Susan and her Books

Personal blog: floweridsky

[rosenkranz-does-things]

Suddenly I saw in front of me the Statue of the Faun, the Statue that I love above all others. There was his calm, faintly smiling face; there was his forefinger gently pressed to his lips. In the past I have always thought he meant to warn me of something with that gesture: Be careful! But today it seemed to mean something quite different: Hush! Be comforted! I climbed up on to his Plinth and flung Myself into his Arms, wrapping my arm around his Neck, intertwining my fingers with his Fingers. Safe in his embrace, I wept for my lost Sanity. Great, heaving sobs rose up, almost painfully, from my chest.

Hush! he told me. Be comforted!

I resolve to take better care of Myself.

[othellho]

julian de narvaez piranesi illustration i will think about you every day for the rest of my life

[peachesobviously]

Iconic items from One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

[wazagh]

Southern Reach Series by Jeff Vandermeer

Cover art by Pablo Delcan

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in The Selected Diaries of Virginia Woolf

[deathcomequickly]

The Drowned Halls

[mossylemon]

All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!

I have a duty!

- Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett

[saucefunk]

house of leaves poster because i adore this book

[lesyablackbird]

Susan Sto Helit 

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

A redrawing of on older fanart. Sometime in the future, I’ll draw her again and see how much my style or skill has changed. 

Happy Hogswatch! 

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[cosmicrhetoric]

no one did clowns like pratchett. sure "the fool jingled miserably across the floor" but that's just the tip of the iceberg....imagine alluding to a character's tragic backstory and deep repression of his true nature and heavily implying he might be a vampire before revealing the identity he's been battling against all book is actually just a literal circus clown

[cosmicrhetoric]

like this quote is so metal considering it is yelled in a courtroom in a book about the corruption of banks but ive never been more terrified of a man in a massive red elastic nose before. one well thrown custard pie nearly brought down an entire government.

[gupdoo3]

Hey i think an important addition is that in discworld, the training that clowns go through is brutal and akin to a harsh boot camp

[stophelping]

The Fool's Guild is next to the Assassin's Guild. This is frequently used to humorously contrast the two, as one is a brutal, oppressive institution that serves questionable purpose and spreads naught but misery, whereas the other promotes tradition, innovation and artistic expression via killing people for money.

[failure-to-adult]

The great bit about Discworld clowns is that they are 100% aware that they aren't funny. Being FUNNY isn't the purpose of a fool. They're carrying on a long and solemn tradition and there is no room for merriment in it.

[reluctanttree]

oof. no need to call me out so hard with this Pterry

[petaltexturedskies]

'Do you fall in love often?' Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

[acorviart]

"with his cruel bow he laid full low the harmless albatross" — the rime of the ancient mariner

[alyona11]

Quickly colored the sketch of Vimes and Sybil

[pratchettquotes]

"Firstly," said Lord Vetinari, "I have just drafted a proclamation for the town criers. The news is good."

"The war is officially over, is it?" said Carrot.

"The war, captain, never happened. It was a...misunderstanding."

"Never happened?" said Vimes. "People got killed!"

"Quite so," said Lord Vetinari. "And this suggests, does it not, that we should try to understand one another as much as possible?"

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[cbrcbbr]

lyctorhood

[terrypratchettestate]

Welcome to the Year of the Luminous Lemur.