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Now I’m losing sight of who I’m meant to be in this reality
Rina Sawayama - Where U Are
Pauline’s book recs : a MASTERPOST (II)
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.
Also: I had to split this one in two otherwise the links just poof, disappear. Part one is here.
THEMATIC LISTS By character Works featuring Persephone Works featuring Kassandra Works featuring Mary Magdalene Works featuring Narcissus (more or less) Works featuring male protagonists written by women Works featuring the House as a character Works featuring brothers Works featuring assassins Works featuring mermaids Works featuring musicians Works about scorned women and complex character development 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 Works with “fatally-flawed” (hubristic) 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) About love: pretty much a whole bibliography Suspense galore: books with good foreshadowing Suspense galore: a few good plot-twists Books taking place in a single building Books taking place in one House Books taking place in a high school Books with dysfunctional families Books about seeing into the Future Books by the sea (and a few pirates) Books set in Paris Books about hubris Books about loneliness and solitude Books about finding one’s life purpose 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 Experimental literature Gothic and neo-gothic Southern Gothic Magical realism ; a few more Dystopias Young Adult Horror novels (but check the gothic instead) Crime novels Thrillers (thriller night); more Medieval historical fiction Sweet sweet comfort reads 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 Memoirs of Hadrian Books similar to Brideshead Revisited 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 Books that might remind you of Avatar the Last Airbender if you squint 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 Some links to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Book of Hours Some links to a few of Mary Oliver’s works 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 What to read & which translation? For Marguerite Yourcenar Which translation? For Hafez If you love Anne Carson If you love Angela Carter ; more 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
look i love all the hargreeves siblings equally but, respectfully, this is a luther hargreeves hate blog xoxo
today is a good day to support trans authors
emily brontë / wuthering heights
richard siken / snow and dirty rain
In light of JK’s new book, here’s a link to donate to the UK Charity Mermaids who help provide support to trans and gender diverse children and young people!
And here’s a link to the trans rights carrd and the black trans lives matter carrd!! Even if you can’t donate signing petitions can do a lot of good!
Love you all, especially my beautiful trans and non binary followers out there! Keep being the most incredible souls! 💕💖💕💖
normalize not normalizing anything. Everything is weird and you are all freaks
Gabriela Mistral, The Parrot
dan radcliffe was really like “yeah yeah thanks for the career and the money and everything but you will respect trans people or die by my sword” and i love him for it
Hello everyone, regarding the white-washing and cultural appropriation prevalent in Dune (2020) dir. Denis Villeneuve, FILMREEL will not be reblogging or making content pertaining to the film. We apologize to the creators that have tagged us in Dune content but we will not be reblogging it. We hope that you understand our decision and thank you for your support thus far and in the future.
Listed here are a few informational choices that we hope will help explain our decision:
Why Arab and Islamic Representation Matters in the New Dune
this twitter thread
another twitter thread
Arabic and Islamic Themes in Frank Herbert’s “Dune”
The Secret History of Dune
- filmreel’s team
TARA BRAY, “LISTEN”
The Face of Another , Hiroshi Teshigahara , 1966
I’m a connoisseur of roads. I’ve been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end. It probably goes all around the world.
My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant
“There is nothing in it for me now — no joy, only sorrow. Why do I hang on?”
— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: “May, 1964”
We were scum, trash, refuse that didn’t fit into the system, until someone had the bright idea of recycling us to serve science. Robert Pattinson as Monte in High Life (2018) dir. Claire Denis
““It’s so difficult to manoeuvre,” he says, exhaling deeply, visibly calibrating the level of professional diplomacy to display. “You get yourself involved in projects and you’re not necessarily going to like everything. [But] what I would say to Disney is do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up.” He is talking about himself here – about the character of Finn, the former Stormtrooper who wielded a lightsaber in the first film before being somewhat nudged to the periphery. But he is also talking about other people of colour in the cast – Naomi Ackie and Kelly Marie Tran and even Oscar Isaac (“a brother from Guatemala”) – who he feels suffered the same treatment; he is acknowledging that some people will say he’s “crazy” or “making it up”, but the reordered character hierarchy of The Last Jedi was particularly hard to take. “Like, you guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver,” he says. “You knew what to do with these other people, but when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know fuck all. So what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, ‘I enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience…’ Nah, nah, nah. I’ll take that deal when it’s a great experience. They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything.“”
— John Boyega: ‘I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race’ by Jimi Famurewa, GQ September 2020.
this is inhuman – yet it’s mine.
“May the flesh of kings feed the earth”
Graffiti seen in Portland, Oregon during the ongoing protests
some fucking resources for all ur writing fuckin needs
* body language masterlist
* a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does
* a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes
* 550 words to say instead of fuckin said
* 638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again
* some more body language help
(hope this helps some ppl)