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reblog only if you’ve received less than 1000 boops! we can all get each other to “max”

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HELLO EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS IMMEDIATELY

• CROWS OF A FEATHER GIFT EXCHANGE •

For @kindness-ricochets 💕💕💕💕

@i-can-read-to-him 💕

#jesper fahey #wylan van eck #six of crows fanart

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I was tagged by @sparrowmoth to share the first lines of my ten most recent fanfics... thank you! (lol Wesper time continues) (I've decided "first lines" is "first paragraph" for simplicity) A Softer Place to Land

"You're late."

Hold on (Stay Close) Wylan could only sigh when even the piano failed to soothe his discordant nerves. He ran a fingertip over the keys, cautious and gentle. Why must everything persist in… changing? Just when he had the shape of the world, it shifted again. Storms Over Ketterdam The rooms on the third floor of the Van Eck mansion have double-thick windows. The family’s rooms stay warm—Jesper and Wylan; Marya; Inej for a night or two; Colm when he visits and Jesper puts himself on best behavior; Plumje on sleepovers when her brothers paint her toenails and let her stay up and eat as many cookies as she likes. Van Ecks protect what matters in their ways: with stacks of kruge and double-thick windows against winter storms. Encounter A man walks down an alley. He tries to walk right, with his head up and his shoulders square. He tries to walk like a man—a confident man. He tries to walk like the lantern doesn’t feel so, so heavy in his hand. He tries to walk like he isn’t afraid to get his pennies picked from his pocket. Voiceless “Kaz!”

Jesper’s voice is ragged, desperation shredding through him, but Wylan feels strangely… serene. Of course he feels Jesper’s hands against his neck and wants to soothe his panic and tell him, it’s okay. Because it is. It’s okay. Wylan knows it’s okay, he can just feel… how okay… Decoration “Can I try this on?” Wylan asked, poking his head and torso out from the closet, a jacket held in front of him. The sage and bright blue plaid couldn’t be called his usual preference. No, their closet was clearly split between Wylan’s few white shirts and dark jackets and trousers, and Jesper’s explosion of every pattern and color known to man, and a few conceived of by some wicked god. Pennies for Your Thoughts Wylan Van Eck was a good and sensible boy who could be trusted with a few pennies. One day, he would be trusted with millions of kruge, after all—but he understood the honor bestowed when his father gave him those coins. "Wylan" Torment. “Wylan,” spits Jan Van Eck like a piece of turned meat from his mouth into a fine linen napkin. He can fire a cook. He cannot fire a son. Yet the fire and the son mingle in bright, burning places. Today, father and son are staying at the lake house. Today, Jan uses a switch. Today, Wylan curls to make himself small and tries to put his back to the wall to protect the organs he sees in his anatomy books, and the pain lights across his arms and legs and knees. Blood flows like a slow flame. Stains linger. Cold Mornings and Sparks Mornings were not a Jesper time of day. Better skipped entirely—noon arrived, whether a man left his bed before or after! Yet mornings persisted. He greeted them sleepily, when he greeted them at all. Kerch is a Morally Bankrupt Country "Wy?" "Hm?" "So…"

I think just about anyone I'd have to tag was tagged by Sparrow, but if you see this and want to jump in, consider this an honorary tag!

#wesper #shadow and bone netflix #six of crows #six of crows fanfic #tag games

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So I'm currently working on this thing in therapy about replacing negative self-talk. Went through the "negatives" checklist fairly simply. Then we got to the "positive" list. And I got kind of upset about the whole thing explaining that yes other people might need this but when I say there's no hope actually it's okay because I'm right.

If I were a fictional character these would be the reddest flags but luckily I, a real person--

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Sure, Kaz blew up the Crow Club because it was in Pekka's hands.

But he started by placing Wylan's bomb right under a certain stolen DeKappel...

#shadow and bone netflix #shadow and bone s2 #kaz brekker #wylan hendriks

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Last day of my first week, I'm called to the director's office and told people don't like my attitude.

"They say that when receiving instruction, you think you know it all."

"Did I do anything wrong?"

"No, it's just how you come across."

Like???

Okay yes I am a showoff, I know that, but this literally feels like, "Well people don't like you." And I think what pisses me off the most, other than the fact that I have to keep living and keep being myself, is that I went in trying to make myself seem as helpful as possible. I threw myself into things, I helped with circulation and shelving and whatever else... and I don't know what to do. I really don't. Like other than just not doing anything other than what I'm told, I don't know how to not get fired.

It's been a week, and I just don't want to exist anymore.

#real life #tw: suicidal thoughts

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Reblogging to add that it also helps to write to your library expressing that you support these books! When you write your library, you give them data. When someone speaks up and says they don't want that sort of material in the library, the librarian can pull out your letter. (And hopefully several others.) This doesn't need to be big.

Dear [your library here], I recently checked out [title(s)] and really [enjoyed/valued/learned from/etc] it(or them). Thank you for keeping diverse books in our library! [Your name here]

You can add more. Share a quote you found poignant. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can mention that this book represents you, and that reading it was meaningful in that way. Add more about the title. Tell them you're looking forward to reading more titles like it, or that you're recommending the title to a friend. Anything you want to add, you will not be bothering your librarian, I promise.

I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.

This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.

For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco     

Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright    

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley   

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

IRL by Tommy Pico        

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages             

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom          

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow              

Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser

Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower            

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam   

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon 

Hi Honey, I’m Homo! by Matt Baume      

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw  

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman 

Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun     

Witching Moon by Poppy Woods 

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt    

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman    

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist           

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi             

Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed      

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto

#libraries #library #representation

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@kaznata I wholly agree and think we all need to embrace the philosophy that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. Some is always better than none.

But, Kazling, if you're going to comment on asses I am morally obligated to acknowledge it :)

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

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My Kaz Brekker cosplay 🐦‍⬛

Inspired by @polartss fanart

#six of crows #kaz brekker #cosplay #shadow and bone #AMAZE

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Jesper told Wylan, "Silences aren't really my," and we all knew he was going to say something like, "favorite thing," something to indicate he isn't fond of silences, even though Jesper’s best friend is so embodying of silence as to become invisible

#shadow and bone netflix #jesper fahey

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Kaz could not have found a more poignant metaphor than giving Jesper a coin to make himself a key. He could keep his coin and shackles or acknowledge his gift and release himself.

#shadow and bone netflix #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #Kaz is a bastard but he's not wrong #And yeah Jes could probably Fabrikate the handcuffs but that ruins the poetry!

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what's Hannibal's favorite social media?

Insta-Graham

#nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #No apologies for my terrible sense of humor

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Maybe every season we would get another animal motif for a crow. Jesper's goat, Wylan's butterflies, Matthias's lamb...

#shadow and bone netflix #six of crows

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Netflix: Shadow and Bone is dead. Crows: Hold my waffle... and meet my Corpse Witch.

#six of crows #shadow and bone netflix #shadow and bone spinoff

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Damn. If only that hole could be filled...

Sorry but your sexual fantasy has a plot hole in it. Orgasm denied.

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The other characters' issues with Will Graham aren't because he's different or because he understands killers. (They're not even beach.) It's because he's vulnerable. Hannibal Lecter leans in and takes a big, deep sniff of a corpse, gets tight and cozy with death, even physically bumps into others--while Will stayed away. Hannibal sees companionship in decay and destruction. Friendliness, almost. With death. And clearly not with life, he may reach out to the living, but he only seems to care about a very select few.

Will's gift comes with pain. Will struggles. Will could do with someone to be kind and treat him like a friend--not because he is weak, because he is human. Because his unique disability requires understanding and compassion for true integration, because he can't hide behind snark or facts. It's too close. And it hurts him too much.

They aren't uncomfortable with Will because of his empathy for the depths of depravity, they're uncomfortable with Will because of their empathy for him.

#nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #will graham

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Nerds connecting literally anything to a special interest is honestly so personal sometimes and yes this post is about Rachel Maddow essentially (and more eloquently) saying, "Hey you know the first ever gay vampire novel was written in 1907? Yeah it was about stealing talent, basically. The author was involved in the rise of German influence in the United States in the early-to-mid twentieth century if you know what I mean (I mean fascism)."

#rachel maddow