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SCREAMING
Carry On, snowbaz // The King's Men, Andreil
No but the shades of magic series is just Holland being "this is my boyfriend Kell and Kell's girlfriend Lila and her bestie Alucard who's also Rhy's boyfriend"
argue with the wallđ
this week in the book community~
â˘queer show with little flying leaves renewed
â˘dysfunctional family with superpowers 3 trailer
â˘musician that's been acting as therapist gets doctorate
â˘you can throw a party full of everyone you know, and not invite your family âcause they never showed you love
â˘white people having extramarital affairs and being communists
â˘"fans will have complicated feelings about chain of thorns ending"
V.E Schwab writes such dynamic and complex characters that are so unforgettable. Like they have so much range and spice to them,, they're just *chef's kiss*
I often find myself thinking about the gay little family in Vicious and the nerdy little romantics in Addie Larue and the bisexual Slytherpuffs in Shades of Magic. I wish I could give Kell, Lila, Addie, Henry, Victor, Syd, Mitch, Eli and Rhy a little forehead kiss and protect them.
A sapphic vampire show with angst and slowburn, created by V.E Schwab coming out during the fruity month??????đłđĽđłđĽđłđĽ
âYou could have been a ballerina,â Mme. Padva remarks to Celia. âYou are quite good on your feet.â
âI am good off my feet as well,â Celia says.
DID SHE JUST?????đ¤¨đ¤¨đ¤¨MISS MA'AM
âDid your wish come true?â // âI am not entirely certain yet.â // âYou shall have to let me know,â Celia says. âI hope it does. I suppose in a way, I made the Wishing Tree for you.â
âI made a wish on this tree years ago,â Marco says // âWhat did you wish for?â Bailey asks, hoping it is not too forward a question // âI wished for her,â he says.
WILL I EVER RECOVER FROM THIS *SCREAMS*
Remember when Bailey's sister told him to grow up and he replied with
âThat is precisely what Iâm doing,â Bailey says. âI donât care if you donât understand that. Staying here wonât make me happy. It will make you happy because you are insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. Itâs not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So Iâm leaving.â
Hey gurl you dropped something MY JAW
The trope where a character has lots of scars and is given the opportunity to heal them but while the healer is doing their thing the character looks at a particular scar and goes "No, not this one." because it reminds them of something they survived will ALWAYS, ALWAYS SERVEđ
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show loveđ BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Feyre was in her flop era babes
WAIT WHY DO I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RECOLLECTION OF THIS CHARACTER HE'S NEVER MENTIONED AGAINđ
Feyre so humble and selfless you guys she's not like other girls frrr
Omg it's almost like- like the wolf and the doe are a METAPHOR for the power dynamic between Feyre and Tamlinđ¤
GROWL??? RHYSAND IS THAT YOU??đ¤¨đ¤¨
Elain's literally so annoying like honeybear why don't you grow some vegetables or somethingđĽ°
okay *Tamlin shows up*
This bargain makes no sense to me like i know there's some bigger stuff going on but this is the equivalent of "you killed my bestie? well now you have to suffer living with meâş"
PROTECT NESTA AAAHHHH
Lucien was actually my favorite character in the first book he's the only one with a personality đ
How to get the girl 101 with Tamlinđ
Ayyo how are we all forgetting the women's rights movement of 2021 when our feminist icon rhysand chose not to tell his very pregnant wife that the birth would 100% kill herđ¤¨đ¤¨
He pretty much went around battling misogyny with his mountain shaking roars y'all could never-
Rereading pjo as a coping mechanism isn't enough, I need Percy Jackson to drown međĽ°đ¤Ş
If I had a penny for every time a complex female character stabbed her own hand just to prove a point, I'd have two pennies which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
no but remember when Marco Alisdair asked Celia Bowen if she remembers all her audiences and she said she only remembers the ones who look at her the way he does and then he asked her what way might that be AND THEN CELIA SAID THE ICONIC "LIKE THEY CAN'T DECIDE IF THEY ARE AFRAID OF ME OR IT THEY WANT TO KISS ME" AND MARCO HAD THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY TO ANSWER WITH "I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU"-
Taylor Swift didn't write things like "Lost in your current like a priceless wine"// "Wherever you stray I follow"// "I'm begging for you to take my hand"// "Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind"// "Show me the places where the others gave you scars"// "Every bait-and-switch was a work of art"// "You know that my train can take you home, anywhere else is hollow" for you to not believe in love
A year ago, taylor swift wrote an album for the hopeless romantics, the lonely yearners, touch starved kids, the people who peaked in high school, single parents who gave all that they had, the ones who never got over their first love, those who live in a fantasy, grief stricken young people, the entire lgbtq+ community, mentally ill and misunderstood kids, fierce women who's souls are tired of being second to men, broken hearted divorcĂŠes, glamorous and beautiful ingĂŠnues who don't quite belong, sexy murderers, bisexual former gifted kids, teens who are terrified of getting older, people with unrequited crushes, cynical bitches who fell in love and for the dreamers, for us.
"Enemies to lovers this!!" "friends to lovers that!!" "no rivals to lovers is superior!!" "It goes strangers to rivals to forced friendship to fake lovers to real lovers to enemies to-" Sweetie please call your therapist back they're worried about youđĽ°
Why is everyone talking about soc3 my anxiety CANNOT- "what if leigh pulls a no mourners, too many funerals and kaz is the only one left" or "what if kaz sacrifices himself for the others" or "what if wesper get separated" or "what if nina turns bad" or- Y'ALL NEED TO STOP MANIFESTING THIS SHITđđđ
When taylor swift said"Too young to know it gets better/ I'll be summer sun for you forever/ Forever winter if you go".
*screams*
I hope your December is filled with red scarves and spiced tea and fluffy blankets and fairy lights and late night movies like little women and home alone and evermore by Taylor Swift and Christmas songs and candles and pies and books and mistletoe and candycanes and snow and poetry and sunny mornings and loveâ¤â¨
It's the first of December and I'm trying to bring out my "in my heart is a Christmas tree farm, where the people would come/to dance under sparkling lights" feels but the allure of "hey December, guess I'm feeling unmoored/can't remember what I used to fight for" is magneticđ
The trope where two characters are somewhere they shouldn't be, so they start making out to hide the real reason>>>
EVEN BETTER IF THEY'RE ENEMIES- *squeals*
convincing you to read kingdom of the wicked because the sequel comes out in 10 days!
this post won' t contain any major spoilers, but a few slips might happen-
Let's start out with the premise :)
It's basically a historical fiction- a murder mystery, based in the 1800s in Italy. BUT IT'S NOT JUST ANY OTHER MURDER MYSTERY, it has witches and super hot demons and not so hot hunters and- and chefs<3 AND POSSIBLY THE BEST FANTASY ENEMIES TO LOVERS I'VE SEEN IN A WHILE.
I cannot begin to explain how beautiful the entire ambience of this book is,,, the town in Italy is a very warm, cozy, and welcoming place. So that makes the whole murder situation even eerier and more intriguing. This isn't one of those mysteries where you can guess from the start who it's gonna be, and the murder part isn't that IN YOUR FACE. It's delicately woven throughout the rest of the plot. There's a lot of chilling stuff going on, everyone has secrets and everyone is super sexy and scary- all in all this makes for the perfect autumnal read :)
PLOT!!
We start out with two twin witches who's family owns a restaurant (i mean those lucky bitches get to COOK AND BAKE AND DO WITCHCRAFT ALL DAY LIKE- *dream life*)
Emilia and Vittoria dicarlo- one of them is super outgoing and loud and EDGY- she isn't like other girls!! she has secret affairs and gets in trouble all the time,,, the other is kind of chill and reserved and loving.
BUT THEN SOMETHING LIFE CHANGING HAPPENS- one of them makes a mistake and ends up six feet under.
Now, witchcraft is like super illegal because women with gifts and knowledge are a threat to society!! Witches have been ending up dead in many towns across Italy and since witchcraft is super hush hush, our protagonist can't exactly ask the police for help. So she does one better- SHE ASKS THE FUCKING PRINCE OF HELL- wrath. Go big or go home honey :)))
The magic system in this book is really interesting because it's quite realistic- they use herbs and blessed candles and chalk and really aesthetically pleasing things. Some witches practice dark magic and go nuts because they have these visions which is so cool. The twins come from an ancient family of witches and their nonna is super badass and grumpy i love her.
The villains(seggsy antiheroes?) are the malvachi aka the princes of hell. Each prince has domain over one deadly sin(pride, envy, wrath etc). And they can like control those emotions which IS SO SICKK aaahhhh. Throughout the story, the main characters meets these princes and gets influenced by them but also learns new things to uncover the bigger mystery going on and they're all very intriguing and sexy.(I've used the word sexy so many times like is that not reason enough to read it?)
The restaurant- I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS ARC. It just enhances the reading experience by adding these touches of how invested the characters are in their recipes and flavours which makes it so comforting and also hilarious because one moment someone is like "OMG NO LOOK A CORPSE aaahhh" and the next they're like "hmmm i want your recipe for cannoli *puppy eyes*"
vibes you can expect- mysterious, spells, herbs, candles, witches, church, family love, demons, betrayal, forced alliance, grumpy + sunshine trope, revenge lotsss of revenge, angsty, comforting yet also somehow on the edge of your seat feeling, secrets and darkness, hidden agendas, AND LOTS OF ITALIAN CUISINE.
The romance<333
aka the reason I picked up this book. At this point the romantic interest could be like "aahh you're ugly i hope you die" and then two seconds later be like "you're the most beautiful thing in this world you are the sky and the sun and you could walk over me do you want something to eat? do you want a kitten or a blanket or a cup of tea??maybe we could bang and get married????" and you have the AUDACITY to call that enemies to lovers????
BUT THIS BOOK PORTRAYS that hate to forced alliance to secrets to betrayal to mistrust to slight understanding to maybe some hints of romance. The slowburn is just *chef's kiss*
I ADORE how you can never tell what the love interest is gonna do and you're like daddy??sorry-daddy?? sorry. NO DON"T MAKE ME HATE YOU.....da-
ALSO there's a slight corruption arc because the main character is so driven by her rage and that for me is the cherry on top.
AT ONE POINT, THE DARK ANTIHERO kisses the protagonist to save her life(?) AND SAYS "LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO HATE ME FOR THIS" LIKE SIRRRR??
Quotes you might like-
âI feel your gaze on me when you think Iâm not paying attention. You track the dagger every time I move. You need to know where it is." No ma'am he's looking at you-
"Young women died. Life resumed. Such was the way of the world, at least according to men." I didn't come here to cry but okay-
"I couldnât begin to understand why Wrath had said âmy Emiliaâs.â Honestly, I wasnât sure if the demon even remembered my name since he only ever tossed around âwitch.â EEEEEHHH THE POSSESSIVENESS TROPE
âYou have something I want.â âIf itâs my still-beating heart, Iâm afraid I must decline.â âNo, but I imagine youâll end up giving that to my brother one day.â excuse me WHILE I GO SCREAM.
"My sister was the adventurous oneâI was satisfied with safe, clean fun. Give me a steamy romance novel with forbidden love and impossible odds. That was the kind of adventure I could get behind." same, literally same.
This book as Taytay songs because why not?
â˘Look what you made me do
â˘No body, no crime
â˘Treacherous
â˘Dancing with our hands tied
â˘Mad woman
â˘I did something bad
â˘Wildest dreams tv THISSS SO MUCH
â˘Delicate
â˘Haunted
â˘So it goes >>>>
Just before you go,, THE SEQUEL HAS THE "I DON'T WANNA KISS YOU UGHHH"// "LIAR" trope and also the "YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T GIVE AF ABOUT ME"// "I LIED." trope
so you don't wanna miss out.
All the grishaverse, riordanverse, shadowhunter chronicles, throne of glass and marvel characters do be kinda fruity to me- anyways happy bisexual visibility day<33
âSheâs gone now,â Evelyn says. âThe love of my life is gone, and I canât just call her and say Iâm sorry and have her come back. Sheâs gone forever. I regret every second I didnât spend with her. I regret every stupid thing I did that caused her an ounce of pain. I should have chased her down the street the day she left me. I should have begged her to stay. I should have apologized and sent roses and stood on top of the Hollywood sign and shouted, âIâm in love with Celia St. James!â and let them crucify me for it.â
Hear that??? THAT'S THE SOUND OF MY HEART BEING SHATTERED BY THIS BOOK FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME-