This Is The Best Time For You To Invest In Something New, Pls Read The Song Of Achilles By Madeline Miller

Richard Siken continues to kill it on twitter. He just explained why his poetry is so popular in tumblr graphics - "you can take any of my quotes and apply them to any fandom or picture and they will work because they are sad and mopey and full of longing" and then proceeded to demonstrate this. With cat pictures. With lines of his poetry slightly altered to be lol cat speak.

(from his twitter thread here)

People are doing their own versions in response and he is complimenting them.

concept: me, speaking a foreign language, my pronunciation is perfect and my accent is indistinguishable from that of a native speaker. I am able to pepper my speech with slang and idioms and I can express subtle differences in meaning with ease. I have extensive knowledge of grammar and technical terms and produce well structured analyses of literature using correct writing conventions.

Do you like poems?

yes! my favorites are The Tiger and the unnamed werewolf fridge poem

There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself ; you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone.

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

JUDE LAW as Lord Alfred Douglas in Wilde (1997)

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov. via twitter

If We Were Villains characters as John Mulaney Quotes

Oliver

Alexander

Wren

Filippa

Gwendolyn

Richard

Meredith

Alexander (again)

James

the thing about being alone is that it’s so peaceful and freeing and cool apart from the evenings you descend into literal hell

reminder that this blog, while not politically focused, supports BLM. bootlickers and racists aren’t welcome here, and never will be.