#I need to re-read this book

[turndecassette2]

[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

[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

[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

[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.

[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!

[aloeverawrites]

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

[sforzesco]

ALSO a Pazzi woman married Braccio Martelli which makes me scream because Lorenzo CANONICALLY did SINS with said Braccio

shshdh I LOVE that phrasing so much

but also oh my god I knew about the Sins™️ but I didn’t know about Martelli’s marriage to a Pazzi….this is incredible, I am thinking thoughts, I need to turn this around in my head for a month minimum…..

also context for people who would like to know about Martelli and Lorenzo:

Magnifico: the Brilliant Life and Times of Lorenzo de' Medici, Miles J. Unger

[lafoget]

i re-read young justice and think again about how peter david twice gave us what comics rarely show - abusive mothers who look like real living characters, not caricatures of bad parents. and at the same time, he allows them to receive arcs of redemption without sweeping their past sins under the rug.

bonnie king-jones and sylvia danvers are probably some of my favorite supporting characters in his works. they're tough women with many flaws who hurt their daughters badly, but also at the moment when they realize that they are about to lose cissie and linda, they stand up, admit their guilt and begin to work on themselves to fix these relationship.

it's not a complete reconciliation, but it's a start.

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Still wild to me that the Avatar team saw a guy write a love story between a stick and a monkey and were like "This is the guy who we need to write Rangshi and Yangvik" and then he ended up making two of the best couples in all of the Avatar-verse TT0TT

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

I'm sorry I can't take your call right now, I'm becoming unhinged about Transformers again,,,