the language of the stars

I make moodboards! - they/them - sideblog to @carpe-astrae rarely posting here because I'm tired

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read in 2026 - When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

“That kind of sacrifice creates a debt, and there’s nothing magic likes better than the great hollow of a debt.”

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read in 2026 - Thorn Hedge by T. Kingfisher

“She was neither beautiful nor made of malice, as many of the Fair Folk are said to be. Mostly she was fretful and often tired.”

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currently reading - Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman

“If we get to the point where we don’t help each other anymore, that’s when we stop being human.”

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read in 2026 - The Diviners by Libba Bray

Rating: 4/5

“People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.”

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read in 2025 - Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Rating: 4/5 stars

"We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we."

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read in 2025 - The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe

Rating: 4/5

"Nature, uncontaminated by false refinement, every where acts alike in the great occurrences of life."

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read in 2025 - The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

Rating: 5/5

“Always they had been portioning out fragments of the bog’s life in exchange for fragments of their own.”

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read in 2025 - Sirens and Muses by Antonia Angress

Rating: 3/5

“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself.”

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watched in 2025 - KPop Demon Hunters

Rating: 4/5

"This is a battle for hearts and minds. A battle for the fans."

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watched in 2025 - The Royal Tenenbaums, dir. Wes Anderson

Rating: 4.5/5

"Royal Tenenbaum bought the house on Archer Avenue in the winter of his 35th year. Over the next decade, he and his wife had three children, and then they separated."

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read in 2025 - Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Rating: 3/5

“Girls hunger. And we’re taught, from the moment our brains can take it, that there isn’t enough food for us all.”

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favorite books read in 2024 - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

“Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.”

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favorite books read in 2024 - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”

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favorite books read in 2024 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

"On the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”

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currently reading ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”

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OC Moodboard - Cayn of Novigrad (The Witcher)

I don't think this'll get any attention, but I made it just for fun so I don't mind :)

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currently reading - Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”