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[bluecastlecomic]

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So we've come to the end of what I've decided is Part 2! I'll be taking a couple months to build up a buffer of pages going into Part 3, especially because since starting this project, a lot of my circumstances have changed - mainly that I'm working full time again and I don't have as much time to dedicate to this project as I used to have. That said - this puts us past the halfway point of this project!

Regardless, I'll be back as soon as I can be. I want to finish this project before moving onto new projects, so don't worry, this won't be left unfinished!

To everyone who's commented/liked/reblogged: thank you so so much! It's really really helpful and encouraging to see people respond positively to this project, especially on days when I'm particularly frustrated.

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#the blue castle #ink wash #lucy maud montgomery #pen and ink #adaptation #graphic novel #first time graphic novel #can lit #l m montgomery #art on paper #blue castle #blue castle book club

[carriagelamp]

really loving the specific genre of Canadian fiction that is specifically "we went to northern ontario and experienced The Most Heinous Shit and/or had our own trauma reflected back at us through the monstrous"

#there is apparently something about cottage country that just makes people lose their shit huh #me: heh heh gonna read this YA novel about a girl who can see ghosts and another who has a ghosthunting podcast #me once they get to northern ontario and the Uh Oh™ vibes start getting stronger and stonger: 😶 #beginning to suspect we're gonna pivot into The House Itself Will Consume You Both Allegorically And Most Likely Literally style #à la haunting of hill house #canlit #can lit #canadian literature #canadia #chatter #delicious monsters #book review

[dudguacamole]

Photos of my book from instagram!

bookishbunnyxo | readwithana_

anothershortbook | literaryitgirl

#this makes me so happy #anothershortbook #bookishbunnyxo #readwithana_ #literaryitgirl #bookstagram #me #mine #anna fitzpatrick #good girl novel #flying books #lit #bookblr #literature #can lit #fiction #canlit #novel #reading recommendations

[the-most-sublime-fool]

#they really tried it eh? #goddamn yanks (sorry) #but this is a big yikes #anne of green gables #l. m. montgomery #canadiana #wikipedia #quotes #literary figures #canadian literature #canadian lit #can lit

[like-literary-meg]

1.1.23 First book of 2023. Can’t wait to see what books will come out this year!

#booklr #bookish #diary.ca #can lit #tbr

[flaviathebibliophile]

The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter and Andrew F. Sullivan (ARC Review)

Title: The Handyman Method Authors: Nick Cutter and Andrew F. Sullivan Type: Fiction Genre: Adult, Horror Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press (Simon & Schuster) Published: August 8, 2023 A complimentary physical copy of this book was kindly provided by Simon & Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror…

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[justwalkiingthedog]

Luke Baldwin’s Vow …

#Morley Callaghan #Collingwood Ontario #Can Lit

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

#'all those tiktok girls who only like marvel films and' - why do you always say girls and women? are the guys filling opera halls instead? #'women in their mid 20s who still only read YA novels' okay sure that's an example and relevant discussions can be had #but it reminds me of the mocking tone in which people speak of 'chick-lit' to use women's interest as an indicator of lower value #while in fact women are reading more than men in EVERY single genre of fiction. Women are doing a lot of (often unpaid) labour #supporting libaries supporting theatres supporting cultural events #meanwhile there is a pretty big overlap between toxic masculinity and anti-intellectualism #(especially misogyny and homophobia) #especially when it comes to things like ballet or opera or musical or generally dance #in fact it is often the female investment in specific things that makes them less 'valuable' in general consciousness #for thousands of years the theatre was well-respected and a high form of art - and now it's a 'wife-thing' #the father who will teach his son that theatre and dance are for girls - how is that never an example for anti-intellectualism

[firstfullmoon]

Hanif Abdurraqib’s contribution to Sad Happens, an anthology exploring sadness & tears, edited by Brandon Stosuy

#if there is a heaven and if it exists in the sky and if it holds everyone I have loved and everyone I miss it is certainly higher #than the heights any airplane can reach. I propose that this is the loneliest place #the body might not know it but it doesn’t matter the heart rings the loudest bell everything else falls in line!!!!! #w #lit #hanif abdurraqib

[temeyes]

my darling tsukki!

#i still can't believe he works at a museum in post-timeskip like?? that's so fitting??? #my dinosaur loving dinosaur living his dream as a curator/tour guide?? good for him #i can imagine tsukki stoically explaining sculptures and paintings but his eyes are all lit up when they reach the dinosaur section LMAO #i'd give tsukki all the strawberry shortcakes in the world!!!!!!! ILOVEHIMSOMUCH!! #my art #2024 #haikyuu #haikyuu!! #hq #hq!! #tsukishima kei #tsukishima #haikyuu tsukishima #haikyuu tsukki #tsukki #kei tsukishima #art #fanart #digital art #digital drawing #anime #manga #sketch #doodle

[inkskinned]

you have to be sexy but you have to be sexy in a way that's kind of bloody. you learn this early because you are wearing a ruffled skirt and the snow around your ankles kicks little sand particles against your calves. baby's first catcall. welcome to sexiness! welcome to the eyesore of your own body!

you have to be sexy like high heels. like sculpted eyebrows. like lean stomach and highly treated hair. you have to be sexy like youth is sexy, which means you have to be sexy like boxtox and plastic. a 30 year old can be sexy but she's not going to be bloody, and they like the bloodiness of it. a 30 year old is sexy when she is a whiskey glass and a wooden desk.

but you need to be sexy like an open mouth. you need to be sexy like a bitten apple. like plucked skin and white-knuckling the waxing kit.

so sex is a performance, not an enjoyment. for a while, you just assumed everyone else was also in on the joke - nobody actually likes sex that much, right? like, some men probably do, but why would you? it is like a gender - your gender is sexy. your gender is the performance of sex. you are thigh highs and garter belts. which, to be fair, do make you feel sexy.

part of what does make sex good is that you can tell that other people want you, which means the performance of sexiness is both bloody and wanted, which is good, which means you are winning at having a body. being wanted is the prize. being wanted is the thing you are searching for, not hope. you think you are looking for a soft grave in easy loam, but that is bloody but not sexy. to be sexy you must be bloody like a red open sign. bloody like a handprint. this will make you wanted.

any wanted or unwanted body is subject to supply and demand, which is to say that the more demand, the better you are valued. you must be highly demanded to be valued. this is stated in matter-of-fact by some men. sometimes it is a priest that says it, and sometimes it is a podcaster, and sometimes it is the 45th president of the united states of america.

(if you do not have any experience with being told your value, i want you to grab the nearest bird to you and i want you to crush it into a thin paste in your hand. spit into the center, and then hold your fingers closed tight around it for days and days, long after the rot has set in. feel bones itch inside of your fist. this is only a fraction of what it actually feels like, but it will suffice for a moment.)

good sex feels like you have earned their desperation. you have earned your own value. for a while you operated under the understanding that everyone knew about the power structure, even him. that their desire to take you - the violence of it - means that you must desire to be caught. little prince, guardian fox - you would rather have cut your own arm off. you liked the secret, cunning little voice you keep tucked into a box. you think you are fucking me. i am not even here right now. you are fucking what i conned you into perceiving. this is a painting, not a person. dominion over the body before all things.

so you bend your body like a wheat shaft and learn the steps so perfectly that it almost seems graceful. (if you do not have experience faking your own connection to your body and sexuality, cut each of your articles of clothing just a little bit incorrectly. pour fishbones into each of your meals. this way, you will experience the average noon on a tuesday.)

you have to be sexy like light spilled over a desk, but not desperate. not a noose. you can't be sexy like an electric guitar, you are the acoustic. you have to be on top of the bull but you can't have control over the animal.

okay, okay. the little rabbit of your heart went to sleep so long ago that winter has ravaged your concept of the human soul. there's something very-bad inside you, something that has taken over, a little fetid and rabid animal, angry and hurting and willing to bite first.

oh but even that's a pain that's sexy. open your mouth. be careful not to let the canines show.

#spilled ink #writeblr #warm up #the reason i tag warm up on so much is bc often i write them between me doing other things so im mostly telling myself to come back and edi #bc i rarely have time to check for typos lol #this is partially about compulsory heterosexuality btw #and why it took me so long to realize im a lesbian #i just assumed sex wasn't really supposed to be that good #been reading feminist lit and u can always tell

[bluecastlecomic]

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I spent a lot of time looking up "how to canoe" videos on YouTube for this page, because I needed reference material for getting in and out of canoes.

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#the blue castle #lucy maud montgomery #pen and ink #ink wash #adaptation #graphic novel #first time graphic novel #can lit #l m montgomery #art on paper #blue castle

[noranb]

haikaveh college au + drinking games (it’s still 11.11 somewhere right)

also some details under the cut

they're freshmen

haitham: classics & anthropology double major

kaveh: architecture major

they're not roommates yet

they meet in a literature class for their writing requirement

they have very different interpretations of these novels and it often leads to heated discussions in class and everyone else is like :x..

all hell breaks loose when they're grouped together for the final assignment

other teammates are used to their bickering by now

haitham secretly enjoys these discussions, he finds kaveh's pov interesting. but he also likes watching his reaction so he'd be deliberately antagonistic sometimes

kaveh's annoyed cos haitham's so composed unlike him and he wants to think haitham's just bullshitting but his points actually makes sense ugh

freshmen year ends and when kaveh thinks he'd never have to see haitham again (and forget abt the stupid pocky incident once and for all!!) boom they're assigned to the same room in sophomore year

#haikaveh #kavetham #genshin impact #alhaitham #kaveh #so like i just wanted an excuse to make them kiss #can you tell #this is supposed to be college au #they’re stuck in the same class #probably for lit requirement or something #they famously do not get along #or do they #myart

[soracities]

Theodore Roethke, from "What Can I Tell My Bones", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #typography #id included #theodore roethke #what can i tell my bones #the collected poems of theodore roethke #fragments of selfhood #reading #m #x

[flaviathebibliophile]

The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan (ARC Review)

Title: The Marigold Author: Andrew F. Sullivan Type: Fiction Genre: Adult, Science Fiction, Horror Publisher: ECW Press Published: April 18, 2023 A complimentary physical copy of this book was kindly provided by ECW Press in exchange for an honest review. In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered development, an unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the…

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[firawren]

Mr. Darcy being a slut

In honor of the @hotjaneaustenmenpoll, I present to you Mr. Darcy 1995 being a slut.

You want more slutty men?

#sluttiest thing a man can do #pride and prejudice memes #pride and prejudice #jane austen memes #jane austen #english lit memes #pride and prejudice 1995 #mr darcy #colin firth #text posts #pnp text posts #my stuff