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In this cold winter, I can see its beautiful flowers blooming in you, darling… You'd never be alone, I'll always be by your side For the scars have become beautiful features.
Scars leave Beautiful Trace – Car the Garden (Alchemy Of Souls | OST)
#reylo#fandom reylo#ben solo#rey#ben and rey#kylo ren#ben solo/kylo ren#books and libraries#books and literature#love#i love him#life#cruel#star wars#hu xia#will you love me#the last jedi#the rise of skywalker
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Library Wars: Love & War! This is the last of the batch I have currently drawn so I'll resume this...at some point? XD But anyways this series is great, absolutely recommend it.
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reminder that Cal dropped one of the most romantic lines in YA book history and no one talks about it.
War Storm, "I thought of you in the end. I saw your face in the water."
#COME ON#ren💌cal#he thought of her before death.#who wanna love me loke that 😞#cal is so underrated idk how I ever hated him as a kid#victoria aveyard#authors#booklr#books & libraries#bookworm#red queen#glass sword#kings cage#war storm#cal calore#mare barrow
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"You were the one who wanted to save the world," he said, quietly. "I just wanted to save you."
-Children Of Fallen Gods
#quotes#book quotes#literature#books & libraries#life quotes#relationship quotes#love quotes#carissa broadbent#the war of lost hearts#children of fallen gods
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Series: Toshokan Sensou Love & War Artist: Yumi Kiiro Publication: LaLa (01/2010) Details: LaLa Kirameki Star Calendar 2010 (July) Source: Scanned from my personal collection
#toshokan sensou love & war#library war love & war#library wars love & war#toshokan sensou#library wars#図書館戦争 LOVE&WAR#yumi kiiro#kiiro yumi#arikawa hiro#hiro arikawa#scan: hotwaterandmilk#furoku#lala#shoujo manga#shoujo#00s manga#shojo manga#shojo#manga art#manga couple
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MiqoMarch Day 08 - Fav. (Side) Job
When she's not running around as Ninja or Summoner , Arsay's next choice is the lance. Being bestowed a source of draconic power by Midgardsormr moments before his slumber, and knowing how to channel the powers of Bahamut with dreadwyrm trance, Arsay's power as a Dragoon rivals that of even the former Azure Dragoon. With that said, she'd much rather use her polearm to hunt monsters.
#miqomarch#miqomarch2024#ffxiv#miqo'te#arsay kain pose pog??#an attempt was made#I didn't want to repeat myself two years in a row lol#do love playing drg though its so fun#praying it doesnt become too different in dawntrail#in my canon Arsay never does the lancer or dragoon lv 30-60 job quests#She gets Estinien to teach her some basic moves while on the road trip to drivania#one cause she thought it looked fun two because its hard to back stab a dragon without going full shadow of the colossus on them#Shes pretty good with the lance too so she does use it on that first nidhogg fight#then she continues hvw as ninja/smn#she doesnt have any of the dragoon part of the dragoon kit until she goes through the great gooble library with y'mhitra#where they learn about dreadwyrm trance and arsay discovers her surprisingly strong connection to bahamut#y'hmitra: wow thats weird didnt you say you werent around during the calamity how did you connect to him so easily#arsay: so there's this massive hole in the ground in eastern la noscea-#When its time to end the dragonsong war for real this time in the patches she picks up the lance again and enters trance mode#She does get a job stone finally after that#its a gift from aymeric#a symbolic 'you were part of the troops' type thing#oh and later during stormblood arsay does go through Those job quests#because of course shes helping a little dragon friend#and during the omega raid series when Middy saves her life just before he goes to sleep again he gifts arsay a scale to carry with her#a bit of dragon aether to tap into when she needs it !#anyways thats arsay dragoon lore thanks for coming to my tedtalk#WOL posting#Arsay Nun
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13 Books!
I can't reblog the original post I saw this from for some reason but saw this originally from @/glassprism; thanks for sharing!
answer these 13 qs
tag 13 ppl
add a shelfie
1) The last book I read:
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
2) A book I recommend:
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
3) A book that I couldn’t put down:
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
4) A book I’ve read twice (or more):
toss-up between Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen/The Elephant Vanishes: Stories by Haruki Murakami
5) A book on my TBR: not sure what a TBR is but guessing to be read? idk im not a goodreads/booktok girlie
Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
6) A book I’ve put down: I hate finished these books but nearly stopped...
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro found it hard to follow, trying to keep up with the writing made me feel like I was wearing glasses with the wrong prescription strength, just had trouble focusing
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. an absolutely incredible and poetic read but I felt like I was getting constantly emotionally pickaxed in the eyes with the raw frequent recountings of trauma told in blunt detail
Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (George Lucas hyped you up way too much sir...)
7) A book on my wish list:
I keep giving away the copies of all about love by bell hooks lol so for the fourth time it is back on my wishlist
8) A favorite book from childhood:
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Even now when I pass by a bookstore and see it prominently displayed I get such a happy curious and wondrous feeling
9) A book you would give to a friend:
I recently gave The Midnight Library by Matt Haig to a grieving friend who loved it ❤️🩹
10) There was no tenth question so I am making up my own; a fiction book you own:
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
11) A nonfiction book you own:
Wne and War: The French, The Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Don and Petie Kladstrup - this is a fucking fun and interesting read!!! great commute/plane/timekiller read
12) What are you currently reading:
Currently speedreading The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
13) What are you planning on reading next?
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
My shelfie:
I will be opting out of sharing a pic of my super-disorganized, filled to the brim with personal knickknacks bookcase but here's some gifs of the hottest bookwrangler in the known universe throughout all space and time as a substitute
no pressure taggies: @evergreenfields @gemmahale @the-californicationist @valkyri @astraluminaaa
@devcica @vampirekilmer @void-my-warranty @ohgeesoap @glossysoap
@syoddeye @kyletogaz @bluemoonrover
@/you if you'd like to share 🤗🤗📚📚
#tag games <3#13 books#caste: the origin of our discontents#isabel wilkerson#conversations on love#natasha lunn#the name of the wind#patrick rothfuss#wounded healer#henri nouwen#the elephant vanishes#haruki murakami#nobody knows my name#james baldwin#all about love#bell hooks#phantom tollbooth#norton juster#the midnight library#matt haig#wine and war#don and petie kladstrup#the hunger games#suzanne collins#Nothing is True and Everything is Possible#Peter Pomerantsev#voyage of the dawn treader#c.s. lewis
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gotta say though, the way mapleshade kinda (???) tried to hurt crookedstar with oakheart’s affair was pretty lame. yeah your mom had her head bashed against the rocks. your dad died slowly of cancer. your wife and children will die too. and your brother got kinda horny one night and made himself a single father
#oh also im at the library and they had cats of the clans so i peeped crookedstars page for that line i mentioned- might add it to that post#bc its good its about how riverclan values perfectionism and how he struggled with that#but it also said that crookedstar knew oakhearts kits were bluefurs and he kept a tight lip not necessarily out of compassion#but because he knew itd be a weak point for bluestar that he could exploit?? man catsotc sucks but the crookedstar page kinda fucks#kinda like him being a leader thats ruthless at times actually#ofc i prefer the idea that he wanted to protect his brother and his kits but still. its a fun reading#i know we all love him for his sadboy swagger but we also gotta remember hes a war criminal#he wanted windclan to stay exiled that one time#(i like it tho. hes not perfect)#alsooo sorryyyy but. kinda like the reading that hes not fond of graystripe at all#like. it wasnt all bad between them. but in my version grays an iffy dad#crooked doesnt vibe with that. not at all
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do y'all remember the slew of headcanons back in 2019 about aziraphale and the library of alexandria and that one heart-rending comic where hastur burns it down and crowley's almost too late to rescue aziraphale? i'm having Strong emotions about it again
like i truly adore the idea of aziraphale getting all involved with the library of alexandria - setting off little bursts of divine inspiration every which way, translating texts that no one else would ever have been able to read - but i ALSO love the idea that it was one of the few projects that he and crowley could actually openly work on together, because crowley gets sent up from hell to immortalize typos, misshelve divine texts, and make the hardest working scholars indolent in their pursuits, what have you.
i like to think that they both finagled their way into the assignment because they both admire the way humans happily threw away their limited lifespans for the good of all future mankind. and maybe they even enjoyed their work for a change, since they really wouldn't have to Do Anything; the typos and fleeting bursts of inspiration and the dedication and burnout would all happen anyway. they could just hang out and read and reminisce and fantasize about future generations absorbing ancient knowledge.
and then the warehouses burn for some stupid war. all that hard work goes up in smoke, and in the end the only true testaments humanity has left to its infancy are aziraphale and crowley, who can do nothing about that.
the way the light would have died in aziraphale's eyes even as the embers reflected in them like sunlight off a blade.
the way rage would have melted the lenses off of crowley's face like scales falling from his eyes.
the way they might have spent drunken evenings tried to recreate the secrets of human innovation from memory, re-capture the inner thoughts of philosophers and alchemists and worshippers long dead. the way they would have always failed.
yeah i have feelings about that.
#i took someone's note and took it all out of the tags bc i've been hearing that a lot lately shdjk#but YEAH I GET EMOTIONAL ABOUT THEM AND THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA#the love and admiration they both have for humanity Must have been tested during times of war#and it's painful to think of all the steps they must have overcome to keep loving like that all the way to the present day#good omens#aziraphale#crowley#oxly hollers
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I need to say something, as an archivist.
Please look after your books. Please. Don't throw them in the bin, don't tear pages out, don't screw them up. If you don't want them anymore, either sell them, or donate them, whether it be to a charity shop, a library, or a school or university.
I rescue old books and look after them. I've just been sorting through the most recent lot that I've gotten, and there were books in there - that the original owners wanted to just throw away - that had survived over 100 years, and predated the first (1st) world war.
That in itself, is amazing. Because what most people don't know/realise, is that so many books did not survive the world wars, especially the second (2nd) one. Not only were countless libraries destroyed in bombings, but so many books were burned and eradicated under the Nazi regime.
This is still an issue today, with book burnings and bannings still taking place, such as in the USA; as well as countries being bombed and seiged, destroying so many books containing records of those people's history, culture and lives, such as in Palestine.
I've found books that were printed the year the second (2nd) world war ended, first (1st) editions filled with documents from the war, detailing everything that happened, every action that was taken, everywhere they went, every letter that was exchanged, every soldier that was felled. Documents that would have otherwise been destroyed, if not during the war by the opposition, then by the people who wrote it in the first place, to try to hide certain aspects of the war to paint themselves in a better light, or cover up certains tragedies or mistakes. These are pivotal resources for historians, especially books for time periods less written about/well-documented.
So often, I see books that are on their last legs, falling apart, and most people's reactions are to just throw them in the bin. This breaks my heart. Not only are you destroying a record of something so human - whether that be stories told to children to help them sleep at night, records of a huge historical event that meant the world to the people of that time, poems written by someone painfully in love so long ago - but snuffing out the life that book lived.
Every book I rescue, I check for two (2) things: print date, and notes.
The print date is simple - it tells me how old the book is. But the notes are what I mean by the life of the book. So many books I find have hand-written notes in them, and they give you little hints of the life they've lived. Here are some real notes I've found in books:
"Peter, Chemistry department of [X] university" in a german-english dictionary of chemistry terminology. This book was a gift to a university student, he was studying chemistry, and probably either working with a German team, or maybe leaving home after university to go to Germany, or some other german speaking country. These kinds of books are really specific, and at the time of print (roughly the 50s or 60s if I remember correctly), you couldn't just search for it online (something a good portion of us have never known) - you had to find a specialist book shop or find one that could track it down for you. Whoever got this book, cared about the person they gave it to, and went through the effort of finding this specific book for Peter before he left home. I would guess maybe a family member. Maybe they never saw him again.
"For our 50th anniversary - Annie & Frank" in a little homemade books of recipes. This book had been put together over several years, presumeably over the course of this couple's marriage - 50 years. This book was probably an anniversary gift from one of the two (2) partners to the other. So many recipes, lovingly collected and kept over decades. Probably having been cooked for eachother a hundred times over. These people probably had such fond memories of being sat at the dinner table - maybe just the two (2) of them, maybe with family, friends, and other company - eating the warm, homemade meals from these recipes. Making and sharing food with someone is often a very intimate and loving thing to do. I like to think they loved eachother so very much.
[A double-sided A4 love letter] found in a book of poetry. The letter was faded, and most of it was indistinguishable, but there were little bits that I could read, and they were lovely. This was written more recently (it contained more modern dialect), but was still so precious all the same. I wonder what that book lived through. A spark. An anxious confession. A romance. Perhaps a break-up too. Maybe that's why the book ended up in the donations. I imagine that the recipient of the love letter and poetry forgot the letter was even in there. The book was probably a gift from their partner - maybe specially picked, perhaps because the recipient liked poetry, or that specific poet at least - and that's probably why they used the letter as a bookmark in it. I still think about those people sometimes, where they ended up. Where are they now?
Those are just some of them, and I hope you understand why I care so much about these little bundles of paper and ink. They tell a story, not just in what's printed, but in their age, their condition, in the little notes people leave behind. Even simply the fact that some books' pages are so thin and smooth from being flicked through and read by an adoring reader so many times that the page corners have been worn thin by stroking fingers.
You may feel like nobody cares about that one book you have sitting in the corner of your room, and that "there are thousands of those books, this one doesn't matter", or that it's "ruined" because of that little message your mum wrote on the front page when she got it for you, but what you don't realise is that future historians and archivists are begging you to look after it, and make sure it's given to a good home. It may end up being the last surviving copy of that book. That little message could tell them so much that you don't even notice right now.
It breaks my heart finding old books with pages missing, which may never be recovered - the contents lost to time forever. Finding books whose spines are falling apart and pages are moulded from dampness - having been neglected for years. Finding books whose pages are worn and faded, yellowed and bent - just left to rot.
It fustrates me when I find books that have been poorly or just outright incorrectly handled. You can tell if a book's from a school library, because it has tape all over the cover, hiding the face of the book with a permanent dust jacket, because apparently they decided it ought to stay hidden; because it has check-out pages glued over the print date, because the day somebody borrowed it is more important than the book's birthday. I love libraries, and they're so important, but sometimes I wish some of them took better care of their books.
This is my plea to the people, and love letter to the books.
Please. I love you.
#🌱 talks#🌱 writes#love#books#old books#bookblr#archiving#archivist#archivisation#library#libraries#librarian#documents#documentation#records#history#historical documents#academia#poetry#poems#writings#ww1#ww2#world wars#banned books#book burning#read banned books#banned books are good for you#not sure what else to tag this#docum
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When I'm standing in the fire I will look him in the eye And I will let the devil know that I was brave enough to die And there's no hell that he can show me That's deeper than my pride 'Cause I will never be forgotten Forever I'll fight
'Cause I don't need this life I just need
Somebody to die for Somebody to cry for When I'm lonely
(Somebody To Die For by Hurts)
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#reylo#fandom reylo#ben solo#rey#ben and rey#kylo ren#ben solo/kylo ren#books and libraries#books and literature#love#i love him#life#cruel#star wars#hu xia#will you love me#the last jedi#the rise of skywalker#Hurts#Somebody to die for#Alternate Ending#Everything could have been different#Ben Solo lives#Soulmate
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mood bc i honest-to-god want to read serials. like imagine reading war & peace or the brothers karamazov in a serial format? whole new experience: forced contemplation on every. single. segment, slow torture— like what? i love pain. sign me up.
#dark academism#dark academic aesthetic#dark academia#dark aesthetic#russian#russia#dostoyevski#dostoevksy#fyodor dostoyesky#fyodor dostoevsky#serial#war and peace#leo tolstoy#lev nikolayeviç tolstoy#tolstoi#lev tolstoj#liev tolstói#léon tolstoï#león tolstói#books & libraries#booklr#bookblr#books and reading#bookworm#books#winethorn#love you guys#love you all#shower thoughts#wine thoughts
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something in my soul is touched when i reread the scene in war storm where maven goes to mare's stilts home and destroys it
it feels like he was in mourning, you know? because he had lost her. he lost her so so many times, but she was so close to him THIS time and she slipped right between his fingers like cupped water.
and it specifically feels like mourning because maven calore didn't feel love. all he ever felt was loss and the idea of love that was more leaned toward obsession. so instead of mourning in sadness and depression like he did with thomas, he mourned with rage and destruction with mare.
#ugh hes so analyzable#ren💌maven#I love him TOO bad.#honestly the contrast between his “love” for thomas and his “love” for mare are so comparable#theres so many things to analyze about maven#i always wonder how mavens kids would have turned out if he had remained king and made an heir w iris..#what would they be like as parents#authors#booklr#books & libraries#bookworm#victoria aveyard#glasssword#kingscage#redqueen#maven calore#mare barrow#war storm
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Home. The word caught and settled, deep in my chest. But home wasn't Korvius, or the Towers, or even a cottage in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by flowers. Home was a pair of mismatched eyes, an accented voice, and a heartbeat that followed the same cadence as mine. And I was so, so, homesick.
-Children Of Fallen Gods
#quotes#book quotes#literature#books & libraries#life quotes#relationship quotes#love quotes#carissa broadbent#the war of lost hearts#children of fallen gods
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Series: Toshokan Sensou Love & War Artist: Yumi Kiiro Publication: LaLa (01/2009) Details: LaLa All Star Calendar (October) Source: Scanned from my personal collection
#toshokan sensou love & war#library war love & war#library wars love & war#toshokan sensou#library wars#kasahara iku#doujou atsushi#shibasaki asako#komaki mikihisa#tezuka hikaru#yumi kiiro#kiiro yumi#arikawa hiro#hiro arikawa#scan: hotwaterandmilk#furoku#lala#shoujo manga#shoujo#00s manga#shojo manga#shojo#manga art#manga scan#manga scans#halloween
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"I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love."
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
#books#literature#booklr#book tumblr#book blog#quotes about love#quotes about life#quotes about pain#erich maria remarque#all quiet on the western front#aqotwf#quotes about war#world war one#the great war#reading#dark academia#chaotic academia#libraries#banned books#studycore#sad quotes#haunting#history#historial fiction#quotes about history
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