#classic novels

[soulrestinginstpetersburg]

[fabtastic123]

Confession time: the only reason English teachers teach The Great Gatsby is so we can continue to fuel the Nick/Gatsby ao3 tag. It is our lifeblood.

[petaltexturedskies]

Johanna Spyri, Heidi

[badwolf-gallagher88]

Yes, having a crush on a fictional character is bad. But have you ever had a crush on a fictionalised version of a vaguely problematic historical figure??

[sad-eyed-lady-of-the-paperbacks]

One of the big reasons you should read Dostoevsky is all the unhinged crying hysterical men

[lazy-chocolate-witch]

Fellas is it gay if your best friend is able to cure years of mania and hyperfixation just by appearing?

Fellas is it gay to fall in a stadium between life and and death for two months after your best friend's death and being sick for the rest of your life, which you spent chasing his murderer?

Fellas is it gay?

[scandalousadventures]

Raskolnikov comic

[logophilist1982]

Jane Eyre

[sarnie-for-varney]

Okay so... in The Blanched Soldier, Holmes calls Watson an 'ideal helpmate'.

'Ideal helpmate', at the time, was a synonym for spouse.

He is calling Watson his spouse.

[home-for-artists]

"As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naïve and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too."

-The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[ltwilliammowett]

Moby Dick, by Andy Thomas (1957-)

[xxdrowninglessonsxx]

“Animals don’t behave like men,” he said. “If they have to fight, they fight, and if they have to kill, they kill. But they don’t sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”

- Richard Adams

where to buy

[schweizercomics]

SWASHTOBER #1: Scaramouche! I'm gonna do SWASHTOBER this year! Here's the first, from what might well be the best swashbuckling novel (it's VERY good), SCARAMOUCHE, by Rafael Sabatini. He's a centrist shaken from his political apathy into a path of revolution, swordfighting, and improv comedy by the cruel machinations of the aristocracy (I wasn't planning to do an October drawing challenge BUT If I keep them under ten minutes and let them be sloppy, it might be fun. I'll use them as roughs/pencils for a set when my schedule frees up a bit)

This is one of the few (only?) Sabatinis that have been kept reliably in print, and there's also an excellent audiobook narration by Simon Vance, if you're looking for a good read!

[spoiledsummerdasies]

WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ME DELORES AND LOLITA BOTH MEAN SORROW????

Dude the symbolism, Nabokov was a fucking writing genius

[sad-eyed-lady-of-the-paperbacks]

Listen up kids: if you’re going to break up with someone, don’t do it over text. Be a man about it and sneakily try to set her up with your bipolar genius brother and when that doesn’t work as intended and just results in yet another insane hysterical toxic situation that needs to be studied, you send your other little angelic brother to break up with her on your behalf. Like we did back in the good old days.