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whenever i think about this i.

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Marge Piercy, “When a Friend Dies.” The Moon Is Always Female

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– Jay Vespertine

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I've Endured, Now What?

Blue Iris - Mary Oliver / So This Is All I Will Ever Be? - Fatima Aamer Bilal / Vive, Vive - Traci Brimhall

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mitski / tamino / trista mateer

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Langston Hughes, “Litany.” Selected poems of Langston Hughes

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right person, wrong time (variations on heartbreak)

@leemartenspoetry on tumblr

vita sackville-west & fegan’s 1924 café in dublin

everything everywhere all at once (2022)

@heavensghost on tumblr

i had to get out by indigo de souza

‘calling a wolf a wolf' by kaveh akbar

river by joni mitchell

‘english song’ in a little larger than the entire universe: selected poems by fernando pessoa

slumber by ron hicks

fish in exile by vi khi nao

penitent magdalene by antonio ciseri

@ojibwa on tumblr

this is what the drugs are for by gracie abrams & the awakening by angelo morbelli

as good as it gets by fizz

lonely this christmas by mud & picture of the christmas tree at trinity college dublin, taken by me in december of 2022

this is what the drugs are for by gracie abrams & picture by andrew collins via globalnews.ca

@inanotherunivrs on tumblr & a polaroid of me taken by my ex-boyfriend

‘in a dream you saw a way to survive’ by clementine von radics & a picture of my ex-boyfriend's window, taken by me

bluets by maggie nelson & the poolbeg generating station, dublin

‘unrequited’ by sasha m george & inheritance by matthew w. cornell

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@ faraway on instagram & lavender sprigs farm cut by linda jacobus

the museum of heartbreak by meg leder

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‘seaside improvisation’ by richard siken

@ dracarysgang on twitter

@-love-letters-i-never-sent

@fromdarzaitoleeza on tumblr

explosions by ellie goulding

‘i had a dream about you’ by richard siken

the beatrice letters by lemony snicket

la la land (2016)

‘catalog of unabashed gratitude’ by ross gay

@stuckinapril on tumblr

@deathlywounded on tumblr

some are always hungry by jihyun yun

‘speaking practice’ by franny choi

 a self-portrait in letters by anna sexton & a picture of my ex-boyfriend in a lake in Orfű, Hungary

@sunsbleeding on tumblr

‘there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying’ by p.d

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I’m so excited for your book The Sisters of the Sun. There’s so very little Bengali rep out there let alone queer Bengali rep and I usually have to settle with reading about Indian or Pakistani lesbians if I want any hint of my culture reflected in the books I read. The characters and art look beautiful and I’m excited to read the book because you have such a solid literary base and knowledge about writing techniques and style.

Thank you for the kind message, but clarifying a fact here: I am Indian Bengali and so are my characters. Noor and Abha are of Bangladeshi descent (like me) but they live in West Bengal.

If you want Bangladeshi queer rep read books by Adiba Jaigirdar, who has written The Henna Wars (Bangladeshi lesbian mc), Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating (Bangladeshi bisexual mc) and The Dos and Donuts of Love (to be released, Bangladeshi sapphic mc). There is also Bright Lines by Tanaïs which features diasporic Bengali queer girls, and The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan.

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manifesting

One day you'll live in an apartment or small house with lots of windows in your favorite city. There will be sunlight everywhere in the morning. You own a cat and lots of plants. Shelves of books are filled with your favorite books. You stargaze and stare at the moon every night. You sleep in bed with lots of pillows and use extra blankets because sometimes you sleep with window open. You eat your favorite food everyday and bake cupcakes or cookies in your kitchen. You are at peace and do everything you want. You love everyone who visits you. There will be kindness, love and just love.

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book recs masterpost

an ever-updating masterpost of books i've recommended. please check these before you ask for recommendations in case they've been covered —

fiction

"the tragedy still happened, but it was important that the love was there"

japanese literature

korean literature [1], [2]

gothic writing

spooky adult horror gothic

some favourites

marathi books

some ruskin bond

indian fiction [1], [2], historical fiction, stories, [3], [4]

non-fiction

general assorted ones i like

some favourites

about people living through crises

on geopolitics, foreign policy, international affairs

on political philsophy

vaguely sociology

biographies

on economic history

on the silk route

on prisons, convict labour

on afghanistan, soviet invasion, terror

capitalism

on language and linguistics

on the ancient and prehistoric world

just a bunch on india

the indus valley

indian aestheticism, art

gupta empire

sangam literature

on the northeast

india and southeast asia

nur jahan, mughal women | more

islamic conquest and state-making

on kashmir

assorted nonfiction

colonisation and aftereffects

on cities

on mumbai

on bollywood in bombay

on cities

on delhi

on kolkata

essays

history, migration, labour

art, reading, travel, gender, sports

nature, climate, some history

political economy, environmental and urban history, cartography and space

my comfort books

books that have got me out of my slumps

on art, photography, aesthetics, design [1], [2], [3]

on the environment

just some story and essay collections

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Book recs on languages. How they evolved, and all that jazz.

Also, since I know you're from Maharashtra. Do you know about this language called 'Nahali'? It has only 2000 people, and doesn't belong to any of the larger language families. Apparently, it developed as an anti-language. Pretty cool stuff.

i do know about nahali, i remember reading about it some while ago. it's a really interesting rabbit hole.

this a mix of books i like + a few on my tbr

the adventure of english by melvyn bragg — a history of the english language; how it thrives on adopting words from other languages; how it tells a social history

making a point by david crystal — about punctuation, how it developed; how we use it, why we do that; and how to make it better

also by david crystal: language death, english as a global language, spell it out

wanderers, kings, merchants by peggy mohan — how migration, invasions, cultural exchange etc creates a bi/multilingual culture in india; really great because it also looks at how english takes hold and stays

the language of gods in the world of men by sheldon pollock — about sanskrit as a sacred language; how it becomes a political one; the traffic between the two

language change by jean aitchinson — how languages changes; how we can map the changes and make sense of them

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Anne Boyer, What Resembles the Grave But Isn’t

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I read, I think about reading, then I read some more

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okay but I did not know that there is a story about f. scott fitzgerald nervously showing ernest hemingway his penis because zelda said he couldn’t satisfy a woman with it and ernest hemingway was like “lol no dude you’re fine”

what are the modernists even

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During a lecture on epic poetry like the Mahābhārata and Iliad in my first year of college, my professor said, “When the whole world dies, even when brick and mortar is destroyed, memory survives. It survives and lives on in generations to come. And literature carries that memory. All your geography, your economics, your psychology, they’re all based on the memory of man, passed down generations after generations. These epic poems and literature we are studying right now is to remind us that we too will be memories one day. And therefore, let us be good memories” and I think a piece of this lecture will live on in me wherever I go.