obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.

My friends keep making me wanna store their art in my cheek pouch and skitter away

To-cat-ata in B by sympawnies

I wanted someone to play it as soon as I saw it and they delivered

This is… ridiculously charming. Extremely pleasant and incredibly fitting!

🗡That will depend on the manner of your return 🏹

I want to try this one.

He put the recipe in the comments for this one! Here you go!

(I’ll type it out so it’s easier to read here)

Ingredients:

Instructions:

Thank you!!!

Yesss!!!! The salty-sweet is delicious, but the really underrated thing about these cookies is that they bridge a very important gap: the one between thick/chewy cookies and thin/crispy cookies! The potato chips provide the crunch of a very thin cookie but still let you enjoy the richness of a thicker one.

I will say, I really didn’t like the sensory experience of rolling the cookie dough in the crushed potato chips (jagged, greasy, sharp), but I did use ruffled chips (spikier) and I did crush them by hand, like a dingus. I do also wonder if you could get away with using less sugar and maybe smaller sized chocolate chips. Also, these are actually better cooled than fresh out of the oven! Okay, that’s it. Good cookies.

I once had a plan to read at least one classic novel from (almost) every country, I keep forgetting about it but I really should do it, I usually end up enjoying them

Anyone has any non-western recommendations?

This was getting a bit out of hand with people sending asks instead of commenting, so I compiled everything that was sent to me under the cut. The rest of the recommendations are in the comments as usual. Thank you all for the recs!

Ok, inspired by @toadlett, I started compiling these in a google doc

And I saw that there are many lists online of a similar kind, but as I'm mostly interested in classical literature rather than modern, and also as I'd like to prioritize the books that have been recommended to me rather than ones I find online, I'll continue to curate this list. Thank you again! ☺️

if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light

You can buy yourself a plushie, a new snuggly buddy, a new friend even but watch out. The monies

crazysnor1ax

Tu peux t'acheter un toutou, un nouveau buddy à coller, même un nouvel ami mais attention. Les cashs.

Þú get­ur keypt þér plushi­e, nýj­an kósý­fé­laga, jafn­vel nýj­an vin en pass­aðu þig. Pengingarngir.

Starting off my challenge to make 1 zine every week until march, it’s some of my favourite baby birds!

I’m doing this challenge to try to kick my habit of overthinking and never starting stuff, though I will admit I’m posting this now on my self-appointed deadline day because I spent the whole week overthinking, gotta start somewhere I guess. Once I forced myself to just sit down and just start drawing it only took me an hour which makes me feel a bit silly

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

An Interview with Richard Siken

Painting of the Maharaja of Indore by Bernard Boutet De Monvel (1929)

His name was Yashwant Rao Holkar II! He was the Maharaja of Indore from 1926 to 1948 and commissioned Bernard Boutet De Monvel to paint both him and his wife Sanyogita Bai Holkar, the Maharani of Indore.

There was also a second set of paintings where both wear traditional clothes also painted by Monvel in 1934!

can i also share these two specific picture of the two of them that i’m obsessed with

Whenever I have artblock I just do this

art block hack I gotta try

change might be closer than you think!! check the couch cushions

Oh hell yeah!

the best colors ever actually

for those gradient enjoyers

[ID: three shades of yellow and orange, followed by the same colours in a gradient. /end ID]

I was enjoying the gradient until I read the image ID and realised I'm not seeing the correct gradients