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[ewanmitchels]

she bent most of the rules. she broke the rest.

[sitpwgs]

someone needs to tell those tales. when the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. there's magic in that. it's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. from the mundane to the profound. you may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. that tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. that is your role, your gift. your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all.

happy birthday, @southerland​ 🤍 

[jeremy-knox]

@storyseekers event 21: minimalist — iron widow by @xiranjayzhao

“How do you take the fight out of half the population and render them willing slaves? You tell them they're meant to do nothing but serve from the minute they're born. You tell them they're weak. You tell them they're prey. You tell them over and over, until it's the only truth they're capable of living.”

[lanzhans]

@storyseekers event 18: 2021 debut — honey girl by morgan rogers

“sometimes i wish," she starts, staring blankly out at the road in front of them, "i didn't have to have everything figured out. i wish i could turn off the part of my brain that needs perfectly executed plans, you know?”

[aaronstveit]

@storyseekers event 15: a character that i relate to poppy wright from people we meet on vacation by emily henry

The fear lessened, but the feeling never went away. Every once in a while, I’d roll it back out, poke at it. Wonder how I could ever stop feeling lonely when no one could ever know me all the way. When I could never peer into someone else’s brain and see it all.

[alexsguitar]

@storyseekers event 15: character that i relate to — Holden Caulfield

— “People never think anything is anything really. I’m getting goddamn sick of it.”

[ insp. ]

[elwinged]

"You know I love chaos," Nora tells him serenely.

for @antinomes

want one?

[augustsjanes]

@literatureladies mission 06: gift exchange, for @mydearldydisdain ♡ — THE NIGHT CIRCUS.

↳  you think, as you walk away from le cirque des rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. you are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.