girl of pages

hi! i love to write and read books. this is my sideblog where i hyperfixate on literally anything in that regard. feel free to chat me up about all things literary.

[writing-prompt-s]

You once made a promise to yourself: if you ever met a time traveler, it wouldn't be a big deal. You’d tell them the date, the most important political conflict, a recent technology, and send them on their way. You now encounter a time traveler nearly every week.

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[stories-by-hails]

For anyone who needs this

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!

[heywriters]

If you want to write a dumb little story with a dumb little plot and ridiculously silly characters. No one's stopping you. Genuinely, no one should be allowed to stop you. Write that dumb story with your whole heart and don't hold back.

[hurleyqurn]

““Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.””

—  Sarah MacLean, One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (via herondales)

[solitairians]

look i dislike the corporate artyle book cover trend as much as the next person but we cant pretend every book looking the same is something new. if you stepped into a bookstore in 2013 there would be approximately 57 books whose cover art consisted of a girl in a ballgown with her back half-turned to the camera photoshopped into a vaguely fantasy-like landscape. i was 11 years old fighting for my life to find the right maximalistic girl and her single-adjective book title we cannot forget the horrors i went through please be respectful of my experiences

[solitairians]

the guardian angels of preteen girls........

[angelsaxis]

I love when information revealed at the end of a story recontextualizes something said or done at the beginning. Like yes queen make the story a loop let the story keep developing even though the book is closed and the credits are rolling. The story never ends it just starts over.

[louisegluckpdf]

tag yourself: children’s series that aren’t Harry Potter edition

[nikswonderland]

blue & beige tones in france

[cheruib]

i hope march lands softly like a bird on your shoulder and sings the sweetest song for you i hope its light drenches your soul i hope it leaves you stunned by its tenderness and more hopeful than ever

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[fakelavender]

some weeks from february last year in my journal

[pie-notcake]

i know that it's so much easier to just admit to yourself that you're irredeemable, but from that line of thought isn't it just as easy for it to become a self-fulfilling prophecy??

[heartwasglass]

anaïs nin

[only-tiktoks]

[royalpumpkinplanet]

[hxgrl]

I don't Think ive seen anyone on here talking abt some US states forcing teachers to remove all books from their classrooms and force them to only have pre-vetted books available or else face possible JAIL TIME ???

[hxgrl]

Not to sound like a twitter user but why aren't people talking about this omg

[hxgrl]

(link to this cnn article) ^

Please note the third degree felony???

(link to this tweet) ^

Also lots of articles if you search "Florida book ban" or smth similar online. I'm just shocked I've not seen much about this, maybe people don't know it's happening??

[slowtovvn]

If you're not completely plugged in Ron DeSantis, the governor doing this, is the republican front runner for president next year.

[slowtovvn]

The bill is HB 1467 and you can read the whole thing there if you want but long story short. Every schoolboard/librarian/teacher is liable for the media in the school. It must be approved, cataloged, and posted publicly so that any parent (or adult in that county) can dispute a book on the bounds that it "...contains content that is pornographic... is not suited to student needs... or is inappropriate for the grade level..."

If that sounds vague.... yeah. It's supposed to be. This will be a tool they'll use to bludgeon anything they don't like. And again. ANY adult in the county can claim they don't like a book for whatever reason. Those reports will be reviewed by a committee and will be spread to other schools to follow suit.

So what we see here is a lot of teachers/schools pulling books preemptively while catalogs are made so they can't be held liable for them later.

[mostlyghostie]

Finished my last outstanding commission- it’s been a pleasingly busy week!

I feel like I need to read more Austen now that my daily lunchtime walk goes past the last house she lived in, which happens to be next to a very nice bookshop..

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