alex likes books (on a different blog)

this blog is an archive now! if you want to follow me where i'm active, go look at @alexlikesbooksandtea

[alexisarchived]

hello hello, as i thought, i am going to be migrating over to my main (the new @alexlikesbooksandtea) and this one will be an archive of my old stuff! so uh, go follow me over there! i won't be posting on here anymore (or at least not once my queue runs out lol)

[asexplainedbyttoi]

Just so people know how serious this is

[grecoromanyaoi]

see one of my problems w movies n tv shows is that they often show a character of like a scientist or a historian and try and make them extremely boring but that shit just doesnt work on me. theyll b like 'well in 13th century turkey...' n everyone will b like ughhh shut up professor dinglebarry no one cares and like. well excuse me. stop the movie. id like to hear more about 13th century turkey.

[redstonedust]

i think being proud of where you come from is one of those things that becomes fun the more specific you get. like "proud to be english" bad rancid vibes. makes you sound like the kind of person who rants about immigrants. "proud to be from yorkshire" better vibes. i cannot deny the yorkshire cultural heritage. "proud to be from pocklington" absolutely fucking hilarious please never let anybody kill your pocklington pride.

[memecucker]

the most elegant dismissal of “why are there pyramids all over the world” that I’ve heard was “what’s the easiest structure to build? A pile of stuff. What if you wanted to make the pile stable? You’d turn it into a pyramid shape” and I forgot where I heard this but it reminds me of “notice how there’s flood myths all over the world” feels a lot less interesting if you ask “notice how civilizations that leave written records are often located next to rivers or other bodies of water and what’s a catastrophic natural disaster that can happen to cities next to bodies of water”

[treasuredplanet]

I think that when you're overstimulated you should appear kind of grayed out and no one should be able to interact with you like a locked character in a video game

[transbookoftheday]

Another Name for the Devil by Mason Deaver

Sweet evil, come deliver us.

Gabriel has spent the last decade trying to forget his best friend, the first boy he ever loved: Jacob. Ripped away from each other in the midst of a family tragedy, Gabriel grieved for Jacob alone, surviving in their small religious town before finally breaking free to attend college, where they found new friends and relationships to pursue. To Gabriel, Jacob became a distant memory.

Until one fateful Halloween night, when the two are reunited, and Gabriel couldn't be happier. Now, as adults, they can find the comfort and love that they desired in their adolescence. However, it doesn't take long for Gabriel to realize that time apart has changed Jacob. The once confident and assured boy has grown into an isolated and obsessive adult. And the more Gabriel discovers about the man he loves, the clearer the danger becomes. 

When Jacob reveals to Gabriel his life's work - his studies into the occult, demonic practices, and his ultimate desire to summon and communicate with Paimon, a King of Hell - Gabriel finds himself dragged into a world that they never asked to be a part of. But the further Gabriel goes, the more they realize that the demonic king is not the true threat and that evil has been beside them all along....

A twisted, supernatural thriller from the acclaimed and best-selling writer Mason Deaver about a love darkened by trauma and turned wicked by obsession. 

[oldorne]

I added a sparkle, just for the dramatic effect

[alexisarchived]

really wishing i could go back and tell past me not to make this a sideblog, it's the only one i post on anyways. might be some username shenanigans which will most likely just end up as a username swap so maybe go follow my main (@alexvalire) cause this one will probably end up dormant

[rockofagesz]

Okay so does anyone have any books like Hell Followed With Us by (i think) Andrew Joseph White? Something about the religious trauma body gore and MC being trans made my brain go brr.

[incorrect-house-of-nine]

Gideon, pretending to joke: So, my Crepuscular Queen, when are we going on a date?

Harrow: I don't know, First Flower of Our House. When are you going to ask me?

(later)

Camilla: And then you just ran away?

Gideon, head in her hands: I didn't expect her to flirt back! I freaked out. Camilla: You're hopeless. Gideon, wails: I know!

[academicblorbo]

How to be slutty and celibate: a guide by Dream of the Bitchless

[remembersunflowers]

i am sure that if Jonathan had access to a mirror;

he would see a fresh wound upon his neck- red, irritated, with a fleck of dried blood on his collar

he would see a version of himself that has been denied true restful sleep, experienced the horrors, and unimaginable stress

he would see the dimming hope in his eyes, a candle lit for a love he may never see again that’s growing darker …

Oh, what a foul bauble of vanity those mirrors are, what wickedness they reveal in their silver depths

[adhd-merlin]

some people really be out there typing fanfics longer than war and peace in their free time and then going on about their life like it's no big deal. how fucking incredible. like no offense to tolstoy but that was like. his whole job

[do2faj]

I went to see Jekyll and Hyde's musical last night from my country

and the person that plays Jekyll/Hyde is originally in the metal music industry and is a very talented/well known artist.

And the growls that he left, whenever Edward Hyde was around left me ovulating

[gingerhaze]

you're my king and I'm your lionheart

(Am I actually posting on Tumblr again??? Idk but it seems as good a time as any doesn't it)

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

"To-night is mine!"

(commissioned piece)