Welcome to the bookstore

A place for me to find/post memes about books

[thesmuttylibrarian]

[frailbug]

you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way

[ocean-glint]

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

[rockmerobin]

“i asked chat gpt-” yeah well i asked the yellow wallpaper and it said she wanted out. needed out. i push and she shook, i shook and she pulled.

i wonder if they all come out of the wallpaper as i did?

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

more people on this website need to be blogging about weird literature no one cares about

[batrachised]

I think Shirley Jackson delves so well into the horror of self-consciousness. To be so aware of yourself, whether due to loneliness or not belonging or abuse, can be a monstrous experience that reduces your experience of the world to a series of mechanical processes. I will get up. I will cross the room in front of everyone. I will get a cup of water. I must drink the cup of water before I return in case it is odd to have it on the couch. They must not think I'm odd. Instead of swinging into the kitchen for a drink while laughing with friends. Mechanical processes are based on cause and effect, and if you are so used to thinking in terms of cause and effect, you can start applying that framework nonsensically out of a self-defensive need for control--which begs the question of what happens when defense becomes offense

[solradguy]

Going to the library tomorrow to find out if I'm allowed to print hypothetical boobs for the GG copybook I wanna do

[solradguy]

Libraries don't fuck around when it comes to copyright law

[ellakas]

[ellakas]

[knight--error]

CANNOT take credit for these, my sister in law made them. Behold.

[magicratfingers]

i need this completed or ill die who is kitty?? WHO IS LYDIA

[fishing4stars]

@scyllas-revenge this has your name written all over it. twice.

[scyllas-revenge]

Ahh my two favorite things smushed together!!

[ellakas]

as op of this post this had me laughing truly out loud @scyllas-revenge

my bro in law: I hope they fold their gowns properly

[cornerstorebitch]

no offense but reading is literally the cure to brain rot and there’s no work around to reading books

[scribeherself]

[stuckinapril]

Every time you notice yourself losing your mind ask yourself when the last time you sat down and read a book was

[josilverdragon]

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

[ash-elizabeth-art]

You can never have enough books!

[aaru-aaruji]

only a reader would understand the urge to buy five more books whenever you see a book store despite having fifteen unread ones kept in your shelf

[ashstfu]

i just want to lay in bed and read books all day and not participate in life

[plant-based-person]

had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”

[plant-based-person]

what the people want, the people get

you see

my professor’s take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.

evidence as explained:

victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world

his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both ‘hysteria’ and postpartum depression

he pretty much swoons, let’s be honest

henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalesces 

afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?

Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrational 

the book does not otherwise have central female characters 

Also, Shelley’s mother died in childbirth. It’s interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.

in conclusion, Frankenstein (1818) by Mary  Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the first examples of mpreg in English literature 

[just-call-me-the-old-hag]

[ziamontri]

Not to mention that Shelley also literally uses the word "abortion" TWICE to describe the creature! Once used by Victor (abortive creation) and the other used by the creature himself (abortion)! So!!!!!

And, not from the book itself but from multiple analyses on this subject, Victor's lab is referred to as an "artificial womb." Mpreg has been real since 1818 /silly

I'm so glad this post was sent to me bro this was LITERALLY what my final paper for one of my last gothic literature class (I just graduated) was about. It was actually about how both Victor and the creature pretty much perfectly describe my gender identity, but I HAD to talk about the feminization of Victor as one of my points! Makes me so happy that I share views with a professor 🥹

[k1seulgi]

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and eggs