Books And Bric-A-Brac 📚

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded. -Lemony Snicket

[pensivegladiola]

Hello and welcome to my blog! Have a digital cup of something warm and a book recommendation! 🫖🍵 ☕️

[thatgaybitxh-deactivated2025062]

why am i dressed slutty you ask? to read classic literature alone in my room. mind your own business.

[charl0ttan]

you know i was a grief metaphor once or twice

[pmamtraveller]

Sarah Targett

[metamorphesque]

“I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.”

— Frank O’Hara, Mayakovsky

[paper-wounds]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[berrytart]

oh god shes collapsed someone get her a thai iced tea and a bowl of tofu pad see ew STAT!!!!!

[pmamtraveller]

Lotus Pont, 2025, Yu Huan Huan.

[inpursuitof222]

Omg

[weaponwifer]

My favorite jokes are about mispronouncing philosophers' names but I'm afraid it's a nietzsche subgenre

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

But it can hit if you plato the right crowd

[pavasol]

just gotta locke in your target audience

[reemillustrated]

snoopy encourages you to buy a new book!

[imjunebitch]

yk guys I think a lot of ppl when arguing against the death penalty go for a like "people don't deserve death, etc" view and I get why ppl argue for that I rly do! but it doesn't matter. I don't trust the government to do it, I don't trust them to decide who should die, I don't trust them to determine who is mentally competent, I don't trust them to not be bigoted and discriminatory in their practices, I don't trust them to have the right people, I don't trust them to execute it in a humanitarian way. and I've had discussions with ppl who otherwise have similar viewpoints to me in many ways but can think of people they think deserve to die, and I think if abolishing the death penalty is like, a super important cause to u the same way it is to me, the argument u use shouldn't be "well these people deserve to live" (although in some cases I think yeah the death penalty is done to people who totally don't "deserve it") because that's so subjective, it should be "do you trust the government to do it?" like, do you trust the people who cant even fill potholes on your road to determine who should and should not live

[pensivegladiola]

Precisely^ if the state can execute a person for one reason, then they can take that reason and aim it any party they find inconvenient or undesirable. The political dissident, the vulnerable minority group, and so on. Regardless of how you feel about certain types of criminality, it’s easy to understand why the state should not be permitted tbe power to kill.

[hippie-syd]

Reading is political and it always has been. Here are some of the classic books on the banned list that you should definitely check out.

[pensivegladiola]

Everybody shut up. Stop what you’re doing. Go read Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim

[dizzyghoast]

honestly fandom has ruined me because now any time i'm in the desert and i see two vast and trunkless legs of stone or a half-sunk shattered visage i'm like "omg just like in Ozymandias" and its like come on girl not every half-sunk shattered visage is Ozymandias

[thememedaddy]

[exeggcute]

one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

[exeggcute]

can you imagine.

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]

[cleverlittlefox]

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