semi-hiatus

you are a star that i cannot keep --- cindy. 21. she/her tracking #usercricket writeblr @herondalelucies

[kagetatsumis]

read shadow of the fox by julie kagawa!

cindy’s back with the ever insistent message that you should read shadow of the fox by julie kagawa! why should you read it?

found family

immersed in beautiful japanese mythology

high-stakes battles that deliver

a non traditional heroine who isn’t a warrior but her growth is really beautiful and she’s strong anyway

slowburn romance it’s the longing

great humor, well developed characters

literally if you’ve followed me this long and have not been interested in seeing tatsumi and yumeko like ??? have you been ignoring my textposts

cindy recommends it !!! fangirl with cindy :)

don’t know what it’s about? here, i’ll paste the synopsis for you so you won’t be too lazy to google it <3

One thousand years ago, the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish—and the land of Iwagoto was plunged into an age of darkness and chaos.

Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted. A new age is about to dawn.

Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her life to hide her yokai nature. Half kitsune, half human, her skill with illusion is matched only by her penchant for mischief. Until the day her home is burned to the ground, her adoptive family is brutally slain and she is forced to flee for her life with the temple’s greatest treasure—one part of the ancient scroll.

There are many who would claim the dragon’s wish for their own. Kage Tatsumi, a mysterious samurai of the Shadow Clan, is one such hunter, under orders to retrieve the scroll…at any cost. Fate brings Kage and Yumeko together. With a promise to lead him to the scroll, an uneasy alliance is formed, offering Yumeko her best hope for survival. But he seeks what she has hidden away, and her deception could ultimately tear them both apart.

With an army of demons at her heels and the unlikeliest of allies at her side, Yumeko’s secrets are more than a matter of life or death. They are the key to the fate of the world itself.

Content and trigger warnings for graphic violence, graphic murder, graphic death, loss of a loved one, physical abuse, threat of rape, talk of suicide (seppuku), war themes, alcohol consumption, and insects (there is a scene with description of spiders, it is chapter 3) 

[kagetatsumis]

i should be allowed to major in creative writing without taking lit classes :pensive: i know that’s illogical and that i can learn a lot from lit, but i hate it and i suck at it and PLEASE i just want to take creative writing courses and write fiction all day every day

[kagetatsumis]

emerging from a cave bc i'm scrolling thru my cindy talks tag for fun and old times but this is so funny to me that i was like this the literal year before the cw program :sob: as someone about to go to grad school for not english, i'll admit i greatly enjoyed the last two years of lit classes and i miss it a lot owo

[wintertundra-art]

how do i get people to like my art help

[jeremy-knox]

2023 books with a-spec characters

i made a list like this one for both 2021 and 2022 during ace week and people seemed to like those posts, so I’m back with a 2023 version! some of these books already have covers and synopses, while some only have a short deal announcement, but I’ve listed the specific rep for the books i could find it for. if you have any additions, feel free to add onto the post. i will update it when i find new releases. i acknowledge that most of the representation listed here is ace spectrum only, but there are a handful of aro-spec characters as well. happy last day of ace week!

a song of salvation by alechia dow (ya scifi, demi mc)

being ace edited by madeline dyer (ya anthology, ace-spec mcs)

bleeding heart by brittany m. willows (ya fantasy, grey-ace mc, demi-aro/demi-ace mc, aro bi mc, sequel to bloody spade)

daughter of wind and twilight by helen corcoran (ya fantasy, wlw demi mc, sequel to queen of coin and whispers)

ethera grave by essa hansen (adult scifi, ace-spec mc, book 3 in a trilogy)

he who drowned the world by shelley parker-chan (adult historical fantasy, sapphic genderqueer ace-spec mc, sequel to she who became the sun)

here goes nothing by emma k. ohland (ya contemporary, wlw ace mc)

how to sell your blood and fall in love by d.n. bryn (mlm grey-ace mc, adult paranormal romance)

just lizzie by karen wilfrid (mg contemporary, ace mc)

love letters for joy by melissa see (ya contemporary, pan ace mc)

planning perfect by haley neil (ya contemporary, ace mc)

reel love  by nilah magruder (mg contemporary, ace mc)

spark of magic by hailey gonzales (ya fantasy, aro bi mc)

the midnight kingdom by tara sim (adult fantasy, ace mc, sequel to the city of dusk)

this dark descent by kalyn josephson (ya fantasy, aroace mc)

two can play at that game by leanne yong (ya contemporary, demi mc)

wren martin ruins it all by amanda dewitt (ya contemporary, mlm ace mc)

you don’t have a shot by racquel marie (ya contemporary, wlw ace mc)

[kagetatsumis]

“Some say the heavens dictate the rise and fall of empires. Clearly, those peasants have never met me.”

—STRIKE THE ZITHER, Joan He

[kagetatsumis]

and what if i started making graphics again, then what?

[parisakamali]

happy birthday, annabeth chase!

she was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. go figure.

[kagetatsumis]

CINDY!!! hello it's been a hot second how're u doing! <333

michelle!!!! omg it's been super long i've been doing all right! just trying to survive uni like always haha ,, i've also seemed to have disappeared from tumblr and moved to my (writing) twitter but i'm always on discord for if you wanna chat hehe

how are you doing !! you def should keep tagging me in edits you make bc your edits are always so gorgeous <3 i check, er, kinda rarely but i do pop on tumblr once in awhile so i'll try to check that more often too owo

[notchainedtotrauma]

The Buffalo shooting occurred in a food desert. That was the main groceries store and it’ll be closed for quite some time. So here is one concrete thing we can do to help and that’s donating to the link below:

Buffalo Community Fridges

There’s a Twitter thread breaking it down

[simplymarleycat]

Updated as BCF is no longer taking donations and asking for donations to other groups such as Black Love Resists in the Rust (I fundraised for them through 2020 Bakers Against Racism) and Rooted In Love.

[charleslecunt]

Meet Our Criminals – The Crows of Shadow and Bone as a Magazine Editorial Spread

[sashantonovas]

books read in 2021: portrait of a thief by grace d. li

Each member of his crew has their own complicated relationship with China and the identity they’ve cultivated as Chinese Americans, but when Will asks, none of them can turn him down.

Because if they succeed? They earn fifty million dollars—and a chance to make history. But if they fail, it will mean not just the loss of everything they’ve dreamed for themselves but yet another thwarted attempt to take back what colonialism has stolen.

[haniishu]

@litofcolournet event 1: characters of colour — zoya nazyalensky

❝ zoya of the lost city. zoya of the garden. zoya bleeding in the snow. you are strong enough to survive the fall.❞ 

[sitpwgs]

@storyseekers event 23: nostalgia/childhood favorites

you laugh at me when i say i want to be a lady, but i mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and i try to do it as far as i know how. i can’t explain exactly, but i want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women. i’m far from it now, but i do my best, and hope in time to be what mother is.

happy birthday, @amycurtismarchs 🤍

[sitpwgs]

“more than anything, the journal wanted. it wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. there was something pained and melancholy about it.”

happy birthday, @selwynkane 🤍

[acotars]

Books read in 2021:

Ingredients: First, add unresolved tension with one Jack Campbell, who is either out sick or out participating in the Senior Skip Day shenanigans. Mix in nearly twenty-four hours without contact from Wolf, two seconds after essentially baring my soul to him by showing him the thing I am most proud of in this entire world. Add what is proving to be the most awkward hangout with Landon and a large group of incredibly drunk teenagers on the face of the earth. Add chocolate chips, butter, flour, salt, cocoa powder, eggs, and more embarrassment than the body of a teenage girl can possibly contain, set the oven to a bajillion degrees, and set the whole damn thing on fire. 

TWEET CUTE by Emma Lord ★★★★½

[kagetatsumis]

what app do you use to edit ?

hello! i use photoshop to edit

[aubrey-plaza]

spotify wrapped is out and everybody is always posting their top 5 songs….. let’s see some love for number 6 that didn’t make the cut. rb and add your number 6