#i love these books with my whole heart

[immacaria]

Ten Books to Know Me Better

Rules: Name 10 (non-ancient) books for people to know you better or that you really like

I was tagged by my dear wife, @galacticstingray, and I want you to know there's only two ancient books here. Bear it with me, okay?

1. Heroes of the Olympus by Rick Riordan

Listen, I love the original series, but Heroes of the Olympus will be always my favourite, no one can convince me otherwise. It's about the found family, about people finding each other caring for others, the family that grows between people from the most different places and cultures and choose to stick together. It's the shared grief, it's the 'You don't have to do this alone. You won't do this alone'.

2. Women that run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

This book is simply amazing. The way Ms Estés weaves the stories and analyses it so beautifully, the way she talks about the different aspects of the human mind, specially the woman mind, taking the aspects from the stories she says. I love this book so much, it's also the longest time I have spent reading one book (More than two years, I think)

3. The cat that saved books by Sosuke Natsukawa

I would like to say to everyone that loves books that this book is exactly this. A cat that saves books because he loves them. There's more to the story of course but spoilers, right? I'm physically uncapable of talking about this book without talking about the plot and giving spoilers. Just read it, okay, read it and you will understand.

4. Faust by Goethe

I have read this when I was fourteen/fifteen I think? I remember having to reactions to it: Either bored out of my mind or incredibly interest on what was happening. All I know is that the vibes of this book played a big part on what I am know and most of my interests. I plan to re-read this one and some moment this year and see what I think of it this time.

5. O palhaço e o psicanalista (The clown and the psychoanalyst) by Christian Dunker

This one made me understand so much about listening and truly being open to others, the tiny, almost invisible line of being entirely too serious or too much of a clown. It teached me how to reach that middle and how to use that around me, this book is amazing, I swear and, to any Brazillians out there seeing this, please read this. You won't regret it.

6. From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty

Death and funeral rites, do I need to say more?? I love all of the books by this woman, this woman is amazing and I love her very much. This one was the first one I have read and I'll be forever grateful at my sib for being this one for me.

7. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

I told you, anything by this woman is my favourite. Please, read this one as well if you want, it's just her answering a bunch of questions and talking about her travellings and experiences as a mortician.

8. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

(Can you see that I will push this agenda on anyone, all the time, anywhere?) Read it, people, it's all amazing

9. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

For someone who is called a sunshine by most of her friends and incredily crazy by her family, I have a strangely sober taste on books, but sincerely? It's being this "close" to death, it's this desire to deeply know it that makes me able to enjoy life. Death is a place of comfort to me, something that, at the end of my life, will receive me with open arms and a big smile. It will give me coffee and bread and will ~chisme~ together about my life and the ones I left behind until it's time for me to be alive again. This book, in particular, taught me graveyards are not strange or scary, that they can be comforting as well and, as strange as it might be to others, it's freeing to me.

Now, finally, 10. Frankstein by Mary Shelley

It's not a good Macca's favourite books if Frankstein is not there. Frankstein was the first gothic romance I read for real, even before Faust. It were my parents that gave it to me and I devoured it. I remember being so freaking angry at Victor for what he did to Adam, I remember turning to everyone who called Adam Frankstein and saying "His name is Adam and you should remember it", I remember looking at Victor and thinking "You are gay. You are gay and a coward". I remember a lot about this book and I probably should give this book a re-read this year as well because sincerely, it's amazing and it made me who I am today as well.

This should be done a long, long ago, but, eh, life happened. Anyways, I'm tagging @questing-wulfstan, @aquilathefighter, @virgo-dream, @mathomhouse-e, @quillingwords, @academicblorbo, @the-cloudy-dreamer, @pintobordeaux, @arialerendeair and @honeyteacakes. One for each book lmaoo, now you fight to decide which one is yours.

[springbreak-ibelieveinyou]

update: i did it

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that. So after, when he whispers, ‘You love me. Real or not real?’ I tell him, ‘Real.’”

the hunger games obsession is too strong i need a tattoo

[butadailovehim]

movie aragorn would not get along with book aragorn

[severus-snaps]

fully stolen from a page on facebook but when scrolling i thought this was snape

Viktor Krum was thin, dark, and sallow-skinned, with a large curved nose and thick black eyebrows. He looked like an overgrown bird of prey. It was hard to believe he was only eighteen.

be still my snamione heart. thin, grumpy-looking, scowling, dark and sallow-skinned is basically exactly how snape is written as looking too. perhaps she has a type and that type is a cross between anaemic victorian waif and 2000 emo

[demigods-posts]

okay but we can all agree that annabeth is hella ripped right? because this girl has been training to be a soldier since she was seven. i'm just convinced her biceps become so prominent when she so much as grips a doorknob. i'm just convinced she has incredible upper body strength. i'm just convinced she could snap me like a twig.

[milksteakkk]

book kleinsen is so special to me because evan is just so. enamoured by jared in every way and its made so much more obvious when you compare it to his attitude w everyone else in the book

[on-friday-afternoon]

𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚒 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚒 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕

Ahhh!!! I'm so, so pleased to reveal the cover for my upcoming romance comic, Please Be My Star!! Out Sept 3rd!!

In my romantic YA reimagining of Phantom of the Opera, Erika, haunted by her own loneliness, pursues her obsessive crush on Christian, the cutest boy in her theater class.

This is my take on the "ugly duckling" romance told through the lens of a queer person obsessed with cute boys & dressed in the Phantom's clothes. My entire heart is in this comic, and I'm really excited for you to read it.

Preorders should now be available at your local bookstore & major retailers 💚

[starrynightsxo]

this is so cardan greenbriar coded

[aka-indulgence]

for the ask game... 🎩 :3c?

Oughhhh my brain…. theres so many vague ones from my childhood that I have to remember… oh, I’ve got one that definitely put me through a wringer of emotions I didn’t understand at the time fjhdkshfd

The Green Death from the first How to Train Your Dragon book!! (Fun fact it was and might still be my favorite book series of all time. I definitely have fond memories of it.) The Green Death also one of the guys that changed my brain chemistry forever (Giant threatening dragon. Giant monster. Oof)

There’s no pictures of him I can find 😭 but there were illustrations in the book. He’s a Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus, and he’s so large you never get a full body illustration of the guy, only his eye, his teeth or a talon… brhhh

For context the Green Death washed up on Berk. The Berkians tried to do a war cry to scare it away but he basically scoffs at it and proceeds to roar the bones out of their skin and they couldn’t figure out what to do. So Hiccup, someone who can speak Dragonese, goes up to talk with him on his own to try to persuade him away with words.

He proceeds to have a really tense chapter where the dragon wakes up from his nap and repeatedly, casually threatens his life, speaking about the different ways he could kill/eat him, his eye is taller than a human,

One scene is when he talks about how he’d go about deboning a human and a giant claw lands on the cliff Hiccup’s standing on.

And then later on through plot reasons the dragon becomes enraged at Hiccup in particular and ignores every other human running away from him to pursue him specifically

Needless to say the chapter where Hiccup talks with the Green Death was kid me’s favorite. I kept rereading it. And I was like “why do I really like this part.” LMAO

[aceredshirt13]

having read nearly all of the Jeeves short stories, it’s so funny to me that Bertie’s bisexuality manifests as casting a wide but shallow net at girls and a narrow but ridiculously deep net at men. He thinks girls are pretty on a reasonably frequent basis, and has tried to marry at least four women thus far (not counting the unwanted engagements), but when it doesn’t work out he’s over it in 24 hours. Meanwhile he shows absolutely no interest in and never gives flattering depictions of 99% of the men in his life, but will praise Jeeves to anyone who will listen, wax poetic about his appearance (and get defensive on his behalf about it when a child insults it), and is absolutely inconsolable when they are separated.

(also Bertie is in no way allosexual. he is canonically terrified at the thought of reproducing. and due to the narrow but deep net on the other end I don’t imagine he’s going around sleeping with loads of men, either. that man’s either demi as hell or just entirely ace)

[daisywords]

so I keep seeing you mention the goblin emperor and it's piqued my interest, do you have any propaganda that might compel me to read it?

YES YES YES

Okay so imagine a book with incredibly rich worldbuilding, folded into the language itself, where every single character is interesting and multifaceted and we are slowly getting glimpses of what's going on.

Imagine a book with a main character who is at his heart so lovable and considerate and wants to do right by everyone but is thrust into situations constantly. completely out of his depth. and he gets tired and cranky about it, and doesn't always do everything right!

This is Maia, our forgotten disfavored fourth son turned emperor of the elflands:

Ok now imagine that there's all this court intrigue going on. Multiple secret plots and plans, and infinite politicking. But of course, everyone is very formal around the emperor, and there are a ton of crazy power dynamics at play, so we have to very slowly and deliciously pick up on what's going on in every direction.

Imagine through all this web of social dynamics that are all about power and the struggle for it, the central question of Maia's story becomes not so much about the accrual and maintenance of power, but instead whether and how he can love and be loved.

And imagine that the writing is really good, and effortlessly and admirably whisks us from scene to scene, and turns the most simple-sounding lines into something you'll turn over and over in your head for the rest of your life.

And also Csevet Aisava is there <3

Anyway would you believe that book is real and you can read it in real life???

[manderleyfire]

They created a strange tableau: rabid boy, trapped girl, bombed-out building. It suggested a tale that could only end in tragedy. Star-crossed lovers meeting their fate. A revenge story turned in on itself. A war saga that took no prisoners.

[gingersnaptaff]

Doing more on @gwalch-mei 's Christmas present (which I keep referring to as Gwyn and Gwalch's Gossip Corner (feat. An Appearance From Everybody's Favourite Scamp, Llacheu) and thought u might all like this bit about Gwalchmai talking about Medrawd. (Also, dw for anybody interested - I.e. @dullyn just said 'Pryderi has fun uncle status' that WILL be the case in this!)

[rinnysega]

Ilona did this in like 2 minutes based off a pitch I did that half my book is akin to The Goofy Movie

[allthethoughtsandstuff]

this part has always hit me like a freight train and a lot of it has to do with alex having no outlet for his emotions and the sheer volume of feeling that he experiences that’s making him need to destroy something bc it’s all just bottled up and the insanely powerful way that casey writes that so that you really feel it but I noticed something else that makes this scene just like a punch in the gut and it’s all there in the “the screen is replaced by the end of the day” and I didn’t know why that line always stuck out to me and gave me just this feeling of absolute despair but I think I figured it out on this reread. something about the inevitable repair and reset of alex’s feelings/emotions. something about the not being allowed to be broken or hurt. something about you’re not allowed to have feelings. something about it’ll get reset and fixed no matter what no matter if you like it or not or if you want it or not. something about not having control. something about you can do whatever and make whatever changes but they’ll always be set back to normal. something about your actions always being righted to fit an image. something about how the white house will always keep you in line, keep you clean and perfect and how you’re supposed to be. something about your cracks never being allowed to show. something about imperfection not being allowed. something about your actions don’t matter. something about alex is trapped in a world of images and presentation and perfection and the people around will uphold that for him always and without exception.

[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill