#gay bookworm

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[moonwoods]

my favourite thing about being a reader is looking up fanart of the books after and seeing that another individual human being perfectly replicated what I saw in my head, and created a drawing of it. that’s probably one of my favourite things on earth. when I finished Gideon The Ninth and looked up fanart it was like people took my thoughts and visions and perfectly displayed it in a drawing or a painting. are you kidding me??? that’s so fucking cool. god bless artists

[floral-ashes]

Thinking about this page tonight. Remembering why the book makes people cry. This page would make me cry, right now, if I was still capable of such things.

From page 24 of Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

New book! Sadly, not enough on WWI but still a great research read and actually really funny as well as being an excellent historical resource. TONS of firsthand sources thanks to court records, letters, and more.

Plus, the bibliography is giving me like a whole list of books to get ahold of.

One thing I found interesting in the WWI section was multiple referenced soldiers either explicitly used traditionally feminine names for themselves, were known to prefer to dress and be interacted with as women, or in one case wore chosen female clothing to court and explicitly identified as female there. The fucking courage to be utterly yourself during your court martial.

This book is such a lovely new layer to a part of history I have been researching for a long time.

Highly recommend!

[staiyn]

more memes

in here are some that I really love

They are literally that song, no one can prove me otherwise

Also how are we feeling about them as a love-traingle?

[princedelalumiere]

Beach reads

[alltheyoungmoons]

hc where in seventh year - now that sirius and lily are becoming closer day by day - they discuss remus’ dyslexia in private while he’s not there and decide to make him a pair of “reading glasses” combining the potion lily used for the acetate sheet with sirius’ transfiguration abilities. they give him the enchanted spectacles on his eighteenth birthday.

edit: read pt 1 here

[jayders-rocks]

My husband is going out of town for a week and I want to do something small but spontaneous. If this gets 75 notes by January 30 I’m buying a kindle now instead of waiting until graduation in April like I planned on

[simp-for-fiction]

appreciate your reader friends, you don't know how much effort goes into pretending to be okay in front of you, when internally we're crying because our favorite side character died.

[andreainlove]

yk that feeling where you've heard A LOT about a book and every person you know is recommending you to read that book and even you eagerly WANT to see what the hype is all about but then there's a part of you which goes like "if I read this book now then I'll never be able to read the book for the first time again then my whole perspective about life will change then I'll see things differently then I'll- "

starting to read crimson rivers makes me feel like this btw.

[maskedtwilight]

GO FOR IT, KARSTEDT!

Saw the parodies of this cover and knew I had to do it.

[floral-ashes]

A few of my favourite quotes from my new book Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body:

“For what is gender but scar tissue arranged in the shape of a self?”

“Lacan can eat a cactus dick.”

“So I’m sitting there, crayola jizz on my titties…”

“May the bridges we burn offer warmth and comfort.”

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[ashintheairlikesnow]

Decided to read Brideshead Revisited for the first time and

1. This is the gayest book I have ever read. This is not subtext common to the time period, this is Evelyn Waugh slamming us against a window going LOOK AT HOW FUCKING GAY THESE DUDES ARE, LOOK, LOOK AT THE GAYS

2. Anthony Blanche is amazing. I can hear exactly how he speaks in my head perfectly. One of my best friends was very much the American Anthony Blanche and reading him telling Charles a story about pretending to be a girl friend of his on the phone with an older man made me go text my friend.

3. I suddenly have a burning need to know when exactly the term "invert" or "inverted" as a casual way of referencing homosexuality fell out of favor

4. Sebastian having a wildly religious family that he avoids whenever possible despite having a connection to and love for them he cannot shake off is such a deeply relatable feeling

5. Seriously. I was led to believe this book had "queer subtext" but I have yet to find any text that isn't the time period equivalent of shouting GAY from a rooftop.

[staiyn]

Text memes, Master and margarita

Can't get enough of them, I relate so much to behemoth

[fruityfella]

‼️ TW GORE ‼️ this is art of Benji from Hell followed with us!! Another book I HIGHLY RECOMMEND 💋