#book qupte

[catinthesun2]

Home girl Emily knows what’s up.

[waltz-of-words]

“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”

- Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

[iluvmyweinerdog-books]

Tiny slivers of life - they all added up and helped you to feel that you too could be a fragment, a little piece of humanity who usefully filled a space, however miniscule.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman

[point-toxic]

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

[raccooncoded]

[jeyranmain]

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[shakespearerants]

⭐ for anything you want to talk about? please?

Ok I was really really breaking my head over what I was going to talk about (sudden "as soon as someone asks about x all previous memories/thoughts about x have been erased" syndrome) but some scrolling through my own AO3 reminded me of my forgotten masterpiece, the one that got away, my magnus opum of oneshots that nobody seems to appreciate, in short: My Roommate from Hell.

As very little people know, Good Omens is my most favourite book in the very very wide world. I own three (3) copies. I have read each of these three (3) copies multiple (multiple) times. Good Omens is the very first book I put in any new bookshelf, and the very last book I take out when I move. I don't even know why I love it so much, I just do. Naturally, I had conflicting feelings about the show (not so much the show itself which was very nice, but more about the fandom interpretation of Az and Crowley shifting towards the Show Versions TM and also Neilman word of God changes in content and also I am very not a fan of the Bentley playing music that is not Queen but oh well. Rant for another day.) but I did tremendously enjoy all the "10 years later" style headcanons that were popping up. In particular, there was this one post making the rounds about Warlock and Adam meeting and I, at my heart a chaos gremlin supreme, saw the chaos potential in that and HAD to do something with it. And thus, My Roommate from Hell was born. Well, more like chrystalized, I had the Idea for this in like,,,2016.

My favourite part of this fic is actually two parts, namely a) being outrageous and still counting as Canon Continuation and b) footnotes. I fucking love footnotes. I ESPECIALLY love outrageously long footnotes that contribute nothing to the actual narrative. It wasn't always easy to think of something to say in a footnote, actually. Like, I pretty much put one where the vibe was right, but expecially footnote no. 6 and no. 2 gave me some real trouble. No. 2 beacuse I originally wanted the couplet Warlock quptes to be a limeric, and I also wanted to write that limeric in the footnote. I was, unfortunately, not very good at coming up with suitably disturbing lyímerics. No. 6 gave me trouble for similar reasons, namely: What passage in the Bible can be altered to be insulting enought to get someone kicked out of a lecture and also how do I a) keep this short (original draft was about 3x the length it is now) and b) do this without having to buy a King James bible and also read it cover to cover. Then I remembered some profs are dicks. The rest is history.

The actual story, namely Warlock moving in with Adam or vice versa, is basically a thinly veiled letter of contempt to any other fandom interpretation of this sort of thing happening (there are many. do what you want but also you are wrong and my version is the only correct version. i am joking obviously. (i am not)). I broadly agree with fandom saying Warlock and his parents don't have the best relationship. I do NOT agree with them being deliberately cruel or overly homophobic, I read them as just this kinda very rich person brand of neglect. Also of course Adam and Warlock are going to Uni, and of course it is Oxbridge (I did so much research for this fic. I have to do my masters in Oxbridge now or my impeccable knowledge of the uni website will be for nothing.), Adam because you need The Credentials if you really wanna change something on a big scale, and Warlock because of The Reputation. Also yes, Warlocks parents did pay for their sons grades to be altered (brownie points for anyone who knows what scandal this is referencing). Also, I put a lot of thought into their housing. Jesus College is a thing, and it's kind of a reference to Jesus technically being Adams....Uncle? The vibe is your chill older family member making you sit at the kids table and asking you if you're having fun when they walk past you on their way to get a new beer.

Also a thinly veiled lettre of contempt to fanon Aziraphale is my Aziraphale. Series!Aziraphale is very nice and very well played but listen....in the book. the mans a bitch. I say this with love but he is an absolute stone cold cutthroat fucking bitch. Since the series came out fanon interpretation is very....soft, which is also ok, but. He's just a bitch, and the people may have forgotten, but I certainly haven't!

Anyways, this is the surface of a WHOLE LOT of stuff I have to say about this fic. If you want to hear some more, just leave me another question!

(Also fun fact, a few people here heard me read a section of this out loud during a Gay Folly Saturady Night Out, and have since asked me to make a podfic. I am trying. It is NOT going well.)

[coolbookquotes-blog]

Far Rockaway… "Sounds like there should be a castle there, right? Windswept and lashed by the waves, perched on a rocky crag at the end of the world… kind of place where it's always sunrise or sunset, and adventures are always ending or beginning…

Far rockaway

[openmindeddating]

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." #books #minds #openminded #open #qupte #booknerd

[ollie-jpg]

MAYBE THAT MAKES ME GAY OR MAYBE THAT JUST MAKES ME YOURS??????? RAINBOW ROWELL POPPING OFF WITH THE QUPTES IN THIS BOOK OMFG?

[yennefer-fan]

Freud’s repetition compulsion complex - Yennefer and Geralt

post from reddit by  Eileniessa: http://eileniessa.tumblr.com/

This submission contains minor spoilers from the first four books and the Witcher III : Wild Hunt.

Recently in one of my A level English lessons we discussed Freud’s repetition compulsion complex, a psychological phenomenon in which humans, who seek comfort in the familiar, thus repeat certain actions and behaviours, and it struck me how much this relates to Yennefer and Geralt, both as individuals and in terms of their relationship.

Note that my information for the next two paragraphs is more of less directly qupted from the following source, and I do not claim any of it to be my own work: https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/06/29/repetition-compulsion-why-do-we-repeat-the-past/

Freud mainly explored this in terms of the repetition of more dangerous behaviours. He believed that many of us develop patterns over the years, whether positive or negative, that become ingrained in us. In times of stress, worry, anger, or another emotional high, we repeat what is familiar and what feels safe the consequence of which is a rumination (a deep or considered thought about something) of thoughts as well as negative patterns in reactions and behaviours.

For example, someone who struggles with insecurities and jealousy will find that when their partner does not return a call or text immediately, their mind begins to wander to negative thoughts which begin to accumulate, eventually emotionally overwhelming the person, which leads to false accusations and unintentional harm to the relationship and the individuals. Though they might not have wanted to react in such a way, the individual has created a pattern that then becomes familiar to them and to react differently, though perhaps more positive, would feel foreign leading to a sensation of danger as the behaviour feels unsafe. When someone does something the same way for years, they continue to do so, even if it causes harm, as it provides security through familiarity as many people prefer this to the uncertainty that surrounds new behaviour and action.

Firstly, I will explore this concept in relation to Yennefer. From the moment of her birth she has been treated with cruelty and rejection, causing her to develop insecurities about her ability and compatibility with love, in terms of receiving it. The constant rejection and absence of affection from her parents, though connotated with very negative thoughts and feelings, is a recognizable concept to Yennefer, it is something she has come to know and understand, thus is makes her feel secure. It is this safety and familiarity that has set her on a self-destructive path. Yennefer longs to understand whether she was unloved simply because of the circumstances of fate or else if the cause for her rejection and scorn in born of her own nature. However whenever she is faced with shows of affection, from lovers such as Geralt, or else from friends, her insecurities surface, as when faced with the daunting and foreign aspect of acceptance and love she finds herself vulnerable, uncertain and lost, as this is concept so unknown to her as to be completely out of control, causing her to revert back to familiar patterns of cruelty and coldness that are both familiar to her in their own right, as it is something she has so often seen, and because this behaviour pushes others away so that familiar uncertainties about rejection are once again present.

Secondly, I can see this relating to Geralt. As a Witcher in a vastly suspicious and reserved world he is faced with constant resentment and fear, as in many ways he represents the supposed 'other' that many of society see within themselves. He is referred to as a monster, a freak and a mutant, facing another kind of rejection to Yennefer. Geralt is told that he has no emotions, or really Morales, and the two combined make him feel comfortable and safe in absence of emotion, in a permeant impassive state of mind. Consequently, when faced with such intense emotions for both Yennefer and Ciri he is overwhelmed by this acute sensation and the knowledge that not only is he not dispassionate, but that by receiving and retuning such emotion he himself is not a monster born from evil. In the presence of such a sensation he is, like Yennefer, placed in a position of vulnerability, and consequently creates distance between himself and those around him, seeing himself as a monster for leading people on, as he is incapable of returning affection, thus of receiving it.

It is for this reason, this phenomenon, that I see Yennefer and Geralt as very realistic characters, as the complexity of their nature breeds a familiarity in terms of the world around us, making such characters easily relatable thus likeable. Moreover, I think it shows their strength of character, as both are determined to overcome their uncertainties and fear, to face the unfamiliar and daunting, in search of a happiness that they can both give and receive, helping the other to overcome the damaging patterns ingrained within them from their earlier lives.

[waltz-of-words]

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[tomorrow-is-future]

Mein Vater meint, er wüsste nicht, wo mein Zynismus herkäme, aber ich bin keine Zynikerin. Ich bin Realistin. Es ist besser, das Leben realistisch zu betrachten und nicht so, wie man es gerne hätte. Die Dinge passieren nicht aus einem bestimmten Grund. Sie passieren einfach.

Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also A Star

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[laileanah]

This is a qupte from #barbaraneely the author of the #blanchewhitemystery series. I only have one book left in the series and I'm really not ready to say good bye to Blanche so I may wait to start it.

[jeyranmain]

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