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This sounds so awesome! That’s a really fascinating concept, I get the involuntary historical accuracy though, it’s a bit of a pain.

Me: is writing a book set in an alternate reality in the late 19th century but weird with werewolves and steampowered everything

Also me: When were lifts invented so I can make it historically accruate?

YOUR MAIN CHARACTER HAS A FUCKING MAGICAL ROBOT ARM, SHE CAN GET IN A FUCKING LIFT IF SHE WANTS TO!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is very relatable, a great model for today’s youth!

Kai: [shining a flashlight under the bed]

Kai: Vale, are you ready to come out and interact with people yet?

Vale: [demonic screeching]

Kai: Understandable. Have a good day

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Aww, this is super cute. I know it’s a big step to share your work with other people and it’s really cool that you’ve done it. I wouldn’t have guessed that English isn’t your first language which is insane. I Ioved this!

I know i said i wasn’t going to do anything, but here it is! Hope ya’ll like it!

(REMEMBER: English is not my first language, so i’m sorry if my grammar is bad. This is also the first time i show any of my writing to strangers so yea be nice plsss)

The room smelled like toast and eggs, Irene’s favourite, and the curtains were slightly open, just enough to light up the room. Besides that, there were also red roses all around her, and of course, there was Kai standing by the side of the bed, smiling like a child and holding a silver tray with breakfast in it.  

“Good morning love!” He said, and Irene knew he was trying to hold back his excitment. “Sorry for waking you up early, but today’s such a beautiful morning…”

She smiled and streched her arms. “I’ll forgive you, but only because you made me breakfast.” She sat up and took the toast from the plate, taking a bite out of it.

“Someone’s hungry, huh?” Kai said, giggling, and placed the tray on top of Irene’s lap. “I just hope you like it. Not just the food, i mean all of this.” He picked up a rose from the bed and held it in front of his face. “Did i surprise you?”

Irene laughed. “Well, you do something like this every year, so i can’t say I’m surprised…but i still like it.” She looked at Kai, sighed, and smiled. “And I’m still not tired of it.”

Kai looked down embarrased, grinnig and blushing slightly. “I know it’s cheesy, but we’ve been maried for nearly four years now, and I’m running out of creativity!”

“That’s fine, don’t be silly.” Irene said, cupping his face with her hands. “That’s not what’s this day is about, is it? I’ll be happy with whatever you do for me, really.”

Kai looked at her for a few seconds, and then gave her a kiss. It didn’t last long, but it didn’t need to. It was just another way to say “I love you”, or “I’ts alright.”

“Let’s just have fun today, ok?” He said. “You’ll choose where we’ll go today.”

“Remember this is a day about us, Kai” Irene said, running her hands through his hair. “You don’t need to do everything i want…”

“…Unless i want to.” They both laughed, and Irene took the last bite of her toast.  

“Alright, then get dressed, i don’t want to stay home today.” Irene stood up, holding the tray. “I’ll wash the dishes really qui–”

She stopped talking as she felt Kai gently hold her arm. She turned around to see him smiling, looking absolutely beautiful in the sunlight.  

“Irene…?” He said, coming closer and giving her one more kiss on her forehead. “Happy wedding anniversary.”

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Essays

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag

The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*

Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*

A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi

How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik

Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman

Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom

The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*

The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes

Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*

Why I Write - George Orwell*

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

Looking at War - Susan Sontag*

Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz

Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker

The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews

In Plato’s Cave - Susan Sontag*

On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -  Maël Renouard

Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash

Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*

Timur’s Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur

The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai’s iconic railway station - Srinath Perur

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -  Andrew Harris

The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay

The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan

A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne

The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*

The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

The trolley problem problem - James Wilson

A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram

Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*

Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer

The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*

The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape

If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood

Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart

The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*

The Science of “Muddling Through” - Charles Lindblom*

History

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan

The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*

The Anti-Che - Jay Nordlinger

From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*

Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*

All By Myself - Martha Bailey*

The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder

The sea/ocean

Rim of Life - Manu Pillai

Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery

‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*

The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*

Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti

Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*

Assorted ones on India

A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash

Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee

Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu

The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*

Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta

Our worldview is Delhi based*

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

‘Massa Day Done:’ Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*

Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh

When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*

Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha

MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*

Music

Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo

Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder

The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs*

Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*

How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield

Concert for Bangladesh

From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen 

Gender

Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane

The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin

Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*

Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe

Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*

Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)

Colonialism’s effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee

Tracing Europe’s influence on India’s culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal*

From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*

The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*

How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*

Pav from the Nau

A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)

Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*

Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua

The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*

Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*

Travel

The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism

Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*

More random assorted ones

The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*

In El Salvador - Joan Didion

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee

Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*

What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*

The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*

Credibility and Mystery - John Berger

happy reading :)

And Silver gets his whole diabolical fae shebang.

Vale: We’re not gonna burn it

Irene: C'mon dude, you never let me burn anything

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BABYYYYYY JUST UNMUTE GOD

I would really recommend Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan. It’s set in small town Ireland and the atmosphere super close and secretive. They live in a castle with secret passages- awesome! It’s hilarious and I love the characters and it’s a fast paced read as well, I tore through it.

do u know of any wlw witch story lines?? ty!!

There is a Goodreads list for Sapphic Witch Books! Personally, I can recommend

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue (Fairytales)

Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas, #1) by Zoraida Córdova (Bruja bisexual main character)

The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer (Another fairytale-ish story)

I haven’t read Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle yet, but I’ve heard really good things about it!

I’m also excited to read Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe, which I’ve been told includes some F/F stories.

The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta doesn’t come out until the Spring of 2019, and all I know about it is that the blurb promises queer witches in the woods, but that’s enough for me.

Also check out this Autostraddle post: Read These 10 Books with Queer Witches

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