*has A Degree In Environmental Studies* *can’t Read Or Interpret Or Study*

hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.

I don't know what I miss more, having free time to draw or these fellas

The raven cycle!!!!

Oh I love these guys. Everything about these books, I want to draw them soooo much more (I probably will)!!

Guys I'm back-

It has been a nightmare lately this is the only thing I managed to draw in weeks? Finals and uni stuff that's taking all of my time and energy, slowly turning me into a cafeinated slug (worst part is caffeine doesn't even have an effect on me? I only drink coffee for the TASTE can you imagine). Anyway the rush won't be over until end of January but hopefully I'll be able to ignore the stress and draw anyway :)

Old comic page I did, depicting the beginning of Rebirth. Something in Chen staring back at Sidestep through the crowd always stuck out to me.

that said i think i like the girl with the bone arm

Not the gay allegations 😭😭 damn she's only been back in bingtown for a few weeks can yall let her breathe 😭

sessi do you have a tag you put to read’s/ref in? or any book recs off the top of your head? I trust your judgement <3 kisses!

ohh I don’t sorry!! but I always recommend anything donna tartt, susan sontag’s on photography is a classic, the lonely city by olivia laing is one of my all time favorites, trick mirror by jia tolentino, if i survive you by jonathan escoffery, on freedom by timothy snyder, and currently I’m on the years by annie ernaux <3

🧍book ask. 2 + 6 + 20 :^)

2. top 5 books of all time

ok i’m going with non-childrens lit novels 🤨 so

the tombs of atuan (ursula leguin)

annihilation (jeff vandermeer)

east of eden (john steinbeck)

royal assassin (robin hobb)

parable of the sower (octavia butler)

6. read this month

the golden compass (philip pullman)

powers (ursula leguin)

20. what i look for in a book

for getting into a book, i want “disappearing” prose that doesn’t distract me from the scene with unnatural rhythm or silly word choice, dialogue that’s either naturalist or theatrical but NOT forced to set up stupid lil quips, place descriptions that take me away, a feeling of promise that smth will happen.

for remembering & loving it after i’m done reading—a striking turn & sudden illumination towards the end of the book about what it all meant (even if the answer is “nothing” or “we don’t get to know”), a main character who got to be selfish, magnetic, and cunning, a world that felt wider & deeper than what was seen in this story, an ending that satisfied. doesn’t have to be uplifting or unpredictable as long as i hear the door click shut behind me on my way out yk.

An excuse to draw the freedom earring (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

f!UB i sketched as warmups over the week