#I read it in like third grade

[wilde-shit-posting]

Dorian Gray should actually get adopted by the family in Tuck Everlasting

[july-19th-club]

i know for a fact i have made this post before but for me it's very important that bbc merlin is a pointless tragedy. it wouldn't be good (it's frequently not good anyway but it would be a lot further away from good) if it wasn't a pointless tragedy! it's simply not arthuriana if it doesn't go past the high point of the heroic/legendary/high medieval romance stuff and end with detailed rundowns of exactly how everybody got betrayed and died like that is what makes it real arthuriana to me and not just a silly show about a wizard

[numberfiveisback]

y'know I haven't once seen any confirmation for The Crying Child's name... Is it actually Dave/David? I keep seeing people say that it is

[seilon]

love when this is referred to as the gifted kid website. shockingly my mental disorders made me mentally disordered and school never really vibed with that so. couldn’t be me

[caterpillarinacave]

Every person thinks about the battle of Cadair Idris once a day is a statical error. I, CaterpillarInACave, who thinks about it once every 3 to 30 minutes, am an outlier and should not have been counted.

[the-meme-monarch]

Wait the cats name is Rusty? And its orange? Do you own a real life Firestar? (Assuming you know what warrior cats is if you dont ignore this lol)

was wondering if someone was going to say this ! it always happens when i bring him up ! anyway i do know warriors but i only read two books, and also my dad named him. his mom’s name is tawny and that one Was my doing. not even necessarily after the character tawnypelt i just learned what the word tawny was Because of that book and thought it was a neat word. she is Also a tortoiseshell though

[megasceptile001]

i smell a new special interest coming on

[bookwyrminspiration]

yes we are >:)

the original book that inspired the post was tender is the flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, I read the english translation because my spanish is not good enough for the original yet. but it is also available under the title cadaver exquisito in the original spanish. basically: what if all animal meat was toxic so we had industrialized cannibalism instead would that be fucked up or what.

it’s pretty heavy (obviously) and also graphic so I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone. but it was so well written and genuinely amazing.

the book that inspired the reblog today was my dearest holmes by Rohase Piercy. not nearly as fucked up. but it did fuck me up.

it’s a Sherlock Holmes pastiche stylized as a forgotten memoir written by Watson. it draws on a lot of well-known inconsistencies and oddities of the canon to create a story of Watson and Holmes as gay men. I listened to a podcast interview with the author about it, and the amount of research she did for it really shines through in the setting, the cases, all these little details… augh. it can be read alone, but I found it especially gratifying to read as someone who loves the original stories and is perhaps a little obsessed with analyzing them. there is a Lot more I could say about it but I will stop there for now :)

I was about to say "alas! you tell me this the day after I go to the bookstore!" but then I double checked and I'd have to special order it (normal and easy, just means it's not in-store currently and not in-demand enough for them to order it without request) so really no harm done there

I love fucked up or what and graphic novels!! Nothing like an unsettling thought experiment laid out in detail. I make no promises to promptness, but I'll see if I can check out that first one :)

I very likely will not check out the second though, since it's not one of my interests, but I'm thrilled that you enjoyed it so! It's so satisfying when things are well researched and thought through, and so gratifying to be able to pick up on things and connect them back to prior knowledge (e.g. familiarity with the original stories).

It sounds absolutely perfect for you, based on what I know of your fondness for Sherlock. And then getting background knowledge in a podcast!! I recently found a random podcast interview of my favorite author, Jenn Lyons, that I'm really excited to listen to.

Also in the spirit of sharing, the book I read in basically one sitting today was Nothing But Blackened Teeth. It didn't really fuck me up (it was just alright), but it did have me raising my eyebrows like oh that's where this is going? Huh. It was a complete impulse buy at the bookstore yesterday--I'd never heard of it or the author, and it's not my usual genre, and it's like 140 pages max. It's about this incredibly dysfunctional group of 5 staying at a run-down supposedly haunted Heian mansion for 2 of theirs' wedding, and let me tell you. Ghost.

Anyway, glad you enjoyed your novels!!! There's something about reading a book in a day that just hits. The childhood nostalgia, the immersion, something. We should do that more often

[psychicthepsychic-daily]

the very next line is "impossible. keeley doesn't have a mind for me to play with." which i feel is very much something psychic would say about boyfriend

[apollo-zero-one]

Man I can't believe I had the chance to go to a performing arts school up through middle school and I fuckin quit after 6 months just because I got bullied. BRO YOUR HOMEWORK WAS POETRY!! YOU HAD TO PRACTICE DANCING TO COTTON EYE JOE AS YOUR BIG UNIT TEST. GYM CLASS HAD A CIRCUS UNIT!! YOU HAD A WHOLE DAILY CLASS ON IMPROV!!! YOU FOOL!! YOU ABSOLUTE IMBICILE!! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN A YOUTUBER!!! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE TWEENAGERS GETTING LOADED BY MAKING SHITTY YOUTUBE SHORTS IN 2008-14!! But noooOoooOOOoo little miss Noellie (who WANTED TO GO!! who worked SO HARD and sent in an application essay and did an INTERVIEW to get in!!) couldn't handle disruptive classmates or little scuffles and petty grudges and general Attitude of the other students and cried to mommy to put her back in public school. I am EATING MY HAIR over what Could Have Been. I COULD BE SOMEONE'S ANNOYING YOUTUBER!! I could be a DISGRACED DISNEY CHANNEL STAR!! I could be an America's Got Talent winner! A mild to moderately successful comedian! I could be making short films!! But no no no precious thin skinned baby me heard a few new cus words and watched a teacher get heckled and begged to give up The Dream in favor of?? Quiet math tests?? I am such a fucking quitter I quit everything the second it gets too hard I always take the out as soon as it's offered what's my fucking damage.....

[severefartoholic]

Yeah thanks for having me as a guest i really love it here NO i CANT fucking take this large misshapen jacket off with a hood that covers the maw where a face is supposed to be I'll collapse into a pile of bugs and worms and other gunk which is what I'm really made of!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[arctic-hands]

I like having joined a book fandom that's still new and fresh cause we get to nerdily bond as we devour a release of a new book in the series and I get to see all the theories and discussions and memes in real time as opposed to years later when everyone else knows how it ends so I have to block the fandom bc of spoilers. It's a feeling I haven't had since a teenager bc as of late I drag my ass into a fandom like a decade after its hayday and miss all the fun stuff

But it sucks ass that I am no longer as weirdly and eerily patient like I was as a child and the nine month wait for Heavenly Tyrant to come out is driving me crazy

[maddie-grove]

I was too scared to read Stephen King as a kid (like, literally my first time reading Stephen King was the summer between high school and college, when I read the novella/short-story anthology Stephen King Goes to the Movies, which is not even a particularly scary collection), but honestly a lot of the YA/middle-grade horror I read from ages seven to seventeen fucked me up way more (in a good way) than he ever managed. Maybe that was a function of age, but my suspicion is that Stephen King is actually just too nice most of the time.

[c0rpsedemon]

it's soooo fucked to think about how everything that's ever happened in your life is connected, no matter how mundane. what do you Mean my 5th grade teacher's seating arrangement is the reason i lived past the age of 13

[thegreatyin]

just got a sudden yet vivid flashback to the time i met a third grade teacher with a class pet betta fish and i proceeded to take one look at it and tell her it's overfed and needs three times the tank size. i don't think she wanted to hear that

[francisforever2014]

my professor just (at midnight) uploaded the readings that we were supposed to have done for class tomorrow (at 10am) oh she’s a MESS huh 😭