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[herelies-j]

[babegroot]

books i read in 2022: you deserve each other by sarah hogle

"there are hurts. i feel them all over, like stab wounds: the distance that we both allowed to settle in, ruining what should have been the happiest year of our lives. the ring that makes me feel like a fraud because it’s so huge. as ridiculous as it might sound, in my mind he gave me such a big diamond as a way of saying I love you THIS much!; but how could he have loved me THAT much when we still didn’t completely know each other? when we’d never argued before and didn’t live together and it was such smooth sailing. way too good to be true."

[meramyst18]

"When you can sing like that with someone, there’s a small part of you that feels connected to them. That sort of thing that gets under your skin and doesn’t easily come out."

Daisy Jones and The Six, Taylor Jenkin Reids

[rotta-in-mille-pezzi]

“Mostrare la propria vulnerabilità non è sempre segno di debolezza. Qualche volta può essere una decisione consapevole per far uscire dal guscio un’altra persona”

[warmshell]

In those moments he wished, perversely, that he had never met her, that it was surely worse to have had her for so brief a period than to never have had her at all.

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

[shardulgosawi]

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[azaleasdawn]

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

_Albert Camus, The Fall

[monriatitans]

June 2024 Wrap-Up

Artist Shout-Outs Shared

Current AI ‘art’ is created on the backs of hundreds of thousands of artists and photographers who made billions of images and spend time, love and dedication to have their work soullessly stolen and used by selfish people for profit without the slightest concept of ethics. – Alexander Nanitchkov

June’s Artist Shout-Outs

Adam Miller

Dora Holloway

Ralph Key

gawako

TIVANIX

Tricia Pathy

Olesya Umantsiva

Varsha Vasudevan

Claudio Fabietti

Jordan Lucchino

Emi Kitori

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Books Read in June

Instagram Mini-Review Posts

Jun. 23rd: The Affinity Between Us

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June’s Opinions

Blog Mini-Review Posts

Jun. 23rd: Finished a Book! Mini-Review: The Affinity Between Us

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June’s Announcements, VODs, and Videos

Blog Posts

Jun. 8th: Let’s Discuss Some $#!7: Big Changes!

Jun. 9th: Let’s Play Some $#!7!: Super Lesbian Animal RPG Stream – Part 1

Jun. 12th: Let’s Discuss Some $#!7: May Wrap-Up & Behind-the-Scenes!

Jun. 16th: STREAM ANNOUNCEMENT

Jun. 23rd: Let’s Play Some $#!7!: Super Lesbian Animal RPG Stream – Part 2

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Cause of the Month: The Trevor Project

Pride Month Quotes of 2024

QUOTE 1: Abhijit Naskar

QUOTE 2: DaShanne Stokes

QUOTE 3: Ella Braidwood

QUOTE 4: Ban Ki-Moon

QUOTE 5: Ellen Wittlinger

QUOTE 6: Julia Serano

QUOTE 7: Christina Engela

QUOTE 8: Ivan Coyote

QUOTE 9: Ian Thomas Malone

QUOTE 10: Alok Vaid-Menon

QUOTE 11: Alison Goodman

QUOTE 12: Alex Gino

QUOTE 13: Mia Violet

QUOTE 14: James Kirchick

QUOTE 15: Diriye Osman

Check out The Trevor Project, whose “mission is to end suicide among LGBTQ+ young people.”

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June’s Neverending Reading List Shares

Jun. 13th: The Affinity Between Us

Jun. 13th: The Bonds We Share

Jun. 13th: Our Divine Ruin

Jun. 21st: The Secret of Clouds

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Crowdfunded Projects Received

June 10th: Our Divine Ruin by Melissa Sweeney!

June 17th: The Tome of Fey Lore by Fable Spinners 

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To expand the Opinions & Truth (O&T) blog, MonriaTitans started The Weekend Game Show (WGS) to educate on and discuss different aspects of game development, and to show why video games can take years to make, to prevent another Cyberpunk 2077 launch scenario. Watch MonriaTitans on Twitch, YouTube, and Rumble!

In addition, she shares educational quotes to promote literacy, the legitimacy of video games as an artistic medium, and regarding a Cause of the Month to raise awareness, while giving Artist Shout-Outs to human artists to combat AI art theft. Want to learn more about the Artist Shout-Outs? Click here! #createdontscrape

The Artists Shout-Out posts can be seen here, Discord, and more!

She is also an artist under the handle TitansMonriArt.

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[joyfultunes]

May Wrap-up!

I read three books in May :)

If She Knew by Blake Pierce

This was a really interesting thriller that follows a retired FBI agent named Kate as she struggles to find meaning in her retirement. Then one day, one of her friend's daughter is killed and the killer is unknown. Suddenly, Kate has a purpose and a job again.

The King's Spy by Mark Turnbull

This historical fiction is set during the English Civil War. Maxwell is a soldier in the King's army. He is sent on a mission to retrieve some of the King's papers before they are captured by the enemy, but encounters many unexpected obstacles along the way.

Just the Ticket by Lynn Lamb

This contemporary romantic fiction follows Hannah, who has suddenly won the lottery. Unfortunately, while this windfall is the end of her financial troubles, but only the beginning of a host of other problems.

[littlereadsandteas]

Preorder it if you like slice of life Greek Mythology, the Great British Bake Off, low stakes cozy fantasy by author Gwyneth Lesley.

6 novellas, 5 - 12 page chapters.

[lindsaywin]

#books #booksread #bookthoughts #bookreviews #2023

Need a book recommendation: Read my thoughts on the books I've read in 2023.

[gabbysstuff]

Não quero perguntar por que, pode-se perguntar sempre por que e sempre continuar sem resposta: será que consigo me entregar ao expectante silêncio que se segue a uma pergunta sem resposta? Embora adivinhe que em algum lugar ou em algum tempo existe a grande resposta para mim.

[babegroot]

books i read in 2023: the rehearsals by annette christie

if it's too much work from the beginning, that's a bad sign. but if things are mostly great, you laugh a lot together, you love a lot together, you genuinely want to spend time together, then the work becomes part of it.

[meramyst18]

"Charlie, don't you get it? I can't feel that. It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things."

—Steven Chbosky, "The Perks Of Being a Wallflower"

[shardulgosawi]

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[itsredwritinghood]

I drew a wonky #bookstack for my #illustratedlifejournal of all the #middlegradebooks I’ve read so far. I recently finished re-reading #thegiver by #loislowry and then watched the movie. The book was better than I remembered it, but the movie was terrible. There was sooooooo much wrong with it starting with the age of the kids. They were supposed to be 12/13 yr olds. And the changes only get worse from there. I hate when movies get it so horribly wrong. Anyways, I’m having fun with these #illustrations though I wish the #sketchbook I got could handle #watercolors better. That’s what I get for paying attention to the size of the book and not the type of paper. #learningtoillustrate #journeytobeanauthorillustrator #illustrate #booksread #bookstagram #reading https://www.instagram.com/p/CoP4ViWJE30/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=