What if we tried loving one another, eating delicious food, making art...what if we practiced patience, helped those who need it, found ways to make life easier for all, moved our bodies, and slept cozily in nice warm beds. How about we see how that goes for a while, instead of whatever all this is

It’s too much pressure!!
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📌 Hope this soul follows him

everywhere . A true hero 🐥

A goose wearing shades on a pink background with text that says "people pleasing is over, become unacceptable"

Loss of federal funding looks different at each library system 💔

Across the nation, libraries are laying off library workers, closing on weekends or entirely, stopping the ordering of new materials, eliminating summer reading programs ❤️‍🩹

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"I write for the same reason I breathe -- because if I didn't, I would die." --Isaac Asimov

#asimov quote #writing #writingcommunity #scifi #sciencefiction

Grief is insane and the only thing that helps is coupling it with gratitude for loving someone so much.

The authoritarians and know-nothings don’t want us to imagine better futures, better worlds, and that’s precisely what fantasy does. In the words of Katherine Rundell, “The imagination is the primary and first site of resistance.”

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

Nothing beats that fresh journal feeling 😊

*coughs in Patricia-C-Wrede-to-Robin-McKinley-to-NK-Jemisin fandom pipeline*

Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.

Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

This is so cute 😭 #booksky

I really loved the descriptions of food in this book. It was so nice to hear African cuisines being described. I rarely encounter that in fantasy

feeling kind of warm cozy feelings towards her kidnapper! I get that he's a king and she's supposedly terrified, but she seemed to get over it too quickly imo. They were exchanging smiles a lot WHILE she was finding out he kidnapped her to be his bride. Like????

So I kind of had to reread the first few chapters bc the night I read this book was such a blur. The first thing about this story that I thought was strange was how Ododo just kind of accepted being kidnapped. Her fear was mentioned a few times and her kind of playing along, but she was also

One of my 2025 goals is to catch up on book reviews for all the books I really loved last year and never got a chance to chat about online. I think i also want to do more in-depth reviews for books I've read more recently that I only discussed on a surface level as well.

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"It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers." ~ Judy Blume

Happy birthday Judy Blume
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Americas regressed so far that at this point let’s just bring back the quaaludes and prohibition

It's been a looooong week and this is my treat. In my cozy pj's with one of my fav comfort rereads

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I used to love this book so much as a kid, but I can't remember why. I def need to reread it!

guy (me) with sword(my live and admiration) bowing in front of his ruler (female characters becoming unhinged)