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I mean he’s kinda ugly and freaky looking I’ll admit it but he’s special to me so it’s fine
the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.
the whole point of life is just knowing a bunch of weird stuff and being kinda flirty
do you ever think about this quote by mary lambert because i think about it all the time
when you want to be the main character but really you’re the annoying background character at best and the unreliable narrator nobody likes at worst
Edinburgh looks like a dark academia paradise
my partner at the study evenings
Have you ever met someone on the internet that you liked so much that you sometimes sit there and think “Oh man there are people who are lucky enough to see this person IN THE FLESH ON A REGULAR BASIS and I wonder if they realize how LUCKY they are”
Natalie Diaz, “Manhattan Is a Lenape Word.” Postcolonial Love Poem
“Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I’ll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in some one else’s. In the first case you are a man, in the second you’re no better than a bird.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
"The important thing is to stop lying to yourself. A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognise the truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"I miss all my friends, all the time, constantly"
Ocean Vuong, "Thanksgiving 2006" // @bmure's art // @alisonzai's art // Jenny Slate, Little Weirds // Broad City S05E09 // Brockhampton - Dearly Departed // Willie Nelson - He Was A Friend of Mine // Anone (drama)
Some Favorite Essays, Short Stories, Novels
Essays: 1. Helene Cixous - Laugh of Medusa 2. Anne Carson - Evil and Suffering in Modern Poetry 3. Kathy Acker - Myth of Romantic Suffering 4. Virginia Woolf - On Not Knowing Greek 5. Adrienne Rich - Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying - Adrienne Rich - Three Other Essays 6. Alice Walker - Looking for Zora 7. Anna Klobucka - Helene Cixous & Clarice Lispector 8. Joan Didion - On Self-Respect 9. Margaret Atwood - Am I a Bad Feminist? 10. Jeffrey Meyers - The Savage Experiment: Arthur Rimbaud 11. Jennifer Nash - Practicing Love 12. Paul J. M. van Tongeren - “A Splendid Failure” Nietzche Suffering 13. Albert Henrichs - Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: Dionysus
Short Stories: 1. Clarice Lispector - Love 2. Anne Carson - 1 = 1 3. Margaret Atwood - Stone Mattress 4. Amy Bloom - Silver Water 5. Gunnhild Øyehaug - Same Time, Another Planet 6. Anne Carson - Back the Way you Went 7. Tatyana Tolstaya - Unnecessary Things 8. Kirstin Valdez Quade - Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224) 9. Clarice Lispector - One Day Less Novels: 1. Helene Cixous - Stigmata 2. Helene Cixous - Ex-Cities 3. Helene Cixous - Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (my favorite) 4. Jean Genet - A Thief’s Journal (another link) 5. Judith Butler - Bodies that Matter 6. Clarice Lispector - AGUA VIVA (my favorite) Happy Holidays, friends. I hope you enjoy. - Love, E
what’s that quote that goes something like ‘love humiliates you, hate cradles you’ ????
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I'm not actually smart, I just prep for a class like I'm going into battle
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Fun Fact Time:
Oscar Wilde had a lesbian niece
Yea
YEA
Her name was Dolly Wilde. She was the daughter of Oscar Wilde’s older brother, and was born about 3 months after he died. She worked as an ambulance driver during WW1 and spent most of her free time banging rich ladies. And guys. GUYS.
SHE
LOOKS
JUST LIKE
HER UNCLE
They both have That Face.
I’m so, so happy I know this now.
I've been awfully busy lately. Applying for a new job, studying for exams and dealing with the host of problems that have presented itself to me. I'm managing, to varying degrees.
How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm.
Sylvia Plath / 2046 (2004) dir. Wong Kar Wai / Henry Miller / One Fine Spring Day (2001) dir. Hur Jin ho / Franz Kafka / Norwegian Wood (2010) dir. Anh Hung Tran / Anaïs Nin / Girl From Nowhere (2018–) / Haruki Murakami / A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory / Benjamin Alire Sáenz
when Lemony Snicket wrote “I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you everyday” that hurt me
reading is like. i’ve read 5 books in 3 days. i have not read a single sentence in months
william shakespeare be like:
the (almost) complete Bungou Stray Dogs reading list
as a dostoyevsky fan i first discovered bsd by being very confused whenever i saw pretty anime boys in the crime and punishment tag, so now i’m using bsd to discover more classic literature, and you can too!
this is my personal list straight from my phone notes app, of the most significant works mentioned in the series. italized titles are those that i really couldn’t find an english translation of but they’re there for completeness (if you’ve found one please comment!)
i’ve also got links to the french text of all works that are originally in french, because i read french and as said this list is just adapted from my personal notes hahaha
special shoutout goes to @bsd-bibliophile and their website from where i got many of the links, especially the works of the japanese authors, as well as the bsd recommended reading list ❤️
links are pdfs unless otherwise specified
the armed detective agency:
no longer human by dazai osamu
the moon over the mountain by nakajima atsushi (beast beneath the moonlight)
an encouragement of learning by fukuzawa yukichi (all men are equal)
o brother, you must not die by yosano akiko (thou shalt not die)
kunikida doppo’s works
the makioka sisters by tanizaki junichirou (light snow) [epub]
naomi by tanizaki junichirou
be not defeated by the rain by miyazawa kenji [online]
demon pond by izumi kyouka (demon snow)
edogawa ranpo’s works
i am a cat by natsume souseki
futon by tayama katai
the port mafia:
rashoumon by akutagawa ryuunosuke (link includes o-gin that akutagawa gin is based on)
this soiled sorrow by nakahara chuuya (upon the tainted sorrow) [online]
golden demon by ozaki kouyou
falling camellia by hirotsu ryuurou
the dancing girl by mori ougai (elise)
vita sexualis by mori ougai [epub]
higuchi ichiyou’s works (no ability specified yet, but see for example encounters on a dark night)
midwinter memento by tachihara michizou
lemon by kajii motojirou
dogra magra by yumeno kyuusaku [website, incomplete translation] (it appears there’s a full french translation for like $1k if yall are interested lmao)
madness of george III by alan bennett (madness of the jewel king) pretty sure this one’s still copyrighted, hence why they couldn’t use alan bennett’s name for ace, and why i can’t find any pdf copies
the guild:
the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald (the great fitzgerald)
little women by louisa m. alcott
the grapes of wrath by john steinbeck [online/pdf/epub]
the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne
gone with the wind by margaret mitchell [online/pdf/epub]
anne of green gables by l. m. montgomery (anne of the abyssal red)
moby dick by herman melville
the adventures of tom sawyer by mark twain (huck finn and tom sawyer)
the adventures of huckleberry finn by mark twain (huck finn and tom sawyer)
the black cat by edgar allan poe (the black cat in the rue morgue) [online]
the murders in the rue morgue by edgar allan poe (the black cat in the rue morgue) [online]
the call of cthulhu by h. p. lovecraft (the great old ones) [online]
the rats in the house of the dead:
the house of the dead by fyodor dostoevsky [online/epub]
crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky
a feast in time of plague by alexander pushkin [online/pdf/epub]
the precipice by ivan goncharov (this is an abridged translation please buy the new 2020 unabridged translation titled malinovka heights please it’s one of my all-time favourite books please thank you for your attention)
the perfect crime by oguri mushitarou
the decay of angels:
the decay of the angel by mishima yukio [online]
the overcoat by nikolai gogol
dracula by bram stoker [online/pdf/epub] (bram’s ability isn’t named yet but come on who are we kidding)
sigma has been speculated to be a reference to russian writer and journalist sergey nikolayevich syromyatnikov, or possibly sigmund freud
the hunting dogs:
mirror lion by fukuchi ouchi (online summary)
gasp of the soul by ookura teruko (see bewitching shadow which is the only work of anyone from the hunting dogs with full english translation!)
priceless tears by jouno saigiku
plum blossoms in snow by suehiro tetchou (wikipedia)
special division for unusual powers:
discourse on decadence by sakaguchi ango
hail in the begging bowl [online/pdf] (an essay by james abrams on the life and poetry of taneda santoka, from which the ability name is derived)
order of the clock tower:
and then there were none by agatha christie
dark era:
strait is the gate by andré gide (french original, online)
flawless by oda sakunosuke (see his other works from the stories of osaka life collection that has been translated into english, which can be found on the @bsd-bibliophile website)
55 minutes:
the time machine by h. g. wells
the mysterious island by jules verne (french original, online/epub)
matasaburou of the wind by miyazawa kenji [online] (atsushi’s alias)
johann wolfgang von goethe (mentioned)
william shakespeare (mentioned)
victor hugo (mentioned) les misérables french original
fifteen + storm bringer:
illuminations by arthur rimbaud [online] (french original, online/epub)
paul verlaine’s poetry [online/epub] (french original, online/epub)
frankenstein by mary shelley (adam frankenstein)
gaiden:
another by ayatsuji yukito (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3)
the summer in the ubume by kyougoku natsuhiko (an inherent drop)
yesterday’s shadow tag by tsujimura mizuki
dead apple:
shibusawa tatsuhiko’s works (referred to collectively as draconia, see fish scales which has been translated into english)
chapter titles and other references:
franz kafka’s works (our man asagiri) metamorphosis [online/epub] the trial [online/epub]
the setting sun by osamu dazai (have you seen all those dazai sunset scenes in the anime)
the black lizard by hirotsu ryuurou
the case of murder on D hill by edogawa ranpo (murder on D street, ch 6)
poems of days past by nakahara chuuya (back in the day, ch 11) see poem collection
light, wind and dreams by nakajima atsushi (even if my head be mistaken, ch 29)
if you’re gonna read the above you should probably be acquainted with robert louis stevenson’s works, like the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde [online/epub]
tower of silence by mori ougai (the silent tower and the raven’s feast, ch 30)
husband and wife by nakajima atsushi (cherrirs, ch 43)
dreaming of butterflies by hagiwara sakutarou (ch 65-66)
the sheep song by nakahara chuuya (the chant to activate chuuya’s corruption)
les sœurs de charité by arthur rimbaud (the chant to activate verlaine’s corruption) french original
this is all the main works i could find, but naturally bsd is chock-full of literature references so please feel free to add to this list if you have anything! again i have to direct you to bsd-bibliophile’s online library for more complete resources and relevant authors that are not directly mentioned in bsd + a bunch of other useful content, i swear that page is one of my most-visited websites hahaha
other great resources for free books that have entered the public domain, where i got most of the links to the western books on this list:
project gutenberg
free editorial
planet ebook
planet publish
happy reading!
I really enjoy the genre of “older literature featuring a really smart but deranged college student who does something really fucked up with his knowledge and has multiple breakdowns over it for the rest of the story.” one because it is entertaining and two it encapsulates the college experience in a way nothing else does.
Bitches be like “the way this book radiates comfort 🥺🥺🥺☺️☺️☺️” and then it turns out the book in question is a novel written by Dostoevsky
sorry if you get offended by my divine masculine swag
11.11.2021
French lesson 11 and I still make mistakes in dictation after 8 years of studying french
the professors start talking about exams and I don’t feel mentally ready
Every time we have a Japanese lesson, half of the class doesn’t understand and feels stupid (I’m part of this half)
I’m not studying linguistics anymore
I hope your week is going better than mine🥲