i wish that i could just be brave
i must become a lion hearted girl
ready for a fight
before I make the final sacrifice
(via twintimez)
The Great Gatsby was last updated in 1924. You don’t need it to be refreshed, do you? Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do. When I read a book, I’m handling a specific object in a specific time and place. The fact that when I take the book off the shelf it still says the same thing - that’s reassuring. Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough.Jonathan Frazen in defense of the printed book — “Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society.” (via oliveryeh)
Oh ffs. I love real books too but there are almost NO bookstores left (I can literally think of one - the dymocks on Collins st) and I resent paying so much more than every other country. I’d love to have nothing but real books but I love my kindle because 1 it’s not a huge mission to buy them and 2 it’s half the price. At least.
(via niallhoransstupidface)
You’re right, but that’s because there’s not just ONE type of teenage homosexual—even just the ones I know personally have as wide a variety of personalities as, gasp, straight people! Because, like, your personality isn’t defined by your…
Sherlock/Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy crossover
Sometimes I just ask myself what the hell I’m even doing.
But really, the only thing I regret is not having made this sooner.
THE BEST OF ALL THE CROSSOVERS.
(via star-the-anglophile)
