Legi Me, Ergo Sum

Happiness is found between the pages of books and I'm very, very, happy <3

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also seriously if a character isn’t white, i promise your only descriptive options aren’t food words and varying degrees of tan. it’s okay to say brown. pale brown! light brown! golden brown! medium brown! dark brown! deep brown! so many kinds of brown!

BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN

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#brown is not a bad word #you do not need euphemisms #B R O W N

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This post by writingwithcolor might help in picking good words to use plus reading about why not to use food words! In general if you’re writing a character of color I highly recommend @writingwithcolor

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Thank you!

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Good ol messy pile o’ books i didn’t exactly need but still bought anyways cos deals

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02/19/2019–Hey everyone! I just want to share with you the stationaries I freshly bought. I got 4 packs of these 4-in-1 notebooks with black pages and a black blank journal with pages that are perfect for watercoloring.

The little ones don’t fit my traveler’s notebook perfectly but they are perfect for note-taking on the go, like Field Notes. And I’m so excited to try the huge black one so I’m looking forward to document my travel experiences with it.

Some news about my reading: I just finished Beyond The Chocolate War and oh my! What an awesome story! I gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 rating on Goodreads.

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06.03.19 || home is where the heart goes quiet || finally spending some time at my parent’s house. Life has been busy lately and i didn’t even notice how much i missed this place.

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[student-succulent]

It’s a fantasy kind of day….

Feat my current read: Nightblade by Garrett Robinson

[chippedfiction]

The Raven Cycle

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happy fall equinox!

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review | instagram | goodreads | twitter

My co-blogger was expecting great things from An Enchantment of Ravens thanks to the hype. She didn’t quite love it as much as she thought she would, but still it got 4 stars! Check out her full thoughts at readers in wonderland.

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By: Julia | cosinusoid

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By: Anna | imjustahuman

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i really really mean it please write muslim characters, it’s really not that daunting literally all you have to do is throw in a few casual qualities.

have them squint uncertainly at the meat options in a restaurant and ask if there’s pork in the sandwich. have them mention on the phone “oh, i’m gonna stop by the mosque first for prayer but i’ll be there soon.” have your hijabi girls squeal over cute scarves in mall store windows and swoon over sparkly pins. have them kindly reject a glass of water and say “oh, i’m fasting today.”

just don’t make their religion their only defining aspect. like??

for most women, wearing hijab is about as casual as wearing a shirt or pants. give me a badass woman on a mission to save the world just like you’d write literally any other badass woman on a mission to save the world— this one just happens to keep her hair in a headscarf and is careful not to eat certain foods?

and not all muslim women wear scarves, a lot of them just choose not to or they decide not right now but they’ll do it later? like, give me a girl who’s absolutely determined to break a world record and halfway through the story she shows up in a headscarf for the first time and it’s no big deal. 

give me a kid who’s on the search for an ancient magical artifact and also they get anxious at some point cause they’re busy but prayer’s gonna start soon and they don’t wanna miss it. have them whip out their phone and search for the nearest mosque. have them find some quiet place to pray alone, like in the corner of a hotel room they just booked while their travel companion’s watching TV with the volume turned down low.

just?? do a bit of research (when are the prayer times, when is ramadan, what are halal foods, mosques in texas, etc.) and write!!! muslim!!! characters!!!

[mevaughan]

A pot of quality tea with a bunch of gentlemanly bastards.

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|| 02.12.17 || found a cozy bookstore in my new little town

[becomingomnilegent]

1/1/18: New Year, New Books

I got these two lovely books for Christmas, and now I have the book to match the pin from Nerdy Post! Can’t wait to read them 📚

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Today an elderly couple came into the store and bought $150 worth of books, and the man carried the bag and offered his wife his arm and told me their favorite thing to do is read together and basically this is exactly what I want to be doing at age 80