#I need to re-read this book

[turndecassette2]

[cutetanuki-chan]

Baru trying to hide Aminata from Tain Shir seeing her is so precious to me

from now on every woman around Baru should wear armor as strong as Aminata's

they are literally like that one meme of two people bending over each other to protect from a gunshot

I'm still not finished third book but if something happens with Aminata I'm gonna revolt

[yrsonpurpose]

"They [Casey] were commenting on all the little idiosyncratic things that Alex does, his little "isms". I had never heard anyone talk about it and I was so grateful that they had said something, because I did re-read the book and try so hard to find those little specific things that Alex would do." — Taylor Zakhar Perez

[tennant]

"Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend."

— Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

[nhyhu]

random capri stuff

my kofi :)

[obsob]

there he is......the man of the house

[rootsmachine]

misty quigley // the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

[iminye]

Pippin is canonically older than both Éowyn and Éomer... This feels illegal somehow

[ronandreams]

But suddenly his daddy was there, looking at him in mortal agony, and a sorrow so great that Danny’s heart flamed within his chest. The mouth drew down in a quivering bow. “Doc,” Jack Torrance said. “Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you.” “No,” Danny said. “Oh Danny, for God’s sake—” “No,” Danny said. He took one of his father’s bloody hands and kissed it. “It’s almost over.”

[thefandomchaos]

Me after listening to The Outsiders Musical cast recording, knowing my hyper fixation came back:

[orangechickenpillow]

Howl Pendragon as a character prepared me for Astarion Ancunin and I feel like I can't really explain that to anyone who doesn't just get it like you have to have been there when Howl turned himself into literal goop because his hair was dyed one (1) shade redder than usual

[brbarou]

i spent TWO YEARS drawing copious amounts of baccano fanart every single day, baccanoposting on both accounts, writing baccano fanfiction and BEGGING people to read it and not a single person has ever picked it up. enter the 40+ people who said they started rote because of me. hope i die

[livrere-green]

"Over the past few months, I’ve come to realize that I am far more of a blog than an actual person. I don’t know when this blogging thing started, and I don’t know when or why I signed up to this website, but I can’t seem to remember what I did before and I don’t know what I’d do if I deleted it. I severely regret starting this blog, I really do. It’s pretty embarrassing. But the only place where I ever find people who are sort of like me is on these blogs. People talk about themselves here in ways that people don’t in real life.

If I delete it, I think I’ll probably be completely alone."

— SOLITAIRE (2014) , ALICE OSEMAN.

[aloeverawrites]

Me visibly shaken after reading And Then There Were None, in one go: Christie you madwoman

[thelilylav]

I’m not saying a lot but I AM saying that John and Sam should’ve been allowed to kiss at least once

[justiceforplutoo]

the thing about reading classics is that people have really high standards of what makes a classic and expecting to understand everything really ruins the whole experience. I started with 1984 and, yes, that impacted me, but I put too much pressure on myself to like and understand it the first go round.

a classic book is just a book.

you don't have to understand it. you don't have to like it.

sure, you can read Frankenstein and be like, "Wow, I sure loved analyzing this text. I feel so smart." OR you can let yourself underline the part that says, "I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate." and write 'no beneficial influence could WHAT NOW?!'

be silly. yeah, it's really rewarding and cool to read a classic and devote your whole life to understanding every sentence and making all the connections, but also... just let yourself read it? have fun with it? you're allowed to hate a classic book (Catcher in the Rye) even if it's a classic. you're allowed to be traumatized by a classic book (Of Mice and Men) even if it's a classic.

I think that a lot of this is common knowledge, but we also need to give ourselves the reminder! it is just a book! how it impacts you as a book should not change just because it's a classic!