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Photo reblogged from Beauty in Random Occurrences
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Quote reblogged from Because; I was bored, I can, and I did.Let’s just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting ‘All gods are bastards.’The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (via beccawoof)
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Quote reblogged from la belle de la bibliothèque
So….what’s happened since Gandalf first visited Bilbo’s village and now? WAS THERE A PROPHECY. There’s always a prophecy in these sort of stories, right?
Maybe the prophecy is just THE ELVES ARE REALLY MEAN. SERIOUSLY. The first things they say after they’ve stopped are:
Thorin’s beard is ridiculous.
Bilbo is fat.
THIS IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO GREET PEOPLE.MARK READS The Hobbit is going really well, naturally. (via dumbleadore) -
Quote reblogged from A ghrá mo chroíIsn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells, and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower, both strange and familiar.Cornelia Funke (via pearl-milk-tea)
(Source: venebelle)
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I think I’ve mentioned my sincere affection for all things Sherlock Holmes…
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Photo reblogged from Not all those who wander are lost.
Requirements for a perfect night in?
1. A new book/your favorite book
2. Getting any chores or tasks taken care of so you can’t worry about them.
3. A comfy set of pj’s.
4. Enough candles so you can read by their light
5. A beverage and/or a bit of a snack.
6. Your comfiest blanket.
7. If you have one, your dog or cat will likely curl up next to you.Light the candles, wrap yourself in the blanket and read the evening away. Repeat as often as desired or necessary.
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“The thing is, I’d been hearing about witchcraft being a sin since long before Harry Potter, and since long before my attendance at that school, too. I was repeatedly reminded that rebellion was equivalent to the sin of witchcraft when I was a child and more frequently when I was a teen with hard questions and a hard brow who wouldn’t just march that way because some adult male said so. And reading Bakhtin and Rowling in college, together, at this school where the kernel of truth in all books is a secret, where the best part of literature is the part you have to hide lest they see how dangerous it is and take it away, something clicked for me. It occurred to me that rebellion, literature, and witchcraft are all one and the same thing, and some people think they’re a sin, because this is how they work: they put some power inside you and take it away from the people trying to wrestle your heart to the ground. They put some power inside you and you know it. A witch is merely a woman who knows her own strength, a woman who learns how to use her power to manipulate the world around her. A book is merely a magic wand that lets her do it. Rebellion is what it looks like to people who have something to lose if that woman takes hold of her own agency, and owns her own authority.
Banned Books Week is special to me because it reminds me of a few things: that ideas are powerful, and scary to the people who hold fake, flimsy power over us. That no church, man, school, or body of so-called authority can divest me of my own agency, my own power. That being a witch, despite what I’ve heard, really isn’t a sin; the true sin lies in relinquishing your power without a fight, giving up on stories before they have a chance to get into your blood, allowing someone to stick you into some stock category of virgin or whore when you are both, and more, and so much more.”
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Photo reblogged from Long Voice of Water
Anyone who tries to shame others for reading one way or the other can go fuck themselves with a power drill.
