[homunculus-argument]

Libraries are sneaky, because once you go in, it's soo easy to get a library card, and once you have one, you can pretty much grab one of everything of all the stuff they have there with no consequence, and take it home. But then once you're home and you've read all the stuff you'll have to go back to the library to return the stuff, and once you're at the library again, you're at the library again, so might as well pop in to see what they got, and then you're hauling half their shit home again, and then you'll need to return to the library to return them, so you're at the library again

And the next thing you know you've read 3000 books, your crops are clear and your skin is watered, an angel descents from the heaven to suck your dick twice a week, and also you've got some books to return so you've got a perfectly valid reason to go pop in to the library. Just a little bit.

[lollytea]

I'm reading Anne of Green Gables for the first time and nobody told me that the writing style was so funny.

[bat--country-deactivated2026032]

the feminine urge to poison wells

[puppycat-boydyke]

i love these books so dearly. i had the box set in my room for most of my childhood but didn’t make it all the way through the first book until my mid 20s, and they easily jumped into the top spot for my fav classic literature. top tier thank you of reminding me i need to reread <3

[starsandskiees]

This is the only tiktok you’ll ever need, I’ve made about 13 of these and I’m not stopping anytime soon

[lunarcatninja]

I’m reblogging again because I did it myself and added pictures for those who have trouble learning from the video.

First take a standard rectangular piece of paper (I used one from a small notebook which I ripped out then cut the holes off)

Then fold in half touching the shorter side to the opposite shorter side.

Fold again making the new shorter side touch the other new shorter side

I did this one more time, but this time I unfolded it right after to get back to where it was only folded twice. It should have left a crease in the paper.

Using this crease, fold the corners up alongside it to look like this

This are also going to be unfolded, but this time you’re going to push in alongside the triangular folds you just made and undid.

Doing this once will result in this

Hold tight because tumblr won’t let me add more pictures. I’ll reblog will the rest of the instructions

[lunarcatninja]

Continuing on,

Do the other side of you haven’t already to get this

You’ll open these newly created flap to change which parts are touching

Leaving you with this

Then you start pulling the top “tabs” down

Do both sides to get the final folded form

Decorate as desired.

Hope this helps!

[honey-soaked-wings-deactivated2]

Ratio for the rectangle size is 2:3

So 6 cm by 9cm

[cottonkhaleesi]

I uh, lost an evening:

Thanatos knows that I hecking love cute origami, and moths, so really, what was I supposed to do, scroll past and not take the opportunity to make butterfly and moth page markers???

[pseudogirlie]

I do find it unfortunate when ppl (especially women) live with a ‘well female characters are hardly ever interesting, so I prefer male characters’ mindset. When there are arguably the same, if not many, many, more terribly written male ocs compared to women. Like media/society has just convinced you to put men and their stories first and you’ve gotta break out of that mindset if you’re ever truly going to embrace women in media imo

[beautifulterriblequeen]

No one talks about how "classic" fiction is just white dude fics, even in English courses, but it's true. Imagine a world where the classics were feminist and queer as fuck and we all grew up with multicultural references that ran deep and overlapped. Now look at what we did get.

We need different stories because we are different folks. White dude stories - especially the romantic ones - tell me nothing about my own world. Is it any wonder I have no idea who I am? I have to write all the stories I live by, by myself.

[jennystahl]

We have so many classics that tell a different perspective, you just don't read them. I don't care what you were forced to read in high school, you have free will.

Don't discredit the many greats because you want to assume they don't exist. The societal outlook has not yet changed, but you don't have to say this kind of stuff. It's unhelpful at best.

Obviously white men are always over represented, but your message is still incorrect, especially considering how many NEW books we have that are absolutely what you're looking for. But anyway, non-white male classic writers:

Alice Walker (gay Black woman)

Sylvia Plath

Sarah Waters (lesbian)

Lydia Chukovskaya

Anita Diamant (Jewish woman)

Joan Didion

Truman Capote (gay man)

Fanny Burney

Ursula K Le Guin (feminist and incredibly progressive)

Dorothy Bussy (bisexual woman)

Jane Austen

Zora Neale Hurston (Black woman)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (African woman)

James Baldwin (gay Black man writing about civil rights in many forms)

Julia Voznesenskaya

Harper Lee

Elizabeth Peters

E.M. Forster (gay man writing about gay men)

Mary Shelley (female pioneer in science fiction)

Mabel Seeley

Louisa May Alcott

Virginia Woolf (gay woman)

Ann Radcliffe

L.M. Montgomery

Shirley Jackson

Mae West (wrote plays about sex, drag, and homosexuality)

Frances Gies (wrote history, still some of the best sources for their topics)

Christine de Pizan (medieval woman writer)

Margaret Weis

Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi woman)

Maya Angelou (Black woman)

C.L. Moore (female pioneer in weird fiction)

All three Bronte sisters

Ngaio Marsh, Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth (wrote mystery like no man in history ever has; Christie is the most sold author of all time after Shakespeare and the Bible)

Donna Tartt

Daphne du Maurier

Alexandre Dumas (mixed-race Black man)

Willa Cather (gay woman)

Toni Morrison (Black woman)

George Eliot

Margaret Atwood (explicitly feminist works)

Fannie Flagg (gay woman)

Anne Carson (translates ancient Greek works)

Oscar Wilde (gay man)

S.E. Hinton

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Khaled Hosseini (Afghan man)

Kate Chopin

Eve Babitz

Helena Maria Viramontes (Chicana)

Octavia Butler (Black woman writing science fiction, an incredible staple of the genre)

I didn't count any who wrote children's stories; it didn't seem relevant. There are thousands of others too, these are all just at least moderately well known.

[khentkawes]

"No one is talking about" this thing that people have literally been talking about for 25 years nonstop.

This makes me think of the time a teenager told me they wouldn't read Alexandre Dumas because they don't read "dead white dude books." No, child. The French literally refused to bury Dumas in the pantheon with their other great writers until like 2000-something because they were racist. And that racism, ironically, also led to people trying to ignore and dismiss the fact he was blaxk/mixed race.

Not reading books by diverse writers is bad. But erasing the diversity in the classics is also bad, people.

(Also, stop making comments about how "No one ever talks about a very basic opinion that everyone talks about." Try reading about the thing before you claim you have an idea that "no one ever talks about").

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

in almost every other children's book where the main heroine is swept away to a land of whimsy she's shown having a lovely time; braving dangers occasionally, trying to find her way home, sure, but ultimately delighting in the magic around her. meanwhile alice spends her entire time in wonderland like

[roach-works]

look, here’s the thing: alice in wonderland’s enduring fucking charm is that it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense.

alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away, given gifts she didn’t ask for and doesn’t like, corrected incorrectly, been subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl’s temper is the end of the fucking world.

alice in wonderland isn’t a drug trip or a nightmare or a metaphor, that’s just what being ten years old is LIKE. that’s why kids love it so much. even if they can’t quite articulate how, they recognize themselves in it.

[bewires]

100% accurate. adding to which her body is constantly going through massive changes she did not expect to happen and every time they do she has to totally reorient herself in the place she is in and no one seems to think this is at all strange or traumatizing

[itsnightpond]

File under: Memes Elodin would make

Image ID: an Instagram post by @arcanebullshit featuring a large grescale illustration of a raccoon and a small silhouette of a man pondering a skull with text that reads: Even very chill and silly guys can ponder the infinite sometimes.

[smellofsnoww]

Kingkiller chronicles is relatable, because Kvothe lives through the universal experience of "broke university student always thinks about money" to its very deep.

[smellofsnoww]

Also his love for capes, I too, would love a cape with lots of pockets inside.

[iagi-san]

Revisiting again the Eld forest Arc, do you think that the rest of the group, Marten, Dedan and Hespe started a bet on how long would it take for Kvothe and Tempi to fuck?

Like they see that they start to get along, they hug each other, Tempi laughs at Kvothe's jokes (even if no one finds it funny) they are clearly flirting, and suddenly they do all their activities together (tracking, going to Croson, bath time), they spend hours together on their own far from the camp and when they return they are sweaty and Kvothe even starts to pick on Tempi manners. They probably thought they were a couple already now.

Then Kvothe leaves with Tempi to go on a trip to the mountains instead of joining them back to Severen, did they think they were celebrating their honeymoon or smth?

[myteastainedpages]

“But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones staring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your bread and eat it. When you see a mother with her child, you see love. When you feel it roil in your belly, you know what it is. Even if you cannot give voice to it in words.”

Patrick Rothfuss - the Wise Man’s Fear

[myteastainedpages]

actually i think the bit just before that is worth adding too

“This is the nature of love.” Vashet said. “To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. That is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to the paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.”

[myteastainedpages]

“But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones staring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your bread and eat it. When you see a mother with her child, you see love. When you feel it roil in your belly, you know what it is. Even if you cannot give voice to it in words.”

Patrick Rothfuss - the Wise Man’s Fear

[gracefulchristiangirl-deactivat]

what was your first book obsession as a kid?

Harry Potter

Percy jackson

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Hunger Games

Classics (one you think of that’s not on here)

A Fairy Tale Collection

Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm edition specifically)

Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson specifically)

Rangers Apprentice/Brotherband Chronicles

The Hobbit

I didn’t read, I watched movies

Other (please reblog and specify)

Voting ended onMay 30, 2024

[myteastainedpages]

the inherent intimacy of reading someone’s favourite book and finding them in its pages

[mactiir]

obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.

[myteastainedpages]

i’ve been enjoying using goodreads again

[nik-jr-lit]

i need this experience omfg

[myteastainedpages]

join us it’s on online book club! sashasienna on twitch, they stream jane austen book club (obviously mansfield park at the moment) 6:30-7:30pm uk time every monday :)

[myteastainedpages]

hello tumblr people who read books originally written in languages other than english, i have a request

i have to write a book review for my reading in translation module at the end of november and i’m trying to find a book to use for it. i’ve not (to my knowledge) read any books that have been translated to english from another language - besides one i also read in its original spanish but i don’t wanna use that for this - so i have literally no ideas.

basically i’m looking for book recs, it’s a translation to english i’ll need to use but if you don’t know whether it’s been translated that’s fine i can easily find out myself :) thank you to anyone who helps! <3

[myteastainedpages]

i’ve been enjoying using goodreads again

[myteastainedpages]

i’ve been enjoying using goodreads again