I love hosting parties until the party comes. I love the planning, the decorating, the perfect curating of the never-ending playlist, poring over who to invite and who to tactfully leave out.

Okay. I know what you’re saying. “Science fiction and fantasy are so different, what are you talking about?”, and I get it. I implore you to hear me out regardless

I think that everyone should have something where they can get into a state where nothing can stop them.

I have never had an independent thought or original experience, and I want to have one so bad, I need to have one, I can’t be like everybody else, I have to be my own independent person—and I was going to do anything to make sure I would have my original experience—so I got to work and I came up with a plan, I was going to climb up to the top of the tallest building I could find and just scream for everyone to hear, the day came when it was time to enact my plan, I walked int

Every once in a while, something random will remind me of a book series that I haven’t read in years. During class the other day, I was reminded of the absolute masterpiece of a young adult science fiction series by Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristoff: The Illuminae Files. I have only ever met one other person who has also read this series, and it makes me so sad! It’s absolutely incredible; more people should read it! You may be wondering what makes this series different than any o

Both sisters had tattoos of writhing, withering leaves across their cheeks and arms and chests. Both wore a pendant in the shape of a sword shattered down the fuller, the right belonging to Elenydd and the left to Eirianedd. Yet tonight, under the trilling of the nightjars, a shiver of uncanny cold ran down her skin to pool at the tips of her fingers and the base of her spine.

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