punk-ass book jockey

my blorbos from my books (she/her)

[gravity-rainbow-deactivated2024]

James Baldwin

[firstfullmoon]

from his essay Notes on the House of Bondage

[melspontaneus]

[kettle-bird]

I was ready to settle in until it was time to think about what I was going to do when I got to my destination, something I intended to put off until the last possible moment. Then, through my feed, something said, You were lucky. [ASR Cover]

[moonssnail]

Mithraeum host club!!

I was walking home from work and thinking to myself… host club and Gideon the ninth. And here we are, many weeks later. Hope there’s a target audience out there to reach with this lolllll

[coolcomicbookcovers]

[rosiethorns88]

Dropping this artwork of Emily and Wendell from Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by @heather_fawcett, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for September!

Looking back, I had originally thought this scene took place in the middle of night, but forgot that it was right at sunrise. This immediately changed the color scheme of the piece (some mentioned it looked refreshing!). Coming on the heels of the recent 'Pledge Our Troth' piece I did of Jude and Cardan, how is it that a simple pledge and quick peck is so much more monumental than a multi-month lead up to a wedding?

This piece has been officially licensed and is available in both shops! (Link in bio) Steely-eyed Shopify customers may be able to snag some early Black Friday discounts!

[itslaeka]

I'm dropping my fanarts here 🌱

[sticker-pop]

2000's Peter Rabbit sticker book stickers

[alwaysright27]

I am as sad as you Marilla. I would love weird little girls to be allowed to grow up to become weird women, but alas, that’s not the wish fulfillment fantasy here.

[unabridgedisbetter]

Rip Agnes Aubert you would have loved Marie Kondo

[magpiesketchins]

Every year he forgot

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"Stories," I said faintly, drawing my hand back. "I know stories." He gave me an odd look. "And have you ever needed anything else? Have you not shaken a kingdom to its foundations, found a door to a distant otherland, overthrown a queen? Hand you the right storybook, and you are capable of anything."

Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

[distance-does-not-matter]

reading Anne of Green Gables for the first time is so funny bc Anne is primarily a sweet, eager, earnest, dramatic, imaginative child who’s taking the world with open arms and loving life, and also she’s trying to explode Gilbert Blythe with her mind

[dimity-lawn]

The Glorious 25th of May

Truth!

Justice!

Freedom!

Reasonably priced Love!

And a Hard-Boiled Egg!

I haven’t read Night Watch yet

I haven’t read Discworld (yet)

I don’t plan on reading Discworld (why?)

Other?

Voting ended onMay 26

[hottestthingalive]

'the greatest reveal in the history of media was-' no. the greatest reveal in the history of media was in the novel Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (1986), wherein after having spent the entire book up to this point in the fantasy land of Ingary, where fairy tales come true, it is revealed that the real reason that Howl is so odd, so strange, so different from everyone else is that he is not, in fact, like everyone else. and this is not because he is a wizard, or a layabout, or heartless--it is because he is Welsh. as in, he is from modern day Wales. as in, he and his pals from Magic World go for a quick trip to visit his family in Wales, circa 1984-6. and suddenly everything about Howl Pendragon aka Howell Jenkins suddenly makes a lot more sense

[valoftheisland]

[faun-draws]

The women of The adventures of Amina al-Sirafi' by Shannon Chakraborty

If you think Dunya is missing, please finish the book first :)

And If you think Payasam is missing: yes you are right and I am very sorry!

I listened to the audiobook at least 15 times by now!

I really want to draw the men next, but drawing men is not my strongsuit so bear with me!

I was listening to the audiobook again while drawing to remember exactly how these ladies are described and have been reminded that our imagination is often different from what is described. So I had to go over my mental image of some of them hehe:)) still took some artistic liberations of course