A Literary Princess

"But if she had plenty of books she could console herself. She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself." -Frances Hodgson Burnett

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[therefugeofbooks]

going to book club

[thequeerlibrarian]

Started another Hermann Hesse book for my Hermann Hesse book club with @rollingthunderpouringrain <3

[thequeerlibrarian]

After 2 years I finally finished this!!! Longest book club read ever @rollingthunderpouringrain <3 loved reading this with you

[wildhoneyvalancy]

I have found it in the most random bookshop, while not even searching for it.

[natreads]

Finished volume six ❣️

[nondelphic]

editing is just you vs. past-you in a duel of questionable comma placement and emotional instability

[academicfeverish]

29/100

[whilereadingandwalking]

“We lay here for years or for hours,

So long we become the flowers.”

—Hozier

[requiem-on-water]

“Black Cloud” for the exhibition “The Accursed Hour” by Carlos Amorales at Fondazione Adolfo Pini | Ph: (1&2) Andrea Rossetti (3) Alessandro Spadoni

[budsbooks]

Finally, the misfortune can be brought about also by the mere attitude of the persons to one another through their relations. Thus there is no need either of a colossal error, or of an unheard-of accident, or even of a character reaching the bounds of human possibility in wickedness, but characters as they usually are in a moral regard in circumstances that frequently occur, are so situated with regard to one another that their position forces them, knowingly and with their eyes open, to do one another the greatest injury, without any of them being entirely in the wrong. This last kind of tragedy seems to me to be far preferable to the other two; for it shows us the greatest misfortune not as an exception, not as something brought about by rare circumstances or by monstrous characters, but as something that arises easily and spontaneously out of the actions and characters of men, as something almost essential to them, and in this way it is brought terribly near to us... We see the greatest suffering brought about by entanglements whose essence could be assumed even by our own fate, and by actions that perhaps even we might be capable of committing, and so we cannot complain of injustice. Then, shuddering, we feel ourselves already in the midst of hell. In this last kind of tragedy the working out is of the greatest difficulty; for the greatest effect has to be produced in it with the least use of means and occasions for movement, merely by their position and distribution.

On Tolstoy's approach to tragedy, from the introduction of Anna Kerenina.

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

carriage dress, c.1885 by Franziska Noll Gross

this dress is made of silk velvet, decorated with jet and celluloid beads

this dress can be found in: the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[frenchiepal]

17.07.26 🥯 such a stressful week but it's over now. the interview for the phd position went just ok but i got another invitation from another uni and i hope to hand in my thesis the week after the next. things are moving so quickly I NEED A MINUTE

🎧 - no instructions by the happy fits

[glitchcosmos]

saturday morning: reading in bed ☕️

[nemfrog]

Otter chasing beaver. O-go the beaver. 1934. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

Internet Archive

[spicymochi]

they are sitting and pondering

[sartorialadventure]

Caraco and petticoat, ca. 1789, Cotton, embroidered with grape vines, Palais Galliera, Musee de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

[robinade]

In conversation with multiple posts going around discussing technical literacy and typing skills…

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 Words Per Minute

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I'm on mobile/ vanilla extract option

Remaining time: 1 day 13 hours

➡️ Take a typing test here (and you need an actual, physical keyboard for this):

1-Minute Typing Test — TypingTest.now

The industry-standard benchmark used by employers and typing certifications worldwide.

➡️ 'Typing classes' refers to computer skills classes you might have had in school; you can also count games or other related typing training your parents might have had you do.

➡️ Across 3 different typing test websites*, the (english language) world average typing speed is 40 WPM.

*typingtest.now, typingtestgo.com, typerworld.com