#books tag

[sleepnoises]

where is the haterly review of legends and lattes i need to bask in its light

#thenk you #i thought i put it in my #books tag #but apparently not :<

[smalldeerofmine]

Nancy from Every Heart a Doorway because I reread it recently

#character design #every heart a doorway #seanan mcguire #wayward children #books tag #bookblr #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #.art #fanart

[artfromthebigchair]

Realized I forgot to post here. AS catchup— blackthorn and ink.

(For the details :•))

#the blackthorn #the stormlight archive #dalinar kholin #my art #art #knight #fountain pen #drawing #books tag #alphabet superset #cosmere

[myheartissetinmotion]

just thinking about how the musical numbers in wonka are so much more fun when you think of them all as diegetic

(i’m gonna put a read more for courtesy but. please click it i put so much thought into this)

some of them are explicitly so-scrub scrub is stated to be the group’s work song, lofty says his own song and dance can’t be stopped once it starts, abacus cues the wash crew on beat as they work behind the scenes of the shop’s opening, etc. this doesn’t happen super often in musical movies nowadays, which adds to the whimsy of this one

in the original catcf book, the demise of each “bad kid” (and the ethics of that is a WHOLE different-and lengthy-post) gets a song from the oompa loompas, and all adaptations include those; the 2005 film is the only one to have no non-diegetic songs, while the 1971 film and west end/bway stage adaptation have loads. this prequel, however, seems to lean hard into the idea of wonka as a showman-but an earnest one-who brings not only a new taste but also a new sound to the Unnamed European City™️ that he turns upside down.

colin’s newfound confidence wins the day when barbara sees him singing and dancing on a table, which is apparently just the kind of adventure she was looking for. willy shows his plan to the wash crew by presenting it in a reprise of their song, like he’s speaking their language. it’s the sound of the newcomer’s siren song, not just the crowd, that draws the scheming cartel to their windows. there are so many interesting things revealed about the characters if you look at it that way

for a moment starts rather quietly, and noodle’s singing to herself; she doesn’t sing aloud to start, but then willy does, and he’s in perfect counterpoint to her melody that he’s barely even heard yet. then, by the end, she’s *really* singing, because she’s finally found someone who’ll listen. they literally invented siblingism i’m gonna cry

and don’t even get me started on sweet tooth. mat and paterson said in an interview that the cartel sort of stops being villainous the second the music starts, that their number is a seduction at its core, which is so damn true. the fact that it’s acknowledged as diegetic-the chief’s “why am i singing”, slugworth’s “let’s give him the big sell”, etc-means that this is something planned and practiced. there is so much comedy in that-scary powerful capitalists working on their fan choreography is a great image-but it also shows just how sinister they are. “conceal” rhymes with “deal”. they knew he’d say yes in the end. it was predetermined all along.

and a world of your own!! (this might not be a whole analysis paragraph i just wanted to say the way the pulse of the orchestration slowly builds starting at “chocolate bushes, chocolate trees” is so thrilling omg i felt like a kid again)

all this to say that i got sucked into this story for good upon hearing pure imagination for the first time in fourth grade and never looked back so it’s so neat that the prequel involves music in such a thoughtful way OKAY BYEEEEEEEE *mic drop*

#wonka #wonka 2023 #wonka movie #movies tag #music tag #books tag #musicals tag

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A 21st-century person transported to the early 19th century would be in a permanent state of shock. Modern television and film adaptation might impose more 'liberated' mores on Victorian dramas, but they also expunge the details that would unsettle or distract a modern audience: breast-feeding in the drawing-room, men sharing beds, fathers kissing daughters on the lips. At the same time, the artificial aging of the past demands the removal of unexpected similarities with the present: husbands and wives celebrating their sex lives in letters, fear or terrorist attack, concern about the brain-rotting effects of popular culture, and jokes about homosexuality.

Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (2004)

#books tag #this is only a tangential point in the book but it really spoke to things i have been thinking about #so on the blog it goes

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

frank I've really been enjoying looking at pictures of cool bugs on Tumblr lately. do you have a favorite bug, or a piece of wisdom about bugs that you can share with us?

My favorite bug is the beetle that eats old books, called the book beetle

#books tag #leafkidsblog

[youareinlove]

i'm SO obsessed with pride and prejudice. i finished it today and OMG OMG how are y'all normal about this aosldkjf

#.txtpost #like the CHARACTERSSSS #books tag #P&P

[yekokataa]

i took a brief detour into normie books this year and it's made me feel depressed about the state of books today

#open to suggestions for what to read in 2024 #weird and good stuff only #books tag

[wri0thesley]

I love finishing a book and then immediately going to read all of the one star Goodreads reviews regardless of whether i loved or hated it

#this is sarcasm i don’t know what compels me to do this with books I enjoyed #books tag #nat.txt

[aesthetic-day-dream]

Just finished The Song of Achilles….I’m gonna need 3 to 5 business days to recover

#the song of achilles #literally tore my heart out #books that made me cry #bookstack #books tag #aesthetic #cottagecore #cabincore #grandmacore #cottage #farmcore #honeycore #goblincore #gardencore #suncore #flowers #art #naturecore #art aesthetic #strawberry #cozyliving #comfy #cozy #quotes #frogs

[hookechoes]

I was reading a reddit thread about ALL and one of the comments really clarified something for me: this book is whump + h/c fic. Thats literally all it is. Its got the over the top violence, the tragic backstory, the Trauma, the nice characters surrounding jude who seemingly exist solely to worry about him, Jude suffering in dignified silence insisting that he’s Fine but desperately wanting to be taken care of, the fact that Jude (and frankly the other characters as well) have no lives or inner thoughts that aren’t totally about The Trauma that he has experienced… it’s all there. And honestly that is fine for fanfic. With fanfic, the characters have a built in history that everyone goes in knowing already and doesn’t need to be rehashed, so the fic can focus on the whump and the h/c unencumbered. But with OCs you can’t do that. The characters HAVE to have a personality and a life outside of the Extreme Trauma Events.

#ALL lb #books tag #fic bloggin #I guess

[armored-core6]

I suffer from alan wake 2 disease which means when I read books with FBI agents I see them as Saga and Casey

#anyway gone world by tom sweterlitsh? banger. #miscellaneous #books tag

[seapigeonn]

Rlly wanted to buy this lolita copy from this bookstore i went to but tbh i know myself I probably would be too uncomfortable to get through the book… itll happen one day when im stronger to this kind of thing. I got the picture of dorian grey for 3 euros tho which was a steal ^_^

#eva rambles #books tag

[blairwaldcrf]

tagged by the lovely @himbobisexual to list reading novels! ❤ thank you

last:

Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

currently:

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey

next:

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Hellbent by Leigh Bardugo

Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

tagging @purgeshubble @freddieslater @takaraphoenix @chasecordelias @legendsofentity @missbrunettebarbie @laufire

#mutuals #books tag #cherry talks

[myheartissetinmotion]

happy tuck day to you and yours

#tuck everlasting #tuck everlasting musical #musicals tag #books tag

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third quarter of 2023 in books

30. Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy [this was everything a biography should be, I think; idiosyncratic and entertaining and informative.] 31. The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson [reread] 32. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson 33. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, Eric Cervini [shockingly badly written] 34. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston [reread] 35. Late Bloomers, Deepa Varadarajan 36. Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, Christopher Bram 37. Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple 38. The Calder Game, Blue Balliett [reread. still an unfortunate end to an otherwise lovely series] 39. Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps, ed. Michael Bronski [for some reason I'd thought this was an academic study rather than an anthology, but I will say Bronski's introduction and editorializing were excellent and appreciated] 40. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton [reread] 41. The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America, Jack Kelly [this was nicely done, I thought--gripping popular history that didn't sacrifice to melodrama too often] 42. The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard 43. Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement, David K. Johnson 44. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton [reread] 45. A Death at the Dionysus Club, Amy Griswold and Melissa Scott [reread. I love these books so dearly, and I think every time through I enjoy them more--the subtlety in the handling of the characters' emotional development is so lovely, and not underdone, while still being realistically restrained.]

#hideously late in posting but i did read things #books tag