#books

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[shisasan]

March 24, 1974 Anne Sexton, from Complete Poems

[potterhead0taku]

Interesting fact about my life no one asked for:

I’ve kinda harbored really one-sided romantic feelings for a friend of mine. She calls me love, sweetheart, baby, mi reina, darling. It does not help me at all, because it gives me the chance to reciprocate with similar terms for her.

We have discussed hypothetical marriage multiple times, both in cracked moods and serious “I think we could be happy together” moods.

It has been three years. They’re the one person I try to actually keep in the loop in my life and talk to constantly even if we don’t see each other every day or week or even month. But we know each other, we’ve both been there for the highs and lows.

We also agree that we shouldn’t be a couple. Or more, she agrees and I have been trying for a long time to get over my own feelings, because even if I wished she saw me in a romantic way, she’s still my friend and someone I deeply care about, regardless of if she returns the affection or not.

And she’s happy. She is in a relationship with someone else and is happy. And I care about her so much that I’m actually, honest to god happy for her, because I love her smile and her laugh and that carefree way of talking she has when she talks about her partner.

So yeah. It’s been three years. I think I’m in love with her. It does actually feel like white noise in the background most of the time, manageable. It does still hurt when she talks excitedly about her partner, but it’s a dull kind of ache now.

!!!!!!!

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[shisasan]

24 March, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[thewordsarestuckinmyhead]

how i’m going to interact with the first reader of my novel when i finally get the chance to unload all of my ideas and theories.

[catchymemes]

[lotstradamus]

me seeing this book cover: ah, clearly this memoir is about a lesbian's journey to identifying as a Stone Butch ! this I am interpreting from the context clues of the title and the carabiner on the cover, a lesbian dogwhistle ! what an interesting read this will be !

what this book is about: rock climbing

[his-madness-keeps-him-sane]

I need this book...

Miss Piggy’s Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Kermitage Collection is a picture book featuring sixteen (minus the “The Birth of Venus” parody) different muppet parodies of famous artwork, edited by Henry Beard and illustrated by John E. Barrett, and published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1984.

A majority of the illustrations were originally from the Miss Piggy’s Art Masterpiece Calendar which were all reprinted with commentary from Miss Piggy herself and new additions that expanded on the “Kermitage Collection” from the calendar.

illustrations continued:

Henri Rousseau. The Sleepy Zootsy.

Rembrant van Rijn. Arisfroggle Contemplating the Bust of a Twerp.

Jan Vermeer. Young Lady Adorning Herself with Pearls (and Why Not?).

Grant Wood. American Gothique.

Pablo Picasso. Pig Before a Mirror.

[doctorslippery]

[sourdough-seal]

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I firmly believe that some stories can never be translated into a different medium and that's okay

[tyger-land]

ᴇᴢʀᴀ ᴊᴀᴄᴋ ᴋᴇᴀᴛs Artwork from his 1962 book The Snowy Day.

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[mysharona1987]

So, Ben is going through some things these days.