The Gothic Librarian

A lover of books, cats, and all things cosy

[ً @lucrezia]

happy international women day girlies ❤️

portrait: lucrezia borgia reigns in the vatican in the absence of pope alexander vi by frank cadogan cowper (1914)

[Dan Rebellato is on Bluesky @DanRebellato]

From today's Times. Drama in schools - not just reading Shakespeare - improves pupils' literacy and emotional development. That must be why this Government has fought to protect the arts in schools - oh wait

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Dolly Parton has never been in a cage fight, but she *has* gifted over 200 million books to children through her Imagination Library. In a world full of Zuckerbergs and Musks, be a Dolly.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I won't be satisfied until my home library looks like this

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

What people need to understand about AI programs like ChatGPT is that they’re basically predictive text. They can neither think nor create. They generate content by recycling books and essays written by actual humans in what amounts to theft on a grand scale.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

happy autumn to the house in Knives Out

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

in a world of performative cruelty and outrage, it takes tremendous courage to be gentle, to love well, to read widely, to embrace curiosity instead of bigotry, to pursue kindness instead of hate.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

women don’t climb through an asylum window in the dead of night to meet their true love on the moors like they used to

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

full story here: https://t.co/EyVk6oMeEt

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

it’s still so funny to me that Agatha Christie’s first husband tried to leave her and she faked her own death to get even. like you think you can just divorce Agatha Christie? a woman who gets paid to invent crimes?

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

call me controversial but I think there’s just as much dignity in attending college to study English literature or medieval folklore as there is in studying engineering or science or math.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I don’t want a Lord of the Rings prequel, I want Knives Out in Middle-Earth. It’s Mr Bilbo Baggins’ one hundred and eleventh birthday—and there has been a murder.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

kids today are like “so what did y’all do before the internet? did you just not know anything?” and the answer is yes. you would ask your aunt Marge a question, she’d give you the wrong answer and you’d carry that misinformation for twenty years.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

everybody wants a “confident woman” until she accidentally llama-fies the emperor of Peru

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

growing up, were you a “reads the encyclopedia for fun” neurodivergent or a “listens to the same song on a loop until you die” neurodivergent

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

you need to be a woodland critter. you need to be helping a hedgehog lady iron her laundry. you need to be having tea with a goose in a bonnet. you need to be nicking mushrooms from farmers

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

by age thirty you should have chronic social anxiety, 367 open tabs from insomnia-browsing and a fiction-reading habit you developed as a coping mechanism for *gestures at all this*

[Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell]

Every so often, when I think we could all use some hedgehog therapy, I post this beloved work by Lucy Grossmith. I’m signing off early today. Have a cozy evening, night guys 🤗💚✨