lazulisong:

ifeelbetterer:

mnemehoshiko:

wildehacked:

singelisilverslippers:

theladyscribe:

allofthefeelings:

anachronistique:

karma-for-my-kingdom:

gothiccharmschool:

fyeahgothicromance:

annabellioncourt:

forthegothicheroine:

shredsandpatches:

bardystartsfresh:

girlwithalessonplan:

beeps-bravely-through-her-fear:

windycitylibrarian:

strangenewclassrooms:

girlwithalessonplan:

windycityteacher:

mdmshakespeare:

Drunk Literature

Like Drunk History, but books.

Sign me up for Anna Karenina with a Moscow Mule or One Hundred Years of Solitude with some Colombian rum. I’m there.

I will Drunk Lit Othello RIGHT NOW. 

I nominate @unabridged-tomes and I for Tale of Two Cities

Roaring Twenties-style cocktails and The Great Gatsby for me.

The Odyssey and some ouzo

HOLY BANANAS @hithertokt and I could WAIL on Homer.  

Fruity umbrella drinks and Restoration women writers, please. MARGARET CAVENDISH, BISHES.

DIBS ON RICHARD II

Dracula and white russians, LET’S DO THIS

the entire career of edgar allan poe with the cheapest cognac in the store

The summer of 1816 at Villa Diodati with a bottle of scotch

Since @forthegothicheroine called dibs on Dracula, I’ll step outside the lines of “classic” literature: bring me a bottle of absinthe and the original Vampire Chronicles trilogy. 

gimme absinthe and marlowe’s faust.

TEQUILA SHOTS AND THE AENEID, LET’S FUCKIN’ GO

Strawberry daiquiris and Madeleine L’Engle’s Austin-Murry-O’Keefe continuity.

FRENCH 75 AND THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL

WATCH ME DRUNK!CRY OVER THE SCENE ON THE PORCH

Adult Milkshake and “golden age” children’s literature

Straight bourbon and MOTHERFUCKING ELFQUEST.

utter lack of sleep, a bottle of sparkling cider and my eternal rage regarding Acheron 

I volunteer! Next time I have a posse of English Phds around, will do. 

OLD FASHIONEDS AND L M MONTGOMERY

OR

MAI TAIS AND THE ELSIE BOOKS