#the book nerd diaries

[the-book-ferret]

“Why don't they want me to see what I already know now—that the world is broken.” ― Veera Hiranandani, The Night Diary

A hopeful and heartwarming story about finding joy after hardship, Amil and the After is a companion to the beloved and award-winning Newbery Honor novel The Night Diary, by acclaimed author Veera Hiranandani

At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in India, now independent of British rule.

Half-Muslim, half-Hindu, twelve-year-old Amil is not sure what home means anymore. The memory of the long and difficult journey from their hometown in what is now Pakistan lives with him. And despite having an apartment in Bombay to live in and a school to attend, life in India feels uncertain.

Nisha, his twin sister, suggests that Amil begin to tell his story through drawings meant for their mother, who died when they were just babies. Through Amil, readers witness the unwavering spirit of a young boy trying to make sense of a chaotic world, and find hope for himself and a newly reborn nation.

#thebookferret #books #booklr #book worm #book nerd #book pets #book addict #book photography #bibliophile #ferret #ferrets of tumblr #pets of tumblr #wasabi #amil and the after #veera hiranandani #the night diary #companion books

[firstroseofspring]

looking into reading the final reflection because it's cited as a big influence on the depiction of klingons in star trek from tng onward for looking past the warrior stereotype and fleshes them out really well and look at this.

#diary #YEAHHH im reading that. #the book also talks about a game that klingons play called klin zha and it sounds interesting- the background i think is that there's a lot #of battle-related games in klingon culture #and in klin zha theres two players (sort of chess-adjacent) taking turns paying with the same set of pieces. #of course this was written in the 80s so now klingons crying is canon cause of that one myth about kahless crying a whole ocean <- slay #but isnt that good isnt that so cool. <- nerd

[bookholichany]

The life of a nerd...

#the life of a nerd #i literally dreamed the first pic and had to do a sketch at midnight to get it out of my head #it was actually a ridiculous yet scary dream #that's why it's looks horrible and stupid #mood board #aesthetic #dark academia #dark aesthetic #coffee #books #art #dear diary #my photos #moodboard #theatre #theatre at home #Iranian theatre

[ryttu3k]

Fortunately for us timelines are only real if we believe in them! ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ

By which I mean that when I was determining how the timeline went, I decided it was 'beckett rescues okulos' -> 'gets kapaneus as a traveling companion' -> 'goes to LA for bloodlines with kapaneus' -> 'caine does his fun Don't Worry About It Aura to beckett at the prospect of an ancient driving a car' -> 'lets beckett get enrichment playing with the sarcophagus until caine gives him the good old Extreme Dread Aura about it so beckett won't open it himself' -> 'beckett warns the fledgling and then goes back to the hotel room he's sharing with kapaneus' -> 'they have more fun adventures during the rest of their year of traveling together'

i tend to ignore the 'canonical' mechanics of blood bonds, mostly because these are vampires and i tend to think that any set of lovers would get way more than three drinks of each other's blood within the timeframe for that, but also i just had the mental image of beckett getting a hit of kapaneus' blood, suddenly feeling a deep fondness for the concept of caine, and being like (⌐■_■) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⊙ˍ⊙) 'hey why do i suddenly feel really fond of this guy i don't even believe exists?'

(also because with my headcanons for beckett's various romances, he'd be blood-bonded to So Many other people just based on estimated amounts of Kisses Accepted and Administered. there's a theoretical beckett-centric viniculum where everyone he's bonded with is automatically at a 2 with each other, despite having no bonds of their own, just off the bond-concentration contact high)

caine spending a year watching beckett put himself in Situations and coming to the conclusion that this little guy really Deserves to be capable of even more nonsense and should have even More money to put where his mouth is and then permanently empowering him accordingly -> sascha and beckett [handshake. jpg] unwittingly much stronger than their alleged generation can account for

(although of course now that i've thought about it, an au of beckett ending up blood-bound to caine is an extreme mood. the direction is either very dark or very crack, though: on the one hand beckett probably has about a century worth of questions alone, on the other he unwittingly sipped so much of Caine's Own Blood he's discovering new novelty damnations all the time)

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You know what I can work with that timeline. We know Okulos is free as of BJD, and that appears to start just after Bloodlines, so it really does check out!

'hey why do i suddenly feel really fond of this guy i don't even believe exists?'

"So Beckett, what made you redact your long-standing theory about the Book of Nod as an allegorical account of vampires emerging throughout history as humanity develops from hunter-gatherers to agriculture?"

"Really good dick."

(also because with my headcanons for beckett's various romances, he'd be blood-bonded to So Many other people just based on estimated amounts of Kisses Accepted and Administered. there's a theoretical beckett-centric viniculum where everyone he's bonded with is automatically at a 2 with each other, despite having no bonds of their own, just off the bond-concentration contact high)

Oh my god he's the centre of his very own Greater Seattle Polycule. This one spans the entire planet and several millennia. They meet someone new and Sascha's just like. "This is Ilias, my boyfriend. And this is Beckett, everyone's boyfriend." Ilias and Fatima immediately become fond of each other upon meeting despite never having laid eyes on each other just via Ilias -> Sascha -> Beckett <- Lucita <- Fatima. Goddamn spectacular.

Also Lucita helped attack Dracula's castle once, imagine them meeting post-Price of Hospitality and just staring daggers at each other and Dracula's like, "...so how's my Bride?" and Lucita's just, "Excuse me I had dibs first" and Beckett's in the background wearing just his sunglasses with the diary posed strategically like, "Hey now, there's more than enough of me to go around ;D" and everyone in the vicinity up to and including Caine is just like. Yes. We know.

#vampire the masquerade #cuthbert beckett #feral nerd #beckett's jyhad diary aka beckett's little black book

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

I must say, it's pretty poetic that I've gotten to season 6 of Vampire Diaries right before another solar eclipse happens in America. I certainly didn't plan it, but it does feel like my timing is very appropriate with this one. I do have questions about the accuracy of the eclipse portrayal in the show, though. I mean, a solar eclipse did in fact happen on May 10, 1994, and it was visible across much of the country, so that much is accurate. But I don't think Mystic Falls would've had quite as good of a view as they show it having. For reference, here's a map of the May 1994 eclipse path (credit: timeanddate.com):

And, if you'll remember, Mystic Falls is like two hours from my old hometown just a stone's throw north of Lynchburg, Virginia, as seen on the locator spell map (this one's all over tumblr, forgive me for not remembering what blog I grabbed it from):

So if you zoom in on the timeanddate map and pick somewhere closeish to there:

It looks like Mystic Falls would be getting a little over 77% coverage or so. It's also worth noting that the '94 eclipse was an annular eclipse, not a total eclipse like tomorrow's eclipse. That still means that the moon went directly in front of the sun, but it does mean that it was small enough/far enough from earth that you didn't quite get full coverage of the sun (thanks to weather.gov for the nifty graphic):

So, I'm not positive whether it would've looked quite as dark as was shown in the show:

Although, I must admit, in this video I found on youtube of the '94 eclipse, (part of me is shocked to find footage from then but I know I shouldn't be like yes they had cameras in the 90s) it actually looks more similar than I expected it to look, but I imagine it was most likely filmed within the path of totality:

But also, when Kai takes Bonnie to Portland, don't they see the eclipse again there? I couldn't find that clip on youtube just now, but Portland barely had any eclipse--only 42-43% coverage, so it would've been way milder of a visual effect, barely any dimming in the sky noticeable without eclipse glasses.

The funny thing is, the area where I live is going to be sitting right around 80% coverage tomorrow. I was lucky enough to get to travel to Missouri for the 2017 eclipse to get into the path of totality, but I'm afraid that it hasn't worked out for me to do so this year, which is immensely disappointing to me as an astronomy enjoyer, but I do still plan to go to an eclipse party and I'm going to start saving to try and get to Spain for the next total eclipse in 2026, which is going to be right around my 30th birthday (screaming). Anyways, it isn't great, but here's my best picture from the '17 eclipse:

I didn't even have a smartphone yet then, because despite it being 2017, I was somewhat of a luddite, so I had the purple flip phone I so stubbornly clung to and a point-and-click Nikon, but I still think this picture is pretty cool for what it is. Here's the zoom in so you can really see that ring of fire (and my shaking hands doubling the image):

Obviously you can find thousands of better eclipse pictures online, but that one's still special to me because it's mine. Anyways, I'll report back with smart phone pictures from whatever I see of the 80% total eclipse tomorrow to compare and contrast with Mystic Falls's 70% annular eclipse of the 90s, because from what I've heard it's going to be much less impressive than full totality was, but I've yet to watch a partial solar eclipse, so I'll just have to find out. Also, if you happen to have any vampiric loved ones trapped in a magical prison dimension who you need help freeing during the eclipse tomorrow, let me know and I'll see what I can do! ;) Hahaha. Anyways, happy eclipse everyone, and may we all possess sufficient self restraint to avoid eye damage (says the woman who has looked at the sun unprotected so many times and is probably going to go blind because of it some day. I know what I've done lol. Don't be me.)

#posts where I actually feel like I'm using my blog as a blog #Solar Eclipse #Solar Eclipse 2024 #Solar Eclipse 1994 #The Vampire Diaries #TVD 6x02 #is where the screenshot's from specifically #Damon Salvatore #Bonnie Bennett #Eclipse History #nerding out over the eclipse in the vampire show #it's also funny to me how two eclipses in my lifetime are so close to my birthday. I think it probably means I have magical powers ;) #May 10 1994 #that's two years and change before I was born #April 8 2024 #I'm so tempted to ditch all my responsibilities and drive south to totality but it's an 8 hour drive and I'd have to leave at like 4am #if it was a 4-5 hour drive to totality I'd do it. but I think a 16 hour round trip would kill me and I didn't have the good sense to plan #or book a hotel in advance or anything and everything in totality will be booked up for sure. and tonight is the night I would need to be #in a hotel anyways so. missed that boat. I mean I could go now and just drive through the night. but ugh. I just. ugh. I can but I can't yk #anyways everybody says that the Vampire Diaries writing quality drops off around here but I'm still loving it so far #it's incredibly frustrating sometimes but like. it knows how to give me The Feels(tm) and so I'll let it jerk me around all it wants #I would personally prolly want to stay in the prison world for at least a little bit to get to enjoy that eclipse from a bunch of angles th #like that's a rad as heck day to get trapped on imho. Love me a good eclipse #i ramble #even in the tags I ramble #Youtube

[rayne-the-neutrois-nerd]

Love how Astarion makes fun of Gale for being a nerd but then you go to camp and that fucker ALSO always has a book in his hands like, sweetie.

#i mean they probably are reading vastly different things but like if you read books frequently ur a nerd #affectionately... being a book nerd is good #one of these two just needs to admit it tho #gale is probably reading a foraging guide about underdark mushrooms and astarion is probably like #reading a copy of strahd diary or some shit

[notakeyring]

currently reading northanger abbey by jane austen. "god this girl is such a failure. absolutely pathetic. miss morland would so be a fujoshi" i think, and Jane Austen looks on approvingly from the heavens. "this bitch gets it," she nods, "he's so real for this. by God, this is exactly how i wanted it to be read," she comments as i ponder upon the nature of 19th century literary characters, using such descriptors as "girlboss" that would make a gentleman-caller faint of the humours in his hansom-carraige.

#kei's reading diary #books #girlfailure #but also #girlboss? #isabella and catherine would so be superwholock-type nerds #like god #these girlfailures

[han-kan-of-study]

I made a digital reading journal :) get it here for free (30 copies available) because i would like to hear feedback about it!

It's a hyperlinked pdf suitable for goodnotes or other hyperlink compatible note taking apps!

I produced all images and patterns, and those based on actual artifacts are hyperlinked to the source.

The design is based on chaekgeori, a traditional screen painting style in which literati could show off their culturedness by showing an elegant design showing books and curiosities.

#korean architecture #studyblr #korea #studyspo #traditional architecture #dark academia #light academia #aesthetic #dark aesthetic #chueok studio #mine #planner #bujo #diary #reading journal #books and libraries #booklover #book nerd #reading #bookblr #notebook #goodnotes

[honeyxdeluxe]

Diary Entry #2

8/18/23

**Hi Diary! 🌸**

Guess what? Today was a total blast! I had so much fun, and I can't stop grinning like a goofball.

Okay, real talk: sleep and I had a little disagreement last night. Morning decided to show up fashionably late. Oopsies!

Around 2 PM, me, my boyfriend, and his buddy hopped in the car for a quick trip to Columbia, SC. Why? 'Cause we were super excited about checking out this cool store called 2nd & Charles they have been there already but it was my first time. It's basically a paradise for nerds like me—tons of books, comics, and all sorts of awesome stuff. They even had a library where you can buy books. It was like stepping into a dream.

Now, here's the scoop: our stomachs were growling cause we hadn’t eaten anything since we got up. So, we hit up a Chinese buffet. The food was decent, not gonna lie. But when you're hungry, even decent food feels like a feast fit for a queen.

On the way back we listened to some true crime stories that had us totally hooked, like a mystery movie. Then, the guys switched to some pirate songs, which was pretty funny, I must say.

Now, I'm back home, feeling like I'm on cloud nine. I spent the evening making TikToks that I think you'll love. And guess what? I'm also putting together a YouTube video to remember this wild day. Gotta keep those memories alive, right?

**Chat with you later,**

HoneyxDeluxe

P.S. "Life's a party, and I'm dancing like nobody's watching!" Today was like a scene from a feel-good movie, and I'm all in. 🎉🌟

#honeyxdeluxe #aesthetic #virtual diary #pink #fun #2nd&Charles #comic #books #nerd

[xxxcertifiednerdxxx]

Dork Diaries my beloved

#I wasn’t obsessed with the book series and I’m not sure if I read every one #but it was so cute and fun and a great part of my childhood #dork diaries #nerd out #nerd-out

[professionalintrovert]

June 24, 2023

Summer, do your worst!

Light your tinsel moon, and call on

Your performing stars to fall on

Headlong through your paper sky;

Nevermore shall I be cursed

By a flushed and amorous slattern,

With her dusty laces' pattern

Trailing, as she straggles by.

Dorothy Parker, “August”

#booklr #light acamedia #book quotes #dark academia #book blog #books and libraries #book blogger #bookish #bookstore #english lit major #english literature #books and literature #studyblr #study blog #book aesthetic #book nerd #book lover #book journal #book diary #notebooks #sylvia plath #dorothy parker #frank ohara #literature #poems and quotes #poetry #books and reading

[wolfsnape]

Je me suis acheté un carnet pour me faire un carnet de lectures en 2023 😬

#très satisfaite d'être une nerd un peu #books #reading diary #diary #wolfie made a statement

[bookholichany]

At this point I just take coffee for the sole purpose of not droppin' dead in the middle of the day.

[Diary , April 2, 4:16 am]

#literally taking my coffee black and not takin bed at all #coffee instead of sleeping #give me coffee or give me death #literally #rambling #dear diary #coffee #king lear #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark aesthetic #nerd life #teacher life #my pics #hozier #too sweet #good omens #shakespeare #literature #bookish #book life #the Folger Shakespeare library

[ryttu3k]

Children can be so funny sometimes. I’d been talking about Beckett and his soirée with Dracula with a friend and my little cousin heard ‘Talks to Animals, Romanced a Count, and Animal Shapeshifting’ and immediately decided he was a Princess. I didn’t have the heart to say no

You know what, your little cousin is super valid.

#vampire the masquerade #feral nerd #beckett's jyhad diary aka beckett's little black book

[southernbell91]

I need to know why Nerd dating Apps aren't a thing. There are a lot of things I don't care about, but I do care about the order you watch Marvel and Star Wars movies. I do care if you were Team Cap or Team Iron Man in Civil war. I do care about the last show you binge watched in one sitting or book you stayed up until 3am to finish. I need to know if you think Tamlin deserves a redemption Arc, does Draco Malfoy? I need to know if you're Team Jess, Team, Dean or Team Logan. I need to know which Salvatore is your favorite. I need to know which Fanfic Website you prefer. (None is the wrong answer btw) I need to know which Book series sent you rushing to the bookstore to pick up the Sequel because you couldn't wait for it to be delivered and had to have it right then.

#Dating #Nerd #Book Nerd #Fandom #Harry Potter #Supernatural #Marvel #MCU #Geek #Gilmore Girls #Acotar #TVD #Vampire Diaries #Fanfiction

[xtrablak674]

December 15, 2016 - [video blog]

Along with doing an audio blog on my SoundCloud and two digital blogs on blogspot and Live Journal, I also did a video blog that I would record on my point and shoot and post privately to my YouTube. When I discuss journaling with the kids or friends I let them know there isn't one way to do it. You can speak your thoughts aloud or write them down. The thing that is very different about this video journal is I can clearly see I am having a depressive moment. Just the looking off in the distance and totally disconnecting I wish were acting, but was just how I was feeling, having trouble staying rooted in the present.

It was good to hear that I was in therapy at the time, more than likely Ms. Kennedy who was my last therapist of record. I have been doing so much better since this time, but am happy to see this moment from eight year ago. BTW I look amazing, so its great that even though I felt like crap I looked great! At the time I would record the videos post them and walk away, this is my first time actually looking back and viewing the content of the video. I actually changed it from private to unlisted just to share it here. I think I did about forty or so of these videos and I do think they were an excellent way to collect my thoughts and gage my emotional state. I think mental health is very important and whatever you have to do to healthily navigate these rough moments you should do.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

#journal entry #journalling #diary #dear diary #audio blog #video blog #blogging #written journal #written blog #mental health #depressive episode #seasonal depressive disorder #therapy #talk therapy #talking cure #comic book #teen titans #low key nerd #Youtube