kat_lair | Some awesome stuff...

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...to brighten up your Sunday.

Mmmm, coffee. This one is going on my office door I think.

And also this.

And this too.

And maybe this one. ARE YOU SEEING A THEME YET?

This one reminds me of

dreamersdare who is a true wonder to behold before her first coffee and smoke. :D

Books to go with all that coffee! I would like to read all these YA books with lesbian heroines. And these ones with bi protagonists. Or these with various queer folk, and also these ones with female Muslim protagonists ALL THESE BOOKS. In the hypothetical point in time when I have time. Sigh.

Speaking of reading. You should read this amazingly gorgeous short-fic-of-sorts: A GUIDE FOR YOUNG LADIES ENTERING THE SERVICE OF THE FAIRIES, by Rosamund Hodge
Here's a taster:

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This is the lie they will use to break you: no one else has ever loved this way before.

II.

Choose wisely which court you serve. Light or Dark, Summer or Winter, Seelie or Unseelie: they have many names, but the pith of the choice is this: a poisoned flower or a knife in the dark?

(The difference is less and more than you might think.)

Of course, this is only if you go to them for the granting of a wish: to save your father, sister, lover, dearest friend. If you go to get someone back from them, or—most foolish of all—because you fell in love with one of them, you will have no choice at all. You must go to the ones that chose you.

III.

Be kind to the creature that guards your door. Do not mock its broken, bleeding face.

It will never help you in return. But I assure you, someday you will be glad to know that you were kind to something once.