#Books Acquired

[biblioklept]

Books acquired, 26 Jan. 2024

Last Friday, I drove across a bridge to a library on the other side of the city for a Friends of the Library sale. I was hoping for a nice leisurely afternoon browse, figured I’d find a few titles worth my efforts, and I’d fill out the 10 dollar brown paper grocery bag with books I could trade for store credit elsewhere. I ended up filling the bag almost immediately, mostly with heavy hardbacks,…

[piosplayhouse]

shang qinghua: if I was in charge of this world I would have shen qingqiu get fucked by luo binghe a billion bajillion times

liu mingyan, materializing out of nowhere summoned by the mention of yaoi: you and me both sister

[ride-a-dromedary]

Also, unrelated, but I love how Halsin refers to the druidic library (or at least parts of it) as "my books", though he doesn't seem otherwise personally attached to physical objects, and the library is obviously shared communally by all the druids. It's such an affectionate little thing; he probably spent a lot of time in that study and library, adding to the collection over the century, keeping the key with him at all times.

What I'm saying is give Halsin a little library in Reithwin.

[mahoushoujotechsupport]

they're so cute

[asexualbookbird]

First book purchase of the year! It WAS on my list of books I wanted, thanks for asking! I love that these are small enough that rereading What Moves the Dead isn't a huge commitment :)

[cerise-on-top]

hi<3 if you can, can you do valeria and laswell with a gothic s/o? like someone who likes darker/morbid things and things like that! love your blog by the way! it’s definitely my favorite blog to come look at after a long ass day <333

Hey there! Sorry, but I couldn't really find too much on what counts as dark and morbid in the goth scene, so I wrote more general HCs, I hope that's alright still ^^;

Valeria and Laswell with a Gothic!S/O

Valeria: She’d most definitely be intrigued, but not too much. In all honesty, she doesn’t know too much about the subculture, she’s never really met a goth who was clearly one. However, if it makes you happy, that’s all that matters to her. While she won’t really know too many bands, or any at all, she’d be more than happy to listen to a few if you want her to. Yes, she won’t always have the time, but when she isn’t too busy she could put on some songs by Joy Division or The Cure, she really doesn’t mind. She can vibe to that sort of music, even if it isn’t her favorite. You’re more than welcome to discuss the literature with her, though. She’s probably never read a single gothic literature book, but she can buy you some. Anything from poetry to a regular novel, it’s quite alright. While she won’t be the best person to go to when it comes to discussing those, she’ll support you either way. However, something she could definitely enjoy would be going clothes shopping with you. The fashion is kind of nice, she has to admit, so she’d be more than happy to buy you whatever garments you desire. Will go out of her way to find something you might like as well. I can’t see her being too much into the history of goth culture, though. It’s nice that you are a goth, if you want to tell her about it, then you can and she’ll listen to you, but she likely doesn’t have the time to research everything by herself. Tell her about its roots and she can definitely appreciate you going against what’s mainstream and how it all came to be. She’s a very defiant and rebellious woman herself, so she definitely gets it.

Laswell: She knows so many people, I wouldn’t be surprised if she has worked with goths before. And even if she hasn’t directly, she’s likely seen quite a few walking around the city. She usually grows worried for them in summer since their attire is black, which makes it quite hot. However, she’d be very intrigued by you and your subculture. It’s something very near and dear to you, so she would put in the effort to learn about your history. Will give some classic bands a listen as well. She just really wants to have something to talk about with you. Besides, she gets to learn more about you. While she may not be the biggest fan of your interest in death, considering she’s surrounded by it more often than not, she’d be more than happy to indulge anything else it has to offer. Laswell spent a good chunk of life left alone with her thoughts, so she definitely knows a thing or two about melancholy, the state of the world and introspection. Maybe not in the same way you do, but she can definitely keep up in a conversation. She’s likely also unintentionally read some of the more popular gothic novels out there and liked them, so she’d make for a good discussion partner as well. While she doesn’t particularly understand the need to make your face completely white, she doesn’t mind. In fact, she thinks it looks quite cool, even if it’s not for her. However, the fashion in and of itself looks really good to her. Again, she wouldn’t want to wear it, but something about Victorian and Edwardian fashion has a certain something to it that she can’t quite place. Like Valeria, she’ll definitely buy you things she thinks you might like. Anything from a suit or a corset to a book about poetry. Beware, though, she will read the books before you can.

[bobbypinsandlizards]

me (a terrifying monster beyond all comprehension) and my boyfriend (he has autism)

[hella1975]

born to write fanfiction forced to go to pilates

[cascadiums]

Bram Stoker really made a point of the Count hoarding old money in his bedroom like a dragon, the spoils of war and empire guarded by the upper class, just for his heroes to bribe their way across Europe funded by their inheritance from a revolving door of dying parents, huh

[coquelicoq]

i can't get over "Kim Dokja Likes a Branch" as the name of a story. like oh what's this. what do we have here. it looks like he's about to - i don't believe this - he's really going for - YES! HE'S DONE IT! HE'S PICKED UP THE BRANCH! WE HAVE BRANCH LIFTOFF!! are we rolling? someone tell me we're taping this! yes you heard it here first folks, kim dokja has selected a branch and - he's holding it! that's right! in his hands, people! he must like this branch!! i'm calling it now, Kim Dokja Likes a Branch, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, don't touch that dial, we'll be bringing you the updates on this developing - and would you look at that, he has a flower! just when you thought it couldn't get any better! kim dokja, ladies and gentlemen!!

[biblioklept]

(Some) books acquired, April 2024

April is always a weird month for me, the last few weeks of the spring semester when I try to corral my students (and myself) toward our Grand Project of Just Damn Finishing (while also Learning and Growing as Humans), when the magic of spring break has burned off to memories, scents, traces, when the Florida weather is glorious and perfect, but for only just long enough to get out in the garden…

[arealtrashact]

Thanks to you and your Elvis posts, I want to draw Elvis digging out those melted peanut butter cups and eating them with an army knife like a desperate gremlin that only boys can be.

If you do, please show me. It's a moment in history that deserves a million artist's renditions.

[sableeira]

kinda cringe fail to have the same goal for a few hundred years and never achieving it. Fyodor was probably around even before the Book even existed and he never found a way to destroy abilities? Truly a skill issue

[vintage-tigre]

[aprill-99]

Okay but can you imagine an AU of Bridgerton where Lord Ledger ends up a hot and somewhat-young widower and he and Lady Danbury are married for the events of the rest of the novels to just cackle over their entire freaking horde of grandchildren together?

THE SCENE:

Agatha: *storms in* “I want grandchildren!”

Ledger: *puts down his book* “Don’t we have about 30 of them?”

Agatha: *fans out several miniatures* “I want these specific additional ones.”

Ledger: *examines the pictures* “Gareth St. Clare is already our grandson.”

Agatha: “I can double up if I want to!”

Ledger: “Of course dear.”

[intermundia]

lmao i really thought i had 2.3k books based on a hazy memory of a count i did when i last moved in 2019, but i just did a recount out of stress waiting for my job interview later this afternoon and i'm thrilled and despairing to report that the actual count is 3,027 books in my house not including magazines or ebooks or audiobooks or anything like that. 3,027 physical books lmao i would say i have a problem but it's not hoarding if it's books right, that's just being a book collector as a hobby. im a librarian of a.. private library. right. yes.