#Love the smell of books

[bixels]

me too, luna.

[greekcomedy]

mr d is very funny in the show However. his first conversation with percy also just highlights how they've messed with the smelly gabe storyline in a way that is making me very nervous.

when percy met him in the lighting thief he immediately identified him as drunk adult = dangerous. a guy who would be sitting at gabe's poker game, saying nothing as percy is belittled and gabe demands his money. whether or not mr d would actually do that is irrelevant. it shows how percy is affected by gabe, that he hates him to the point that he would try to join the army or be homeless in new york before living alone with him after he thought his mom was dead. book percy would have had the joke conversation about dionysus being his dad and felt insanely betrayed that the kind sailor from sally's stories that he dreamed about had turned out to be someone just like smelly gabe.

but instead, gabe is just some guy. like he sucks but not to an extent that would drive them to kill him by the end of the season, at least not from what we've seen so far. talking to dionysus percy is just angry and confused about what's going on and upset by the loss of his mom, dionysus does not concern him at all. he is not especially upset by the idea of mr d being his dad except for his having ignored him up to this point.

like, the show is being kind of weird imo in terms of how the characters are reacting to the things that happen to them and having them react differently than they do in the books. and also we aren't in percy's head now the way we were in the books, and he often had very different internal vs external reactions to things in the books and i'm sure this would have been among them. but "can you help me find my father?" "actually i think i can... son. go get me a bottle of wine" would NOT have flown in tlt

[spielzeugkaiser]

[MASTERPOST]

Eskel is like "I WILL read this book about... A wolf and all his friends? Dancing and being. happy... 🥺"

[suzypfonne]

I think he likes the way Crowley smells. Look at him taking a deep breath while Crowley can't see his face. He's also probably replaying that night in 1941 when something happened.

He can feel love. Can he smell magic? Or lust?

[cuntela]

What did he sayy?

[orangeshipper]

Outside, the dancing had stopped. For a while, the voices scratched the night air, coalescing, thinning, joining again in wine-eased laughter. Then they dispersed, and you heard only the pad of servants’ feet, aching for bed, the chink of cup on tray, the pang of moved lutes and the hiss of brushes, and finally, in the dark Château Neuf and Château Vieux, only the harp-fall of the fountains, and silence. Behind more than one window the satins lay strewn in the moonlight, and the night passed sleepless, playing at love. For one person only the music stayed all night long, losing no magnificence, demanding more sometimes than she could support.

Queens Play, Dorothy Dunnett

[sbd-laytall]

Forever thinking about that time in middle school when I was reading the Twilight books (I wanted to know why people hated them, so I went to the source) and my science teacher noticed my book (I think I was reading New Moon at the time).

Anyway, he asked me what Team I was because he and his girlfriend were apparently Team Jacob.

The way that when I said I was Team Alice, he just assumed I was saying that I really liked Alice over Bella. 🤦‍♂️

Like, dude, I meant Team Alice as in, I shipped Bella with Alice. Reading the books was...interesting, but these two were definitely one of the highlights.

[vibe-stash]

All the President's Men (1976)

Director: Alan J. Pakula DOP: Gordon Willis Production Design: George Jenkins Set Decoration: George Gaines

[ashipiko]

I WANT TO SEE YOU SMILE ♡

[jimmyspades]

Red’s apartment in Baltimore <3

[allthatdivides]

pressed flowers in the so much (for) stardust CD case | mine, 2023

[blackjacktheboss]

every time I crack open pjo to re read a particular scene it feels like I’m referencing religious text (i am)

[apicelladonna]

There is a common theme here with this splurge I think now that I’ve settled. 🤔

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

you: I like Nina, but I like Joy way more

the fandom: oh so you HATE Nina???? You think she SUCKS?? You want her to DIE???? You want to hit her with your CAR??

LMFAOOOO NO LITERALLY!!

Some of yall are actually insane to ppl who like Joy. Like I’m sorry if she is infinitely more interesting to me as a character. You ppl are literally making things up to be mad about. It’s giving:

Nothing against Nina, but some of you (you know who you aren’t) are so insufferable about this character that it actually hurts your case. You’re not oppressed in this fandom for liking the Chosen One the most, please get real. And also learn to take a joke, I promise you that no one actually thinks Nina deserved getting an article written about her, but since it’s not real, please learn to laugh a little instead of being a hater. It’s a bad look for your cause 😭

[sirtaliesin]

Arkham Asylum: Living Hell - #5

[i-aint-nothin-but-a-nasty-dog]

As a companion to this post, I'm rereading one of the books in question and I wanted to share one of the poems bc ohh. I'm in my feelings right now so everyone else has to be too

I bought a copy of the cowboy poetry book Sun and Saddle Leather by Badger Clark, copyrighted from 1915.

My favorite poem from it is The Wind is Blowin', about a cowboy missing his lover. Guys. It's so

Hngn g don't talk to me I'm in pain

if you want to read it, it's online at Project Gutenberg <3