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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

PRADA

A little pre-canon heisting and pining for you!

a lot of really annoying media discourse on tumblr comes down to people having a hard time accepting that both of the following are true at the same time:

for any work of fiction interesting enough to be worth talking about, there will be multiple equally plausible and valid interpretations that are possible - and by interpretations here i don't just mean headcanons about minor details, i mean how you read the core themes and character arcs. and very often some of those equally valid interpretations will directly contradict each other and that's ok

not EVERY interpretation is valid, some are genuinely just dumb as hell and unsupported by the text

I hate how the booktokification of the “unhinged woman” genre has completely reduced the concept of female rage to just “girlboss” without taking seriously how important it is to unequivocally portray female rage.

Throughout the history of literature, we’ve been given countless instances of women in despair and in sadness but save for a few writers (take Euripides, for example), we’ve rarely ever been given angry women who aren’t the villains or the foil for the perfect poised passive princess. Female rage has constantly been subdued and erased or warped into “she’s just batshit crazy” in pretty much every society.

And now that publishing and media marketing has reduced women showing rage in books to the “white hypersexual girlboss with a knife”, instead of uplifting the way women are allowed to have more dimension and sympathy in their visible anger than ever in literature, the media still isn’t taking this subgenre seriously.

feeling a little bored, might fuck around and buy more books instead of reading all the ones I have

me and the mutuals discussing themes and motifs

Moved liked months ago but only now have I opened those packing boxes to organise my bookshelf. Not me ignoring the rest to take a picture as if I'm done 😂 (and they're all also randomly slotted in with no regard for any sort of organisation).

The AOT manga boxed sets are a new happy addition 🤩 still awaiting volumes 23 to 34 though. Burned a hole in my wallet, but I suppose we deserve to find small joys in life when we have to live the life of a corporate slave 😌

Shoutout to @storiesofaot for recommending R.F. Kuang's Babel to me! Hehehe

also, RecipeTin Eats cookbook is the best ever, go get it. Trust me.

Digitally painted some ducks. I’m starting to really like the way I’ve started to do foliage lately with the gouache brushes.

My website! c: