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If you voted for tr*mp or support him unfollow me now
i’m watching an ocean vuong video right now and he just said “language is real. the power of it is that it gets deeper than any human touch. if i were to touch you right now, i would only get to your skin. but when i speak to you, i’m all the way through”
yeah sure say fuck you to jk rowling but dont forget to like. actually support trans women.
“I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.”
— Hayao Miyazaki
No there is no good fucking reason.
Some of you need to seriously consider how you talk about kids and teenagers, especially young females. You can’t call them foolish for making mistakes or oversensitive/overreactive and not think about what you’re projecting about yourself. Sorry Andi Mack, Elena Cañero-Reed, Riley Matthews, Julie Molina, Monse Finnie, Anne Shirley Cuthbert, Katara, Nini Salazar Roberts and every female protagonist of a TV show isn’t up to your impossible standards but they’re still kids (the hell most adults don’t have an inch of the emotional intelligence some of these characters have) and they are not supposed to be perfect. And if you really get down to it, most hated female characters are those of colour and then it truly hits you. Our society is so deeply rooted in misogyny and racism and it shows in such a painfully obvious fashion. Don’t say you don’t like her because she did X or Y, just say you’re racist and misogynistic and move on.
PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS AN INFINITE NUMBER OF TIMES WORSE THAN IF THEY KNOCKED DOWN THE FUCKING STATUE OF LIBERTY TO MAKE SPACE FOR A NEW LANE IN A HIGHWAY. IF THEY TOOK THE NOTRE DAME APART.
Victorian government cut down a centuries old sacred tree today, hoping to use the announcement of easing lockdown as a smokescreen to divert attention from the fact they’re actively working to destroy living Aboriginal history so commuters can cut 3 minutes off their travel times
Hubble 30 Doradus Nebula Credit: NASA/Hubble, Color/Effects thedemon-hauntedworld
Mary Oliver, "On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate" from Devotions
Pauline’s book recs : a MASTERPOST
Shit, it’s 2020 and I’ve updated this Behemoth again. There’s both old and new in here. If you’re having problems with links overlapping, it is most likely the app/dashboard glitching—try the permalink version, and everything should work out, even on mobile. And of course, HAVE FUN.
Ressources : where to find books online?
CLASSICAL LITERATURE (ANTIQUITY) Where should I start? The fundamental works Where should I start? The mythology-oriented works Where should I start? Mythology, but make it non-greek Where should I start? The translation edition A very touristic overview of Ancient Greek literature Different texts for Antigone Different texts for Elektra Different texts and translations for The Odyssey
CLASSIC [? who cares] BOOKS (ALL ERAS) First things first : a few favourites And works in translation : a few more favourites Where should I start? My first classics A very touristic overview of literature reading Modern classics Reading women : a few favourites ; wait, much more Reading men : a few favourites Children literature : a few favourites ; more Experimental literature Where should I start? English and US literature Where should I start? Modern Italian literature Where should I start? German and Austrian literature Where should I start? Russian literature Where should I start? Irish literature I’m terribly unknowledgeable about? Japanese literature Where should I start? Renaissance literature Where should I start? French literature for intermediate level Where should I start? French Medieval literature Where should I start? Victorian literature Where should I start? Contemporary literature Reading classics to children Children literature for adults (?) A bit of myth, a bit of fairy tale Short-length classics ; more here Short stories One last thing: books I don’t want to check out
POETRY First things first : a few favourites Second things second : a bunch of recs Where should I start? Poetry Learning French? Easy French poetry Lesbian French poetry Russian poetry : a few favourites Narrative poems ; much more Mystic poems Poems about separation Poems about love Poems about happiness Poems about exile Poems about poetry
DRAMA First things first : a few favourites
NON-FICTION First things first : a few favourites ; more recent On translation ; on poetry and music translation On literary analysis and adaptation On first-level literary analysis and French movements On biographies and diaries ; more here ; and more? On writing theory and another one On art history On reader-response theory On feminism (it’s old) Very lacking, but on female history On witches On Sufism Literary interviews Essays
YEARLY SUMMARY Best of 2018 : Prose Summary of 2018 Best of 2017 : Fiction Best of 2017 : Poetry Best of 2016 : Fiction Best of 2016 : Poetry 2016 Summer reading list 2015 - 2016 awaited releases Best of 2015 : Fiction Best of 2015 : Poetry
THEMATIC LISTS By character Works featuring Persephone Works featuring Kassandra Works featuring male protagonists written by women Works featuring the House as a character Works featuring mermaids Works featuring musicians Works featuring the femme fatale archetype Works featuring female villains Works with Nature as a character Works with supernatural entities as a human double Works with introspective characters Works with narcissistic characters Romances featuring softer male protagonists Trope : Star-crossed lovers Trope : Friends to lovers Trope : Villainous love Trope : Toxic mother figure Trope : adaptating Beauty and the Beast Trope : adaptating Bluebeard By theme LGBTQ+ (a terribly old and lacking list) Books taking place in a single building Books taking place in one House Books taking place in a high school Books about seeing into the Future Books by the sea (and the few pirates) Books set in Paris Books about girlhood Books about introspection and self-discovery Books about melancholy and sadness Books about happiness and hope Books with symbolism and atmosphere Books about moral corruption and spiritual decadence Books about sex politics and philosophy Books about the female rage Books about or taking place during World War I Books featuring suicides Poems for mothers Poems about poetry Great love stories Unusual love stories Idealised, bittersweet love ; more By genres Rewriting Greek and Roman myths Rewriting Fairy Tales ; and again Writing and rewriting Arthuriana Favourites free-to-play text-based games Gothic and neo-gothic Southern Gothic Magical realism Dystopias Young Adult Horror novels (but check the gothic instead) Crime novels Medieval historical fiction Just, like, sappy stuff
By context Beach reading Travel reading Halloween reading (spooky!) Winter reading Summer reading ; another Lockdown reading (you can still ask!) By book Books similar to The Secret History Books similar to Wuthering Heights ; again Books similar to A Grief Observed Books similar to The Brothers Karamazov Books similar to On Being Ill Books similar to Eros the Bittersweet Books similar to Dracula Excerpts similar to Dido and Aeneas parting in the Aeneid Recommended editions of Romeo and Juliet Recommended editions of Shakespeare’s Sonnets Recommended editions of Wuthering Heights Recommended translations of Tristan and Yseult Lit criticism on Dorian Gray Lit criticism on Sonnets to Orpheus Books adapted to the screen (1) Books adapted to the screen (2) By author Favourite French writers Favourite Contemporary writers What to read? By Women French writers What to read? By Anne Carson (And some prep reading for Anne Carson) What to read? By Richard Siken What to read? By Roland Barthes What to read? By Agatha Christie What to read? By E. A. Poe What to read? By Daphné du Maurier What to read? By Sylvia Plath What to read? By Priya Sarukkai Chabria What to read? By Hélène Cixous What to read? On and by Branwell Brontë If you love Anne Carson If you love Angela Carter If you love Louise Glück If you love Virginia Woolf If you love Sylvia Plath If you love Marguerite Duras If you love Emile Zola If you love Colette
Virginia Woolf〡Selected Essays; Notes on an Elizabethan Play
who’s your favorite poet? edgar allen poe? yikes. why isn’t it someone actually important like flo milli
collage: sharp objects / gillian flynn
what is your cishet male trait mine is being a car fan
sharp objects / gillian flynn
birds hover the trampled field / richard siken
“They preyed on each other and one of them ate the other. He has no words for what is revealed to him”
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Adonis, from Singular in a Plural Form; A Piece of Bahlul’s Sun. Trans. Khaled Mattawa.
my moms org that increases native representation in the stem field
native american rights fund
have a good day today
the true beauty of hannibal is that they managed to pull that script off. if someone came up to me and said “i find the trout to be a very nietzchean fish” i’d slap them in the face. but they put mads mikkelsen in a three piece suit and had him say that line and everyone, myself included, was like “wow. very compelling. what an excellent show. i will keep watching.”
i hope that people who leave rants in their tags, people who leave descriptions for their playlists, people who have funny titles for their essays, people who read aloud to themselves, people who giggle at their own jokes, and people who smile when they make eye contact with strangers are all having excellent days
bro.. dont take care of me bro... it’s rotten work bro..
the song of achilles / madeline miller
you’re in his dms, i’m the mongoose he wants under the house when the snakes slither by. we are not the same