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bc I couldn't get hold of House of Leaves, I just finished We Have Always Lived In the Castle instead and I !!!!!!!! god damn. I cannot cope with that. Jesus kiddo. you're wild. your neighbours are wild. your cousin is wild. your coffee shop is wild. return your library books.

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shakespeare plays need fandoms. like real, actual fandoms, not just 13 people on tumblr. i want people to make velocity edits of this favs. i want angsty hamlet edits to exist. i want viola x orsino and viola x olivia ship wars to exist. i want chronically online tiktokers to fight over this shit. i would pay real money to see people to make AUs on ao3 where the most unhinged ships who have never met to become canon. i want really poorly written romeo and juliet fanfics to happen. someone please help me make this dream a reality

#remember nothing much to do/lovely little losers? #im putting money on there being don pedro balthazar amvs out there

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When a man loves a woman, he cannot detach her enough from him to see her clearly. His love for her makes a mist. Joan was not a woman for you, but a climate within which you could feel and think.

Island of the Hands, Margaret St Clair (1952)

Gone back to Queens of the Abyss and I love this version of Came Back Wrong. People reshaped by grief and memory and insecurity. A man who can't conjure the woman he loved from the shallow laughing dead wife film montage in his head, and a woman who cannot conjure herself without being warped by the empty ideal of the woman she believes she should be. Revenants built on a skeleton of misogyny.

#im desperate to know what would have happened if the constructs kept making more constructs #how twisted can the memories built on memories become #and with their own self-awareness that they will never be real!! aaaaa

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none of the libraries I have access to or local bookshops have house of leaves, rip

#i have so many thngs i could be reading right now but im not in the mood for them

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The modern question of pronoun usages is not just a conversation about self-actualization, it’s a battle about who gets to define language. And, in our contemporary times, if English is meant to maintain its function as a “universal” language, it will have to adapt to function in the more equitable world we are building, not just the colonial one it forged.

Shayla Lawson, "On Them (Amherst, Massachusetts)" from How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

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Corvids

A set of stickers commissioned by the awesome @kyrjaa, who let me print and sell these in the future! Thank you again for this wonderful opportunity, I had so much fun with these <3

The set includes all corvids living in our part of Europe except for one - I need to draw Spotted nutcracker sometime as well :D

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you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy

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“The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I” from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Willy Pogany (1910)

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

#the amount of people i know who got library cards after i explained libby to them #some folks need that access barrier removed to use their local library at all! its a great service and we should use it as much as we can

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how come there are so many unreleased mountain goats songs which are the best song you've ever heard in your life

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The Ballad of Tam Lin, or The Devil’s Widow (1970)

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#tam lin 1970

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Ava Gardner and Ian McShane in The Devil's Widow (The Ballad of Tam Lin, 1970).

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There was a version with Ava Gardner and Ian McShane that was reworked as late 60s folk-horror, which is kind of fun in its own right but feels like a whole different story to me. I'd love to see it done with more magic and history

Daydreaming about a feature-length film adaptation of Tam Lin done out like the Green Knight, all beautiful colours and endless scenery and reality blurred at the edges

#ava gardners floaty rainbow dress can stay though

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Daydreaming about a feature-length film adaptation of Tam Lin done out like the Green Knight, all beautiful colours and endless scenery and reality blurred at the edges

#courtly yearning!! pro abortion!! love and metamorphosis and getting kidnapped by a fairy queen!!

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dev patel really said "i support trans ppls rights....... trans ppls rights to kill bigots with guns and metal pipes and chairs and cool knives'' anyway watch monkey man

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if yr doing a final girl in yr horror movie YOU NEED TO KILL HER BOYFRIEND that's the absolute rule

#fr hellraiser did not need steve kill that man