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studyblr + langblr (french) • Vera • USA

[rvlvrocelthot-deactivated202009]

Never date anyone who can’t sit through a marathon of the LOTR extended editions u don’t need that kind of weakness in ur life

[dennysparkinlot]

how dare you keep this gem in the tags?

[northwindnovoross-deactivated20]

St. Petersburg: Champ de Mars, the Savior on Spilled Blood

[skippyv20]

      Bookshelf inserts

hey say that you can’t judge a book by its cover. But what if the cover alone can tell you the whole story? Welcome to the world of book nooks where creativity runs wild!

These hand-made creations will draw you into tiny places of wonder: from the hobbit hole to the Blade Runner-inspired apocalyptic alley or Lord of the Rings-themed door replica equipped with motion sensors.

This book nook my mother got on Ebay

A Magical bookshop in your own bookshelf

I made a booknook for a christmas gift, my inspiration was Blade Runner. It’s 11" X 6"

Not only are book nook inserts a fun way to train your creativity muscle, they can also be a solution to making reading great again. A recent study done by Pew Research Center showed that a staggering quarter of American adults don’t read books in any shape or form. The same study suggested that the likelihood of reading was directly linked to wealth and educational level. Add high levels of modern insomnia and full-time employment that leaves many of us drained at the end of the day, and the idea of opening a book seems unappealing, to say the least.

Now imagine yourself walking past a bookshelf full of these mini worlds—the dioramas of an alley. They catch your attention and you cannot help but see what’s inside. The pioneer of the book nook concept is the Japanese artist Monde. Monde introduced his creations to the Design Festa in 2018 and received overwhelming feedback. 178K likes on twitter later, Monde has become an inspiration to the aspiring arts and crafts lovers who join on r/booknooks to share their spectacular ideas.

Hobbit Hole

Design, print and paint a small shelf to decorate shelves

worlds hidden in a bookcase

A double wide endor inspired wilderness piece

Old Italy book nook

Diagon Alley booknook

Witch is watching you

Warhammer-style booknook

Creature from the Black Lagoon bookshelf monster

A booknook inspired by Les Miserables

source https://www.boredpanda.com/book-nook-shelf-inserts

I love this so much,  thank you!😊❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[lukepearcing-deactivated2022012]

anyway i am tired of having expectation on modern literature, i give up. i’ll just go back and stan the only man who deserves it: benedick. homie really went from pretending to be misogynistic dickwad because he’s a damn people pleaser to learning to be better person and coming out as the only man who’s been drinking respecting women juice in the entire play. a redeemable man done right. king of character development.

[classic-lit-memes4u]

not mine but hilarious

[stcrlghts]

latin phrases worth knowing:

(in case you wanted to know because i fucking love this language) 

ad astra per aspera - to the stars through difficulties 

alis volat propriis - he flies by his own wings 

amantium irae amoris integratio est - the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love 

ars longa, vita brevis - art is long, life is short 

aut insanity homo, aut versus facit - the fellow is either mad or he is composing verses 

dum spiro spero - while I breathe, I hope 

ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem - with the sword, she seeks peace under liberty 

exigo a me non ut optimus par sim sed ut malis melior - I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad

experiential docet - experience teaches 

helluo librorum - a glutton for books (bookworm) 

in libras libertas - in books, freedom 

littera scripta manet - the written letter lasts 

mens regnum bona possidet - an honest heart is a kingdom in itself 

mirabile dictu - wonderful to say 

nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - there is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part 

omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now 

poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made 

qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it 

saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be 

sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still 

si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war 

struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears 

sub rosa - under the rose 

trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise

urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble 

ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - as loyal as she began, so she remains

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[awed-frog]

Not bad for a bunch of random noises we make with our mouths. Well done, everyone.

[ellana-scrolls]

English speaking Friend : “The French langage is so beautiful, so sexy. Like you could say anything and it would sound so fancy and all of that. I love the French langage, it always sounds great.”

Me, after hitting my foot on the corner of my coffee table : “Putain d’ta race la pute de merde va te faire enculer espèce de connard de coin, salope de tes morts là.”

English speaking Friend : “Oh my, so beautiful.”

[theninjamouse]

I’m a simple woman, I hear the Pirates of the Caribbean music, I become gripped with the urge to don pirate garb and fight cursed skeletons upon the open sea

[the-bookshop]

[bookriot]

Just try not to burst into the chorus of “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and The Beast while you behold this library at Admont Monastery in Austria. 

[onaredwheelbarrow]

For many, Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice, 1812) and Emma Woodhouse (Emma, 1815) represent two opposing ideals of performative femininity. Elizabeth represents the woman who acts in opposition to society’s surface level expectations of women (e.g. talking long, muddy walks), while Emma represents the woman who conforms to the trappings of traditional womanhood (e.g. wearing pretty dresses and matchmaking). However, both women staunchly refuse to marry for the majority of their novels, and both are, more or less, the masters of their own fates. Despite these similarities, Emma is often codified as a bitch, and Elizabeth is given the “not like other girls” treatment in modern culture. These surface-level characterizations derail Jane Austen’s careful portrayal of multi-faceted women and play into the patriarchal pressure for women to be in competition with each other and to appeal to expectations of acceptable womanhood. I firmly believe if Elizabeth and Emma were to meet in 2020, they would drunkenly run into each other in a bathroom at a downtown bar. Emma would sincerely compliment Elizabeth’s outfit, and Elizabeth would use her impeccable character judgement to help Emma swipe through Harriet’s Bumble matches. In this essay, I will—

[triflingthing]

Shakespeare & Co. (Paris, 2019)

[pompadourpink]

Circumlocutions

Assembleur de nuages (the cloud assembler) : Jupiter

Astre de la nuit (night star) : the moon 

Astre du jour (day star) : the sun 

Beau sexe (beautiful sex) : women 

Billet vert (green bill) : dollar

Cinquième art (fifth art) : poetry

Deuxième art (second art) : sculpture

Dixième art (tenth art) : video games

Douzième art (twelfth art) : artistic performances

Habits rouges (red clothes) : british amy

Huitième art (eighth art) : television or photography

Le meilleur ami de l’homme (man’s best friend) : the dog

Mort les armes à la main (dead holding weapons) : dead soldier

Neuvième art (ninth art) : comic strip 

Onzième art (eleventh art) : multimedia

Or bleu (blue gold) : water

Or noir (black gold) : oil (gasoline) 

Peuple de Moïse (moses’ people) : the Hebrews

Planète bleue (blue planet) : earth

Planète rouge (red planet) : mars

Premier art (first art) : architecture 

Quatrième art (fourth art) : music or theater

Reine des fleurs (flower queen) : rose

Roi des animaux (animal king) : lion

Saison froide (cold season) : winter

Septième art (seventh art) : cinema

Sexe faible (weak sex) : women

Sexe fort (strong sex) : men

Sixième art (sixth art) : dance

Tête blonde (blond head) : little kid

Troisième art (third art) : painting

Ville éternelle (eternal city) : Rome

Ville lumière (light city) : Paris

Ville sainte (holy city) : Jérusalem 

Please note : the only common art thing used is the seventh art.

[myrosecolouredgirl]

so Charlotte Bronte read Emma by Jane Austen and was really interested in this minor character named Jane Fairfax who was poor and would have been a governess had she not married well and then Bronte wrote her own novel exploring the plight of the poor governess who married this guy named Edward Fairfax Rochester in a novel called Jane Eyre and my point is don’t let anyone tell you shit about fanfiction.

[scandalousladysuggestion]

be handed a letter by your maid, break the wax seal, read it with dawning understanding and then slowly look up into the middle-distance with an ominous smirk. order your carriage to be prepared at once. 

[mutantschooldropout-deactivated]

me getting a text and calling a lyft