#books outside

[annelisreadingroom]

Hi, everyone. It's been busy recently but spring is here. I love all the different spring blossoms I see around town. Do you have a favorite spring flower? I really like the blooming magnolia trees. They are so pretty with the big blossoms.

#books #booklr #bookblogger #book photography #ya books #books outside #historical fiction #book and flowers #bookish spring #spring flowers #zoulfa katouh #as long as the lemon trees grow #books of tumblr

[godzilla-reads]

Earlier this year I read a bit of “Men at Arms” by Terry Pratchett, but fell off the book. Last night I re-read the first 70 pages to get back up to speed and I forgot how much I love Terry Pratchett’s writing.

His humor is unparalleled.

#godzilla reads #men at arms #books and dogs #my pets #Discworld #terry pratchett #reading #book blog #books outside #reading outside #autumn books #booklr #bookworm

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

We are so buried in snow right now ❄️

#booklr #book photography #book picture #keeper of enchanted rooms #bookworm #bibliophile #fiction #historical fantasy #book community #book aesthetic #book lover #book nerd #books and snow #books outside #open book #my photos #mine

[books-in-a-storm]

June 2023 JOMPBPC: Day 10 Books And Sunshine

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #book photo challenge #booklr #bookblr #books #books outside #june 2023

[sowlmates]

gotta give it to the percy jackson fans, you really do love your main character. for other franchises, fans usually place the #1 blorbo title on a specific side character. but in percy jackson you really love your percy jackson

#it's percy this percy that and I really love this for you all #percy jackson #i haven't read the books so i have an outside perspective at best so sorry if this is wrong after all #1k #pjo

[7amaspayrollmanager]

Alright let's imagine a scene that is all too normal in palestine. A palestinian business owner finds his building covered in graffiti stars of Davids and Hebrew that says "gas the arabs" and "death to arabs"

Now imagine there's a reporter there and asks the palestinian business owner what happens and they say "the jews attacked my business"

Pause. Now your response might be "uncle no. Say israelis not jews" and then this is when he would look at you like youre stupid because the israelis doing this are jewish. They are not the Christians or the druze or the palestinian ones with Israeli citizenship. They are Jewish israelis who believe in their religious supremacy. When you graffiti stars of david all over a palestinian business, car, or the street you seek that conflation. it sends a message, this is jewish land and you're next.

The problem is that these videos circulate in zionist circles. "Watch this video of children in gaza calling for the death of jews" "watch how they say they want to fight and kill jews" those children are referring to Israeli soldiers that come in night and do their raids with the star of David attached to their uniform or the ones that bomb them. It's easy to watch those videos and assume that palestinians are indoctrinating their children on anti semitism or you can realize that those children's only interaction with jewish ppl is through violence and parents cannot protect their children from this. Doesn't matter context is lost

Abby Martin went to Jerusalem and interviewed israelis for 2 hours and she says every israeli was extremely confident to say that this land is for them and that they should push the Arabs out and when she interviewed palestinians they spoke of freedom from occupation and their dreams. That's reality. Not the soundbites.

And yet we have invasive youtubers and interviewers constantly in the street of ramallah or wherever in palestine asking palestinians "do you hate jews?" And in those videos you hear those palestinians say "no we have no problem with jews we have a problem with occupation and we have a problem with zionism." Bc this is how we are trained to respond to this trope. Palestinians are very aware what the world thinks of us and the reality is that many palestinians have internalized it and we grow up reading books on the Holocaust and train ourselves to recognize anti semitic dog whistles so zionists don't get the soundbites they want.

So we say "anti zionism is not anti semitism" and we say "israeli zionists" and we do not say "jewish supremacy" even thought it exists in palestine but "zionist supremacy" and in these carefully worded speech we water down what is happening to us in an effort to not deter people away from solidarity. But it means nothing. The world categorically blames palestinians for rising anti semitism they blame us for jewish insecurity globally.

[lunaicfantastic]

fav part of gideon the ninth is for the first pre-canaan house chunk of the book, she's all "ugh I'm so normal surrounded by all these weirdo goth freaks when I blow this popsicle stand everyone will see how cool and normal and charming I am" and then she gets to canaan house and realizes that while she might have been a normie jock in the ninth house she is not exempt from being a goth weirdo who hides important doors behind tapestries and sneaks around in the dark so she doesn't have to talk to people. like we talk about her being a jock forced to be goth but nature v nurture babey she's not shedding that bone freak skin anytime soon

#gideon the ninth #and she realizes this its really funny #every time she does some ninth house shit shes like damn this is some ninth house shit :/ #and then she does it anyway #i actually think its a cool piece of character work: gideon goes from seeing herself outside of/in opposition to the ninth house #in the beginning of the book #to feeling a part of/a soldier for the ninth house (and harrow specifically who gideon sees as the epitome of the ninth) #even during her brief backslide where she goes and talks shit with the eighth she can't really separate herself the way she could before #and when the chips are down and isaac and jeannemary are dead she wants two things: her longsword (a relic of aiglamene's training) #and harrow #so #yeah shes a jock but shes a goth weirdo freak jock #and shes a jock of the ninth #shut up anna

[annaleigh]

Got to do a wraparound book cover for class! Took it as an opportunity to make a love letter to my 12 year old self.

#the outsiders #se hinton #ponyboy curtis #johnny cade #dallas winston #illustration #book cover #artists on tumblr

[qwakque]

it shined more brightly than any gem could,,

#kid designs dropped and i. aufh #AUFHGH #book one had me so invested so ofc i have to draw it out now that the official designs r out #orz #HE JUST WANTED #TO ENJOY SWEETS #TO BE A KID #TO JUST HAVE FUN #WAYRGUFHG #glad hes kinda able to now #birthday card riddle <3 #w the tart #kinda sobbed when i realized it was a tart #notes!! haha riddle in monochrome world but chenya and trey are outside and colorful!! light kinda on riddle bc hes kinda influenced by it #outside is super colorful and yippeee #also riddle is on the right while trey and chenya are on the left but whej he leaves he also goes to the left!!!! #twisted wonderland #twst #disney twisted wonderland #disney twst #twst fanart #riddle rosehearts #trey clover #chenya #twst trey #twst riddle #twst chenya #heartslabyul #twst book 1 #twst art

[uncanny-tranny]

I love love love when trans women* give advice to trans men* about """manly""" things and when trans men* return that kindness with advice about """womanly""" things. I love the intracommunity commitment to supporting each other <<3

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #obviously it's better when that advice and guidance is consentual #if you ever want to give that advice do be sure that that person is even seeking that out #i have made advice posts which i try to state as neutrally as possible to ensure that whomever wants the advice can read it #but by no means are those posts intended to force you to change or to do things outside of what you want y'know? #ANYWAY thank you to trans women for unironically teaching me how to shave when i didn't know how #(i read the book Nevada partway and that was how i started to learn how to shave my face) #(and i've gotten a decent-ish close shave though i do admit i'm not that good at it. i'm kinda lazy actually LOL) #chin stubble is genuinely one of the worst sensory things for me and i'm so grateful that i was taught by trans women about it :)!!! #genuinely me when other trans people: 🥰

[annelisreadingroom]

I went to the park this morning before heading to the airport. It was so nice and sunny and the park was full of flowers. It's still a bit cold, though. Most days it's around 8°C-12°C. How is the weather where you live and do you like to take outdoor pictures of your books?

#books #booklr #bookblogger #book photography #books outside #anne of green gables #children's fiction #childhood favorites #children's classics #lucy maud montgomery #l. m. montgomery #book and flowers

[godzilla-reads]

“Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.”

—Brian Froud

#godzilla reads #good faeries bad faeries #Brian Froud #fairy quotes #fairy books #book blog #books outside #autumn books #booklr #reading #bookworm

[nonasbirthday]

of course you can read necros and cavs as a parallel to the gender binary bc A) you can do whatever you want forever and B) yeah there's plenty of textual evidence comparing the necro-cav bond to a marriage. however one thing i think many of these discussions keep missing is the fact that most people in the nine houses are not necros or cavs and do in fact exist outside of this binary. which would make it. not really much of a binary

#get ur warm takes here #i know other people have said this already but i really feel like this binary idea has proliferated recently #but i get it i mean in the books we have almost zero exposure to House citizens living outside this 'binary' #so it is a binary in the sense that you can apply it to our major characters who are from the nine houses #but i'm just not sure about extrapolating it to the whole fictional society #i do think there are comparisons to be drawn here i just don't think enough discussions account for this third group being most of #the population. #like do a thematic analysis for sure but personally i would stop short of saying 'joh created a new gender binary and forced everyone into #it' bc. what about all those other offscreen characters who are neither necro nor cav #the locked tomb #nonasbirthday

[books-in-a-storm]

August 2022 JOMPBPC: Day 3 Summer

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #book photo challenge #bookblr #booklr #summer reading #books outside #books #august 2022

[lucidloving]

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966 // Tracy K. Smith, "Don't You Wonder Sometimes?" // Janet Finch, White Oleander // Five—Sleeping At Last

#theme: life as a spectator #from the outside always looking in #web weaving #webs #web weave #webweave #poetry #aesthetic #prose #prose poetry #art #collage #literature #book quotes #books #novel quotes #novels #quotes #words #poem excerpt #novel excerpt #poem #poems #inspo #writing #compilation #collection #parallels #song lyrics #lyrics

[learnelle]

Pretty bookshops in France, vol 5.

#Spotted this one while waiting for my bf outside of a library :D Study dates are the best kind of study sessions:)<3 #studyblr #light academia #cottagecore #studyspo #dark academia #bookblr #aesthetic #dark acadmeia aesthetic #books & libraries #booknerd #bookish #bookshop