"This is my last love letter to you."

"You liked me best when I was like an oil painting; perfectly arranged and silent." -S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

[dauntlessbooks]

(Just realized i mispelled function but whatever lol) I'm pulling my book tumblr out of retirement. It's been 11 years. I was around 15 when I started this account, and im now 26, so a reintroduction is needed ✨️

Yes, I still love reading and writing (so much that I'm a library assistant now)

I love retro tech and collecting ereaders.

My favorite book genres are paranormal, romance, horrors & fantasy. I love reading about fallen angels.

Crocheting is my biggest hobby.

I watch too much reality television.

Please feel free to introduce yourself

🩷🪽

[mossworth]

Guys, queers. Specifically my fellow queers.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

This isn't a vague post, there's no one person I'm hinting at or calling out. I'm not even talking directly to anyone who's directly in my line of sight. I just want everyone to hear this. Big library, small library, whatever. Doesn't matter. Please, we cannot be losing our shelf visibility like this.

[mochidoodle]

the good ending ☀️

[dauntlessbooks]

My review for Annie Bot👰‍♀🤖🌟🌟🌟🌟

[dauntlessbooks]

Altoid tin turned into mini bookshelf 📖✨️

[austinkleon]

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom. Like art.”

— Toni Morrison

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

there's no greater betrayal than finally starting to read a book you've had sitting for months on your shelf or your desk or your nightstand and then finding out it's bad. like. i gave you a fucking home.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Nosferatu, digital illustration by Helgean

[trabantenstadt]

nana by ai yazawa

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Who did you pray to? God or the devil? To the one…who will help by Andromeda on ArtStation

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Sorrow by Demiurge Ash

[fandomsclashing]

↖ this person wants books for christmas

[thefiveboys241229131]

Even the camera zooms in on Harry like “check out that body.”

[quotes-shape-us]

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

Hilaire Belloc (via quotes-shape-us)

[thescorchtrialsnews]

THE MAZE RUNNER - Official Trailer #2

[dauntlessbooks]

"Did you follow me here?"

"Something like that."

I let out a frustrated groan. "Can't anyone just talk to me straight? Why is everyone avoiding my damn questions tonight?" 

Bishop's brows went up. "Okay, fine. Yes, I followed you here. Better?" 

"Yes. Stalkery, but better." 

"I'm not stalking you."

"Spoken like a true stalker." 

--- Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowen 

[dauntlessbooks]

"I'm done with him. But..." She rubbed her temples. "My brain is going to explode just thinking about this." 

"Let's hope not."

"I don't want to be with him anymore, but I don't want him to be with anyone else. Does that make some kind of bizarre, psycho ex-girlfriend kind of sense? 

--Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowen