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[dreamofthestars]

jade city (fonda lee)

“The clan is my blood and the Pillar is its master,” she whispered. “I have a lot of regrets in life, but those oaths aren’t one of them.”

[queensinchains]

@fantasysociety​ game 04 | colours | su daji

but beauty without youth was dangerous. 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.

[kitconnor]

@sanktalina’s edit exchange — happy valentine’s day @walkerrenee !

romajuliette from these violent delights by @chloegong.

Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora's box amongst misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn't have ghastly claws of its own?

[helloeurydice]

Books i read this year:

Jade City by Fonda Lee

[lunaathorne]

books read in 2020: the ghost bride by yangsze choo (★★★★☆)

"I have trespassed where no living person ought to have. I have spoken with the dead, served in their houses and eaten spirit offerings. My two worlds overlap like distorted pieces of glass."

[decxlcomanie]

“Sring Venka was a prim, spoiled Sinegardian princess turned lethal soldier turned brittle survivor; of course she’d walk into a war zone with red paint on her lips simply because she felt like it.”

- R. F. Kuang, The Burning God

[hennawar]

@asianlitnet event 03: places — the hidden palace

It stuns me how vast the palace is. Not just a palace really, but a city—a labyrinth of streets, courtyards, and gardens, like the veins and arteries flowing through a giant creature with the King nestled at its core, its own living beating heart.

[asianlitnet]

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