#literature pun

[gummykko]

[dandelionjack]

starting a band called ‘courtly love’ we perform exclusively covers of hole (band) songs on medieval instruments dressed as knights and ladies from a preraphaelite painting. we’d be a hit at renfaires from year to year

[eat-the-lemons]

Now that Epic is getting the recognition it deserves I think it's a great time to remind the general public that the name Odysseus is generally theorized to have originated from the Greek verb "ὀδύσσομαι" which basically translates to "to hate". Imagine you're born and your parents name you Hater

[enlitment]

what too much coffee and staring at your laptop the whole day will do to your brain

[factual-flittermouse]

For those that hc Jason Todd as a theater kid, would you say he tends to make … much ado about nothing?

[digitaldreamspace]

If someone writes you a few poems, they might love you. 🌹 If they write you three hundred poems, they might love writing poems. 🖋️

[shyjusticewarrior]

Red Hood Incorrect Quotes Pt 3

Jason: What do you get when you mix alcohol and literature?

Duke: Tequila Mockingbird?

Barbara: F. Scotch Fitzgerald?

Jason: Ernest Hemingway.

[reader-twisted]

I identify as a threat. My pronouns are try/me.

[gummykko]

NOSFERATU

[gawrkin]

(Source: Post Vulgate - Quest for the Holy Grail)

King Arthur and his Naming Habits™.

From his personal items (including naming his own hall - Ehangwen - in Welsh lore) to other people based on their situations in relation to him.

*(NGL, I think this was a pun and would have been more understandable in Old French)

[twilight-zoned-out]

“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”

1000% convinced Robert Louis Stevenson named his character Edward Hyde just to make that pun.

[isawhitney]

Mandarin

I peel it back:

Paring skin, tearing chalky tendons,

Baring orange flesh under my cat o’nine tails.

All I seek is wisdom:

Some small insight into the seasons’ turn,

How rot can bloom at the core of an orange.

All I find is silence:

My ripened stoic keeps its secrets

And the bureaucracy of nature breathes out.

[thepersonalwords]

Goodreads.com is actually about fiction not dreading goo. But I have a profile there, anyway...

Michael A. Arnzen

[cormancatacombs]

Thank you for shopping at the Tell-Tale Mart!

Where great deals are just a heartbeat away!

[king-k-ripple]

[kiisuuumii]

Mary Jo Bang, "From Another Approach," A Film in Which I Play Everyone