#book acquired

[tofupixel]

Illustration I made for the Triangle Agency TTRPG book...!!

[biblioklept]

Simon Critchley's Mysticism (Book acquired, 17 Oct. 2024)

Simon Critchley’s Mysticism is new from NYRB. Their blurb: Why mysticism? It has been called “experience in its most intense form,” and in his new book the philosopher Simon Critchley poses a simple question to the reader: Wouldn’t you like to taste this intensity? Wouldn’t you like to be lifted up and out of yourself into a sheer feeling of aliveness, both your life and those of the creatures…

[i-like-to-look-at-your-back]

°˖✧ Hayakawa family unit ✧˖°

[katabay]

bayek, doing some exploring :)

[3lliesan]

Never give a tired person access to guns

Yuu during the first few Overblots: *trembling & nervous laughs* That was a wild ride, huh? Haha... I'm gonna throw up-

-Book 6-

Yuu with a gun they swiped off of a STYX staff member: Fuck you, little shit. *pulls the trigger on a phantom without hesitation.*

Yuu: *Shoots another blot phantom ambushing from behind without flinching.*

Pomefiore trio: ...

[hitwiththetmnt]

News flash, I’m am not impervious to picking up new blorbos

[piosplayhouse]

shang qinghua: if I was in charge of this world I would have shen qingqiu get fucked by luo binghe a billion bajillion times

liu mingyan, materializing out of nowhere summoned by the mention of yaoi: you and me both sister

[catboygirljoker]

i wish i had more to say about this (im still so compelled by him being opposed to self sacrifice on a pragmatic level, not necessarily because he's evil or whatever) but let's be real i wanted to post these panels because im barking

[firstfullmoon]

what do you think about han kang winning the Nobel prize?!!

hi ! from a literary/political point of view really happy about it, both in terms of what it means for a south korean writer to win the nobel and for a south korean feminist to win it in the context of the recent backlash / rise of violence against women in south korea. also I haven’t read human acts but am so curious about this book + saw someone on twitter celebrating that the nobel went to a writer whose major work asks the question “how do you live in a world where the state can just murder an unaccountable number of people and then nothing changes how can you live” and I think it’s a powerful message in the midst of what is currently happening in palestine and lebanon but also really everywhere in the world. however.....from a personal point of view I’ve only read the vegetarian which I did not like although I do think it was an issue of translation (it felt so clunky and afterwards I read several articles about deborah smith which reinforced my feelings on the matter). I want to reread the vegetarian and her other works (especially human acts) in their french translation (co-translated by a french-korean woman which gives me hope for a more faithful translation) and hopefully that will change my opinion cause it’s SUCH a shame for one bad translation to tarnish a writer’s work

[disgruntled-lifeform]

My dumb ass just had a stunning Epiphany

I can knit with store bought acrylic yarn.

[reds-skull]

I'm researching Scottish mythology for the Cyberknights AU, and I was skimming through the wiki entry for the Glenmasan manuscript (I'd tell you what it is, but I haven't actually finished reading yet), when I read this sentence

Like what are the fucking chances

[biblioklept]

Dinah Brooke's Death Games (Book acquired, 8 Aug. 2024)

I broke down and bought an inexpensive copy of Dinah Brooke’s 1976 novel Death Games from an internet vendor. I absolutely loved her 1973 novel Lord Jim at Home, which never got a U.S. release (until a year or two ago). Death Games did get a U.S. release—I guess because it involves the Vietnam War?—and was reviewed by Jane Larkin Crain in The New York Times. She wrote: Pornographic brutality…

[sonadowfanuwu]

New month, new blorbo:

I bought the book for the lols, but it was unironically a good read, and now I am an unironic Balan Wonderworld fan. Oh, well. I've been in stranger fandoms.

Goddamnit, why wasn't the game given a longer time to cook??? We could have had a masterpiece of a game on our hands, but alas, we live in the darkest timeline.

[moonlitkissing]

The way i would actually kill for a cuddle session with him as my weighted blanket while I'm wearing his hoodie and feel his slow breaths on my neck and play with his hair

[bobbypinsandlizards]

me (a terrifying monster beyond all comprehension) and my boyfriend (he has autism)

[spellswisp]

save me interior design in farming sim