Finding the Beauty in Things

Just a round up of things I enjoy! If you're looking for something a little more focused, check out my other blog on all things bookish found under iwontfixthislater.

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Got my book, some coffee, and a comfy spot. Finally ready to start #booktubeathon day 2.

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Got my book, some coffee, and a comfy spot. Finally ready to start #booktubeathon day 2.

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Got my book, some coffee, and a comfy spot. Finally ready to start #booktubeathon day 2.

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Got my book, some coffee, and a comfy spot. Finally ready to start #booktubeathon day 2.

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Got my book, some coffee, and a comfy spot. Finally ready to start #booktubeathon day 2.

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Got my book, some coffee, and a comfy spot. Finally ready to start #booktubeathon day 2.

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Got my book, some coffee, and a comfy spot. Finally ready to start #booktubeathon day 2.

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Booktube-A-Thon 2018 is HERE!!!

Well at least the challenges are. Booktube-a-thon officially arrives on July 30th and stays through August 5th. Just a couple weeks away!

Anyone else excited!?

Challenges and TBR to come!

[rouge-moka]

Who wants a surprise feels trip ? :3

also, me testing brushes settings

[fearlessly-fictional]

just a friendly reminder to all of those who cannot always afford the audiobook or book that they want to read next that Overdrive is a free app where you can borrow digital copies and audiobooks from your local library through your phone. 

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When you keep trying to read during a reading slump:

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Oh Reading Slump, why are you so cruel?

[beffalumps]

Take A Break tbqh

I’m 99% sure this has been done before but oh well

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The Middle Finger

Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.

Ezra: You're taping this, right?

Interviewer: Audio only. Camera is faulty.

Ezra: Okay, well for the benefit of the sight-impaired, I am now raising my… oh, dear… yes, it's my MIDDLE finger at Mr. Postgrad here.

Interviewer: Mr. Mason...

Ezra: Now I'm wiggling it.

Interviewer: Terminating interview at 13:58 on 03/19/75.

Ezra: Look at it wiggl-

-audio ends-

[thehalliwellhumor]

Anonymous asked: Favorite Charmed One? ➜ Paige Matthews

I choose to be a witch. I could’ve walked away. But I didn’t.

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

Coming out of a long reading slump like

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‘Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. 'I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That’s not fair!“

The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan (via iwontfixthislater)

[dainesanddaffodils]

One of my favorite phrases my Creative Writing professor had for when you’re writing fantasy is ‘giving your story a Flux Capacitor’.

Because it’s not real, it doesn’t exist. But the way it’s thrown into Back to the Future, at no point does it throw the audience off or suspend any more disbelief than time travel would. You believe Doc when he says he created the Flux Capacitor - the thing that makes time travel possible, because the universe never questions him. 

So it essentially means like, there are going to be elements to your universe that are just not gonna make any sense, even if you set up a whole system based on it. And the only way to make it work is completely own it. You cannot second-guess your system or else the reader will too. You can give it the strangest explanation, but write it like you own it.  

[words-writ-in-starlight]

Either you’ve got to follow the rules of reality and physics and shit TO THE LETTER, or you have to say “naaaaaah” and fuck off with your magic/sci-fi/whatever to have a marvelous garden party where reality isn’t invited.

[ladyhallen94]

this is the most lovely thing I have read in a while. 

Bullshit like a professional.

[redd617]

My favorite was actually from one of my high school English teachers. “First rule in writing: There are no rules.” 

For the next several lessons, whether we were writing stories or different types of poems, I bent the rules he gave us. Until it came time to write a haiku. I hate haikus as much as Percy hates Apollo’s poems. I completely destroyed the syllables rule. I ended up with a one page, non-rhyming poem about some movie I watched. “You’ve aced every writing assignment so far, what the hell is this crap? It’s not even about nature!” “First rule when writing, there are no rules.” “Dammit. Fine, you get an A.”