not now bro i'm romanticizing the monstrous, eroticizing the grotesque, and glorifying the perverse

Full body photo of me wearing dark sunglasses, a dark red long sleeved crop top, baggy black jeans, and Docs.

All three volumes of Run Away With Me, Girl by Battan on a grey table

Not only am I still alive, I also wear real clothes buy books sometimes #diversebooksky

I really liked this one!

Me the past week 😴

#booksky #bookmeme #reading

Y’all gon be sick of me come April 4🌚 #oathbound #blackbooksky #fantasybooks

I finished Oathbound and it finished me🫠 #blackbooksky #lengendborncycle #fantasybooks

The mm/achillean vs ff/sapphic book “discourse” is going around again and honestly I am so tired

It’s not pollen, it’s Persephone’s glitter🌸✨

Mekhi Phifer smoking meme with extra cigarettes

My apple watch thinks I’m working out but I’m just stressed af reading Bloodmarked. Bree really acts like she wanna die #legendborn #blackbooksky #fantasybooks

Opinion rescinded based on new evidence. I’ll never doubt Selwyn Kane again🔥 #bloodmarked #blackbooksky

My “if they wrote it, I’ll buy it” horror and thriller authors🔪🩸

Tananarive Due
S.A. Cosby
Kalynn Bayron
Tiffany D. Jackson
Stephen Graham Jones
Alexis Henderson
V. Castro

#diversebooksky #horrorbooks

Karen Huger covering her mouth with her hand in shock

I fear I’m beginning to like Nick’s annoying ass. Imma need a support group when I finish Oathbound #blackbooksky #fantasybooks #diversebooksky

Photo of Vince Staples sitting in front of a laptop. His face is scrunched with disappointment.

Apparently my books have been delivered and I still have an hour left at work. This feels antiblack, lesbophobic, just personally insulting on every level #blackbooksky #booksky

Screenshot of my Currently Reading on Storygraph: Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao, Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, and The First Family by Granger

“Never trust a mood reader’s ‘currently reading.’” Well you can trust that I’m internally crying and sliding down a wall or snickering and kicking my feet at all times🌚 #diversebooksky

Love Sayaka Murata!

Bout to make a whole new email just for author newsletters. Newsletters, old school blogs, and boards are back🙌🏾#blackbooksky #booksky #indebooks #queerbooks

My copy of Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

She’s here🙌🏾 Remember, it’s never too late to join the Breehive🗡️ #blackbooksky #fantasybooks #oathbound

a man is giving a lecture in front of a blackboard in a classroom while holding a piece of paper . ALT: a man is giving a lecture in front of a blackboard in a classroom while holding a piece of paper .

Mispronounce their name

a young boy in a white shirt is sitting at a table with a book . ALT: a young boy in a white shirt is sitting at a table with a book .

How I feel watching y’all read Oathbound when my copy won’t be here till tomorrow #blackbooksky #booksky

Because why do I feel like I’m letting Bree down by reading another series??

Kinda feels like an OSHA violation too

Found a copy of Ars Goetia in the break room so now I gotta figure out which of my coworkers is summoning demons🧐

Anything by Tananarive Due honestly
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
Trail of Lightning and Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Cinderella is Dead- Kalynn Bayron

I started with Razorblade Tears. After their sons are murdered in a “random shooting”, Ike and Buddy Lee go on a John Wick-style rampage to avenge them. Hell hath no fury like a grieving, guilt-ridden dad.

Cover of The First Family by Granger. Close up of a snarling Black vampire with red eyes, a long tongue, and two sets of fangs

Started the second Drew Collins book and so far:
- Namir is still not fine enough to be this irritating
-Souxie is creepy and not in a cute way. I’m scared. And enthralled
-Maggie…you in danger girl!
-Asha, give em hell
-I’m naming my next cat Quan #blackbooksky #indiebooks #vampirebooks

I love this book!

That’s when I got into Anne Rice too. Lestat has lived in my head rent free for more than half my life

My mom confiscated one of my books for being “too explicit.” She made me read Chaucer instead. CHAUCER💀💀

Scrungles, an elderly brown and gray cat with scruffy fur and round orange eyes. She’s crouched on the sidewalk with all her limbs tucked, staring straight to camera

Scrungles lying on her side, waiting for pets. She is sticking her tongue out and opening her eyes wide in the sun, making her appear spaced out

Scrungles rubbing her head against my leg. Her face is turned away from the camera, leaving the side of her head and one ear visible. My phone charm is dangling into the shot

Ran into this very sweet, very talkative old lady today. She let me carry her for awhile, then decided human errands were beneath her and went back to her spot. Her name is Scrungles and she’s probably a witch #catsofbluesky

Oh this one got me