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hello, internet user. before you is a selection of pictures you tagged "dark academia." you have 30 minutes to explain what each of them has to do with academia, defined by the Oxford dictionary as "the environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship"

if you cannot complete this task a literature professor will enter the room and beat you into unconsciousness with a baseball bat that has the word "GOTHIC" printed on it in large letters

good luck

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The spirit moves over water.

#aesthetics

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I’m crying WHY would you word it like this

Someone put me in the room with the publishing execs that keep mandating that every book be marketed with increasingly meaningless and contradictory comp titles, I just wanna have a chat

#thats wild… #like i haven’t seen or listened to hadestown and I know it’s an orpheus and eurydice retelling #you’d think the people who like hadestown would probably also know that?????

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book has been chosen!

Pink - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Yellow - I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee

Blue - Evil Eye by Etaf Run

These are all library books so they’ll be the next three i read regardless. Very excited to start convenice store woman! i’ve heard really good things about it!

i will reveal what the books are tomorrow.

#my thoughts

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i will reveal what the books are tomorrow.

#queued reblog to remind myself to look at this

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#aesthetics

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i will reveal what the books are tomorrow.

#books #reading #reader #bookish #bookblr

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Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—what he gets instead is a tenacious current lead with a very familiar, very kissable face.

In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School’s Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win in the Mariachi Extravaganza de Nacional; and met, made out with, and almost hooked up with one of the cutest guys he’s ever met.

Now eight months later, Rafie’s ready for one final win. What he didn’t plan for is his family moving to San Antonio before his senior year, forcing him to leave behind his group while dealing with the loss of the most important person in his life—his beloved abuelo. Another hitch in his plan: The Selena Quintanilla-Perez Academy’s Mariachi Todos Colores already has a lead vocalist, Rey Chavez—the boy Rafie made out with—who now stands between him winning and being the great Mariachi Rafie's abuelo always believed him to be. Despite their newfound rivalry for center stage, Rafie can’t squash his feelings for Rey. Now he must decide between the people he’s known his entire life or the one just starting to get to know the real him.

Canto Contigo is a love letter to Mexican culture, family and legacy, the people who shape us, and allowing ourselves to forge our own path. At its heart, this is one of the most glorious rivals-to-lovers romance about finding the one who challenges you in the most extraordinary ways.

#on my radar

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I have something extremely important to say

#dogs

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blondes have more fun

#dumplin #dumplin movie #julie murphy #book art

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hey guys! i’m trying to start getting some pride month posts ready! i made a form where people can submit books for me to feature. you can CLICK HERE to fill it out.

I’ll be posting the lists i make both here and on tiktok. but i’m not allowed to post links on tiktok because i don’t have enough followers (dumbass rule if you ask me) so i’m kinda relying on y’all to give me suggestions lol.

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Summer rainy day 🍃🌧🌲

#aesthetics

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hey guys! i’m trying to start getting some pride month posts ready! i made a form where people can submit books for me to feature. you can CLICK HERE to fill it out.

I’ll be posting the lists i make both here and on tiktok. but i’m not allowed to post links on tiktok because i don’t have enough followers (dumbass rule if you ask me) so i’m kinda relying on y’all to give me suggestions lol.

#books #queer books #lgbt books #pride month #pride #lesbian #gay #bisexual #trans #aro #ace #middle grade books #young adult books #book suggestions #reading #booklr #bookblr #book blog #bookish

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“Let’s just sit quietly and listen to the secrets the rain wants to tell us.”

— John Mark Green.

#aesthetics

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Book Review: Dreadnought by April Daniels ✨🏙️⚡️

rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕

(5/5)

After Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero, is killed in combat, closeted trans girl Danny Tozer inherits his powers and is transformed to have the body she’s always wanted to have. Now she has to deal with having superpowers and being an out trans woman, all the while hunting down the supervillain who murdered her predecessor.

This book was phenomenal, and I’m kind of at a loss for words to describe how much I liked it.

To start, I love the world of this book. This is such a classic superhero story. Daniels uses the conventions of the genre without making things feel like a parody and subverts tropes just enough to make the story distinct.

I also really love Dreadnought as a trans narrative. This book doesn’t shy away from transphobia. Between Danny’s parents, kids at her school, and other heroes she meets, we get a pretty broad and realistic representation of the types of abuse a young trans woman might face. There’s also so much trans joy in this book. It was really nice to see Danny come into herself, and it was cathartic to watch her realize that no one could take her transition away from her. This is the type of story that will give trans kids hope for the future.

I would recommend this book to literally everyone. In fact, I plan on recommending this book to literally everyone. But because that’s not helpful, I’ll be more specific and say I highly recommend this book to fans of Andrew Joseph White. Obviously, it’s very different from his work, genre-wise, but I think the themes are really similar. If you like Hell Followed with Us and The Spirit Bares It’s Teeth, I can definitely see you liking Dreadnought.

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I will never not be mad at Netflix for whitewashing Hannah in Dumplin'. We could have had a bad ass afrolatina lesbian but nooooooooooo

#dumplin #dumplin movie #julie murphy

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“I’ve wasted a lot of time in my life. I’ve thought too much about what people will say or what they’re gonna think. And sometimes it’s over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn’t good enough. But you don’t have to bother with that nonsense. I wasted all that time so you don’t have to.”

— Julie Murphy, Dumplin’

#julie murphy #dumplin #quotes