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#photo challenges/tag games! #giveaways mean nothing to me bc 99% of the time they were US shipping only #and I can't blame the hosts bc shipping even to canada is horrendously expensive #i stopped doing photo challenges bc they got so repetitive tho #or else the graphics for the challenge were straight up illegible. you can't just slap text over an image omfg #anyway. yeah. booklr has been pretty dead recently

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i find it extremely amusing that i liked a couple horror/thriller book rec posts and now IG thinks im Strictly a horror/thriller reader. it doesn't even recommend me more popular authors' accounts anymore, only horror/thriller book rec/review posts.

#i suppose that's all right #tumblr recommends me SFF and ig recommends me horror/thrillers and podcasts or author newsletters rec me everything else #thinking about reading

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my local booksellers have SUCH a way with words

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Today's book haul (and a rare DVD haul!)

All horror, because I was hanging out with my friend who loves horror and she inspired me. Was going to rent Slewfoot from the library, but then I discovered it has ✨ illustrations ✨ Reluctant Immortals was an impulse buy, I think it was recommended on one of the podcasts I listen to but I can't quite remember. What Feasts at Night needs no explanation.

Also got some DVDs for once! Trying to slowly expand my physical media collection so I don't rely on streaming services as much. Got Nope since it's a favourite and I'm tired of paying to rent it, and the Cloverfield trilogy since Horror Virgin covered the first movie recently and I want to rewatch it and finally see the sequels. I hear the first two are excellent and the third is absolutely bonkers.

#book haul #overall a successful mall trip #maybe too successful #ah well i also achieved my goal of getting some summer clothes so. i deserve a little treat

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got book mail today! Amanda Montell has the coolest covers.

#books #the age of magical thinking #amanda montell #ignore the gardening chaos in the background pls

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started The Two Towers while at the vet with my friend, and let me tell you, sitting in a waiting room full of dogs while reading Boromir's death scene really takes the edge off.

#there were like 5 dogs i swear #thinking about reading #(my friend's cat is fine she just needed a checkup and prescription refill)

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FINISHED FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING!

That only took almost a full month. Started it March 20th and it's April 16th now. At one point I made a silly goal to finish the series by May long weekend so I can do a movie marathon then, but it seems like it might actually be a challenge.

#thinking about reading #going to make a goal to finish the other two books in two weeks each #so I'll have the series done in a month at most #im enjoying this reread but also there are many other things I'd like to read...

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Walked up to the bookstore near my office today. Found The Familiar, but couldn't find The Age of Magical Overthinking, though their website said it was in stock. Ah well, I assume it hasn't been shelved yet, and to be fair most people don't come in the day after release day looking for psychology books.

Also, those ✨endpapers✨

#it's been a bad day so i was glad to at least find one of the books on my list

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hmmm, just realized 2 highly anticipated books (The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo and The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell) both come out next week, and I may have to treat myself to a bookstore trip...

#have to get a cavity filled and 2 old fillings replaced next friday so i might pre-emptively treat myself #and go to the bookstore near my office sometime... #been doing really good about not overspending so obviously i deserve a little treat #thinking about reading

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me throwing the canterbury tales across the room: flying chaucer

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Hold on, just adding to the entire “Noto is best Natasha illustrator” thing. 

Compare these covers illustrated by different artists.

to these covers illustrated by Noto

What a difference, am I right? 

#theres a reason the only BW comics i still own are the Noto ones

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[Text ID: a black and white typography edit. it reads "keep transphobia out of the minds of children. transphobia poisons all living things." all the text is underlined. in the bottom left of the image is a small sprout with three leaves and visible roots. there is a black frame border around the edit. the entire image is edited to look photocopied. /End ID]

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Shamelessly stolen from Discord.

#a few weeks ago my friend said 'i really have to read the locked tomb sometime. maybe I'll borrow them from you' #oh no friend you have just given me very clear instructions about your birthday gift

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vinyl record & old books.

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starting LoTR tonight so it's time to bump this song again

#still plays in my head every time i walk somewhere #marching to the store like #walk. walk. walk. walk. walk. SOMEBODY'S FOLLOWING THEM! walk. walk. walk. HIDE! walk

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I went to the library to borrow some DVDs we're planning to watch, but when I handed the librarian my card, it took me a solid 15 seconds to register that I handed her my fucking weed card.

Me, fumbling to swap it out: "OH MY GOD, I AM SO SORRY, I was on total autopilot!!"

The librarian: "It's all good, I just assumed it was a flex."

#i have on multiple occasions handed my plum card to the librarian and my library card to the indigo clerk lol