A Midsummer Night’s Dream [x]

I’ve realised that what I miss about fantasy is it being truly escapist. I miss it depicting places where I would actually want to go.

Every dang kid I knew waited for their Hogwarts acceptance letter. Reading the books and seeing it on screen gave you this warm, fuzzy feeling and a feeling of longing, even when they were in danger and fighting monsters and evil wizards, you want to be there.

You want to go to Middle Earth, see hobbits and elves and dwarves and run through this land of incredible beauty, mysticism and magic.

You want to be in the TARDIS, seeing the universe.

The more recent trend of fantasy is this gritty, dark realism and places where you would just never want to go. I don’t want to go to Westeros. I don’t want to be in The Hunger Games, I don’t particularly want to be in The Witcher universe. I’m living in the world of Black Mirror and I hate it.

Fantasy used to say “hey our world kinda sucks but here’s a cooler one”, but now it says “hey our world kinda sucks, but here’s an even worse one.”

That isn’t to say that the above are bad. They’re not. 

But I miss beautiful, escapist fantasy that gives me a break. That takes me somewhere magical, somewhere otherworldly and gives me messages of hope and optimism in the face of darkness. I really, really miss that.

stop everything, this is bitty doing research for his thesis

there’s more lmao, unhinged bitty energy

anyway since pride month is coming up and my local barnes and nobey has once again decided to only put young adult books in their corporate mandated rainbow display, y'all want some queer reading recs that aren’t YA?

Cathy Park Hong, from "Spring and All"

want runs deep in you, heavy and thick, and the dam is creaking under its weight.

want is like dust, thousands of years worth of dust on your heavy shoulders and you dare not move. if you stay very still and keep to yourself maybe no one will notice.

want is like grief, love left unclaimed. want is like hunger and you are famished.

wanting is dangerous, so you smother it.

News Anchor in my area loses it over a Fat Cat that likes to swim.

William Bradford - Arctic and maritime paintings of polar ice, icebergs and the North Pole. Alas… another fast vanishing world.

Top 5 John Singer Sargent sketches?

GOD YES.

Michael Sheen and David Tennant on The One Show playing a guessing game about objects they got from sets. (x)

Michael: This is a beautiful book, it’s called Folk Tales of All Nations by F.H. Lee, and it’s beautifully bound, where do you think this is from?

David: I reckon you nicked that off the set of Good Omens.

Michael: I did! It’s from Aziraphale’s bookshop! It’s from Aziraphale’s bookshop which got burned down at the end of the story and so we were asked ‘Do you wanna to keep some of the books?’ so I got a bunch of books from Aziraphale’s bookshop.

Bonus:

to be perfectly honest. i don't care if it is cheesy or cliched or idealistic. i like stories where the core of it is about kindness, the warmth we can offer others and the gentleness we receive in return. maybe the moral of the story IS love triumphs. it better fucking be