#perhaps I'm thinking too hard on this

[msnihilist]

Headcanon that, as Timmy gets older, he kind of starts to hate his last name. He already has some bad connotations with his full name after the Wishology situation (Timmy having a fear-response to his own name lives in my head rent free), but the older he gets, the more he dislikes it.

It's the last name of his parents, who neglect him and don't try to learn the first thing about him. It's the name that teachers snap at him when he's failed yet again. It's another reminder that the family he has with his fairies isn't really his and he can't keep them. He doesn't have a single good connection to his last name.

Anyway, all of this to say that I'm thinking about the way Jimmy says Timmy's last name in Part 3 of the crossover. Not with disappointment or disdain, but fondness. Like it's just Timmy's name. He uses his last name, "Turner," and it doesn't mean "terrible student" or "useless kid," it means "friend." Like Jimmy looks at him and just sees a person instead of everything that everyone's ever told Timmy is wrong with him.

#fairly oddparents #timmy turner #nicktoons unite #jimmy neutron #jimmytimmy #timmyjimmy #jerkinators #am I thinking a little too hard about this? perhaps #I'm just kind of a little bit obsessed with timmy going to other dimensions and being WANTED there #like he has that whole episode about feeling unwanted and then s6 has the fairy-lympics episode— #—where the pixies and anti fairies were both clamoring for his approval #so many fairies showed up for his birthday!! #so many fairies LOVE timmy like THEY HAVE A STATUE OF HIM OMG #and in retroville timmy has five friends who think he's amazing!! #sure Jimmy took a while to warm up to him #but they're BUDDIES #they're a great team!! #in jimmy's dimension timmy is VALUED and WANTED #follow me for more normal thoughts in the dead of night

[raveartts]

turt

#raveartts #wings of fire #wof #turtle wof #dragon art #kinda art blocked lately but at least dragons are easy enough to draw #i'd love to draw some warrior cats stuff too but like...cats hard #oh well at least i'm drawing SOMETHING #i promised myself i'd do proper art fundamentals practice this year #but so far it's been absolutely pathetic #i'm barely even drawing in the past month #though i shouldn't be hard on myself about it i suppose #i've been stressed and busy and mentally unwell and dying #and i don't HAVE to draw....i just feel obligated to because it's all i'm good at and don't have other reliable hobbies i enjoy #perhaps once school is finished i can draw more #though by then i might be having to move out and work full time and i think i'll just die when that happens #so i'll just never get better at art i guess and i'll just pretend i'm totallyyyyy okay with being subpar forever and ever #lack of perfection DEFINITELY doesn't bother me :))))) not one bit #anyways i have to go to work soon.... #at least my chores are done. perhaps i'll promise myself i'll do some gestures tonight since i'm not busy

[found--family]

am i the only one who sensed some jilted lover vibes from jensen? 

#burcon #cockles #thoughts #at the start of the panel and through a few particular interactions he seemed very standoffish #he was giving a little bitter and hurt and perhaps even resentful - maybe he only learned of misha's gf #at this con too! maybe it was news to him. on top of not seeing misha for months i can understand #if he was feeling a bit neglected and out of the loop. there's also the matter of misha's gf not being #in a poly thing with jensen and dee like vicki was ie. what she has with misha is seperate so i'm sure #that's another difficult thing to deal with knowing their time together is strictly separate #i've no doubt he wants misha to have a partner and be happy but there's an adjustment period #letting new people into your life and whoever misha's partner is now or in the future is going to #affect jensen on a personal level and moreover his relationship with misha. it's all very intriguing #and while i like what little i've seen and heard about this woman for misha i just think no matter who #she is it's going to take a toll on jensen's relationship w misha. i thought it was plain to see on jensen's face #during their panel: numerous moments where he was giving a poker face that wasn't covering a laugh #but instead like he was trying to smooth out his bitterness. or so my eyes and brain and heart tell me. #just various moments where things looked uncomfortable and jensen making off-colour jokes that didn't land #and which furthermore were barbed and snarky - not in their usual banter way but like he was lashing out #and using the excuse of chaotic panel convo to explain away his comedic pitfalls. but again maybe i'm #looking to much into it? idk. there are some lovely moments! fun and caring moments - but they #mainly came from misha's direction ngl. it seemed like misha was trying hard to keep the peace #while jensen was just running his mouth on comments and jokes that kept not landing - for me #everyone on my dash is loving their dynamic this panel - and i want to feel that love! it is possible that #learning misha has a gf has skewed my perception a little like i'm putting context onto moments #i otherwise wouldn't. but i also think i would've laughed and generally felt better watching their panel #if that was the case. idk. whatever the reason i do think something was OFF between them on stage #and it was coming from jensen from the start. misha picked up on it partway though but things felt #a little strained throughout. like jensen wasn't looking at misha as much as usual or reaching out for him #misha tried to salvage and not react to things. but both their answers to the last Q were passive aggressive af #and when they left the stage together they weren't close or touching or chatting like they usually are...

[account-name]

idk what this says about me but i lowkey hope whenever you see my blog on your dash you picture g3 pinkie pie herself making these posts

^ this is who runs this blog actually (real) (true)

#i'm eepy i should go to bed probably #the phone guy ask blog representing me with pinkie for the tail chewing ask made me way happier than it should have #may have unlocked something in me perhaps idk i'm not gonna think about it too hard #i just like being represented by pink horse #mlp g3 #anaacdotes

[iwonderwh0]

If there's one thing to thank anti hankcon discourse it's for the folks around their thirties gathering to tell the teens that they are, in fact, adult enough to decide for themselves who to fuck with and that they do, in fact, find older people attractive.

(And also collectively asking folks in their teens-to-early 20s to stop using the word p*dophilia when talking about literal 30+ years olds.)

Like really, throwing this words in relation to adults downplays its actual weight in its actual fucking meaning, and this is really scary. Age gap might be a controversial topic but not anywhere near it is a matter of comparable scale to what the word ped*philia stands for. Don't turn this word into a buzzword, I'm begging you.

#I think it's like when you're 5 years old #all the 8 years old feel like they're just infinitely older #then in your twenties 3 year old difference is absolutely nothing #The further you're away from being a kid #the less of a difference it makes #10 years difference between 10 and 20 years old is abso-fucking-lutely not the same as between 30 and 40 years old #even though it's the same amount of years #and the same way it's hard for a 5 yo to comprehend that for adults three year old gap is barely a difference #(as it is literally 60% of their life) #here it's perhaps something similar. #I'm in my relatively early twenties and I too feel like I wouldn't date a person who's X years older than me #but in ten more years I don't expect myself to think the same way anymore #as it wouldn't make that much of a difference when it's not 50% of my lifespan anymore #I still don't think I'll find myself in a relationships with someone significantly older #but it would be wild to think that people in their 30-ies aren't old enough to make their own decisions. Let's be real #in this day and age #after you've been an adult for some time #there isn't this much of a power imbalance anymore between you and people who are X years older #or #the same kind of imbalance can be found within the same age category but not due to the age anymore #but things like social class. #Hell #in this sense 30yo can be the one overpowering 50yo.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

I have thoughts about the TTPD speculation/two years/loneliness/sharing feelings through songs train but I'm putting them under a cut because. Yeah.

OK, so I'm giving a warning:

I'm talking about BTTWS, but NOT about the speculation/inspiration behind it. Just about the feelings in it and the Midnights of it all/the idea that sharing the difficult things brings comfort/companionship. So getting that out of the way so we can remove that part of the discourse out of it.

Regardless of whatever the inspiration/event behind BTTWS may be, whether it's about a loved one or personal, I've long felt that its inclusion on Midnights, an album about things that have kept her up at night, is significant in the feelings it portrays.

For instance, we can be fairly certain that Taylor wasn't actually turning in Scooter B. to the FBI and conspiring with his ex-wife to bring him down (or was she?) in Vigilante Shit, just as we can safely guess that she probably did actually pick up that pebble in Wicklow that reminded her of a peaceful time in Sweet Nothing. The line between fiction/reality, personal vs. narrative matters less on Midnights in this case than the feelings she was expressing in the songs, which are very personal and truthful. The revenge fantasy in Vigilante Shit is her working through her anger over having her masters stolen and how she's fought hard to have the last laugh over someone who is a sworn enemy. Sweet Nothing is her reflecting on the dichotomy of her (presumed) quiet home life she felt was safe and the noise of the outside world. (Now, we might speculate on why she was ruminating on this, but that's another story.)

So with that preamble out of the way, BTTWS's inclusion in the tracklist I feel is just as important, again regardless of the inspiration behind it or her personal connection to it. Even if it is a song about someone other than herself, including it as the only "not personal/not diaristic" song on an album as ostensibly self-reflective as Midnights would stick out if that were thecase, though obviously it's her album so she can do whatever she wants and could have her own reasons. (Just like she included Ronan on Red and Soon You'll Get Better on Lover about similar themes, it could just be a tribute to a loved one.) But given all the thematic arcs and parallels on Midnights, I do feel like it's there to include a specific set of feelings being processed, even if the origin on the feelings may or may not be her own. (I'm trying to be really sensitive in my word choices here, hope they make sense.)

BTTWS is a song about loss and grief, and specifically the fallout of an event outside of her/the narrator's control. The person in the song has nothing to turn to to deal with their pain: no faith to guide them, no wisdom to tell them everything will be alright. Throughout the song there is a pervasive sense of isolation: everything is over, they're living without something that was once theirs but suddenly was not. It captures the fog and confusion of living through a painful event without having any way to process. She even says from the start that, "no words appear before me in the aftermath," which for someone like Taylor who has stated over and over how writing is literally how she processes her life would be the ultimate reflection of the depths of her hurt.

(To be clear I do not think this is a song about a breakup whatsoever: IMO it clearly is not about a relationship dissolution of any kind. I just think that the feelings of grief and loneliness in the song may have felt relevant to whatever she was going through during the time the album was coalescing in 2021-22.)

Knowing what we know now about at the very least the period between 2021-2023, Taylor was going through a time of significant difficulty in her life behind the scenes, which is how The Tortured Poets Department came to be, right on the heels of her completing Midnights sometime in early 2022. She has said herself that making TTPD was a lifeline, that she had to keep writing to deal with whatever it was that she was experiencing and going through. And as I posted about earlier today, she's also said repeatedly on tour that not only is writing about her feelings how she processes her pain and loneliness, but that then sharing that music with fans brings her great comfort because it makes her feel less lonely to know people understand and relate to what she's going through.

And we know that she has self-edited her albums over the years (including Midnights) to protect herself and perhaps even the subjects of her songs, which we have seen with the inclusion of the vault/bonus tracks in the re-records and on Midnights. Obviously some of these reasons are logistical -- album was too long, cut songs sounded too much like others, maybe she or her producers felt the ones that were originally chosen were stronger, narrative or sonic cohesion, etc. -- but with what we've seen over the last few years, these songs also filled in the lines of the stories being told and reframed the narrative being told.

Nowhere is that clearer than with You're Losing Me, for example. It's pretty obvious why it was held back: presumably she wouldn't want to release a song about a relationship at its breaking point when she was still actively in the relationship. Yet as soon as the relationship ended, she released it, we can only assume because of her realization that sharing the music and having people respond to it validates her feelings and makes her feel embraced, as it were. Then with the announcement of TTPD and how it's been brewing for essentially the intervening period between when YLM was written and now, we can also surmise that these songs will be dealing with feelings she also felt the need to hold back for whatever reason at the time, but has now decided should be out there so she can feel more whole.

So coming back to BTTWS, it being included on Midnights the way that it was strikes me as a form of sharing feelings that may have been too difficult to process. Again, not implying I have any insight into what the origin of the song is about, or imposing my own beliefs onto her, or that she was sending some sort of secret message with its inclusion! But thematically, BTTWS deals with an intense loss and feeling completely unmoored and alone as a result, which is present in her other work. And that the dreams the narrator once held have gone up in smoke, leaving her reeling about what's to come next. She's cut off from the world because of the event, unable to speak about or grasp what has happened. Similar feelings are also explored in You're Losing Me for instance, and even Dear Reader (not to mention on past albums like evermore, this is my trying, arguably hoax, etc.). Just reading context clues from TTPD and her surprise song choices of late, I don't think it's outrageous to presume some of those emotions are going to be present on the new album as well.

So this is just a long-winded way of saying, I feel like the sense of loss, confusion and uncertainty about the future likely resonated with both what she had gone through in the past, and the story as a whole she was trying to tell on Midnights. And while the origin may or may not be personal or relevant to the new story she's going to tell, I also feel like these same kinds of themes are going to be present on TTPD because they're so important for her to share. (I could even mention that the response to BTTWS may even provide evidence that people sharing their experiences in general brings comfort to those going through it, but that may be veering too far into parasocial "why did Taylor do X" speculative territory.) She sings about these kinds of all-consuming losses so eloquently and mindfully that I know the new album is going to be an absolute gut punch.

(not being self-promotional but I delved a little deeper into the Midnights 3am tracks including this one a few months ago so it's why it's top of mind and why the connections and thematic parallels are so resonant to me lately.)

#sorry i tried to tread very carefully so i hope it still makes sense #i know we all kind of talk around this stuff so I was trying to do the same #while leaving room for interpretation and not getting stuck on the content! #i'm just talking about mood here etc #me thinking too hard about taylor lyrics #writing letters addressed to the fire #midnights #putting it under a cut may have been overkill on my part #but just trying to be mindful of people's dashboards etc #you're losing me #ylm #bttws #bigger than the whole sky #(bttws is a song i have thoughts on but not thoughts about its origin so much as its *metaphorical* (? idk) or perhaps narrative importance #(but it's hard to talk about it without the discussion turning into one about its origin) #(so this is my best attempt to do so) #just clarifying there is no speculation or discussion here just talk about themes #it’s not about the event it’s about the story being told in midnights

[vulturevanity]

Had an idea, an Owl House and MLP crossover where Luz is an earthpony who wants to learn more magic than just what's standard in Equestria

Sunray Sueños is a bright young filly from the humble Hollow Shades who's never truly fit in with her peers. Much as she tried to make friends, her over-the-top enthusiasm for all things arcane and obscure have landed her in trouble more often than not. And it all came crashing down when her loving but concerned mother decided to send her to live with relatives in a farm in Appleoosa for a while, so that she could hopefully stop obsessing over strange magic and develop some social skills.

This, understandably, breaks Sunray's heart, and she dejectedly throws her study book in the trash can of the train stop. She pretty much immediately regrets it and tries to recover it, only to see it being taken away by a strange owl. She follows it past everypony, into an old, dismantled locomotive, out of it through a different doorway -- and straight into a vastly different wild landscape than the shrub-speckled valley and surrounding peaks of her hometown: she's atop a hill overseeing what appears to be a city, though it's unlike anything she's ever seen or heard about. The red-orange sky, the illogical buildings, the unrecognizeable creatures inhabiting it... it's all too much to take in.

The owl, however, is still in sight, and Sunray is nothing if not stubborn, so she chases after it, down he hill, and finds out it has brought her book (along with several assorted trinkets and baubles) to an older-looking griffon with a bit of a sleazebag vibe.

This is the story of how an Earth Pony became the most powerful witch in the Badlands.

#the owl house #my little pony #my little pony: friendship is magic #mlp #toh #luz noceda #this premise activates my almonds #zebra Gus was my first thought #and Willow is... hmm. i'm tempted to say also an earth pony but perhaps a kirin #king as a baby draconequus is such a funny thought #he has no powers. he goes weh and throws tantrums because he knows he's supposed to be important but nobody really knows what he is #everyone thinks he's some sort of chimera? because the Badlands have no written memory of Discord #wait no! Yak Willow!! she's such a yak. but no baby talk she speaks fine #and Amity is. hmmm. maybe a hippogryph? #she gets associated with water and the moon a lot so it makes sense to have her be both in air and underwater #i'm thinking too hard about this lmao #thanks for the prompt though this is a fun reimagining #writeroffanfiction

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

hi yes I'm doing great and fine at college why do you ask :) (<< person who barely contained crying all the way back to her dorm and then broke down once she was in her room bc her government professor told everyone at the end of the first class that they're going to see horrible things in life and it's ok to be bothered by them, you don't have to constantly 'other people have it worse' about everything and so never let yourself feel the hurt over something and then went on to give everyone in the class a Tim Keller book to help cultivate personal devotions bc freshman year is hard)

#is this normal. is this part of the homesickness. is this part of the depression. I don't know anymore. #*sigh* all shall be well perhaps. #hey at least we got some GOOD THEOLOGY in the government class. that was NICE. #(probably I'm being too hard on the preaching that's been happening so far... two of the messages were actually fantastic #and one made me cry with how close to home it hit. #I think mostly it's just targeted to a rather different audience than I personally at this time of my life belong to.) #gurt says stuff #college survival #I need to make a college tag I think... #hm. gotta think of a good one.

[roitaminnah]

in my fanfiction era and by that I mean mostly reading I've read at least 70% of all 200 buttsoup fics on ao3.. but 2day we are drawing scenes from fanfiction because this ppkm first kiss scene from the fic 'Maybe I'm Not All You Thought' has had an iron grip on me for the past 5 days

#ppkm #butterfly soup #sketchbook #guys i'm still learning how to draw kiss. okay. mouths are hard. look away a little. #fun art process explanation here i drew this in my sketchbook and then just took a picture of it and threw that in csp and added values... #because the white of a sketchbook page doesn't particularly lend itself to a nighttime scene... so. necessary. #will i do this again? who knows! yesterday I read a fic that so wholly made me insane that I didn't stop thinking about it for hours #and then re-read it 4 times despite the fact that it was 30k+ words. #so perhaps that will overtake me soon and I'll draw somthin from that one too. u never know. I'm so mentally ill. #what is the. erm is there proper etiquette if uou draw someone's fanfiction sweat emoji. #ao3 user akarshasflipflop hi sorry your fic has made me insane also I forgot to check if akarsha's hair was up or down in this scene #roi draws

[jinkieswouldyoulookatthis]

Oh My God, why do I do this to myself? I've got 7K words of another story written but I couldn't figure out a smooth dismount before the smut (my sweet spot for writing is to write around and right up to smut without having to actually write the smut-- smut adjacent, if you will) so now it's gotta be SMUTTY and I'm struggling, y'all. I'll get it there, but like, my brain does the most impressive adhd mental gymnastics trying to avoid actually writing sex scenes, it's insane.

#it's another wincest story because that's what I'm stuck on still #but this time it's a late seasons first time with pining but ultimately Top!Sam/Bottom!Dean #but Dean's still kinda bossy and Sam's perhaps a bit too conscientious (if there is such a thing) and they're both kinda idiots #and idk I think it's got legs and the first part is still a bit rough but I really like it #so if I can just figure out how to get the rest out... sigh #writing is hard #and I complain a lot #it's part of my process #wincest

[non-un-topo]

Let's ban group projects at the 4th year level forever

#complaining incoming lol #i know it's cliche to say wahh i'm the group member who does all the work! but in this case holy hell.... i literally am. #my prof has set this assignment up so that the groups had to do all the work over reading week on the forums online #so no in-person contact. we have to create a dialogue about this article and then compile a master document with all our notes #and a comprehensive outline of the article. this is supposed to be presented to the other groups on wednesday. #reading week is over and i have not even heard a hello from a single group member. i made a long post with my notes and NOTHING. #i made that post during the week. literally not a peep from anyone (except for the prof thanking me for posting something). this is stupid. #and i'm about to make another post today because idfc. i just want the grade and then to be done with it. i'm pissed lol. #so i assume i'll be making the master document too? #come on... these are 4th year students. and if maybe they're falling behind because of what's going on in the world - #- then perhaps my professor can extend the project a week longer? she hasn't made any statements about this yet. #like... i think there is a good chance that students are finding it hard to get work done with the current events. myself included. #still pissed. but if that's what's holding people back then i'm sympathetic.

[sylvies-kablooie]

unrelated to my usual loki blogging or history posting but i finished reading dune yesterday and watched the first part of the film trilogy and i'm so torn

because on one hand, i loved the worldbuilding, i thought the plot and themes were interesting if convoluted and often unpleasant, but i cannot stop myself from thinking about the themes and wanting to know where the story goes next even though i'm scared to learn (and i often didn't enjoy certain plot choices, like the 3 year timeskip or what felt like to me was chani being entirely sidelined)

on the other hand, i read the plots of some of the other novels, of which there is over 20, and frankly i think they sound unenjoyable and also there are so many of them- i know that guy turns into a worm- and how on earth could i ever read them all, what if they stop being good, but by that point i'm too invested in canon as has been known to happen- gestures to still keeping up with the mcu for sylvie alone- do i just. trudge along? through the 20 books?

my current course of action: gonna watch part 2 and maybe read dune messiah to understand part 3 when it rolls around but other than that. i shall try and resist any temptation to be called into the void. (can they cover all of dune messiah in one movie? will it be like 4 hours? so many variables)

and also i'm gonna be hard on the jessica and leto ship. peace n love.

#i have never read the game of thrones books or seen the series because i knew i would get wayyyy too invested #and never have my life back. so i have stopped myself strategically from getting into them! #it also helps that it wasn't really my thing anyway #but dune is really interesting if only for the elaborate worldbuilding rather than just paul being the specialist boy #i'm really invested in jessica and her lore and you know i go hard for a woman that can hurt you #and of course there are differences between the book and movie i have to chew on in my mind #i always wish you could pick and choose the best from both and call it canon and frankly that is my plan most times #idk. i cannot afford a new Thing to take up all of my time. but also. there is a primal part of me that wants to. #i KNOW that guy eventually marries his sister and turns into a worm. it turns off the appeal!!! #there is a certain catnip in loki x sylvie and leto x jessica. not sure what the similarities are but i'll think on it. #if nothing else it brought me Them! #hmm. much to ponder. perhaps i shall dive into some tags later.

[wowitsverycool]

You're the originator of the curse, just because you passed it along doesn't mean you're cured of it. Thats not how viruses like him work.

Look what you've done, I want to write a fic about this fucker now but with who??? Act 5 sif in all of his enraged sadistic glory???????????? Euphrasie?????????? No id feel bad exposing her to him, a post canon thing where hes eventually unfreezed might work but ???????????? No one wants him in canon. The only option left is x reader and I'm not doing that, I'm not that far gone yet

Be a real MF and make an OC.

Hell, maybe even a self-insert.

#an islander perhaps......... #the enraged sadistic siffrin intrigues me but his asexuality makes it hard for me to imagine him doing the things i Want To Do to that #pathetic pathetic man #....wild card odile? no. no that would be too self-indulgent. and far too out of character. #hehe. lol. w. wild card change god. #that would be funny #hmm but on religion. what if he got a little pathetically desperate about the universe's will #like. getting a little TOO into it. what manner of man priest style. #in stars and time #isat spoilers #oh lord forgive me i'm genuinely thinking about the king #don't look at meeeeee

[arcaneyouth]

perhaps it's true what they say,,,,,, you gotta have a variety in your diet,,,,

#this isn't about food i've been drawing mainly joe for a month now and i've finally decided i'm sick of him #not really i'm thinking about him so hard i'll cry. but i wanna draw somebody else so bad LIASUDHALIUSDH #i tried to draw joe twice today already and both times just felt sooo uninspired. felt really weird #but perhaps there is such a thing as Too Much Of One Blorbo

[betatrolls]

finally got around to watching the last few episodes of the first season of TDI that i originally lost interest in after Harold got voted out and damn did i forget just how fucking excited i get about Harold. I don't know what's wrong with me but i just nearly dislocated my arm after wrecking my shit with a shitty backflip that i did the second he came on screen in the finale. i have never done a backflip before in my life. harold fuels me

#post #yes its five in the morning yes im up thinking really hard about my blorbo no im not gonna be able to fall asleep after the massive dopamine #hit i just got . #it's fine guys #I'D read his beavers and rats journal. HEATHER. #beavers and rats are COOL #most people leave their relatives precious heirlooms and relics of their childhood when they die but I'M leaving my children with my #massive notepad file where i talk to myself about harold that has so much text in it that my phone slows down when i open it #as you can tell i am normal ! #i did however accidentally perform chiropractics on myself earlier when i snapped my head to the left to watch his part of the intro so hard #that my spine partially realigned itself #i do NOT fuck around about harold 💯💯💯 #im on that harold grindset babey . up all day up all night thinking about harold 24/7 365 #he's my babygirl #my little guy #my scrimbly boingo #<- normal girl who is normal #my jaw hurts from gnashing my teeth because when i get really excited i get the urge to tear things apart with my mouth #i start growling and shit too bro category 7 autism events turn me into some sort of creature or perhaps a beast #adn needless to say the mere vague mention of harold tdi is enough to cause at LEAST a category 7 if not a scale-breaking phenomenon #i dont think i mentioned that im freakishly obsessed with harold tdi . idk if that was clear or not . slash ess ay are see #im not tagging this bro nobody wants to see this . except maybe pissmaster so she can express her concern again but he doesn't have tumblr #and i am NAWT showing them this shit 💯🔥 #im probably gonna end up telling him i fucked up a backflip though and whn she inevitably asks why the HELL i was doing a backflip im gonna #have to admit that i got so excited about the Presence of The Harold that i suddenly became an energy faucet so strong i had to #wipe the fuck out to calm myself down #hit my dam head on my headboard and shit #sowwy im subjecting u to this mutuals . ur probably gonna be hearing a lot about this guy for a little while . ok a big while #you know when cats get the zoomies and start doing crazy parkour shit and attacking random shit with their teeth . thsts me when Harold #fuck 30 tags god damn . my final message watch tdi even thoug it stressful as hell so i can talk to u about harold . pleas 👍

[longagoitwastuesday]

you seem to have a wide taste in books !! what are some books that you would recommend ??

Hmmm I wonder. I have the feeling I just read the same couple of books over and over, and at times only different iterations of the same story, like in that line by Borges ("the various intonations of a few metaphors").

I find recommending books without knowing anything at all about the person asking rather difficult. What I'd suggest to one may differ greatly from what I'd recommend to someone else. I'll give a list of some of my favourite books that I think are enjoyable in general:

— Thoughts by Pascal

— Cain: a mystery by Lord Byron

— The Iliad by Homer

— Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky

— Othello by Shakespeare

— Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

— Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

— The fragments of the Presocratics

— La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas, Clarín

— Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Wittgenstein

— East of Eden by John Steinbeck

— Vita nova by Dante

— Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor

— Caligula by Albert Camus

— North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

— Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

— Some essays by Russell. I personally love Mysticism and Logic

— Metamorphoses by Ovid

Poetry is perhaps harder to recommend because at times it translates horribly, but in general I love Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rilke, Byron, Quevedo, Góngora, Lope de Vega, Horace, Catullus, Ovid, Tennyson, Maiakovsky, Garcilaso de la Vega, Oliverio Girondo, Vicente Huidobro, Emily Brontë, T. S. Eliot, Luis Cernuda and Edgar Allan Poe, to name a few.

#I talk too much #I wanted to say The tragic sense of life by Unamuno and Philosophy and Poetry by María Zambrano #but I thought maybe they'd be hard to find in translation. They're both approachable texts of philosophy beautifully written though #Unamuno's essay Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (translated as Our Lord Don Quixote in English according to Wikipedia?) is also beautiful #I adore Schopenhauer and Nietzsche but I'm not sure I'd recommend them to anyone. Probably you can't go wrong with Kierkegaard though #I know what some of these books look like (like Wittgenstein's Tractatus or Cantor's Foundations) #but I swear they're approachable without specific academic background. The last line of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is one of my favourite #lines ever in the history of anything‚ philosophy or literature‚ but to be as hitting as it is you need to reach it at the end of the book #I think despite what it looks like both Cantor and especially Wittgenstein have an aesthetic intent in their writing #Wittgenstein in particular reminds me of Kierkegaard and Rilke and also of Unamuno and Zambrano. And of course Schopenhauer et al. #The Tractatus is very similar in my opinion to Huidobro's Altazor which is just amazing but I don't know how it would translate #These books I like in form and not just in content (although form is content like I think happens in Wittgenstein's Tractatus) #so when possible I'd read them in their original languages.I myself can't read German and know but very little of Russian and Ancient Greek #and a bit of Latin so I must be missing a lot of those. Nonetheless they're great in what I can get through translation #Perhaps you'd have the chance of enjoying them in full #If you can't read Russian I am actually quite specific with the translation of Crime and Punishment haha There's a concept #Razumikhin develops through the book at several points and often translators aren't consister with the word which makes the readers lose #the view of this development. And I happen to think the development works alongside the narrative of Svidrigailov #and also with what happens towards the end with Porfiry and Raskolnikov so I think it's important #In English there are several translations that maintain the coherence such as the one by Pevear and Volokhonsky #(the only one I can remember right now but I could check the rest). Garnett's translation is everywhere but that one doesn't do it #Hmmm Pedro Páramo in English takes some liberties and La Regenta isn't as funny which is what happens with Wuthering Heights #and The three musketeers in translation even when the translations are more accurate #I haven't recommended Wuthering Heights because I take you've read it but that's my favourite book #And I haven't recommended Pandora Hearts because that's a manga and you asked for books but it does some very interesting things #that I think are in line with many of the books listed here (as I said‚ I basically like the same few things retold over and over haha) #There are many books I am itching to recommend but that I can't do freely without some knowledge of the person asking #Like Steinbeck's arthurian novel or idk Gone with the wind #I hope this list is enjoyable enough. I'm not sure if I've been able to avoid being too partial #I suppose one has to bear the conditions of their existence and can't ever entirely get rid of themselves haha