Ordinary-Fate

I'm Esme welcome to my blog :) this a place full of multi-fandom madness so enjoy! feel free to ask me anything or just talk to me :)

[amywinehousequeen]

Amy Winehouse at The Hawley Arms, where she would often go in and help behind the bar (2007)

[princessnamora]

Morgana Pendragon | 1x04

[colubrina]

[nevereverbird]

[firewalkwithmme]

☾𖤓 — 22 December 2024

˚˖𓍢ִ໋🦢˚ — Happy end of the semester!

It’s been a while! The end of the term is always so busy and hectic and I didn’t have the energy to post anything. Many long, cold days with the sun setting before 5pm, and a few nights of trekking to my exams in terrible winds and snow. My last exam was on the 13th of December, but since then I’ve been busy preparing for Christmas, but prior to that, I spent my days studying constantly, and it paid off — I received my final marks for 4 out of my 5 courses and so far I’ve gotten all A’s. Finally I can pull my old GPA out of the gutter.

My most notable accomplishment was the 95.25% grade I somehow managed on my Film final — I can’t tell you how relieved I am, as I needed to secure a good average in that course as well as an upcoming film course next term.

In the coming weeks, I’m planning to spend more time reading some personal books, working on a few psychology readings to get ahead for the coming term, and I am also hope to catch back up on my language learning, as I’ve not given it much focus this past month.

Happy Christmas everyone! <3

CR 📖 : Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

Song otd 🎧 : Watching You Without Me by Kate Bush

p.s - I’m thinking about making a post of all my academic and productivity goals for the new year! I want to bring my best self to 2025

[themelodyofspring]

TRCC Readathon - Days 5 - 7

13 pages of Somewhere Beyond the Sea were read. I wasn't feeling it so back in the bookshelf it went.

I got Witch King by Martha Wells which had an amazing first chapter so I'm devouring it instead. Read 88 pages in 2 days (after work).

That's a wrap! Thanks to @thereadingchallengechallenge for hosting 🥰 I had so much fun ✨

[bunnyhopbooks]

18/01/2025 - Attended a zine launch for something I wrote last year :) This is the last time I can write with this publisher because they only publish under-18s, so if anyone has zine publication recommendations leave them in the replies haha :P

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: fieldnotesbyfi

[nick-nellson]

The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

[verdiris]

"I will watch you grow into the King that Camelot deserves. It is as it should be."

[frostklamm]

the closer the stranger

[godzilla-reads]

‘Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.’

—Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972)

[books-coffee-and-the-woods]

Today's Used Bookshop Haul!

After much debate, I ended up going to the shop today. Set a limit of 10 books, and I was at least kinda close to it. I didn't find Night's Master by Tanith Lee, but I found a couple other books in that series, and the clerk informed me that while they didn't have it in stock right now it's a title they get fairly often, so I'll check back occasionally.

More blathering about books and authors under the cut:

Esther Friesner - there were actually a TON of her books there today! I was super excited to pick up 2 more books in the Chicks in Chainmail series (comedic anthologies of stories playing on the "bikini armor" trope), so now the only one I'm missing is Chicks and Balances. Also found a couple other fantasy novels of hers. She's not my absolute favourite fantasy author, but she writes kinda silly sci-fi/fantasy and those are fun every once in a while.

Tanith Lee - object of my Quest today. got Death's Master and Night's Sorceries which are books 2 and 5 of the Tales from the Flat Earth series. I'll continue to seek out physical copies of the rest of the series--one of my many Old Books Sidequests lol. Also got books 2 and 3 of the Unicorn series (I have book 1 on the way from thriftbooks), though I was sad I couldn't find White as Snow or Red as Blood. At least my library has White as Snow--they only have a couple of her novels, which is a shame.

Robin McKinley - McKinley is one of the only other authors on my "to check" list who had new-to-me titles shelved (all the others I had read before--have to wonder if I'm singlehandedly slowly draining this bookstore of Specifically these like 10 authors). Was excited to finally find a copy of Beauty, and picked up Chalice as well.

Will Shetterly - these two books specifically are part of the Bordertown series (one of my original Old Book Sidequests) and I couldn't pass up those covers. Like most of the original art for this series, they're ugly AF, but delight me nonetheless. Might give away my newer versions of these books (with very plain covers) now that I have the classic ones.

Jane Yolen - once again there was a ton of Yolen shelved, though I still have a bunch of her books on my TBR so I didn't want to buy much more yet. I did pick up this little sci fi anthology though.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i should wake up and automatically be restored to full health, that's how sleeping should work, what is this horseshit

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*waking up with a sore neck* where are my goddamn spell slots

[lemon-illustrations-deactivated]

Beanie in all four seasons 🌤️🌱

─── ⋆⋅☼⋅⋆ ─── bluesky // pinterest // threads

[magicaloxford]

Snowy Oxford and hot chocolate - a wonderful combination ☕❄️!

[amourfae]

sleep like a winter bear.

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Eliot’s Books (Toronto, Canada) Gustavo Thomas