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No Frigate Like a Book

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Rose | Taurus | Queer It's Rude To Ask a *insert Weird Gender Noise* their age but I'm an Adult... theoretically a dreamer | a reader | a word weaver "Wherever I’ve lived my room and soon the entire house is filled with books; poems, stories, histories, prayers of all kinds stand up gracefully or are heaped on shelves, on the floor, on the bed. Strangers old and new offering their words bountifully and thoughtfully, lifting my heart." ~Mary Oliver
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dreamer | reader | word weaver

Call me Rose! My gender is a *insert weird noise here* but I’m fine with she/her/they. Really just be polite and it’s all good. Can Poet be a gender? Hmmm must think on this. This blogger is 30 because the passage of time is a trap no one can escape from. Except vampires but  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ who wants to drink blood?

 I’m an avid bookwyrm with a massive hoard of a TBR Pile and an even larger library of books I’ve loved. Discovering fanfiction only increased my consumption of words and my fic bookmarks are a vast labyrinth to get lost in. 

This blog is a mix of books and miscellaneous fandoms run 90% by queue to give some verisimilitude of functionality/organization to my chaos. I do tag. Mostly basic tags with a rare creative tag from the early days but my tagging system is pretty self-explanatory.

Feel free to ask questions please! I love to talk books!!!

Current Reading Tag || Original Posts || 2024 Reading

And under the cut is a list of authors & fandoms that show up on my blog, well a smattering of them anyway!

#about the blog#about rose#obligatory pinned introduction#an update was needed#I still copy/pasted some bits with no shame#any big mistakes/weird typing please let me know#I've stared at this too long to notice anymore#not out of void but out of chaos
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juneability

231003 ♡ tuesday. fall is hitting hard! i took a walk in the rain today to clear my mind (it didn't work) and finished a reflection journal for my international studies course (went a page over the limit but the prof is chill about that). i've been reading The Jane Austen Treasury and yearning to read Mansfield Park since it and Persuasion are the only novels by her i have not yet read.

➵ 🎧—the purple bottle, animal collective.

#books#reading#Feeding the Queue
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“A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. Or so it seemed for now, to a woman with flame-colored hair who marched uphill to meet her demise. Innocence was no part of this. She knew her own recklessness and marveled, really, at how one hard little flint of thrill could outweigh the pillowy, suffocating aftermath of a long disgrace.”

― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

#quote#Barbara Kingsolver#Flight Behavior#opening lines#current reading#current reading quotes#not actually but I'd never find the quote again in a different tag#I bounced hard off this Kingsolver between the summary and opening chapter#but wow what a first line!!! definitely worth keeping the quote even when the book is unhauled!#not out of void but out of chaos
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“I was obsessed with the sound of that rhyme: heart and caught. I know this is a minority opinion among theatrical lyricists, but I want to offer a quick public defense of the slant rhyme. Never before I entered the world of theater did I find people so dogmatic about true or “perfect” end rhymes. What puzzles me about it is this: the sound of words, the weaving together of them, is about so much more than end rhyme. It’s consonance, assonance, internal rhymes wherever they can be discreetly woven in. I appreciate these devices because they don’t call attention to themselves; the seams don’t show. The perfect end rhyme waves its arms and shouts, “Look, Ma, I made a rhyme!” There’s a place for that kind of satisfying resolution, just as there’s a place for a “button” in music. But there’s also a place for the mystical, the modal, and the unresolved. The rhyming of heart and caught hit me at an angle that no true rhyme ever will.”

― Anaïs Mitchell, Working On a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown

#Writing#From the Writer's Desk#Feeding the Queue
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yutaan

Paper Lady Amalthea from The Last Unicorn! The previous time I made her, I used one of my favorite papers on her hair, and was veeery tempted to use it again this time. But ultimately, I went with this paper - the cresting white waves seemed very fitting to evoke the sea into which the unicorns were driven, and from which they emerge.

#The Last Unicorn#Fanart#Feeding the Queue
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a-ramblinrose

💖✨️💖A Very Romantic Book Haul!!!💖✨️💖

I went a little wild when I spotted all the lovely KJ Charles books at The Ripped Bodice! I read the Will Darling Adventures last year with much enjoyment and absolutely needed them in hardcopy. I'm actually reading Proper English on the kindle currently so I popped it and it's sequel into my bag too. 🤣 At that point the Erica Ridley was just gross indulgence. My one non-romance purchase was from the Village Well and after seeing so many recommendations I decided to make my wallet cry some more.

#books#book stacks#Feeding the Queue
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magickkart

The best part about Think of England for me has always been the dynamic between Archie and Pat, and Daniel and Fen.

KJ Charles writes female side characters like no one else, and I always get excited every time they come up in the book or they interact with the main characters.

when they’re center stage in their own book however…well…

#Think of England#Fanart#Feeding the Queue
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magickkart

My boyfriend and I saw you across the room and we just wanted to say that your vibes are foul and we will be fucking your shit up. -

Archie Curtis and Daniel da Silva from “Think of England”.

Think of england remains my favourite KJC book. The characters have stayed with me for 6 years now and aren’t budging from the space theyve reserved in my brain. Anyway heres to the toe girlies if you guys are even still around.

#Think of England#Fanart#Feeding the Queue
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