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MAN i love anything and everything gothic americana like think about southwestern gothic with flickering motel lights and thieves and snakes hiding in sunset deserts, but also new england gothic with deep dark woods and bodies sunk into the bottom of freezing lakes, and appalachian gothic with dirty-feet tangle-haired children and small crumbling houses and the wind whistling eerily, and even midwest gothic with lonely tractors rusting away in the sunlight and endless plains and plains of vast nothingness as far as the eye can see, florida gothic (old bones sunk into the swamp), wisconsin gothic (the town’s been snowed in for weeks now, who knows what’s happening up there), california gothic (they don’t call ‘em ghost towns for nothing), colorado gothic (something’s living up in those mountains and it only comes out at night) and of course southern gothic to rule them all, a landscape of witchery, poverty, hellfire and damnation

[11.20.16] I’ve taken to drawing in my bullet journal recently, so my next few spreads do contain my trashy replicated art. XD I hope you like them though! I really enjoy this spread and I hope you do as well. :)

Mild, late fall days call for tartan and new reads! . . Next on the reading docket is The Witches of New York by @sideshowami! I am so beyond excited for this historical novel by a favourite Canadian writer. Her newest novel follows a character introduced in The Virgin Cure, which wa SunSpider by her own great-great grandmother, a female physician in 19th century New York. The Witches of New York takes a turn for the spooky as Adelaide Thom and her friend Eleanor St. Clair cater towards the high society ladies of manhattan, specializing in cures, palmistry and potions, while guarding the secrets of their clients. . I am SO excited to read The Witches of New York after finishing up Daughter of The Forest. . Have you read Ami McKay before? She’s very popular here in Canada and her work deserves undivided attention 🙌🏻. . (at Elysian Room)

Great books, awful covers: today’s #grimdragon challenge. These covers are downright corny, and awful in a way that made my boyfriend raise his eyebrows when he first saw me reading them. Of course, these books are the beginning of my absolute favorite series and thankfully have received much better covers than these. Hobb my absolute 👸 queen of fantasy, and I will recommend her at every turn. And though these covers may be awesome, I have also become extremely fond of them for that same reason. I have defended them against many a harsh judgement, and the covers now have homey, well-loved sentiments attached to them in my heart.

Spent the afternoon wandering around Victoria and made a stop at @munrobooks where I finally picked up Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff after patiently waiting for the paperback to come out! 💃🏻 I can’t wait to dive into this book once I finish The Song of Achilles, which I’ve had zero time to read this weekend but am still loving. . We also made a pit stop in to @discoverycoffee to visit a friend as well and we devoured the blackberry and lime donut 🙌🏻.

What books did you read this weekend? 📖. . (at Discovery Coffee James Bay!)

Moodboard: Wuthering Heights

autumn mood board

yo what are you always so stressed about?

me:

I hate it when guys treat girls like they are an incomprehensible alien species, but Neil Gaiman does it quite literally in this story, and it’s great.

“A small elderly dragon had crawled out from under his chair and placed its jowly muzzle in Vimes’s lap. It stared up at him soulfully with big brown eyes and gently dribbled something quite corrosive, by the feel of it, over his knees.”

Forever doodling/daydreaming