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weusedtobegiants · 2 years

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I suffer because of myself. It is my own soul all the time that is bothering me.

Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953

#quotes #poetry #literature #poetry by men #literature by men #henry miller #A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller: 1932-1953 #themes: untagged

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jayvespertine · 3 months

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— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.

#annotated books #bookstagram #poetry books #fictional men #fiction #fan fiction #poetry lovers #aesthetic poetry #poetry #dark academic aesthetic #romantic academia #romantic #dark academia #literature #quotes #poem #light academia #romance #love quotes

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lucidloving · 4 months

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Ada Limón, "Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds" // SouthFloridaReporter.com // Wikipedia, "Baking Powder" // Caroline McCaughey (AARP), "8 Big Inventions Inspired by Love" // Wikipedia, "Band-Aid" // Jim Walsh, "What's the love story behind Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers?" // NYFA, "The History of Drive-In Movie Theaters" // Caroline McCaughey, ibid. // Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House

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sparknoteslitmemes · 7 months

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#rohitakadambi #@rohitakadambi #spark notes twitter #spark notes #spark notes meme #spark notes killing the queue #literature meme #jane austen #jane austens leading men #pride and prejudice meme #pride and prejudice #emma #persuasion #sense and sensibility #mansfield park

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prokopetz · 2 years

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It’s not difficult to come up with examples of literary wizard-school dramas which pre-date Harry Potter – Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch (1974), Ursula K Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), etc. – but if you really want to cause problems on purpose the next time the topic comes up, here’s what you do. Look them straight in the eye and say:

“The X-Men.”

#media #literature #wizards #x-men

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davemilly · 1 month

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Dm let's have some naughty chat☺️☺️☺️😍😊😋

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sarielsnowings · 1 year

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Where are my fellow Gothic Fiction fans? Surely some of you ended up in here somewhere. Come out I need you.

I want to draw them more, please feel free to suggest scenarios. I feel like they need to interact. Let the fanfiction begin!

I even made a reference sheet for them and everything. I just need to practise some more. Let’s just pretend they’re my OCs.

Edit: there are now more doodles. Find them under the #Sariel's Victorian disaster men tag

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novaricewrites · 3 months

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Very tired of the shadowy/darkness-themed brooding male love interests in fantasy romance books. Especially the ones where the character revolves heavily around sex / sexualization.

This is especially irritating when they are 'healed' or complete as people because they are dating the protag. Seriously. It just promotes that toxic 'You can fix him with love' concept. This is such an inherently harmful message.

Not saying those kind of broody characters shouldn't be allowed to exist at all. However, the dominance of that character type over other portrayals in romance especially, subscribes to the common notion of masculinity having only one desirable form.

The main lead does not have to be the most powerful, the most virile, most tragic or most intimidating.

It's shallow and overdone.

Why can't the men and boys in these leads also be written as thoughtful and warm, sunlight characters. Soft hands and gentle voices. Complex and spirited and vibrant. Let them also be kind, lovely and full of quiet things.

I have so many thoughts on this general topic that go into way too many directions to summarize in one post.

#is this prompted by my fondness of peeta mellark maybe #anti sjm #anti rhysand #anti ic #anti acotar #men in media #fantasy romance #masculinity in literature #lucien vanserra #and the point is why are they often not the main love interests but just a side character when they are not that typical format #twilight too #we should not perpetuate the idea of men being fixed by love and sex #this literally connects to the victim blaming mindset #you should have given him a chance bullshit

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notbecauseofvictories · 1 year

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did you guys know that the woman who coined the term “final girl” is actually a scholar of Icelandic medieval poetry? I don’t know why this particular fact is standing out to me so strongly but just imagine, being an expert in 70s and 80s slasher films and writing a seminal work on gender and the horror audience...

and then going home and thinking about the Njála for the rest of the evening.

#carol j please explain to me how you went from medieval literature scholar to writing about how teenage boys identify with victimized women #I don't think there's anything wrong with it or that there aren't comparisons to be made between the two #but just. how.#anyway I'm reading men women and chainsaws and having a very good time!#from the bookshelf

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a-door-to-somewhere · 11 months

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Sometimes I wonder how much fanfic of classical/iconic literature exists because of school projects. Just floating out there. In a drive somewhere. Not to mention that nothing is more unhinged than bored middle/highschoolers being forced to liven up books they might not care about. For every deranged ao3 crossover fic there is an infinitely more deranged crackfic written for the great gatsby or antigone or to kill a mockingbird or whatever by a bored highschooler and his friends for 10th grade English. I wanna read it

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yvehattan · 6 months

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A Fyodor Dostoevsky doodle for his birthday.

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weusedtobegiants · 2 years

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You don’t know what a wild, crazy longing I have, what an ache there is inside me.

Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953

#quotes #poetry #literature #poetry by men #literature by men #henry miller #Henry Miller from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller: 1932-1953 #themes: untagged

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cvmcicle · 3 months

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reading the picture of dorian gray rn, where my niche gang at

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highlyincorrect · 3 months

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It’s so funny reading about queer male classic authors bc it seems like every single one of them-across continents even- knew each other by name. Like you’ll look up Bram Stoker or some shit and Wikipedia.org will say “had several orgies with Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman, hung out with Alaina Locke in spare time to shit talk F. Scott. Fitzgerald” and you have to say well okie dokie then

#for legal reasons he didn’t have several orgies with those men #but he did have fat crushes on them #like I know queer communities were tight knit but goddamn #we’re they ALL penpals????#classics #classic literature #classic lit memes #bram stoker #dracula #f scott fitzgerald #the great gatsby #oscar wilde #walt whitman #Alain Locke #queer #queer community #mlm #gay

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quotespile · 4 months

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But this grief, for all its awful weight, insists that he matters.

Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped

#literature #quotes #Jesmyn Ward #Men We Reaped #quote #books #lit

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jeoncanis · 4 months

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my favorite trope is when someone believes they're hard to love and someone who loves them like it's breathing >>>>

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