[the---hermit]

"Writing digital notes is faster and makes you more productive", sure whatever, but can you make medievalesque marginalia to point at important stuff?

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday John Maynard Keynes, born 5 June in 1883! Keynes is known as the father of modern economics - but not so well known is the fact that he was bisexual! Here he is, along with a few other bi figures to celebrate today for Pride.

Check out podcasts on each of these people here: John Maynard Keynes, Mary Shelley, Ma Rainey, Henrietta Bingham

[annebronte-deactivated20210628]

reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts

[the-text-doctor]

<Reblog to get a sword.> o()xxx[{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>

[s0phstudies]

1305

lung function tests and romanticising london in the rain

🎧 preachers daughter - ethel cain

[essayisms]

Oxford University is so beautiful. If you choose to repost this image credit me using the source in the link here (x).

[macrolit]

Happy birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (b. 22 May 1859)

[tiramisuglitter]

Blackwell’s bookshop, Oxford 📚

[liivn]

Three Barn Owls at a quatrefoil church window. Photographer: Richard Brooks. Date: July 2009. Shot at a local church in North Norfolk, England.

[the---hermit]

"is it better to read non fiction or novels?" No. It is better to read than not to read full stop. That is the only argument. Let's not create yet another fake scale of who is a better reader. I am so fucking tired of this kind of discourse. If you only read graphic novels you are still reading and that is better than not reading. If you only read middle grade books despite being in your 30s you are still reading and that is better than no reading. If you read one single book a year it is still good because you are reading. And that makes you a reader.

[magicaloxford]

An afternoon to myself at Oxford🪻. Warm sunshine, a purple cascade of fragrance tumbling over a college wall, then an icy lemonade with an apple crumble tart in a bookshop 📖☕🍰!

Read magical Oxford stories here *:･ﾟ✧!

[thebibliosphere]

Floating face down in a blank word document file, while not physically possible, is nevertheless a tangible authorial state.

[ambrosial-sunshine]

every year i’m delighted by the first entry of dracula ending with YOUR FRIEND DRACULA

no he is not. “Dracula” by Bram Stoker is my friend. Count Dracula who has tried to eat my favorite real estate lawyer four years in a row is most certainly not.

[bulkhummus]

thinking about Ryland in Ilyukhina's dress at the beginning of the movie - outside of it making sense given how drunk he was, and the logistics of using any available clothing later on...

i just think there is something really heart wrenching and human about putting on the clothes of others to feel some sense of closeness. at this point he barely had any idea who he was, let alone the people dead on the ship with him. it would make sense he'd layer on any and all clothing and accessories, hoping to jog his memory, to feel less alone, to feel comforted

[nordlin]

[susiephone]

Dracula Daily Accountability Poll!

May 8: You are Jonathan Harker staying in Dracula's castle. You have just realized your host doesn't have a reflection. You still haven't seen him eat or drink. All the doors in the castle are locked. There are no servants. You are alone with this man in the middle of nowhere. What do you do?

panic

try to climb out a window (and then what?)

panic

send a letter home (who will deliver it?)

panic

plead to be allowed to leave (who will listen?)

panic

hold onto the crucifix (bless the woman who gave it to you)

panic

give up and accept your fate (that's not an option)

panic

stay calm and try to think this through (how?)

Voting ended onMay 15

[agentrouka-blog]

One of my favorite exchanges in the movie:

Ryland: I was wrong about the only original idea I ever had.

Eva: What else have you learned?

Kind of goes hard. Like, please snatch growth from the jaws of defeat and dust yourself off, sir. There's more to you than that.