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ecstatic because my brit lit prof assigned both dr. faustus and hamlet in the month of october. literally the most perfect halloween plays!!!

I haven’t read anything for leisure in a couple of months so I made myself start this. It might be slow going with everything else, but I am enjoying it so far because I am also an awkward college girl with an obsession with the medieval

bro imagine being a wife and your cowardly husband sacrifices you because he’s too scared to face death himself. it’s on sight

i’m making myself go to bed but this is so so good

obsessed with the narrator’s sister who is only referred to as “my sister the nun” and who currently has “an eighty-proof hangover.”

got kinda weird there but i LOVE this section about friendship. aristotle understands my teenage friendships better than i would like to admit

“when the last of her race / is finally and utterly extinguished / when the wind pushes back the last curtain / of white male blindness / the fat black woman will emerge / and trembling fearlessly / stake her claim again”

The Fat Black Woman’s Motto on Her Bedroom Door

IT’S BETTER TO DIE IN THE FLESH OF HOPE THAN TO LIVE IN THE SLIMNESS OF DESPAIR

!!!!! so i need to put that on my wall right now

“I tell myself that life is incomprehensible. We need to death to bring us back together.”

Oh okay wow I am going to be sick that’s beautiful

wow this just got really gay really fast. glad that these medieval men can express appreciation for each other better than those of the 21st century

it took me a bit to get into but i am now so invested. ikemefuna my baby 😓

i never thought beowulf would be the cure to my reading slump but i am so so fascinated!! i’ve never read anything like this before and am so enamored by this world. i was judging my brit lit class but i think i am now obsessed with the mythology of this time period and i want to be invested in it

dnf-ing everything rn because my english major started english majoring and i need to focus. so much reading to do but i am excited!!

locked in during long car ride and i think i got thru the boring part phew

“i am the dreaming tree. i am every oak with roots digging through rocks. the ley line runs through me… fairy roads. spirit lines. corpse roads. adam parrish is irrelevant, he is a whorl in the fingerprint of a massive being.”

no “wow blue you really can be a raging feminist” from adam. but!! blue still did tell him to go kiss gansey instead so

introducing henry cheng early to replace prokopenko is interesting….

also stick shift joke fire love it

wait i’m acc so pissed why is the fundraiser at aglionby and not at the ganseys’ dc mansion… this has got to be setting up some kind of plot point that differs… right… please tell me we’re not smashing the fourth of july party in right now… and oh my god NO GANSEY ON FIRE FUCK I WILL CRASH OUT

okay cool but actually nothing will ever beat the imagery of the helicopter taking off and gansey watching his whole life getting smaller and smaller beneath him

i love when adaptations add new little details when they can’t depict the whole story. ronan lending adam a suit and he accepts <3333 even though he would’ve denied gansey

actually reading this for fashion inspo. blue’s fork and spoon earrings are precious

r: “shitdamn, it’s hot. oh don’t even, parrish.”
a: “i didn’t say anything.”
r: “whatever, man. i know that face. you were born in hell, youre used to it.”

laying in bed kicking my feet. also i don’t think i realized until i bought this copy that adam’s magician card is on the cover. what a nice little detail!!

k: “oh, don’t look so sour, dick. it ain’t a collar, he’s still your dog.”
r: “what am i supposed to do with them?”
k: “hell if i know. i just thought of you. regift them. white rabbit shit.”
g: “elephant. white elephant.”
k: “don’t bring politics into this, dick. let me know when he lets you off that leash, lynch.”

OHHH ICONIC ALREADY

no matter how many times i read and love stephen king i still can’t get over his perversion 😭 youre telling me that garraty’s first action after watching someone get killed is to look up a woman’s dress?! yeah okay sure. maybe he’s desensitized to violence or whatever but that’s def an interesting way to show it!

i’m trying to hold out on this because it’s supposed to be the most difficult in the series to get through 😖 i had to return my libby copy but i’m hoping i can take a break and come back to this series!!