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[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

[nutmeg-cider]

love and rhetoric contrapuntal

(a rosencrantz and guildenstern poem)

also on ao3

[daweyt]

“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””

—

— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

[thysilus]

me frm 2016 lookin @ me frm 2022

[thysilus]

wh…what?

[thysilus]

BRO??????????????

[thysilus]

u seein this shit, bedroom demon?

[boybeetles]

uterus mysticism is weird to me, besides all the bioessentialism stuff, because like. Dude it’s just an organ. Imagine if we did this to the gallbladder or kidneys.

[boybeetles]

Divine feminine is stored in the appendix actually. appendicitis is just the Virgin Mary trying to break through to you. Never get your appendix removed its mother Mary speaking to you.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Genuinely evil and dark-sided to put the periods between the letters in "milf" and "dilf." Like what is M.I.L.F. that is a supervillain organization composed entirely of cougars. Whoa that's a great idea actually post canceled hold on

[justanotherreadingblog]

I deliberately didn't set a reading goal for 2025 just to see how many books I'd read just because I wanted to and not because I had a target to hit. I ended up finishing 29 books and I'm in the middle of 3 others. Not a bad run I think.

For 2026, I've decided to set qualitative reading goals instead of a target number. I want to read more deeply and more widely, read the books I keep talking about wanting to read and see if slowing down will help me remember more about the books I do read.

If you're on Storygraph, feel free to add me.

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[antigonehappy]

Cafe Talk by Ash Perry

[californiastatelibrary]

No fairy godmother required — just turn the page! This Cinderella pop-up book from our CA History collection brings book magic to life

[saucefunk]

house of leaves poster because i adore this book

[astercontrol]

[layaart]

the usual demographic of the book community is being ignorant again so here's a reminder

[poemwav]

– Jamie Oliveira | from "Erosion"

[thatsbelievable]

[havingapoemwithyou]

The Summer You Learned to Swim by Michael Simms

[heavenspeared]

heavenspeared, from "The starving moon dims and dies"

[incidentalcomics]

What are books to you?

Here’s the landmark essay “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors” by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, written in 1990.

Posters are available to at my shop.

Thanks to the Children's Book Council for featuring "Books Are..." in their Get Caught Reading series.