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Books to get you out of a slump

Here are some books that:

Don’t have a daunting number of pages

You can breeze through and read super quickly

Have that page-turning quality you need in a book to get you out of a reading slump

Are immersive and the kind of books where you just feel “hooked”

Because we all know we fucks need some of this every now and then to keep reading

Here we go folks these are the books I would recommend to save you from a slump! Lots of these have a healthy dose of intrigue, mystery, romance, and a driving plot which I think is really the key.  Many are YA, and some are definitely lighter reads, but again this is all in favor of getting you driven to read

so uhhhh let’s just fucking get into them 

Saga: Graphic Novel Series by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

For when you need: something so fast paced you’ll shit yourself.  This graphic novel series lacks NOthing in depth, but has everything in pace and immersion

I cannot recommend these enough they’re arguably some of my favorite books ever and Absolutely changed my life I read one of them a night so go read them ya fucks

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

For when you need: something whimsical and magical that will take you entirely out of yourself and make you fall in love with words, stories, and dreams

 I weep. 

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

For when you need: a bit of romance, a well-known classic retelling, sexual tension, and beautiful declarations of feeling

This is just some angsty shit and honestly eat it up and get reading my dudes 

A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

For when you need: a swashbuckling romp, romance, mystery, and adventure through the eyes of a flawed young hero

bonus bonus bonus LGBTQ+ and disability rep !!!! fucking get lit to it guys read it!!! 

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

For when you need: a magical heist novel ft. a thrilling cast of characters and some incredible banter

fuck me guys these books are good and who doesn’t want to read a heist novel because if you don’t you’re probably wrong 

Trick by Natalia Jaster

For when you need: more banter here ft. loads of sexual tension, a lovely romance arc (ft. jesters and princesses), and miles of depth in the topics discussed

it’s just some good hate to love with some sexy times on the surface and then you get into the content (I won’t spoil but you’ll cry okay it’s so beautiful and powerful) 

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

For when you need: a modern magical-realism psychic and prep school boys sort of adventure that will make you feel nostalgic as all hell for places you’ve never been ft. true love and death, fortunes, and ancient welsh kings

Get urself a raven boy and a sick car I guess 

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

For when you need: a mythical horse race ft. romance and atmosphere this book will make you fully leave your body and you will feel wind and cold cliffs and sea breeze

this one is so atmospheric I don’t know how you could tear yourself from it so cry about some mythical horses for a bit will you 

Fire by Kristen Cashore

For when you need: beautiful monsters, friends-to-lovers romance, court intrigue, and female friendships

This is just a solid ya it’s fast paced and whoLeSome

The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima

For when you need: balls, intrigue, romance, banter, magic???? a grand time

Just honestly a romp of a story there are balls and kisses and this just reads like a fuckign movie

The Assassin’s Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke

For when you need: assassins and pirates who set off to break a curse and cannot for the life of them stop bickering and possibly wanting to kiss

get fucking lit guys who doesn’t want a pirate book??? 

Hope this helps someone !! I recommend all of these and PLEASE leave any of your own recommendations for recovering from reading slumps !

thanks uh I’m out 

everyone more pretentious than me is an insufferable poseur and everyone less pretentious than me is a clueless philistine

in honor of pride month heres a funky little drawing of me i did on ms paint! its kinda shitty but thats because i did it on my trackpad :)

guns are for cowards

swing a sword at me like a Real Man

I should be allowed into every museum’s archives actually

you know what? fuck you. *unionizes your salt*

I find it suspicious that you never see posts along the lines of “cishet people should stop using the word ‘queer’, that’s a word that only queer people get to use.” Not because I think that it’s necessarily true, but because that’s the normal way social conversations around reclaimed slurs & pejoratives evolve. You rarely hear people on tumblr saying “black people/hispanic people/asian people aren’t allowed to say [slur that has been used specifically against them].” Because most of us recognize that that’s nonsense, and that you don’t get to tell minorities which words they can and can’t reclaim.

But tumblr didn’t do that with the word ‘queer’. It didn’t go the usual route of discussion around who can and can’t say what. Tumblr just jumped straight into trying to erase the word completely. And that is because the discourse around ‘queer’ isn’t a conversation that evolved naturally within our community. It was purposefully (and successfully) created out of thin air from a sudden, relentless onset of terf propaganda. Terfs who hated having a trans-inclusive umbrella term for our community, who wanted nothing more than to disrupt unity. Well congratu-fucking-lations, it’s been disrupted.

a few days ago i was exploring an abandoned mansion and i found an overgrown swimming pool with computers in it

I’m never not thinking about that screenshot of the Google trends for “gerard way pronouns” where you can pinpoint the SECOND they stepped onstage in Nashville.