Vivacias - Under A Larger, Kinder Sky

I drew that when Fool’s Assassin came out and proceeded to completely forget about it until now! Touched it up a liiiittle bit.

my somewhat unpopular opinion is that "famous story retold from female character's pov" is a good concept, actually. it's just that it became gimmicky very fast and spawned a storm of lazy works that refuse to engage with the source material in any meaningful way and flanderize everything into generic YA tropes. but at its core taking a known story and exploring it through the perspective of a female character even, and perhaps especially, when said character is not a particularly active agent on said story, is a way to remind people that women are still people with rich inner lives and that the real life women that we learned to think as pawns in the lives of men were/are still humans whose complex interiority deserve exploration on principle that everyone, but especially the people who live on the margins, deserve exploration. but that's a concept that gets defeated when most people writing those lazy retellings can't write complex interiority to save their lives.

🧍book ask. 2 + 6 + 20 :^)

2. top 5 books of all time

ok i’m going with non-childrens lit novels 🤨 so

the tombs of atuan (ursula leguin)

annihilation (jeff vandermeer)

east of eden (john steinbeck)

royal assassin (robin hobb)

parable of the sower (octavia butler)

6. read this month

the golden compass (philip pullman)

powers (ursula leguin)

20. what i look for in a book

for getting into a book, i want “disappearing” prose that doesn’t distract me from the scene with unnatural rhythm or silly word choice, dialogue that’s either naturalist or theatrical but NOT forced to set up stupid lil quips, place descriptions that take me away, a feeling of promise that smth will happen.

for remembering & loving it after i’m done reading—a striking turn & sudden illumination towards the end of the book about what it all meant (even if the answer is “nothing” or “we don’t get to know”), a main character who got to be selfish, magnetic, and cunning, a world that felt wider & deeper than what was seen in this story, an ending that satisfied. doesn’t have to be uplifting or unpredictable as long as i hear the door click shut behind me on my way out yk.

Various paintings depicting Simonetta Vespucci, nicknamed la bella Simonetta, an Italian noblewoman from Genoa, [1453 – 26 April 1476].

hello i am once again continuing my tradition of redesigning my favorite book's cover

Amber & Althea

It's wild how "women are reading frivolous and immoral novels that are rotting their brains" is such an evergreen moral panic. You'd think we'd have figured this one out by now.

The Rangers (2010)

| Sunstream | Sentinel | Anathema | Steel | Charge |

replying to coworker emails rn like do i sound weird. do i sound foolish. can they tell im in danger of surrendering to the house

book asks:

book you’ve reread the most times?

top 5 books of all time?

what is your favourite genre?

what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

where do you buy books?

what books have you read in the last month?

is there a series/book that got you into reading?

what is the first book you remember reading yourself?

when do you tend to read most?

do you have a guilty fav?

what non-fiction books do you like if any?

did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

do you have a goodreads?

do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?

recommend and review a book.

how many books have you read this year?

top 5 children’s books?

do you like historical books? which time period?

most disliked popular books?

what are things you look for in a book?