#bookworm speaks

[justabookworm39]

SEASON TWO OF GHOST FILES STARTED TODAY AND THE RELEASE DATE FOR NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE IS OUT

FUCK IT IT'S SPOOKY MONTH

(EDIT: I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IT'S THE THREE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE 'HOW TO BURY YOUR FRIEND' UNUS ANNUS VID

I KNOW IT'S SPECIFICALLY SUMMER-THEMED BUT I STILL FEEL LIKE IT COUNTS)

[shisasan]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Falling Stars, 1924

[allthegothihopgirls]

A head canon I have for Jason is that his favorite rogue is Bookworm. Bookworm was really only ever in the 60’s show so he’s never canonically fought Jason to my knowledge but he’s basically the Riddler but for books instead of riddles. Any time Bookworm and Jason fight it basically devolves into book club so just like

I’m imagining Jason goes for his first battle with Bookworm as Red Hood and his comms cut out mid fight so Dick and Bruce run in for backup

And they kick down the door to try and free Jason

Only to see Jason and Bookworm sitting on the floor, drinking wine, and talking about the subtextual queer coding in Jane Eyre

yeah and he 100% gives him the same kind of treatment the bats give harley (in my head). knows he's harmless and will only act out if provoked, so he gives him the benefit of the doubt + trusts him to live freely 97% of the time. (he was also single-handedly the person who protested against him being put in arkham asylum for the rest of his life)

he genuinely meets up with bookworm over coffee, although partially to check in on him and make sure he's not going to begin a 100+ murder rampage again, he's also just having a chat with a friend about the book he recommended to him last time he had to hunt him down... and the political state of the world.

when he does find himself locked up, whether that be in a ward or arkham, although jason doesn't always visit (business and all) he always makes sure the facilities can provide him with something suitable to read.

news gets out to the bats about bookworm having a breakdown and going off the radar, and jason's more insistent than he's ever been when he says he's going after him alone. he truly believes he isn't evil by nature, and knows that all it takes to bring him down is a familiar face and a well-read intellectual conversation.

naturally when jason's out of reach and bruce + dick are tasked with stopping bookworm, they think it's going to be a piece of cake considering what they know about jason's history with catching him. but god are they so wrong. they get him in the end of course, but really have to take a second and ask themselves how the fuck jason not only enjoys working bookworm shifts, but has completely TAMED a rogue like that.

[stardustizuku]

I love that the Book of Mestionora appears differently to Ferdinand and Rozemyne due to their personalities.

Specifically the search function. Like obviously Ferdinand would only open the Bible when he wanted to know something in specific, or to get an answer - so whenever he opens it, it opens in whatever he needs. He’s so practical. It also speaks of how he only got the pieces of the Bible that he wanted. Whatever information he doesn’t deem necessary gets thrown out. He just wants the answers.

Rozemyne, on the other hand, definitely needs the search function. She would read the entire Bible if she could. “Opening it in whatever part she needs” would be good in life or death situations, but if she had the leasure to use it at her own pace - why would she? She’d rather take her time and read. Besides, she wants to be a librarian. Isn’t it obvious for her to read the entire contents and THEN help search the answer?

[ivi-laden-raconteur]

I just finished Radio Silence by Alice Oseman! It was such a good book that when I finished it I had to sit in silence for a few seconds and digest it lmao

if you like to listen to music when you read I recommend You Will Not Drown by KISNOU and Vertigo by Griff.

omg I would do so much for a universe city podcast…

[writtenroses1813]

Hot takes I think I should be put in witness protection for (these are just my opinions pls don’t feel offended if you like these tropes):

Enemies to lovers tropes needs to stop being so fetishized. When someone takes their significant other (either real, contractual, or arranged) by the THROAT and THROWS THEM AGAINST A WALL that is NOT “sexual tension” that is ABUSE.

Characters having a strong platonic relationship in which they are open to showing affection to each other does not automatically mean they have to be love interests. Let people have friends

Rivals (ESPECIALLY academically) does not automatically mean they are love interests. Because people are both good at the same thing and therefore competitive does not mean they have hidden feelings

Badass women (especially in fantasy settings) don’t have to be fully “battle forged” or whatever. They can have hobbies and the other women who are often looked at as “meek” and “damsels” are not any less badass for liking to sew or cook. Those hobbies are not “anti-feminist” just because they were what were expected of us women before rights. We have simply commandeered them for our own tastes and purposes

Blond hair male leads aren’t a turnoff

Just because a book has the same tropes used as another does not make it a “rip off” of said other book. Tropes are used just like character archetypes and the freaking alphabet. By that logic all books in the English language are a rip off of the freaking dictionary.

[rainreads]

romance novel: self torture 🫶🏻❤️‍🩹

[asilaaspirations]

I want to create a profession where I am paid for thinking, writing, speaking, and reading, and create my own schedule, rates, and travel is that too much to ask?

[mothmanwarble]

not to get all sentimental about skylanders characters again or anything, but an aspect of the mask of power novels that i will never ever get over is how they gave eon a close friend who is as impossibly old as he is. yeah yeah their friendship’s hardly the focus of the novels and we don’t even get that many moments of the two characters interacting with each other, but the fact that this friendship exists at all within canon is so so so sweet to me.

like. it’s not really alluded to in the games, but in various books it’s repeatedly implied and shown to us that eon—being the last remaining heroic portal master in skylands—constantly overworks himself as leader of the skylanders and has been harboring a fear of failure for literal centuries. despite being surrounded by hugo and the skylanders whom he no doubt loves like family and who certainly share some of his lived experiences, they are still so young compared to him. they haven’t seen what he’s seen, they haven’t lived as long as he has, and after repeatedly outliving his previous skylander teams, he’s come to expect that he’ll outlive this team as well and that hurts.

but he has this one friend. he has this one friend who has also dedicated his life towards protecting skylands. he’s not a portal master and he’s not a skylander, but he’s a warrior. he doesn’t have any magical abilities, but he has a suit of armor. he spends his days within heavily fortified walls, guarding dangerous artifacts and preserving historical records from people who seek to steal and destroy them. he too is burdened with immense responsibility. he too fears failure. he too has been alive for so, so long. in fact, he’s still alive during the events of the games. just. there are these two time-worn souls who find solace in one another and whose days are made brighter upon knowing that the other person exists. i can’t get over that.

also eon’s friend is named wiggleworth and he looks like this and also this

[justabookworm39]

Alright but I will admit that alongside the aforementioned Hatchetfield update+Ghost Files premiere, a lot of my week has been eaten up by starting Solidarity’s Evo SMP playthrough.

Which is to say that about 60 percent of my brain right now is just different flavors of

[ask-the-monster-nest]

"No one makes you cry." Said the wrath demon as he tries to comfort Aster. "Sorry if my rage ever gets in the way or scares you. That's the last thing I would want."

Asmo nodded aswell. "I agree! No one can hurt our sweet flower! They are big stinky meanie heads!!"

Satan raised a eyebrow. "Really? That's the insult you have?"

@devildomflower

[tenpintsofsundrop]

I just found this pic of Conor Leslie on pinterest and oh my fucking god I am barking so hard this is so Donna coded it hurts. Like imagine waking up with wife!Donna on a Sunday morning and she holds a pencil between her teeth like this while she does the morning crossword puzzle from the newspaper, and you make her breakfast (because she's a queen) and then she fucks you senseless against the counter before she cleans up and does the dishes. like hmmm

[stardustizuku]

My hot take is that Rozemyne is more terrifying than Ferdinand - over the simple fact that Ferdinand has some sort of respect to authority.

But Rozemyne? Girl will throw hands given the chance.

[darkroyalcoresblog]

If your dream life was a Taylor Swift's song, what would it be??

[dangerousstarlightcreator]

"Do you wish you were dead?" We slammed doors in my family. We beat each other up and we asked questions we didn't want answers to and we wielded silence like a dagger. I wasn't sure how to respond to her blunt honesty except with honesty of my own. "I don't want to die, but I don't want to live, either. I don't know why anyone would.[...]"

we are the ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

[poppletonink]

The Eras Tour (Books Edition)

In honour of the Eras Tour, over the past few months I created book lists for every one of Taylor Swift's albums. As the general rule in the Swiftie fanbase is once Taylor's version exists that's what you listen to, for each of the Taylor's Version albums released so far I made a list but not of the original (all that really means though is extra books for those lists). To see the list for each, click on the name of your album of choice below:

Taylor Swift/Debut

Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

Red (Taylor's Version)

1989

reputation

Lover

folklore

evermore

Midnights