#i really recommend this book

[folkorae]

It’s reading time for me until i fall asleep so i am finishing reading the witch, and the last chapters are about how witches and fairies are related and the folklore of them throughout the years and i can’t stop thinking about Morgana.

#❧ ⸻ jane reads . #tw witchcraft #tw paganism #i love my witch fairy #her name is not lefay for nothing lmao #i mean morgana or morgan of the fairies #also if you are interested in knowing about how society #and certain folklore through the globe about witches #the story of witchcraft and things like that #i really recommend this book #it is a looooong book but totally worth it #there is so much to learn from it

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

#replace this with any other type of significant relationship too #also! this book actually rules btw i really recommend it #i didnt read it when it first cane out bc i was like. well i am already pretty familiar with asexuality and not rly interested in 101 stuff #but it turns out it doesnt feel 101-y at all its a super awesome piece of queer theory and also chen has Good opinions #and not weird watered down ones that i am sometimes wary of in aspec communities (frankly especially ace ones) #i think maybe if more people approached asexuality the way chen does (including and maybe even especially ace people) #i would be more inclined to still ID as ace #but anyways! #aro #aromantic #<- tag selections that reflect how i personally engage with this quote #also #described in alt text #also also #j tag #:/ #aro media

[glitch-in-the-code]

I need to reread ‘Pictures of Hollis Woods’

#I really recommend this book #I think it rewired my brain

[andthebeanstalk]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

#original #the last unicorn #tlu #peter s beagle #molly gru #schmendrick #schmendrick the magician #two of my favorite characters in anything right there in the center of the story! and I'm glad I saw the film first! #my reading ability has diminished due to trauma disability etc. but it seems like having a visual reference actually really helped! #no wonder i only ever want to read fan fic! turns out reading is not actually Superior to other types of Storytelling. it's just different. #to say otherwise is snobbishness I have been eminently guilty of in my life! #but like it is easier for me to consume tv and movies and that is fine actually. also that's why I'm doing a graphic novel lol #because i wanted to make something i would actually be able to read if i found it at a library. altho the audio book IS gonna be bomb #the audiobook is for visually impaired readers and anyone who wants or needs it! accessible stories for everyone! yeah!! #my gender was already transed but now I've gained an ADDITIONAL gender! which one? I'll never tell 😘 #i am so powerful i have so much fuckin gender. my wife has no gender. and she is equally as powerful. #and also she has STUDIED THE BLADE #mostly zoro's blades from One Piece #normally YouTube recommends me shit movies like idiocracy or smth this is like if every day ur cat brought you a piece of rotten food and #then one day it brings you a BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED TALE FEATURING MY BELOVED TWINK FUCK-UP WIZARD FRIEND AND MY ALL-TIME HOMEGIRL MOLLY GRU #and also it's soft and beautiful and funny and fucking weird!! i wrote melodies to the songs in the books on my ukulele

[theseventhveil1945]

THE LADY CHABLIS starring as Herself in MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL (1997) Dir. Clint Eastwood

#filmedit #filmgifs #movieedit #moviegifs #filmtvedit #dailyflicks #midnight in the garden of good and evil #the lady chablis #the movie is ok but i can't recommend the book enough it's so wild that i really couldn't believe it was non fiction #but she's the best part in both

[geryone]

Holy Feast and Holy Fast, Caroline Walker Bynum

#quotes #quote #Caroline Walker Bynum #id in alt text #literally just started this book tonight but I’m really enjoying it #& I got a cheap used copy online so I highly recommend if you have any interest!! pick up a copy & we can chat about it!!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

you are so whimsical i qant to check out this mdzs (..??) because of your whimsical nature thank you sorry im very high and your art moved me emotionally

This is simultaneously the sweetest and funniest thing someone has sent me, thank you.

#ask #non-mdzs #I have a hunch you will not recall sending this to me but I wish to immortalize it. #The progression of me going 'aw' to 'barking with laughter' at the last bit of this message was a delight. #Oh man what to say about getting into MDZS... #I admit I'm probably low on the list of people who should be recommending it. #I enjoy it! But there are also a ton of different adaptations that each do a slightly different thing with the story and characters. #Personally I loved The Untamed (Netflix live action) for how campy the action was. It got emotional but really...It made me laugh. #And I love watching it with people because it also makes them laugh. #(The Untamed changes a lot of plot elements so it isn't looked upon very favourably by many fans. I love it as its own thing) #Don't get me wrong; it *is* a story with interesting things to say and I certainly have written tons of analysis on it. #But it's also a series I spent over a year making parody comics of. It comes from a place of love! #The audio drama is really good and I think it might be the best form of mdzs...however finding episodes is not easy. #The audio drama is also what I'm basing all these comics on! #There is a book (the primary source) An animated series and a comic to check out as well. #Someone probably has a better pitch and recommendation list than I do. I just make the funny comics.

[jesncin]

Aah I got so much love today over Lunar Boy's book birthday!! Lots of friends getting their copies in the mail or finding my book in stores! A book birthday is like a birthday, I get people congratulating me and celebrating. But instead of me getting presents, it's everyone else who gets a gift (that I made!). So really, it's better than a birthday haha.

#ramblings #booklr #lgbt books #queer #trans #graphic novel #lunar boy #my art #qpoc #got tagged a bunch today on the gram! my boy really is out there!! #what do u mean I have a book in the Giovanni's Room?? huh?? and got a lil curated staff recommendation in a Barnes & Noble?? unreal

[honeygrahambitch]

Never forgiving the Hannibal Rising movie for not including the subplot about the paintings stolen from Lecter Castle during the war which are later found by Hannibal in a small art gallery in Paris. He recognizes one of them because years ago he had traced Mischa's hand with chalk on the back of one of the paintings :')

I will not mention that one of the people involved in the art theft erases the chalk drawing im order to ruin the sentimental value the painting held for young Hannibal.

#the plot is very very complex and i really recommend reading the book #hannibal #hannigram #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannibal nbc #hannibal rising

[squash1]

ok book club <3 what are we reading that’s actually good and would maybe fill the trc shaped hole in my soul???? and don’t say reread. unless you say reread the dreamer trilogy because i’m so close to giving into the urge.

please. please. give me your suggestions.

as a frame of reference here are non-trc books i love & would recommend (different content, same soul):

watch over me by nina lacour

in memoriam by alice winn

under the whispering door by tj klune

these violent delights by micah nemerever

the anthropocene reviewed by john green

summer sons by lee mandelo

a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki

i need an actual book club but tumblr took away my group chats :(

anyway love you please give me suggestions!!!!!

#i am also not really a fantasy person #BUT i like magical realism (i just don’t like the whole world building thing personally) #thank you #and maybe let’s all be best friends and read books together #trc #bookblr #book recommendations #book recs #the raven cycle #the dreamer trilogy #maggie stiefvater #nina lacour #alice winn #in memoriam #under the whispering door #these violent delights #micah nemerever #the anthropocene reviewed #summer sons #lee mandelo #a tale for the time being #ruth ozeki

[iambrainrot]

Very quick sketch of the postmaster himself i did last night. The day I learn how colors work will be the day that I die

#in honor of me finally finishing going postal the other day #great book would recommend my favorite part was when groat said anything about medicine #and also that part when adora belle dearheart stabbed a guy with her shoe #im not really happy with this drawing but oh well #i had fun making it #its cool #i was going for the averagest guy ever #but i think ill rework this design one day #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #going postal #moist von lipwig

[butchhamlet]

"But there is something particular about Cleopatra and the imaginative escape she offers for white performers. She presents a fantasy of a stately queen with an erotic power that white actresses can inhabit and take pleasure in without facing any of the difficulties faced by Black women. Like white European colonial settlers, they occupy her character though only briefly. And this is nothing new. In the seventeenth century, one aristocratic woman had her portrait painted as Cleopatra—a performative act in which it was possible to pretend to be the kind of woman she could never actually be within the chaste and virtuous bounds of Renaissance white womanhood. The sitter is identified as Lady Anne Clifford. A Jacobean lady in Egyptian regalia, according to seventeenth-century orientalist notion of national costume, holds an asp above her breast, iconically invoking Cleopatra. For a long time, it seems, white women have stepped into the fantasy of the dark queen. It seems odd that Antony and Cleopatra was not always viewed as one of Shakespeare's race plays. That is changing, finally. If theatre directors continue to centralise whiteness in their readings of the play, however, it in many ways replicates Caesar's triumph over Egypt. We relive Cleopatra's defeat every time we watch a white woman play her—due respect to Dames Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Harriet Walter, and Eve Best. But we begin to see more clearly the Egyptian Queen's own prophetic vision as she chose to end her life on her own terms. She imagined herself being performed for years to come by actors who do not resemble her in any way—and that is, for the most part, what has happened."

—Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper, The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race (emphasis mine)

#max.txt #antony and cleopatra #i am reading this book so so slowly due to the Life but i recommend it! #i honestly wish dr. karim-cooper was a little harder on shakespeare. but the analysis is really good regardless

[yourqueerbookshelf]

Not sure what my motive is here, but . . .

The results will not affect which books I post about, because I actually have to want to read them, but I'm dying to know who likes to suffer!

#please i really wanna see the discourse! #book recommendations #queer books #polls #queer #literary tropes #literary fiction #fantasy books #romance books #science fiction books #historical fiction #books #queer community

[entropyvoid]

Golden Hour (+ lineart below cut)

I took a picture of the lines for once and did some basic crappy photo editing on my phone, so you could probably print this out and use it as a coloring page or something if you so wish lol. Do with it what you will.

#honkai star rail #dr ratio #veritas ratio #aventurine #aventurine hsr #cherallart #as you can see i forgor i wanted to draw his glasses til like. last second #i can’t believe it’s been like 2 whole months since I last did a whole like. watercolor illustration #part of that’s been bc I’ve been having a bit of a rough semester bc adhd med issues (which are resolved now) #but I really wanted to draw aventurine and ratio. my boys #i’ve been LOVING penacony so far so I needed to get something nice out #anyway I did this while my s/o and I alternated between reading a 500 pg long history book out lout to each other #it’s called ‘the inheritance of rome’ and kinda covers what happened after the collapse of the western roman empire #and tries to identify and explain all the cultural echoes and reverberations and transformations that rose from its ashes #throughout europe north africa and the middle east. anyway it’s super interesting and I highly recommend it #the late antique period is not something often covered/talked abt in public ed hist classes. at least not when I was goin through em #or the transitory period between it and the early medieval period at least #i still got 150 pages left and a final paper due on it in like 4 days but it’s only a 5 pg minimum and I’m a wordy bitch so #i think i can make it #anyway back to that I go

[melisusthewee]

Rafael Federman as Eduardo Strauch in La Sociedad de la Nieve/Society of the Snow (2003)

requested by Anon

#la sociedad de la nieve #society of the snow #eduardo strauch #rafael federman #trying to find eduardo is like playing where's waldo #they took the fact that he was the middle cousin and just middle child coded him right out of the movie #his book is really interesting though i highly recommend reading it! #it's a crime that we didn't get any proper interactions between him and marcelo #THEY WERE BEST FRIENDS I WANTED TO SEE MORE #also he was 100% that guy who goes to europe and makes it his entire personality #and i love that about him

[uncanny-tranny]

Quick fiber arts tip: if you're knitting or crocheting or anything, get a book light. I've got one set up right behind me when I crochet, and it's so bright in a way that my lamp never is. It's made crocheting on darker yarns much easier, and I find that it strains my eyes less because I don't have to focus so hard on what I'm doing because I can actually see what I'm doing.

#art #fiber art #crochet #knitting #i got my book light from barnes and noble ngl and i love it so much #i would recommend a book light like mine where you can use either a battery power source or a plug-in power souce so that you have options #i just clipped mine behind me where my bedframe has a divet and it's really secure #i know this might seem like a common sense thing but i didn't really think about it until i tried it out for myself #and i personally prefer white or cool light versus warm light like my lamp so that's a bonus #these type of book lights can be expensive but i think it's well-worth the price (mine was about $25USD i think?)