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Meghan O'Keefe

@megsokay / megsokay.tumblr.com

This is a garbage person's trash blog.

I need all my ACOTAR nerds to get on Lillian Lark’s LEVEL!!!! I downloaded this book with Kindle Unlimited last night on a whim and couldn’t stop reading!!! I finished the book like an hour ago. 

l don’t want to spoil it, but let me just say is that it’s like if Rhys and Cass and Az were in a throuple romancing a hot curvy witch librarian. 

Have I already added ENTRANCED BY THE BASILISKS, Lark’s next book, to my reading list? MAYBE SO. 

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𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: February 1. Nothing, merely tired. END ID]

happy “nothing, merely tired” day to all who celebrate

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I’ve spent the day watching Joe Cornish’s adaptation of LOCKWOOD & CO. on Netflix *for work* (because Netflix weirdly didn’t assign a PR rep to it and ergo never followed up on the emails I sent for screeners).

ANYWAY, this is hands down, uh, the best supernatural YA show on Netflix. 10/10. I have never read the books. I am incredibly obsessed now with this world, these characters, and how the show hits all my geek buttons.

UGH. I might have to read the books?? (But I’m gathering that even in the books, Lucy and Lockwood don’t kiss and all I wanted Ruby Stokes and Cameron Chapman to do in every scene was smush faces because THEIR! CHEMISTRY!) 

mat cauthon 🦊 22 🎲 not a hero ❌ horses 🐎🐴 dad 👨‍👦 tired of dying please stop killing me pleaseee

physics major wrote a fantasy series set in a post-apocalyptic world which features a bunch of genre experimentation and clever ways to address narrative choices and classic tropes by making the narrative aware. It was also an excuse to include portals, alternate dimensions, aliens, psychic bonds, creatures outside space-time who steal memories, etc. It explores the nuances of settler-colonialism, imperialism, religious extremism, trauma, inserts interesting allegories for abuse and sexism, environmentalism, critiques the complicity of governing structures in the violence their citizens are subjected to by failing to intervene in a timely manner due to their being preoccupied in maintaining face, etc. the basic premise is boring (classic chosen one has to defeat the dark one trope although there’s a twist to that), but only acts as a backdrop against a world which features rich worldbuilding drawing inspiration from various cultures across the globe and features lots of symbolism ranging from arthuriana to a variety of mythologies. wot fans when the guy who’s partly based off of odin gets hanged and loses an eye although the author constantly foreshadows it: I did not see that coming wtf!!!