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Mira | '97 | Writer | Reader! Totally in love with Mercy Thompson & Catalina Baylor. send me book recs! Main blog: briannasroger.

[ghostlywriterr]

Gothic doors

[housedemarr]

“I have sat here and listened to you smear my cousin and question my parentage, but I will not tolerate an insult to my father. Get out. I may not be a Demarr by blood, but I had their training, and by the Aspects, I will draw blood. Leave my house.”

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews

[marzipanandminutiae]

like they both suck in some ways, but...

Mr. Rochester: yes, I tried to get you to marry me when my wife, who suffers from violent psychosis and can never get help in this era, was still alive. without you knowing about her. also you are 18 and I'm 40. I do love you, though, and when you're being Very Jane(tm) I love that too, even if it's inconvenient for me

St. John: I don't and cannot love you. but if you don't marry me and do everything I want, regardless of your own feelings and wishes, you're going to hell :)

[bethanydelleman]

Me when Jane found out Rochester was attempting bigamy: Run Jane run!

Me after meeting St. John Rivers: BRING ME BACK THE ATTEMPED BIGAMIST!!!

The way he tries to use her faith to manipulate her into a loveless marriage sickens me to the core in a way Rochester just can't achieve.

[mangoslixes]

Slowly, as though thinking it out for himself, Winter said, "That there's no such thing as a coward, or a brave man—not out there. There's no man's will stronger than the war. He might as well have called you an angel as call you a coward, the—distinction—is just as valuable. That is to say, not at all. And of course, the world ended. But it went on too."

The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

[vamprspawn]

I actually can't stop thinking about this dialogue. i am banging my head against a WALL!!!

“He shook his head pityingly. 'This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.” “Not all men are destined for greatness,” I reminded him. “Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?” “This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.” “No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?” ― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

[jennydolfen]

Vin and Elend. And nothing bad ever happened.

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[azrielsflowercrown]

Currently re-reading Time of Contempt and this is such a Geralt pookie moment 🥹

As I quote:

'Oh heavens, oh heavens,' said Yennefer much later, slowly wiping a tear from her cheek. "..."

Geralt knew that, in moments like this, the enchantress's telepathic abilities were sharpened and very powerful, so he thought about beautiful matters and beautiful things. About things which would give her joy. About the exploding brightness of the sunrise. About fog suspended over a mountain lake at dawn. About crystal waterfalls, with salmon leaping up them, gleaming as though made of solid silver. About warm drops of rain hitting burdock leaves, heavy with dew. He thought for her and Yennefer smiled, listening to his thoughts.

[escaprism]

Ilona Andrews COOKED when she said 'the hottest quality in a man is self control'.

And then stuck with it for all her main male love interests. They can be different levels of kind, of funny, of honest, but every single love interest is the type that hold themselves in complete control, and honestly, she's absolutely right.

Nothing more unattractive to me than a man that is ruled by his anger, a slave to his lust, and doesn't act with intention.

[hailed-marys]

save earth save erid

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 033

Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews

“What are your qualifications for this job?”

“I’m expendable.”

[bethanydelleman]

I was talking about a historical male author I dislike because I found his works misogynistic and the person said, "Oh, well I suppose you don't read Shakespeare either." and I was like, "Shakespeare? SHAKESPEARE?!?! Of course I read Shakespeare, that man loved women."

Shakespeare wrote a wide variety of fleshed out female characters. He wrote Damsels in Distress, Cross-dressing Girlbosses, and Complex Female Villains. He wrote a woman who refused to sell her virtue to save her family and then shamed her brother for suggesting it. He wrote Taming of the Shrew and it's opposite, All's Well that Ends Well, in which the wife hunts down and tames the husband. He wrote men who are good because they listen to, trust, and defend women. He wrote women of all kinds. He wrote women who drive the plot and women doomed by the narrative. He wrote women in love and women who pathetically follow a man who doesn't like them and women in hatred. He wrote sensible women and silly women and everything in between of all ages.

I wish modern authors could write women as well as he did.

[whichcouldmeanothing]

project hail mary has it all. amnesia trope. petty academics. platonic soulmates. narratively justified retro-futurism. red string of fate. a bird may love a fish, but where will they live / then I shall have to make you wings. also a competent woman committing so many crimes in order to save the world and bringing the protagonist with her everywhere because he is her AND I QUOTE "little science lapdog". book of all time

[hekateanwitchcraft]

Hellenic Witchcraft and Magic Reading List

Apollonius of Rhodes. Voyage of the Argo. Trans. Emile Victor Rieu. 2nd ed. N.p.: Penguin Classics, 1959. Print.

Bracke, Evelien. “Of Metis and Magic: The Conceptual Transformations of Circe and Medea in Ancient Greek Poetry.” Doctoral thesis. Maynooth, 2009. Print.

Clark, Brian. “The Witches of Thessaly.” N.d. MS.

Collins, Derek. Magic in the Ancient Greek World. N.p.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. Print.

D'Este, Sorita. Hekate: Liminal Rites. N.p.: Avalonia, 2009. Print.

Euripides. Medea. Trans. Rex Warner. Rep Una ed. N.p.: Dover, 1993. Print. Dover Thrift Editions.

Faraone, Christopher A. Ancient Greek Love Magic. N.p.: Harvard University, 2001. Print.

Flint, Valerie, et al. Ancient Greece and Rome. Ed. Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania, 1999. Print. Vol. 2 of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. 6 vols.

Gager, John G. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World. N.p.: Oxford University, 1999. Print.

Griffiths, Emma. Medea. N.p.: Routledge, 2006. Print. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World.

Johnston, Sarah Iles. Ancient Greek Divination. N.p.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. Print.

- - -. Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate’s Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature. N.p.: Oxford University, 1990. Print.

- - -. Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece. Reprint ed. N.p.: U of California, 2013. Print.

Lucan. Civil War. Trans. Matthew Fox. N.p.: Penguin Classics, 2012. Print.

Luck, Georg. Arcana Mundi. N.p.: John Hopkins University, 2006. Print.

Ogden, Daniel. Greek and Roman Necromancy. N.p.: Princeton University, 2004. Print.

- - -. Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds. 2nd ed. N.p.: Oxford University, 2009. Print.

- - -. Night’s Black Agents: Witches, Wizards, and the Dead in the Ancient World. N.p.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. Print.

Ovid. Metamorphoses. Trans. David Raeburn. Reprint ed. N.p.: Penguin Classics, 2004. Print.

Penman, Elicia Ann. “Toil and Trouble: Changes of Imagery to Hekate and Medea in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Doctoral thesis. Queensland, 2014. Print.

Rabinowitz, Jacob. The Rotting Goddess: The Origin of the Witch in Classical Antiquity. N.p.: Autonomedia, 1998. Print.

Seneca. Medea. Trans. Frederick Ahl. N.p.: Cornell University, 1986. Print. Masters of Latin Literature.

Spaeth, Barbette Stanley. “From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and Roman Witch in Classical Literature.” 2014. Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World. Ed. Dayna Kalleres and Kimberly Stratton. N.p.: Oxford University, 2014. 41-70. Print.

Turkilsen, Debbie. “Magic in the Ancient World.” N.d. MS.

[rosiethorns88]

Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for October! This time featuring Ione and Elm from Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig! Rachel created a really compelling theme between the two female leads in the second book, I noticed. One trapped in her mind, the other trapped in her body, both clawing to escape.

[drawingllamas]

The girl, the King... and the monster they became.

Elspeth Spindle from One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig 🖤

[miseryreads]

✨ 𝓔𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓝𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓮 ✨

Art by: @pinkpiggy93

Commissioned by: @miseryreads

IG post can be found here.

[glowstickhaloboy]

GOD the ending of the martian (the movie) makes me so fucking mad compared to the ending of the martian (the book)

the martian the movie: i am the professor of badassery. you yourself can be badass too if only you learn to be completely self-reliant and say fuck you to everything

the martian the book: i am on a ship home. i am on a ship home because the entire world cared about me when by all rights i should have been a lost cause. long-standing borders were ERASED so teams of people who had never met could do EVERYTHING possible to save one solitary member of their species instead of leaving me to die where i should have been unreachable. it wasnt even anybody’s fault that i got stuck. they had every excuse to abandon me. instead, BECAUSE WE ARE A COMMUNITY…. maybe we do really deserve to be here among the stars