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struggle pretty -> by thesehands Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander | E | 19k

Ilya locked his arm around Shane’s throat and drew him up onto his knees. The hold was snug, a real headlock, the kind that would make most men tap out. Shane didn’t tap out, but he stayed very still. His pulse galloped against the juncture of Ilya’s elbow, powerfully enough that Ilya could feel its insistent throbbing. Everything in the room had been pulled taut—the cord of Ilya’s shoulders, the line of Shane’s back, even the air between them had a rigidity to it. Ilya was breathing heavily, panting open-mouthed against Shane’s sweat-damp temple. “I could fuck you like this,” Ilya said. “I could fuck you right now, like this, not let you breathe, not let you come.”

virginiadre

"I was a soldier once. A bad soldier."

'The Warm Hands of Ghosts', {Katherine Arden}

buffonia

Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all.

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THE EMPYREAN: VIOLET SORRENGAIL

I am the sky and the power of every storm that has ever been. I am infinite.

purplebass

2025 books - vicious (villains #1) by ve schwab But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them.

lucysunderground

favorite reads ☆ The Second Death of Locke

“She squeezed his hand. "Never ask me to leave you," she said, voice cracking. "Use my power well. Protect me. It has always been this; it has always been us. Let it be us until the wars end or we find our deaths—whatever comes first.”

purplebass

2024 books - hell bent by leigh bardugo (alex stern #2)

Welcome home. Welcome back. We missed you. I missed you more than I should have, more than I wanted to. I went to hell for you. I’d do it again.

bookshelvesandtealeaves

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE 🏳️‍⚧️

QOTD: What’s your favourite book with a trans MC or by a trans author?

Transgender Day of Remembrance marks the end of Trans Awareness Week so today I’ve got another rec list. We remember trans lives by celebrating trans lives and sharing trans stories

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2025 books - babel by r.f. kuang So, you see, translators do not so much deliver a message as the rewrite the original. And herein lies the difficulty - rewriting is still writing, and writing always reflects the authors ideology and biases.

poppywright

some books i read recently → people we meet on vacation by emily henry

“You asked me who I was, and—it was like the answer came out of nowhere. Sometimes it feels like I didn’t even exist before that. Like you invented me.”

+ how i obviously pictured it: emily bader as poppy wright and tom blyth as alex nilsen

vanilleflwr

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world - THE SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller

inspiredbyabook

blood over bright haven by m.l. wang

truth over delusion. growth over comfort.

bruiselikeviolets

read in 2025: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia

You like a hint of danger, but back home they wrap you in gauze, to keep you from breaking. But you’d like to break, wouldn’t you? You play with people and you wish someone would have the guts to play with you.

durrandon

HIGHGARDEN, The Reach

Highgarden is a castle which serves as the seat of House Tyrell, the regional capital of the Reach, and the heart of chivalry in the Seven Kingdoms. It lies on the Mander where the ocean road meets the roseroad, making it an important crossroads.

alialqahtani

fav books i read in 2025: katabasis - r. f. kuang;

christ, said peter. hell is a campus.

bookshelvesandtealeaves

🩷 LESBIAN BOOKS FOR EVERY READER 🩷

QOTD: What’s your favourite book with a lesbian main character?

It’s lesbian visibility week and that means it’s time to add some lesbian books to your tbr!

No matter your favourite genre, I’ve got you covered with this rec list, so no more excuses for not reading lesbian stories!

Please note that a main character is the character(s) whose POV the story is from, not love interests or other key characters.

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2025 books - the raven boys (the raven cycle, #1) by maggie stiefvater

Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.

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