lovefrommelrose:

My friend bought me a petting zoo for my birthday party!

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babygoatsandfriends: “bewbin: “ so this is how it ends ” But you guys are reblogging the wrong version. The one at the end is like “you’re next” ”

babygoatsandfriends:

bewbin:

so this is how it ends

But you guys are reblogging the wrong version.

The one at  the end is like “you’re next”.

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Anonymous asked: Do you have good fantasy YA recs?

siminib:

steeledart:

siminib:

wordbookstores:

Oh, DO WE.

Actually we are not quite sure where to start, because you are mining a very, very rich vein here! But here are a few absolute favorites:

Graceling by Kristin Cashore: Katsa lives in a world where some people are “graced” — they have mismatched eyes and special talents. Katsa’s incredible skill for killing makes her a useful tool for a corrupt king, but everything changes when she meets a prince whose fighting skills are almost as good as her own. Graceling is the first of three linked books; we love Bitterblue most of all, but you should definitely start at the beginning.

Sabriel by Garth Nix: Sabriel has been raised just across the wall from a magical kingdom, in which her father is the Abhorsen, whose job it is to control the dead. When something terrible happens to the Abhorsen, his tools fall to Sabriel, who must cross into the Old Kingdom and learn to use a necromancer’s bells to keep a nasty spirit at bay. That sounds like a lot of death, sure, but these books — three are out now, with Clariel due out this fall — are beautiful and gripping. (And there is a magical cat.)

Chime by Franny Billingsley: Molly’s sleeper YA favorite is about a girl named Briony who is certain she’s a witch. She knows it’s her fault her stepmother died, and her fault her sister’s mind is damaged, and she’s just waiting for the knife to fall. Set in a swampy, pre-industrial world, Chime is mythic and gorgeous and mostly about the damage we can do by telling ourselves the wrong stories. (It might make you cry. Fair warning.)

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman: Seraphina is a court musician in a world where dragons exist alongside humans — and can appear as humans (though they have to wear bells to indicate that they are dragons in human form). When a member of the royal family dies under suspicious circumstances, Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, where of course she uncovers all kinds of fascinating secrets, including a big one about herself. One of the best dragon books of, well, ever.

Ash and Huntress by Malinda Lo: Lo’s Ash is a lovely Cinderella retelling in which it is not the prince our heroine falls for, and the fairies are not exactly the godmother sort. Huntress takes place in the same world, but years earlier, when the human and fairy world are both out of alignment, and only an unlikely pair of young sages-in-training can put things back to rights.

The Books of Bayern series by Shannon Hale starts with a rewrite of the fable of the goose girl (The Goose Girl) and then launches into a whole world of adventures from there filled with magic, hard choices, politics, and good friends.

And last but not least, you’ll want the ass-kicking ladies of A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray to be your new best friends. They may be living in a pseudo-Victorian society, but that’s not going to stop Gemma Doyle and her classmates from learning to use their powers and take control of their destiny — whatever it turns out to be.

Perfect summary for Chime. I always have a hard time putting into words why I love it.

To my shame I’ve only read half of these. Sabriel and the Books of Bayern are fantastic though—I think you’d like the Bayern Books Simini, though I was always disappointed that the last book of the series (at least that I read) was only published with a photo-manip cover instead of the lovely little illustrated covers the others had) Sabriel and all that is pretty dark, but the character moments are pretty great and Mogget is the most fantastically precious and terrifying creature you will ever read…

Oh I’ve totally read the Bayern books. They’re great! And Sabriel a long long time ago. I should probably read it again sat some point- I remember nothing but bells and something to do with necromancy…

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To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You’re everywhere you look, you’re the standard against which everyone else is measured. You’re like water, like air. People will tell you they went to see a “woman doctor” or they will say they went to see “the doctor.” People will tell you they have a “gay colleague” or they’ll tell you about a colleague. A white person will be happy to tell you about a “Black friend,” but when that same person simply mentions a “friend,” everyone will assume the person is white. Any college course that doesn’t have the word “woman” or “gay” or “minority” in its title is a course about men, heterosexuals, and white people. But we call those courses “literature,” “history” or “political science.”

This invisibility is political.

Michael S. Kimmel, in the introduction to the book, “Privilege: A Reader” (via crimical)
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ven0moth:

mom i need u to leave

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dauntlessvevo:

game of sass by george rr martin

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ffranksiero:

“tis a big and beautiful world. most of us live and die in the same corner we were born and never get to see any of it. i don’t want to be most of us.”

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in us.
a quote from Shakespeare that needed to be in the tfios movie for the title to make any sense at all (via droqo)
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tanaquil:

A DIREWOLF is a close relative of the wolf, but larger and stronger. They are named after the real world direwolves, Pleistocene megafauna, which were larger than modern wolves (but not as large as portrayed in the books). Direwolves are extinct north of the wall, as they are a very large and dangerous predator, and people have probably hunted them out. A grey direwolf in a white field is the sigil of House Stark.
(requested by direwolfrising & daenelicious)
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benzodiazepunk:

itscolossal:

New Impossibly Tiny Landscapes Painted on Food by Kasan Kale

this is fukcing bullshit

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On one level, the book is about the kingdom of Lumatere and the heir taking their rightful place, but the true story at work is about the people of Lumatere, and their collective experience. It’s like if A Song of Ice and Fire had a sense of social awareness.
Rachel of Giant Squid Books reviews Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta [x] (via leaningonthesideofwonder)
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alethiometry: “ H O U S E M A R T E L L //GREAT HOUSES OF WESTEROS //INSP. ”

alethiometry:

H O U S E M A R T E L L
//GREAT HOUSES OF WESTEROS //INSP.
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dailygot:

The Starks will endure. We always have.
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Oscar De La Renta F/W 2013

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Anonymous asked: Do you have good fantasy YA recs?

siminib:

steeledart:

siminib:

wordbookstores:

Oh, DO WE.

Actually we are not quite sure where to start, because you are mining a very, very rich vein here! But here are a few absolute favorites:

Graceling by Kristin Cashore: Katsa lives in a world where some people are “graced” — they have mismatched eyes and special talents. Katsa’s incredible skill for killing makes her a useful tool for a corrupt king, but everything changes when she meets a prince whose fighting skills are almost as good as her own. Graceling is the first of three linked books; we love Bitterblue most of all, but you should definitely start at the beginning.

Sabriel by Garth Nix: Sabriel has been raised just across the wall from a magical kingdom, in which her father is the Abhorsen, whose job it is to control the dead. When something terrible happens to the Abhorsen, his tools fall to Sabriel, who must cross into the Old Kingdom and learn to use a necromancer’s bells to keep a nasty spirit at bay. That sounds like a lot of death, sure, but these books — three are out now, with Clariel due out this fall — are beautiful and gripping. (And there is a magical cat.)

Chime by Franny Billingsley: Molly’s sleeper YA favorite is about a girl named Briony who is certain she’s a witch. She knows it’s her fault her stepmother died, and her fault her sister’s mind is damaged, and she’s just waiting for the knife to fall. Set in a swampy, pre-industrial world, Chime is mythic and gorgeous and mostly about the damage we can do by telling ourselves the wrong stories. (It might make you cry. Fair warning.)

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman: Seraphina is a court musician in a world where dragons exist alongside humans — and can appear as humans (though they have to wear bells to indicate that they are dragons in human form). When a member of the royal family dies under suspicious circumstances, Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, where of course she uncovers all kinds of fascinating secrets, including a big one about herself. One of the best dragon books of, well, ever.

Ash and Huntress by Malinda Lo: Lo’s Ash is a lovely Cinderella retelling in which it is not the prince our heroine falls for, and the fairies are not exactly the godmother sort. Huntress takes place in the same world, but years earlier, when the human and fairy world are both out of alignment, and only an unlikely pair of young sages-in-training can put things back to rights.

The Books of Bayern series by Shannon Hale starts with a rewrite of the fable of the goose girl (The Goose Girl) and then launches into a whole world of adventures from there filled with magic, hard choices, politics, and good friends.

And last but not least, you’ll want the ass-kicking ladies of A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray to be your new best friends. They may be living in a pseudo-Victorian society, but that’s not going to stop Gemma Doyle and her classmates from learning to use their powers and take control of their destiny — whatever it turns out to be.

Perfect summary for Chime. I always have a hard time putting into words why I love it.

To my shame I’ve only read half of these. Sabriel and the Books of Bayern are fantastic though—I think you’d like the Bayern Books Simini, though I was always disappointed that the last book of the series (at least that I read) was only published with a photo-manip cover instead of the lovely little illustrated covers the others had) Sabriel and all that is pretty dark, but the character moments are pretty great and Mogget is the most fantastically precious and terrifying creature you will ever read…

Oh I’ve totally read the Bayern books. They’re great! And Sabriel a long long time ago. I should probably read it again sat some point- I remember nothing but bells and something to do with necromancy…

(Reblogged from yahighway)