Books. Cats. Autumn. Etc.

24. Hufflepuff. 💖 Intersectional feminist. Currently Reading: The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain)

[joli--coeur]

a cozy, stormy morning in bed 🍂⛈🌲

Instagram: kokokourtney

[bo-ok-ish]

[perennialgarden]

Joyeux Halloween!

[drfaustus]

gregor’s manager: come to work! come to work!!!!

gregor:

[bo-ok-ish]

A+ Kafka memeage 🤣

[theartfuldodger26]

The only problematic thing with e-books is that after I’ve finished them I can’t put them on my trophy shelf, like a serial killer. 

[the-bookshop]

Source.

[ruinedchildhood]

[awed-frog]

Hey, do you know that feeling of hitching up a long skirt so you don’t fall on your face when walking upstairs, and then you immediately become a wretched yet resolute Jane Austen character? It’s a universal thing, right?

[thestraggletag]

It’s like resting a laundry basket against your hip and suddenly you’re a long-suffering peasant woman, wondering if you’ll survive the winter.

[rugessnome]

a shawl wrapped around the shoulders and you’re wandering the moors in a Brönte novel, feeling melancholic

[xombiebrains]

Looking out the window at the rain and you’re a love-stricken newlywed wondering when your husband will return from the war.

[piraterogue]

Long skirt billowing behind you while to go down the stairs, you’re a proper Lady in a flowing ball gown being introduced at a fancy social function.

[jellyfishslime]

Hair blowing in the wind and suddenly you’re hovering on a cliff by the sea, staring out into the waves and praying your merchant husband will return from his voyage across the ocean

[talaline]

Hood up against the rain and wind and you’re a medieval abbess defying the weather and travelling on foot with your people to find a place to establish a new community.

[garrulus]

Wiping your hands on your apron and you’re an 18th century kitchen girl rushing to let in the delivery boy you secretly love.

[the-surreptitious-solitary]

The cool fall wind catches your skirt, sends leaves swirling around your feet, and catches your hair and sends it flying behind you, and suddenly you’re a enchantress roaming the woods, daring any man to challenge your power.

[dmcoffee]

Stepping into a pool on a hot day, and you become a selkie, pulling your sealskin back on and returning to your home below the sea.

[daddyssleepypup-deactivated2020]

SPOOKY MOOD!!!

[antiporn-activist]

All women are forced to live under an arbitrary and unfair system which sorts us into the categories of “Fuckable” and “Worthless.”

The solution to this is NOT to expand the definition of “Fuckable.”

[verylostpenguin]

Are you ever reading a super over long pretentious book and just think. Wow. This man. knows a lot of words. but concise. is not one of them.

[byjove]

I love images of late Victorian/Edwardian period men taking goofy pictures with their bros........boys night circa 1898

[byjove]

Images with high levels of Bertie Wooster energies:

[lapsedgoth]

vintage "me and the lads are absolutely sauced rn"

[byjove]

my boy Eugene has two glasses of absinthe and thinks it’s hot to stand on Eustice as though he were a table

[bo-ok-ish]

Thunderstorm sounds on the noisemaker ✔️

Heating pad and plenty of comfy things ✔️

Mug of chamomile tea with a squirt of lemon juice ✔️

Good book ✔️

All I need is for sleep to actually happen to me.

[queerpyracy]

what books were you assigned to read in a class that you still hold a violent and bitter grudge against

for me it’s into the wild and the scarlet letter

[readingbeauty16]

Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye

[booksandsweettea]

The Old Man and the Sea. Could not handle how slow that book was for being so short.

[thewritehag]

The Great Gatsby and any of the Boxcar Children books (my hatred for them flow wide and deep from 28 years ago)

[ariaste]

*seethes* DICKENS

[gingerly-writing]

Pride and Prejudice

[nukesakus]

Of Mice and Men

[windwardstar]

Oh my god. Of mice and men. The ending of that book traumatized me in high school.

[bo-ok-ish]

The Red Badge of Courage. Couldn't stand it. Still can't. Adult me often revisits old school reads. Not that one.

[dahliaborne]

The Glass Lotus, Aleda Shirley

[heroes-get-made-deactivated2022]

Some ideas for bad things that are white/light:

lightning, very hot fire

snow storms, ice, frost on crops

some types of fungus/mold

corpses, ghosts, bones, a diseased person

clothing, skin tone, hair, etc. of a bad person

fur, teeth, eyes of an attacking animal/monster

bleached out deserts, dead trees, lifeless places

poison

Some ideas for good things that are black/dark:

rich earth/soil

chocolate, truffles, wine, cooked meat

friendly animals/pets/creatures

a character’s favorite vehicle, technology, coat, etc.

a pleasant night

hair, skin tone, clothing, etc. of a good person

undisturbed water of a lake

the case/container of something important

valued wood, furniture, art

velvet

Think to burn, to infect, to bleach vs. to enrich, to protect, to be of substance.

[noseforahtwo]

*slams reblog like the fist of an angry god*

the politics of light and dark are everywhere in our vocabulary…psa to writers: subvert this, reveal whiteness and lightness as sometimes artificial and violent, and darkness as healing, the unknown as natural

[attractthecrows]

“The truth finds more comfort in the dark”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I’d kill to work at a bookstore, someone telepathetically know this and hire me