Life's table gherkin

Well. It's come to this. Name's Lars, 23, Literature graduate who has no control of her life. I also write things.

[janeaustentextposts]

[bookcub]

Judgy voice: You like fantasy?

Me, extenally: Yes, it creates a safe space to talk about politics and allows us to understand people in situations we couldn’t understand and creates empathy.

Me, internally: Dragons :)))))))

[avi-why]

every writing tip article and their mother: dont ever use adverbs ever!

me, shoveling more adverbs onto the page because i do what i want: just you fucking try and stop me

[quarter0master]

May I add something, because I will never shut up about this book (Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark):

[bendingsignpost]

Verbs are your volume (said, shouted, shrieked), but adverbs change the pitch (gruffly, hoarsely, delightedly). 

[kashimasyuu]

just realized that the fruits basket reboot means that we’ll get to relive this iconic scene in all its beautifully reimagined hd glory

[ppitte]

Me before starting rdr2: “ok whatever you do, don’t like Javier.”

Me 20 minutes into the game: “shit.”

[whitechapael]

The Last Unicorn (1982)

“It’s a very rare person who is taken for what he truly is.“

[wizards]

Minerva: What. Did you do? Harry: Alright, but you can’t get mad at me… Minerva: What. Did you do? Harry: Okay, first, I was minding my own business– Minerva: [slams hand on table] BULLSHIT! Harry: I WAS!

[hogwartsfirebolt]

THATS IT THATS THE WHOLE SERIES

[gar-dev-oirs-deactivated2018111]

Can we please make this a new meme

[birbtrash]

Yeah okay like this?

[lonelytreeinastorm]

How dare you call me out like this

[spacehussy]

“I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair.”

— catherynne m. valente, the bread we eat in dreams (via altraviolence)

[lhzthepoet]

“How dare you take my longing and give it a name that gets caught in my throat, twists in my gut. Paint it the color of summer wine on the lips and cool night air. Give it the taste of shame. How dare you take my sin and give it a body. .. .. .. How dare you make it mine.”

— Excerpt from Mortal Hearts // L.H.Z (via lhzthepoet)

[countryowl-deactivated20131116]

listening to mumford and sons always makes me wish I was a horse

[efftrinket-blog]

#this is so abstract but somehow i understand

[littlestpersimmon]

You used to be a firefly, but you lived for only two days when a storm swept you away. You came back a person, and the universe decided to be nice to you, said you’d live a hundred years, with a boy who loves you.

[saintdri]

The Raven Cycle fake covers. Animated because in my dreams book covers move <3

[whitepeopletwitter]

A very relatable mood.

[girlactionfigure]

Link / Link

[teadrunktailor]

Museum Social Media: You’re doing it right.

[thescarletlibrarian]

God, I love archivists and museum people, most of them I’ve met are like this.

[mercyofcallouses-deactivated202]

Gorgeous post. <3

[commodorecliche]

you gunna tell me they named their kids Dick and Seaman for generations

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

I like how the only reason Harry is able to fight the imperious curse so easily is because it hits him and he’s like “Ah I feel calm and relaxed and happy…this is wrong.”

[hummingirls]

harry: serotonin? in this economy?

[unsahikable]

literally how hard would it have been for jkr to say something like “listen I was writing it in the 90s, I was inexperienced, I was writing from my own point of view, I didn’t realise how underrepresented a lot of people are, I wasn’t thinking about anything other than the plot, I accept that it’s a little sparse on the diversity front, I can try to be more self aware with my future works” etc etc instead of.. this nonsense