#You must read this book

[silkpages]

rubbing my legs like a happy little cricket from within my bed as i listen to the last few chapters of 'the other bennet sister'

[the-starry-lycan]

(I'm aware the quote is down incorrect, this was off memory lol. The real quote is:

"There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw." - Achilles in Song of Achilles

[lilgayducky]

BOOK RECOMMENDATION!!!

Okay so I recently read a book called Absent by Katie Williams and holy crap that shit was good. I cried for hours last night after I finished it. Also, I was not expecting that plot twist. So if anyone is looking for a book to read, one filled with emotion, supernatural, ghosts, loss, love, betrayal, and mystery this is the book for you. When I tell you I could not stop reading this. I. Could. Not. Stop. It had me in its grips since my eyes landed on the first word. I prefer audiobooks normally and never read ebooks because my phone screen is small and I have the attention span of a five year old. But when I saw this on my reading app, I tell you I could not stop reading it. This may be the first E-Book I've read that wasnt a short story or graphic novel. I read it in no less than three days, the some of fasted I've ever read a big chapter book (again, attention span of a five year old even with good books). I cannot reccomend this enough, please, if you want a book to read that will make you cry. Read this book!!!

[fictionadventurer]

I love libraries.

I'm browsing the WWI shelves (as you do) and notice a very old book about the war. I glance at the first pages that talk about how one day the war will be over and we'll look at this place and not see any signs of the battlefield.

Then it hits me. And I check the publishing date.

This book was printed before the war's end. Not written. Printed. The physical object was created in 1918, while the war in question was raging and the end was as yet uncertain.

Now I'm standing on the other side of the apocalypse, with this physical link to that era in my hands. I'm living proof that the war did end and life did go on and we can all look at the end of the world as a long-ago memory.

Reading old books is cool enough, connecting our minds and hearts through the ideas of people who lived long ago, but there's something extra profound about holding a copy of the book that comes from the time that it was written. It's a physical link between the past and the present connecting me to those long-ago people. A piece of the past come into the future that gives me the chance to almost take the hand of some long-ago reader, to hold something they could have held, connecting not just mentally but physically to their era, a moment of connection across more than a century.

Excuse me while I go weep.

[magical-oppas]

Y'ALL

I just saw a tiktok where someone was like "uhm the new percy jackson show is just not it, the movies fit the vibes better" and while that is one of the wildest takes I've ever heard someone commented

"What vibes are you missing hun, whiteness and not being able to find percy sexy because he is actually 12 this time?"

I would not show my face in public again if I got eaten up like that in my own comment section

[welcometogrouchland]

Disgustingly messy and crusty sketch dump but I couldn't get my own terrible theory out of my head and ended up making a bunch of sketches about it. Also at the end a bonus dickbats and Damian doodle bc I was reading an issue of their Batman and Robin run (IDs in Alt)

[deoidesign]

Thinking about vampires, death, life, and the space they occupy in between

[maelancoli]

i'm kind of late to this but i just finished reading the scholomance trilogy by naomi novik and i feel like it is such an underrated urban fantasy?? taking the chosen one trope and turning it on its head with a fmc who has been prophesied to bring death and destruction, who is imbued with terrible power, but cannot even properly use said power to solve any of her obstacles because it would obliterate them and her soul. it takes a tired trope and the idea of an 'overpowered mary sue' and throws it back in your face by showing how all the power and destiny in the world is useless against a system filled with corruption that has burdened you with an easy way out (evil/destructive magic) that you can't take so now you have to work twice as hard as everyone else just to do simple, constructive spells instead of flicking your wrist and being done with it.

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

living for alhaitham's inherent curiosity about kaveh being the catalyst for an odd textual mystery...??

he already read the Very Bad novel in the house of daena before kaveh got hold of it? but then seeing it in their study and knowing kaveh must have checked it out, he... opened it anyway despite already knowing the contents?? 1) because he knew kaveh wouldn't mind, and 2) because he was curious what kaveh thought about it?? considering that he knows kaveh makes annotations in books??

he saw kaveh circle the killer's name in permanent ink, effectively spoiling the novel, no matter how terrible, and joined in by circling a name to create a red herring, but also because he thought circling names was funny <3

he put the book in the same place in the study and didn't say anything to kaveh when kaveh went to return it, and kaveh went about believing alhaitham knew nothing about it, until the quest comes full circle and kaveh returns to alhaitham to tell him the news, only to find out that he and alhaitham were jointly the instigators for the conspiracy.

the quest is THEIR fault!! but.. the conspiracy wouldn't have happened if alhaitham hadn't made the second circle,, so… if he hadn't been curious about something that occupied kaveh's time..., that’s so !!??

[moodsandtenses]

Fun fact: Pretty much every name* mentioned in Mr. Swales' tombstone tirade of August 1 was apparently an actual person interred in Whitby cemetery at the time of Bram Stoker's research trip, as seen in his careful list of notes.

Is the Whitby arc RPF? Discuss.

*including Mr. Swales himself, via centenarian Ann Swales, but fortunately not including (as best I could tell) George Canon of the elaborate suicide story, because good lord could you imagine

[bosooka]

it's always "satine exiling the warriors from mandalore was a war crime" and never "the warriors did not deserve to live on the planet they irradiated with all the people they nearly slaughtered in their meaningless crusade for glory"

[handweavers]

reading about english poet robert graves and the crazy sex cult polycule built around him and his wife sexually worshipping his american jewish mistress laura riding as a pseudo-religion and how he threatened to kill their fourth (some irish guy) when he tried to run away. and their fourth came back but would only fuck graves' wife so laura riding tried to kill herself by jumping out a window and graves jumped out after her (???) and then they ran away to spain together for a decade. also i think it's kind of funny that he was like exclusively gay until he served in world war 1 and got shell shock and he found out his boyfriend was cheating on him when said boyfriend got arrested for trying to fuck a canadian soldier on the western front and had a mental breakdown, then postwar started sleeping with masculine women and became obsessed with them and there's no mention of him sleeping with men again. all of that stuff reads as an entertaining level of psychosexual dysfunction until the part where he cheated on his 2nd wife with a 17 yr old girl when he was in his 50s as which point his 'sexuality' wikipedia subheading stops being intriguingly insane and just becomes gross. what the hell did i just read

[queenerdloser]

i just finished dark heir

[inkaoatmilk]

And so the son of the fortune-teller does not find his way to the Starless Sea.

Not yet.

[ropebunnykant]

Such a mad marriage never was before.

The Taming of The Shrew (Act III, Scene II) by William Shakespeare | The Heart Killers, Episodes 1 & 6

[jeanmoreaue]

jean moreau is nico coded.. jeremy/jean are will/nico. jean and elodie are nico and bianca