#i love it. its so literary.

[cpcposting]

Probably one of my fave things about CPC is the fact that Gwen genuinely isn’t conventionally attractive, she’s not just some girl who *gasp* wears glasses and has her hair in a ponytail or something X_X The amount of ”””ugly””” characters I’ve that seen that fall into that trope bruhhh. But as the comic goes on, like Frederick, you get used to her appearance and come to appreciate her as truly beautiful bc of who she is <3 

#cursed princess club #rambling #ig shes like fiona from shrek in that way?? #who in the end stays as an ogre despite her princess form #and shrek loves her like that yknow #oh no another shrek reference #aerial was so real for that fic ngl #honestly i could compare cpc to true beauty as well or something #bc that comic also deals with ugliness kinda #but its different shit yknow #its more focused on love triangles XD #heck even lookism addresses it a bit #but that comic is kinda traumatic for me to read at times bc of the fatphobia and such lol #so id say it deals moreso with body image compared to cpc #which is more about the impact of words rather than the appearance itself #the literary compared to the physical #lookism is so fucking brutal fr #like you think frederick's bullying was bad??? #lookism mc would be jealous of him #uhhh ive gone on a whole rant i apologise

[soldier-poet-king]

Red string conspiracy board that is my brain connects dionysios, vampires, divine madness, blood/gore, and evil with a ?????? Innate and insatiable hunger/longing of the soul for smthn more than human????

#the duality of fran #ive decided to just be full on annoying. look at my insane person thoughts boy. love and light <3 #i was meant to a be a binge drinking chain smoking insane essayist from the mid 20th century #instead i am. here. #vampire hot but vampire also incredible literary device for examining the wretched horrible hidden and un examinsble parts of humanexistence #that we r usually too afraid to look in the eye #thats why its scary!!!!!!! horror as literary genre my beloved #cannot believe she is so mistreated and misunderstood

[insert-neologism]

bad astrology by flower face

#yellowjackets #jackieshauna #ITS DONE OMG ITS FINISHED #what do I do now. with my life (ranking) #also ive decided i am gonna do literary analysis. on all of em #literally i have NO idea if anyone cares. well. i do bc I care and tbh that's enough to me #<- guys look im living so healthy #anyways this was a blast #hope somebody has at least discovered flower face trhu me bc its one of my fav artists #mitos incredible life #mine art tag #also im sorry the like long scenes 3 and 4 arent on beat :/ i love that song but it has so long instrumental stuff and idk what to do there #ALSO!! i had it all planned out like at least half in my docs (like always) #and then in the middle i was like 'omg what if I only show jackie-after-the-argument and shauna-after-jackies-dead' #(excluding the argument and the flashbacks (they used to hear us thru the floor)) #which was. restricting. very much #also meaning was changed (originally wanted jackie to have the line 'idc if ure not made for me' but the only scene i could think of was th #ure hungry for and that was the next scene already so.) #anyways this was originally gonna be lottienat before i started with The Shark In Your Water #bc I thiught it fit them SO well. (still do) but now I like have to get away from the jackieshauna thought and then ill do the lottienat #probably #omg also I want everyone (who has read this far. whoever would do that) to know i was running on like 25 screen #recordings and 3 jackieshauna scene packs form yt #that's why. I dknt have that many clips alright im not using like 10 scenes over n over on purpose #gotta go but im gonna make a wrap post thingy once im back slay #no actually I get like average 7 notes (<- that's a lie Idk bc I didnt count) but im proud of myself this is amazing #ive wanted to do smth similiar alr #but it was some album by alec benjamin and a different thing for every song (like a poem‚ a painting or a play) #but I lost motivation this is the first thing that i actually pulled though all the way I think #jackieshauna: The Shark In Your Water

[mycological-mariner]

One thing I find deeply frustrating is whenever you go “This piece of medía looks really good and like something I would enjoy however when I tried to get into it, I found it contains a great deal of things that I find extremely triggering which sucks because it otherwise sounds like something I’d really enjoy” and someone goes “Oh that sucks, I’m sorry you’re missing out it is REALLY GOOD and you WOULD love it!”

#like. more power to people who don’t have those specific barriers #I’m glad this piece of media is being enjoyed and cherished by people! #but ffs #I KNOW I’d love it and I WANT to read it #I however CANNOT #so why then go ‘sucks for you because you’re Missing Out! <33’ #a bit tone deaf #and this isn’t a ‘every piece of media should be made with ME in mind and cater to ME specifically’ post #fuck that I think there needs to be screwed up shit out there and it’s just not always for everyone #I just think it’s people’s RESPONSES that suck #do you not think I already feel shitty for not being able to read something? do you HAVE to add that?? #and I also understand it comes from a good place #but it’s a bit thoughtless #its the literary equivalent of when I (epileptic) express being kinda upset I can’t go to queer clubs bc I’m photosensitive #and then someone who CAN go the club says ‘oh that sucks it’s so much fun you’d have loved it!’ #???? #why?? is that necessary???

[realbeefman]

Ever just have a screaming fit about ptsdee (and nightman cometh, and missing out on childhood so you go see a robot’s boobs) and Charlie/Dennis feeling connected over suffering ‘real trauma’ the others haven’t, but also absolutely never admitting What Happened?

LITERALLY EVERDAY CONSTANTLY THEY HAUNT MEEEE.

PTSDee is one of my favorite episodes because I just absolutely love episodes that explore the gang’s trauma through absurd hijinks (dee’s self esteem issues n mac n frank daddy issues exploration r also favorites of mine) but charlie & dennis’ connection is just soo special and i love the way it’s portrayed. they’re such different people but the way they can see through each other’s denial and bullshit to recognize the specific ways that each of them was hurt KILLS me. they can only truly comprehend and try to process That Thing That Never Happened through projecting onto each other it’s so tragic. Real Recognizes Real and such… the charden worms in my brain r wriggling so fast rn AUGH

#THISSS IS WHY CHARDEN IS THE SHIP FOR ME #they understand each other they look at each other and see the things they hate in themselves and love the other more for it #charlie n dennis r blood brothers in the literary sense imo #wayy more than mac n dennis #charlie n dennis r blood brother just like dennis n dee r related… like theyre so entangled all 3 of them in my mind #mac n dennis r in love and friends #what charlie and dennis have blurs the line between family and lover and friend #same way dennis and dee do imo #putting that in tags bc its rambly and also i dont want to be crucified LMAO #TYVM FOR THE ASK IM GONNA GO SCREAM INTO A PILLOW OVER THEM NOW /pos :D #iasip #charden #charlie kelly #dennis reynolds #PTSDee

[mysteriouspresence]

a comparison of themes

a brief comparison of the shared/juxtaposed themes between the works "the stranger" by albert camus, "no longer human" by osamu dazai, and "notes from the underground" by fyodor dostoevsky (will try to keep this spoiler-free as possible!)

opening notes: themes: alienation, apathy and envy, misanthropy and understanding others, pride versus conformity main characters meursault from "the stranger" yozo from "no longer human" underground man from "notes from the underground" premise meursault is a man who lives in french algeria. his initial characterization is established when his mother dies, and he doesn't care much. later on, he happens to commit a crime, and we are shown his detached nature throughout the legal/penal process yozo deems himself "disqualified as a human being" while examining his life; he finds himself unable to understand other people and is frightened by their strange emotions and behaviors while he spirals in and out of addiction and depression the underground man is a spiteful loner who drives away the people around him and favors his own fantasies over his real life; he chooses to indulge in his romanticized, emotionally charged perspective, which in turn causes him more pain

alienation: -- all three main characters are shown to be outcasts, unable to participate "properly" in society. in a narrative sense, all three end up "punished" by society for being different (either literally or as they perceive) -- all three characters try to form romantic relationships, only to be thwarted at some point (note: meursault was arguably most successful). in each case, their prospective partners were interested, only to leave them under circumstances that all arguablely stemmed from the protagonist's actions.

apathy: -- meursault is apathetic towards his uncaring nature in-of-itself. he is not bothered by his apparent loneliness and callousness, nor how other people perceive him. in fact, he barely sees himself as different, unlike our other two protagonists -- meanwhile, the underground man tries hard to appear "cool" and unaffected by what he sees as slights upon his honor, but he ends up raging anyway; he envies the status, wealth, and social connections that other people have and emulates those in his fantasies -- on the other hand, yozo is painfully affected by everything around him and overthinks every action both he and other people make. he determines himself as thoroughly unable to be human

misanthropy and understanding others: -- the underground man and yozo find themselves disturbed and perplexed by other's actions. both distrust others, believing society to be maliciously out to get them. they're ultimately hindered by this self-consciousness. -- yozo tried hard to "fit in" to the expectations around him, only to deviate more as he cracked under pressure -- the underground man tried a few times to be sociable but ultimately gave up and declared himself a member of the "underground", retreating into his own world -- opposing this is meursault, who is seen as the frightening, perplexing being by other people due to his apparent lack of emotion by the end of the book. however, before the climatic incident of the novel, he was seen as an ordinary, albeit bland, man who just goes through his life. he never tried "too hard" to fit in, even though through his narration, we can tell that he was already apathetic, to begin with. the incident merely called everyone's attention to him

pride versus conformity: -- ultimately, all three men chose pride, consciously or not. they refused (or were not able) to become molded to society's standards, and all chose the "wrong" path in the end, even though they tried to live "normally" at some point -- they stayed true to their nature (as outlined above) to the end of their respective novels. each novel resolved with a respective resignation/acceptance of their fates

#literature #books #world literature #character analysis #theme analysis #literary analysis #reading #the stranger #albert camus #no longer human #dazai osamu #notes from the underground #fyodor dostoevsky #book comparison #i love reading #its so fun drawing parallels #i did this instead of working so now you gotta read it #so yeah no poems today #just me gushing over famous books #hope it all makes sense #feel free to correct me #or debate me

[gatsby-system-folks]

OK tumblr I need your help with something.

We volunteer in a library today, loved it, and are now very seriously considering changing our major to become a librarian.

Our current major is communication studies, aiming to get into an HR position, then later on go back to school for sociology and psycology.

My question to you, librarians of tumblr, do you think it's worth it?

I feel like it bears saying that we're autistic, plural, and queer; interact well with people but could be wayy better

#college student #librarian #library #librarians of tumblr #advice request #career decisions #first: no pressure! this is mostly an (if you want to tell me how great your job is/rant about how bad it is) thing. im absolutely going to #be getting more advice on this #but i figured tumblr was a good place to poke around! #second: we're (the system) all crap at communications. so while we enjoy it its not the best option career wise #it was mostly just a foot in the door anywY #*anyway #thirdly: we're all super literary and love to read and organize. and the library we'd be working for is one weve been going to for a decade #uh yeah i think thats it! again no pressure tumblr librarians! love yall! #actually autistic #plural

[thesandisfalling]

my official take on the moon/qibli/winter love triangle is that winterwatcher is a much grander, epic romance, and moonbli is a much more level, sweet-and-simple romance, but ultimately i think it was a better decision to have the latter be the canon romance in a series primarily marketed towards children and teens than fall into the "bad boy" romance trope, and instead romanticize the earnest, genuine, sweet relationship

obviously there's way more nuance to this involving internalized/unconscious bias, and winter doesn't even REALLY fit into the "bad boy" archetype, but purely based on genre conventions, the gruff, rude, brooding, tortured hero VERY often falls into that category, and at the ages of 7-14 most of us were very LIKELY to be romanticizing that archetype, which again is very often treated as interchangeable with the "abusive bad boy" trope, and while i might have a few gripes with the writing of moonbli and i ENJOY winterwatcher a whole lot, i DO appreciate the more gentle, "safe" romance being treated as the ideal, rather than the tense and angst-filled nature of the alternative

#i could talk about this way more but im in the middle of rereading dod so itll have to wait #what i DO have to add is like. something something the ideal romance being the calmer safer one and how - for me at least - #those years of my life were so complicated and difficult and i made this image of romance out to be this massive painful epic tale #of heartbreak and passion and huge declarations of love and everything #but ultimately; imparting the lesson to children that a romantic relationship should be SAFE - it should be your comfortable place #where youre happy and content and feel warm and secure - is MUCH better #than pressing upon them the idea that it should be this epic battle of tension and painful pining and everything #(whether its something simply overlooked in the writing or not; the fact is winter also DIDNT ever apologize to moon for #all the hurtful things he said or did - which isnt to say hes a BAD GUY i love winter so much - #but i think romanticizing those kinds of dynamics - which is tricky but CAN be done - is better saved for works marketed towards #more mature and emotionally intelligent audiences than i think wof might be meant for) #ANYWAY I HAVE LOTS OF THOUGHTS #god im so glad i got back into this series. the literary love of my life #mine #wof #winter #moon #qibli #wings of fire #winterwatcher #moonbli #meta

[sunshades]

One thing about canto VI is like. I see so many people predicting it'll be about Fighting Evil Wife or Breaking Codependent Toxic Relationship and I just kinda think that would suck? If the major theme isn't grief AND love and the way both are seen as like Kinda Weird/inappropriate in the setting of the city. Then I'll be very sad.

#bell.txt #not putting it in the tag i dont wanna spam but yes limbus posting yes girls will be thinking about mortal regret #LIKE. LIKE. remember the discourse on twt about how like it was bad writing that yi sang didnt mourn dongbaek etc #and like that was the thing right. thsts not a thing you do in the city. that was part of why roland (who takes lots after wh's themes) #was so exceptional. that is the whole thing about the sickness of the city #to say it in comedia literary criticism terms: sins are split between wrongly-directed love and excess of love with sloth (lack of love) #being an outlier. i think heatho and generally og wh is about excess of love and not wrongly-directed love. it is the thing that lasts #all the way to the other side. it is the shared coffin and meeting again in the next life #i think itd be AWFULLY disappointing to get some boring boring 'they make each other worse' take. being APART due to societal pressures #makes them worse and horribly lonely. death makes them worse baby. so in my mind thats it #we get to see cathy die or still be unreachable in some way and then in very roland style we get furioso mode #and then the ending is about recognizing the love that has in fact been there all along and carrying it with u. and hoping to reunite some #where some other time. NO more slander of that awful girl. YES to the comfort of the memories. #me typing over my foscolo notes like i can surely post about heathcliff really fast and not write a novel in the tags (unaware) #i have more thoughts about this in regards to ruina with xiao and some stuff from leviathan but in the meantime. listen to my ramblings boy #ALSO. considering that implication. he feels for her what queequeg feels for ishy. ARGHH. RIPPING MY HAIR OFF #ok actually its been enough hours to not spam ppl I'll tag it now for blog org. i should maybe have a tag for posting specifically #limbus company

[blossoms-and-petrichor]

Oh if queerness is so unnatural where is MY evidence that my transgression has moved the earth itself? where are MY thunderstorms and uncannily docile lion encounters announcing MY presence? where are MY strangely vicious horses and predatory sparrows hunting birds of prey present at MY arrival?

#I love it when the natural order is fucked up in shakespeare #everytime i hear some “its unnatural!” bs about queerness I think about macbeth and caesar and cheer up #i love when tragic heroes fucked up enough to distort nature itself and i quite enjoy reclaiming the idea of being an unnatural freak #trust that i want to be nothing like caesar or macbeth #and trust that i know this specific literary technique was used to discourage questioning the ruling class and that shakespeare employed it #bcs he literally made plays for the king #but ITS SO MUCH FUNNNNNN #shakespeare #julius caesar #macbeth

[your--isgayrights]

Wow I love writing romance <3

(^only wrote about a dozen pages of world building info dumps about literature and a metatextual scene of a character reading an excerpt of a novel that doesn't exist in order to realize someone is his friend. Romantic Interest hasn't appeared in 20 pages)

#i used to get bummed out when commenters complained that i spent too much time making up an orv videogame #and explaining the backstories of kdj's friends but like now that i take believe in myself pills i realize that like they dont get #that literally everything is /about/ the main relationship bc the main relationship is informing kdj's behavior in /every/ scene hes in #and so like literally any interaction or conversation can also be about that while also being about things i think are interesting #like the reason i had to explain the videogame i made up was so that you get kdj rigging it so yjh wins big #and then the reason i have to explain this literary world stuff is so that you can see the themes that resonate to kdj because of his own #experiences (one of which is the main relationship) #and then the fake novel excerpt i wrote is FORESHADOWING for the end of the chapter so there... #ROMANCE IS NOT THEM KISSING OR THINKING WOW HES CUTE ITS HIS ENTIRE VIEW ON THE NOTION OF ROMANCE AND LOVE BEING WARPED BY THE FACT THAT HE #FIRST DENIED HIMSELF ACCESS TO IT WITH HIM #personal

[loveoaths]

i am very weak for a specific kind of din-centric romance that i’ve yet to see anywhere (probably because it would be tedious to write). i want din to have an Arthurian romance where his Creed and his besk’ad are not obstacles for his partner to vault over into his arms, but part of him, more of him to love. i want din to have a romance where they will love him whether or not they ever get to see his face, or touch his skin, because when din said the helmet is my true face he meant it, and when his paramour said they loved all of him, they meant that, too. the Creed is his blood and the besk’ad his skin and his heart the steady tattoo blasterfire and his soul is the manda and to love a true mandalorian is to love them because of the old ways, not in spite of them. din may walk the galaxy’s gray meridian but his faith in the Creed is absolute. to love him you have to love him for that faith, too.

#this is my joker. i am going to wind up writing some absolute longfic for this man because I DON’T WANT HIM TO IMMEDIATELY DROP THE ARMOR! #romance and desire are built on longing and denial and someone wanting him #initially wanting what’s under the beskar until they realize he is the beskar too; that the reason he’s so emotive through the armor is #because he wears it like skin; maybe some pseudo magical bullshit about inhabiting beskar long enough infuses it with your soul yadda yadda #idk what i’m saying here but. for a series where hope plays a huge role i just think it’s a shame that din’s hope/faith are bypassed so #quickly in fic sometiems when that’s where so much of his character and love potential lies! #imagine the ways of showing love and care for the LI! #shining his armor! adjusting it for him when he’s hurt? finding ways to care for wounds without bypassing armor? #the chivalry and trust of turning your back on a deadly warrior so he can take care of himself? #THE CHASTITY? ITS SOOOO ARTHURIAN ITS SOOOO LITERARY ROMANCE #i’m frothing at the mouth. watch me write the gayest most romantic longfic that is about faith and desire and longing and lust and doubt #that no one but i will read because i’m crazy about this shit #idk what i’m saying. but. religion. interesting. faith. sexy. doubt. delicious. #din djarin #the Mandalorian #walkie talkie. #fic tag.

[rainingmbappe]

The rise of "let people enjoy things" is single handedly the backbone of the rise of anti intellectualism

#i need to talk about this #disclaimer : im beyond terrible at putting my point across #so with that being said let me attempt at it #let's take look at the hate and misogyny women receive for liking a certain genre of books #that is so often simply countered with let people enjoy things #but we cannot let that narrative take over a whole as if critical thinking is “bad”? #booktok has made it so that disliking a popular books makes you the person with the superiority complex who should just let people enjoy- #-things #but when did criticizing actively target audiences who like that peice of literature? When did that become the narrative? #its all mindless consumption without a second thought to the actual material which can easily be credited to the tropification of books #the enemies do turn into lovers and the best friends do fall in love 10 years down the line #classifying books into tropes and then fulfilling that promise gives books an illusion of being “good” since it checks those boxes- #-that the reader picked up the book for in the first place #the act of reading has kind of been substituted by the act of being a reader and just owning stacks of books #we have turned away from any form of analysis or criticism #if it scratches the itch then its automatically the perfect book without further thought #i cant help but contribute the mere existence of that “itch” to how mordern books are classified into tropes with set plotlines #intelligenctualism is almost always looked at as elitism #reading only classics doesn't make you an intellectual individual but looking at any book with a critical lens may it be a classic or a rom #-com does #criticizing certain aspects of your absolute favorite books is intellectualism and not bullying people who like anything but classics #that distinction is so far lost in translation that talking about how a popular book is objectively bad is being a “hater” #well then im a hater #this is not a hate post for people who actively enjoy booktock or the more popular books #im just trying to introduce any amount of nuance into the conversation thats all #i can honestly go on forever but i think ill end my ranting here #literary criticism #literature #books #anti intellectualism

[mugchild]

absolutely evil of Arundhati Roy to make Estha and Rahel Twins and then have them have the same trauma but letting it manifest in different ways that actually are just two sides of the same coin. Mf really said what if i used foreshadowment in the most fucked up way ever and then was like 'oh yeah this is gonna slap' and she was completely right but why. WHY

like htis is a tragdey. a gddamn tragedy that was born from the moment they were born, born from the moment they were twins, and was always meant to be and there was no damn way that they could've been stopped to not run away and there is nothing we can change as the audience to the narrative like it didn't happen the moment it happened it happened the moment they were born and at the same time it never happened until it happened because it couldnt have happened before because time works like that but at the same time for us it fucking has and it happened and then nothing could be done but nothing could be done the moment we started reading the book

#sorry it's 9pm and i have THOUGHTS about this #the god of small things #literary analysis #book thoughts #sobbing btw #so evil #arundhati roy #she's so good #ugh #i hate it and i love it but like #WHY WOULD U HURT ME LIKE THIS #i know this is not even close to a literary analysis but its been a while since i read it #and i have to talk man. like i need to spew this because it just clicked #they're TWINS #THAT'SS WHY ITS SO IMPORTANT #BECAUSE NOT EVEN THEIR GRIEF IS JUST ESTHAS OR RAHELS ITS THEIRS #AND LIKE THE BEGINNING ALREADY TELLS US THIS FACE FIRST LIKE ITS IN PLAIN SIGHT #'they thought of each other together Me and separetly as Us' #oh so when they say 'my trauma' it's actually the trauma of both of them but also thinking of themselves as 'they/them' because they just #rahel doesnt recognise themselves anymore and tries to distance themselves from the whole thing as if it happened #to someone else but its impossible??? #like its always going to be an integral fucked up part of them #sobbing again #and just UGH #Its suh a good book like its hard to get into but then it just suddenly ends and im like wait what the fuck u gave me hope and #then u stopped #book recommendations #post colonial literature #indian literature

[blueiight]

honestly have black women even got black male attention on tv? its been mostly ls/nbw, while black women in media were often one dimensionally regarded in the same 4 old controlling images within ‘black’ targeted media & outside ‘black marketed media’ i rmbr growing up all the black sitcoms thatd dog out the black girls that were darker, bigger, anything other than light & slimthick. like both the characters & the rl actresses who played them! girl dramas w/ ls mcs w/ ds charas in the periphery with no interiority or any sort of character arc who could be replaced interchangably. maybe im fixating on semantics like i always do but w/ blade 1998 if dr jenson was a lsw or a nbw she wouldve been unambiguously blade’s love interest but bc dr jenson is a bw its treated like subtext…. and thats why it was my gay awakening.

#Black men have not given u any more ‘ femininity ‘ than nonblacks. #ideally. black women in media would be studs. #with pretty long locs and skater grunge aesthetics #Rafiki was groundbreaking. cuz its blaqueer women. no funny shit #thats just me letting my heart talk. #its ironic cuz the modern hyperfeminine aesthetic was started by BlkTw.. so like.. #theres a lot going on here. #(im speaking about visual media here. btw) #(bc of course theres many bw in different aspects of the literary canons i love.. beverly jenkins. toni morrison. octavia butler. #yn.