Latest Posts by blackswan8043 - Page 8

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when hands touch..

Pls why is this so mee😭😮‍💨

how do I finish 300 page novels in 4-5 smthng hrs but cant read a 40 page academic chapter in 3 hrs ????? like the MATH AIN'T MATHING BRO

#godd I was so fucking angry for one fucking month and then everytime iam reminded of her the hate returns🙄

QUEEN OF NOTHING SPOILERS

i've said this before, and i'll say it again, lady asha better watch out 😠

#this is actually what happens🤡

Me: *tells someone that I have just read a new book*

Someone: wow, and what is it about?

Me:

#I wasn't sure I was gonna like him😭

#I thought this would turn out to be a toxic love story💀

When you start reading “The Cruel Prince” and the prince is in fact cruel

These are heavenly✨️

Heaven Gaia spring 2022 couture

Yeah I need this shit😭😭

anyways how sexy would it be to be moderately wealthy i don’t mean like oppressively rich just like. maybe 50k in the account n i could go on trips n have nice things and do more nice things for ppl and ! when i see something cute i can buy it n pay bills n im not like! scrambling for my life; im just chilling in my apartment with my nice furniture, being happy, being Calm

I would totally read it!!

Enemies-to-lovers, but instead of featuring a villain redemption arc, the heroic one is getting progressively more corrupt, unhinged and fucked up, and the one who was originally the clear-cut villain out of the two is just like "well mark me down as scared and horny"

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holding hands with someone is one of the simplest and greatest things on earth. nothing else really matters honestly

I don’t want a job I want a cottage in the woods and paint, read and eat berries

sad that I’m not living in an enchanted forest

I WANT THESE!!!

Porcelain corsets by Joyce Spakman

#recs

Recs;)

A list of my favorite poetic films: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928) The Man Who Sleeps (Bernard Queysanne, 1974) Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1960) The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011) Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994) Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000) Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) Nostalgia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983) The Holy Mountain (1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky) Three Colors: Blue (Krzystof Kieslowski, 1993) The Double Life of Veronique (Krzystof Kieslowski, 1991) The Ten Commandments (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989) Pictures of the Old World (Dušan Hanák, 1972) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) Koridorius (Sharunas Barthas, 1995) Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969) The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973) The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003) Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964) Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943) Still Life (Zhangke Jia, 2006) The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, 1962) Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982) Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987) Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, 1991) Kes (Ken Loach, 1969) The Human Condition (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959-1961) Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951) Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1971) Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990) Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1964) La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983) Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil, 1967) Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994) Eternity and a Day (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1998) Ulysses’ Gaze (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1995) Eclipse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)

Arab Dark Academia✨️

Arabic dark academia

Having tea first thing in the morning, the afternoon, evening, night and whenever you have nothing to do and whenever you have everything to do

Practicing calligraphy, hoarding calligraphy pens and quills like a dragon hoards its jewels

Youre now a calligragon btw

Pretentious hand written letters

Fragments of poetry and prose on the wall

In Egypt you can buy a vintage gramophone (as far as I remember)

Wrinkling your nose at orientalists who have clearly never been anywhere near the culture they're trying to portray.

Appreciating the orientalists who have in fact been there and paint like it. (Sorry to disappoint but there were never sexy slave babes roaming the streets)

Mourning for the scholars of Al Andaluas and times when Arabic was the language of science

Arguing over e'arab (the value of a word with regard to others in the sentence) and balagha (it translates to "eloquence" but is more like a complex version of figures of speech) of words

Arabic being such a complex language you get carried away sometimes

Passing the allotted wordcount so you start going over your paper and compressing a whole sentence, consisting of a conjunction, a subject, a verb and two objects into a word in desperation

Words like فأسقيناكموه (faa'skainakumooh) meaning "and so we have let you drink it" being an example.

Tea over burning coal. Over logs (hatab) tea over bokhour/oud hits different and you know it.

Brewing coffee over low heat and humming to Layali Al Ouns

"No offense but I like real coffee" when someone mentions starbucks

Um Kulthoum and Asmahan are superior you cant change my mind.

NO I DID NOT FORGET ABDUL HALIM HAFEZ I WANTED HIM A BULLET OF HIS OWN.

Fareed al atrash concerts at 3 am.

Nothing you ever cook will be under seasoned.

Reciting poetry to yourself in the mirror

Big chunks of jewelry (usually gold) engraved or woven through with intricate patterns and swirls. Wearing four bracelets in one hand is absolutely fine and under dressing is a myth

Owning swords is not out of fashion (ancient arabs were well known for their swordsmanship) but using them is, unfortunately <3

Wondering how they won wars with these swords. I couldn't even lift it enough to stab myself if I wanted

Extra names. People called شهد honey (shahd), جمال beauty (jamal), زهرة flower (zahra), ليلى night (laila), سماء sky (samaa), مهند/سيف sword (mohanad/saif) and صفاء purity (safaa) like it's the most normal thing in the world (which it should be, along with names of ancient gods)

Poetry from the abbasid era describing palaces and fountains and music so eloquently your heart skips several beats and you wonder how it is still beating at all and if, after all, you have been born in the wrong era.

Classic poetry from the school of Apollo brimming with romance and yearning you have never seen matched.

Poems that tear at your heart and stitch it whole with every bayt (verse? The equivalent for it) and you keep coming back for more.

Stories so well told that you swear you can see the princes and charmers and musicians and dancers all flicker to life in the flames before you

Historical masjids and churches.

Going to the palaces and shrines and towers from the ancient days of yore

Not exclusively (as neither is anything on this list) arabic but BRAIDS and braid jewellery that clinks when you shake your head

The unwavering belief that poetry is meant to be sung.

Singing poetry because it is meant to be sung

Thick eyebrows

Lining already lash lined eyes with kohl.

Beautiful brown eyes. Honey eyes. Chocolate eyes. Freshly turned earth eyes. Eyes that hold all the ethereal beauty of the world.

Hair styled in dark, thick curls or braids

Savouring the way the words move around from your throat to your chest to the tip of your tongue, like liquid gold,

The sweet music from the strings of a qitharah (string instrument)

Scented candles are cute, but have you ever heard of oud (perfume infused wood)? Anyhow one of my Sudanese friends make it AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL.

Wanting to study with the scholars of baghdad and azhar so bad

Recognizing that for all your culture, some of it is inspired by others and that's okay.

Please add what you can to this list. It is far from complete.

I would love to visit here!!

Beautiful Sintra, Portugal.

by @saintjoan

SOOO FREAKINGGG CUTE😩❤AHHH

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

This is why it is one of the best movies😭💫

The tension🔥

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig  |  EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde  |  BELLE (2013) dir. Amma Asante  |  PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright)  |  NORTH & SOUTH (2004) dir. Brian Percival

Why cant we make this come true😭

physically at home, but mentally in an academy that smells of wood and old books, at the head of a secret society.

The power this house commands🔥

slytherin.

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this house and this aesthetic.. I mean - my heart doesn't hold.

Slytherin aesthetics 💫✨️

slytherin.

YES!YES!!YES!!!

i want to learn sword fighting

Haan yaar😭😭

so sick and twisted that i can't do everything and learn everything in the world all at once forever

Definitely 💯

“All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all, does not last forever, does it? There is summer, too, and spring, and though sometimes when branches stay dark and the Earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, that summer, but they do, and always.”

— Truman Capote, Letter to Harper’s Bazaar Editor Mary Louise

Woah never thought of it this way🤡

At first Ratajkowski stuck by her argument, telling journalists that “female sexuality and sexiness, no matter how conditioned it may be by a patriarchal ideal, can be incredibly empowering for a woman”. But as the years went by her opinions around that video, and her empowerment, changed. “In my early twenties it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were the ones in control,” she writes. “Facing the reality of the dynamics at play would have meant admitting how limited my power really was.”

Emily Ratajkowski: ‘I had succeeded by commodifying my body. So why was I so unhappy?’ The Sunday Times

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There’s this fic on AO3 that, according to my history page, I have visited 176 times.  Which means I alone am responsible for 176 hits on that fic.  I commented on some of the chapters, but only a few, because I feel like a stalker when I comment every week.  I gave it kudos, but I can only give it one, even though it’s one of my favorites.

So just remember, when you’re looking at that hit count and wondering why you don’t have that same number of kudos (divided by the number of chapters, because each one of those also counts as a hit), it might be because some people out there love your fic.  They read it when they’re feeling down.  They open it in the waiting room at the doctors office, or in the lonesome dark of night.  They turn to it in celebration when they did something right.  They open it over and over so they can send the link to their friends, or just to revisit the characters that they love.  They checked it ten times in one day, hoping that you had updated.

A disparity between hits and kudos does not mean that your readers didn’t like your fic, or that they were too lazy to hit the kudos button.  It means that some of them came back, and there’s nothing that makes me happier about my writing than that.

Lmao😂

there is nothing funnier than Cardan Greenbriar saying, "No, Locke hasn't gotten around to seducing me yet" idk about you but I wheezed when i read that

Fanfiction Masterpost

tag for tumblr prompts

The Folk of The Air - Holly Black

Jude Duarte x Cardan Greenbriar

Queen of Nobody ‡ tumblr • ao3 • Explicit. PWP; Sub!Cardan, Dom!Jude.

She Kills My Self Control (completed) ‡ tumblr masterpost • ao3 • Explicit. Cardan POV. Pining for Jude, set during The Cruel Prince

Mal d'amour ‡ 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • +1 • Teen. Angst with happy ending. 5+1 fic of Cardan missing Jude during her exile. Set post-The Wicked King.

Rebirth ‡ tumblr • ao3 • General. Cardan POV of the hug in Queen of Nothing

Cheek to Cheek in Hell (ongoing) ‡ masterpost • tumblr • ao3 • Explicit. Canon-divergent story in which Jude goes to kill Cardan after killing Valerian, or at least that’s what she is telling herself

Tales from the Mortal Realm ‡  masterpost

Netflix and Chill ‡ tumblr • ao3 • General. Domestic fluff

No tricks only treats ‡ tumblr • ao3 • General. Domestic fluff

The siege on Costco ‡ tumblr • ao3 • General. Crackfic of Madoc going to Costco

Kiss-proof ‡ tumblr • ao3 Teen. • Jude loses Cardan in the mall, finds him buying makeup.

2021 Roulette Revel

Too Much ‡ tumblr • ao3 • Dedicated masterpost • Explicit. Sex shop AU. Track 5 of Dedicated. Can be read stand-alone, but you should totally read the other parts.

Party for One ‡ tumblr • ao3 • Dedicated masterpost • Explicit. Sex shop AU. Bonus track of Dedicated. Can be read stand-alone, but you should totally read the other parts.

2021 Folktober

Kiss you off my lips ‡ tumblr • ao3 • Mature. Jude has asked the High King to charm Nicasia for information. He does, reluctantly. Part of the She kills my self control universe.

Why do we talk in whispers? ‡ tumblr • ao3 • Explicit. PWP. Part of the She kills my self control universe.

Taryn Duarte x Nicasia

Boys ain't shit ‡ chapter 1 • chapter 2 • chapter 3 • chapter 4 • ao3 • teen. Taryn Duarte, in a desperate attempt to gain Locke's True Love, has brewed a Love Potion. But will the potion actually work?

Darkest Part of the Forest - Holly Black

Ben Evans x Severin

Pie-eyed piper ‡ tumblr • ao3 • General. Fluff.

Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas

Elide Lochan x Lorcan Salvaterre

What Did I Miss? ‡ tumblr • ao3 • General. Fluff. Third person POV of Elorcan, post-KoA

Small Claims ‡ tumblr • ao3 • Explicit. Lorcan claims Elide. Fluff and smut.

3-sentence fic

A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas

Elain Archeron x Azriel

Careful whispers ‡ tumblr • ao3 • Explicit. Elain notices shadows moving in her room, so she decides to see if they report back to Azriel. Masturbation-heavy.

Misc.

Reaching out ‡ tumblr • ao3 • General. Set post-ACOFAS. Male friendship, light angst. A great golden beast roams the Spring Court. Lucien decides to visit it—him.

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

Kaz Brekker x Inej Ghafa

Bottled up ‡ tumblr • ao3 • General. Holiday canon-compliant fluff