Before reblogging there was the printing press. The printing press was invented because Medieval writers were tired of only getting 6 notes (2 from porn monks) on their text posts.
Category: we are amused
hedgehog-moss: I recently told my librarian that late Thursday afternoons are a special time in my…
I recently told my librarian that late Thursday afternoons are a special time in my week because Friday is my library day, so I often end up like “ahhh I still haven’t finished my library books!!” the day before, and then I have no choice but to sit down and read no matter how much work I have to do. And she was like “aw but you can return some books late, you know I don’t mind at all!” and I paused then repeated “and then I have no choice but to sit down and read no matter how much work I have to do” and she said “OH!! Our deadlines are very strict actually. Yes… just remembered the huge fine.”
Me, reading an Arthurian novel, supported by centuries of text depicting Mordred as a traitor: Oh, shit, I totally didn’t guess Mordred would be the traitor in this one!
Me, reading an Arthurian novel, supported by centuries of text depicting Mordred as a traitor: Oh, shit, I totally didn't guess Mordred would be the traitor in this one!
alarajrogers: prokopetz: Concept: fairy tale where the wicked step-parent (who is of course also…
Concept: fairy tale where the wicked step-parent (who is of course also some sort of warlock) transforms the princess into a swan, as one does, but rather than running off to mope around in a lake and be beautifully tragic, the princess decides to stick around the palace and cause problems on purpose.
It is a beautiful day in the palace, and you are a horrible swan princess.
forthegothicheroine:Sometimes reading Arthuriana feels like reading Alice in Wonderland.“Well,” said…
Sometimes reading Arthuriana feels like reading Alice in Wonderland.
“Well,” said Alice, “these are a dreadfully strange assortment of objects!”
“They all symbolize different aspects of Our Lord’s martyrdom,” said the Fisher King, casting a line into his teacup.
“Indeed. I am sure everything symbolizes something else, for if everything was only itself I should be very confused. Might I ask what the point of the bleeding lance is?”
Alice regretted asking the question as soon as she had done so, for she saw the pun that would likely be made about the word point. Instead, however, the room erupted in applause and shouts of “The Grail! She has achieved the Grail!”
The next castle she visited, Alice resolved to herself as the inhabitants of this one danced for joy, would be more sensible.
“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a…”
“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting: “all gods are bastards!””
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic.
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic.
marius-pont-de-bercy: For anyone who’s ever wondered who they’d be in a 19th century novel, the wait…
For anyone who’s ever wondered who they’d be in a 19th century novel, the wait is over: I put together a 19th Century Character Trope Generator!
If you’d like to reblog, put your character in the tags because I’m curious.
terpsikeraunos: terpsikeraunos: terpsikeraunos: hwaet! memory-mother, in meadhall sing the hatred,…
hwaet! memory-mother, in meadhall sing
the hatred, from heartlocks broken,
of achilles peleusson, cursed by his people,
wreaker of woes unending.
often his spear made the mighty
drink to dogs, food for the feathered,
strong souls banished to breathe in the dark.deep it was driven, the doom of zeus,
since they stood sundered, bitter in boasting,
atreusson the people-king, and sun-bright achilles.
but who in heaven struck up their strife?
the son of leto, livid at the king,
spelled sickness, and the people perished,
for atreusson harmed his holy priest, chryses.spear-greeks he sought by the swift sea-steeds,
daring, undaunted, his daughter to ransom,
bearing garlands of the arrow-guiding god
on a golden staff. he sank before spear-greeks,
saying to them and the sons of atreus, people-guides:
“sons of atreus, and strong-scaled spear-greeks,
may the mighty gods in their mountain-helming halls
give you priam’s gore-gold, and glorious homecoming.
only unchain my child, in exchange for this ringhoard,
with honor for him, the arrow-hailing son of zeus.”
“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or…”
“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, preface to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, preface to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings.
“The UU Library is theoretically the largest in the universe or, indeed, any conceivable universe; it…”
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- Terry Pratchett & Stephen Briggs, The Ankh-Morpork Archives.
The UU Library is theoretically the largest in the universe or, indeed, any conceivable universe; it has a diameter of about one hundred yards but, as far as we can determine, an infinite radius. The presence of so much stored magic does to time and space what a hot iron does to a pound of butter, so that you may well encounter places where the floor is now the wall, the books have turned into small clay models of hedgehogs and you yourself appear to be a device for coring apples. Students will therefore find it convenient to stick to the routes marked with chalk and the occasional banana skin.
We must warn you that many students have cleverly worked out that since the Library does, somewhere, contain any book that will ever or could ever be written, their own doctoral thesis must be in there on some distant shelf. This is true. Setting out to find it is, however, an extremely unwise move. We can assure you that, however long it takes, staying here and writing the damn thing is a lot easier in the end.
”- Terry Pratchett & Stephen Briggs, The Ankh-Morpork Archives.