ouroboros library

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[enchantedbook]

The Awakening of the Poet' by Gabriel Ferrier, 1899.

[victusinveritas]

Purgatory Canto 12, The Soul of Arachne (detail) - Gustave Doré, 1867.

[neechees]

“Settlers are not immigrants. Immigrants are beholden to the Indigenous laws and epistemologies of the lands they migrate to. Settlers become the law, supplanting Indigenous laws and epistemologies. Therefore, settler nations are not immigrant nations.”

— Decolonization is not a metaphor (pg. 6-7)

[sidhewrites]

Being kink positive makes it really hard to be a hater of media rip. I used to love watching “the WORST book I’ve read this year” booktube videos but now its like I hear them ask, “Who is this werewolf smut even for?” Omegaverse fans, next question. “Why would you write this?” Because they find it sexy, can we stop focusing on the ewie yucky kink part and focus on the fact that the author used the word knot five times in a single scene? It’s bad werewolf erotica, but it’s not bad because it’s werewolf erotica like come on

[ouroboroslibrary]

Iiiih big announcement time!!!! Book club is officially live over on Fable and I can’t WAIT!

Read more and follow along on the website, too!

[travelingcryptologist]

Jean Giraud - Mœbius illustrates Dante’s Paradiso (1999)

[gaphic]

‘A good tragedy is always both preventable and inevitable’ is one of my main hills to die on. It’s literally so important to me. I’m fucking correct

[gaphic]

It’s only tragedy if you convince yourself, for even just a moment, that everything could be ok, despite knowing it won’t be. Tragedy lies in ‘so close, yet so far.’ It’s avoidable because it would only take a tiny alteration to prevent disaster, but human nature is in the way- not maliciously, not knowingly, despite trying so hard.

If it’s just preventable, that’s barely even sad. Why didn’t they prevent it, then? If it’s just inevitable, that’s only marginally better. Why would we weep? Our hopes can’t be dashed on the rocks, we can’t hope.

Every tragedy worth the paper it’s written on could be averted by a single word, a single choice, a single hesitation, but won’t be, because the subjects are only human. Not because they were weak, stupid, or evil- simply human. Their simple humanity makes disaster inevitable.

[gaphic]

And in my opinion, the very best tragedy, the very most heartwrenching, comes from the hero making the right decision every time- from their perspective.

It’s when you know you would have done the exact same thing in their shoes, and only because of your perspective as the reader are you able to see what it will cost. That’s what really rocks my socks

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

The Yellow Fairy Book Edited by Andrew Lang with numerous Illustrations by H J Ford London Longmans Green and Co 1894 First Edition

[along-the-meadow-path]

Studio Ghibli + Butterflies

[anditslove]

“The thing is, I don’t want my sadness to be othered from me just as I don’t want my happiness to be othered. They’re both mine. I made them, dammit.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[stormravenart]

“Am I a greater fool for wanting you still?” - Sabran Berethnet

Will I ever be over The Priory of the Orange Tree??

[rylandsgrace]

If you want another actress for Annabeth, just remember what Rick Riordan said

[aredhels]

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

THE NIGHT CIRCUS, ERIN MORGENSTERN

[ranoki]

I will be your hands, Adam thought. I will be your eyes.

On his terms, or not at all.

((please click it, the small size does it no justice))

[patrick-stewart]

Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan The Mummy (1999)

[feral-ballad]

Sappho, tr. by Anne Carson, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

[serialephemera]

Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.