#book fangirl

[somecluelessidiot]

Can we just appreciate Six of Crows for a moment?

Like, the characters each have their own elaborate backstories and reasons for wanting the money and the whole plot line is so well put together.

Also, it's just completely bonkers because one moment they're planning a heist and how to get back at Van Eck, and the next Kaz is making a "your mum" joke.

#appreciate leigh bardugo #she is a queen #can we hype up soc #books #fangirl #reading #six of crows #shadow and bone #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #nina zenik #matthias helvar #wylan van eck #jesper fahey

[letraspal]

Happy New Year 2024!

Thank you for your support and for having fun with me in this year, hopefully we’ll have a new one ahead. ❤️

#my fandom people you’re so important in my life you have no idea #love you all #all the creators and people who knows how to fangirl about stuff #simon snow #snowbaz #baz pitch #fanart #letraspal #carry on #illustration #book characters #carry on fanart #rainbow rowell #happy new year

[incorrect-koh-posts]

"Young Baldwin seems to have possessed a naturally strong constitution, and he was also gifted with undeniable qualities of character and a strong, lively intelligence. William of Tyre, who was his tutor, says that 'in his childhood he was very handsome, with a quick and open mind, and he rode very well, better than his forebears had done.' 'Never forgetting an injury, and still less a kindness,' he had 'a retentive memory, was well educated with an excellent memory for tales and a fondness for telling them.'

The child must have realized very early that his disease was incurable, and his reaction shows great strength of character. He wanted to forget and make everyone else forget, right up to the end, that he was sick. But by the time King Amalric died, young Baldwin's disease had made such progress that it was already beginning to show, and 'the people of the kingdom felt great grief when they looked at him.'

From 1175 onward, the regent and the barons of Jerusalem were able to count on an unexpected ally, and a more valuable one than might have at first been thought. At fourteen years the young King Baldwin emerged as an intrepid fighter, capable of leading his troops into battle and later on of commanding them personally in the field. He was seen at the side of the constable and the Count of Tripoli, riding at the head of his troops and taking part in raids and diversionary campaigns [...]. At the time the King was still too young to actually command his army, and his principal function was as a symbol and an inspiration for his men. They were all happier marching under command of their lawful King. Young though he was, he was like the flag, to be protected and followed through the thickest of the fight, and he was not afraid of personal danger. [...]

When he came to the throne, he had [...] been a leper for ten years, and although the disease did not begin to make rapid strides until puberty, it must, even in early adolescence, have weakened and exhausted him. It is unlikely that anyone would have dared to reproach him had he wished to consider himself an invalid, yet he behaved as though he were perfectly well.

He had been educated, as became a prince, by knights and masters of arms and also by churchmen [...], and these had not failed to teach him patience and prepare him for the harsh trial that was to be his life, and to arouse in him a sense of duty and pride in being, despite his infirmity, King of Jerusalem and Defender of the Holy Sepulcher. Whether as a result of education or temperament, Baldwin IV seems to have had little inclination to self-pity. The young King overcame his illness with all the determination of an adolescent who knows he is physically weak and is bent on proving to everyone, himself included, that he can equal and even surpass others. He may have been a king who had the misfortune to be a leper, but he was also a leper lucky enough to be a king.

He loved power because it was all life had to offer him, and he very early evinced a wish to govern by himself, and would not tolerate disobedience. A temperament of this kind can easily degenerate into tyranny and capriciousness in one so young, but Baldwin IV had a lively and precociously mature mind, and was sincerely concerned to do his best for the good of the kingdom; and this right up to the time when his sufferings began to drive him out of his mind. [...] Up to the last moment he wanted to be a king and a general, and he wanted to be obeyed. It was his way of clinging to life, and he was a terrible fighter."

- Zoé Oldenbourg, The Crusades (1966)

#i have been reading old books again and oldenbourg's unabashed baldwin fangirling is too delicious not to share #like girl you're supposed to be writing a history book not fanfiction #baldwin iv #historiography #kingdom of heaven 2005 #crusades #zoe oldenbourg

[laurafromnowhere]

“I am going to die kissing Simon Snow. Aleister Crowley, I'm living a charmed life.”

🔥🐉🔥🧛🏻‍♀️🔥

Simon & Baz belong to @rainbowrowell 💖🫶🏻✨

#drawing #the simon snow trilogy #simon snow #baz #baz pitch #tyrannus basilton grimm pitch #snowbaz #book fanart #rainbow rowell #carry on #any way the wind blows #wayward son #fangirl #procreate

[elizabethminkel]

I'm extremely excited to announce that I'm writing a column on fans and fandom for Atlas Obscura!!! And the first piece went up today!!! This one is on sentiment albums—a variation on the commonplace book—and the threads connecting them to modern fan practices.

FYI: This piece features the work of the brilliant Dr. Evan Hayles Gledhill, who first introduced me to these albums when they were our guest on ep 10 (!!) of @fansplaining approx. 8,000 years ago.

It also features my own pre-modern-internet sentiment album. 🥰

#my writing #atlas obscura #fandom #fangirls #sentiment albums #commonplace books #buffy the vampire slayer #rupert giles #(hero librarian)

[helpallthenamesaretakenblog]

girls be like "Im a casual enjoyer" and then drop dead like a cockroach when they see their fav book character being edited with their fav artist's song which they've been insisting for months and years that it's their song and finally they find someone who gets i--

#percabeth #percy jackson #pjo fandom #rick riordan #books #pjo tv series #fangirl #percy jackon and the olympians #fangirl problems #Me when percy and Annabeth are edited with mine by Taylor Swift #taylor swift #pjo tv show #bookblr #booklr #book quotes #books & libraries #reading #bookworm #books and reading

[xxhypersomnia]

Motor-City Comic Con 2023

Detroit, MI

#the mandalorian #the mandolarian #mando #cosplay #mandalorian cosplay #cobb vanth #Cobb #Cobb vanth cosplay #boba fett #the book of boba fett #Star Wars #star wars fangirl #star wars fandom #star wars shitpost #pedro pascal #the marshal #timothy olyphant

[greektragedybitch]

bookstore jaake bas tbr badhana hai paise to hai nahi khareedne

#desiblr #desi teen #desi shit posting #desi girl #bookblr #also idc if riordanverse books are for kids i will fangirl #bookstore date w my bestie fr

[notdxbya]

when i say i have "main character energy," i mean the nerdy introvert with anxiety and a general distaste for humans

#dibs.txt #bookblr #fangirl rainbow rowell #turtles all the way down #john green #sally rooney #rainbow rowell #ali hazelwood #literature #light academia aesthetic #dark acadamia aesthetic #books #bookstore #book meme #romance academia #dark academia quotes #light academia quotes #teen fiction #readers

[artsyfangirl3]

Team "Cute Nerd that Barely Stands a Chance but For Me" Always

#my life with the walter boys #the summer i turned pretty #alex walter #cam cameron #hes so cute #cute nerd #nerds #book nerd #fangirling #he can read #bookworms #nerd trope #tropes #trope

[psychotic-fangirl369]

Peeta Mellark is one of the greatest fictional men ever created.

He’s not some godlike figure that is beautiful and perfect and angelic and mystical. He’s a literal human being who acts as any human being would in a tough situation, whilst still being decent and kind and devoted to the woman he loves. He speaks like a normal person, he behaves like a normal person, he is a normal person.

#fangirl #hunger games #peeta mellark #peeta supremacy #the hunger games #catching fire #books #fictional men

[somecluelessidiot]

Headcanon that Nico dies and he's just like "really, dad? You couldn't keep me alive like Zeus did for Thalia?" and Hades is so offended bc he just got compared to Zeus.

And Will marches down to the Underworld and drags Nico's ass back out

He's like "hell nah you ain't leaving me"

#solangelo #will solace #nico di angelo #books #fangirl #reading #percy jackson #heroes of olympus #why can i see this happening tho

[wisebeth]

why does the pjo series have to unnecessarily villainize goddesses (hera & athena) or show them as silly ladies (aphrodite & demeter) BUT posiedon and apollo are somehow shown as the coolest/most likeable gods, even though arguably, they're right after zeus on terms of corruption?

ares shown as the worst god after zeus and hera amuses me. last time i checked, he was the patron god of amazons and literally killed a man for attempting to rape his daughter but guess who cursed women for rejection? apollo. guess who raped women when they said no (aside from zeus)? posiedon.

#all the gods and goddesses in the greek mythology are flawed in their own way #it doesn't make sense why the books were so unnecessarily biased towards certain gods? #it bothers me specifically that hera and athena are SO unnecessarily painted as villains #while posiedon is ‘cool’ dad ‘great’ lover ‘decent’ god ‘reasonable’ than other olympians #i get it he's the main character's father of a children's fantasy novel so rick painted him in a good light #but my man? then why are you painting other gods who are arguably just as bad as him as WORSE #shut up i feel strongly about it #i love the percy jackson series #but i hate how the gods are portrayed #is trials of apollo a good series? yes #does it make sense why he's shown as a human-like god with redemption arc #while hera is reduced to ‘evil stepmom’ and ‘bitch to annabeth’ even if apollo is JUST as bad as her? #no #and aphrodite is not some ‘silly fangirl’ whose personality revolves around shipping percabeth #she is powerful terrifying and cunning who can bestow some of worst revenge on those who offend her #demeter is not a silly crop goddess #her love for her daughter was so strong it almost ended the world and destroyed mankind #shes in charge of harvest and agriculture without her humanity will starve to death #shes just as powerful as the big-3 or at least she should be #posiedon is not this cool perfect rational god #medusa would disagree demeter would disagree pasiphae would disagree odysseus would disagree #apollo cursed women posiedon raped yet ares killed a rapist BUT nooo let's make ares the bad one #percy jackson #rr crit #greek mythology #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo

[canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit]

Teeny tiny versions of the whole Simon Snow universe!

#yes I count fangirl in this #rr #carry on #simon snow #the one for awtwb was a different sized book base so it doesn't fit quite as well #personal

[mochiimocha]

It’s been almost a year to this date when I found out THE Tracy Deonn saw my fanart of the cast. I almost passed away I was so happy😭

#the only thing keeping me going #I love her craft so much #this book changed my life so much omg im still fangirlling #legendborn #art blog #legendborn cycle

[leilytec]

Patroclus: your mother scares me. 😟

Achilles: I know but she can't see us in this cave 🤷

Patroclus: oh okay, cool ☺️

Achilles: no dude, she CAN'T SEE US right now 😏

WHEN I TELL YOU I CLOSED THE BOOK SO FAST. (just to open it again 3 seconds later but damn deep breath in and out.)

this scene changed me and I won't miss who I was before it.

#the song of achilles #achilles my beloved #achilles #achilles x patroclus #patroclus #yes they did IT #fangirling fr #achilles was desperate #i actually love this book #reading #books #greek mythology #love #lgbtq #gay