Two nights ago, where I live and my home experienced catastrophic flooding and and we had to evacuate. We are thankfully all safe and back home but we are now in the long and devastating process of cleaning up and throwing away so much of our lives.
Re: Shakespeare adaptations for teens Ms. Perky brainstorming synonyms writing about sex is as Shakespearean an act as it gets
I never want to see another woman with imposter syndrome, women should only have Lady Catherine de Bourgh syndrome which is when you know before you ever even TRY doing something you’re going to knock it out of the park
Looking at your area’s useless leaders after seeing Mamdani “if he wanted to, he would”-ing all over the place
Happy birthday to Vincent van Gogh who sold a single painting in his lifetime and whose legacy I think could best be honored by supporting artists in the present, before poverty and the weight of endless struggle extinguishes their light, too
In vain I have struggled, It will not do All I want for Christmas, unfortunately, is you
When I was little and Jo saved Amy from the ice and the girls made up, I was relieved. Now, having written my own manuscript and thinking about it burning because I didn't take my little sister to the theater, I feel like Jo could've maybe left her in there a little longer
The death of a showgirl (of consumption, onstage, post-performance, in your lover’s arms)
The life of a showgirl (serve face, belt tunes, bewitch men, fall in love with a penniless poet)
“What radicalized me?” when I was a little girl I watched a cartoon fox and his band of merry forest creatures try to restore happiness to Nottingham through song, community, and sticking it to a phony king with endless greed and mommy issues
Interested in being a featured creator/writer/artist/however you want to think of yourself on Peachy Keen with Tara Wine-Queen? There’s a form for that!
Appreciate how hard the media of my youth went with the “if he loves you, he will offer up the library of your dreams” messaging
Happy Pride Month to the cast of The Mummy and all the awakenings viewing it inspired 🩷💜💙
I passed 200k followers over on Instagram and am having a little giveaway for Libro.FM bundles and Bookshop org gift cards to celebrate if you want to check it out 💞
A reminder that if YOU want to know what dates are coming up that have some sort of literary significance as you plan content, curriculum, library activities, etc., or for other bookish reasons, my literary dates list can help you out!
Over on >> the other << internet, we’ve been talking about the little acts of whimsy and joy we try to incorporate into our days and Upworthy wrote a story about it! Reading the responses has truly been like having a bit of serotonin on tap, an especially nice thing these days of endless horrors
Odysseus when he hears Polyphemus yelling to the Cyclopes that nobody is hurting him
These Aragorn valentines are dedicated to the life-size poster I had of him above my bed in high school 💕
When I posted my Literary Dates list, I got many comments saying they'd hoped it was a list of literary date ideas. With V-Day coming up, it felt like the right time to put together a printable list that can be used as inspiration or as a perfect (last-minute?!) gift for the book lover in your life
You were just a kid scoping out the bookstore looking for the next book to fly through when behold! one of these golden monsters caught your eye from afar. Once you cracked the cover, it was over. The chokehold it had on you was just beginning, and all hope of normalcy was gone
Every day I log onto the internet and make this face for hours
Also I love this description of meeting her from Roger Ebert: