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Bought back by the grace of God // Insta: @baileyewatson

[betrosed]

About Me

My name is Bailey, and I’ve been on tumblr since 2014. I teach freshman English at a public high school by day, and I hyper-fixate on nerdy stuff at night.

I married my best friend April 2023. Baby girl due January, 2026!

I’m a protestant Christian (denomination is somewhere between Presbyterian and Baptist, but tbh at my old age I’m becoming less convinced that denominations matter a flying flip).

Favorite books: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis (anything by CSL tbh), and The Once and Future King by TH White

Favorite shows: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Avatar: The Last Airbender

Favorite movie: Howl’s Moving Castle

Currently reading: Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory, Apothecary Diaries (LN)

Currently watching: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures, Gachiakuta, Dandadan

Ask is always open.

[enchantedbook]

J. R. R. Tolkien's illustration for 'Letter From Father Christmas' .

[contagiousgrace]

there's no chill way to be like, "yeah, I think generative AI is a crime against God and man."

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how am i supposed to do anything productive when all i wanna do is put my hands on my belly and feel my baby girl do summersaults???

[betrosed]

hot take but everyone who partakes in the American experiment, and I mean everyone, regardless of political, cultural, or religious leanings, would benefit a lot from finding a “favorite” of the following:

-Sonnet by Shakespeare

-Play by Tennessee Williams

-Movie by Alfred Hitchcock

-Poem by Sylvia Plath

-Bible verse

-Federalist paper

-Fairy tale

-Greek myth

-Song by Johnny Cash

-Painting by Norman Rockwell

-Short story by Flannery O’Connor

-Native American folklore creature

And no, this does not mean that you have to love everything about all these things; you can hate Greek mythology, the American revolution, poetry, the bible, and southern gothic. but there is power and beauty in being cultured, in having a favorite even among what you dislike of your inheritance—there is power and beauty in giving them the affection of attention and consideration, even if it ends with you only finding 1% of it to favor.

[the-magnificant-world-of-art]

Creek (1880) by Konstantin Korovin

[energyprison]

speaking is a sort of playing where words are the toys

[betrosed]

absolutely love dogs. “oh i’m confused? i shall look at this thing at a tilted angle and perhaps comprehend” genius

[detailedart]

Van Gogh - sky and sea details.

[soft-lovely]

old fairy book covers

[betrosed]

You're fucking weird

thanks! i will become even more undignified than this :)

[betrosed]

[virginwithasthma]

"Modern retelling" and it's a blatant misinterpretation of the original text

[howlsmovinglibrary]

"What a tool cynicism is to the corrupt, claiming the whole of the creation is broken and fraudulent, and thus we are all excused to indulge in whatever sins we wish - for what's a little more unfairness, in this unfair world?'

- Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

[thunderstruck9]

Nicolau Raurich (Catalan/Spanish, 1871-1945), Barcelona, 1914. Oil on panel

[havingapoemwithyou]

july by Cristin O’keefe Aptowicz

[bruwho]