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HBD + WELCOME 2 UR 20s SOJU HOPE UR HAVING SO MUCH FUN 2DAY ‼️🌟🪩💋🎂‼️

hello hi 🤭😁 i got the app so i can sprinkle in emojis (it always starts unironic but apple kind of did something). ok so:

july wrap up:

a room with a view by e. m. forster: 3/5. went right back to edwardian era fiction in my attempt to be more Rounded 🧘🏾‍♀️ cute romantic read right on the cusp in terms of language of the time wouldn’t go older than this.

tell me i’m worthless by alison rumfitt: 5/5. i’ve spent the year trying to read horror, and then i read what is now my favourite horror book. trans characters, haunted house, actually scary and menacing? cracked it. one of my top of the year. visceral reading experience. (cw: fascism, transphobia, antisemitism, sexual assault)

real life by brandon taylor: 4/5. love this style of prose. very intimate, tender and quiet read that was introspective without being boring. think this is a debut too? impressive. (cw: sexual assault)

my brilliant friend by elena ferrante: 3/5. lovely prose, very absorbing. first in a series so not completely blown by the narrative, but i suspect every look on white female friendship has referred back to this. (cw: sexual assault)

seven days in june by tia williams: 5/5. 😁😁😁😁 LOVE. one of the most convincing romance books i’ve read in a while. so real and raw—unflinching. just yeah 🥰🤭 (cw: chronic illness, drug use and addiction, alcoholism)

the republic of false truths by alaa al aswany: 3.5/5. this is like a fictionalised retelling of very real events in egypt. appreciate for having expanded my worldview, not sure it stands as a work of fiction on its own. decent. (cw: sexual assault)

giovanni’s room by james baldwin: 3/5. classics girlies HATE me i’m sorry! 😟 the strength of the writing did not meet the narrative for me at all. didn’t emotionally connect but will try another baldwin book i swear

the man who watched the trains go by by georges simenon: 4/5. 1930s thriller spanning several european cities? sign me up. such a well constructed story

2022 mid year check in:

ok so i’m gonna talk about the books i’ve been talking about since i’ve read them 🤭😋🫣. open water by caleb azumah nelson always in my mind whenever i read 2nd person it sticks with me. also: transcendent kingdom by yaa gyasi 🥰🥰 top 2 of the year for me

disappointments… most notable my year of rest and relaxation. mexican gothic was clunky. the other black girl 🤨😐

me u & gabs in our shared house 💛

im crying it’s so true!!!!!!! this is what u guys look like in my heart <3

hi cas 🥺 omg child jace was a lil menace, but he was also a very kind kid. he loves his family very much so he always wanted to help his momma in the kitchen, or doing the laundry :) he doesn't remember much from his father, but he was a father's boy. they did everything together! they loved to prank raven together and raven would scold guidry a little bit bc they kept ganging up on her but smooch lil jace pats his head he can do no wrong kinda thing fkjfkf i wouldn't say he was spoiled tho, bc he shared everything with darrel and then he took so much care of gemma and played with her all the time! he's also an adventurous guy til this day, so as a child he would come home in mud, knees open, arm broken ahahah and although magic never reveal itself to him, he was a really good student! he learned a lot about the magic world. he hates it tho, he wants nothing to do with it, and never will.

5. if you caption your edits, what do you decide to put in the caption?

usually i take a line out of whatever song i remember i was listening to while i was editing it but sometimes i take from songs or poetry that i wrote

28. if you could place your editing style in a specific era of time/art movement/style phase where would you put it?

again with my dumb ass writing questions idk how to answer but hmmm just like modern times i guess but maybe track it back a few years bcos im so heavy on the neon lighting

29. list five other simblrs whose editing you really enjoy

6. favorite band

Slint !!