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?)
if you dont want to rp and just talk about books thats also fine. i feel like most of the time i forget this is an rp blog anyways and I just talk about books like 100% of the time on this blog.
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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As a transgender man who is going to be having a baby, I am so glad that by technicality my child will be able to fulfil the prophecy and defeat Macbeth.
I don’t know what’s funnier, the intended joke or that Tolkien created the Ents in his books bc he felt like Shakespeare missed an opportunity in Macbeth.
what she means: why is Dorian Gray never played by people with blond hair? why is Dorian always depicted as all pale and dark? oscar literally describes his hair as gold like two seconds after we meet him. directors apparently feel like they have to make Dorian look dark dangerous and brooding, but he’s not supposed to look dark and dangerous and brooding. That’s the whole point. No one ever suspects him because he looks like an innocent little cherub with golden curls and rosy cheeks. His physical appearance is described with terms that Western literary tradition, during the nineteenth century in particular, associated with goodness and godliness, and this is intentionally juxtaposed with the blackness of his soul. If you intentionally play him as someone who looks like a Byronic hero, much of the symbolism of his character is lost, right?
who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf is low key as a concept hilarious. What if our marriage was failing so we did some yaoi ass psychological warfare shit and gaslit each other as our main form of entertainment. And then dragged some random young couple into it and ruined their lives and views of life forever while also psychologically torturing them and hooking up with them and making them think you might be a serial killer but only for family members, until they realize you’re just both delusional and breaking down about characters you just made up. And then they just go oooookay we’re gonna go. Have a good night. While you just break down because you legit forgot you made that shit up. Like my guy. What. I know the play is old as fuck but like. This was your first resort? All bc you can’t make a baby? I guess it’s cheaper than therapy but everyone who’s ever met you is gonna end up going so..
the sparta scene in the odyssey is so fascinatingly weird. just reading it makes me feel kinda buzzed myself, like i'm lounging around observing this strange vibe between the king and queen of sparta and i can't look away.
helen secretly drugging them. menelaus' cheerful pride telling how helen almost got him and all his compatriots in the horse killed by making them all super horny. helen just throwing out there that she herself bathed odysseus inside the trojan palace. menelaus sharing his romantic fantasy of living with odysseus.
like i still can't tell if they're the george and martha of ancient greece and hurting each other is how they show they care, or if they're just so aligned and comfortable with each other they get their kicks from making guests uncomfortable and Making It Weird. i really think no one in this epic fathoms their dynamic except helen and menelaus themselves.
Can we talk about how Albee changed this punctuation in later editions. Like can we talk about the tonal shift here. On the one hand it does just have better comedic sensibility with a question mark. It is funny! But she loses the bluster. She hesitates. She hesitates.
painting this on the ceiling above my bed so it's the first thing i see upon waking in the morning and the last thing i see before falling asleep at night
