"There's always a story. It's all stories, really."

booklr • tanya 🏳️‍🌈 • she/her • eternal bookferret & @totallyshelfaware • header: mienar • icon: quentin blake

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you know how in greek myths people who die tragically sometimes get placed among the stars by the gods?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

call that

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

call that a

[arsonist-arcade]

Its okay, take your time

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

constellation prize

[telimezh-deactivated20241111]

"She had a picture book with many wonder tales in it - destroyed, we suppose, along with her other things when she died. she had brought it from Barizhan."

"You miss her," Arbelan said.

"Of course," Maia said again. "We loved her very much".

-The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison.

[deretbeshelar]

ID: an 8-panel sketched comic of characters from the goblin emperor, parodying a love live fan comic. panel 1) cala is shown from the shoulders up, but low enough on the horizon to appear to be kneeling, with a rueful smile and a speech bubble containing a screenshot of text from the book that reads “Oh, damn. We did so hope we would get here first. Serenity.” 2) in a much simpler style that remains for the rest of the comic, beshelar covers maia's ears, glaring with his mouth a large circle shape and with a drawn out "gasp". 3) beshelar drags maia, whose face is completely neutral, out the door of the room, his own expression unchanged and still gasping. 4) the door is mostly closed but beshelar's head pokes through with a short "gasp." 5) maia, drawn in slightly more detail, is seated at a table writing something, looking regretful and saying "damn." 6) a mostly empty panel but beshelar is in the bottom left corner looking over his shoulder with the same expression from before. 7) still looking behind him, face unchanged, beshelar walks with balled fists towards cala in the background who looks blissfully unaffected. csevet tries to intervene with raised hands. 8) beshelar is still looking over his shoulder with the same face, but kneeling with his fists balled in the front of cala's robe where cala lies on the floor, still smiling blankly and raising two shruggy "ok" hands. end ID

link to original: here

[penny-anna]

so when Spider-man crawls up and down walls like a bug people praise him and call him a superhero, but when I, Count Dracula,

[lackadaisicalnereid]

really into dracula daily *and* into tumblr being into dracula daily. it's marvelous. it's nothing. it's everything. it's a complete novelty. it's a return to a centuries old form of communally reading novels. no one could've seen this coming, and also the entirety of human civilization has been working towards exactly this. can't wait to be re-reading illiad with u guys in 2023.

[solitairians]

dracula is so funny rn mina and lucys letters are just like hiiii bestie loml sweetheart 😍😍😍💕 how are youuuuuu i love you soooo much 🥰 can't wait to see you again you're my favourite person everrrr did i hear you have a CRUSH 🤭🤭 btw sorry 4 slow replies 😅😅 i was busy thinking about my boyfriend 😍😍😍 JONATHAN 😍😍😍😍😍😍 and then the jonathan in question is just like Dear Diary Today I Experienced Horrors Beyond My Comprehension

[exitwound]

when whitman said “i contradict myself. i am large… i contain multitudes” and wilde said “what are you? to define is to limit” and sumney said “i insist upon my right to be multiple”

[existential-celestial]

and ashbery said “accept yourself as numerous”

[soracities]

and when mahmoud darwish said “I am besieged by contradiction” and when lewis carroll said “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then”

[the-tao-of-fandom]

Some ways to honor Terry Pratchett on his death day, march 12th

Strive to understand people you perceive as different from you

Tell a truly outrageous pun

Eat a bacon sandwich

Stand up against an oppressive authority (up to and including punching them)

Sing a bawdy song including wizard’s staffs and/or hedgehogs

Consider the importance of Angels

Demand a free but responsible press

Forge a sword out of a meteorite. If you do not have one on hand, store-bought is fine

Take responsibility for your actions, be they good or bad or neither

Recognize there is injustice in the world, but refuse to accept it

Look Up

If you have the hattitude, doff a nice-looking chapeau of some kind

Make time for the things that matter

Live.

[willowwaly]

“War doesn’t determine who is right. War determines who remains.”

—R.F Kuang, The Poppy War

[thoughtkick]

I like how sleeping next to someone means more than sex sometimes, the body’s way of saying ‘I trust you to be by my side at my most vulnerable time,’ you have no defenses when you are asleep, you tell no lies

Eric Shaw (via thoughtkick)

[housedemarr]

@booksociety’s Villains and Antiheroes Event:

“Do you want to live?” she said again. “Because if you do, you should let me go.” “Why would I do that?” “Because I can help you get out of this.” “If I let you go, you’ll run off the first second you can get! Or you’ll stab me in the back and leave me to get shot full of bolts.” “Maybe.” she said.

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

[pharaonicwolf]

I’m sorry but I’m still laughing about how Nicholas’s dumbassery is canonically one of his fencing superpowers

[macrolit]

Okay, I’m flabbergasted. I heard about recommendmeabook.com, where you can read the first page of randomly-selected books without the author or title listed so you go in without any preconceived notions. The FIRST book that pops up is my all-time favorite, The English Patient. (The second, for the record, was The Great Gatsby.) Anyway, check this site out and pass this along!!

[oberynmartell]

Happy International Women’s Day!

“The women we honor today teach us three very important lessons. One, that as women, we must stand up for ourselves. The second, as women, we must stand up for each other. And finally, as women, we must stand up for justice for all.” ― Michelle Obama

[troublesome-bog-beast]

just finished Guards! Guards!

[loveofficial]

me during the first half of the poppy war: idk why they even call this grimdark it’s not *that* bad

me during the second half of the poppy war: everything hurts and I’m dying

[calipha-shahrzad]

READ IN 2019 ↬ Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman

The road was possibility, the kind she’d thought her life would never hold again, and Tess herself was motion. Motion had no past, only future. Any direction you walked was forward, and that was as must be.