quills, quips, quiddities

Welcome to my wonderful wall of weirdness. Amateur linguist, philosopher, novelist Lover of all things literature, Celtic, and Romantic Erin, 27, unfortunately American. formerly rockinerin127

[themusicsweetly]

love + friendship

—Blood of my Blood 1x09, "Braemar"

[littlegirlinvisible]

OUTLANDER: BLOOD OF MY BLOOD (2025—) Costume Appreciation Ellen MacKenzie's dress for the Beltane Festival in 1.05 – Needfire

[aglionbyacademia]

Blue Sargent my favorite super graphic ultra modern girl

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: fieldnotesbyfi

[quills-quips-quiddities]

Looking for some banned books titles to add to my home library. Anyone have some recommendations? Reply with your favorite!

[escapismsworld]

[thcscus]

so like. we all know that the reason gansey was so intense about ronan graduating and adam moving out of his dad's house was because he knew he was going to die that year and wanted to make sure his friends were set without him right

[charliejaneanders]

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.

Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

[mariagoesmed]

holidays are made for endless reading sessions ❄️

[quills-quips-quiddities]

With the death of American booktok, I’m considering returning to my roots. Is booklr still a thing?

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Polin + Parallels, Callbacks, & Foreshadowing (Seasons 1-3)

[pensbridgerton]

1x01//3x08

[bridgertonland]

COLIN AND PENELOPE - BRIDGERTON SEASON 3 SOUNDTRACK (COVERS)

[ohtendril]

#growth

[lizardsfromspace]

Love the random censorship in Victorian novels. Mr. ------- came down from -----shire in the summer of 18--. Who? Where? When? Wouldn't you like to know, book boy

[emilysidhe]

There was a footnote about this in the annotated Jane Austen I’ve been reading. I can’t find it again right now (will post if I manage to come across it again), but if I remember correctly, this kind of thing happened because people were so aware of who the most important landowners were in each county and where the military regiments attached to each shire were stationed when that it would break disbelief if an author said something like, “Sir So-and-so was the Earl of Shropshire,” or whatever, when the reader knew that the Earls of Shropshire were the Such-and-such family. So the dashes formed double duty of not having the fictional person contradict anything the reader might know about the real people in the real place, and avoiding making it seem like the fictional people are veiled commentaries on any real people.

Austen didn’t tend to censor where her characters were from as they weren’t high rank enough to bother with, but she censored the counties attached to her military regiments so that she could play fast and loose with the regiment’s movements and no real regiment would be slandered by having Wickham’s behavior associated with them.

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Fireflies photograph in trees with long time exposure.

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

He was right: I do not believe my eyes.

[earththings]