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ebenelephant · 4 days

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sorry sorry sorry i'm just thinking about torchwood-era jack during boom town.

imagine there's this guy that you're in love with, and for the first time in 150 years you know exactly where he is. imagine there's also this girl you're in love with, and you know that if you don't see her right now, you might never see her again. when you last saw them, you sort of hoped that you would, that maybe you'd pick back up exactly where you last spoke. but surely if they wanted to find you, they would have by now, right?

so there's this guy and this girl, and you're absolutely fucked, because there's nothing you want to do more than run up to them and hug them. grab the guy by the shoulders and snog him senseless, and then maybe knock him on his ass. you want to grab him and beg him to help you, because you've been pegging all your hopes on this one guy, thinking maybe he can save you. but if he can, he probably can't just yet, because the thing that fucked you up hasn't even happened, and even if he could fix you, you can't cross paths with that timeline because that might cause the universe to end or something – you never know with these things.

and what you really really want to do (because by now, you're used to the dying, used to the living, used to the useless longing) is to ask them why the hell they left you behind. you want to think it was an accident – because like i said, if it were deliberate, they would have come for you – but that doesn't stop you from being scared that it wasn't. and even if it was, would you even fit with them anymore, these people who you love so fiercely? you're older now, with new loves and new metaphorical scars. you're terrified that these past versions of the people you adore would look at you like a monster. so you can't possibly go to them, and you can't possibly ask the question. they wouldn't know the answer anyway.

and anyway, it's all academic, because alien-catching is hard enough without the impending end of the universe to take into consideration.

so there's this guy that you're in love with, and for the first time in 150 years you know exactly where he is. there's nothing you can do about it except hope it doesn't take another 150 for him to come round again. it's one of the worst days you've had in a while.

#ninejackrose continuing to make me violently ill etc etc #jack harkness gods most miserable little soldier #jack harkness #captain jack harkness #ninth doctor #rose tyler #ninejackrose #book town #doctor who #torchwood #s1 ep11 boom town #mine

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veiligplekje · 2 years

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The book town of Bredevoort, the Netherlands

#bredevoort #achterhoek #gelderland #the netherlands #book town #bookish #books #bibliophile #villagecore #cottagecore

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lifeimitatesart1998 · 1 year

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Book haul after a day in Hay-on-Wye 📚

More books on my insta: TheBookSaviour

#books #me #selfie #travel #bookworm #personal #book #booklr #books and libraries #my photos #hay on wye #bookshop #new books #tbr pile #book town

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brucedinsman · 3 months

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Book Review: Book Town by Paul Combs

Book Town (The Last Word 3) Kindle Book Town by Paul CombsMy rating: 5 of 5 starsWOW, what a ride What would you do if Apostle Paul showed up in your living room and knew everything about you? That’s just the start of the games. Sal wants to turn his town into a book town.View all my reviews Amazon Things seem to be going well at The Last Word Bookstore, but appearances, much like book…

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#2024 #Book 3 #Book Review #Book Town #Bookstore #Paul Combs #The Last Word

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virtualscotland · 3 months

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I recently took a trip to Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway in the south of Scotland. It's a small place but was also designated as Scotland's national book town in 1998, so as an avid reader I had to visit, even if a lot of things were shut (it was at New Year 😂).

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sentient-forest-boy · 1 year

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As a young librarian, I started trying to figure out why more young people aren't ever coming in; 90% of our demographic are the elderly and parents of children, and the rest are a rough mix of the kids and teenagers who come in just for school projects. As a result, I've been attempting different ways to get the Youth TM to come into libraries, but first I wanted to see why they don't come in. Please reblog to get this poll out to more people! <3

#polls #poll #library #librarian #books #reading #pretty pls I need more people come into my workplace that aren't going to hate crime me for breathing #I live in a small town so I am Tired

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escapismsworld · 3 months

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📍Asthall, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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brandyschillace · 27 days

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I grew up as the weird (autistic) goth kid who spent a lot of time in graveyards. I didn’t have friends. So I invented them. That’s why I’m an author, I think. I crafted worlds full of wondrous diversity, quirky characters, peculiar souls. I knitted them into families. I often felt at home when I read; the work of Neil Gaiman, of Terry Pratchett, of Ursula Le Guin, of Terry Brooks… My fiction is meant to be participatory too. When you read it, you should feel like you came home and friends were waiting to greet you.

Maybe in a really cool graveyard—like this one at Scone Castle.

#small town gothic #graveyard #graveyard book #weird #autistic #peculiar #childhood #gothstyle #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #community #writer #author #books #neil gaiman #ursula k. le guin #terry pratchett

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theartistichuman · 2 years

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I love you violence I love you descent into madness I love you transformations into an unrecognizable self I love you monsters who were human I love you questioning if I’ve changed or been like this all along I love you being scared I love you secrets I love you twisted coming of age stories

#horror #I’m talking specifically here about books like #hell followed with us #howl #the coldest girl in cold town #episode 32 of the Magnus archives #episode 152 of the Magnus archives #the magnus archives #movies like #Carrie #Jennifer’s body

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fuckyeahgoodomens · 2 months

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The brilliant Good Omens drunk Aziraphale and Crowley bookshop scene from the book, 5 ways: :)

The Full Cast Audiobook with David Tennant and Michael Sheen 2021 (audiobook masterpost :))

David Tennant reading the scene at the Playing in the Dark event 2019

Neil Gaiman reading the scene at the event An Evening With Neil Gaiman event at University of Washington 2015 (x)

Part of Michael Sheen reading the scene at the The Town Hall Good Omens event with Neil and Nick Offerman 2019 (x)

Part of Jon Hamm reading the scene The Art of Elysium’s Heaven Gala event 2024

Fun fact: Neil said about this scene that there there were lines by both of them but it was primarily by Terry, that he remembers this was: something that I just remember Terry phoning me up and reading it to me. And this was the point that I knew this book was going to work. ❤

#good omens #good omens audiobook #good omens book #david tennant #michael sheen #neil gaiman #playing in the dark #The Art of Elysium’s 2024 Heaven Gala #the drunk bookshop scene #the town hall go event #reading #readings #videos #my edit #fun fact #terry pratchett #<3 #btb #Youtube

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egophiliac · 2 months

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GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY, THE NEXT BOOK 7 UPDATE FOR THE JP SERVER IS SET FOR MARCH 1ST.

HOW WE FEELIN LADS!?!?!

AHHHHHHHH NOOO I'M NOT READY, I thought we'd be getting the fourth anniversary first and then Sebek's birthday and then maybe some more episode 7, I didn't -- I didn't think it'd be Friday --

oh god and they're rerunning the story cards, they didn't say this was the final part but it feels like...maybe the penultimate chapter? could the end of episode 7 finally be looming in the distance?! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO

#art #twisted wonderland #gif warning #gifs that accurately represent the inside of idia's brain whenever he has to have a social interaction #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #THE SHROUDS ARE BACK IN TOWN BABY #time to find out how the heck ortho managed to hack(?) his way into the dreamscape(????) via a couple of robot dogs(????????)#a-are they going to show us dream!ortho #i don't know if i want that or not. i mean i do but DO I?#(chanting softly) ortho fight ortho fight ORTHO FIGHT --#okay no we're cool we're all cool here #preparing mentally to get exactly zero answers to any of my burning questions #(i kind of suspect anything involving crowley-and-possibly-revaan is going to wait until the presumed episode 8....)#(FEEL FREE TO PROVE ME WRONG THOUGH TWST)#man i just want someone to say the words silver vanrouge at some point #60/40 on whether or not i think it'll actually happen but i want this for my BOY #HE DESERVES IT #he's been through so much just let him have this #...there is something a little bit hilarious about sebek's birthday coming AFTER a big episode 7 drop though #we're gonna be in the middle of like. sebek manfully clasping silver's arm and monologuing about how they are brothers in soul or whatever #and smash cut straight into sebek in a sparkly silver bowtie screaming at a picture of goofy falling down a toilet #my kingdom hearts brethren...i am beginning to Understand

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inkskinned · 10 months

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it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.