Barely Literate

librarian • scorpio • she/her

[unusual-suspects]

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[awakefor48hours]

Every once in a while, I wish the friendship meter from the Sims was real so that way when people tell me "I used Chat-GPT" they can visually see just how much respect I just lost for them in that moment.

[berkelbites]

One time an acquaintance told me she entered Snape's star chart into chatgpt and I could physically feel that meter dropping three separate times over the course of her sentence

[enchantedbook]

"Innamorato della Luna" (In Love with the Moon) Antonio Rubino, 1907

[enchantedbook]

"The Wild Swans" Jennie Harbour, 1921.

[hexxlibris]

Fabulous Bodies, by Chuck Tingle

Live your life with a little fucking pizazz, sport

[marmelade-sky]

Capitalism sucks. Unless it's Louis de Point du Lac doing it, then it's funny.

[mondo-grosso]

[museify]

[hexxlibris]

[daphneblakess]

books i read in 2026: private rites by julia armfield

to be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. a person can be thirty, thirty-five, and yet still largely described by her sisters in terms of things that happened to be true at seventeen.

[nobrashfestivity]

André Derain, Sorrowful Landscape, 1946

[everydaylouie]

summer book club

[bayzed2024]

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[himbo-wizard]

“The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do.” ― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead

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I'm making a moodboard for every book I've read in 2025, they're all here!

[thrustin-timberlake]

so-called “free thinkers” when dracula daily starts back up

[hollow-head]

"who do you self insert as when you read?"

This is me when I read: