#wild library

[maddiesbookshelves]

Saw a free library imitating an English phone box today!

I saw it and stopped in my tracks, gave my suitcase to my friend and ran to take pictures. I must have looked unhinged to the people in the park 😂

The frame says "Box to read books" in blue and around it are the words "exchange, devour, choose, trade, relinquish, share, drop off, browse, take, receive, give, entrust, adopt, pass, discover". There's an article about a writer I don't know and the printed paper is a quote: "Every copy of a book can belong to multiple lives. Books should stay unguarded in public spaces to move with the passersby who would take them for a moment. They should die from anything but boredom and private property, sentenced to life on a shelf."

[academia-lucifer]

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

— Oscar Wilde.

[lesbicosmos]

"are you my mummy?" 🤝 "hey, who turned out the lights?" 🤝 "my arms are too long."

the holy trinity of doctor who quotes that sound fairly normal out of context but are actually mildly terrifying

[dontbotheraziraphale]

ok but for real "my arms are too long" is up there with "hey who turned out the lights" as most cursed lines in doctor who history

[ihateyouvishal]

"The only people i would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is, nobody else interests me."

- Oscar wilde

[queerliblib]

Hey, QLL has been open for one whole month! Here are some fun stats from that time.

Keep an eye out for our Giving Tuesday drive tomorrow! Let’s keep this ride going. <3

[kiwinatorwaffles]

botw/totk zelink has grown on me in time but personally i think the funniest interpretation of their relationship is that link, having absolutely no memories apart from muscle memory, has zero concept of dating or romantic relationships. it doesnt help that hes aroace because he thinks his very queerplatonic relationship with zelda is just them being "ultra best friends." if you asked him if he was dating the princess link would be like Dating? does it really look like that? like yea we're roommates we sleep on the same bed sometimes i make her breakfast every morning we cuddle while watching horror movies on the ipad but isnt that just what ultra best friends do?? and if you ask zelda the same question she just shrugs and says can't tell but im happy with this

[milliondollarbaby234]

“You can never be overdressed or over educated”

- Oscar Wilde

[elysiumaze]

I don’t miss it, because I have my childhood more now than when it was happening...

Clarice Lispector in, Near to the Wild Heart.

[kafka-bug]

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[literatureaesthetic]

mini haul ✨️ love when book covers conveniently end up matching. i've been wanting to read 'de profundis' for literal years, i've just never encountered this specific edition in a store before (i'm vain, and i need the pretty edition of a book always)

also, for music lovers, i got my hands on the new chelsea wolfe album!! obsessed doesn't cover it.

[yourlocaltreesimp]

Heyo! Can I request how the boys would react to the reader/their crush complimenting them?

- 🥣 anon

Yes you may, and welcome to the Anon list officially, officially!

PT 1: Time, Twilight, Wild

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

Chain getting complimented by their crush!

Time

Stone faced on the outside- buts that’s because he’s a windows error page

But when he resets it’s literally just him melting with adoration.

He’s thinking about that for the next week, whenever you’re next to him, whenever his mind gets to quiet, whenever he’s close to falling asleep.

“Hey Time?” Your curious voice was hushed as most other members of the chain were sleeping, and judging from your own sleepy voice, you weren’t too far.

“Yes?” He shifted over slightly to get a better look at you, sprawled out over your bedroll and propped up by an arm. The fire’s glow did you well, painting your in warmth and gold.

“That’s it- I just wanted to see your face. G’night” And just like that, you were peacefully asleep. He, however, could do anything but. He was unaware of courting in your universe, unaware of what that ment for him and his yearning for which he thought was one-sided. But he was glad the others couldn’t see the smile he let crack his face, hand the way he carefully tucked you in.

Twilight

He skips the mental reset and goes straight to panicking.

Look, he was down bad before- he’s worse now.

Twilight couldn’t find anywhere else to rest his eyes except on you as you sat, a colony of stray ordon cats gathered around you. You tried your hardest to give them all equal attention, much as you did the group, but one crawled it’s way into your lap, garnering your attention. He didn’t know he could be jealous of a cat.

“I love being here.” His head soared to hear that you to loved his home, its charm outweighing any possible doubts you had in your mint

“Glad to hear that” He so badly wanted to say more as the silence lingered, but your content smile persuaded him into simply letting it be.

“I wanna live somewhere like here someday. Hell- I even might stay here if you aren’t sick of me by the end of all this” You looked up and his heart caught, he managed a shy smile as he wringed his hands out nervously. As if he could ever be sick of you- the mere thought was atrocious. “I wouldn’t mind staying here for you” If his cheeks weren’t red before, he could guarantee they were now.

Wild

There’s a few things you compliment him on that he’s suave af about. His scar, however is not one of them.

It makes him feel lesser. Reminds him of his shortcomings

Compliment that and this man is sold. Not only are you interested in him, but you’re interested in all of him. Not just the champion that he was dubbed

It was the forth or fifth time he caught you staring, your eyes lingering on his face. Now that’s not so say he didn’t like your attention, no, but he was starting to wonder.

“Why do you keep staring at me”

“I’m not staring at you” Your unassuming response gets an amused huff out of him “I’m admiring” The way you stressed the word made adrenaline deep into his blood in a way he was familiarly unfamiliar with- something only you could do to him.

“What is there to admire?” He looked down at himself, he was in his usual ensemble of clothing, his hair done the same way as usual, so what was it that caught you?

“Your scar” Oh? Oh. His mind was quiet, you were quiet. Of course the most radiant thing to walk the earth finally noticed his normality. Finally noticed his insufficiency. Finally noticed he’s a fa- “I like it” What? “It’s so… you. I hadn’t realised how well it fits your face. I wish whatever happened didn’t happen, yeah…” Your voice trailed off in an enraptured trial. Enough to leave his mind drawing blanks “But I think I like you more this way” You smiled, satisfied with your words and went back to what you were supposed to be doing while he could do anything but. The most precious person he’s met not only appreciates his most ugly and unworthy parts, but loves him more because of them… That was a concept he’d need to ponder.

[edwardian-masquerade]

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -Oscar Wilde

[kafkabot]

"I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason."

Letter to Felice, Franz Kafka

[laylaslibrary]

I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat,

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[ihavehisdvds]

“I reject the dreamer

I want to sleep forever.

I want no more of Sunrise

It brings only the prelude to lies.

I reject the beams of Moonlight.

Let my soul be where it lies.”

- A response to Oscar Wilde

Original quote by Oscar Wilde: “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”