Bookish Stuff

Hamlet is my favorite Shakespeare play… but to not be that basic, it’s Measure for Measure… but to sound really impressive, it’s Coriolanus.

[something-somewhere-at-sometime]

i would kill for a prequel to iwwv about the third year . the year of the comedy. midsummer nights dream in pajamas. fillipa cross dressing in every production. james and oliver being adorable. skinny dipping in the lake. etc etc etc AAA

[booksnplaysnthings]

I have so many books in my possession I know will be utterly amazing and beautiful, yet SOMEHOW all I want is to reread Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom for the third time in the span of one month!

[booksnplaysnthings]

Dorothea Brook was the original “I’m not like other girls” girl and you can’t tell me otherwise.

[booksnplaysnthings]

I want a production of Hamlet that capitalizes on Horatio being in love with Hamlet, but Hamlet doesn’t realize and is genuinely in love with Ophelia. After Ophelia’s death, however, he begins to realize and there is a growing sense of love between them in the final two scenes of the play. Because, let’s face it, Hamlet is definitely bi.

[foundmywei]

I finished reading "If we were villains" a few hours ago, so while I'm still going through the 5 stages of grief, here are the gayest scenes between Oliver and James that I made sure to save while reading even though I had no idea at first if it's going anywhere or not.

1. Oliver unconsciously leaning in when James was pretend-hitting him during class. (ACT I - scene 9)

2. James covering Oliver with the fake blood on Halloween. (ACT I - scene 12)

3. Oliver staying with James after the Halloween incident. (ACT I - scene 12)

4. "I wanted to give Richard ten bruises for every one he'd put on James." (ACT II - scene 2)

5. Oliver waking up next to James. "The strange sudden thought that I didn't want to move struck me." (ACT III - scene 10)

6. Oliver kindly informing us that he's the only one who knows every inch of James. (ACT III - scene 18)

7. "I desperately wanted him to stay, seized by the nonsensical idea that if he left, I would lose him, irretrievably.", "Forget to think of her." (ACT III - scene 18)

8. Oliver being blindly, savagely jealous while watching James and Wren kiss during R&J. (ACT III - scene 18)

9. Oliver thinking about James after having sex with Meredith. (ACT IV - scene 1)

10. Oliver going to spend the night with Meredith in the hopes that it'll help him forget about James. (ACT IV - scene 1)

11. Oliver yelling at James that he can't be mad at him or hate him. (ACT IV - scene 7)

12. Oliver having a crisis while watching James and Meredith kiss. (ACT IV - scene 9)

13. "He was my friend—much more than that, truthfully", "My infatuation with James transcended any notion of gender." (ACT V - prologue)

14. ""You didn't tell me." I didn't realize until it was out of my mouth that that alone was worse than any of the rest of it.",

"I never wanted you to look at me the way you're looking at me right now." (ACT V - scene 5)

15. "Worthy prince, I know't." and of course, the not so brotherly kiss. (ACT V - scene 6)

16. "Of course, the only person I really wanted to see was James." (ACT V - scene 7)

17. "You know why.", and James begging Oliver to let him make things right and kissing his hand the last time he went to see him. (ACT V - scene 7)

18. "But more than that—you must know—more than anything, I just need to see James." (Epilogue)

19. Oliver admitting at least to himself that he still is in love with James. (Epilogue)

[writtenbykieran]

I wanted to slap every single character in The Secret History, but with If We Were Villains, all I wanted to do was hug everyone.

[bethanydelleman]

Jane Austen Charted #4

Darcy’s Irrepressible Feelings Graphed

X Axis: Time

Y Axis: Level of Ardent Love

Also included: Proposal DANGER line

[welivetodream]

I will fall in love with someone ONLY if they say

"I look at you and suddenly the sonnets make sense"

(If we were villians)

[booksnplaysnthings]

So I made an If We Were Villains uquiz and you should take it <3

Which If We Were Villains by M.L Rio character are you?

[her-canine-teeth]

If we were villains is one of the best books written in the history of humanity and I will die on this hill

[inkmage13]

The more time I spend with Frankenstein the more sympathetic I am toward Victor. He's severely mentally ill and has some sort of chronic illness. He's very queer. He's plagued by visions. He passes out from stress.

When I first read it I completely hated him, but now he's just like me fr

[hwhwgwhnwnwbwbwg-deactivated202]

I need someone to think of me the same way authors describe their characters

[obliviatedlemondrop]

someone please take me on bookstore dates, and talk with me about books, and our futures and aspirations, and then at the end we exchange our favorite books with each other, and drive home listening to music.

[wowitsverycool]

dorian gray was so dedicated to intense emotion that he became a remorseless killer and rodion romanovitch raskolnikov was so dedicated to being a remorseless killer that he became intensely emotional

[mehamang]

so we all agree that james is alive right like that's for sure right and oliver goes up to del norte and there he is and they reunite and live and love in peace thats what happens right

[booksnplaysnthings]

I hate The Secret History but it’s simultaneously one of my favorite books...

[teklarain-deactivated20230102]

the most romantic thing a person can do is read and annotate your favorite book and then give it to you.