#book everyone should read

[jellllllo-bowl]

ref (gsnk my beloved)

im not sure if this has been done before ^^;;

[aurumdoesthings]

happy 5th anniversary epithet!!! such a funny and joyful show with such a lovable and cute cast and lovely designs that are so fun to draw. everyone thank my minion @pupbeat who did the shading ^_^

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I haven't read these books at all, but your art is so fun and cute that I like seeing your comics a lot regardless. Fantastic Silly Little Guy energy.

Thank you for enjoying my silly little guys and my comics B*)

[arithmonym]

re-reading the locked tomb, and i'm thinking about how harrow identifies alecto as a "girl" rather than a "woman."

obviously, john had other sources of inspiration... but did you know that the original barbie doll was only supposed to be nineteen years old?

[mayasynth]

My beautiful unhinged daughter, Mary Elizabeth Frankenstein <3 I know this was not at all how the scene actually went, but humour me

(Pssssst everyone please read Our Hideous Progeny, pleaseee 🙏)

[dykeofmisfortune]

doing this thing i call "reading every class high school lit book i missed out on" partially because as an english minor i feel like a lot of ppl in my english lectures have already read these books in higschool partially because high school english classes suck balls and i think the way they taught kids to read books was lame and dumb as hell and killed love for reading and i think some of these books they make kids read should never be experienced in a classroom setting

[graaaaaayy]

there’s few things that are more disappointing than when you finish a really good book, go online to find fandom content and there’s maybe 3 fanart pieces, a dozen fics and the most of the posts are from three years ago when the fandom was actually active.

[chronostutter]

sometimes i see people make sweeping generalizations about entire genres or mediums and it evokes the same feeling as seeing gym bros only eat unseasoned protein slop. like oh man :( you are depriving yourself of so many wonderful experiences

[damthosefandoms]

there’s people who stay and people who go, and then there’s darry curtis who never got a say in the matter

[dysphoresque]

“You mean I have a home to go to, as long as I don't go there?”

— James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[giritina]

The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks

[vagabondjourney]

I HAD TO FIND THIS OUT BY MYSELF AND NOBODY TOLD ME THIS WAS IN THE BOOKS ???????? THIS GAY ASS SCENE ????????

[girljeremystrong]

There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

[midosune]

Day 10-Falling Sleep Together

[mothoscope]

When all else fails make your fav characters warrior cats. Both have every imaginable disease.

Shoutout to my friend @bristlingandugly for coming up with the names for them <33

[walks-the-ages]

Every Autistic+ADHD person should have a Public Domain character as their special interest. It is so great.

You can go hog wild collecting books, movies, adaptions, and sharing all of your Public Domain finds freely.

You can write your own fanfiction and *its not even fanfiction its just its own canon.*

You can make your own custom covers and print your own custom versions of the books.

You can freely rewrite the books and publish them if you want.

You can change a character's pronouns and make them queer as much as you want.

You can make as much art and AUs as you want and you could literally make them their own published series if you wanted.

You can know the joy of receiving a 96 year old book in the mail in a language you can't even read yet but know that you can scan it and upload it to the Internet Archive because it is Public Domain and being able to see the original text is going to make someone's entire week.

You can start learning a new language just to be able to read the original works from a hundred years ago in their native tongue.

You can feel the Hatred of Disney for the Mickey Mouse Protection Act meaning the USA is one of the only countries in the world that doesn't have the entire series of books that are your special interest in the Public Domain which they should have been over a decade ago , but now at least you have something to look forward to on January 1st for the next decade, give or take a few gaps years of nothing entering the Public Domain!

This is about Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc, first published in 1905 through to 1941, but I would *love* to hear about everyone's Public Domain blorbos in the notes lol.