literature

brave and heartbreaking

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it’s a good one

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alone in a darkened room: the bugg

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thus starting the Dictionary Wars with Oxford

dictionary [click to embiggen]

Look, in my mind, that’s how it went down. Because: BATTLE OF WORDS.

You’re welcome.

ideal love

buggtrarch [click to embiggen]

Love the humanists! Buggtrarch looks quite smitten indeed.

comics

comics [click to embiggen]

OMFG I AM DEAD FROM CUTE.

banned

banned [click to embiggen]

Has banning a book ever led to fewer people reading it? My money’s on “no”.

whitewash

whitewash [click to embiggen]

Hey, they decided not to do the raft scene! I’m digging the overalls, too.

the raven

the raven [click to embiggen]

How much do we love Edbugg Allen Poe, Buggs?

A LOT.

tilting at windmills

tilting at windmills [click to embiggen]

At least the book fared better than the film?

j’accuse

j'accuse [click to embiggen]

And what an affair it was.

on a raft

on a raft [click to embiggen]

I don’t remember a banjo in that book, but eh.

pooh bugg

the pooh [click to embiggen]

Another great favorite of mine! I spent many a lovely day in the Hundred Acre Wood.

paddington

paddington [click to embiggen]

Paddington was my very favorite book series when I was wee!

buggtasmagoria

buggtasmagoria [click to embiggen]

Oh my gods, you guys. SO MUCH GOOD HERE. Let us sum up:

Lord Byron, John Polidori, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley in a dreary Swiss castle during a particularly dreary summer, come up with some of the most enduring works of the Romantic period, including horror stories that inspire literally generations of writers, artists, poets, filmmakers, and others, and play no small part in the shaping of how we see the world and its imagined terrors.

Goths owe a lot to that volcano, is what I’m saying.

man was not meant to wot of

forbidden [click to embiggen]

Forbidden or not, SOMEONE seems to have made a beeline for that section, grabbed one of the off-limits ones, and then got themselves shocked for their efforts.

I hope it was worth it, Buggs!

not that kind of punch?

mrs punch [click to embiggen]

Your commentary choices today include :

  • Soon to be a creepy-as-hell mask in a future crime thriller; or
  • Why the sombrero? I feel like I missed something. The moustache is epic, though; or
  • Man, the Buggs sure spend a lot of time beating each other up. I’m starting to suspect a Mr and Mrs Smith dynamic here.

buggs of wraith

buggs of wraith [click to embiggen]

Wrath, wraith, tomayto, tomahto. Did I get a drawing of the Buggs in full tactical and Tok’ra-allied Jaffa gear, with P90s and staff weapons? Well, that’s all that counts.

canterbuggy tales

canterbuggy tales [click to embiggen]

My feelings on Chaucer (and by extension, Middle English) were forever blighted by a Brit Lit 201 professor in my Louisiana university who insisted that the only way one could read The Canterbury Tales was as a Christian morality play, which harrowed my agnostic soul.

Instead, let us concentrate on the redemptive adorableness of the curly-toed shoes, the cap with a feather in it, and Mrs Bugg pretending to be shocked by the nether yeayea.

real wilde childe

wilde [click to embiggen]

I am a gigantic fan of Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest was one of the few plays I’ve read, laughing out loud the entire time. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream is also LOL-worthy.)

Seriously, it’s like half the lines were written for The Dowager Countess — or the Dowager’s snappy conversation was directly inspired by Wilde’s play. HMMM. I sense a re-watch and a re-read in my very near future …