#my bookish thoughts

[starryvomit]

[selenepluto]

"How many graves will I need, to bury everything that died inside of me?"

[thoughts-become-reality]

[bookaddict24-7]

You ever purposefully avoid picking up a book to read the next chapter because you KNOW it won’t just be “one more chapter”?

I’m not talking about “I need to sleep” type of “one more chapter”, but the “I need to get out of bed and adult” type.

Sigh.

But the book is so good. Decisions, decisions.

[starrynightsxo]

holly black is so cool because she named the first book of tfota as "the cruel PRINCE" which really encapsulates the immaturity of cardan at that point with his lack of understanding of mortals and such hence his mistreatment towards jude and taryn. she then goes on to title the second book "the wicked KING" which, to me, I feel shows a incredible amount of growth especially at the end where he exiles jude as a ploy to get her to pardon herself (which obviously does not go in his favour) causing jude to be the one to deem him wicked although later we find out otherwise. we then have the third book titled "the queen of nothing" which, in my opinion, is a subtle nod to the queen of mirth situation not so long ago but this time jude becomes the queen of all of the fae when all she really wanted in her life was to be able to live peacefully. her becoming the queen after all her hardships and now prevailing is really special and shows just how deep holly black thought to make jude such an icon.

[logophilist1982]

Revolution

[figtreeforever]

Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies

Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at a Window, 1822

(Collage: instagram @emmalinatotes)

[literarylumin]

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: it vexes me to choose another guide.

- Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

[selena04]

My Dark Vanessa Aesthetic

[laddersofsweetmisery]

by nikki howard, @laddersofsweetmisery

A free write. Thinking of turning it into the introduction of a larger project I'm working on for my mfa??? idk.

[afiyatahseenkhan]

I wrapped myself in your lies like a blanket, and now I can’t tell where the warmth ends and the cold begins.

ATK

[alexgotnochill]

So burn, sweet fever, burn away,

For she’s the warmth I long to stay,

And in her fire, though I may fall,

I know I've felt something after all.

–Khuda Hafiz

[selenepluto]

"We humans are so obsessed with escapism, through movies, books, art, music , and daydreams. Our souls truly aren't made for this world."

~unknown

[thoughts-become-reality]

[bookaddict24-7]

You ever just need to take a break from reading so you can feel that secondhand embarrassment for the character?

[starrynightsxo]

"jude and cardan had a toxic relationsh-"

no actually, they did not. there were reasons for everything that happened and just because everyone is so quick to judge things these days doesn't mean it needs to happen to them. whilst in the first book there was some initial behaviours that do support the claim, there were reasons behind them and also this is how enemies to lovers works !! they BECOME lovers. there is such a thing called a redemption arc?? not to mention we get an apology from cardan for everything he has done. toxicity is not what was in their relationship - it was ferocity. The ferocity of their love.

So let's all please stop labelling everything to ever exist toxic and focus on the people who actually need support from their toxic partners / relationships

EDIT: I would just like to clarify that I meant all this for when jude and cardan were in an actual romantic relationship together! This is by no means condoning what happened at the beginning of the books as that was most definitely wrong. I DO NOT condone any form of toxic relationship. I was trying to point out that once they were in an actual romantic relationship then they were NOT toxic and this is what some people argue they were. Apologies for any misconceptions!