#mum books

[booksandmakeup]

Reading is my escapism. But I've just realised I literally escape into worlds which aren't that different from my own. Maybe it's just the thought that another woman is going through the same things as me that I find comforting.

It's either that or I go for a dark and twisty Thriller. There is no in-between.

Hmm perhaps I should try reading something fantasy?

[oifaaa]

You know what's really funny about my mum spelling my name wrong on my birth cert is for years she would say it only happened bc 1. she was really sick after she gave birth to me and 2. my dad wasn't there when I was born and he's the one that choose the name well a few years ago I found my red book a medical thing that keeps track of your child's doctor visits vaccines and early milestones and at the top of each page you write your child's name etc and im not lying when I say not only was my name not spelt right on a single page but it wasn't even written the same way twice which imo is a feat in itself

[lazylittledragon]

ok so this is Extremely specific but it's the middle of the night and i can't stop thinking about it: anyone who was/is involved in the les mis fandom, did i hallucinate the enjolras cosplayer who made a fan novel and also a fan film and then later was exposed for cheating on his partner, divorcing them and abandoning his child with cancer to go and become a jewish lawyer or was that something that actually happened

[juliavaccina-art]

i am gently smooching your msr art on the head... and also crying. because it makes me cry. it's so lovely. thank you.

Awee thank YOU so much !! I've been getting back into the X files lately, Halloween is approaching so... MSR art from me was inevitable ;)

[reallyunluckyrunaway]

[mausirot]

Sakinah Javad x My Mum Made It — Spring 2024

[yukipri]

feelin kinda sad so eating an obscene amount of pasta

[corvidkusnos]

Took me far too long to find this but y'all will be pleased to hear that while Lucanis didn't have a full beard in Tevinter Nights, he /did/ have stubble and wasn't clean-shaven

Context: Lucanis and Illario are talking, and this photo is when it's Lucanis' turn to talk

page 283

[sapphoismymuse]

i want to be a cozy hobbit living in a hobbit hole and gossiping with the neighbours and tending to gardens and baking and dancing barefoot under the party tree

but alas

i can't stand dirt

[obsob]

here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud!!

✷(print shop)✷

[dollypopup]

that 'have you ever been punished as a child?' line Pen drops hits different when you realize that in the books, Colin was horsewhipped by his father the morning before he died and then went to Eton where they literally had something called 'flogging Fridays' during the time he attended

like Julia, Miss. Quinn, what do you mean you just threw that information in as a random throwaway line that is never mentioned again? do you not realize how WILD that makes Colin's background?

He was twelve years old??? His dad saw him hitting Eloise and then horsewhipped him, and after horsewhipping his twelve. year. old. son. he then goes to comfort Eloise by taking a walk with her and the bee stings him and he fucking dies

Colin would be out here blaming himself for that death forever are you kidding me???? Wondering if he didn't hit his sister (when they're children playing together), would his Dad still be alive? Would he still have gone on that walk? Would he still have passed away as Colin sat sobbing in the stables, hurt by his hand?

And then he goes to Eton where the only time he had off was 3 weeks around Christmas, but still has to stay there, and 3 weeks in the summer when he can finally go home to Aubrey Hall?

This timeline is BONKERS. Like. . .we know Edmund dies not too long before Hyacinth is born, and she's born May/June. Colin's birthday? Yeah, it's in March. So you mean to tell me, the order of events of all this mess could be as followed: Edmund horsewhips Colin when he's 12 years old (sometime before March), he DIES that same day, Colin turns 13 (in March), Hyacinth is born (in June), and not a few months later Colin has to go to Eton (after the summer break. Social season is Spring and Summer, and ends either July or August, so let's be merciful here and say he leaves in August) and doesn't come back for an entire year?

You mean to tell me this boy has had what? Half a year to get over his father's death after he whipped him for a minor infraction and then he's waltzing into an institution where canings and whippings and floggings and bullying are the norm when he's a teeny tiny little boy?

How is this man not filled to the GILLS with trauma???? No wonder he's so close to his mum and listens to the women around him more than the men and never talks about his dad. And he still turns out so nice and empathetic and kindhearted? He still listens so much to Pen and is so gentle with her and has a good sense of humor and cares so deeply?

That man is never raising a hand to their children. He probably won't even raise his voice at their children. Oh my god.

[booksandmakeup]

What I read in March 2023

March was a little bit of a tough month for me reading wise. I had some goals of at least a book a week with the hopes of being more like 2 books a week and really I think I did well in the speed I read. I was averaging at 1 books a weekend! The problem was the weekdays. I had every intention to read as much as I could during the days, but with a baby and the school routine I just ran out of…

[babybells123]

(ASOS, Sansa II)

(ASOS, Jon XII)

[twisting-in-wonderland]

I do like the colours during overblots,,

(wip stuff under read-more)

Nothing too fancyy

[d3cayingdolly]

I'll never understand booktok's obsession with making books appear unread: Why would I not fold the corners over to mark my favourite pages, write little notes in the margins and break the spines?

I want my books to have marks of love, the way they leave marks on my life.

[reallyunluckyrunaway]

Horrid Henry being a whole-ass MENACE to his dad has me WEAK bruh—