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@bodylikefoam
There is no bigger ick than when a man tries to flirt with me.
Here I thought we were having a normal, intelligent conversation and all of a sudden you want to know if I’m free for drinks later??
Absolutely not. No. Actually, I’m gonna go read faerie smut in bed, but thanks anyway.
Hour four of overthinking:
The dots all just connected into a borderline worst case scenario picture, but at this point I’m so numb to the issue that all I can do is sit here in slightly horrified shock and marvel at my own deductive and analytical capabilities.
Hope everyone’s having a lovely evening.
Pretty Saturdays🌾
Hello I am here to shout out an INCREDIBLY under appreciated series for anyone who enjoys mlm romance or just a darn good book!
The Gives Light series is SO. FXCJIN. GOOD. No you don’t understand. It better than you’re thinking. It’s by Rose Christo and it’s a colorful, evocative series with beautiful characters that just draws you in immediately.
The backstory is tough. The main character, Skylar, has been mute since the age of 5, when he was injured the same night his mother was murdered. At the beginning of the book, Skylar’s dad goes missing, so Skylar goes to live with his grandma on a reservation in Arizona. Spoiler alert (but not really lol) he meets a mAns there named Rafael, and Gives Light is a story is about their love, and about Skylar connecting with his roots and finding a community and a “voice” if you will, all while looking for his dad and coming to terms with the death of his mother. The friends Skylar makes and the descriptions of nature and creativity and community are top tier, along with the fact that the story is a beautifully paced romance with pretty much everything you could want from a slow burn.
Gives Light is the first book in a six part series (all of which are incredible, and the latter books are a really sobering portrait of the Native foster care crisis as well), and the fifth book (Lending Light) is a retelling of Gives Light from Rafael’s perspective. Lending Light is, I think, my favorite book in the series because I just. Rafael’s character is one of my favorite characters ever. He is so hurt and so scared, but loves more deeply than almost any character I can think of, and has both an incredibly beautiful imagination as well and legitimately being magic. Think very Ronan Lynch vibes, for anyone who’s as big a piece of trc trash as I am.
Trigger warnings: It’s notable that pre cannon, Skylar’s mother was murdered by a serial killer on the reservation, and that the implications of grief and generational trauma from this event are very present themes in the book. There aren’t graphic descriptions of violence, (and I have a low tolerance for that sort of thing) but if this sort of theme is a trigger for you, don’t go in blind. There is also discussion of internalized homophobia and some references to homophobic language (also not graphic or very upsetting, but just so you know).
I have some info that I think is relevant to both the op and anyone who wants to read anything by this author, but Rose Christo is a white woman who faked Native heritage to get famous on tumblr and I just did a review on one of her other books featuring Cree people (the tribe she pretended to be, and that I actually am) and a specific historical event, and it's literally one of the worst books I've ever read, & she couldn't go two paragraphs without adding in something offensive or historically or culturally inaccurate. I've noted that Christo also added in culturally & historically inaccurate homophobia to Cree people for the sake of drama. Just from that, I can only assume Christo has similar cultural inaccuracies for other tribes as well.
I'm just giving out this info not to say you can't like this book or Christo's writing, because everyone has different tastes, but rather that I think its relevant to note that Rose Christo is a White woman who racefaked as Native & has essentially exclusively been writing about the historical & intergenerational trauma of Native people and profiting off of that (if not monetarily, then socially/gaining notoriety as an author). And it's especially relevant for THIS book because the Native kids in foster care system is also the lie she was using to say she was Native American before being outed as White, and her publisher dropped her for this. So. Just a heads up if you decide to read anything by her, and I'd be wary of what she writes culturally about Native Americans, because there's a good chance she's careless and is bullshitting a lot of info
Holy shit. Thank you so much for replying on my post. I’m incredibly sorry for promoting something that damaging. I stand 100% corrected and will do far more research going forward before I support work by an author I know nothing about. The original post will be removed from my blog so that the version without your reply has less chance of circulating further. I apologize for putting you in the position of having to correct my ignorance, instead of me doing my due diligence. Thank you again.
Cryptid spotted in a Big Island gas station
Tell me why this was the thing that got me out of bed and into the office this morning.
Just had to carry several grocery bags and a half full coffee cup in from my car. Was struggling to figure out how to make it work, and instead of anything helpful, my brain supplied me with, “you’re a smart little bagel, you’ll figure it out.” So now we know. My preconscious brain thinks I’m a bagel. A smart bagel, sure, but a bagel nonetheless.
My neurodivergent behaviors are typified by ending up on the highway at 2am without realizing I left my apartment, running two reds in a row, and going to four different closed grocery stores before ending up at a Walgreens 30 minutes from home because I had one (1), singular thought indicating that I really, REALLY wanted a mango popsicle.
Me: giggling quietly to myself while I stay in my lane, happily devouring every piece of Gwynriel material I can get my filthy little fangirl hands on
Everyone else: taking the joy out of their own ships while they berate each other in the comments, when they could alternatively be staying in their respective lanes, enjoying whatever they happen to enjoy
Geralt telling Ciri to go stand by Roach
The only common theme in my taste in media is dragons. Everything else is incidental, I just want the flappy arson lizards.
Adam when he goes to college because he misses Chainsaw
THIS LOOKS LIKE A DEATH SCENE AND I’M NOT OKAY
This was my IMMEDIATE thought when I first saw this and now I will live with a pit in my stomach until this fcking book comes out.
Channeling my inner Adam Parrish in order to study for this exam. Here’s the spread from the reading I did earlier! Who knew that out of all the geophysics and programming that I spend most of my time working on, a two hundred level philosophy course would be the thing kicking my ass🥴
Anyone with a good memory!! Pls help me find a fic!! It’s the one set in like medieval times where Adam attends “The Academy” with Ronan and Gansey, and Gansey is the crown prince and Ronan is gonna be his knight captain and Gansey chooses Adam to be his advisor and then they rule the kingdom n stuff. And Ronan does all these jousting matches and always throws the rose he wins for them on the ground, but at the end he gives it to Adam in front of everyone bc they’re in love etc etc. like I literally remember everything about the story EXCEPT the name and I cannot find it and it’s driving me up a wall. Who is she.
Nvmd I found it. Who burns like fire on the rushing sea by asael on ao3. I’m a dumbass and I’m gonna go back to doing my homework now because this professor has absolutely no mercy and continues to assign unbelievable amounts of work while he actively has covid.
Anyone with a good memory!! Pls help me find a fic!! It’s the one set in like medieval times where Adam attends “The Academy” with Ronan and Gansey, and Gansey is the crown prince and Ronan is gonna be his knight captain and Gansey chooses Adam to be his advisor and then they rule the kingdom n stuff. And Ronan does all these jousting matches and always throws the rose he wins for them on the ground, but at the end he gives it to Adam in front of everyone bc they’re in love etc etc. like I literally remember everything about the story EXCEPT the name and I cannot find it and it’s driving me up a wall. Who is she.
Thing about Richard Gansey III I cannot and will not ever get over: his friends’ happiness is literally the most important thing in his world. His whole heart and soul depend on his friends being okay and being loved and being happy. And if that isn’t just the prettiest thing that ever there was, then I don’t know what is.
