A Dream Within A Dream

Hi! My name is Alannah and I am 21 years old.

I'm generally an outrageously nerdtastic fangirl of things such as Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Merlin, and various anime. I happen to be a history nerd, and I'm also an Anglophile and an obsessive tea drinker.

dreamers lurking
  • May 29, 2012 11:32 am

    I feel sad and lonely and boring.

    I’ve become so mundane that I think I aggravate everyone I try to talk to.

  • May 23, 2012 3:30 pm
  • May 23, 2012 11:52 am

    genuinelytricked:

    ladyhistory:

    kadabbs:

    Imagine if Sherlock jumped from the Statue of Liberty on Elementary

    AND THEN NICHOLAS CAGE CATCHES HIM.

    And they fly away using the Declaration of Independence.

  • May 23, 2012 8:03 am
  • May 23, 2012 4:02 am

    me trying to read fanfiction

    conversationparade:

    ‘she tripped, but a pair of strong arms grabbed hold of her from behind before she hit the floor’

    ‘…she tilted her head back to look into his eyes, enjoying the feel of his warm arms wrapped around her torso’

    ‘…her hands intertwined behind his neck as their lips met’

    ‘…she wrapped her legs around his waist as

  • May 22, 2012 9:54 pm

    (Source: pusheen)

  • May 22, 2012 9:40 pm

    The Literary Snob: Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.

    Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
    Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
    To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    The Bible - Council of Nicea
    Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
    Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
    His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
    Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
    Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
    Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
    Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
    The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 
    Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
    Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
    The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    Middlemarch - George Eliot
    Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
    Bleak House - Charles Dickens
    War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
    The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
    Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

    Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
    David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
    Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
    Emma - Jane Austen
    Persuasion - Jane Austen
    The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
    Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
    Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
    Animal Farm - George Orwell
    The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
    One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
    The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
    Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
    Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
    The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
    Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    Atonement - Ian McEwan
    Life of Pi - Yann Martel
    Dune - Frank Herbert
    Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
    Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
    The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
    Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
    Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
    Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
    The Secret History - Donna Tartt
    The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 
    Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
    On The Road - Jack Kerouac
    Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
    Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
    Moby Dick - Herman Melville
    Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
    Dracula - Bram Stoker
    The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
    Ulysses - James Joyce 
    The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
    Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    Germinal - Emile Zola
    Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
    Possession - AS Byatt
    A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
    Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
    The Color Purple - Alice Walker
    The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
    Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
    A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
    Charlotte’s Web - EB White
    The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
    Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
    Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
    The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
    The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    Watership Down - Richard Adams
    A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
    A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
    The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
    Hamlet - William Shakespeare
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
    Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

    (Source: ccballard)

  • May 22, 2012 9:06 pm
  • May 22, 2012 8:02 pm
    minty-burps:

LEGOLAS YOU ARE THE FATHER

    minty-burps:

    LEGOLAS YOU ARE THE FATHER

  • May 22, 2012 4:01 pm