booxseller

Raquel, 25, they/them, collector of book recommendations 

[qualitytimeswithqualitylads]

Massive L to our ancestors for not domesticating the Bear for the ultimate friend

[fortooate]

i sympathize with the post on the one hand but also ‘man we shoulda domesticated bears’ has the same energy as a divorced dad being like ‘i should have married that girl from high school’ when the girl in question was never ever interested and also turned out to be a lesbian frontwoman for an obscure but respected ska revival band

[antique-scarecrow]

posts like these are why I can’t leave tumblr and have ultimately stopped trying

[suigintou]

imagine being a lone gorilla on a journey

[tumblingus]

Celebrities coming to tumblr

[reallyndacarter]

Thank you, Mr. Krabs.

[vsemily]

dont play defense

[batsdotjpg]

tumblr isn't a blogging website its a playground at lunch and we're all playing vampires and wizards and pirates and werewolves

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

I'm in a mud puddle making potions

[brucebocchi]

[lastforest]

[incrediblysincere]

Happy (early) Nov 15th! Remember that Stone Butch Blues is free now and always to read here

Leslie was a communist, a butch lesbian, a nonbinary and transgender activist, and the person who made me who I am today. Consider checking out Stone Butch Blues if you haven’t already 😘 Do it for Leslie, and for hir surviving partner, Minnie Bruce Pratt 💕

[deirdreskye]

Tumblr post from the 19th century: I love you laudanum I love you opium I love you coca I love you absinthe

[passion-of-l0vers]

you know those little critical thinking questions that they had at the end of short stories in literature textbooks? we should start putting those in posts. i miss them,,,,,,

questions:

what call to action is the author arguing for?

why does this work lack capitalization? what might this tell you about the author? what might this tell you about the context this work is meant to be read in?

is the addition of the questions self referential? does that make this post humorous? how so? how would the post be different without the addition of the questions?

[glowcowboy]

without arts & crafts we are in hell

[mirabilissum]

alright y’all i’m back and i’m gay as ever. what’s the move

[dendropsyche-deactivated2022082]

I cut the cake on my baby gender reveal party and the m&m’s are black. “It’s a goth!” we shout in unison. My family is sobbing. Morticia Addams is there,

[nevver]

Bookclub, Francine Van Hove

[barefootdramaturg]

For some reason, it never occurred to me that Project Gutenberg would have public domain old cookbooks. This is BRILLIANT. There’s a 1953 cranberry recipe pamphlet and a suffrage cookbook from 1915 and a translation of Apicus’s guide to food in Imperial Rome and a whole bunch of other fascinating old cookbooks, many pre-1800. Treasure trove!

[optimysticals]

I love you for sharing this!!!

[ferrific]

For more old cookbooks, Michigan State University has 76 of their historical cookbooks scanned and searchable at Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project.

[hsavinien]

For even older recipes, check out Gode Cookery.  They list medieval and Renaissance cooking instructions and translate the recipes for you into measurable amounts and all.

[runecestershire]

I have have have to mention Miss Leslie. I learned so much about cooking from that book, even if a lot of it is outdated.

Also, Forme of Cury is great fun, if you can muddle through the Middle English (Gode Cookery has translations and adaptions of some of the recipes from this).

[oooooooo]

[meanboysfromkremlin]

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

[grendelmenz-deactivated20200929]

A little comic from my notebook margins

[turing-tested]

whenever im spooked i play the worst most memey music because i hold the firm belief nothing can kill you if the vibes are wrong. if you have fresh prince going on as loud as possible whatever's haunting you is gonna be like. aw man. i can't kill to this. the mood is all wrong now

[jungwildeandfree]

ghost, crawling out of my television: hssss...blood

me, turning caramelldanssen up to 180 decibels:  v̶̨̲̣̣͈̻̯̩̾̊̓́i̥̼̜͎̺̬̭̫̍̉ͮͧb͎͈̮̰̠̬͇͇ͧ̚͜e͎͖͎͚̥̞̊̉ͮ̑ͪ̒ͩ ̵̹͎̬̟̪͛ͬ͌͐ͧͥ̔̆c̀̀̑̓̚҉̩̻͓̰͔h̡̖̻̻̯͐̅̎͋̀ͅe̸̗̝̣̞̬͐̅ͪ̅ͭ͐͜ͅc̶̲̠͈͙̎̿́͑̅ͅk̶ͫͨͩ͐͘҉ͅ