Sara Raasch's Blog, page 478
May 5, 2014
leylineboys:
His bare arms were muscular, which likely only...
His bare arms were muscular, which likely only confirmed the crowd’s belief that he would be best working for someone with a whip in hand. Perhaps in another life he could have been groomed for a house; his hair was brown, light enough to please some Valorians, and while his features couldn’t be discerned from Kestrel’s distance, there was a proud line in the way he stood. But his skin was bronzed from outdoor labor, and surely it was to such work that he would return.
Jacob Anderson as Arin
THE WINNER’S CURSE CHALLENGE:
Arin fancast
I support this 100%.
*stares*
*drools*
trenchcoatandhalo:
x
I’m not even in the Supernatual...
I’m not even in the Supernatual fandom but hot damn his jaw just might convert me.
May 4, 2014
Corinne Duyvis | Good News Extravaganza: New Book Deal, Starred Reviews, and ARC Giveaway!
I’m celebrating all kinds of exciting news over at my blog:
* I sold a my second book to my amazing publisher Amulet Books! On the Edge of Gone is set in a futuristic Amsterdam, about an autistic teenage girl during a world-altering comet impact.
* I’ve been receiving amazing reviews for my upcoming debut Otherbound, which highlight the worldbuilding, plot, and diverse cast.
* Today marks my 25th birthday as well as 50 days until Otherbound releases!
To celebrate all of that, I’m giving away a signed ARC of Otherbound at my blog. All I ask is for people to blog or Tumbl about an underrated YA novel or series. (Reblogging this post with your recommendation totally counts.)
Go forth, and share the love!
DO IT!!
"So, maybe we’re the
generation of the selfie,
but we’re also the generation
that grew up in a..."
So, maybe we’re the
generation of the selfie,
but we’re also the generation
that grew up in a tainted,
Photoshopped world
with every impossible beauty standard
shoved down our throat
through a tube
because eating has become
a guilty pleasure
and condemning beauty ideals
won’t go straight to our thighs.
And if, by chance,
we are able to destroy the
demons that you’ve planted
inside of us with your
constant advertisements and rules
that play behind our eyelids and
take root in our brains,
then let us take our fucking pictures
and capture that moment when
we felt beautiful because all this world
has taught us is that
our beauty is the greatest
measure of our worth.
Scoff at our phones all you like,
these delicate extensions of
our fingers, but know that
through this technology
that you couldn’t even
begin to understand,
we have smudged the entire
world with our fingerprints.
We are the generation of knowledge,
and we are learning more than
any that came before us.
So, frown at my typing fingers;
I am using them to grasp power
by the throat.
Try to invalidate us,
but we’ve heard our
parents talking about
the world’s crashing and burning
since we had sprung from the womb.
We know you’ve fucked up,
and we’re angry about it-
the kind of anger that
fuels knowledge,
that I feel in my veins every time
I read the news from my phone
before school,
that sticks in my throat like honey
in a debate;
the kind of anger that simmers,
that sharpens teeth into daggers,
that makes this generation more dangerous
than you could have ever imagined.
We are the generation of change,
and goddammit, we’re coming.
- Emily Palermo, An Open Letter to the Men Who Told Me to Stay Out of Adult Conversations (via starredsoul)
May 3, 2014
thetwentynineth:
IT’S DONNNEEEEEEE itookforeveromgggg
LOL...
IT’S DONNNEEEEEEE itookforeveromgggg
LOL LOOKIT JACK’S DIRTY SNEAKERS HAHA
Disclaimer: The characters of Frozen and Rise of the Guardians belong to their respective owners. I only own this fanart YEAYUHHH! :D
May 1, 2014
jrjohansson:
EXCLUSIVE Cover Reveal Day is over! So now I can...
EXCLUSIVE Cover Reveal Day is over! So now I can post it here!
Seventeen-year-old Piper barely escaped from her abusive parents. Her little brother, Sam, wasn’t as lucky. Now she’s trying to begin the new life she always dreamed of for them, but never thought she’d have to do alone. She hires Cam, a techie-genius with a knack for forgery, to remove the last ties to her old life. Now, she goes by the name Charlotte, and starts working at a nearby Italian restaurant. But while she can erase her past identity, she can’t rid herself of the memories. And her troubled history won’t let her ignore the little girl she sees one day in the park. The girl with the bruises and burn marks.
That’s when Piper begins to receive the messages. Threatening notes left without a trace of entry in her apartment. And they’re addressed to Piper, her old name. As the messages grow in frequency, she doesn’t just need to uncover who is doing this; she needs to stop them before anyone else she loves winds up dead.
Add this to your Goodreads shelf here:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21469083-cut-me-free
Enter the Giveaway for all three of my books (signed) here:https://www.facebook.com/AuthorJRJohansson/app_228910107186452
GO! ADD IT! BE SEVERELY CREEPED OUT!
anonsally:
niallimlegal:
the white house released this video...
the white house released this video on sexual assault that actually targets men, telling them not to rape, rather than telling women not to be raped. please watch this.
Also see notalone.gov —newly launched website for the prevention of and response to campus sexual assault, with resources for survivors and institutions.
This makes me proud of my country for the first time in way too long.
