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the time travel agency seamstress (that one Tumblr post) |  Karolina Żebrowska

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Terry Pratchett was made an honorary Brownie and this pleases me to no end.

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59. There are about 5 on top of that which I intend to read at some point but I’m not at all interested in the rest.

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

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I think I was feeling quite gloomy when I took the quiz because I’m really not like this at all.

alright folks. it’s time to find out which lotr poem you are. this quiz has 33 potential answers and only one of them is tom bombadil, so your odds are pretty good

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Happy International Sir Terry Pratchett Day! Quote from (x) Art by Paul Kidby

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If you’d answered @rosefyrefyre with her response visible it would have been much better because the it would be entirely clear to everyone that your response is a non-answer.

She’s clearly explained to you how you’d need to properly deal with the issue of the anthology earning out and you’ve just said “I don’t think that will happen so I won’t plan for it���. That isn’t fair or acceptable to either yourself or the other authors - your set up and contracts should be clear and should deal with all eventualities that are conceivable. Earning out may not be likely but it might happen - you can’t just ignore that.

I’m getting the impression from reading all the notes on this post (not just this thread) that you didn’t know what publishing an anthology really entailed and now it’s becoming clear because people are taking the time to tell you, you simply want to hand wave the issues because it’s such a massive undertaking. I understand the impulse but you need to either accept the full responsibilities that go with making this happen or you need to step away and accept that this project isn’t something you can reasonably do. Half arsing it isn’t really an option here if you value your reputation and the work of the authors who contribute.

Extended deadline, anyone??

The Humans Are Weird anthology may just live after all, thanks to the sudden crowd of interested writers!

For those of you scrambling to put something together by the end of June, you’ll be happy to hear that you get two more weeks: the deadline is now end-of-day July 15th.  

Details are here!

(Now to tag everyone in the notes bemoaning the short timeframe.  Feel free to help me spread the word!)

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Have you any fiction book recs? I hope that doesn't fall under the "no book rec" post from earlier which seemed just to be aimed at books to learn witchcraft from, I just think you'd have cool fun reading taste! Please ignore and excuse my misunderstanding if that post including fiction recs!!

I have a lot of books I like in a very narrow range lol. I read a lot of fantasy, especially YA fantasy, and I’ve only read like three new books in the past two years because the monster child takes up all my time.

At this point it’s probably easiest for me to just name the authors whose books I keep and reread and lend to my students: Tamora Pierce, Diane Duane, Fiona Patton, Tanya Huff, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Garth Nix, Neil Gaiman, Jacqueline Carey, Madeleine L’Engle, Phillip Pullman, Patricia C. Wrede’ Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising quintet, the Dune novels (but I haven’t read any of the spinoffs, just the core series), Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, and just a truly ridiculous amount of Star Wars novels. I also read and love all of the Ender’s Game series, but Orson Scott Card is a garbage person so I won’t buy his books anymore. I also read and have feelings about Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels novels, but they are not what I’d call good lol. (Same for Sarah J Maas’s novels, which are basically Anne Bishop fanfic anyway.) Oh, and Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Chronicles. I haven’t read her other books; I’m told they’re also enjoyable.

Darth Poeticus contributes Kevin J. Anderson, Brandon Sanderson, Karen Miller, N. K. Jemisin, and Brent Weeks.

I hope some of that’s helpful!

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On the Glorious 25th May we remember John Keel, Dai Dickens, Ned Coates, Horace Nancyball, Billy Wiglet, Cecil Clapman, and (sort of) Reg Shoe.

“They did the job they didn’t have to do, and they died doing it”

#gnuterrypratchett #speakhisname #theglorious25may #HowDoTheyRiseUp

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Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. – Night Watch

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your last words before you die are the 3rd line of the last song you listened to. what are we saying ladies?

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Or possible The Porcelain of Doggian Gray

Okay so like…A few weeks ago I saw this in a dollar store and thought it was pretty neat so I bought it

and now I’m wondering if I jinxed myself because like a couple of weeks after, I  bought this:

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The Questing Beast was the final episode of Series 1. It had a fatal, incurable, bite and Arthur got bitten (quelle surprise) so Merlin went off to Nimue and got water from the Holy Grail cup of life, to cure him. Then there were shenanigans because “a life for a life” which ended with Merlin killing Nimue to “restore the balance”. It was this episode Bedievere died off screen in, I think.

So...I never really finished watching BBC Merlin (stopped around the start of the Third Season) but....is anyone else bitter Pellinore? Demoting him to just a knight in Uther's Court....not to mention the Questing Beast stuff...

I guess I'm just really bitter since an episode with King Pellinore and his search for the Questing Beast possibly with Percival and Palomedes in tow (I assume Percival shows up later in the show...but I digress) really seems like it would have fit very well with like...the whole tone of the first season (and some of the second season) of Merlin....I mean...I know Arthurian legend is a grab bag of plot points ideas and characters, and it's a minor thing to be annoyed about....but...and I'm fairly certain I'm using this phrase correctly

King Pellinore deserved better. (Also killed Bedivere off screen? what?).

It's been ages since I've watched Merlin and that has still stuck with me.

Make of this what you will.

Al, the Chronographing Cottager and Prince of Naming

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It’s free with Prime video in the UK if you have that.

okay guys, we need to talk about a movie called Big Eden

It’s about this dude Henry who’s an artist living in New York,

and he has to go back to his hometown in Montana to take care of his grandfather who just recently had a stroke and is wheelchair-bound.

Things are all fine and dandy until Henry finds out that his old best friend from high school, as well as object of his unrequited affections that he’s never really been able to let go of is also back in town. His name is Dean. He’s there with his two sons to recoup from a recent divorce from his wife. 

Henry is extremely frazzled by seeing his long-time crush after so many years, but they spend a lot of time together over the passing weeks and seem to fall into their old friendship very easily. Perhaps a little too easily….??? hmmm???

And with everything with Dean happening, Henry can’t be blamed that he’s entirely oblivious to Pike, the man who runs the local general goods store.

It’s obvious to us (and the whole damn town) that Pike’s been head over heels for Henry since high school, but is painfully shy. He can barely talk to Henry at all and it’s the cuTEST GODDAMN THING oh lord help me from this movie.

Throughout the movie, Pike can’t seem to help himself from wanting nothing more than to make Henry happy from afar. He’s supposed to be delivering food cooked by one of the older ladies in town to Henry and his grandfather’s house to eat every night, but Pike cooks his own, exceptionally better meals, and delivers those instead and tells no one.

Now, Henry does notice Pike, and something about him catches his attention. Even if he doesn’t understand why yet. He tries to invite him to stay for dinner almost every night in an attempt to get him to open up, but Pike only becomes more closed off when he notices what’s going on between Henry and Dean. 

I’ll stop there, as I don’t want to give the whole thing away, but I can’t leave this without talking about the town’s residents in this movie. This place is 100% one of those little towns where everyone knows each other as well as their business, you have nosy little old ladies, dudes who do nothing all day but sit on the porch of the corner store and smoke a pipe, and they all go to church on Sundays.

AND YET, not only is this movie void of any homophobia from any character, basically the whole freaking town is all up in this whole love triangle. They support Pike so much that there’s even scenes where they all play matchmaker with him and Henry. They root for them in the goofiest, most loveable way. 

SO BASICALLY, this is a silly romantic comedy, except gay. It’s all super  lighthearted comedy with tiny bits of drama thrown in. No one dies!!!! No one is killed or commits suicide and has a 100% happy ending!!! The three main guys are just normal guys!!! There’s not a stereotype to be found here!! anD ONE OF THEM IS NATIVE AMERICAN. No seriously guys it hurts me that not everybody knows about this movie. I discovered it when I was in middle school in our video store’s tiny little LGBTQ section, and must have rented it 20 times throughout the years before I finally bought it. I know this movie almost frame by frame I’ve watched it so many times because it’s just so disgustingly cute and always makes me happy. NOW, this movie isn’t perfect. It’s got some clunky acting, weird.. I guess artsy moments that don’t make sense, and crosses into the line of cheesy quite a few times, BUT, that’s really not important. This is treated exactly as if it were a het romantic comedy. Their being gay has nothing to do with the overall story, and is never brought up save for a small plotline where Henry is guilty with himself for never coming out to his grandfather. But overall, more LGBTQ movies need to be like this, it’s just way too rare.

GO WATCH IT YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID. Sadly, the only way I know to get ahold of it is to just buy the DVD. But it’s fairly cheap on Amazon! And even cheaper if you buy it used on there, but either way I promise it’s worth it to own. Like I said, I think I kept our video store in business from my renting it so many times.

Oh, and I hope you enjoy country music to some extent because this has the countriest soundtrack of all time.

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Who wants to know what those herbs are really good for?

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It’s been a long time since I managed to snap a shot for @bibliophilicwitch’s tomes and tea but today I remembered! Coffee and Tim Dee’s Greenery, which arrived earlier in the week.

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This. Entirely this.

I’ve only read a couple of Discworld books, but I have a question about the afterlife. You get what you expect to get, right?

If there are three brothers, the first brother dies an atheist and simply ceases to exist. The second brother dies with a guilty conscience and is punished for eternity for his sins. The third brother dies an optimist and expects to ascend to a heavenly state surrounded by his friends and family.

Are the other two brothers absent from the third brother’s afterlife? Are their souls/essences/consciousnesses cloned so that they can satisfy both their brother’s expectations and their own? Or is the third brother alone in his heavenly existence and surrounded only by soulless simulacra of his loved ones?

If one of the brothers dies uncertain and doubtful, hopeful for heaven but nervously expecting the worst, are his fears or his hopes validated? Is his anxiety and uncertainty reflected in his afterlife? If so, it sounds like the whole spiritual universe is heavily biased against people with anxiety.

Terry Pratchett come back I have questions and I don’t have enough Audible credits to answer them.

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