me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???

my brain:

my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………

ranibow sprimkle……..

kepchup.

SPINCH

B A N C H

chichen nuggest

b R o G L e

strawbebbies..

this post almost moved me to tears

Me: one of you… is the murderer

Everyone: *starts sweating*

Me: (unable to tell who’s guilty) a sauna was a bad place to hold this meeting

bonus:

I don’t know Dean, why are they?

Marvel AU: Peter gets invited to the Avengers Post-Battle Party for the first time, and it’s everything he had imagined and more. 

I don’t mean to be unkind, but I don’t get how you can claim to “love books” and have a shelf full of Harry Potter and Jodi Picault. Have we created a nation of people who honestly believe that “reading” is one of their hobbies because they own a copy of The DaVinci Code? Where did we go wrong?

Your homework: Burn your books. All of them. If you think they’re good books, then burn everything else you have that you think is good. Don’t give them away, or donate them - that’s just moving the problem on to some other poor bastard.

Now populate your shelves with: William Faulkner; Vladimir Nabokov; Ernest Hemingway; Hunter S. Thompson; Kurt Vonnegut; Nikolai Gogol; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Frank Kafka; and that’s just for starters.

Come back to me for further recommendations when the fog has lifted from your brain.

I’d forgotten about this lovely reply to one of my photos from 7 years ago. Oh, literary snobbery, you haven’t changed much.

I’d forgotten about it too. I hope you’ve developed a love of literature in the last 7 years, or at least burned your copy of The DaVinci Code.

And what have we learned?

All from that one little post I reblogged from you 7 years ago. 

Let’s be friends! 

Well actually, my career in publishing and the book industry – which I hadn’t yet begun when I posted this – is down to my passion for all books, whether they’re deemed to be “literature” or not. The book industry is not sustained by holding onto the novels of dead white men, but by recognising that there are gems in all genres, and valuing all readers. I personally love children’s books and YA. But I also ran a successful Classic Challenge for five years. (Don’t think that was anything to do with you, dear reader). I have not moved on from Harry Potter or A Series of Unfortunate Events (maybe Dan Brown, but hey, it was seven years ago) and I wouldn’t have it any other way. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” - Haruki Murakami

William Faulkner; Vladimir Nabokov; Ernest Hemingway; Hunter S. Thompson; Kurt Vonnegut; Nikolai Gogol; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Frank Kafka.

Wow. White guys. So many white guys. They are the one true coming of all literature.

Wow. This guy. Telling OP that all her interests are trash and that she should burn them so she could learn about real literature. Then, seven years later, telling her he was doing it to improve her life.

This whole set of interactions is so new and different. It’s almost like it hasn’t happened a billion times in the last day. Wow.

Good grief. What a tool.

Don’t you know all good arguments start with “burn that book”?

Frank Kafka.

Frank. 

The day someone tells me to burn books of any kind is the day I know that they are a moron who believes in censorship of individual taste and of FUN. The day that person only recommends books that are on any school syllabus and doesn’t branch out beyond them underscores the point with fifteen exclamation marks.

Probably my favorite is the fact that OP had 2 obvious Richard Dawkins books (The Selfish Gene and The Greatest Show on Earth) indicating a wide and well-nourished range of interests - from evolutionary biology to young adult fantasy to women’s fiction. (and how satisfying and beautiful is her bookshelf!!) I mean, the cure for a balanced literary diet is not “apply a small wodge of tedious historical men’s fiction following the same themes.”

Meanwhile, her self-appointed critic literally just has a list of dead white American/Russian men who wrote Gritty Literary Fiction About Sad Stuff during a narrow period of history. THEY’RE NOT EVEN THE PRETENTIOUS CLASSICS! THEY’RE NOT EVEN THE OBSCURE FARE!

I am actually a lot more accepting about people being snotty about Classics ™ because I accept that they’ve gone so deep that they probably don’t realize how much they need to decompress - they have lost their adaptations to surface life and normal human interaction, like those deepwater fish that you have to bring up slowly in your net, or they’ll burst. But imagine bringing yourself to be snobby about angsty men’s fiction written between 1800 and 2000.

(Also, Frank Kafka. We shouldn’t laugh)

YOU’RE 👏NOT 👏A 👏TRUE👏 BOOK👏 LOVER 👏UNTIL👏 YOU’VE 👏STUCK👏 YOUR DICK👏 IN 👏THE 👏MIDDLE 👏OF👏 WAR 👏AND 👏PEACE 👏AND 👏SLAMMED 👏 IT 👏 SHUT👏😤 😤😤

@solo1y 

I’m so sorry your snobbery kept you from reading the wonderful, magical, diverse books that literature has to offer.

Just because a book is considered a “classic” doesn’t mean it’s actually good, or the epitome of literature. There’s something of value in every. single. book.

If you’re so narrow-minded to not recognise that… I’m sorry, but you’re 100% not as smart as you pretend to be. 

Also, my dude, don’t ever tell people to burn their books. There was literally a book written about why that’s a bad idea. 

P.S. It’s Franz. FranZZZZ

zzzzzzzzzzzz

Karen Gillan photographed by Don Flood for the New York Post’s Alexa Magazine (May 2017)

They just won’t shut up about each other: season 4. [ Castiel’s version ]

you and me were searching for the same light desperate for a cure to this disease