#delightful books

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[grillesscheese]

love the new website

[shebsart]

Im sick with flu so naturally I picked up my newly bought copy of Howl's Moving Castle which includes DWJ interviews in the back.

And im in love with the way she tells these stories feels like a part of her books.

And my favorite:

The magic in the mundane :)

edit: I'm copying the ID by @princess-of-purple-prose below, thank you!

[ID: Excerpts of printed text which read:

I suppose there's also a biographical element in that Sophie is the eldest of three sisters, and so am I. The idea for Sophie grew out of the time I discovered I had a very severe milk allergy. I almost lost the use of my legs and had to walk with the aid of a stick. I was moderately young, but because of this I suddenly became old.

I had to wait until I knew what Wizard Howl was like. I began to discover Howl about the time when one of my sons took to spending several hours in the bathroom every morning and I got really, really, really annoyed with him.

Where were you when you wrote it? I wrote the book the way I write everything, stretched out on the big sofa in my sitting room, in everyone's way. This often annoys my husband rather a lot.

which made me burst out laughing. I laughed and laughed at the seven league boot, and when I came to the bit where Sophie accidentally makes Howl's suit twenty times too big for him, I laughed so much that I fell off the sofa. My husband was really irritated by this time. He snapped, "You can't be making yourself laugh!" And I gasped, "But I am, I am!" and rolled about on the floor.

Are any of your relatives or friends included in the book? Yes, well the thing that started me off writing the book was a friend of mine who never does her laundry. She has it around the place in huge bags for often as much as a year. When she does tip it all out and try to wash it, she discovers all sorts of clothes that she has forgotten she had.

Which is your favourite part of the book and why? I like the book all over, but I suppose if I had to choose a bit, I'd choose the place where Howl gets a cold. It so happened that when I was writing this bit, my husband caught a bad cold. He is the world's most histrionic cold catcher. He moans, he coughs, he piles on the pathos, he makes strange noises, he blows his nose exactly like a bassoon in a tunnel, he demands bacon sandwiches at all hours, and he is liable to appear (usually wrapped in someone else's dressing gown) at any time, announcing that he is dying of neglect and boredom. So all I had to do was write it down. End ID]

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship or, The Book of Delights written in 1969

[benevolenterrancy]

Mobei-Jun getting abandoned in the human realm by his favourite uncle and being left alone and terrified?? baby???? gonna lie awake thinking about him and Shang Qinghua meeting as children

[poorlywoventhread]

Sighing Y/N dug out a lighter from their pocket. To keep their hands occupied, realising the flame, then quenching it.

Y/N: "Want?"

Ghost responded by pulling out a cigarette tucked away within the folds of his clothing..

Ghost: You dont even smoke. Why do you carry that thing around?

Y/N: You know me. running around. Living life. Committing arson.

[foresttt-png]

I like to imagine they met at a karaoke bar in Vegas

[0bsessiv3s0ul]

I will mourn you longer than I knew you.

[beatriceportinari]

Brook trout - Origami, one sheet of paper

[muzsmocsing]

Underrated book 5 moments

🦋 Hua Cheng being salty about Qi Rong copying his blood rain aesthetic with the gaudy hanging corpse foolishness.

🦋 Xie Lian fully shoving a butchers knife in Qi Rong's mouth for endangering his San Lang.

🦋 Banyue offering to put the small, sick Hua Cheng in a little pot because that made her feel better too.

🦋 Pei Ming and his "childhood friend" naming his sword after their ship name (no homo tho).

🦋 Ling Wen & Pei Ming being actual best buddies.

🦋 Everyone fighting for their lives in the stomach of a mountain spirit while Hua Cheng and Xie Lian are having quality cuddle time.

🦋 Qi Rong profiling Xie Lian as a bottom.

🦋 Xie Lian seeing Quan Yizhen's proper autistic hyperfixation on martial arts and going "same :D".

🦋 Pei Ming acting like the great⁶ uncle he is and telling his nephew to shut up and eat his dinner.

🦋 This illustration. Look at that scary little face. Look at Xie Lian having the time of his life. 10/10

(Book 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[almonddirge]

You are the upright young master of a very conservative clan. Against their wishes, and your own, you have fallen for a rowdy boy your age who causes nothing but trouble. Regardless of your feelings on your own homosexuality, you seethe to yourself over why it had to be him in particular.

One day, he brings you rabbits to keep as pets. They start fucking in front of you. To your horror, that they are both male. Your name is Lan Wangji, and you might be beginning to think the gods are out to get you.

[desikanya]

What if...

What if the fictional characters think about us too? What if they feel as excited as we are to meet them when we open their book to read? What if they feel empty when we close the book? What if we are their favorite reader? What if they loved us too but we are real for them? What if...

[princessamericachavez]

Thinking about Crowley immediately sympathizing with humanity over them getting punished after a “first offense”. Questioning the fact that God made humanity inquisitive and then punished them for their curiosity, for KNOWING the difference between good and evil, for WANTING to know.

And also thinking about how Aziraphale being the first one to break the rules. Knowingly. The first one to take action on Earth led by a moral compass even he can’t yet understand or explain. Driven by the very kindness and compassion that angels like Crowley were denied.

Thinking about how since their first meeting there was a seed for what drove them to each other. Crowley’s disguised compassion and Aziraphale’s impulsive rebelliousness. All there. At the beginning of their journey.

[owoatmilk]

toast, tea + reading ☕️ 📖 ♡

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Barnaby from last stream! he's. Yeah <3