It’s Monday. No one is happy, everyone is tired. What better way to cheer yourself up and inject a little bookworm joy into the start of your slog than with some of the funniest literature-related tweets of the last week?
JK Rowling is like, the Morrissey of Children’s Literature.
— Róisín Caird (@roisincaird) September 30, 2018
Jk Rowling: It was supposed to be Gandalf the gay , gray was an editing typo
Me: You didn’t write that boo-
Jk Rowling: Gandalf the gay
— Krispy Scream (@mitchysuch) September 28, 2018
Having a wee after sex AKA The Unbearable Tightness of Peeing.
— PRAISE GOD HALLELUJAH I’M STILL DEPRESSED (@0edipussy) September 28, 2018
The least believable thing about the Harry Potter books is that Harry finds out that he can talk to snakes and does not immediately become one of those weird guys that is really into snakes.
— Daniel Spenser (@DanSpenser) September 26, 2018
Hmm. pic.twitter.com/D2SKF1URDz
— ///Grenzfurthner\\\ (@johannes_mono) September 25, 2018
Hot Poetry Take: Sentimentality gets a bad rap, half the time is a workshop buzzword, and I don’t know what “excessive tenderness” even means.
— Danez Smith (@Danez_Smif) September 24, 2018
date: do you like pokémon?
me: [trying to impress her] yeah of course who doesn’t
date: oh cool! what’s your favorite?
me: [visibly sweating] p-piglet
— viking (@NOTVIKING) September 24, 2018
also, money https://t.co/IM3cQUnGKJ
— wikipedia brown ????? (@eveewing) September 23, 2018
Rereading Lord of the Rings 10 years later, only to realize that the Ring is my smartphone. pic.twitter.com/w2hkX6M6cR
— the artistic side of Somesanity (@flysanityfly) September 22, 2018
RICHARD HARRIS DUMBLEDORE: Ah yes Harry, love is the most powerful magic of all, and as long as you have friends, you have love ⭐️
MICHAEL GAMBON DUMBLEDORE: listen up you stupid fucking cunt can you not just stay out of it for five fucking minutes fucking hell— Carl Kinsella (@TVsCarlKinsella) September 23, 2018