Fuck Yeah Francesca Lia Block

Francesca Lia Block is the amazing author of Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, Baby Be Bop, Necklace of Kisses, Girl Goddess #9, How to (un)cage a girl, Wasteland, Violet and Claire, Echo, The Rose and the Beast, I was a Teenage Fairy, The Hanged Man, Blood Roses, Quakeland, Open Letter to Quiet Light, Waters and the Wild, Ruby, Ectasia, Primavera, Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur, and many more. Unfortunately, finding her books can be quite the challenge, as she is not the most well-known author and bookstores rarely sell them. However, I've found that those who have gotten a hold of her books are the most interesting, peculiar, and best people ever, so why not make an internet fan page and we can all rejoice in our love for Francesca and her characters? Francesca's Website Francesca's Myspace The people who run this blog: href=http://www.moonghost.tumblr.com/>Sidra (right now it's just me!) rm_f1st('0','220','true','false','000000','6lsoxvzbsfp','true','ff007e');

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Does anyone want this blog?

If not I will be deleting in a couple days, shoot me an ask

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I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.

Francesca Lia Block (via onlinebabe)

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Practicing Telepathy by Bethy Williams

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Friday Playlist: Hanging Out With Weetzie Bat

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Magical Thinking

Books about losing, finding, fantasizing, and escaping. That pretty much covers it.

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You taste better than all the wines. You taste like crystal nectar. And you glow like wine in glass. You cool me out. Our music is our bodies melding and blending, flowing and peaking and ebbing.

Francesca Lia Block, “Ecstasia”

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… And also we’ve done it - the wild love thing. So I feel like I need him to put me back together every night. After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.

Witch Baby - Missing Angel Juan (via horticultures)

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Click through for my relationship with Little Bee by Chris Cleave

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This book binds together five of the six Weetzie Bat books by urban faerietale teller extraordinaire, Francesca Lia Block. 

Weetzie is an outcast teen who wears funky clothes, has deep (and bordering on cultural appropriation) respect for Native American culture, and appreciates every moment of living in Hollywood. She and her best friend, a gay punk named Dirk, spend their time searching for the perfect ducks (their word for desirable male partner). One day, in a little cafe Weetzie frequents, she meets a Genie who grants her three wishes. She wishes for a Duck for Dirk, a My Secret Agent Lover Man for herself, and a cozy cottage for them all to live together in.

Her wishes are granted, and they live happily ever after.

Until Weetzie wants a baby- and this is when it really starts getting questionable. After Secret Agent Lover Man leaves for a while and nests with a creepy purple witch lady, Weetzie, Duck, and Dirk decide to make a baby.

My Secret Agent Lover Man comes back, the baby is named Cherokee (despite the fact that no one in her genetic pool is actually Cherokee), and they live happily ever after again.

Until they find a creepy purple witch baby on their doorstep. Named Lily, but called “Witch Baby,” the rest of the stories that follow are about all of their lives and stuff.

I have a very old, worn copy of this book, and I have a mixed relationship with it.

On the one hand, it helped me become who I am today- when I was in middle school I lived in an awfully conservative small town and this helped me cope. Block’s writing was inspiring and comforting, and helped me create my own worlds to escape to. It’s also made me countless friends.

On the other hand, I have grown up and learned ferociously about racial justice, white privilege, and cultural appropriation, and find Block’s ignorance childish and idealistic. 

But it is a faerie tale, after all.

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I was really into Francesca Lia Block until I realized how much cultural appropriation is in her literature.

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