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@sixofcrowsnet heist:  backstory

There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken. No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He’d become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel.

#lit #soc #kaz brekker

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“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.”

#vicious #villains series #lit

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Nice things don’t happen in storybooks. Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.

#tcp #lit #tfota

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a couple elriel headcanons

#acotar #elriel #elain archeron #azriel

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100 aesthetic summer challenge

#68 “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt

#tsh #lit

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the fellowship: [1/9] frodo baggins 「 the ring bearer 」 moodboard.

❝ how do you pick the threads of an old life... when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back... ❞

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#lotr #frodo #love this colouring

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❝ ‘It frightens me how much I like it,’ Celia finishes, turning her face back to his. ‘How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let go. To let you keep me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself.’ ❞

for @thenightscircus​ ♡

#lit #the night circus

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resources for reading the silmarillion

i started compiling this list of resources for a friend planning on reading the silmarillion and thought it might be helpful for any new readers on here as well who need a little help with keeping track of what’s going on or old readers who are trying to remember who’s who and what exactly happens!

starting with the most obvious aka tolkien gateway and the lotr wiki along with a lesser known but equally helpful set of detailed character biographies via the silmarillion writer’s guild complete with quotes etc, a little more advanced than the other two and harder to navigate but definitely worth your time

a very helpful little guide with short descriptions of the key events of every chapter, the characters present and some important quotes

an amazing family tree including pretty much everyone you can think of from u/Gandalf117 on reddit

a couple of maps of arda since i don’t know about you but the maps in my copy of the silm stop at the borders of beleriand which gave me quite a bit of a headache back when i first read it and didn’t yet have internet 

while on the topic of beleriand here’s a wonderful interactive map of it (you can switch over to middle-earth in the top right corner if that’s more your jam) that actually has a search function that comes in handy

a general guide to the silm via the tolkien road podcast’s website including a video series that sums the book up pretty well and a chapter-by-chapter podcast consisting of 79 episodes if you have a little more time on your hands, and if you don’t, there’s a short version that goes through the chapters in 40 minutes! i haven’t personally listened to either start to finish but they’re great for all the auditory folks out there or anyone who struggles with long texts/audiobooks or finds tolkien’s writing difficult to understand but wants to get familiar with the legendarium

finally if you still haven’t had enough and you don’t mind texts even more complicated than the silmarillion itself, you should totally check out the history of middle-earth, especially volumes 1-5 and 10-12 since they continue tons of background info and earlier versions of what you see in the silmarillion so here’s a post with links to pdfs of all the volumes and other works by tolkien

feel free to add any other resources !!

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❝Marco kisses her as though they are the only two people in the world. The air swirls in a tempest around them, blowing open the glass doors to the garden with a tangle of billowing curtains. Every eye in the ballroom turns in their direction. And then he releases her and walks away.��

 the night circus, erin morgenstern 

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@projectliterature event 03: adaptations — the poppy war

“If there is a divine creator, some ultimate moral authority, then why do bad things happen to good people? And why would this deity create people at all, since people are such imperfect beings?”

template by @laststop

#tpw #lit

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She wanted more. Wanted an adventure. She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe it wasn’t that simple. Maybe it wasn’t a matter of what she didn’t have, of what she wasn’t, but what she was.

#adsom #lila bard #lit

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dark academia literary works: a masterlist

Hello! I replied to this post on Reddit today, trying to compile all the dark academia books I could think of, and then thought that maybe all of you here might find it useful too, so here you go. It is a very, very broad list, a mix of classic and contemporary literature, and there is no set criteria besides having a dark vibe (this includes murder and crime but could just be the way it’s written as well) and portraying an academic setting, most of the time from the student’s point of view. I haven’t read all of these myself and so I can’t judge on quality, but hopefully this will inspire people to add on to it in the comments.

Here you go!

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson The Secret History, Donna Tartt If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio Maurice by E. M. Forster The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Possession by A.S. Byatt The Truants by Kate Weinberg The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Vicious by V. E. Schwab The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (tangentially related) A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Likeness by Tana French The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (coming out tomorrow!) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman Oleanna by David Mamet Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Other classics that are not Dark Academia in content, but which I would include in a list of the DA canon: The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer Shakespeare’s plays (Macbeth, Hamlet are good ones to start with) A Separate Peace, John Knowles The Bacchae, Euripides Greek tragedies (a good one to start with is Antigone, very popular and staged many a time) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Beat generation literature Jane Austen’s books (light academia, anyone?)

#book recs #lit

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The Hales are a bunch of dorks. For me, they’re instantly lovable.

The Hales “Geek Squad”

The Cobalts “Empire”

The Meadows “Adventurers” 

#addicted series #hale family

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The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.

― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

#soc #lit

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Queen of Nothing (the folk of the air, 2019) by Holly Black

I am the Queen of Elfhame. Even though I am the queen in exile, I am still the queen. And that means Madoc isn’t just trying to take Cardan’s throne. He’s trying to take m i n e.

#lit #tfota #cardan #jude duarte #q

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”If Eli really was a h e r o, and Victor meant to s t o p  him, did that make him a v i l l a i n ?”

@perlada​ asked adam parrish or victor vale ?

#lit #vicious #victor vale #q

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INNER CIRCLE + TRAITS: NESTA

She didn’t know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want to rip and roar and rend the world into pieces.

#acotar #nesta #q