PenPal Wanted

PenPal Wanted

Hello internet. I am looking for a penpal that I could send letters to between the ages of about 15-19 (I’m 16). Snail Mail I’ve only recently discovered as a thing and I’m really interested in it and I think would help distract me from life’s woes.

Some things about me I suppose:

🟢 I am from Ireland/ Northern Ireland

🟢I am really into reading novels. Especially old books. Classic literature is probably one of my favourite things ever but I am also starting to read more modern series

🟢 I am bi (and ace) but I’m not expecting a romantic relationship out of this.

🟢I have pretty leftist views on politics and world events and will accept absolutely zero racism, transphobia, xenophobia, homophobia or any of that neo nazi bs

🟢I wanna make pretty letters, or at least try to, and though my handwriting leaves much to be desired I will try my best

🟢my other interests includes: classic geeky stuff (LoTR, The Hobbit, Star Wars, Harry Potter etc), old and classic films (Marx Brothers, Audrey Hepburn, etc), knitting, writing bad stories, studying (yes I am a nerd for science). And other stuff that I’ll leave a mystery...(I.e. too lazy to say more)

🟢I am learning german in school at the minute so a German pen pal might be awesome but I am honestly just really interesting in all other cultures around the world. Being from a tiny country can make you curious about it.

🟢 I am taking art gcse and so I quess you could say I like drawing and all but I haven’t been able to do it outside of school and homework for a while.

And yeah. That’s me. I think.

So if anyone is interested please dm me and we can see if we get a long and then start sending letters. I really have no idea how this process works but hey- I’ve given it a go so. Yeah. Bye

hi! i can't message u bc ur inbox is closed to non mutuals, but im glad u wanna be penpals:) i hope we can chat soon!

Ahh. I had no idea that it was closed. I do apologise

And then some find out they’re gay and we’re right back to “alsjcnskaksiiwjwkdk” again

Kids are just like “ppptppptppthhptpppthh” until one day they’re like “oh shit I can think” and then it’s all downhill from there

a guide to wlw period pieces (tv edition)

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Simplicity in the Extraordinary

The Harry Potter books. Biggest kids book of a the century. stories of battles and brilliance, kindness and killing. Brought heart warming and breaking tales. Millions bonding over the thin pages of magic and share breathless moments.

Ends with one simple sentence

“All was well”

And I want to look for that, not an awesome, adventurous or thrilling life but a well life. That would be nice.