#i mean i'd love to read a prose piece that compares darkness & light to the north & south poles

[louderfade]

Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap.

Goethe's Theory of Colors

#well this is fascinating af #and also funny i mean this poet is out here hardcore bragging about challenging newton with what were ultimately cool ideas #that are perhaps of philosophical value but do not exactly qualify as scientific theory #when instead he could've explored the same concepts (and they would've been arguably better served) with his art #i mean i'd love to read a prose piece that compares darkness & light to the north & south poles #but presented as a groundbreaking scientific theory it feels silly #classic case of overconfidence. tragic waste of an opportunity to take some badass exploratory risks in poetics. #instead of trying to play another man's instrument he should've focused on experimenting with his own. #'my point is brendan if you're not immediately good at something then why do it' etc #also alternate histories are a whole genre so why don't people write alternate sciences? (i bet they have) why does no one discuss this? #don't worry i will absolutely be investigating further. we're gonna get all the way to the bottom of this one.

[bonesandthebees]

Hello! I started reading your fanfics lately and am in love with your writing style. Your ability to capture such soft and personal moments while maintaining a realistic atmosphere is amazing. I’ve been looking for some books to read recently and was wondering what some of your fav books are?

this is so kind oh my god. seriously makes me smile so much every time i read it. "capture soft and personal moments while maintaining a realistic atmosphere" that makes me insane /pos if I had a hardcover book with all those reviews printed on the back I'd put that one on there ldsjflkdf

oooo books!! admittedly I don't read as much as I used to because I always end up just getting the urge to write instead, but some of my favorites?

my all time favorite book is gone girl by gillian flynn. this is not a light book by any means. it's very dark but I'm absolutely obsessed with it and have been for years. it's SUCH a great example of unreliable narrator with both characters you follow, and the unique advantage a first person point of view can grant you that you don't get even with third person limited. it also is just a really great piece about really twisted and toxic relationships and the role societal expectations can play in them. sometimes i like to compare it to fight club but about women. fight club is a satire of masculinity and capitalism, gone girl is a satire of femininity and media perception. I love that book so much but definitely look up the trigger warnings before you read it if you're sensitive to darker topics

a few other books i've read in the past few years that I really like include:

burn our bodies down by rory power (gorgeous prose, focus on the intergenerational cycle of abuse, and some really fun body horror), annihilation by jeff vandermeer (cosmic horror at its finest), and also i recommend anyone who read the hunger games trilogy as a kid to reread it when you're older because I did and I was awed at how much I'd missed about the themes and metaphors I missed as a kid. it's SUCH a great example of dystopian literature, right up there with 1984 and fahrenheit 451

hope this helped!

#ask #anon #bones writes