Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
-A room of one’s own, Virginia Woolf
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Name: Jason Todd (but feel free to call me Jay)
Age: 15
Pronouns: he/him
Birthday: August 16
ummmmmm guys??!!
PLEASE TALK TO ME ABOUT BOOKS AND LIFE AND OTHER STUFF i would really like that. Please send me anons (AS LONG AS THEIR NOT WEIRD), i love hearing about what other people think)
Lore post (Please Read)
HC
probably owns a library (or multiple) in crime alley
loves reading (fanfics, classics, modern books, fiction)
is a huge annotator (highlights entire pages and tabs A LOT)
lives vicariously through books because life sucks
currently making his way through reading all austen books (//ooc finished with emma, pride and prejudice, and northanger abbey because i finished reading them)
has a tbr shelf (to be read) the size of Wayne Tower
Rules (PLS FOLLOW)
mun is a minor
no nsfw / sexual content
(this includes smut, explicit asks, or trying to start it in rp)
shipping is okay, but keep it age-appropriate
(no weird or uncomfortable dynamics)
no batcest. immediate block.
no harassment / forcing plots / making things sexual
rp with characters is welcome!
(plots + starters are okay, just keep things appropriate)
no heavy venting on this blog
(UNLESS its about books then vent all you want. i love hearing people passionate about books)
basic respect. if you’re weird, you’re blocked.
no proshippers pls
no racial slurs (mun is a POC)
*MUN is a minor. Block if MDNI*
//ooc: Feel free to give me book recs, fic recs, feel free to ask me for them. I just really love good books (I'll pretty much read anything as long as it's not innapropriate). ALSO I HAVE READ ALL THE BOOKS I TALK ABOUT??!! (//ooc probably isnt lore accurate but my jasons favorite austen book is Emma; it is in my opinion and feel free to fight me. like i get it the letter in pride but holy shit emma is something else and he loves the count of monte cristo because the whole time i was reading it i was picturing batman as edmond dantes; anyone who says different AND has read the count of monte cristo (UNABRIDGED THE COPY THAT’S LIKE 1200 PAGES) is free to fight with me. if you haven't read the count of monte cristo, what the hell are you doing in this conversation?)
more info about book recs and mun below
Some of my favorite books (I genuinly didn't mean for it to be this long)
Classic book reccs:
pride and prejudice by jane austen
emma by jane austen (my favorite austen book)
picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde (an absolute masterpiece)
frankenstein by mary shelley
great expectations by charles dickens (my fav dickens book david copperfield is also good)
count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas (revenge and more revenge and more amazing revenge :DD (MY FAVORITE BOOK!!)
Macbeth by Shakespeare (WITCHES!! need I say more)
Hamlet by Shakespeare (one of my least fav shakespears tho hamlets just too whiny and overdramatic)
The Outsiders by SE Hilton
Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Orlando by Virginia Woolf (if you're looking for a queer book thats a classic and its reaally well written)
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Sherlock Homes (a study in scarlet (i really need to read more sherlock holmes))
the handmaid's tale by margartet atwood
phantom of the opera by gaston leroux (sorry i have only read the book, not watched or listened to any of the adaptations/musical)
the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson
the metamorphosis by franz kaftka
lord of the rings (the main trilogy plus the hobbit. planning on reading the Silmarillion soon...)
also soooo many agatha christie books (mysterious affair at styles, abc murders, the seven dials mystery, murder on the links -> one of my favorite christies and I don't see anyone talking about it, and then there were none, murder on the orient express ( i really want to read murder of roger ackroyd during summer))
the death of ivan ilych (its one of the shorter tolstoy books i know, but im honestly scared to pick anna karenina or war and peace)
the stranger by albert camus
white nights by fyodor dostoevsky
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
not classic book reccs:
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Hunger Games (the entire trilogy + ballad of songbirds and snakes + sunrise on the reaping. sunrise made me bawl)
I am not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang (every teenager needs to read this and listen to the message also every other Ann Liang book )
Percy Jackson (and every single sub series ToA, KC, MC, HOO, PJO obvi, The current series with him getting high school letters (//ooc idk what its called but ive read every book for that except for the latest one)
land of stories (very near to my heart; probably the first series i ever read when I was 8 in its entirety)
keeper of the lost cities (Shannon is never releasing the last book of the series, accept it guys)
The secret history by Donna tartt (not sure if it counts as a classic)
This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Six of crows duology and shadow of bone by Leigh Bardugo
The Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
If we were villains M. L. Rio
The Secret history by Donna Tartt
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (all the books that have been released until now)
Renegades and Legend series by Marie Lu
Keeper of the lost cities by Shannon Messenger
Land of stories, tale of magic by Chris Colfer
An ember in the ashes series by Sabaa Tahir
Lunar chronicles by Marissa Meyer
The road by Cormac McCarthy (but look at trigger warnings)
The outsider by S. E. Hinton
Howl’s moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Current Read: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Silas Marner by George Eliot
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hey don't cry. on december 3, 1926, agatha christie went missing for eleven days and because the uk police didn't know what to do they recruited sir arthur conan doyle, creator of master detective sherlock holmes, but all he did was conduct a séance to try and contact her distressed spirit
If I were a murderer, and I'd meticulously planned a murder, and then I turned up at the place to do the murder and found that world-famous-murder-solver Hercule Poirot was also there, I would simply not do the murder.
The world is scary right now. I think it would be nice if every trans person who encounters this post reblogs with something good that is going on in their life. It does not have to be related to being trans. It also doesn't have to stay in the tags.
I'll start. I'm starting testosterone soon! I already have my prescription for it, but I'm going to have a few more conversations with my parents before I start. I'm really excited! Every time I see myself in the mirror, I imagine the beginnings of a beard on my face, and I start beaming.
I get to read a fuck of Virginia Woolf for English class instead of a school book. Im talking The Waves, Jacob’s Room, Orlando, some letters, the dairy entries. All the good shit complied to create my own reading project. I’m so hype.
died & came back & it's creeping people out how well-adjusted I am now? everyone's on eggshells waiting for something terrible to happen. honestly i feel terrific
"a figure, which, whether boy's or woman's, for the loose tunic and trousers of the Russian fashion served to disguise the sex, filled him with the highest curiosity. The person, whatever the name or sex, was about middle height, very slenderly fashioned, and dressed entirely in oyster-coloured velvet, trimmed with some unfamiliar greenish-coloured fur. But these details were obscured by the extraordinary seductiveness which issued from the whole person. Images, metaphors of the most extreme and extravagant twined and twisted in his mind. He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together. . . A melon, an emerald, a fox in the snow—so he raved, so he called her. When the boy, for alas, a boy it must be— no woman could skate with such speed and vigour— swept almost on tiptoe past him, Orlando was ready to tear his hair with vexation that the person was of his own sex, and thus all embraces were out of the question. But the skater came closer. Legs, hands, carriage, were a boy's, but no boy ever had a mouth like that; no boy had those breasts; no boy had those eyes which looked as if they had been fished from the bottom of the sea."
- Orlando, from "Orlando: A Biography" by Virginia Woolf
why does virginia woolf write all her sentences like this; they always end up being half a page long too; like; virginia stop with the semicolons; please not another semicolon; stop it; please;
I love how Virginia Woolf will take any opportunity to describe how amazing Orlando’s legs are. Because I can just picture her, writing this novel about her girlfriend in a love sick haze and every time she gets the opportunity she chooses to rave about how handsome Vita is and how much she’s attracted to her legs. Love a lesbian being hopelessly in love.
