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✨️ 35, she/her, 🏳️‍🌈
✨️ mostly queer/feminist horror, speculative fiction, and little bit of everything else
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Recently read Private Rites by Julia Armfield, these are a few of my favorite quotes

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An image of a flooded city block with white text that reads: "It's exhausting, as it always was, to live with such a breadth of things to take up one's attention-exhausting, the way there can be too much world, even in its final stages. Exhausting, to be so busy and so bored with no time left for either." An image of a flooded city block with white text that reads: "It is easy to forget matters like this; easy, amid the monotony of supermarket sandwiches and damp subsistence, to forget the chippings and scraping that come attendant on a world fundamentally narrowed in scope. One could bury one's dead, once upon a time, and now it is imposed. Hardly something to be grieved in itself but still a lessening, a fact consigned to history along with almost everything else." An image of a flooded city block with white text that reads: "It is an accepted belief that things fall apart. The question of whether the falling apart is necessary is separate and usually secondary. People still discuss this, of course: the fact of the turn, the moment a warning mutated into the only possible outcome. When, people ask, was the last time you remember thinking Oh, it’s raining again. When was your last real sunburn, your last flying ant day, your last good look at the stars. It is easy to think about these things, recollections of things passing fast from your grip, and decide they are simply too much to acknowledge. Easy to imagine inevitability when in fact there might once have been any number of options. " An image of a flooded city block with white text that reads: "“Isn’t it funny,” Stephanie muses, “the way that everything’s fucked but still patched up enough to let you get to work?"
January 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Read books by Black authors all the time - not just in February!

Here are some of my favorite books by Black authors that I haven’t really seen on social media… check ‘em out!

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Collage of 15 books by Black authors.
January 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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#booksky introduction post!

Hi, I am:

✨️ Chels, 35, she/her, 🏳️‍🌈

✨️ in constant pursuit of queer horror, feminist horror, speculative fiction, and literary fiction primarily written by women

✨️ a writer with several nearly finished manuscripts that may or may not ever see the light of day
January 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM