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So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.
Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

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Furyborn // Claire Legrand
- “What are you?”
- “I am your doom.”
so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what
The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it’s rough
“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”
Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.
I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.
Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
They were CHILDREN.
They were murdered in cold blood.
Ruin & Rising // Leigh Bardugo
“Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
And if you call me at 4 am, too sad to even say hello, I will listen to your silence until you fall asleep.
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why can’t i stay in bed all day reading books and listening to music while creating fake scenarios in my head like there isn’t a law against it so wtf
#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.
“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”
Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.
I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance
please try this on for size:
there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present
My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument. Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM. The message is that it is BAD.
My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.
…………the take on Great Gatsby is driving me INSANE. Gatsby… very much dies. Like. He gets punished by all of his actions and gets himself killed for them. That’s very much the point of the book? Its about how the 20′s was an era when people tried to pretend eveything was fine and great while hiding ghosts in their closets. Gatsby represents everything wrong with 1920′s america. How can you read The Great Gatsby and think its about how stalking is ok? Like, I’m sorry if you are a published author who lacks the reading comprehention to undestand of a book we all read in high school.
I attribute a lot of this to the fact modern English/literature classes don’t teach the thing they are allegedly around to teach: critical thinking. English is increasingly about memorizing superficial details in classic literature, with less and less dissection, introspection, and historical context. After all, which one do you think shows up on standardized tests?
Serpent & Dove // Shelby Mahurin
“I loved her. Despite everything. Despite the lies, the betrayal, the hurt. Despite the Archbishop and Morgane le Blanc. Despite my own brothers. I don’t know if she returned that love, and I didn’t care. If she was destined to burn in Hell, I would burn with her.”
— Too-Ticky in Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson (first published in 1957, tr. by Thomas Warburton)
All I’m going to say is that if you have not read the Empirium trilogy by Claire Legrand you are doing yourself a great disservice. It’s top tier YA fantasy and you should absolutely read it. I’m going to leave it at that.

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the empirium trilogy by claire legrand ↝ eliana ferracora
we live in a world where good kings die and those foolish enough to hope for something better are killed where they stand.
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Shadow and Bone // Leigh Bardugo
“’The problem with wanting,’ he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, ‘is that it makes us weak.’”
Siege and Storm // Leigh Bardugo
“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
A lil powerpoint of book recs!!!
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So I work at a library and about a month ago I helped a little old woman who is legally blind figure out how to listen to our audiobooks on her tablet. We got to chatting and I mentioned that I always listen to audiobooks while I knit, which made her very excited and she told me all about the afghans she used to make when she could still see. She was so sweet and I was so glad to be able to help her figure out a way to still enjoy books without being able to read.
Yesterday I answered the phone at work and when I said my name the woman on the other line got so excited and said “Madeline?? You’re exactly who I wanted to talk to! This is Marie Brandon, you helped me about a month ago. How late are you working today?” It was her!! And about an hour later she and her husband showed up, and she was carrying a huge stack of old knitting patterns for me, and her husband brought in a few boxes full of yarn. They couldn’t stay long but I was so touched that she remembered me, and I struggled to not just flat out start crying when she handed me the patterns. When I looked through them later I realized it was her entire personal collection from over the years, including all her personal notes and drawings and even some photographs of her finished pieces. No one in my family knits, and to have someone pass on their legacy to me like that was incredibly moving.
This isn’t what I usually post here, but with life being especially dark lately I wanted to share a moment of happiness and a reminder that a bit of kindness goes a long way ♡
I just finished Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo (I know I'm majorly behind, though I did read both six of crows and crooked kingdom) and let me just say that ending was
*chef's kiss* perfect. Some authors, tv writers (I'm looking RIGHT AT YOU Supernatural!) And screenwriters should all read this and take notes. This. Is. How. You. SATISFY. Your. Audience. With. Good. Endings. That. Leave. A. Little. Mystery. But. Still. Make. It. Feel. Complete.
Anyways, very excited to be picking up King of Scars soon and to watch the Grishaverse show on netflix. Let's pray that they do not ruin it. I have already had too many series/books ruined for me by terrible adaptations!