#gods give me strength

[brasideios]

I’ve just finished reading Crime and Punishment so I’m just going to write a few of my thoughts about it here while it’s fresh.

It reminded me a lot of Keep the Aspidistras Flying by George Orwell; had the same sense of doom and hopelessness pervading it; scenes of poverty and how that beats a person down; the same type of (frankly) irritating protag who seems incapable of doing a thing to improve his own situation even though they’re surrounded by opportunities and people trying to help/support them; though Raskolnikov is significantly less stable. They end on a really similar note, too.

It has a similar, dense style to English lit from the same period (1860s) but then with *so* much less primness about it. It’s unflinching in a way English lit never really is. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the dream sequence of the horse being flogged to death; but there’s many other examples where I did a double take at the brutal descriptions of the suffering poverty inflicts upon people, or that people inflict on each other.

Something written by Dickens or Gaskell, who were hailed for highlighting the suffering of the poor, would *never* openly address prostitution and the effects that has with compassion for the girl (any trespass against Christian values meant death for the girl in English lit - the ‘harlot’ must be punished!) or actually describe an attempted rape. Or suicide. Or attempted murder. Or actual murder. Like - it genuinely does not look away.

It’s worth the slog to read, lots of interesting themes and ideas bubbling away in there, but it is definitely about 150 pages too long (I know this is because it was serialised and back then they paid by the word - that really shows). The last quarter dragged.

Oh - and one final point - to the person who once told me my paragraphs are too long, even when they’re literally a few sentences: this dude wrote paragraphs that run literally unbroken for three whole pages. I think I’m ok 😆

(It was good natured criticism, I’m not at all salty - I just couldn’t stop thinking about it as these monster paragraphs just kept on going, and going…)

#crime and punishment #fyodor dostoevsky #next up: #war and peace #leo tolstoy #gods give me strength #currently reading #just finished #behold the field in which I cultivate my vibes #russian literature

[noxxytocin]

Alas, I’m on the verge of finishing this one-shot. At this point, I just need to binge it tonight and revise it to my heart's content. I'm really looking forward to sharing it with you all soon. ✍️

#gauntcest #gods give me strength #✍️✍️✍️

[brothertheoretical]

Screaming into the Void pt 1

Hello tumblr void,

Today I'm going to scream at you. Well... no. Not scream so much as dump some text into the vast sea of correspondence. Maybe one day it will overflow? I just like the sound of "screaming". It feels very unhindered. Preamble notwithstanding, this post is about the subject of the attached longform: Cooler Screens.

Maybe you've seen them? Buzzing amid the cooler aisle in your local grocery or pharmacy chain? Increasing the ambient temperature and assaulting your very sensibilities? I've seen them. Gods, have I!

To reiterate, I am screaming. I don't have any grandiose points to make. I believe the author of "2023-10-22 cooler screens" has said everything necessary.

I think my only message is this: I was so offended by the existence of these capitalistic slights against reason and foresight that I wrote three letters addressed to two mega-chains and the makers of these atrocities themselves. Talk about screaming into the void!

I think I'd feel a lot better if literally anyone else screamed with me. So, if you've seen these things, consider adding your voice to the cacophony? Believe with me for a moment that the cries of discontented consumers might actually reach the minds of our misguided elites? Give them a taste of reality? A notion of normalcy?

It's truly a shot in the dark.

I'm also interested in hearing from you if you've seen these and... liked them? Or felt any positive emotion, really. I genuinely feel small terror looking at them, portents of the imprudent extirpation of common human ingenuity as they seem.

We've spent our entire history searching for solutions to our problems, and it seems (perhaps from a lack of historical insight) that only recently have we instead begun searching for problems to our solutions.

~Aisaiah

#screaming into the void #blog #cooler screens #computer.rip #anti consumerism #gods give me strength

[ovilis-m]

I did it! I made Ji's new bio page!

#[ alexithymia personified; kwon jiwon. ] #[ 100% certified heathen; ooc. ] #gods give me strength #that was a pain in the ass to do

[thepaladincosplays]

My final is in two days and while I can take some solace in the fact that the guy who’s been writing this year’s exams isn’t the one writing the final, thus giving me a better chance at passing, I’m still extremely worried and afraid about it. And all the while I can’t help but feel like this

I’m going to come out of this in one of two moods. I’m either gonna fail and have to retake it until I pass, which will make me feel like

or I’m gonna pass this shit first try (which is what I’m aiming for/going into with the attitude of) and come out like

#gods give me strength #im seriously stressing out over this so bad I started biting my nails again #after kicking that habit for years #ALMOST FOUR YEARS #so yeah wish me luck y'all #thepaladinrambles

[outlawwolfe]

I have to work with the idiot boss for a few hours tonight. (I normally work alone). Please send good vibes, booze, and or bail money.

#I’m only kidding about bail money…. maybe lmao #he is the dumbest man I have ever met #and I don’t like him and I don’t think he likes me either #so this is going to be a loooong night #gods give me strength #I deserve a paid vacation after this #thank gods I got my adhd meds before this

[coldarethysouls]

I have to watch 4x9 with my dad because he missed it last night. 😬

#gods give me strength #wwdits #wwdits spoilers

[morisdann]

I'm looking at my schedule for the next week since we start a new semester and I have a feeling that I'm gonna die. Like on Thursday I have classes from 8:15 till around 20:00. 12 hours, guys. With breaks, yes, but out of these 12 fucking hours 2 of them are linear algebra and the rest is a seminar, where I'll have to communicate with people. Like I'll have to work in a group. Guess which is worse in my opinion? (It's people, it's always people with me)

Why did I do this to myself?

I also basically have 0 weekend as the seminar continues for two more days and on Sunday I play DND. I'm scared for my well being tbh. But oh whatever, it's still better than working in a café at theater during spring season, when there's almost 2 weeks of non stop performances of teenage dancers (which are probably the worst customers I've ever encountered, even racist old men aren't as rude and insufferable as them, cuz racist old men are at least dying out. And the teenage dancers are thriving).

So, good luck me, don't die (you are allowed to go insane tho)

#uni be like #gods give me strength

[swagbatical]

I did NOT earn my robes at a renowned school of magic, I did NOT bargain 20% of my soul to catalogue the new branch of demon spawns, I did NOT sacrifice all those children and gnomes I thought were children to my dark Lord and I definitely did NOT ACCEPT THE COURT WIZARD POSITION JUST TO TELEPORT POOP OUT OF A KING TOO LAZY TO USE A CHAMBER POT. A BILLION CURSES ON Y- ACTUALLY NO CURSES. I'M JUST GOING TO BLUDGEON HIM!

#wizard posting #wizard problems #gods give me strength

[youretoosweetforme]

I think I might be getting over her. And then I see or hear something. And I’m back at the beginning

#gods give me strength #Antiopa

[lesser-sage-of-stars]

Don’t say I don’t play/listen/interact with (this category of media) and then make sweeping generaalizions about (category of media) unless you want to look like a fucking clown.

Roguelikes aren’t gatcha games nor bolder rolling

#gods give me strength

[stil-lindigo]

the fox god.

a comic about a trickster.

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#cw: emotional abuse #cw: gaslighting #cw: animal death #charity - a god whose name was only ever meant to be ironic #i love playing with the concept of religion like this #im not religious at all but i did go to a christian school for twelve years #and i remember learning about the story of abraham. who long story short gets told by god to kill his son to prove his love for god. #and at the veeeery last minute god goes sike! this was a test to see if you'd do it! here's a lamb to slaughter instead #but the whole concept of that exchange in and of itself is so #anyway #one thing i meant to include in the creative notes but i ran out of room for is that charity never calls cunning by his name. #it's just “fox”. which was a small touch to indicate that he never acknowledged cunning's identity outside of being something exploitable. #but for all charity's hidden disdain for cunning #he still stole all his strengths and coveted them. he became known as the fox god. #so maybe some part of cunning survived. despite everything. #“give me your heart.” #“my god. it had always been yours.” #comic art #hearteaters #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics #one more comic to go until im finished with this collection!!

[mintyleaves00]

Devin Grayson is coming to my college to talk and my African American lit prof is making it a requirement

#devin grayson #like i could understand if it was to critique her #i really dont wanna go though #gods give me strength

[d3licate-kitten]

Can I add you on snap

I’m 24 and you’re asking me for Snapchat …

#ask #anonymous #gods give me strength #the men who used to go to war over women are asking for their snapchats now

[maelstrom-of-emotions]

#writer jokes #writer life #just writer things #just writer stuff #just writer problems #writing memes #writing jokes #writers of tumblr #writers of the world #writing community #may god give me the strength of that typo

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

#art #ive literally just been treating this game as a library simuator #i walk from bookseller to bookseller opening up all of their books #vivecs sermons are either a highlight or the point at which i stop reading #ive been trying to convince the ordinators that imitation is the highest form of flattery but it hasnt been working #let me wear your helmets please theyre so funny.. #posting morrowind in 2024 isnt a cry for help but youre not wrong to be concerned. #morrowind #almalexia #vivec #im going to explain the chitin armor give me a moment #so the bonewalker nerevar on the shrines is adorable and it was only after drawing it however many times that i realized #it looked relatively close to a modified chitin armor #and so i modified chitin armor a few times and this was probably the cutest result #i also know i drew almalexia relatively pristine and untouched by years and vivec not so much but my thought process was #vivecs role as if not a favorite then the most accessible divine or the most “hands on” in a manner of speaking #acting in ways visible to the general population or actions explicitly brought to their attention #like not that almalexia isnt doing anything she is #but the dissemination of information regarding that is very different etc etc etc #anyways to a certain extent a god is the face on a shrine or in art or upon a statue or carving #but vivecs presence is interwoven with the geography of vvardenfell especially and his actions and writings with pubished materials #and the arts and culture and customs etc etc etc #so to me the face of a god you know and feel a commonality with or a god that walks alongside you is a face you would recognize #and vivec is already otherworldly looking enough #the simple mark of the years on his skin in some way grounding him in reality felt more right #that and i think the ways in which he and almalexia care about outward appearance are slightly different- they prioritize different things #and the ways they present outward power and their embodiment of their respective attributes share some similarities as they both have that #important preoccupation with physical power and physical strength to a certain degree #oh my god nobody read this i am yapping so bad. #tes