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quote from The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights

^^ me with him af he’s just that pretty.

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the dream fr! (i look back on this meme as i work seven days a week)

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scrolling on pinterest captivated by harry potter screencaps, pls stop this madness (having a soft spot for early hp>>>)

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unironically getting married to this song.

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short story post bc i love short stories! full read on the site attached and many more out there, read the most dangerous game in middle school and still love going back to it.

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between scylla and charybdis, choose the lesser of two evils.

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sometimes i can understand where caleb was coming from browsing through adult bookstores bc i’ll find the most amazing writing on ao3 and be in shock that it’s just here as a post on a site rather than copies lined on bookshelves.

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you know people shouldn’t be comparing rings of power and house of the dragon they’re differing degrees of fantasy possibly magical realism and rings of power is better.

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“I am steeped in beauty. It is like going back ten, twelve thousand years, running over these mountains with a dog team. Like becoming a true human—a human before we became cluttered by civilization. Like going inside and becoming a cave painting.”

“Wolves don’t know they are wolves. That’s a name we have put on them, something we have done. I do not know how wolves think of themselves, nor does anybody, but I did know and still know that it was wrong to think they should be the way I wanted them to be.”

“We run the hills easily. Letting the team do as they wish, I simply stand on the back or push up the hills and do not care about winning or losing—only the dance counts.”

some excerpts i liked best from woodsong, paulsen’s life was vivid and insane.

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heyy, i’m unloading my current and finished reads over end of fall/early winter? hope you’ve enjoyed these reads too or they peak your interest now!

fledgling by octavia butler, wanted a cool vampire read around halloween and this suited that desire perfectly. the protagonist is a young, black vampire girl with amnesia after devastating attack on her community. because of her lack of memories it’s convenient for the reader to learn with the main character all about butler’s take on vampire culture and relations. more sci/fi than horror, but still some serious themes to acknowledge before reading. previously i’d read kindred in school and enjoyed her writing, fledgling was no exception.

harry potter and the deathly hallows, FINALLY finished this series after years of off/on reading. i did know how it plays out from the movies but i can respect rowling in not holding back (the death toll was bigger than i remembered). i liked the passage of harry’s thoughts before going into the forbidden forest best, felt very real. however i will continue to block out the epilogue from my mind body and soul.

hatchet by gary paulsen, so good! i read this in elementary school and rereading it now was just as engaging, i forgot a bit of it and brian’s hunger driving him throughout the entire book was much more intense to think about compared to my fourth grade comprehension. paulsen’s imagery is detailed and doesn’t shy from the rough parts of nature and survival.

my current reads include woodsong by gary paulsen, which is his own experiences in alaskan wilderness and dogsledding, the final book of the trials of apollo series the tower of nero, and dark fantasy novel mordew by alex pheby, which is book one to a planned trilogy.