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DANCING ON COALS by ELLEN O’CONNELL

If a man could taste wind and fire, they would taste like Katherine. When he stood in high places looking down on things made small by distance, he tried to feel what the eagle felt soaring free on the wind. He was an earthbound man. Only his spirit could ever soar, and only Katherine raised him so high.

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the favorites by layne fargo

if only he wanted to win as much as he wanted you.

playlist. part 1

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Haunted Ecologies, by Corey Farrenkopf

the number of men who prefer to horde bones rather than protect life is alarming

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2025 books - the girl from everywhere duology by heidi heilig

I was written into that map as a landmark. Before I'd even known it, I'd been a part of this place, and it was increasingly hard to pretend it wasn't a part of me. Something of it lived under my skin, indelible as a tattoo. It was the home that might have been and for the first time I felt the loss of it.

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Vanja and Emeric in Margaret Owen’s Little Thieves

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a good girl's guide to murder by holly jackson

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books I’ve read in 2025 📖 no. 010

Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao

“Losing your way is oftentimes the only way to find something you did not know you were looking for.”

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Quickly colored the sketch of Vimes and Sybil

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Welcome to Preservation! we have nice people and even nicer murderbots.

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Recently finished reading the Stardust Grail and its quickly become one of my favorite books. The execution of the found family trope is immaculate.

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That scene from Yumi and The Nightmare Painter.

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finally got my hands on Not for the Faint of Heart and devoured it in a day, so have some art of mariel and clem (and check bsky for an exclusive sketch of mariel too!)

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The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo

“Nothing is more frightening in this world than ignorance and stupidity.”

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The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

It was as though he were aware off the precariousness of his own existence, that he wished to perform some balancing of accounts within himself, committing murder and then saving a family from starvation the same day, net equal

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favourite books of 2023:

“battle royale”

takami kōshun

“conservatism and passive acceptance... they can't think for themselves. anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling. makes me want to puke.”

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EYES OF SILVER EYES OF GOLD by ELLEN O’CONNELL

He wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her to an ordinary man. Maybe they did such a thing once in a while, knowing an ordinary man would treasure her more, love her better. Maybe they even let him keep her - for a while.

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What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile #1) by Isabel Ibañez

«Tell me,” he said slowly. “What do I have to do to get you to stop asking me questions?” “Answer one of them.” He laughed. “Your curiosity has no sense of decency.»