"average person would be more surprised to see a walrus on their doorstep than a fairy" factoid actually just statistical error. average person would be more surprised to see a fairy. Emily Wilde, who lives in Cambridge & gets proposed to by over 10,000 fairies each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

emily wilde modern AU where wendell can't click the "verify you are human" button on websites

Watched in 2024 → ANNIHILATION (2018) dir. Alex Garland

What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.

i’m so sorry for the typo. justice for wuthering heights.

cats and libraries ۫ ꣑ৎ

*Nothing in Bram Stoker's research notes for Dracula indicates that the Count was based off of Vlad Dracula. In fact, nothing indicates that Stoker was aware of Vlad Dracula. Stoker originally planned to call his antagonist "Count Wampyr" before he noted that the Romanian word "dracula" meant "devil." (In Vlad Dracula's time, it meant "son of the dragon," but the meaning had since evolved.)

The current scholarly consensus is that Sir Henry Irving was the chief inspiration for Count Dracula. However, in the time before Stoker's notes were available, people understandably assumed that the fictional Romanian nobleman named Dracula who fought the Turks was based on the real Romanian nobleman named Dracula who fought the Turks. These days, it's common pop culture knowledge that "Dracula is Vlad the Impaler" and so much media portrays them as the same man that he kind of is Vlad the Impaler, no matter Stoker's intentions.

Weekly Bookish Question #426 (January 26th - February 1st, 2025)

When would you say a book is too long? (This can be in page numbers but also a general feeling/related to a book’s content)

simple: when it's bad. a good enough book can justify even the most doorstoppery page count IMO. if I'm not bored yet then it's not too long ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

do you all see my vision here

mugs by sissi.ceramics (3)

do u think they're in love?

Piranesi lives in the house. Perhaps he always has.

there's a stage in sandwich consumption where it's falling to pieces & you're desperately cupping it in your hands & it's like this poor wounded animal that is covered in mustard & wants to die