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Cuando alguien me dice que prefiere la película antes que el libro.

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“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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By dailypurrr

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REBLOG IF YOU LOVE DOGS

9 million people fucking love dogs

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It really bothers me when people obsess about keeping books in mint condition and go out of the way to yell at those who don’t. Writing, highlighting, even folding corners should not be seen as a violation. People don’t do it to ruin the book, they do it to remember the story. I completely understand wanting to keep your books in pristine, mint condition. I really do. But the book itself is not a sacred object. The paper the story is written on is not as important as what’s written on it. The book is but a vessel for a story. Celebrate reading, celebrate stories, celebrate the written word …. not a stack of paper.

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Bookish Weaknesses

Innocent Cinnamon roll characters 

 Sassy villains 

 Faery books (A Court of Thorns and Roses, The Cruel Prince, An Enchantment of Ravens) 

 Bad guy love interest 

 Badass female characters in dresses

Nerdy female characters

Adorable, awkward but still manly male characters

Witty humor

Humorous writing style (ex. Demons at Deadnight and Obsidian)

Kickass monsters 

Characters I have stuff in common with

Male character knows he’s end game for female character but said female character is fighting it and this just amuses male character 

Tomboy female character who still likes girly things

Mates

Beautiful covers

Characters with compassion

Main female characters with brown, curly hair

Books with maps

Magical worlds

An intense, passionate, earth shattering romantic love that the world has never seen

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Please read all 4 of these screenshots from Tiana Smalls. I’ll follow w a thread of a similar experience:

#Resist #Solidarity 

If you have citizenship in the US, please be mentally prepared to do this on behalf of your neighbors. This is not a drill.

There are lots of questions about the 100 mile thing, so here’s a ACLU primer on what to do WITHIN the border zone: 

https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention/your-rights-border-zone

The people in this country are being treated like the people in nazi Germany did pre & during WWII. UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!

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“Her breasts jounced their agreement.”

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“I always wanted to ask people: Are you in love? What are you reading?”

— Françoise Sagan, A Certain Smile

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cinderella marries the prince

and it’s… fine. The prince is great! They’re in love, he’s very sweet and passionate, writing her poems and songs, giving her anything she wants. The time she spends with her husband is great.

but cinderella is not royalty, her family was noble but she never spent time in those circles. She’s used to being busy, she’s used to cooking and cleaning and mending. There are hours, days, where she has nothing to do.

time passes. cinderella learns the fancy lady type of needlework. Learns to ride horses. Reads a lot.

as is normal for royalty at the time, they travel and are hosted by nobles or stay at castles owned by the king. But even that variety begins to become routine. The prince is distracted, there’s a lot of young women living and working on their route. Daughters of nobles. Younger and prettier with soft hands that have never done a day’s work.

cinderella needs something to spend her time on, and there’s a part of her thinking a couple-only trip might get her husband’s attention again, so she suggests making an old castle that’s fallen into disrepair their “project.” It was built in the time when castles were made to be defensible, so it’s quite sturdy, but it’s overgrown and secluded. The prince doesn’t know why his family stopped living there either. A hundred years ago it was their summer home.

so they go. And they work. And for a while it’s great! But when they leave for winter cinderella’s husband forgets her once again. cinderella resolves to make the best of her life and stop worrying about a man who has gotten what he wanted from her.

summer comes again and this time cinderella goes alone to the old castle (minus staff, of course, but cinderella manages to narrow it down to only repair workers and one maid). She can cook and clean and mend again, but this time it’s her own choice. She is happy.

this summer they make more progress on repairs. The workers say that most of it can be salvaged, except one tower that’s been completely overgrown with vines and briars. It will have to come down, eventually, but for now it can be safely ignored.

cinderella has more free time now. The old castle has a surprisingly untouched library, though time and moisture have damaged many of the books. Behind a collection of greek poetry cinderella finds an old diary. Very old, in fact, at least a hundred years. It’s rude to read a diary, of course, but whoever wrote this is long dead, and cinderella is bored, so…

from the description of activities the author looks to have been nobility. Maybe even a princess. She’s sensitive and sweet and smarter than she seems to realize. If circumstances had been different cinderella wishes they could have been friends…

after the summer ends cinderella returns to her husband. He’s spending a lot of time with a young musician and cinderella can’t even work up the energy to care. She does some research about the castle and the family she’s married into, finds out the name of the princess who wrote the diary.

aurora. Cursed and forgotten. She died young, they say, in a plague that also took out the castle staff and her own parents. Luckily they avoided a succession crisis, but not so lucky for the dead.

time passes. cinderella goes to the old castle again and again, even out of season. Soon enough all that remains to be done is the old tower, and the builders say they should tear it down and fill the gaps before it gets cold.

one night cinderella is restless. The princess from the diary had been fond of that tower, and cinderella is far more attached to a dead woman than she ought to be. She gets out of bed, reads by candlelight, and finally goes to walk the empty halls.

she finds herself going to the tower. Pushing past the vines that don’t seem so troublesome really. They almost part before her. The stairs are perfectly intact, the door at the top is already cracked open. As if she should have done this years ago, cinderella steps into aurora’s bedroom.

she’s as beautiful as the stories say. And sitting under her hands, crossed across her stomach as it rises and falls, is a book of greek poetry.

years later, people will tell the story of cinderella as a cautionary one. Don’t seek above your station. Don’t marry for prestige. After all, a girl who grew up as a servant once married the crown prince, and disappeared after only three years. She ran away, they say, she couldn’t handle the lifestyle.

two old women who run a bookshop together agree with the lesson. Marrying for the wrong reasons never ends well. It’s best to wait for someone you have things in common with, shared interests.

or, failing that, the more linguistic of the two says, wait a decade or ten for someone to fall in love with you from your diary.

her partner laughs and hits her with the socks she is mending.

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August Book Haul 😆♥️📚

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She wanted to say ‘Don’t leave me,’ but she couldn’t do it, not again. She was so tired of begging people to love her.

Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale (via theliteraryjournals)

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There are no rules to being a bookworm. No matter how books you read, how many books you buy, if you keep them tidy on a shelf or stacked on the floor, if you read Young Adult or nonfiction, every reader is equal. Never feel bad for not being the bookworm people pressure you to be.

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What annoying things have people said to you before?

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🌙 01.29.17 🌙 happy 30th phil! (part 2/3) sorry for the horrible quality of this video and just?? it’s so gross and i’m so bad at plucking but i tried so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ a lil happy birthday again for @amazingphil