uhhh come check me out I guess.

welcome to my stream-of-consciousness book blog. current fixation: The Poppy War

[paxelspages]

Hi! I'm Pax, and I like books. Or, more accurately, I like to obsess over books, and I wanted a place to channel that!

My fandoms list is long and varied, but I'll try to hit the highlights!

Percy Jackson (entire Riordanverse tbh)

Anything from Neal Shusterman, but specifically Unwind

Most anything from Anthony Horowitz

The Hunger Games (which got me to make this Tumblr)

The Inheritance Games

I tend to like YA fiction more than adult, but I am awful at keeping up with what's relevant

Brian Jacques books! (If you've read Castaways of the Flying Dutchman PLEASE respond to this.)

Some of my favorite stand-alone books are The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Little Prince.

My DNI is pretty simple: I don't want you here if you are a TERF, racist, Nazi, or any other name people call themselves to make their hate sound less exhaustive and inhumane than it is.

If you see something you like, hang around! I'll see y'all soon✨💜

[candycoatedrox]

getting characters into world-endingly intense codependent queerplatonic relationships is literally what life is all about. it is literally what we were put here on this earth to do

[abyssalaquarist00]

pick up that non-fiction book

[abyssalaquarist00]

not all of us can live in fantasy 100% the time like i see some people on here do and it's refreshing to learn something new. its been philosophy, essays, and history for me and i feel much more at home on planet Earth for it knowing that people have been struggling and wishing similarly for millenia.

its not that fiction doesnt have its place, its important and healthy to exercise the imagination, but non-fiction can do so much to boost and supplement that. if not for yourself, for your art or for the people you're around

[abyssalaquarist00]

"representation matters!" but you wont read or engage with non-fiction works about any demographic outside your own

[abyssalaquarist00]

this version of the post doesnt seem to be getting much traction but this is arguably the most important reason why we should be reading nonfiction in addition to fiction

[creatingblackcharacters]

Stamp of approval

[justpassingbys-stuff]

[glowcowboy]

it is important to cling to wonder btw

[glowcowboy]

many people grow up and forget what it feels like to be a child. we must remember this. we have to remember what a joy it is to play. to learn. to build connections. to grow. to experience. we must hold onto the things that awe us. we are changed by what we love

[kuromisgh0st]

i think it’s really essential as an adult to stay silly and goofy and weird

[phantomsofyourformerself]

girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i'm going to read all the books in the world.

[lyouve]

Books are so cool because there are no fucking ads in them

[mikkeneko]

PSA to fan creators who don't have a lot of regular contact with children: They are almost always bigger than you think. A 1-year-old baby may already be walking. A toddler is likely already hip-high. A 10-year-old may already be taller than at least one of their parents. A 14/15 year old may already have reached their adult height.

[amarguerite]

Via @watertightvines

[wildjuniperjones]

Here's the link. It was actually not immediately easy to find, so I thought this might help.

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[heroineimages]

I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!

[onbearfeet]

THINE IS ALSO GRAMMATICALLY EQUIVALENT TO YOURS.

“It is yours” and “It is thine” differ only in their level of formality.

[enidsinclairs]

A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER — 1.06

[vampiremother]

love listening to my own playlists. I am so correct and intelligent and inspired

[sweatermuppet]

devotion that corrupts is my favorite btw there's nothing wrong with it ever & it should be encouraged

[dr-santos]

another big parallel between rin and kitay is that they both thought they were so above sacrificing their principles for love. rin hated mai’rinnen tearza for killing herself and surrendering because she loved the red emperor. kitay desperately tried to be morally right even in the toughest circumstances and judged those who weren’t. but in the end they both betrayed their principles for each other. kitay couldn’t do the morally right thing and deprive rin of her power because he loved her too much. for someone who was so proud of his moral high ground, he was so loyal to her that he was ready to let her destroy the world. and even though she swore she would never be so weak to surrender and let her people be conquered, the mere thought of hurting kitay to reach her goal stopped her. it was her love for him that made her surrender. and they both kind of became the things they hated the most.

[andthemoonsingswisely]

something something rinezha was beautiful because of the potential of what could be in another life with no war and no shamanism and rinvenka was beautiful because of what was, what could still exist and persist despite war and shamanism something something nezha and kitay both having aspects of rin they resented and looked away from but venka loving rin not despite her flaws but because of them something something venka being the only one as another exploited woman who could understand rin's rage and wasn't just begrudgingly complicit but on board with everything something something

[n00dlerdoodler]

Situationship so bad you lose your hand, start a revolution, team up with the evil overthrown lady that let your entire country suffer in war, get imprisoned by her in your own mind for the lolz, start hallucinating your dead crush/cousin insulting and beating you, save your old teacher/father, have to deal with his magical dementia and ptsd, kill your fellow rebelion leaders, rescue your platonic soulmate from said situationship and fuck shit up so bad that everyone you love is dead bc of you <3

[rebornautumn]

Not platonic, not romantic, not even familial, but whatever the FUCK Fang Runin and Chen Kitay had going on.

Because what do you MEANNNNN “Rin and Kitay were bonded in a way that he could never understand, and there was no world where Rin died and Kitay remained alive”