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madamehearthwitch:

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Personally I always felt like Hobbits age at roughly the same rate as exceptionally healthy humans and that the reason they don’t come of legal age until 33 is because have you met people in their 20s because Tolkien did

Funny: Pippin is an idiot because he’s not an adult yet.

Funnier: Pippin is an idiot because he’s 28.

@teaforlupin

Asked by Anonymous

Tbh I’ll consume coffee in pretty much any format it’s available, so long as there isn’t whipped cream involved

First day of fall semester: It’s a new year and we’re all going to hit the ground running–fresh, energized, and excited to work!

First day of spring semester: Wait sorry class starts when and what are we reading? Which is my classroom? Oh God I haven’t put real pants on in two weeks, what tf do you mean coffee is not a meal

Asked by Anonymous

Ah. Okay. Good news/bad news time: like 90% of what I read could fit into that category so I have a lot of options, but it’s hard to know where to start. (The other challenge is that a lot of the stuff I’m reading was popular when published like 50 years ago and a lot of readers who are used to a 21st-century sense of political correctness might struggle with it. Because I work on the history of literature and I’m very used to reading literature as history and everything that goes along with that, pleasant or not, this isn’t an issue for me, but I can absolutely appreciate how some people don’t want to have to grapple with outdated identity politics. So, go into some of these recs with that warning.) But a few standouts would be Ignazio Silone’s Bread and Wine, Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal (everyone read The Luminaries but not The Rehearsal), Vonnegut’s Hocus Pocus (a lot of people read Vonnegut but nobody reads this one and it’s my favorite), Keri Hulme’s The Bone People (won a Booker Prize back in the day, one of the most harrowing books I’ve ever read but comes with a lot of trigger warnings), Carol Birch’s Jamrach’s Menagerie, and Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. None of these are total unknowns but rather books I don’t see talked about very often which I think have been kind of unjustly forgotten or overlooked. I’ve reviewed most of them if you search for the titles in the tags if you want to learn a little more.

Asked by Anonymous

Now that I live alone I hardly spend any time in my bedroom, and what’s on my nightstand is just the depressing accouterments of adulthood–painkillers and moisturizer and Chapstick and a mug full of pens and a glass of water left over from last night. (I don’t think you really want a picture of that, and moreover that’s more personal than this blog needs to be.) When I’m at home I do most of my reading in the living room. It’s not really a “nook,” just a blue couch covered in dog hair and a bunch of crates and shelves crammed with books and records any which way they will fit. There’s not much to see. Because I’m juggling two jobs and most of my work involves reading or writing, I need my space to be functional and comfortable more than I need it to be pretty. So basically, I’m like the least aesthetic book/studyblr of all time. Sorry.

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Asked by Anonymous

I sort of have the opposite problem where I get really edgy and antsy if I’m not doing something clearly, obviously productive every goddamn minute of the day (I’m working on this). But I think at a certain point you have to accept that there is no magic trick to it and you just have to stop procrastinating and do your shit. It’s a weird part of adulthood nobody ever talks about, but self-discipline is something you kind of have to grow into, and it often starts with a lurch because suddenly you’re 18 and nobody’s asking you if your homework’s done yet and nobody’s making sure you did your laundry and nobody’s there to make you shut off the TV and hit the books. And it’s not always something parents cultivate, because they see that as their job, so then there’s no transition and you’re ODing on the freedom of adulthood and forgetting the responsibility part. All that being said, there’s some stuff under the time management tag that might be helpful.