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reading alone in your room at sunset with your windows open in summer while the wind caresses your skin is probably the closest thing we have to a cure for the human condition
Hi, I started a side blog called @reigemerystuff!
It's a personal blog that features some of my original poetry and other fandom-related content.
You can check out the intro here and the blog faq here.
Ello just passing spreading love ❤️🍓
hi flaym! thank you for dropping by, have a great day! ❤️🍓
Please Reblog is Your Blog is Safe for Non-Binary People.
If my mutuals can’t rb this then we can’t be mutuals
I want you to know BLACK LIVES MATTER.
That just because I’m a different poc doesn’t mean your problem isn’t my problem. Injustice happening to my African American community, Asian, Muslim, Palestinians. Any injustice to you is an injustice for pocs. And people really hate that my account isn’t about just one social injustice.
I will forever advocate and support anyone that faced unfairness, discrimination, and straight hate for being who they are.
I support our trans community, I support the lgbtq+, I support poc businesses. And fight against injustice. Fight against sexism, fight against discrimination, fight against racism, and a fight against child abuse.
I come from a very hateful home, I experienced most of everything that I fight against. And if I didn’t experience it myself I witness it first hand happening to another.
The people who want us angry, bitter and revengeful are the same people who will have us against each other and ask the question “what has _____ community done for you??” Or “Your community is so racist how could I you even say you support us”
I’ll never let someone’s stupid opinion of me change what I think is important. This account is all about support of diverse communities and I may not know everything so when I slip up my only request is that you educate me and teach me how to help.
Knowledge can bring us together, but we can’t let the ones who are against us, bring us to fight one another. When you see another community in need that’s different from yours learn about it, reach out and help.
Every community has its flaws. Black eyed peas,
Where is the love
“But if you only have love for your own race. Then you only leave space to discriminate. And to discriminate only generates hate. And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah. Madness is what you demonstrate. And that's exactly how anger works and operates. Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight. Take control of your mind and meditate Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all”.
The bean jar
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Alberto Manguel, Canadian translator and essayist
From Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes by Lauren Child
10 Female Written Short Stories Everyone Should Read
I have seen a post circulating for a while that lists 10 short stories everyone should read and, while these are great works, most of them are older and written by white men. I wanted to make a modern list that features fresh, fantastic and under represented voices. Enjoy!
1. A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri — A couple in a failing marriage share secrets during a blackout.
2. Stone Animals by Kelly Link — A family moves into a haunted house.
3. Reeling for the Empire by Karen Russell — Women are sold by their families to a silk factory, where they are slowly transformed into human silkworms.
4. Call My Name by Aimee Bender — A woman wearing a ball gown secretly auditions men on the subway.
5. The Man on the Stairs by Miranda July — A woman wakes up to a noise on the stairs.
6. Brownies by ZZ Packer — Rival Girl Scout troops are separated by race.
7. City of My Dreams by Zsuzi Gartner — A woman works at a shop selling food-inspired soap and tries not to think about her past.
8. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor — A family drives from Georgia to Florida, even though a serial killer is on the loose.
9. Hitting Budapest by NoViolet Bulawayo — A group of children, led by a girl named Darling, travel to a rich neighborhood to steal guavas.
10. You’re Ugly, Too by Lorrie Moore — A history professor flies to Manhattan to spend Halloween weekend with her younger sister.
"We read to get lost, to forget the hard times we're living in, and we read to remember those who came before us who lived through something harder."
– Jacqueline Woodson, YA fiction writer, from her TED talk: What reading slowly taught me about writing
*gulps down pill 6 and 8*
Reblog with just TWO choices
Yes, why can't life be just as simple as this?
“Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
— The Camel Club by David Baldacci
“A good book will give you answers to questions you didn’t know you had. A great book will give you questions to answers you thought you knew.”
— Give the Dark My Love by Beth Revis
Books with cats make the best reading environment ♡
2.02 / my reading list is growing exponentially and now I'm playing catch up with it
Trivia Tuesday #4
The largest library in the world is the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It has more than 170 million items. It's also one of the most beautiful!
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Learn more about the Library of Congress here! You can also read more about the top 10 largest libraries in the world and the most beautiful libraries in the United States.
Me reading books: 😍
Me buying books: 😍
Me touching books: 😍
Me seeing books: 😍
Me smelling books: 😍
Me talking about books: 😍
Books in general: 😍
I think I write so much so one day I won’t have to talk anymore.
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” ― Ernest Hemingway
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