#johnathan strange & mr norrell

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Gosh I love the internet, in everyday life I perhaps meet twelve people who have heard of Sherlock Holmes and six of them think he was real. Where else but online may I meet people I can enthuse about Gilbert and Sullivan, Raffles, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Lord Peter Wimsey, Biggles, Diana Wynne Jones, Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrel, why the Oxford comma needs rights, and P.G. Wodehouse with?

#sherlock holmes books #gilbert and sullivan #the scarlet pimpernel #biggles #diana wynne jones #Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrel #oxford comma forever #pg wodehouse #raffles #lord peter wimsey series

[speakingskies]

Good evening, dear colleagues!

I am Happy to say that I am now in possession of Polls, and inspired by my Delightful colleague @fol-de-lol‘s Advent Trivia Questions, I am Proud to Announce:

THE GREAT JOHN-OFF OF ENGLISH MAGIC

38 Johns, Jonathons, Johnsons &c. from both Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Ladies of Grace Adieu will, over the next few days, battle it out to become The Ultimate John!

The brackets were chosen by a mixture of random number generator and personal choice on my part to make the different rounds as interesting as possible.

This post will link to all active polls, once they are posted.

ROUND ONE MATCHES: Preliminaries

Match 1: Sir John Sowreston vs Jonathan Barratt 56%:44%

Match 2: John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe vs Captain John Kincaid 54%:46%

Match 3: John Waterbury, Lord Portishead vs John Brassfoot 76%:24%

Match 4: John Ford vs Jonah Montefiore DRAW! REMATCH!

Match 5: Jeremy Johns vs John Longridge 87%:13%

Match 6: John Aubrey vs Rev John McKenzie 88%:12%

ROUND TWO MATCHES

Bracket 1

John Hyde vs [Sir John Sowreston or Jonathan Barratt]

John McKean vs Johnson (Beggar)

John Copperhead vs John Alfreton

Jonathan Strange vs John (Waiter)

Bracket 2

John Napier vs [John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe or Captain John Kincaid]

John Windle vs John Harker

John Segundus vs John Upchurch

[John Waterbury, Lord Portishead or John Brassfoot] vs Black Joan

Bracket 3

John Childermass vs [John Ford or Jonah Montefiore]

Dr John Willis vs John (Servant)

John Hollyshoes vs Clara Johnson

John d’Uskglass vs John Cockcroft

Bracket 4

John Uskglass vs [Jeremy Johns or John Longridge]

John Wheston vs Captain John Ayrton

John Polidori vs John Purvis

[John Aubrey or Rev John McKenzie] vs John Murray

ROUND THREE MATCHES

TBC

QUARTER FINALS

TBC

SEMI FINALS

TBC

THE FINAL JOHN-OFF

TBC

#The Great John-Off of English Magic #Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell #jsamn #jsmn #js&mn

[foldingfittedsheets]

So I finally finished Priory of the Orange Tree.

…underwhelmed.

#ramblies #I guess it just wasn’t for me but there was so much that was left unclarified #like there was this whole thing about balance but then ‘balance’ is just no more bad naughty fire dragons #or like what actually caused the imbalance cause the witch’s single line blaming the shards fell so flat #and like if there’s two powers why was there three trees and who’s going around chopping down magic trees left and right #it was a lot of book to slog through for very little satisfaction #I’ve had several people recommend it but it feels like how I read johnathan strange and Mr. norrel #just teeth gritted cause I have one storyline I actually care about then being underwhelmed with the resolution

[queerolddad]

me @ Henry Lascelles

#he’s my arch enemy #me and all my homies hate Lascelles #Henry Lascelles #jsmn #johnathan strange and mr. norrell #jsmn shitpost

[sixofravens-reads]

also I just counted and my tbr is down to 86 BOOKS!! well, maybe 87 cause there's one in the to-go pile I'm not sure if I want to get rid of.

anyway, this is UNPRECEDENTED. my tbr hasn't been under 100 books in YEARS!! wonder if I could make a reasonable goal to read all of them by the end of next year...

#i mean I've made that goal before but it's always been unreasonable #next year i could maybe do it... #except one of the books on my tbr is Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell and i think that would take at least a month to read lol #I'm so happy lol. i want my big giant TBR shelf GONE. i want to just have a handful of tbr books at a time! #and be able to rent books from the library or reread them without feeling guilty #thinking about reading

[stesierra]

In response to criticism of your writing, be aware there is always a way to make something work even if your critics say it's insane to try. It's always always about the execution.

"Too descriptive?" "Too purple?" Try reading Robin McKinley or Patricia McKillip and tell me description and flowery writing can't work.

"Too low-stakes?" The entire field of cozy fantasy laughs at the very idea. Check out Legends and Lattes if you haven't yet.

"Not enough description?" I used to read Patricia Wrede books where I still to this day don't know what anyone looks like. Don't care.

"Too violent/gross?" The field of horror would like a word.

"Too unoriginal?" Baby, people are still writing the same tropes and getting published. Tiktok loves that stuff, as I understand it.

"Too long?" Have you seen Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell? That puppy was a debut!

"Too short?" Flash fiction. Short stories. Novellas.

I could keep going. The point is, it's not what you do that makes your writing sing but HOW you do it.

Unfortunately, figuring out how can take a lifetime!

#writing advice

[shakespearesdaughters]

What kind of books by Dark Academia do you suggest to me? At the moment I’m on Tolstoj but I wanna to know much

The Secret History by Donna Tartt anything by Donna Tartt (praying we get another book in the next 5 years)

Maurice by E. M. Forester

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Patrick Melrose series by Edward St Aubyn

Confessions by Kanae Minato

In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Piranesi and Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Dead Poets Society by N H Kleinbaum

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Idiot by Elif Bautman

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Babel by R F Kuang

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Stoner by John Williams

The Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis

The odyssey by Homer

Carmilla by J Sheridan le Fanu

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

The October Country by Ray Bradbury

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Just to name a few!

#dark academia #classic academia #academia #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia books #dark academia vibes #chaotic academia #studyblr #bookworm #books #bookblr #donna tartt #the secret history #maurice #brideshead revisited #patrick melrose #piranesi #babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #inferno #we have always lived in the castle #Stoner #the queens gambit #the odyssey #the bell jar #sylvia plath #wuthering heights #The idiot #the talented mr. ripley #interview with the vampire

[aboxthecolourofheartache]

Ten Books to Know Me:

@chubsthehamster put out a "participate if you want to" call, and I fucking love books, so why not! 1. Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke - Read this first in high school and it rewired my brain. Dense, intricate, a November day of a book, it is about the inequities of class, race, gender, and also about the dry stone wall down the lane and its intimacy with the ivy that's grown over it for the last century. There are magicians and academic confrontations.

2. Food in England, by Dorothy Hartley - Read this a year out of undergrad. This is the book that convinced me that I could actually do something worthwhile with my interest in history. It was also fundamental in kicking a few chunks out of my ivory tower, but that's probably a personal take-away rather than anything essential to the book. Learn a few hundred small practicalities that may or may not be applicable to modern life; you decide.

3. Sabriel, by Garth Nix - The first book that spoke to baby's latent goth tendencies. The worldbuilding still lives in the back of my head. Made me interested in WWI history. Read it in middle school, I think? It was such a breath of fresh air, and I admired the protagonist and her self-discipline and self-reliance so much. Probably the first book that made me really worry whether the characters would survive until the end, and boy howdy was that formative. Zombies, quests to save fathers, learning that the legacy you thought was a burden is actually your calling.

4. Ombria in Shadow, by Patricia A. McKillip - Read in undergrad, I think? I reread it a couple times a year. It's a go-to story for when I need something comforting and decadent. I love the gauzy quality of the worldbuilding, the understated approach to very real-world dangers. A royal bastard, a former royal mistress, and a sorceress' apprentice race to protect a child king and save the and the living soul of a city.

5. The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman, et al. - This story got me through my late teens and early twenties. Exactly the right flavor of tragedy to grab my brain and shake it like a maraca; fundamentally changed how I look at stories and narratives. Person-shaped cosmic mechanism denies personhood, falls face first into the hole he's been digging for himself for a billion years, hitting every consequence on the way down, and finds a morsel of peace at the end.

6. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (聊齋誌異), by Pu Songling (蒲松齡) - I read this first while doing research for a fanfic and came away hungry for every bit of "classic" Chinese literature in English translation I could find. I've always had a fondness for supernatural anecdotes (The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, by WB Yeats, etc), but this is on the list because it was the initial experience in an ongoing foray into classic and modern East and Southeast Asian literature.

7. Underland, by Robert Macfarlane - Read this a couple years ago. Everything you ever and never wanted to know about caves and being under the earth. The texture of Macfarlane's prose is unlike anything else, and he spends 500 pages leading you in and out of the dark.

8. Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett - This is my compromise instead of just listing every Terry Pratchett book. I read this when I was 12, and I mean it in earnest when I say it shaped how I think to this day. Pratchett's work is a load-bearing beam in my brain. Another grey book, but also lilac.

9. A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn - Okay look, LOOK, I know what you're thinking, but I read this when I was a teenager living in an extremely conservative pocket of a very liberal state. It made me think, which I was good at avoiding because school came easy to me and I usually didn't have to engage my brain at all to have the right answers. I wish with all my heart that I could write to the teacher who assigned it, because it was the very first time anyone had ever made me read history outside a history textbook. I resented that man so much at the time, but I owe him my current career.

10. Stiff, by Mary Roach - Read this as a teen and finally got answers about death I hadn't gotten in a lifetime of religious education. I think I actually snuck it into Mass, because I have a distinct memory of cramming it between the cushion and arm of a pew. Sparked an interest in death and human remains that lead me closer to where I am today.

Please consider yourself tagged if you'd like to participate! And tag me back so I can add more books to my tbr list, please! <3

[vlupshittous]

Finally making my intro post🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

My name is Eve and I use she/her pronouns. My paracosm started when I was 10... it grew out of something my dad and I used to do that we called "talkplay" which was basically like playing D&D without any of the external resources. Dad would give me a situation, I would say what I my actions were and we played out entire adventures this way.

I distinctly remember playing with Legos on my grandma's carpet one day when I was 10 and building a medicine cat den from Warriors... then I decided, hey I'm going to pretend characters from my other favorite books are coming in for care too and I need to fix them up.

And the Guardian World was born.

I'll make more posts about the timeline/mechanics/history/locations of the Guardian World, but the main idea is that Guardians are sort of an artificial species (they can start as any species and then be reborn and trained) that have the ability to bend one of the elements like in ATLA. They can also teleport through space and time and dimensions at will, something 10 year old me named blipping. This allows Guardian me to go into any world I want to.

From this, the biggest influences into my world have been the Legend of Drizzt series, Dragon Age, K Project, actual history (lol), the hilariously mediocre Warcraft movie (but not the game??), Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, and most recently Baldur's Gate 3.

Guardians link themselves to Guardees and are then able to sense whenever their Guardee is in need and blip to their location. Guardians also live 100x the length that they would have lived as their original species, so human Guardians would get ~8,000 years but high elf Guardians would be neigh immortal.

The Guardee's life force is bonded to the Guardian so when the Guardian dies, so do all the Guardees. The trade off is that they could live for eons, or they could be killed at anytime through no fault of their own.

Most Guardians are polygamists and they have exceptional strength due to their elemental magic. They're very OP and Mary Sue, but this is a paracosm, not a fanfic and these are paras and not OCs so I really won't apologize for making my fictional self as powerful as I want.

There are some big changes happening in the Guardian World rn that are taking it away from it's roots, but those are the basics!

I look forward to posting more and learning about other people's paracosms!

#madd community #madd #paracosm #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreaming #immersive daydreaming #guardian world

[overdecorated-furniture]

Writer Introduction

Greetings, fellow writers of Tumblr! I thought I should introduce myself, as I have been lurking quietly for a while now, and you all seem like excellent writers with interesting projects.

About Me

I’m a teenage English girl, with a passion for history, literature, the odd cosplay, and storytelling. I’ve been making up roleplays with myself since I was small, and my stories have always kept me company.

I’ve grown up reading Shakespeare since I was seven, as well as the more traditional children’s classics, and have since found that my passions lie in fantasy worlds, historical fiction, and detective fiction/murder mysteries, although I like to dabble in all genres if I get the chance.

My WIPs

I am currently in the middle of writing two novels, a short story that has accidentally turned into a novella, and various short stories, flashfiction and any other bits and pieces that take my fancy.

The Jack of Diamonds

This is a historical fiction set in 1890s London, and focuses on the criminal classes, and the anonymity of personal and public life that is so prevalent across Late-Victorian Literature.

The plot centres around a young Aristocrat called Philip Devlin, and the double life he leads as London’s most infamous criminal. It’s still very much half formed, so I can’t be amazingly accurate about everything that’s in it, but it might be your cup of tea if you like:

Close Male Friendships that fall apart unexpectedly.

A strong female character who doesn’t fall in love with the protagonist.

The adventure/mystery style of Conan Doyle and Maurice LeBlanc.

And the inevitable morally grey Venetian of all good stories.

Echoes of Eternity (Working title)

This is a fantasy/folklore work, centred around the Arthurian legends, and has a time travel/time slip element to it. There is also an exploration of power and the damage it causes, as well as how death affects the living.

This is still mostly at a world-building stage, although I have written the odd scene out, so the plot is still fairly nebulous, but it follows the dual paths of a young mage called Amser from Arthurian times, and the story of Rose and Jay Fleetwood, as they attempt to right the wrongs of the past together. This might be up your street if you like:

A Morally Grey protagonist with dubious motives.

The magic of King Arthur and his knights.

Magic systems similar to those used in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott.

And randomly angry ghosts leading to time travelling quests

A Monstrous Regiment of Women

This is historical fiction meets fanfiction, with a good helping of biographical info thrown in. It’s set during the Napoleonic Wars, and examines the place of women in that society, the psychological effects of war, and how the Napoleonic Wars shaped Europe.

I Have reimagined Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington as women, Letizia Bonaparte and Francis Wellesley respectively, and have imagined how their lives would look if they had still enlisted in the military. This is probably the most complete of my major WIPs, as all the information and plot is already available in history books, I just need to jig it around. You might like this if you enjoy:

Stories with good depictions of battles in them.

Regency Literature, or pastiches like Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

Strong female protagonists acting outside societal norms.

Sweeping story arcs that cover a character in a range of situations and moods.

Other Bits and Pieces

I often write short stories, and most of them end up on my AO3 account. It’s a rather eclectic mix, with a lot of crossovers, but I enjoy writing them a lot. You can find it below:

I am more than up for being sent asks, participating in tag games etc, and love writing socially. I’m also happy to share any tips or prompts I think up, although those will be very sporadic given all my writing to date has been mostly self-governed. Generally speaking I’m somewhat uncomfortable with NSFW type prompts, asks etc, so avoid those if possible.

Finally, I look forward to chatting to you all and sharing my creations. Happy writing everyone!

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #creative writing #writers intro #ao3 writer #fantasy writing #historical fiction #mystery fiction #new writers on tumblr #new blog #writer info #my wips

[queerolddad]

BEAST OF BURDEN

Jonathan Strange, in his typical fashion, is pursuing a spell which will identify a person’s secondary gender. Both Norrell and Childermass are opposed to such a spell — rightfully so, as when it is finally cast, it will set off a chain of events that will fundamentally alter not only the relationships of the three gentlemen, but also the fate of English magic, forever.

Childermass/Norrell || 🔞 || A/B/O

#when ur hyperfixation is so strong you write a 20K fic immediately #only a few chapters left to upload!!! #they just need some editing #to the four Childerell shippers this one goes out to u #my fic #childerell #Childermass/norrell #ChildermassXNorrell #john childermass #Gilbert Norrell #johnathan strange and mr. norrell #jsmn #jsmn fanfic

[redgoldsparks]

January 2023 Reading and Reviews by Maia Kobabe

I post my reviews throughout the month on Storygraph and Goodreads, and do roundups here and on patreon.

Piranesi by Susanna Clark (Bloomsbury Publishing)

I am a big fan of Susanna Clark. I've read Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrel two or three times, and will probably read it again someday. I love The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories but I've been waiting to read this one until the time was right. When I saw a half off paperback at my favorite indie bookstore right before the holidays, I knew that was my moment! I associate Clark's work deeply with winter, and love reading her stories by a warm glow around the shortest and darkest days of the year. This one opens in a House of apparently endless size, filled with statues, great vaults, marble floors, and many staircases. The lowest level is full of the sea, with fish, sea creatures, seaweed and seabirds. The upper floors recede into cloud and mist, which rain at regular intervals. In this cold but beautiful world lives a man called Piranesi by the only other living inhabitant. Piranesi journals diligently about his days, his discoveries, his catalogue of the tides and statues. The Other Man arrives at irregular intervals and gives him tasks and the occasional gift. Piranesi is very happy in his world, but soon it is threatened by outside forces: another person, with possibly malicious intent, begins to invade. The peace of the House is broken. What does this say about the bones of 13 dead which Piranesi has found, and the occasional fast food wrappers that regularly blow in one of the vestibules? Some might savor this book, but I instead devoured it in three days and wished for more. 

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer (Katherine Tagen books/HarperCollins)

I will be withholding my review until the HarperCollins strike ends. More info here.

M is for Monster by Talia Dutton (Harry N Abrams)

A girl wakes up on a lab table, stitched together from pieces of a previous girl, Maura, who died in a lab accident. Maura's sister is an experimental scientist and when she wakes up a spirit, she's convinced she's gotten her sister back. But the new girl, M, has no memories from a previous life. She looks like Maura- and when she looks in the mirror she can see Maura's ghost- but she feel compelled to pretend to be someone she isn't. This is an interesting take on resurrection, the afterlife, and identity. It's beautifully drawn in black ink with teal shading, and includes a minor nonbinary character. The book flirts with some real danger and existential fear around our lead, but ultimately takes a gentler route towards a happy ending. 

You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi (Atria Books)

This was my fourth Akwaeke Emezi book, and so far my favorite! A lush, interesting romance that tackles grief, recovery, processing trauma through art, and falling for someone in a complicated family dynamic all against the background of gorgeous tropical island. The main character, Feyi, is very tentatively stepping into dating again after loosing her husband five years prior in a car crash. It's taken a long time before she's even felt alive again herself, let alone willing to open her heart to someone new. The writing is so sensual, full of food descriptions to make your mouth water, landscapes and vistas to make you yearn to travel, and witty banter that will make you want to call your best friend to dish about your ex or your new crush. Highly recommend! 

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (Ace Books)

Jess is a queer, closeted, Malaysian-American college grad with a long distance girlfriend and no job prospects. She decides to move back to Malaysia with her parents, partly to help them handle the move. When she starts hearing voices, she tacks it down to the stress of being broke and alienated in a country she hasn't lived in since she was a toddler. But it quickly becomes clear that the voices are real and one of them is Ah Ma, her estranged grandmother, who was a spirit medium to a violent god called the Black Water Sister. A real estate developer has purchased the land around the Black Water Sister's temple and plans to turn it into apartments. Ah Ma enlists Jess to fight back, not realizing or not caring that this could throw Jess into deadly conflict with both humans and gods. I listened to this as an audio book and enjoyed it a lot, though it does have some semi-graphic violence, and a morally grey conflict. The writing is very vivid and quite different than anything else I've read before. 

Into The Riverlands by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Nonbinary historian-cleric Chih and their talking bird companion Almost Brilliant travel to the riverlands, an area rich with myths about near-immortal martial artists and the bandits and monsters they battled long ago. Chih ends up walking a mountain road with two young women- a martial artist and her long-suffering companion- and an older couple, all of whom prove to be more than meets the eye. All of them share tales with Chih, and when they stumble right into an ongoing conflict, Chih realizes that they might be in one of the very tales they'd been collecting. This third book didn't hit me quite as hard with the ending twist as the first two books of this series, but I still really enjoyed it and hope for more! 

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickerson (Tor Books)

I have to open my review with content warnings: violent homophobia, polyphobia, genocide of an indigenous culture by intentional plague spreading, brainwashing, rape threats, eugenics, murder, torture. This is a book about a horrible oppressive empire using the tools of colonialism to try and control more and more of the world. Baru is a child of a tropical paradise, with two fathers and a mother, who is taken away from her parents and placed in a residential school from which she watches the total destruction of her culture. This plants a seed of ferocious rebellion in her heart, and she vows to excel past the wildest dreams of her abusive teachers, to rise up in the ranks of the empire, and eventually to destroy it from within. Baru is a savant in the study of power, money, economic control, and the science of breaking the human spirit. The open question of this series is whether she will be able to achieve her goal without being utterly ruined as a person. This book is brutal, and so well written, by turns a confusing mystery and a heart-pounding page turner. It is not a light read, and I definitely need a break before I continue on in the series, but I can see why this gets put on lists next to some of my very favorite series such as The Locked Tomb and Teixcalaan.

The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)

Another strange little tale from Valente! This one is set in the future, when all of the dry land on Earth has been submerged by water, and the remaining humans live on the floating continent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Long before our protagonist, Tetley, was born, people sorted the garbage into huge piles of similar kinds of things, leading to neighborhoods made all of candle ends, or all of pill bottles, or of molding books. This lends the landscape a fairytale-like aspect that reminded me of McGuire's Wayward Children series. Tetley was born to disinterested parents, and committed a crime in her teenage years which turns her into a physically abused and hated outsider. But she still finds things to love about her home and her world- a kind of childlike delight in a hibiscus plant, a plastic trophy, the inventiveness of her fellow survivors at the end of the world. The story takes several unexpected twists and turns, some more believable than others, but the playful language and rich audiobook narrative carried me through and overall I quite enjoyed it. 

Lights by Brenna Thummler (Oni Press)

A rich and emotional conclusion to the series, which deepens the themes of friendship, grief, and healing. I loved seeing Marjorie find ways to balance her commitments to both the living and the dead, Eliza learning that compromise is part of any relationship, and Wendell unraveling the truth of his own story. Thummler has grown a lot as a storyteller over the course of writing and drawing this trilogy. This is the quietest and most beautiful volume so far, and my favorite of the three. The art is absolutely next level, both in terms of color panels and page design. I was lucky enough to get to read an advanced copy for review; the book is due out in September 2023. 

#books #book reviews #reading #comic book reviews

[cuteteacakes]

I have a list of dark academia reads in my drafts and I've read 6/22 of them. I feel the need to increase that number...

(in case anyone is wondering what they are... here's the list I found under the cut) and if anyone has any more dark academia suggestions I'm all ears! I like classical novels personally uwu

The Secret History by Donna Tartt anything by Donna Tartt (praying we get another book in the next 5 years)

Maurice by E. M. Forester

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Patrick Melrose series by Edward St Aubyn

Confessions by Kanae Minato

In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Piranesi and Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (I watched the show but I want to read the book) by Susanna Clarke

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ✔️

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley✔️

Dead Poets Society by N H Kleinbaum

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Idiot by Elif Bautman

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Babel by R F Kuang

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte✔️

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte✔️

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Stoner by John Williams

The Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis

The odyssey by Homer✔️ (three times actually!)

Carmilla by J Sheridan le Fanu

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

The October Country by Ray Bradbury

Inferno by Dante Alighieri ✔️ (I've read the whole Divine Comedy in high school hhhh)

An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson (suggested by @s1lxcs)

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid (suggested by @s1lxcs)

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

#outofcakes [ooc] #bc yes i love dark academia and academia in general as much as the next studious person!

[risenwraith]

The Crow Bride or Corbin Maid, my illustration for a folk tale I made up for Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell. (And yes I’ll find some different non-JS&MN scribbles for you.)

#art #jonathan strange and mr norrell

[artemisbarnowl]

Watching mr norrell and johnathan strange and i wish I'd read the book instead (i like the story, theres very cool world building i think is getting glossed over or hard to show on tv) but its very funny to think of it as an allegory for brexit

#and of course the british empire and attitude towards knowledge and resources in general of course #but also its very funny to think of brexit