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Here’s a link to a google sheet of ALL BAIL FUNDS around the country. You can also add missing bail funds here by messaging me!

Please spread this link around!

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ALSO, here’s a comprehensive link to a google doc that includes a compiled list of petitions, resources, ways to get in touch with law officials, resources for international people, all donations, and organizations you can donate to support the black lives matter movement!

#misc #text

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THE WOMEN OF THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE

Why do you always have to go out of your way to hang out with the most off-the-wall people?

#the wind-up bird chronicle #haruki murakami #edit

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what a joke! poor little rich girl’s fallen in love with the republic’s most famous criminal.

for: @sobachka ♡

#legend #marie lu #edit

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@storyseekers event 06 : lost in the woods — where dreams descend

— i’m going into the woods no one dares enter, to the city nobody speaks of.

#where dreams descend #janella angeles #edit

castawaydiva

1.6k celebration: the henna wars requested by @severinsalarie

I guess it’s not that simple to get over someone.

#the henna wars #adiba jaigirdar #edit

juliettecai

@republicsource match 1: get to know the players — favourite motif

+ MAKE ME CHOOSE. @redlen asked — day or june?

perhaps we can take a step forward together.

#legend #marie lu #edit

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you once said you were tired of the horror in the world. well, so am i. we can still find a way to fight it, the right way. we can find a way to do this together.

for: @venka @suyins ♡

#warcross #marie lu #edit

melodramas

@literatureladies mission 04 : antagonists

the empress’s beauty did not require the soft fullness of young lips, the rosy red of young cheeks, the tenderness of young skin. this beauty cut deep, like a sharpened crystal. this beauty was immortal.

#the poppy war #edit #rf kuang

catlaila

I stand at that statue and claim the bodies whose names the world wants to forget. I claim those bodies whose names I was taught to forget. And I claim the unsung bloodlines that soak the ground beneath my feet, because I know, I just know, that if they could, they would claim me.

— LEGENDBORN, TRACY DEONN.

#legendborn #tracy deonn #edit

princekiem

@projectliterature event 01 : 2020 releases — Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson — « You can’t win, but I don’t think this has been about winning for a long time now. These cards, they’re talking about survival, and sometimes to survive, you’ve got to make a move. Even if it might kill you. Recommendation: Play. »

#trouble the saints #alaya dawn johnson

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it’s sort of a shame that people rarely pay attention to self-published SFF, because there are some really nice ones out there? Thinking about the Sword of Kaigen especially, but there are more and their popularity often relies on reader-to-reader recommendation.

Anyway, read The Sword of Kaigen

Japanese inspired setting

it’s a military fantasy, but focuses on the narratives about war rather than a bigger conflict. There are action scenes and duels, but the book is more focused on character studies than on the classic hero tale

it has nuanced and complex family dynamics

there’s elemental magic

the main character is a housewife (with…a sword hidden in her kitchen’s floor). Misaki is one of the best and most complex female characters I’ve read about and her characterisation is just GOOD

it deals with themes of regret and memory

in general, it’s an exploration of humanity and the characters’ arc shows a steady growth throughout the book

it explores propaganda and state-run news outlets as a means to influence public opinion

#the sword of kaigen #ml wang #recs

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reasons why you should read Each Of Us A Desert by Mark Oshiro which came out september 15, 2020

- enemies to reluctant companions to friends to lovers but make it wlw - poetry - gay yearning - it’ll make you question everything you know - AMAZING mythological and spiritual history/writing/references to latinx culture - gay yearning - you’ll cry - coming of age fantasy - did i mention gay yearning

#each of us a desert #mark oshiro #recs