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[aquacademic]

Respect tastes better than attention.

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[heypumnut]

[thetudorslovers]

He raised his head. Judas's whole body was bent over him.

“Judas, my brother,” he said, “lie down next to me. The Lord will come in the form of sleep and carry us away. Tomorrow, God willing, we'll start off bright and early to find the prophet of Judea, and whatever God desires, that is what will take place. I am ready.”

“I am ready too,” said Judas, and they lay down, one next to the other.

They both must have been extremely tired, for they slept instantaneously, and the next morning at dawn, Andrew, who was the first to awake, found them fast asleep in each other's arms.

[justnoxfox]

"Nothing left to pray, we were the sin, what's left from god. What once had wings was taught to walk."

[ineedfairypee]

Another one 📚

[ofallingstar]

List of books I read in 2025

Want: Sexual Fantasies. Submitted by Anonymous, collected by Gillian Anderson

Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

Blue Is the Warmest Color by Jul Maroh

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

Sonnets of Dark Love by Federico García Lorca

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó. Tuama

The Secret Place by Tana French

Amongst Women by John McGahern

The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

Weyward by Emilia Hart

Old Monarch: Poems by Courtney Marie Andrews

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

The Trouble With Being Born by Emil M. Cioran

Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

Stealing: A Novel by Margaret Verble

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson

Ekaterina by Donald Harington

Vagabond: A Memoir by Tim Curry

Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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[seaglasswrites]

Just finished reading The Ink Black Heart and I love the attention to detail paid to Strike’s leg. So many creators, whether they be authors, artists, or showrunners, treat prosthetics as one-to-one replacements for limbs that function like normal body parts do, but the reality is that they come with their own set of problems, and Galbraith not only mentions this throughout the book, but actually incorporates it into the plot.

Strike has to choose between dedicating more time to tailing suspects and letting his stump rest and heal, and you as the reader are genuinely conflicted because neither option is perfect. I don’t have prosthetics but I do have a bad leg in real life, and I found it very well-written.