#dona tartt

[ripplefactor]

Donna Tartt .. Tommy Svensson, 8 September, 1993 .. The Secret History ..

#Dona Tartt #The Secret History #ripplefactor #rpf2

[shoutsthedustflake]

Jesus Christ, I honestly try to keep my snobbery to a dull roar but both the positive and negative reviews of The Secret History on Goodreads are fucking disheartening.

#dark acamedia #dona tartt #the secret history #books #I'm sorry that no one's sophomore English teacher could get them to understand what a climax was #ambiguity? like writing with both hands?

[plathsbitch]

I have two looks: a mysterious literary dark academic with a thing for blazers, poise, and blood, or Adam Sandler on Xanax, there is no in between

#past midnight thoughts #style #fashion #dark academia #adam sandler #clothes #literature #writer #author #poetry #art #film #chaotic academia #creative writing #cottage core #theatre #history #music #light academia #dona tartt #ml rio

[notsofriendlyfriendlyreminder]

bro. bro you are romantisizing the secret history. bro you are enamored with the greek class just like richard. bro you are ignoring the bad things and creating aesthetics based on a book telling a murder of a young man. brother.

#anyways #i am both sides of the coin #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt #richard papen #henry winter #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #the secret history donna tartt #dona tartt the secret history #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #aesthetic

[writingdotcoffee]

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, travelling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

Dona Tartt

#writing #writers #write #writing tips #writing quotes #writing advice #amwriting #writing life #writeblr #quote #quotes

[chainsawh]

Unpopular opinion : I prefer The Goldfinch by Dona Tartt than The Secret history

#donna tartt #the secret history #the goldfinch #dark academia #reading

[riemmetric]

The fear, the idea and the lack of patience

I've been thinking lately about a story I want to write and don't know how.

In 2023 I've attended five international conferences. Much like every piece of media I consume, every single thing I personally experience inspires me to construct a story based on it and every single face I see inspires me to fashion a character based on it. Sometime in June, while listening to Nick Cave on the way back from the mountains of Switzerland, my mind started spinning the tale of a handful of mathematicians. In its most accomplished form, this would a be a 500 pages novel, following a cast of characters throughout a decade of their lives, as they meet every once in a while at a conference and become part of of each other's histories. The worst case scenario is that I never write it.

Here are the problems I was instantly faced with:

I am a mathematician who goes to conferences and meets people every once in a while. I have constructed a cast of characters for this story and I have been very careful to make sure none of them were directly based on anybody I know in real life, including myself, but I'm afraid that if I ever release this story to the public, the public won't be able to stop themselves from finding the connections between it and my personal life.

One of the reasons I gave The Secret History by Dona Tartt 3 stars when I read it last March, was the fact that for a dark academia novel it featured surprisingly little scenes in a genuine academic setting. The main conflict of the book revolves around the class differences between the characters and their various romantic entanglements, there were not enough academic discussions for my tastes. The university was nothing more than a backdrop for the characters to be unhinged against. I want my story to focus heavily on the maths, because without it it's just a soap opera, but the job of research mathematicians is to publish new maths. I'm doing my small part in that world, as a phd student, but it's impossible for me to describe in detail maths that a researcher might study in the future and be correct about it. Unreal. And i'm not sure how ethical/legal it would be for me to browse arxiv/mathematical journals and pull research from there. Arxiv is a great resource, but those articles are not peer-reviewed and I don't know how people feel about their work being used in fiction. I have access to research journal through my university, but if something is paywalled, isn't taking it and pretending my made-up people have written it a form of copyright infringement? Much to think about.

Despite all this, I have a few scenes drafted in my head and I have metaphorically penciled some characters to fit the story. I was thinking about writing these things down in the most informal way possible, ie as short stories posted on this tumblr blog. It would be a good way for me to stay creative, exercise my hobby and grow my skill. I have a fantasy of putting little effort in the chronology of these scenes and people falling in love with the characters anyway. We'll see. If I chicken out and don't start this project this month, I'll delete this post and pretend it never existed.

#mine:writing #writeblr #writerblr #thoughts #writers on tumblr

[phytine]

I have to rant because I can't stand it anymore but I'm reading Babel by R.F. Kuang and it's so FUNNY to read a book that criticizes among other thing academic condescension while the author (two masters from Oxford + one phd from Yale) seems to think the readers are so dumb that they needs to explain to you everything and how you have to interpret every event on pages (I swear the number of footnotes to be sure you get their Message).

I have rarely seen a book where the author breath on your neck so much. LB is a lame player next to this author.

It's so easy to see which characters the author hates it would be almost funny if it wasn't so much celebrated by critics.

And it is seen as an answer to Dona Tartt's Secret History...

Sure, The Secret History is not perfect. It is not above criticism but at least it did not feel the need to spoonfed you every RIGHT interpretations. The readers are smart enough to analyse the book by themselves.

Also, I'm a bit perplexed on one point. I'm not a specialist in linguistic and translation but... translation and etymology are not the same thing? So why do I feel like the author conflates both at multiples times in their worldbuding. (On top of other problems.)

For a book that was sold on the author's academic achievments, it's weird.

#this author is taking her readers for some stupid guys it's wow #also there is some takes when it comes to learning other languages it's a bit wtf #like when was the last time you learn another languages because I assure you that you can't learn latin only on vocabulary #syntax and grammar are a thing #it's soooo weird

[medical-magpie]

13.06.22

Im really late on schedule for the #studyblrwithknifereadingchallenge so I picked up the 2022 popsugar one, am I trying to do a yearly challenge in a 3 month span ? Absolutely. Have I it planned out ? Absolutely not. On top of that I’m pushing myself to solely read in English until July because I’m attempting the toefl test in the hopes that I get accepted in an abroad placement next summer.

My last read was The Secret History by Dona tartt which fills the « set in the 80s » prompt even though the setting isn’t reminiscent of that decade at all, you get some brief mentions of songs of the decade played by Richard’s neighbours but other than that the dark academics could be committing their debauchery at any point in time. I liked it, the second part was more enjoyable in my opinion because I hated Bunny’s guts and even when Henry started getting on my nerves it still was less annoying than any scene featuring Bunny. All the characters are very flawed so sometimes they’re hard to follow and even harder to support, you could say they’re morally grey if the shade you’re thinking of is anthracite. Overall I had a good time seeing how the plot unfolded, 4/5

#studyblr #studyblr community #violette.txt #booklr #knife gang #studyblr w/knives reading challenge

[klimtjardin]

Klim, você poderia recomendar livros com uma vibe dark academia?

Amores das letras me ajudem com referências nacionais, por favor? Acho que os mais famosos são A história secreta da Dona Tartt e O retrato de Dorian Grey do Oscar Wilde. Qualquer conto do Edgar Allan Poe, também entra na lista.

#asks

[milomoonsies]

thanks for the recs! ive read all of dona tartt and a little life too. went back to my ao3 tab and saw the beautiful boy mention in ur notes and oh my god yes!!! regulus' addiction and relapse cycle resonates so well w nic's struggle. also if u dont mind reading poetry/poetic prose, check out crush by richard siken and on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong (we seem to have similar tastes so i think u will like them!)

If i'm super honest atw was my first jegulus fic and it partly started because people kept using sobbing timothee chalamet from beautiful boy as regulus references and i was like okay, okay let me watch this movie again...

Crush has been on my list forever!! I shall add ocean vuong as well!

(honestly anything beautiful and covertly devastating is what I live for and I'm so glad donna tartt and hanya yanigahara are actual human beings like alive and breathing?? it is wild??)

Again, I give you many much kisses!

[alectology-archive]

Opinion on dona tartts books? (The secret history/the goldfinch)

sorry, I never finished the secret history! I read 10 chapters and sort of got distracted by another book.

I'll be glad if I come away with a good opinion though because I don't think ~dark academia~ as a genre works for me personally, however well written it is. 

#plus twins in an incestuous relationship is such a tired trope lol #When I do get around to finishing it I suspect it might turn out to be the kind of book that I like while reading but forget about after. #asks #anon asks #text

[80sciggarette]

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

#dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia literature #dark academism #light academia #quotes #academia #dark academia moodboard #light academia aesthetic #chaotic academic aesthetic #chaotic academia #dona tartt #the secret history

[sibmakesart]

I MADE THE SECRET HISTORY STICKERS

#the secret history #the secret history fanart #henry winter #francis abernathy #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #richard papen #ths #ths fanart #dona tartt #the secret history sticker #dark academia #academia #aesthetic #sticker #book #art #fanat #redbubble #redbubble stickers #redbubble shop

[graveofthemourner]

Jo March's moodboard. Not too Sophisticated, free will, lost cause, dreamer, writer, feminine, thinker and a warm lover whose family comes first.

#classic literature #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #literature #writers on tumblr #dorian gray #oscar wilde #virginia wolf #slyvia plath #louisa may alcott #dona tartt #the secret history #little women #aristotle #sapho #writer #60s 70s 80s 90s #love literature #literate roleplay #books & libraries #moodboard #moodboard aesthetic

[lazyacademiasblog]

Dark Academia

Romanticizing university and academia

Focus on the themes of suffering and longing and everything Robin Williams would've stood up on a table to talk about.

The people belonging to this subculture look like a professor in the 19th century travelling by a train

Major space of the aesthetic is occupied by history, literature, classic music and science. But all other fields are as welcome.

All about reading, reading and reading more, as it goes in the academia culture.

The secret history, By Donna Tartt ; If we were Villains, By M.L. Rio

DEAD POETS SOCIETY

Dark academics love the nights, live the nights, make love with the lights

Poetry! Poetry scribbled on the study tables, on the pages of the books, and written in a seperate notebook always carried by these academics.

Motivates you to spend more time developing yourself as a well-learned, knowledgeable and educated individual.

Can be a little pretentious and self indulging

That also might make you ostentatious. But we love a little bit of melodrama don't we.

#academia aesthetic #dark academia #chaotic academia #little witch academia #my hero academia #the umbrella academy #light academia #boku no hero academia #librarylife #dona tartt #m l rio #the secret history #if we were villains #kill your darlings #robin williams #dead poets society #pretentious #literature lovers #literature #classic #classics #80s music #70s music #music #musicislife #history