Misplaced Lens Cap
@theartofmadeline
Sweet Seals For You, Always
★
NASA
Jules of Nature
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
No title available
Stranger Things
Show & Tell
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Keni
will byers stan first human second
taylor price
art blog(derogatory)
trying on a metaphor
pixel skylines
Cosmic Funnies
No title available
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from T1
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from United States
seen from United States
@beachesandreadingg
I haven’t posted in forever but I finished I Could Give You the Moon by Ann Liang today and it was beautiful. Ares Yin is truly such an acts of services type of man.
Giving the girl with trust issues a glimpse of the future was such an interesting story line! I love Chanel Cao.
That moment when it’s 2am and you’re halfway through a romance novel and the characters FINALLY kiss
I just realized maybe one of the reasons why Snape was such a horrible bully to Neville was because if Voldemort chose to kill baby Neville that night then Lily wouldn’t have died.
What a horrible way to grieve…
Someone needs to make heated rivalry but jegulus
Has this already been done?
It’s been so long since I read a romance novel so now that I’m reading Ana Huang’s latest book it feels like something inside me is coming back to life
Idk romcoms aren’t necessarily brilliant works of literature but they make me laugh and that’s what I need right now
I’m currently reading John Green’s “Everything Is Tuberculosis” and I’m obsessed. I can’t stop talking about tuberculosis statistics.
The book is also making me really mad at the global healthcare system. So many people are in need of good tests and drugs for tuberculosis but they lack the funding to get access to these things.
Also, people keep telling me that tuberculosis is like an “old-time-y” disease that no one really gets anymore. This also makes me mad because tuberculosis has been the deadliest contagious disease for AGES (except in 2020, when it was COVID). I just want to tell them, “do you realize how privileged you have to be to see tuberculosis as a disease from the past?”
man. the secret history has become so synonymous with dark academia that when u look through the tag its just knit sweaters and latte art. like please show me a text post about how fucking unhinged richard was for staying in a room with a Literal hole in the wall during the dead of winter and almost dying of hypothermia.
By the way once you finish reading The Secret History you start being haunted by the memory of Henry in the same way all the characters are. Doesn't even matter if you hated him or loved him he will just be there with you forever now
the greeks in the iliad pulling 100 cows out of nowhere to sacrifice to the gods in the middle of the war. where are you getting all those cows
I want to read The Iliad and I’ve never read any Greek classics before.
Do people recommend reading The Iliad first? Which translation should I read?
SPOILERS FOR THE SECRET HISTORY!!
So… who was gonna tell me that this book has INCEST?!?!
Mannn I was really liking Charles too 😭😭 I should’ve known it was too good to be true.
I don’t even know what to make of Camilla… I guess I always knew that Richard’s perception of her was all in his head, and that he was totally not a reliable narrator, but suspecting Camilla’s manipulation and actually finding out about it are two different things.
In the first chapter of the book, I actually thought Francis was a bit of an oddball. He’s quickly becoming one of my favorite characters, though.
Meanwhile, I originally really liked Henry, but he’s getting on my nerves, with the way he just commands Richard and Charles to do the dirty work while making everything worse for them.
Well… all the characters are difficult to like, aren’t they?
I have a little less than 100 pages left in the book, which is a relief because I’ve been reading it for nearly a month now. I think the problem is that I never want it to end. I want to be trapped in its world forever, even though it’s like a downward spiral.
One of my favorite things about The Secret History is the fact that these characters are some truly horrible people. None of the Greek students are actual good people. They have their good moments but then they go and reveal a secret they have and I’m like WHAT THE HELL?
But the best part is how much I like them despite how horrible these characters are. They’re messed up but I can’t help but like them. Maybe that’s just me, or maybe that’s just because I’m reading this in Richard’s point of view, but these eccentric misfits are so intriguing.
Yes I am going down the Heated Rivalry rabbit hole and read the two books within three days last week. Yes I love Hudson and Connor and I watched the golden globes for them. Yes I am obsessed with the edits and my favorite one is the Rock Me one. Yes I can’t stop saying “is lie LIAR TOLD YOU THAT.” Yes I am excited for season two and potentially a third book coming out 👀👀
Every now and then I get reminded of the PJO underwater kiss.
Like wdym that’s canon?!?! It just makes me so happy
Rereading Harry Potter after not touching it for years means that I finally understand parts of the books that I didn’t understand as a 10-year-old.
I had trouble understanding what a prophecy was as a kid. But in Half-Blood Prince, when Harry says he’s “got to” finish Voldemort, and Dumbledore says that Harry misunderstands and he hasn’t “got to” do anything, I finally understood what Dumbledore meant this whole time.
Harry isn’t the chosen one because of the prophecy. He’s the chosen one because of some combination of fate and circumstance. His determination and loyalty and his experiences with Voldemort hurting the people he cared about has made him really really want to get rid of Voldemort.
Something else I couldn’t understand before was why Harry’s wand overpowered the wand Voldemort took from Lucius in the beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I, like Voldemort, just assumed that Harry’s wand was more powerful. But now I am also thinking that why Harry was meant to defeat Voldemort all along is because he had a pure soul, as Dumbledore liked to say. Harry never understood why people would be bullies or oppressors (which I think is why he hated Snape, Umbridge, and Malfoy so much). The first time Harry actually did dark magic was because he didn’t know it was dark magic, and he immediately felt really bad.
Of course, Harry wasn’t perfectly good. He used the unforgivable curses, too, in the Deathly Hallows. I still don’t know what to make of that, but I guess the argument for that would be that he was working for the greater good (which sounds like some Grindelwald type of thing).
Growing up has also made me realize that Harry’s pure soul is why he was meant to be the champion of all three Hallows. He eventually realizes that the Elder Wand is dangerous and shouldn’t be boasted about, he learns that those that are dead are meant to stay dead, and, well, he inherited the Cloak of Invisibility.
He is so main character syndrome. All the stars aligned for him to be the one to finally defeat Voldemort.
Lmk if you think I got anything wrong!!
I don’t know why but I’ve always shipped Ginny and Harry so much. I don’t even know if it’s a popular ship or if people hate it but I just love Ginny and Harry.
However, I just can’t ship Drarry. I’ve tried, but I can’t like Draco, let alone like him and Harry together. I just can’t see it.
I’m sorry to the people who live laugh love Drarry 😔😔
I want to make amortentia but I’m not gonna use it on anyone. I just wanna smell it.
Maybe for me it’ll smell like soup and lavender and new books.
