#time is a fucking circle in these books

[fightingwithallreality]

King of the Wind (1948) by Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis

#i was fucking OBSESSED with this book in seventh grade #around the same time i made this god forsaken tumblr account #oh how we come full circle #horse #horses #illustration #equids #mr crisp #marguerite henry #wesley dennis

[cervideity]

sacrificial goat

#the enemy #the enemy book series #the enemy series #the enemy charlie higson #the kid #the green man #wormwood #mark wormold #why does this one sicko have so many godamn names Stop It #TGE KIDS 9 BTW. FUCK IT. FEED THE YOUNGINS TO THE ZOMBIES #. and then they talk gibberish at each other for like 3 chapters /pos #i really like the kid in this. feels like a fantasy trickery type of thing where the kid keeps twisting wormwood around in circles #just barely buying time. convincung him. confusing him. #for context. wormwood is smart. kinda. barely sentient but still wants to eat kids. sickos a sicko.

[616nightcrawler]

its like. hard to express to people why i love US-comics so much and why i enjoy reading them without mentioning how much fun it is to be in the online communities and be able to like. discuss the themes and meaning and complain about weak writing and bad characterisation to other people that’s like literally half the fun. i LOVE reading comics all the time but its so much more fun when you can talk about it with other people for like superhero us comics. bc theyre such an alive genre that’s basically always moving so we all read our little comics over the week and then we get together and bitch about it in a little online book club. like. it’s the best

#the life and times of brows #ive come to see online friendships in a pretty negative light after some pretty shitty encounters over the years #and toxic friendgroups and messy relationships and immaturity and EVERYTHING under the sun to make you jaded #but idk i just experience comic book fans (in my circle on tumblr) as a very pleasant community wtih chill poeple #and like not to be autistic sometimes its just nice to have relationships that dont have huge stakes. like just be casual friends #or even just acquaintences #fuck that word btw #and talk about comics! #which i love! #its so nice i always want to talk comics online #i want to be 45 with idk. a snotty teenager who hates me. and still hop on the PC and go eeyyy did you guys see what happened to nightcrawle #and my shitty teen is like UGH PARENT (woke parenting) COMICS ARE LAME #and im like no child... #and then cats in the cradle starts playing #and i get like really into comics about wolverine where hes like #i have a teenaged child and i dont understand them! #which he does weirdly often. #maybe the writers are projecting #but that's a story for another post #anyways. #yeah i love comics #also specified US-comics bc i mean like. xmen mostly but the whole marveldc mush of people its just its own thing #im in the BD fandom too and its like. a totally different vibe but also only about 11 people so

[camelspit]

succumbing to the demons and dnfing a book for the first time in years 😔

#im so sorry but. I just cannot make myself care. #the first book was so so good but this second one. ough. #this feels like the same fantasy story ive read 500 times already #the usual sequel 'we have to reclaim the kingdom'type thing #and the magic system started out so cool but. now it just feels like the same thing over and over. #like how in house of night they solved every fucking problem with a ritual circle #idk man im just not feeling it and. #the worst part is its not even a bad book! its just really disappointing compared to the first one #and im haunted my the knowledge that i have a tbr with books that are. a lot more interesting. #i think another factor is also that ive been reading really really good books lately #so in comparison this book is just like. yeah. #freeing myself because i do not have an obligation to this book or whatever and reading should be about enjoying yourself <3

[quickhacked]

like when it would come down to it he would be decent enough to talk to as just a regular student he's kind and charming but there are just so little instances of him having a normal ass conversation with someone normal. he only ever got involved with insane freaks like him. he would publicly have sexually charged arguments with nick. jen and him would yell profanities at each other from other ends of the hallway. if you had to do a group project with him he would say a total of 10 words during your first class together then hand in his part of the project within the first two days and then ghost the group chat for the rest of the project's runtime

#personal #are you understanding the vibes i'm trying to pin down here. like he's nice!!!! but he is SO fucking unapproachable #that's why he generally didn't have any normal friends during that time of his life except when he like. forced himself into normal circles #so for example when he joined a book club for a while. genuinely one of the better moments in his college years but jesus fucking christ #the difference between that and the rest of it all. unparalleled

[pained-expression]

@astheworldcomestoanend you asked for this

We start with the obvious, Grant wrote a book and is a librarian. College educated, masters in library science maybe? Anyway the boy likes his literature, this is canon and I love him.

Now for the fun part

As Lark got older, and with the Close-Foster-Freeman custody nightmare, Lark turned to Glenn as a father figure. Glenn, as Glenn does, tried to share his passion for music with his new protege. But Lark was never any good with writing the rhymes, and strict rules that go into writing songs and verses and choruses. What he DID love was poetry. Irregular rhythm and odd rhyme schemes, and when life felt too hard to explain he found that someone somewhere had felt that way before, and had written it down. Every time it felt like a love note passed through history, the reassurance that this too shall pass, whatever this was at the moment he was feeling it.

And Grant got that. By all means they didn’t agree on everything, (Lark still can’t understand Grant’s objectivity when it comes to the Plath Vs Hughes debate*) but when Lark was overwhelmed and couldn’t process what was emotionally and mentally exhausting him, Grant knew how to help.

When they’re still teenagers, Grant reads Lark Stephen Crane’s ‘in the desert’ and uses it to help reframe how Lark thinks about himself in relation to his guilt, and his self loathing and self destructive patterns. That even though your heart is bitter, it’s still your heart. And it gives him permission to forgive himself for the mistakes he made when he was 12 years old

Lark found no shortage of poetry about having mixed feelings about your parents and not knowing how to talk to your dad, side note there is so much of those poems, Tony Harrison, Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin - I could go on but damn I’ve written so much already. more poetry HCs in the tags also 

yes i will take questions because literature is such a passion of mine and always has been but all my irl friends are sick of listening to me going on about it lol

#*yes this is deeply personal argument that has come up a lot in my circles and I have incorporated it into a fic that may come out some time #when rebecca is nervous about motherhood he reads her metaphors by sylvia plath #book ends by tony harrison blew his fucking mind #this be the verse by philip larkin #honestly the whole ariel collection by plath #Lark is a Plath stan because i'm projecting and i said so #feminine gospels by carol ann duffy was rec from mercedes or samantha and also blew his mind #lark got super into 1984 but grant thinks its overated #lark and grant both cried over flowers for algernon #on a funnier note i imagine them reading death of a salesman and being like what the fuck this guy is like a less aggressive willy #god #lark oak garcia #grant wilson dndads #dndads

[butchvamp]

sometimes while reading extreme horror i feel like someone is actually pulling an elaborate prank on me cus no way people actually think these books are good.... literally would give anything for extreme horror books that are actually well written lol

#why do they literally ALL read like an edgy 15 yr olds first creative writing assignment #anyways ive gotten lucky with stuff published by ghoulish books and apocalypse party so far #but every time i step a toe out of like. that immediate circle of queer horror #it's fucking AWFUL #like. jesus christ. i can handle the occasional typo like i do know what im getting into with self published stuff #but this is like. fully ruins the reading experience #it is unreadable

[marmotsomsierost]

I was fixing my hair when a patient checked in, so i stopped, got their vitals, then returned to the computer to put the vitals in and quickly fixed it (in a less elaborate way than i had originally planned since the usual sudden deluge of patients had clearly started for the evening). I had just started to call the next person up when the patient's family member went "uh-uh, no, you did not just do that to your hair in 5 seconds and two little hair clips, what!'

I kind of half-turned back to awkwardly be like 'i mean. I did. But also the line is like five people deep so i can't really demonstrate' but they went 'no, no, i see you're busy, i see it. But i wanna see that again, but slower. Sometime.'

Then i went on my lunch and they were nowhere to be seen when i got back, but the secret is 1) halfass brush your hair that morning because you're running late, then try and fail like five times over the course of the training class and early part of your shift to make the squished bun you had the day before stay fucking put, then start the process for a braid before going welp the fuckin tuesdaymonday bus just arrived at ye olde emergency department and instead just wrapping the one single section you managed to divide out around the rest like a ponytail holder and then clip the tail twice at the base. It stays mostly because it's ratted together due to the aforementioned halfass brushing and multiple restylings without further brushings. Not a desirable state for hair, really.

Anyway. The triage nurse was like 'are those iridescent skeleton hands' and 'how the fuck do you always have such weird cute stuff' and the secret to that is poor impulse control when confronted with the 3 dollar aisle at target or the holiday displays at cvs.

#hair and i are in a stalemate #i don't piss it off and it doesn't try to kill me #i don't remember if this is grandma or grandpa hair or if i get it from my dad's side but it always drove my mom nuts #'mom will you show me how to do *insert complex braid here*' i would ask #of my mother whose hair laughs in the face of any styling and is very fine and very straight and this grew up not learning any of that #'...why don't we go early to dance class and debbie's mom can help' #i wore the hell out of the little activity book of hairstyles and i think she was very relieved once volleyball started #and we started doing braiding circles before tournaments so i learned how to french and dutch braid on others and myself #early on in my time at the triage desk one of the nurses saw me dutch braiding half my head and went 'what the hell mar' #and i about had a heart attack because i had not yet learned how to read that nurse so i was like 'o fuck i'm gonna get shredded' #and instead she was like 'can you do my hair after' #which was. surreal. but sure

[mikkaeus]

I’ll never look at 旦 the same way again

#I don’t know just like. the fall at the sky before dawn #ramy on the ship asking him what he’s thinking about #this book circles backs to things sprinkled in so many times and it’s just so fucking satisfying #and tragic like it feels like it was inevitable there was no other way #from the original history of Babel to the professor placing that 爆 bar in robin’s hand #the seeds were already sown #babel #reading

[flowerflamestars]

Timeloop au snippet

“What,” Lucien said, face turned into the paltry sunlight, “The hell did you do?”   Like he’d hoped- like he knew Nesta knew that the words were stark admiration- Nesta Archeron threw back her head, and laughed. “Did you know Illyrians have a proud, ancient tradition of epic poetry?”   The book in her hands, bound in lurid pink, was quite clearly a romance novel.   “No,” Lucien admitted, easy, settling in, “But I’m surprised you didn’t.”   One perfect brow arced high, her sharp face sharpened so much further in immortality.   “Are you?” Nesta drawled. “Because Feyre’s Court is so full of treasures?”   Because she’d spent four hundred years learning, it seemed, everything she could possibly get her hands on. “Archeron,” Lucien matched her tone, felt better than he had in days at the way her face brightened to hear it, “I know better than to underestimate you.”   Book shut with a snap, Nesta tossed it to the pile that trailed, following the path Lucien imagined she’d taken over the last few days, from shelf to chair to window. There was no logic to the titles, no unifying genre: atlas’s forming the base for stacked erotica, history books leaning on poetry, magical theory marked with torn ribbon.   “They also,” Nesta recited, moving to sit very properly upright, a society lady giving perfect presentation, “Have surprisingly tender courting traditions.”   Lucien slid further down, chin angled to meet her gaze.   “Least bloody Hybern in twenty lives,” he said, “Hybern lost an arm”-   “All you.”   Lucien could take credit when he wasn’t burning with curiosity. “I’m not in Spring, the Cauldron didn’t break, Elain isn’t catatonic, and Cassian isn’t guardian your door.”   Smug- the expression had no right sitting quite so fucking delightful, on her cruel, perfect mouth- Nesta grinned at him. “I had a lovely affair with a legionnaire.”

#oh god Lucien honey you don't even know how deep you're in #Lucien trying to break the timeline: magical murderous explosions in Hybern's throne room #Nesta: making unexpected friends and having a delightful time and just. ripping the inner circle asunder on her merry way #the one where I decide #four hundred years really is long enough to mourn and come out the other side #to find out and find out and find out in fury and decide ultimately? #to fuck around #Don't worry yall Elias is both #fine and FINE #this is not a mor/cas situation because i WOULD NEVER #not me loving the idea that Cassian is just. not a good representative of an entire culture #Nesta's to-do list is like: find rules of curse #drink beer with Lucien #reopen book shop #make Cassian leave me alone #make sure Emerie and Gwyn meet #steal back salary from Night Court #they're so good for each other! #Nesta is so bright in his company! #Lucien finally starts to let go of his misplaced guilt! #they're COMFORTABLE #friends to lovers has never been bloodier or more fun

[liu-anhuaming]

this dracula daily fervor has got me thinking back on dracula as a novel, and i just keep circling back to how much hatred and fear bram stoker managed to fit into one book

he really sat down and wrote a novel that shows his hatred for women, immigrants, eastern europeans, jews, aristocrats, and “sexual deviants”. like, that’s so much shit to load into one book, and i’m probably forgetting a lot of shit too

it’s been a while since i really read up on dracula’s background, but how much of this did stoker intentionally include, and how much of it is just his biases seeping through?

from what i can remember of the novel, a lot of it seems pretty damn intentional. like, the first person to get murked in the novel is lucy westenra, whose name can be kinda translated to “light of the west” (lucy means light, and westenra), and she’s way more promiscuous (ig? idk a better word) in the way she thinks re: men and relationships. her death feels like it’s got a double meaning: dracula (i.e., eastern european jewish aristocrat immigrants) are coming to england to demolish The West (tm), and lucy was targeted and killed because she dared to wonder why she couldn’t marry three guys. meanwhile mina is attacked by dracula but ultimately doesn’t die, because she is a good wife and knows her place as a woman, or some shit like that

oh and also there’s a guy from texas there too. can’t forget that.

#i hate dracula so much i actually circle back around to loving it in some weird way #so many vile ideas piled into one book #also every time i read the scene where quincy gets rejected by lucy #i am just so fucking confused. like what tf is he even trying to say?? it reads like complete nonsense half the scene #dracula

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

me, talking about The Circle by Dave Eggers which I read for school: and the creepy thing is, it may be unlikely, but it is very much possible that we end up in this exact world- my teachers: incredibly unlikely my parents: are you kidding this is exactly where we're headed right now

#it was very interesting to see the different reactions #and it was very interesting to read the book #even though i procrastinated on it so long that i had to speed read it within three days. yeah its five hundred pages long #i managed tho! i even managed to hand in my presentation almost on time #and i got everything like i was speedreading not skipping anything like i can and will talk about it in detail #and point out the parallels with 1984 which is started reading (tho so far havent finished. yet) #i still gotta read brave new world on that note like thats the other great dystopian novel the circle is always compared with #and also dystopias are actually interesting as fuck. terrifying to read the further we get in this world but interesting nonetheless #one can learn from the 70 yo dystopian novel that predicted so many actual things #a biscuit's rambles

[dauntingday]

book asks #1-4, and 19 (again)(keep being a hater pls there’s GOTTA be more than just the one)

1.book you’ve reread the most times? definitely dream thieves <3 worth the damages every time. which actually makes not finishing trk even funnier

you get a cut bc i got TOO excited about the rest of these

2.top 5 books of all time?

(1) raven cycle (as a series, as they god damn deserve) (2) soc duology (also as a cohesive unit sry my ask my fuckin rules) (3) the darkest powers trilogy by kelly armstrong (i haven't thought about these books in? probably ten years? but i was trying to think of books and the memory of this series slammed itself into the top three slot that's how obsessed i was with these books as a child. no fucking clue if they hold up. don't care. i stand by this choice.) (4) prisoner of azkaban (if i think about how much they left out of the movie i WILL go insane (derogatory)) (5) looking for alaska (the most shameful thing about me is actually that i fuck with most of the john green books. but this was the one i read in my formative years)

3.what is your favourite genre? i guess ?? YA fiction?? is that a genre?? i like it when teens smoke cigarettes and sit in cars. maybe sometimes there's magic/magic adjacent shenanigans involved. whatever genre that is

4.what sections of a bookstore do you browse? this is such a cop out answer but i'm actually terrible at reading things unless someone's specifically told me it was good bc i do not like to expose myself to HURT so if i do go to a physical store i'm usually just there to browse music. however !! recently (the past like two years rly but i don't go out much) i have been getting into graphic novels so i think those would be fun to browse irl. one time i was in a vintage/antique shop and they had a little stand with comics and they had some issues from the 90's stormwatch run (my favorite dc comic of all very time) and it was the most exciting thing thats ever happened to me i think? so yeah if that happened again i would lose it probably !!

19.most disliked popular books? okay this is actually unreasonably petty of me but whatever we ball. i have absolutely DESPISED ender's game,,with the vital caveat that i haven't actually read it. when i was in high school our english class had to read THE ENTIRITY OF THE FUCKING ODYSSEY. WE WERE LIKE 14. IT TOOK SIX MONTHS. meanwhile the OTHER english class got to read the cool space kids war book. i was SEETHING in jealous rage. i still am actually why the fuck did they do this to us.

#side note. read the wiki for the summoning (the first book in darkest powers) to remember what the fuck it was about. and holy shit. #this garbage was literally teen wolf. #like there was literally a werewolf named derek. #i think i have to go to my dad's house and see if i still have the books because holy shit. #time is a fucking circle what

[un-pearable]

the very tempting but potentially dooming urge to use the smiley face sticker to close my comic book bags

#explanation no one wanted: they are the exact same size as the little circle stickers i use. those professional grade stickers are designed #to be reusable for like. office work and stuff. if i do not use reusable tape or stickers i fuck up the bag and potentially the book #and yet. AND YET. every single time i pull them out to seal the new books from the week i am sooooo tempted. i want joy and goofiness but i #do NOT want to potentially rip my books. sad #text✨

[1980ssunflower]

had the scare of my fucking LIFE

#i was scrolling through the reblogs of an f/o imagine post or whatever and i saw someone tag it w train to nowhere #and i FREAKED #cause i was like theres no way that ISNT abt min and ryan oh god oh god #FUCKING LUCKILY IT WASNT??????? #hell of a coincidence to use train to nowhere tho ghfdjsk #cause if you guys dont know train to nowhere is the last ep of book 4 + the title of the song min and ryan perform to end the season #christ though that really scared me #the idea anyone else would ever ship w them genuinely scares me so bad #i know there has been a few people but im hoping they no longer ship w them #at least it seems no one in the circle of people of follow and interact w ships w them #guys listen if you ever find anyone else who ships w my min and ryan PLEASE let me know so i can block them #its a million times worse having to unexpectingly come across that shit #the first time that happens i was literally haunted by nightmares abt it for SO long #its a PROBLEM #tape entry circa 1980

[ace-with--a-mace]

oh god im so fucking tired

#its like wearing on me #you can see it in my face im exhausted bro #and i still got testing and more testing and studying and new homework and 60% of your final grade and homework and and and #and cleaning and helping my brother in spanish and helping him in school and helping my grandma and remembering to eat and drink and bathe #and and remembering to redo my hair cuz i fell asleep mideay the first time and didn't put a headscarf so its all frazzled and cleaning #and cleanign my retainer and brushijg my teeth thoroughly and these should be normal everyday tasks but oh my god im so tired #and i did all this today and yesterday and tomorrow and the day before and after and i still have more tests to study for #and 'what quote from what book did beatty recite to montag' and fucking circle equations and cfes and im work out #and i sound like a baby but ive been drinking so much water and using the restroom sm but my throat is still dry #and thats what my life feels like #doing what im supposed to do by routine and not getting a positive outcome in return and why is my throat so dry and dehydrated #ranting in the tags because i can #l speaks #shut up l #being a little bitch but idk guys im sorry