Red Queen of Bookland

all but deactivated instagram ~ goodreads

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eh, you know you're still fundamentally the same person when you find stuff like this hilarious

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This just gets funnier the longer I stare at it.

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CAN’T STOP LAUGHING , SO DONE

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I will never not reblog this

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while i'm reblogging old posts (under the pretense of 'cleaning out the archives and deleting')... this tumblr is just all of the things from my teenage years

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x

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& four years later, they reunited for a Covid-19 special on HBO Max

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The McNally Jackson Cafe in NYC

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logged on for the first time in years intending to clean up + deactivate this account and stumbled across this reblog from back in 2016. back then i filed it under ‘wishful thinking.’ six years later and i've lived in new york city and taken my own pictures of this very ceiling and wall in person.

mcnally jackson also has the BEST airport bookstore if you're ever looking to feel better about flying out of laguardia.

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Things I miss most about New York? Reading on the subway.

Image (c) @booksandbarker/booksandbark/redqueenofbookland

Book pictured: A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin

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Alabaster Bookshop

122 4th Avenue, New York, NY

One of my favorite places in Manhattan, right around the corner from The Strand!

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The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.

Richard Price (via redqueenofbookland)

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Reading In The Woods in the (Central Park) woods? I love Tana French’s writing and I can’t wait to start reading The Likeness!

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The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.

Richard Price (via redqueenofbookland)

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Best writing advice ever!

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Honestly, this is why I love Alice. And she’s my writing hero/role model.

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Who is this person and does she have more of these helpful, motivating messages?

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Since someone deleted my caption: This is alice oseman (found on @chronicintrovert) shes amazing and wonderful and very communicative with her fans and stuff

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omg this is still going round!!!!! niceeeee

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Alice I love your accent like I haven’t even heard it but I can see it in the GIFset and it’s beautiful.

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*curtsies* Hi! long story short, i'm a 16 year old high school student and im so afraid of the future because i have no idea what i want to do, but i know that i want to see the world and travel. im very overwhelmed about trying to figure out life. your life seems wonderful to me so i was wondering if you had any thoughts? thanks

*Curtsies* Two big pieces of advice:

Don’t worry too much about the future right now. The future will always seem scary and trying to predict it is as futile as it is stressful. If I have learned nothing since age sixteen, I have learned that freaking out about what may or may not happen five years down the road is a huge waste of time and energy. Chillax. You’re gonna be fine.

Do stuff you want to do. Traveling and seeing the world are awesome goals. Want to do that? Talk to your high school counselors about study abroad, language programs, volunteer trips, etc. There are scholarships for all of those things. Not ready to do that on your own? Work on your foreign language skills, geography, history, all of the things that will help you figure out where you want to go for study abroad in college or whatever. Read. Join clubs. Play sports. Try shit. Life is so much less scary when you spend the time you could spend worrying about What to Do Next pursuing stuff that interests you instead. That’s how you find a passion or career or ideas or just fuckin’ hobbies. You have so many options. Don’t be scared. Be excited. The world is your oyster.

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Pet Fox Becomes Best Friends With A Dog.

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Real life Todd and Copper. Only with a better ending.

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Adorable!!!!

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concept: a TV show runs for a decent number of years. More than four. The characterizations stay consistent. The writers don’t do anything wildly inappropriate like excuse rape or abuse. No one you’ve invested hours upon hours of your life into has their story reduced to a “shocking” death scene that has no meaning beyond that shock value. The quality of the storylines don’t take a sudden, strange spiral downward. When it ends, you leave it feeling bittersweet. Sad that it’s over, but glad you got to experience it and take a journey with some people who you came to care about.

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This exists it’s called The West Wing and it is perfection.

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My goal in life is to be as much of a nerd as Jed Bartlet.

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The McNally Jackson Cafe in NYC