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#BlueCrew - Quote of the Day

I haven't drawn in like a year

#artsky #booksky

#octaviabutler #parableofthesower #booksky

Make sure you buy banned books. Get a library card and borrow banned books. Read banned books.

gentle reminder that books can be tools of a movement, but I encourage everyone recommending The Broposal as a political stance to also think about other ways you can help. While I appreciate the love, allyship should not start and end with reading fiction.

Some tips: 🧵

My loves, if you find today or any day difficult for you, I find there can be comfort in Tolkien’s words.
While some times may be terrifying, infuriating, or devastating, it is never hopeless.

my playlist for today:
renegades - one ok rock
dystopia - one ok rock
american idiot - green day
morality $uicide - rory
labour - paris paloma
feed the machine - poor man's poison
we didn't start the fire - both versions
wake up - llunr

Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok

Today seems like a good day to pick a battered book off your shelf and disappear into an old favorite. If it's a book you haven't returned to in a while, it will be like catching up with a friend.

Reading is a political act.
Books are tools for liberation.

‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

On #MLKDay, we honor his legacy by choosing love over hate, justice over injustice, and hope over fear.

I used to love reading dystopian fiction in high school.

Reaaaaally not enjoying living through dystopian reality as an adult.

my stepdad was talking about the security issue with tiktok, and broski, i could care less
the world is on freaking fire, we're becoming an oligarchy; they can have my data, nothing matters anymore sjdhdhdhd

passed out

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

first time ive gotten a hand written 'thank you' note on my b&n packing slip
does that mean im ordering too much >.>
DOES B&N KNOW ME???

omg it scares the crap out of me when my cat comes barreling into my room terrified, and there's literally nothing there

well cat, if you'd stop clawing my chair then MAYBE you wouldn't get stuck
but no seriously, please stop clawing my chair

i think people forget that free will is a thing

Finishing up Swordcrossed by Freya Marske, and then prolly starting The Alpha's Son by Penny Jessup or Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell. :)

Game changer! I've been reading the series out of order and finished that one in December lol it was cute

my 2024 reading wrap up via storygraph

book open means no talkie