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losing it a little at Hanif Abdurraqib's new year post

Patrick and Pete throughout the years

Harry wearing a Pleasing hoodie - 15.11

Every time I get groceries I’m always appalled at how little you can get for like, $20. I was making banana pudding so I needed vanilla wafers but the brand name nilla wafers cost $4 a box. The minimum wage in my state is $7.25/hr. My friend put it really well when he said “imagine you work for an hour and someone hands you two boxes of nilla wafers and said ‘actually this is a bit more than what I owe you’”

How are some of y’all missing the point so bad. “Shop at aldi instead” “make your own food” “don’t buy brand name” “don’t buy unhealthy processed food” It’s not about the box of cookies. This is about how minimum wage pays peanuts and has stagnated for 12 years while the cost of living keeps growing. No one wants your financial advice about how to survive on beans and rice and frozen veggies. The smartest grocery list in the world is not gonna help you budget your way out of poverty. Please get a grip for the love of god

hello tumblr friends. i've donated a couple of items to the #booksformaui auction -- a signed copy of LOOK NO FURTHER (currently at $35) and the query critique linked above (currently at $25). if you have a novel that's ready to go out to agents and you need any help with your query letter, please do bid away :)

the auction has over 900 incredible items to bid on to support relief efforts in Lāhainā, including phone calls or critiques from agents and editors, signed book stacks, and more! Donations will support:

The Hawaii Community Foundation Kamehameha - Ho’ōla Maui Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement - Kāko’o Maui Maui Food Bank Auction is open until August 25, midnight Hawaiian time.

 Edvard Munch, The Sun, 1911 

doctor who van gogh scene but it's showing boromir gondor restored

hello, my sweet sweet tumblr friends. i have a new book out one month from saturday. here we are together, the book and i:

this one was fun. i wrote it with my sister! when we were young, we were cutthroat competitive. she (older) would forbid me from reading the books on her shelves, and i (gremlin) would booby-trap her room, so you decide which of us committed the greater sin. now we have a blast.

our names are pronounced REE-uh-nock and SHEE-fra, and our book was pitched as THE PARENT TRAP meets THE VANISHING HALF. it releases August 15th, 2023. logline is "Two half-Chinese half-siblings collide for the first time at a summer art camp, not knowing they're related—and begin to understand who they are as artists, as brother and sister, and as Asian-Americans."

it's a book about summer camp hijinks, about passing, about what we long for and where we belong. it also says "Robinson & Robinson" on the spine, which makes us sound like an accidental injury law firm. sweet.

of all the books with my name on it, this one is probably the "book club"-iest. if you like coming-of-age novels or stories about the AAPI diaspora, you might like this one :)

you can preorder a signed copy from my local indie here, or non-signed copies from Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon. i really cannot stress enough how much every single preorder helps, as i am what the industry calls "a midlist author," also known as "an obscure author who has difficulty placing projects with publishers because of sales figures lmao." (this is not to whinge. the majority of working authors exist in this financially & existentially precarious position)

alternatively, i would be totally thrilled if you reblogged this post, or mentioned the book to any teachers, librarians, bookstore workers, or other readers in your life :)

happy summer everybody—may it be the lazy river of your dreams. xoxoxo

innovative moves from elon today huh

Ghost world, Friedrich Kunath

hi y'all! I have a ticket for louis tomorrow at red rocks and I had to cancel my trip. I'm giving it away for free, just want it to go to someone who loves louis! it's section right, row 19. DM me if interested <3

Harry while helping a fan come out Love On Tour | Wembley N3

poetry is a fundamental food group if you dont read a decent poem once or twice a month you get soul anemic bone tired and all that

mary oliver already said everything

Created in collaboration with Ulyana Sergeenko

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every the oc episode season 1 episode 1 — “pilot”