The perks of being bookish...

Marsha and Willem could be social, but... they'd rather read. Welcome to our little book club! On the #shelfie for November is 'We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves' by Karen Joy Fowler

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

from a 19th century bookplate..

[theradioghost]

“and I say ‘him’ because let’s be honest: dudes do this. dudes are this stuffy and pretentious” - my late romanticism professor

[theradioghost]

also:

“welcome to class! have you thought about your own death yet today?”

“I brought cupcakes and macaroons, but I want to clarify that I have done it to make a rhetorical point. but also because they’re delicious.”

“so if you look at the kind of history we talk about, it turns out it’s mostly just white men killing one another and then never shutting up about it.”

“doesn’t that sound great? decomposing to become one with nature?”

“more snake women today! keats might have had a fetish.”

“it’s a horror story, but the horror is capitalistic exploitation. do you know who made the clothes you’re wearing? no? well, keats is disappointed with you.”

“ rejecting the societal expectation of monogamous romantic marriage and going with polyamory is a-ok. super cool. jazzy.”

[bookswithdylanw]

[the-reading-nook]

[bookish-nerd-girl]

Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means that you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (via bookish-nerd-girl)

[thepaige-turner]

Went down to Persephone Books today and I’m definitely going back before I leave.

[psliterary-deactivated20190419]

For me, it’s always been a process of trying to convince myself that what I’m doing in a first draft isn’t important. One way you get through the wall is by convincing yourself that it doesn’t matter. No one is ever going to see your first draft. Nobody cares about your first draft. And that’s the thing that you may be agonizing over, but honestly, whatever you’re doing can be fixed. … For now, just get the words out. Get the story down however you can get it down, then fix it.

Neil Gaiman (via psliterary)

[shadowtearling]

Calm and quiet Sundays 😌💕

[soshesawildflowerxo-deactivated]

Albus Severus Potter boarded the Hogwarts Express at King’s Cross today. The epilogue is complete.

[chamberofaesthetics]

September 1st

The Hogwarts Express departs at 11 o’clock from Platform 9 and ¾ at King’s Cross Station to transport students to Hogwarts. 

[alicesadventuresintherye]

Today in Fictional History: the Epilogue that took place “19 years later” in the Harry Potter series happened this very morning as Albus Severus Potter, despite his atrocious name, boarded the Hogwarts Express of the first time and all was well. Below I reblogged my friend Mel’s post because she worded it ever so perfectly. ❤⚡ #HarryPotter #epilogue #jkrowling #allwaswell #19yearslater #Hogwarts #hogwartsexpress #albusseveruspotter #fictionalhistory #art #fanart ・・・ #Repost @melzapels (@get_repost) You know I gotta post a Harry Potter post on this bittersweet day. The timeline of Harry Potter has officially ended but my love for this story will go on forever. “the ones that love us never really leave us” credit goes to @eaumohtz for this fantastic picture!!

[blvnk-art]

All was well.

Just a family portrait before leaving the house :)

[instagram @potterbyblvnk]

[harreki]

[samglam-blog]

Heath Robinson’s pancake machine

[neil-gaiman]

And this was how I discovered Heath Robinson as a boy. His illustrations for The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestorm, by Norman Hunter.

[hannahhillam]

I can’t stop

[foxville-deactivated20210128]

since Harry Potter is set in the 90s I refuse to believe they don’t wear anything else besides this 

[demondarlington]

literary quotes;   “Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind / And therefore is winged cupid painted blind”

a midsummer night’s dream // william shakespeare

requested by @general-kenobis