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a visualization of what i call the overcompetent scheming bastard literary tradition. big thanks to my esteemed colleagues @starlingshrike​ @magpiefngrl​ and @counterwiddershins​ for helping me to draw up this educational material

#😊😌 #ty for introducing me to these scheming competent bastards #the lymond chronicles #the queen's thief #captive prince

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I actually can’t believe I’ve only been pestering @bloody-wonder for under a year, it feels like we’ve known each other for years. Vika made me get onto goodreads and actually keep track of what I read and my thoughts, we’ve argued and fangirled and shared recs and I love to see things I’ve recced high on your list!! and vice versa!!

yearly reminder to everyone to just. message people. if you have something in common, go for it! can’t guarantee that everyone is as funny or insightful as @bloody-wonder but it’s worth a shot!

books! lists!! tier ranking!!! my beloved❤

behold the tier list of all the books i read in 2021 which i’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time on and am almost happy with! :D

honestly this was an amazing reading year for me. it started well, it ended with a bang (i managed to read seven books in december and four (4) of them were five star reads :D) and i’ve discovered some new all time favorites. speaking of which, the gok cover obviously stands for the entire lymond chronicles as do several other ones, though generally i would say i’ve read less series than last year but started quite a few haha

i feel like i got better at prioritizing the books i’m likely to enjoy over the ones that are popular on booktube or booklr or belong to The Acclaimed Literature, hence the absence of the *bad* tier bc indeed i haven’t read a single book that i felt deserved one star. i’ve also re-read several old faves (although this list doesn’t include them) and that felt wonderful, i should do that more. 

my most life-changing bookish experience however was discovering fucked up bl manga meeting @starlingshrike​ who lets me talk to her about books and reads the books i recommend and then recommends good books too like,, wow. i like it. was anybody going to tell me that having friends who share your tastes and interests feels that good or was i just supposed to find that out myself by bonding with an internet stranger over our mutual hatred towards ve schwab?

#lol ty addie la rue for being so mediocre and overhyped i had to rant #i’m going to compile a best and worst of list myself. probably. soon 😅 #books #katie reads

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Cowboy and his horse catch some shut-eye.

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Guo Guozhu aka Guozhu Guo aka 郭国柱 (Chinese, b. 1982, Yongchun County, Quanzhou City, China, based Xiamen, China) - No.2舟山嵊山岛中心村 (Lingering Garden No.2), 122°82′E 30°72′N, 2015, Photography

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A black dragón floating above the clouds

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remember when ppl on here would be like “reblog this post if you support gay marriage” or “reblog this post if you think they/them are valid pronouns trying to prove something to my parents”

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studying in the library aesthetic

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seeing this made me feel like i just got a letter informing me of my own death

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(literature girl fall) we’re back to finishing a book in two days

#god i wish that were me

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𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟷 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

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Ewan McGregor and Jonathan Rhys Myers, circa 1998

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As the sun was rising.

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this post on r/animalid. whys it so funny. my brain is broken

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Please take me to the gourd world….

#😯 #no joke #reference

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me being a jack of all trades: haha fuck yeah!!! yes!!!!

me being a master of none: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck

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Abigail Fallis - Close to the Bone, 2014 (Sterling silver)