the life of his new friends by uncovering the secrets of the school, all while fighting the voice in his head telling him to just do as he is told. For Silas, doing as he is told is not an option.

        Andrew Joseph White has crafted an incredible story. All of the characters are complex and every character has so much depth. White is able to balance the main character, Silas, with all aspects of his identity. They are all woven throughout the story in an authentic way that gives him personality outside of those defining traits while still acknowledging how important they are. It is one of the best representations of autism I have ever read.

       The setting and accuracy to historical detail makes the stakes seem real and send you to the time period. He uses the time period to bring light to the story he wants to tell. His use of imagery is terrific. 

        White is able to discuss so many important topics throughout the book, all of which apply in some way to our society today. He somehow is able to highlight and tackle each complex theme in one book while giving them each the space to be recognized for their individual importance.  

        Gory and dense while also romantic, The Spirit Bares its Teeth is an amazing novel with an incredible message to fight for your life and happiness, even if the whole world is against you.   

[mercutiotakethewheel]

a small character study (in honor of the marriage kefta photo)

[booktineus]

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[space-diablo]

I decided.. that it's finished and I like it.

[ohboycharlie]

Hey guys. This is kind of urgent.

Hey guys!! I have recently opened a Tumblr account to express the things I have written. I would appreciate it if you would like the posts!! (Ps: I lied on my CV that I post on my Tumblr and now they are asking for proof so please 💀🙏) @manasv1

[moonlightmoors]

The Darkling's just a repressed theater kid fr

[mostlynatur3]

[nurhadin17]

If cats disappeared from the world - Genki Kawamura

[malewife-darkling]

Posts Aleksander Morozova would write

[manuscripts-dontburn]

Bookhaul July 2024

(Failed my challenge this month because of a trip to Prague and free shipping from a second-hand bookstore. Not sorry.)

New books

Rasputin's Killer and his Romanov Princess

The Last Song of Penelope

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

Isabel and the Rogue

The Moonlight Market

Babylonia

Palestine

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

Procitají andělé

Firebrand

My Darling Dreadful Thing

Chinese Cinderella

Secondhand books

The Book Eaters

The Marrow Thieves

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

The Land of Narnia

A Sting in the Tale

Running in the Family

Sacajawea

Crook Manifesto

The Samurai's Garden

The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History

Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England

[yourcoffeeguru]

Vintage 366 and More Fairy Tales by Gianni Padoan Hardcover 1986 || SWtradepost - ebay

[stromuprisahat]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov Characters: Alina Starkov, The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Canon, Established Relationship, Grooming, Hair Kink, Insecurity, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Braids, POV First Person Summary:

Alina hates her white hair, the reminder of all her failures and losses. Aleksander seeks to convince her of its beauty.

[mercutiotakethewheel]

the thing about bookles is, right, that he’s built The Sun Summoner(tm) up in his brain as like this vague amorphous Eternal Companion(tm) of his whose going to solve all this problems and just generally be the saviour of his life. Which, yknow is some unhealthy idealization and romanticization doomed to go topside the minute he actually meets them and surprise surprise its an actual person, who is nowhere near on the same page as him. Yknow, the way it actually does.

But the thing is, while the show version of the Darkling sometimes leads us to believe he’s like planned every moment of their life post-discovery to the point where he’s had her pillow case embroidered with suns (and bookles has done this too idk). Which is again doomed to end in like three different kinds of disaster. But thing is Bookles really seems like he hasn’t bothered, or, more likely hasn’t let himself think about what the Sun Summoner means aside from these very, very vague impressions of “not aloneness” and yknow using them to expand the fold, kick off a coup detat, make them a puppet monarch, etc.

Because the thing is, while Show!sander oozes commitment and general besottedness from the first moment Alina’s revealed, Bookles seems like genuinely so upset and frustrated every time he catches himself genuinely caring about Alina. And like I have to laugh bc like Sirrrrr what did you think was going to happen? What do you think not alone means? Did you think you were about to meet some Sun Summoner and they were just going to be so dull and uninteresting that you couldn’t possibly give a shit about your supposed eternal companion who you planned to keep close for centuries??? And was that the preferable outcome for you??? Or did he, more likely, just not think about this (bc he cant (bc wanting is weak)).

Idk I just think it adds a whole new layer to Bookles and Show!sander’s characterizations. Bc like both of them make these series of stupid ass decisions that spend the rest of their lives fucking them in the ass. And both of these decisions are rooted in a desire for control and a refusal to see himself as anything fallible and others as anything but. But like idk it makes bookles seemed ever so flavoured in i invented being emotionally stunted.

which like we been knew but like jesus christ my dude.