Yourlocaldreamergirl - Kludde

i need a roadtrip through the french countryside

allez où vous vous sentez le plus vivant 🕊

This quote means a lot to me that it became my fav 🤍 happy new year btw ❤️

sometimes you read a fanfiction to distract and enjoy yourself but you end up reading a dialogue or a sentence that fundamentally changes who you are as a person and how you perceive the world around you, and honestly i wouldn't have it any other way

For the 8 years that I have been drawing this series what I want to convey hasn't changed. A feeling of "wanting to live freely”. Look at what you want, eat what you wish, then sleep without any burdens, that is the kind of life I want to fulfill. If I draw out my characters living this simple way of life, maybe the reader too can feel a moment of happiness through this particular work. Then I think this is a good thing that I have done.

UMIBE NO ÉTRANGER / エトランゼシリーズ (2020)                     → dir. Akiyo Ohashi | original story by Kii Kanna

“When seeking guidance, don’t ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Erling Haaland 😙 Jude Bellingham

Now that this corner is pretty much finished, I can turn my attention towards other parts of the house ✨

#BookChallenge2021

So here is the #BookChallenge I put together for the year, muxing up categories from several Book Challenge lists I spotted on the net, such as POPSUGAR Reading Challenge or the Reading Women Challange. It counts 30 books as I will hopefully read a few more?

I put together one that could provide me a mix of pushing me out of my comfort zone/broadening my horizons and a very much deserved in this crazy long night self-indulgence. 

I am sharing it, even if it’s a bit late for this kind of projects but what is Time during a pandemic? The passage of time has been long lost ever since… Anyway! I am sharing this hoping to provide useful/intersting tips or - who knows? - inspiration to do this or a similar challenge to fellow bookworms and not. I added flags on certain categories so you know what to expect, that is where to find queer content or where to set sails. After all, in a time where travelling is pretty much not an option, a book can a be the best airplane ticket to fly around this big troubled world forgetting the current chaos…

A crime novel or thriller in translation by a Muslim/ Latinx/ Black/ Asian/ Indigenous and so on author: The Skating Ring (La pista de hielo), Roberto Bolano  🇨🇱

Reread a favourite: Love In the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Book by a Southern American author: Hurricane Season (Temporada de huracanes), Fernanda Melchor  🇲🇽   (suggested by the one and only @faeinthefog​)

Book about incarceration: Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison, Caitlin Davies

An author from Eastern Europe: Tales of The Little Quarter or Prague Tales ( Povídky malostranské), Jan Neruda  🇨🇿

Queer Love Story: The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall  🏳️‍🌈

A non-European book in translation (see point 1): The Sea Cloak and Other Stories, Nayrouz Qarmout (Palestine)  🇵🇸

A book you’ve been intimidated to read: Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo 🏳️‍🌈

Non-fiction about anti-racism: Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis

A LGBTQ+ History book: waiting for GJ season 2, a self-indulgent reading… Gentleman Jack: the Real Anne Lister, Anne Choma & Sally Wainwright 🏳️‍🌈

A book by a trans or non-binary author: Conundrum by the recently departed trans writer and historian Jan Morris  🏳️‍⚧️  🏳️‍🌈

A debut novel of a queer author: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong  🏳️‍🌈

Read a book with a cover you don’t like: The Fourteenth Letter, Claire Evans

A book published in 2021: Common Ground, Naomi Ishiguro

A book by an author who shares my zodiac sign (Scorpio): The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue 🏳️‍🌈

Poetry collection by a black woman: And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

A book you’ve seen on someone’s bookshelf: Claudine at School, Colette (spotted on @natreadsthings​ blog)

An epistolary: Love Letters, Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville West  🏳️‍🌈

A book with a black and white cover: We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley Jackson - spooky Halloween reading

A book set in multiple countries: Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan 🏳️‍🌈

A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021: Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin (Paris)  🏳️‍🌈

A book everyone seems to have read but you: The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (I know: SHAME ON ME!)

A book set in the 1920′s: Save Me the Waltz, Zelda Fitzgerald

A book where the main character works at your current or dream job: Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach

A book about art or an artist: The Doll Factory, Elizabeth Macneal

A book made into a TV series: The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Travis

An author you love: Syndrome E, Franck Thilliez

A book you own but haven’t read yet: Acorn, Yoko Ono

Bestselling memoir: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson  🏳️‍🌈

A book recommended by a librarian: The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith, Shirley Jackson

The Holy Trinity