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[trek-tracks]

...and he's in my head.

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[sequencefairy]

☕️ fairies

on the one hand - not something to joke about with. i've enough Irish in my blood to know not to go standing in mushroom rings and that some places in the woods will not be there the next time i come back that way. i also know not to fuck with their trees. you don't whistle in the forests of appalachia, you don't let the mimic tagging along behind your group hike get into your car with you, you don't follow the little light off in the distance in the twilight.

you don't tell them they're not -- y'know.

on the other hand --

see, what i love about fairy lore is that it's mostly just how not to get lost in the fucking woods by people who lived in places and times where the woods was not just an acre of land behind your uncle's place three hours up the county road. the woods was deep. the woods was dark. the woods was full of things that would love to eat you or kill you either on purpose or just by you coming into contact with them.

send me a ☕and a topic and i'll tell you an opinion i have!

[goatmaiden]

Book asks but only prime numbers

Math. Incredible.

2. Did you reread anything? What?

Embarrassing answer alert. Love, Hate, & Clickbait by Liz Bowery. I also reread Bloomability by Sharon Creech which I’m not embarrassed about.

3. What were your top five books of the year?

I’m only going to list books I haven’t already mentioned, so please assume Villette and James are a given. The English Understand Wool, Small Things Like These, Sweet Days of Discipline, Mrs. Caliban, Scammer.

5. What genre did you read the most of?

I read 13 classic mysteries this year in the months of July and August (the annual mania).

7. What was your average Goodreads rating? Does it seem accurate?

Goodreads hasn’t told me the answer to this yet. Last year it was 3.8 which feels fair.

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while that you just now read?

VILLETTE!!!!!!

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

Scorched Grace, Hench, The Night Circus, Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Ninth House.

17. done

19. Did you use your library?

Hell yes brother. Checked out 74 ebooks this year

23. What’s the fastest time you took to read a book?

Holloway in half an hour on the bus home from Malaga (this feels like cheating because of the length). Temporary in 2 hours on my couch while I was supposed to be working.

[sydmarch]

Hey I want to mess up my life in the same way - what is the fancy yogurt brand?

that le fermier shit but fr don't try it it's like eating faery fruit in the sense that human food (yoplait) will turn to dust in your mouth after

[eggpuffs]

egg!

EGG!!

[trashyeggroll]

yeah hi I just clicked on your original Katy O'Brien post and saw #you should watch the video and watch her flex because it made my vagina bark like a dog and SCREAMED

ahaha i forgot about that one 😅 and guess what i STILL have it saved/favorited on IG

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it’s the way u can see the flexing travel up her arm all the way to her chest for me 👁️🫦👁️

[gemsofgreece]

Hi! I love the traditional costume photos and I was wondering if you had seen any sewing patterns to actually make them? My cousin is an incredible sewist (this is apparently the modern term over seamstress) and I’m hoping to find her one as a birthday present. I just don’t know where to look, there is so much junk in the Google results :(

Hello, I wasn’t able to find a textbook with sewing patterns for traditional clothes. I have found books with cross-stitch traditional patterns though. It’s not what you are asking but it might interest your cousin, so I am giving you the link to an answer about folk cross-stitch to check out.

[finelythreadedsky]

Hi! Do you have a translation of the Iliad you would recommend? I've heard good things about Caroline Alexander's but mainly just for readability

i don't have super strong feelings about iliad translations (and have not read the caroline alexander translation, so i can't speak to that). i find the fitzgerald translation more readable than the lattimore, so that's usually my go-to for when i need to reread a book or two, but i don't love it.

i'm really interested to see what emily wilson does with the iliad in terms of readability, since i think the iliad tends to be less readable/accessible in english translation than the odyssey. unless you go the route of modernisms and anachronisms and get a fair bit outside the strict definition of 'translation' (like christopher logue or alice oswald), the iliad will usually end up feeling weird and archaic and foreign in its approach toward violence.