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now far ahead the road has gone

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and i must follow if i can. | 29. bisexual babe, indigenous icon, boricua beauty, disabled darling. | aspiring poet, librarian, and half-assed novel planner | if a character has daddy issues i guarantee they're my fave
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if you’re like who tf is this person and why are they following me and spam liking my shit, please understand i am dumb of ass and am more active on my sideblogs than this one. it’s likely we interact from my more active fandom blogs, which i keep separate from this one for ~online stranger danger safety~ reasons. but if you regularly interact with some shouty bitch with one of these icons:

hi, hello, that’s me creeping thru your blog. i mostly just reblog ~aesthetic~ stuff and writing resources and poetry to this one, it’s not super fandom oriented, so if you want to see me bitch about writing or talk about the books i’m reading, feel free to follow :)

here’s my dog, his name is rocky road:

#im making this my pinned post#also some tags:#librarian tag#screaming into the void#🌒#and writing tags:#the poisoned obsidian#recovering romantics anonymous#bordertown blues#movies
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this is my potential book club list-

  • maus: a survivor's tale by art spiegelman. i really think this is one of the ones we should choose
  • even though i knew the end by cl polk
  • ring shout, or, hunting klu kluxes in the end times by p. djeli clark
  • rez ball by byron graves
  • zachary ying and the dragon emperor by xiran jay zhao
  • lula dean's little library of banned books by kristen miller
#there's a clear fantasy bent here lmao#i wish there was an adult version of the lincoln award#where there was a) input from Real Readers who have veto power on a book#and b) took into account both popularity as well as importance#i guess the alex awards are sort of like this? but imo their picks are not as interesting as the lincoln awards#librarian tag#work tag#the lula dean one is one of those that the kids said 'no we're putting this on the list and you can't stop us'#i love those picks so much#gender queer was one of those as well!#i would suggest babel but i think that's too long and too dense
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i am glad queer representation has drastically improved in my lifetime. because now i can say that i dislike a gay book and not feel like i’m invalidating stonewall

#one of my old friends got mad at me like i was personally saying queer people are the devil#bc i said that mason deaver’s debut sucked#well sorry but it did the love interest barely exists the friends are cardboard#the main character doesn’t grow and THATS NOT HOW THERAPY WORKS#books#bi tag
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we are doing a book club at work and the lady who runs it asked me for recommendations because i always have great displays of books and i am "well respected" in the library i thought i was going to float away on a cloud omg

i have no idea what i'm gonna pick lol, i was thinking maus would be a good one bc that's recently been banned (and she wanted something longer than the other two we did, which was a graphic novel and a picture book but not quite a full length novel) but i'm not sure about te other two options. i was looking at lists of books banned in prisons to bring attention to that but when you look at those lists it's actually mostly music, magazines, and the ocassional manga.

#banning tokyo ghoul or inuyasha is not serious#it's all sorts of magazines too like theres editions of vogue on there or like [city name] times#hellish. HELLISH.#work tag#librarian tag
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alright i did a movie version too hopefully there aren't any repeats on this one. it's not in order or anything although i will say the top 4 is what i've had on my letterboxd top 4 since i made it and those are usually the movies i will say are my favorites

Rani's Top 101 Movies
not in any particular order except for the top 20 ish movies which are all of my all time favorite movies.
List Challenges
#slightly less ashamed of my taste in movies#there's a handful on here i've only watched once bc i can't watch them again but they did change me#see: nomadland. come and see. son of saul. oldboy.#altho i've been thinking of rewatching oldboy like just to traumatize myself#movies
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"We were slaves once. The daylight guardians of the vampires. I was born into servitude. Yet I harbored them no ill will. Even took a vampire for my bride. It was forbidden, our union. Viktor feared a blending of the species. Feared it so much he killed her. His own daughter. Burnt alive for loving me. This is his war. Viktor's. And he spent the last 600 years exterminating my species." Underworld (2003) dir. Len Wiseman
Source: vampirecorleone
#this movie is so good#underworld#blood tw#gore tw#open wounds tw#horror#gifsets
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so this list has taught me that i have to read better books. late new year’s resolution. this is in roughly order of favorite but recency bias is a real thing also is it cheating to add short stories idk and lastly feastdance is spiritually the same book to me, um anyways

Rani's Top 100 Books 💜
my top 100, this ranking is so serious and so unserious, also recency bias is a real and prevalent thing heavily influencing this order
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YOU ARE LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO FILL OUT THE LITTLE THINGY ON THE WEBSITE SO I CAN SEE WHAT PEOPLE HAVE READ BECAUSE I'M NOSY!!!!!!!!

#polls
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so this list has taught me that i have to read better books. late new year’s resolution. this is in roughly order of favorite but recency bias is a real thing also is it cheating to add short stories idk and lastly feastdance is spiritually the same book to me, um anyways

Rani's Top 100 Books 💜
my top 100, this ranking is so serious and so unserious, also recency bias is a real and prevalent thing heavily influencing this order
List Challenges
#it’s really been like. i STARTED reading good stuff and then i started working in children’s 😭#embarrassing i’m a parody of a librarian.#speaking into the void#polls#i'm about to reblog this everywhere btw
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