Book Lover

A blog about books (and other things)? Books are fantastic

[ashstfu]

“i’m an adult” i whisper as i cry over a book and a person who isn't even real

[somecunttookmyurl]

i can tell i’m sleep deprived bc i just made myself cry about tutankhamun and i have, like, negative interest in the kid

[somecunttookmyurl]

have now made the rest of the discord cry about this little boy who had multi-coloured ducks sewn onto a tunic that he loved so much he wore it to a Very Important Event because he was EIGHT and have you SEEN my DUCKS

[somecunttookmyurl]

sorry no i’m not done i’m gonna make you all cry some more i’m bringing you down with me

there was once a little boy.

he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can’t walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn’t understand why. he’s a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.

somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.

the little boy is eight years old, and he’s going to be king now. there’s a big ceremony about it. he doesn’t really fully understand what’s going on, because he’s eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren’t they great?

he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.

as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he’s not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.

he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.

and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.

there was once a little boy.

[somecunttookmyurl]

yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn’t really click. it doesn’t seem real

but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn’t develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.

tutankhamun was a child and he didn’t make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child

his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.

but he had brightly coloured little ducks on his favourite shirt, and he kept it.

[somecunttookmyurl]

and he did not just keep the duckie shirt either

tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest… was carved with ducks.

and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.

but he was a little boy who thought ducks were just the best

[somecunttookmyurl]

WITH PLEASURE

(greyscale makes it hard but the duck head is on the right above the toe strap. always takes me a while to find it too)

[beggars-opera]

[dinotriple]

Greatest crossover in cinematic history

[count-woe-laf]

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[helloitsbees]

happy pride month to this post specifically

[ykceb01]

Are you kidding me??

[sosuperawesome]

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[rubaayi]

do you wish you were seeing somebody

a therapist 

[wordlessbabbling]

casteel, for like, most of the series so far:

[blushingbibliophile]

Poppy: I have a question..

Kieran:

[themoonwithstardust-deactivated]

From blood and ash: a summary

Poppy: I will literally wear your spine as a necklace

Hawke:

[just-shower-thoughts]

Ms. Frizzle would get in so much trouble if anybody found out she took her students to space without a permission slip.

[bpdritsu]

when your friend Mark forgets to return the worms he borrowed from you

[moroi-queen]

Okay, but is anyone as obsessed with the From Blood and Ash series as I am??

[moroi-queen]

OH MY GOD I DIDNT EVEN THINK ABOUT FANFICTION

[moroi-queen]

Okay, but is anyone as obsessed with the From Blood and Ash series as I am??

[just-shower-thoughts]

Based on the size of the gates in Jurassic Park, the designer probably wanted the dinosaurs to escape really badly.

[dinuguan]

[im-not-a-skelmersdale-monster]

Absolute shenanigans

[daco-broman]

this is the best video on this whole website

[lakevida]

it’s impossible to communicate concepts to another person in exactly the way you envision them, because nobody experiences reality in exactly the same way, and not only do i refuse to come to terms with this fact but i will spend the rest of my life making my entire mind fall apart over it. this sounds more tormented than it is i just wish i was a mantis shrimp looking at the secret colors

[lakevida]

i would give anything to be you

[makeuphall]