Thoughts On Books

[moonlightsdream]

Don't tell me you still fancy yourself a princess! Good God, child, look around you! Or better yet, look in the mirror!

A Little Princess (1995) — dir. Alfonso Cuarón    

[kosmogrl]

[depsidase]

[wigglybunfish]

in which murderbot is a very normal terracotta soldier and ART the dragon spirit of a chinese junk who dwells in the ship's keel. they meet in the ming dynasty perhaps, when ppl are sailing places extra willy-nilly.

*Nüwa is the mother goddess in chinese mythology, known for creating humanity from yellow clay and repairing the sky.

thank you @mutualrapport for hosting the event! original prompt below.

[drawn for the prompt: an AU of ART and MB's first meeting and conversation - e.g. another look at their first meeting from a fantasy, historical, or (non-canon) sci-fi lens! Any perspective is fine. The only constraint is that it cannot be set in the canon universe. Any visibly non-canon AU- fantasy, human, historical, etc. - anything goes!]

[greenglowsgold]

Can't believe I couldn't find an edit for this song already, had to do it myself... (Honestly I'm having the time of my life, this movie is too much fun to edit with)

Song: Wait For It - Hamilton Movie: Project Hail Mary (2026)

[fabuki]

seeing a lot of aroace Ryland Grace and all I can say is I love this headcanon so much

[thunderglade]

hi tumblr im so sorry i keep forgetting im on here

[lizziethereader]

Weekly Bookish Question #492 (May 17th - May 23rd, 2026)

Do you think you’d have any withdrawal symptoms if you suddenly had to stop reading books? What might they be?

[rowan-reads]

I can’t stand being bored and have low spoons for learning new hobbies so unfortunately I think I’d revert to spending a lot more time on social media, which would be extremely bad for my mental health. I would definitely have some emotional difficulty directly from the lack of reading, too. Always having a few books I’m working on, a few stories I’m living in, seems to buffer me against irl problems and stress, so without that I’d have a lot more mood instability and more anxiety overall.

[fawn-wings]

i need to hold a pigeon actually i started thinking about pigeons and i’m like real person crying right now i’m so sorry pigeons we were supposed to love you and protect you and you’re so kind and silly i’m so sorry you beautiful darling little beasts. do you know how perfect you are do you miss being cherished. i’m sorry. i’m still here. i still love you.

[fawn-wings]

like we took you in and we loved you and we used you as a tool for war and then we just left. and now we mock you and you’re considered nuisance and vermin and all you ever wanted was to come home and be loved again. i’m losing my mind

[wintersoldierfell]

you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it

[wintersoldierfell]

girl help there's people on this post who can't actually read my text

[akajustmerry]

In light of the no.1 trending topic on this site, I'd like to inform youse that Kitty Kendall, one of the survivors who bravely spoke out against Neil Gaiman and accused him of rape in 2025, has said here and here that if you are looking to support her and other survivors, you can make a donation to OurVOICE (the counselling service Kendall herself used) or your local rape crisis centre. If you can't make a donation, you can help to ensure people do not forget what Kendall and other survivors have gone through and continue to go through as they pursue legal action, and that Gaiman has already spent a lot of money in the attempt to sue these women for speaking out.

[logan-exe]

Drop a story of your favourite book series and why you'd recommend it. Don't sell me the book, sell me the story of you finding and growing attached to it.

[transparentfossil]

1.7" Polished Ethiopian Chocolate Opal Nodule - Yita Ridge

[mascwoman]

more fuckin’ bookmarks

[farmgf]

IT’S SPRINGTIME YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. PASS THE INSTRUCTIONS ON NOT GIVING UP BY ADA LIMÓN

[farmgf]

IT’S THE GREENING OF THE TREES THAT REALLY GETS TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!

[nevershootamockingbird]

[ Begin ID: Text that reads

Instructions on Not Giving Up

Ada Limón, 1976

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor's almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains, it's the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world's baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermant, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I'll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I'll take it all. / End iD ]

[sabertoothwalrus]

(said with the intonation of a YA novel) a plate of cheese and crackers

[prokopetz]

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.