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oretsevmalyen:YA Lit Meme: [4/9] Quotes → Shadow and Bone by...

oretsevmalyen:

YA Lit Meme: [4/9] Quotes → Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

"The problem with wanting," he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, "is that is makes us weak." - The Darkling

shadowandbone:My regiment was two weeks’ march from the...

shadowandbone:

My regiment was two weeks’ march from the military encampment at Poliznaya and the autumn sun was warm overhead, but I shivered in my coat as I eyed the haze that lay like a dirty smudge on the horizon.

oretsevmalyen:YA Lit Meme: [4/5] Protagonists → Alina Starkov...

oretsevmalyen:

YA Lit Meme: [4/5] Protagonists → Alina Starkov from The Grisha Trilogy

"People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don’t expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it."

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elloellenoh:thewriterschneider:CAN WE TALK ABOUTHOW...

elloellenoh:

thewriterschneider:

CAN WE TALK ABOUT

HOW ESKA

IS ACTUALLY

PROBABLY MY FAVORITE

NEW CHARACTER?

Loved her!!!

"Women have historically critiqued and challenged their subordinate role. In 248 ce, a Vietnamese..."

“Women have historically critiqued and challenged their subordinate role. In 248 ce, a Vietnamese peasant woman, Trieu Thi Trinh, told her brother that: “My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I want to drive the enemy away to save our people. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines”. Women also challenged the male claim to religious authority and power. A’ishah, Muhammad’s third wife, for example, battled a Khalife in 656, and afterwards created her own religious laws. In eighth-century India, women involved in the bhakti (a popular revolt against a form of Hinduism) broke with their families, created their own spiritual writings, and demanded that men treat them as spiritual equals. European women preachers and heretics claimed direct connection with God thus creating religious and feminist impulses. Guillemine of Bohemia, a late-thirteenth-century preacher and mystic, challenged Catholic dogma, and created a women’s church that attracted aristocratic as well as ordinary women.”

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Barbara Winslow, Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality

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The next time someone tells me that you can’t have feminism in historical settings I’m going to print out 1,000 copies of this post, bind the paper, and throw it at them.

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When can we expect a cover for Ruin And Rising? (:

Not sure. Probably not for a few more months? I did get a peek at a rough version on Monday and I LOVE it. May be my favorite of the covers thus far.

elvishness:genderbent mako and raleigh lmao

elvishness:

genderbent mako and raleigh lmao

Will there be any gay or lesbian characters in the third book?!

Yes! There are already QUILTBAG characters in the series, but in book 3, they get some page time.

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