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sideblog of @donottrustsistergoldenhair for books and crafts

[bambistjames]

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

[tsunflowers]

the thing with romance for me is that you need to convince me through behavior and dialogue that the characters enjoy spending time with each other and seek each other out. even with enemies to lovers a foundation of mutual respect goes a long way. you can be like "he's the youngest ever general of the dragon slaying guild and I'm secretly a dragon, but he's the best swordsman I've ever fought and our sparring matches are the only thing that make me feel alive ever since my family was killed." if he implies something similar then bam, you have a reason for the two of them to hang out even though one of them knows it's dangerous. you can't be like "he's a dragon slayer and he's mean to me all the time but the flex of his arms when he swings his sword is just too sexy." it does not matter how many times you have your protagonist say "I shouldn't be drawn to him... but I am" if you never show a real moment of connection between them that draws them together

[amingledyarn]

Amber Waves Motif, a free crochet stitch pattern designed by Pendleton Artistry on Ravelry.

"This motif makes a lovely wheat stalk just begging to adorn your next fall project. It lends itself so well to blankets, accent pillows, shawl designs, hats, sweaters, socks, and the single stalk can even be used to create an autumn wristlet design."

[knithacker]

Crochet a Snoopy Scarf and You'll Never Stop Smiling ... The Popular Pattern is FREE! 👉 https://buff.ly/37Ibl0h ❤️

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

have you read Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher / The City of Dreaming Books, by Walter Moers (2004)?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 21, 2024

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

[mariamabile]

growing up is realising that mako (especially season 1) is just an allegory about the way men always ruin everything by invading womens' spaces

[macrolit]

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

5 i am a disgrace im calling bs on anyone who claims they read ulysses tbh

[readingrobin]

22 full reads. I have read more, but I just didn’t finish them, ex. Dracula and Count of Monte Cristo

[that-bookworm-guy]

I’ve read 13 so far

[bubblesandpages]

I’ve read 10

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

14 for me, some on my own and some because of school

[raeraesmentality]

28

[galadhir]

37 plus some that I started but didn’t finish because I wasn’t enjoying them.

[aceredshirt13]

if there's one thing about classic literary detectives it's that they are not conventionally attractive. doyle told sidney paget to stop drawing holmes so pretty. christie was like "let me introduce you to this short pudgy balding man who is retirement age and i hate him." sayers compares wimsey to maggots on literally the FIRST PAGE

i love it. i love them. stop casting hot people in these roles. we need our detectives to be Charmingly Weird-Looking

[schleierkauz]

Went to buy some bread this morning and, without really thinking about it, I grabbed The Color of Revenge and took it with me. Leading to the baker going "👀That looks like Inkheart! ... What do you mean, fourth book?!"

Cue me giving her the elevator pitch over the donut display, half a dozen other customers politely waiting until I had detailed the latest Ombra happenings.

[bluejayfiredancer]

I call this "mortimer moments before orpheus appears to fuck shit up again, he's already So Tired"

happy tcor season!

[peppermintfreak]

Lol here's to first tcor fanart (I think). Big thanks to @mischievoussilvertongue for telling me about this guy before I even got to read the whole thing

[donottrustsistergoldenhair]

You see: I don't mind if you're late, I have plenty experience of being late myself. But if you can't make it on time just LET ME KNOW

Bc otherwise I am worried about yoy

[maandarinee]

the Inkheart books ask the important questions: what if you could talk to your favorite blorbo? What if your blorbo thought you suck? What if your blorbo would like to see you dead?

[lonnson]

Me, reading The Color of Revenge: if only the Piper was here 🥺 he would make everything so much worse <3

[a-block-head]

You know who’s great? Cornelia Funke

1) she used to be a social worker that helped kids from deprived backgrounds

2) she wrote several fictional series about children confronting and overcoming adversity in several ways

3) She worked with the UN during their “United Nations Decade on Biodiversity” 

4) she doesn’t use her fame and influence to platform ideologies and people that attack marginalized groups 

Seriously, why don’t people talk more about her? 

[schleierkauz]

8 MORE DAYS. THE FINAL PREPARATIONS HAVE BEGUN

will elaborate tomorrow i have to go to sleep three hours ago

[schleierkauz]

i will explain to you, in great detail,

Balbulus remains racist - Reference to the chapters that were published in 2020. I just love that Orpheus had a near-perfect evil plan that was foiled by literally just racism. I so hope that plot point stays.

Barn Owl reference - Self explanatory

Insane good vs evil witches drama - I don't mean some big fight kicked off by the events of the story. If those fractions still exist and have for a long time, I want Lilia to give us the tea details. How did the split happen? Did it have anything to do with the whole eating children thing or was there something else? Was it a gradual thing or more of one big blowout? Are there actual differences, physical or in terms of abilities between the two kinds of witches or could one theoretically become the other? Are there set rules about what a Good Witch can do or is it a more what you'd call guidelines instead of actual rules? You get it, I have questions.

Gwin & the Bear are (& remain) alive and well - Self explanatory

All Artists Are Bastards - With the whole "written word vs paintings/drawings, which is more powerful" theme going on, I imagine some new artists are going to show up. With the track record we have (Fenoglio, Balbulus, Orpheus-) I also imagine they won't exactly be flawless people. Cornelia loves to drag her own profession.

Something big happened while Dustfinger was gone & no one ever told him - "Hey Dustfinger, remember the big Witch War ten years ago that nearly destroyed the city and caused a huge cultural shift towards- oh. Uh. I guess you wouldn't."

The Prince's sisters show up/are mentioned - Self explanatory

(Random fairy tale object) - Look, I hope Cornelia does the whole Reckless connection thing more subtle than that but.... I could see it happening.

Fate worse than death 4 Orpheus - I'm really torn between what I believe will happen to him but if neither the Prince nor Dustfinger obliterate him he has a big chance of hubrising his way into one of these. He'll either die badly or live even worse.

Dustfinger & Brianna bonding moment - I don't even care, just give me something. Anything. Cornelia, I am begging-

Dustfinger & Mo Death Bond Lore - So was Dustfinger in his head this whole time or what?

"Cornelia the IMPLICATIONS-" - Like that one throwaway sentence about the Inkworld's slave trade that's just never elaborated on. Will probably be something about the witches and I'm gonna make 75498375 theory posts about it. This one I'm 100% certain of.

Elinor gets another new obsession - Maybe she'll start attending painting classes or something. We know she doesn't care much for books anymore so let's go!

Violante kills - Maybe she has someone executed, maybe she throws her shoe hard enough to decapitate someone but she is her father's daughter. The potential is there.

"My old friend (new character)" - Not counting Roxane's witch girl since I already know about her but this will probably happen with someone else again. Someone who just wasn't mentioned before because they weren't relevant to the Bluejay's journey.

Dustfinger just barely doesn't kill anyone - Not sure about this one, could go either way but the chance is pretty high that Farid & the Black Prince will try to reign Dustfinger in even though he feels murderous in the moment.

Jehan Farid collab - I predict tension between Dustfinger's sons. But then I also predict eventual teamwork with impressive results.

At least 1 new bird person - Self explanatory. Gotta have em.

At least 1 gay artist - Going back to the "some new artists will probably show up at some point" thing. Maybe that rival Balbulus mentioned? Alongside Cornelia's statement about LGBT characters I predict that things are gonna get real Italian.

The Prince & Orpheus showdown - While it would make sense for Dustfinger to confront him, I feel like the Black Prince will get there first. Just a feeling.

Capricorn mention - Self explanatory

No more Bluejay - Not in a "Mo dies" sort of way but I think that even if he has the opportunity to pick up a sword and be the Bluejay again, he would hesitate a lot and ultimately not do it. Even if he is somehow pushed to fight, he'd do it as himself and not go back to the persona of the Jay.

Inkworld drug scene lore - Another reference to the 2020 chapters, I just loved the little tidbits about magical cocaine so much and wish to know more.

At least 1 named child dies - I said what I said.

[swugflower]

My version!!!

And I won’t explain. But feel free to ask