miles city;

Withhold time/resources from organizations building an anti-human future

books read in 2021 - [3/?] Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth ↳ This world where they’d spread their blanket, this moment beneath the heavy apple boughs, in the golden light, was too beautiful by half. And it would not last. And our three heroines knew this.

— Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls.

What’s the racket, yellow jacket? Far afield you roam! But you’ll never leave these grounds for Brookhants is your home. Just one sting will make us smart. Two, we might be brave. Three will buzz inside our hearts. More, we’re in the grave.

a mix for academic witches, messy sapphics, and the macabre (or all of the above).

a lesson in vengeance by victoria lee

books I’ve read in 2021: a lesson in vengeance by victoria lee

people were complicated. they weren’t math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck. the world was complicated too, not a beautifully hazy french film, but a disastrous, horrible mess, speckled with brilliance and love and meaning.

people were complicated. they weren’t math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck. the world was complicated too, not a beautiful hazy french film but a disastrous, horrible mess, speckled with brilliance and love and meaning

“it’s not about what’s happened. it’s about how you cope with things, who you are. you’ve always been this fierce fucking light, and even when you’re at your worst, when you feel angry and broken, you still know how to be a person. how to tell people you- you love them.”

I’d started publishing romance because I wanted to dwell in my happiest moments, in the safe place my parents’ love had always been. I’d been so comforted by books with the promise of a happy ending, and I’d wanted to give someone else that same gift. Gus was writing to try to understand something horrible that had happened to him. No wonder what we wrote was so different.

We're all Felipe tbh.

Harry Styles flamingo floatie!

“i watched because…when you paint,“ she said softly. “you seem so vital. it was addictive. it felt like coming to life.”

“Bravery wasn’t an identity, so much as a choice.”

Everything about her brought to mind the old religion, and I knew that the resemblance was deliberate, intended to remind her subjects that as Hephestia ruled uncontested among the gods, this woman ruled Attolia. Too bad that I had seen the Great Goddess and knew how far the Attolian queen fell short of her mark.