8 Ursula LeGuin Short Stories You Have To Read

Visual motif: The mighty Kylo Ren, kneeling in front of Rey, the girl who came from nowhere.

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dear reader, you don’t have to answer just ’cause they asked you...

Not a request exactly but I was wondering, what are some of your top quotes / poems from this past year? Things that stuck with you, whether new or not; things that resonated deep inside you, that got you through another year?

Okay, so, it turns out that I actually have quite a few of these because I have read a lot more since I started this blog, so I'm just going to link a fuckton of poems and miscellanea that I liked enough to bookmark as I made webs and hope you like them too:

LET YOUR DAD DIE ENERGY DRINK by Daniel Lavery and Cecilia Corrigan, and it's follow up WIRE MOTHER ENERGY DRINK

I love all of @animauxing's gorgeous ACNH comics, but especially these two

Great Things Have Happened by Alden Nowlan

Crystal Wilkinson's article Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts

The lyrics to Hiding All Away by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The full version of The Old Astronomer by Sarah Williams, which I had only ever read a single stanza from before this year

Obedience, or the Lying Tale by Jennifer Chang

Holly Warburton. Just... all of her artwork. All of it.

I knew about Ocean Vuong a while ago, and I knew he was good - really good - but I never quite comprehended how good until I read Prayer for the Newly Damned for the first time and immediately burst into tears

Betrayal by William Hathaway

The Death of Antinoüs by Mark Doty

Jared Singer's spoken word poem The Last Love Letter From an Entomologist (and a transcript for those like me who need to have something to read along with)

@billypotts's epiphany about love and personhood

acknowledgments by Danez Smith

Leila Chatti's poem about grief, What Willl Happen, which was the first thing in twelve years that let me forgive myself for the way I reacted to the death of a girl I knew when I was ten years old. If I had to pick a single thing I read that changed me in 2021, this would be it

Planning Ahead Can Make a Difference in the End by Aaron Freeman

Saturday's Child by Countee Cullen

Cavetown’s Boys Will Be Bugs, which will likely be the song of 2021 in my memory

Feel free to reblog or reply with your own favourites! I'd love to see them <3

July 1949.

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Rec: Masterpost

For easy searching, here is a rec with a list of all the recs that I’ve made! I hope this makes it easier for everyone to find the fics they want to read. <3 

Classic Fics (if you’re new, start here!)

Rosie’s Favorite Fics

Alternate Universe Recs:

Animals AU

Band/Musician AU

Bodyguard AU

Camping AU

Historical AU 

Jedi Academy AU

Pirates AU

Soulmates AU

Undercover/Spies/Assassins AU

Role Reversal AU

Modern AU

(Subcategory: Angst) 

(Subcategory: Fluff)

(Subcategory: Fluff Part 2)

Roommates/Neighbors AU

Social Media AU

Gang/Organized Crime AU

Coffeeshop AU

High School AU 

College/Uni AU

Doctor AU

Police AU 

Athletes AU

Actors AU

Business AU

Movie/Musical Inspo AU

Harry Potter AU 

Cinderella AU

Pride and Prejudice AU 

Game of Thrones AU

Mythology & Witchcraft AU 

Zombie/Vampire AU

Hades and Persephone AU 

Demon/Angel AU 

Mermaid AU 

Fairy Tale AU

Tropes:

Alcohol/Getting Drunk

Amnesia/Memory Loss

Breakups/Ex-Lovers

Fem!Reylo 

Force Ghosts

Kylo Leaves Rey on Jakku

Secret Lovers

Running Away Together

Enemies to Lovers

Friends to Lovers

Fake Relationship

Student/Teacher Dynamic

Time Travel

Force Bond

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5 

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Inappropriate Use of the Force 

Interrogation Scene

Force Skype

Love Confessions

Weddings/Proposals 

Arranged Marriage

Established Relationship

Established Relationship Part 2

Reylo Babies

Planned/Unplanned Pregnancy 

Stuck Together

Trapped Alone Together

Uneasy Allies

Sharing a Bed 

Road Trips

Kylo Centric: 

Dominant Kylo Ren (Submissive Rey)

Emperor Kylo Ren 

Kylo Ren Mental Illness 

Light Side Ben/Kylo Ren 

Senator Ben Solo

Younger Ben Solo/Kylo Ren

Kylo Ren Redemption

Smuggler Ben Solo

Matt the Radar Technician 

Obsessive Kylo Ren

Jealous Kylo Ren 

Possessive Kylo Ren 

Kylo Ren Is Not Nice 

Priest Kylo Ren 

Prisoner Kylo Ren 

Single Dad Kylo Ren

Virgin Ben/Kylo Ren

Rey Centric:

Dark Side/Gray Rey

Apprentice (to Kylo) Rey 

Empress Rey 

Dominant Rey (Submissive Kylo Ren) 

Jealous Rey

Mechanic Rey

Prisoner Rey

Stripper Rey

Virgin Rey 

Mostly Smut:

A/B/O Dynamics 

Aphrodisiac/Sex Pollen 

DD/lg Kink

Dominant Kylo Ren (Submissive Rey)

Dominant Rey (Submissive Kylo Ren)

Fluff and Smut

Long Fics Rated M/E

Masturbation

Part 2

M/E-rated Mythology & Witchcraft AU

Possessive Kylo Ren

Size Kink

Slow Burn (Subcategory: Canon Compliant, Rated M or E) 

Virgin Ben/Kylo Ren

Virgin Rey

Voyeurism

Rated T or Below:

Cuddling

Slow Burn (Subcategory: Canon Compliant, Rated T or Below)

Smut-Free 

Angsty:

Breakups/Ex-Lovers

Canon Compliant (Subcategory: Angst)

Canon Compliant (Subcategory: Pining)

Fluff and Angst

Mutual Pining 

Touch Starved

Hurt/Comfort 

Sickfics

Injuries & Healing

Heavy Angst

Major Character Death (Subcategory: Rey and/or Kylo)

Modern AU (Subcategory: Angst) 

Fluffy:

Happy Endings 

Lighthearted/Fluff

Domestic Fluff 

Cuddling

Crack

Holidays 

Modern AU (Subcategory: Fluff)

Modern AU (Subcategory: Fluff Part 2)

Other:

Canon Compliant 

Non-English Fics

Part 2

Podfics 

Pre-TFA 

Slow Burn

Part 2

The Last Jedi Fics 

The Last Jedi Speculation Fics 

Post-The Last Jedi Fics

The Last Jedi Alternate Ending Fics

Throne Room Scene Fics

On Ahch-To 

Word Count ~90,000

It’s not like this with other people.

Morgan Parker, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night; “Greetings from Struggle City”

[Text ID: For a taste of your neck I would / burn my tongue]

— Sunrise, by Louise Glück