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[thetimetofightisnow]

I’m working on fiction stories that deal with illness/the body/medicine/care. I’m looking for ANONYMOUS first hand stories that I can use to learn more about experiences that I am not familiar with. So I’ve made a Google form where you can submit stories.

You can be vague and skip any question you want to! I would really appreciate the help, as I think I can learn more about the experiences this way vs. reading about symptoms on WebMD. Thanks!! <3

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1elRjfcnpX_VQCMEzar5rhg-kDCtF5Yn4okETeWbUbB4

[kissingonconey]

Please share this so that this writer can get more info! 

[bookishbloomsbury]

Netflix Genres for Books

witty fairy tale re-tellings with a feminist twist

dystopians with lots of death 

fantasy novels featuring wolves-in-snow 

loners-becoming-friends-until-tragedy-strikes books 

quirky contemporary romances starring anti-manic-pixie-dream-girls 

understated love stories where characters discover themselves

Kirkus-acclaimed tear-jerkers about boys and their dads 

paranormal stories with truly emotional monsters   

[thedsgnblog]

Digital Collage Experiments by Viet Huynh

“An experiment through scanned images. Created purely for visual.”

Viet Huynh is a Saigon-born designer currently based in San Francisco, CA. He is a pixel fabricator, cat enthusiast and dope suits advocate who is focused on graphic design, typography and illustration.

[sayyyestoheaven]

get to know me challenge [1/10] books > The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[bookishbloomsbury]

As a writer of color, I feel a certain pressure to write characters of color, and to write the stories that the world “needs.” This can be burdensome at times. I want to write characters of color, for sure, but I’m not convinced that all these books need to deal with Race with a capital R, as if the only purpose black characters serve in literature is to enlighten readers about our complicated racial history.

Kekla Magoon, on her diversity, being a writer of color, and her new middle grade novel Shadows of Sherwood (via behindthebloom)

[milkbarista]

rebirth (we are all made of stars)

[slufoot]

[wordsnquotes]

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Marilynne Robinson (via myfotolog)

[kissingonconey]

The Signs as YA Tropes

Aries: Has the exact power for this exact moment to save the plot

Taurus: The innocent who deserves to live forever (but fate won’t allow it)

Gemini: Grayest of the grays since they themselves don’t quite know what side they’re on

Cancer: The grouch who somehow finds love interests to fawn over them

Leo: The chosen one who likes to point out the burden on their shoulders

Virgo: Thousand-year-old faerie who still looks hot and seventeen

Libra: Elusive, grey-bearded wise magic man who disappears at crucial plot points

Scorpio: Secondary, but cuter and cooler, love interest who probably ends up with someone better post-series anyway

Sagittarius: Accidental leader of the revolution against the dystopian totalitarian world

Capricorn: Super genius who thinks pointing out flaws is cute

Aquarius: Secret royal who, despite having no normal human contact for years, is a perfect ruler

Pisces: Brown haired, brown eyed, journal-writer who hides behind their hair

[word-stuck]

[bookishbloomsbury]

We’re prepared for when books take over the world

[kissingonconey]

This is what I do at work. 

[minoritiesinpublishing]

We have to understand that the makeup of the publishing industry and the gatekeepers is hugely white. It’s very easy to talk about racism in the past tense. It’s very difficult to talk about racism in the future, because as we can see in most dystopians on our bookshelves, the future is whitewashed and there are no people of color. If there’s a character of color, it’s usually a sidekick or punchline. Racism is never discussed. Fantasy is supposed to be ‘apolitical'—which really means ‘Toeing the line of mainstream white culture.’ There’s no apolitical book. And fantasy especially has always been a deeply political genre. It’s been entrenched in white power, colonialism, and defending this idea of empire instead of telling counter-narratives. But kids deal with racism all the time, which means that children’s and YA literature needs to deal with racism in all levels, not just the segregation of the south.

Daniel José

Older, in Q&A with School Library Journal

(via minoritiesinpublishing)

[agirlsrighttodream-deactivated2]

[maxkirin]

I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

Elmore Leonard (via maxkirin)

[kissingonconey]

If they were going to kill Myrcella, why the fuck did they recast her? 

[wildthicket]

[kissingonconey]

“What would it have been like, to lie symmetrically dead to your lover, but far across the river?” 

Personal essay by me, published 6/15/15.