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SPOILER ALERT I POST SPOILERS This is a multi-fandom book tumblr, and I post spoilers for all of them.

[m7angela]

So I was working on the diversity in my art style with hoo characters instead of fma this time :’) 

[smythecriminal]

[geeeeeeeeeeeeeeenji]

notable lines from andy weir’s “the martian”

[darling-highness-deactivated201]

you left out one of my favourites

the entire book is a literary masterpiece

[diversityinya]

The Prince and the Dressmaker

We’re very excited to share with you some sneak peek art from Jen Wang’s new graphic novel, The Prince and the Dressmaker, out with First Second Books in 2016!

The Prince and the Dressmaker is about a young 19th Century prince named Sebastian who secretly loves to wear dresses. He hires an ambitious young seamstress named Frances to make dresses for him and as their collaboration grows, so do their feelings for one another. Sebastian and Frances must find a way to balance their inner desires with the strict expectations of the royal family – or risk exposing Sebastian’s secret to the world.

“This book is really special to me because I basically wrote it for my teenage self, which is something I haven’t done before. I wanted a story that explored questions about gender and self-identity in a way that was also really colorful and fun and positive. The personal themes are there, but also lots of dresses and princesses. The idea was to create my ideal Disney movie, and writing this has genuinely been one of the most fun, liberating, experiences I’ve had making comics. My awkward confused fourteen year-old self would’ve really connected with this book and I hope it does the same for other young readers,” says Jen Wang.

Jen Wang is a cartoonist, writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. Her young adult graphic novels Koko Be Good and In Real Life (co-written by Cory Doctorow) are published by First Second Books. She recently wrote the mini-series Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake Card Wars for BOOM Comics, illustrated by Britt Wilson.  Her upcoming graphic novel The Prince and the Dressmaker will be published by First Second Books in 2016.

[albinwonderland]

AHHHHHH

[spacegoat-herder-blog-deactivat]

New cover for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. “The spine is screen-printed with a matchbook striking paper surface, so the book itself can be burned.”

[sixxofcrows]

WHO THE FUCK WOULD BURN A BOOK

[starkinglyhandsome-deactivated2]

have u read fahrenheit 451

[iwontstaylong]

Hades: Most of my children don't get happy endings, or a normal life.

Hades: I'd like Nico to be an exception.

Hades: I want him to have a somewhat normal life.

Hades: ...

Hades: ...

Hades: ...

Hades: imma give him a skeleton chauffeur

Hades: ...

Hades: with a french accent

[witchjock-deactivated20221208]

[brassy-deactivated20160222]

augustus waters. augustus fires. augustus earths. augustus airs. the fault in our elements

[adorkablezuko]

long ago, the four augustuses lived in harmony.

then, everything changed when the metaphors attacked

[iwontstaylong]

Augustus: so your name is four

Tobias: yeah

Augustus: you could say it's a metafour

Tobias: will you stop

[theubergrump]

I keep seeing stuff about Lord of the Flies going around

Obviously, the individual experiences of the people making the posts - re: teachers, lessons, the way they were forced to study the book - aren’t up for debate

but like, I feel that people might not have the whole story here and as someone who knows far too much about literature, I wanted to talk about it a little

Sir William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in response to an earlier novel called The Coral Island. In The Coral Island, a small group of upper-class British boys from a boarding school get stranded on an island and have an absolutely wonderful time. They look back on it as a fond adventure, where they had a little vacation, invented things, and generally made their well-bred high society English parents proud.

Sir William Golding read that novel and was disgusted by the way that R. M. Ballantyne used the plot as a huge essay on the superior intellect and higher morality of English folk (read: white people). The boys in The Coral Island eventually have to seek the aid of Christian missionaries (who are there to convert the local Polynesian populace) to save them from the natives who are written as raping pillaging amoral cannibals.

Sir William Golding set out to write a more realistic novel, by the way, using the same names for his main characters as Ballantyne did (although Golding’s characters are slightly younger). So, all the posts about Lord of the Flies showing the “human condition” insofar as it pertains to young middle-class British boys who grew up in a boarding house in the middle of the Cold War are correct. But I get the feeling that most people don’t realize that was the point of the novel.

Lord of the Flies was meant as a huge “fuck you” to the ingrained belief that English people are the most noble and wise of all people and thus incapable of descending into savagery. I doubt it was ever meant to be a sweeping generalized metaphor for the universal savage nature of humanity, and shame on the teachers who force that interpretation on their students.

[ripelypine-moved-blog]

my favourite part of shakespeare plays is the person at the end that is like “see how these people fucked everything up. don’t do this. look at this fuckery. look at it. fuck this. fuck everything.”

[babysandwichkoala]

a novel about a girl in high school who’s popular, likable and fashionably inclined with a fair amount of consensual sexual partners who is bullied by the quirky new girl who thinks she’s so much more special because she doesn’t wear makeup and isn’t “slutty” and every girl is a carbon copy except for her

[swagpizza]

what do you get when you mix alcohol and literature?

[swagpizza]

tequila mockingbird

[thelilnan]

also Ernest Hemmingway but that’s beside the point

[jovaline]

Haha okay, the teacher I have for YA Lit is amazing. I had her for Sci-Fi Fiction before. But the thing is she was given this class five days before it started since she’s taking over for another teacher.

So her syllabus starts out normal, right? Like…

But then…

And then…

By the time it hits mid March…

So.

So.

Done.

Really excited about this class, man.

[yabitter]

this just in: jk rowling regrets entire harry potter series. says she meant to write about blizzards, not wizards. isn’t sure what happened.

[larmoyante]

I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

(via highwayaisle)

[matadorianpavus-blog]

the mortal instruments bombing at the box office

critics tearing it to shreds for being largely composed of elements, character arcs, etc., jacked wholesale from preexisting materials by other creators

cassandra clare/cassandra claire, after months of talking about how ~involved~ she was with the production, now insisting she had nothing to do with it, they totally wrecked it, she’s not responsible you guys