#starr likes books

[starrlikesbooks]

Have you seen the FANTASTIC cover for the Little Thieves sequel?!

#margaret owen #little thieves #painted devils #bookblr #booklr #book blog #book rec #lgbt books #ace books #demisexual #queer fantasy #gay books #starr likes books #new books #most anticipated

[harrisonsbabygirl]

1963

#the beatles #george harrison #ringo starr #john lennon #paul mccartney #what the hell are they doing I love it #This reminds of that book of the girl who ate like a pea or something and she changed colors

[midchelle]

Maureen Starkey Tigrett and Sir Richard Starkey married on this day, 11 February 1965.

'It's like the breakup of the Beatles. At one time we used to change together, then we started changing separately in different directions. There's no, like, 'Well, she cut my throat so we have to have a divorce.' There's no one snap thing that did it. It spread out over a year till you found yourself at the end of that year saying, 'What are we doing here? This isn't a marriage anymore.' And I had a fine marriage for eight-and-a-half years. I really had a fine marriage-- which I worked for, and she worked for it too. And it just started slipping away.'

Mr Charles Doughty, a partner in Withers, had told her that getting a divorce meant she would have to go into court and tell a judge that she could not bear to live with her husband any more. Asked by counsel how she felt about saying such a thing, Mrs Starkey clasped her forehead with her hand and whispered: 'I could not have said that because it was not true.'

#I think this is my fave one of these that I’ve done #ringo starr #maureen starkey #the beatles #link 4 mo quote - https://books.google.ie/books?id=wzY1AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA38&dq=maureen+starkey&article_id=4011 #1200683&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia4YeFpcGBAxVzUEEAHTQsBwEQ6AF6BAgLEAI #v=onepage&q=maureen%20starkey&f=false #ringo's i dont have a proper source for but i believe its real. it sounds like him etc. #ringo #mo #quotes #midposts #little starrs

[charlottesharlottes]

after going to the ‘eyes of the storm’ exhibition I have come to the conclusion that paul was in fact in love with all three of his bandmates  

#the beatles #paul mccartney #johnn lennon #george harrison #ringo starr #like yeah duh he's in love with john but hellooo don't forget george and ringo #oh and there were a few gorgeous shots of george martin too! #actually the photos basicallly support the bisexual paul agenda #bc there's lots of intimate photos of the men in his life and then some pretty 'unkown' women #it did persuade me to buy the book too (at some point in the future)

[rontra]

im at a loss for words just trust and believe

#superbat for girls #ctde #helena wayne #karen starr #kara zor-el #i can't draw her civilian mode because i never know how to tag her. historically ive only tagged kara but like...i draw kara prime too now. #The Fucking Taxonomy Of Comic Book Characters #taking the middleground and making Nobody happy by tagging it all under “paige” or whatever LOOOL #oh well. #dc comics

[torchlitinthedesert]

Elton John, John Lennon

We began spending a lot of time together, whenever I was in America. He'd separated from Yoko and was living in Los Angeles with May Pang. I know that period is supposed to have been really troubled and unpleasant and dark, but I've got to be honest, I never saw that in him at all. I heard stories occasionally - about some sessions he'd done with Phil Spector that went completely out of control, about him going crazy one night and smashing up the record producer Lou Adler's house. I could see a darkness in some of the people he was hanging out with: Harry Nilsson was a sweet guy, an incredibly talented singer and songwriter, but one drink too many and he'd turn into someone else, someone you really had to watch yourself around...

But I genuinely never encountered that nasty, intimidating, destructive aspect of John that people talk about, the biting, acerbic wit. I'm not trying to paint some saintly posthumous portrait at all; I obviously knew that side of him existed, I just never saw it at first-hand. All I ever saw from him was kindness and gentleness and fun, so much so that I took my mum and [Elton's stepfather] Derf to meet him. We went out to dinner, and when John went to the toilet, Derf thought it would be a great joke to take his false teeth out and put them in John's drink: there was something infectious about John's sense of humour that made people do things like that. Jesus, he was so funny. Whenever I was with him - or even better - him and Ringo - I just laughed and laughed and laughed.

Elton John, Me (2019)

#elton john #john lennon #ringo starr #i really like this way of writing about john #beatle books can be so defensive and embattled about their blorbos: see he did good things so the bad stuff doesn't count! #this seems so relaxed and grounded by comparison #i'm sure writing in 2019 helps #lendind distance and calm #but those aren't a given even now

[no-where-new-hero]

A final Barney/Dean parallel: Emily proposes to Dean just as Valancy proposes to Barney.

The situations are, interestingly, reversed though: Valancy proposes to Barney at the end of her life. Emily proposes to Dean at the new beginning of hers (after her recovery). In terms of what's happening in the scene, the emotional roles are also reversed: Emily almost seems like Barney accepting Valancy, driven to linking her life with Dean's out of affection and something like pity. Both partnerships begin from friendship and a weird kind of mutual obligation, which absolutely plays into the statements that both Barney and Dean make about love being a bondage (I am very very certain LMM thought love was a bondage, especially her marriage, though she tries to work past it in an idealistic way). But Emily still chooses her bondage to Dean, as Valancy chooses hers to Barney, which feels radical in the context of the time.

(More rambling Dean discourse under the cut)

It's so tempting to see Dean as somehow pressuring Emily into choosing him because he's older and has this authority over her, and that's true to an extent. Obviously, he wouldn't have been in Emily's life at all if he didn't intentionally cultivate her friendship. But I think LMM is careful to underscore Emily's own agency in the matter and the way that she made this decision to marry him in the end based on a lot of other competing factors. Would she have proposed if Teddy were around and did anything but write an anemic distant letter to her? Probably not. But he did write that anemic distant letter which is BAD FORM BUDDY, so no wonder she felt abandoned by everyone else she cared for except for Dean, who stayed by her. Even from the beginning, LMM makes it clear that Emily pursues Dean's friendship as much as he does hers: look, it's hard being a weird misunderstood girl. Sometimes your best friend can be a weird misunderstood guy and if he happens to be 20 years older than you, that's a problem, but that's not really anyone's fault. (She also offers to kiss him if he wants when she doesn't like kissing people. Not that is is sexual or romantic by any means (in her mind at any rate), but she is giving him a special privilege, which is basically what she does when she proposes. We love people staying in character.)

That being said, I think LMM's determination to make Emily the master of her own fate is the hardest thing to reconcile. Through a modern lens, the types of patterns that bring Emily to Dean and keep him in her life are plainly visible (lonely young girl, lacking good guardianship, precociousness, etc). In a modern novel, we would say the person in Emily's place is a victim and interpret her with that as part of her identity. Yet because of how uncompromising LMM makes Emily, it feels impossible to think of her that way. When Emily wants to hang out with Teddy, she will, even if it’s at Dean’s expense, and she once gets annoyed at Teddy for not being like Dean and complimenting her looks (which is another interesting note on Emily’s personality). Emily even refuses to blame Dean for her destruction of her book, which translates to assuming culpability for her own exile from creativity.

One thing I did notice on a recent reread was that she finds life "cruel and wasteful" after looking at Vega of the Lyre. We're obviously meant to know she's thinking about Teddy in this moment. Two conclusions can be drawn from this: either the thought of him makes her more lonely and desperate because he continues not to be there for her, or the thought of him isn't powerful enough to counteract Dean’s condemnation of her work. Either way, we can never escape this unholy triangle of her creativity, Teddy, and Dean. The removal of one element is impossible.

But if she doesn’t blame Dean during the engagement, is she operating under chronic self-delusion? Because that’s not really part of her personality. Yes, she is dissatisfied in some measure, but the conditions of this seem unclear even to Emily. Which is why the choice of Teddy over Dean is no more satisfying to me in certain ways BECAUSE when Emily yearns for Teddy at the end of Emily’s Quest, it’s again because there’s no one left. She goes to him in the same way she turned to Dean. Yadda yadda, Emily and Teddy belong to each other. That’s all very well and we accept this because we’ve accepted everything else LMM has done. But even though Teddy wouldn’t have made her give up writing, we’re still stuck in the writing/Teddy/Dean triangle on almost the very last page as though that’s the only paradigm in which Emily can operate.

This got very out of control and so multitudinous apologies. I also feel like every time I sound like I’m defending Dean I put myself in front of a metaphorical firing squad for being a terrible person, so hopefully that won’t happen here.

#i also feel like i'm disillusioning everyone by putting barney against dean but i don't mean to! #if anything i just want more people to take dean seriously #blue castle book club #the blue castle #valancy stirling #barney snaith #emily starr #dean priest #emily of new moon #lm montgomery #lmm lockdown

[fandomsarefamily1966]

#polls #the beatles #george harrison #ringo starr #I used to think it was George #but now I think it depends on the situation #George seems to be seen in a more negative light #but it's hard to find anything on Ringo in real life #like books or anything #at least I was able to find one book on George #but it's pretty annoying all around #:/

[sounwise]

When BEV broke up, Paul invited Dudley Edwards to come and stay with him at Cavendish. It was companionable having a young northern chap of his age around the house with Jane away. Also, like medieval princelings, each Beatle tended to maintain a court who served, flattered and amused them. Often these courtiers were given a small task to perform while they shared their Beatle’s privileged existence. In theory Dudley was at Cavendish to help decorate the house in the emerging hippie style, which was characterised by a combination of old, new and hand-made. […] Paul set Dudley Edwards to work painting tiny creatures into the pattern of the William Morris wallpaper that covered his dining room walls, creating a vast mural. ‘I started painting the mural in his dining room, but Paul didn’t seem that bothered about the mural being done,’ recalls Edwards. ‘Paul would say, “Put your brush down, we’re going out shopping.” That would be one minute and the next minute he’d say, “Put your brush down, we’re going to a night club.” And the next thing, “Are you coming to the recording studio?” I just accompanied him, went with him everywhere, basically enjoy[ing] ourselves.’ With Jane away, Paul and Dudley entertained a parade of women at the house, including the American singer Nico, who visited Cavendish when her mentor Andy Warhol was passing through town and stayed. This was Paul’s domestic scene, in early 1967, while he was recording Sgt. Pepper.

[—from Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, Howard Sounes]

“I was doing murals for the Beatles. I did a mural in Paul's house and I lived with him for six months and then a mural in Ringo's house too when I lived with him for six months. This was at the time of Sergeant Pepper. Originally Paul asked me to stay with him and I realised after a short time that Jane Asher was away in America doing some theatrical production and that he didn't really want me to paint a mural, he just wanted company because every time I got started painting Paul would say, 'Come on, let's go off to the recording studio! Come on, lets go off to a nightclub! I've got a meeting with Epstein, will you come along? “I was just a friend really but after Jane came back he told me Ringo wanted a mural and I went over to live with Ringo. I found out that Ringo didn't want a companion, he actually wanted a mural painting.”

[—Dudley Edwards quoted in “Art, rugs and rock ’n’ roll,” BBC News]

#was going to cut the section describing the beatles as medieval princelings but it's just so funny #that book is SUCH a mess SO many inaccuracies but then it sometimes has interesting interview content like this #had no idea edwards was living with him while jane was away even though BEV comes up a bunch in MYFN #also 'i found out that ringo actually wanted a mural painting' LOL #paul mccartney #ringo starr #dudley edwards #paul and dudley edwards #1967 #fab: an intimate life of paul mccartney #howard sounes

[canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit]

having the like bi-monthly urge to remove "Starr" from my bios all over the Internet so everyone HAS to call me Castor and give me gender euphoria but alas, branding

#i know it is dumb bc technically like.... what am i branding. i have less than 10k followers on here and you people arent buying anything #from me i am not an influencer #buuuuttttt #i use the the name starr in all my professional endeavors including my book reviews 🙃 #personal

[beatlesdiscord]

Ringo: bought the iPhone 11 pro

Ringo: we're not taking dick pics anymore we're taking richard photographs

#ringo's new book of beatle photos be like #ringo starr #the beatles #source: twitter

[starrlikesbooks]

Happy May!

May is the best month- AKA my birth month- and it's also full of really incredible books this year!

As always, check under the cut for more on each~

Book of Night by Holly Black is the amazing Holly Black's adult debut! This is a dark fantasy novel of literally shadowy thieves and magic, and I've heard nothing but fantastic things!

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas is a modern Gothic Horror piece, set in Mexico after the War. It's supposed to be a bit of a mash up between the classic Rebecca and Mexican Gothic.

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston is McQuiston's YA debut, and since I was lucky enough to score and advanced copy, I can tell you it's great! Part indie movie mystery, part queer culture celebration, all love, it's going to be a lot of people's all time favorite very soon. I also wouldn't be surprised to see it get a movie deal!

Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire is the sequel/companion to the phenomenal Middlegame, an SFF books of twins and alchemy. That's one of my favorite books, and Seanan McGuire is an excellent fantasy writer, so consider me pumped!

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill is a feminist magical realism story with actual DRAGONS. Sign me up, immediately.

Cafe Con Lychee by Emery Lee is Lee's sophomore novel after their very trans romance "Meet Cute Diary". This one is looking to be just as queer, and has some fun rivals to lovers.

Dead End Girls by Wendy Heard is a sapphic story of faking your own death, running from the cops, and also running from some people who might want you actually dead, and uhhh accidentally maybe causing some people to be actually dead. This is also one I've already read, and I can tell you it's a RIDE.

See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon is for all the time loop fans out there! (Me.). This is a time loop romance about a girl reliving her awful first day of college.... with her nemesis.

Milo and Marcos at the End of the World by Kevin Christopher Snipes is one of my favorite books of the year! This one is a queer story of internalized homophobia and religious trauma- it's heavy and messy, but it's also got SUCH a good romance to balance it out. If I could shove this book into every queer teen and young adult's hands I would.

Queer Ducks (and Other Animals) by Eliot Schrefer is another book I'd love to shove into people's hands- it's also the only nonfiction book on this list! This is a study on queerness in nature, firmly and humorously shutting down arguments that queer living is "unnatural". It's also by the author of the phenomenal queer scifi thriller "The Darkness Outside Us".

The Fae Keeper by HE Edgmon is the long awaited sequel to The Witch King! This book promises a follow up to those truly divine vibes!

Together We Burn by Isabel Ibanez is about- wait for it... both dragons and flamenco dancers. There's also enemies to lovers!

#bookblr #booklr #book blog #book rec #ya books #book list #lgbt books #starr likes books #new books #book recs #may books #the witch king #i kissed shara wheeler #casey mcquiston #milo and marcos at the end of rhe world

[divatheeva]

greetings acotar tumblr I have read one(1) audiobook and the rest of my knowledge comes from WithCindy videos (love her)

with that here is my EXTREMELY unserious fairysona because I love putting unserious sonas in serious media enjoy x

#tumblr is a little glitchy and showing one of my pics as duplicating #assuming it didn’t glitch ​please enjoy my ringo starr enderman sparkles rhys #i have a suspicion that tamlin’s ‘evil boy’ arc will be mostly retcon and shoehorned in #as opposed to slow descent #sorry if I got the spellings wrong btw LOL #like I know he’ll be shown as abusive later but pretending I don’t know anything abt the rest of the series #the golden fairy man seems mostly chill idk #meanwhile RHYSAND OVER HERE #is SENDING SEVERED HEADS TO PEOPLE #ya girl is over here like ‘wow the world of fairies is so much more than I’ve ever known’ meanwhile the fairy world is on actual fire #all in all book is exactly what I expected 10/10

[thecruellestmonth]

Big Two comics fandom is wild.

Fans scurrying around like mice, picking only the choicest delectable cheese crumbs of canon, weaving in and out of the deadly spring-traps of terrible writing.

Other fans deliberately placing their paws into the mouse traps, week after week.

#Maniacs who read decades worth of comics and come out with completely different interpretations compared to others who read the same thing. #I love it. I want to cradle a few of you in my lap and hand-feed you grapes. I want to bite most of you. #comics #comic books #DC Comics #Any comics fans who present their perspective as the Objective Definitive Interpretation are utter hacks. #Any comics writers who present their perspective as the Objective Definitive Interpretation are utter hacks. #Usually I read those 'sampler' trades with a bunch of different one-shot stories. #Though I have been reading through the lengthier O'Neil and Moench runs. #But even when just discussing a singular standalone book like Cry for Blood or UtRH or Woman of Tomorrow... #...people somehow come away with mutually exclusive interpretations of what happened?? #Not just comic newbies but also those who style themselves as comic experts. #Mandela effect 24/7/365 in the comics fandom. #Reading list is Aphrodite IX - Sideways - Daredevil - Venom - more Supergirl - Laila Starr - Street Angel - Chew.

[aicidos]

@lightsmartyr + prompt: ❝ there is no law that gods must be fair. ❞ yuri @ claude

"of course." 

nature, after all, simply is. the wind that directs almyran sails can be so cruel and merciful, but it is all ultimately up to them to decide. and there's freedom in being so left to one's own devices, a freedom so lovely and terrible. the sum of it comforts him. yet, khalid knows—and the thought fills him with a sense of othering—that yuri’s mind is elsewhere when it comes to gods. for the sake of remaining discrete, he follows that path, that fódlanese line of thinking he has learned to adapt to, like sinking back into leaves, drowning in sand. ah, nature, again. unshakable. “in fact, i would rather there not be any laws pertaining to gods at all. divine punishment hasn’t always been about fairness, anyway.” at least not if you read between the lines in all the scripts, even those above abyss, but khalid holds his tongue.

“don’t think anyone from the clergy would be too eager to agree with you, though. seems they all trust that the goddess knows what’s fair.” his finger traces the spine of his book, and there’s only so much light that can filter underground, rendering the nuances of khalid’s expression only visible to trained eyes. and perhaps yuri’s are. so he rolls his shoulders, and, between jest and truth, brightens. “doesn’t exactly sit right with me, a god that meddles in one’s affairs. but keep that between us, will you? unleeess there's a price for your silence that i'm totally unaware of,” oh, there probably most definitely is.

#lightsmartyr #ic. khalid. #oh starr von leclerc.... we're really in it now #in my mind their dynamic is like.. psychological warfare except there's no hostility on khalid's end #just schemer vs schemer communication KJFGNJ #i like to think khalid spends a LOT of time on the abyssian library bc all the censored books r there so #bonding (as weird as Their Specific Brand of Apprehensive Bonding is) becomes Inevitable tbh

[arthur-r]

!!!!

#i emailed them when i woke up pretty much and then i was distracted and busy but they got back to me!! #basically i emailed asking if i could conduct email interviews with any interested staff members #where i could learn about what they did for college what they do on a typical day and stuff like that!! #cause im still trying really hard to figure out what kind of degree i want to be a museum person #and like. if i get a masters in public history and library science would it actually apply to somewhere like mia? #and what kind of job within a museum would best fit my personal skills and limitations and just. stuff like that #and they emailed me back which is great #anyway hi world it’s been a minute i’ve been sequestering myself inside of my mind and disintegrating on the daily #because my dad is terrible at single parenting and my mom is missing in action (she’s on a planned trip don’t worry) but im not good at #taking care of myself my dad thinks cooking is womens work (unless it’s grilling which he has loads of books on and sometimes does) and i #don’t care enough about my own well being to make myself food half the time. so i just haven’t been eating haven’t been getting out of bed #but as of today i just had a shower i have laundry in the laundry machine things are looking up a little #and my sisters murder mystery party is later today i have to dress up as a victorian lady named starr dangerfield #im going to wear my own clothes mostly so there shouldn’t be too much dysphoria. but i will be putting my hair in tiny pigtails #which is something i did every day when i was a cisgender high school freshman. my current hair is like my old pigtails hair but just erase #the pigtail part from existence. like the reason i always had those pigtails was so that most of my hair would be what im actually #comfortable with which is what i have now. but even my short hair is still capable of the smallest little pigtails. and thats what i will do #idk i might be able to get by having my regular hair. that would be very much preferable #my sister is going to give me some crazy dramatic makeup though too. wish me luck :( #oh but the cool thing about starr dangerfield is that she’s the curator of the carnivals wax museum!! which. i don’t like wax figures but #as evidenced by the email exchange that’s going on right now i do love museums and curating so!! that’s good stuff #anyway i have to go see if my laundry is moveable. but just. yeah. mini life update #me. my post. mine. #delete later