#pure literature

[mando-abs]

Guys, I’ve read the Wild Robot

And let me tell you, if I hadn’t recently taken a Children’s Literature class in college, I would’ve said this was the best middle-grade book I’ve read since elementary/middle school. I almost read this book in one night (I was sleepy 😴) like I couldn’t put it down.

The heart behind this book is astounding and it never shies away from showing complex and difficult concepts. You will fall in love with Roz and her gosling son along with all of the other animal on the island.

If you’ve got younger ones, I highly recommend reading this to them or having a little book club moment with them. However, be prepared for whatever hard questions may come your way (i.e. circle of life and climate issues). You know your child and how much they can handle/understand. If you’re like me and much older, it’s a quick read and a great way to finish off a long day. It’s a part of a trilogy and you bet I’m patiently waiting for my hold on a copy at the library.

If the movie is anything like the book (which, given a rewatch of the trailer, it’s looking like so), we are in for a special treat.

#the wild robot #children’s literature #pedro pascal #did I get the book on the off chance pedro might have been casted - yes #but from what I learned in my kid lit class is that middle grade fiction in much more nuanced than ya lit today #ya lit has better potential of being good bc it has more room to work with #however ya tends to lean on tropes more heavily than middle grade #middle grade is much more focused on learning topics and issues than playing with them #making them more tightly knit #also with the decline of media literacy I think this book is a wonderful counterattack #it’s not shattering by any means but def a big step in the right direction #especially for those who have a harder time getting interested in books #and once again I’m so pleased with how carefully curated Pedro’s projects are amidst his growing stardom #he truly cares about the message and thought provoking-ness of his work #and it makes this writer/literature nerd so proud #(yes I know there’s no true messages behind his recent gladiator and marvel roles other than it sounded like fun to him but I support that #- too… the man must have his fun purely for fun’s sake)

[meraki-yao]

So I found this on Weibo and I couldn't stop laughing. This is incredibly niche but I feel the need to share and explain this to my friends on this side.

So the bottom half is the photos that we initially thought were the royal suitor photos before the movie came out, then realized it was in the texting montage, then confirmed by Matthew that this actually isn't Alex and Henry, it was Taylor and Nick chilling between takes.

NOW, the photo on top is a still from 1987 TV show adaptation of one of the four Chinese Classics: "The Dream of the Red Chamber". That is the main couple reading another classical Chinese novel (yes this is very meta) "Romance of the Western Chamber" together, and I think this book that they're reading is the first romance novel/love story to have the couple be in starkly different social standings yet be together in the end.

This isn't a case of parallel in the same sense as my posts putting firstprince and Rapunzel x Eugene or Simba x Nala or Jack x Rose together and finding similarities. In fact, the couple from Red Chamber is nothing like firstprince or Taylor and Nick, not even remotely close, and their relationship ended in tragedy: spoilers, the girl died of a broken heart and the boy lost the will to live and became a monk.

But the point here is that this pair? This is our culture's Romeo and Juliet, our Pyramus and Thisbe. This scene in particular, this imagery of them reading in the garden together, has the same significance as the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. Like, if you ask a Chinese person for an imagery from classical literature that depicts love, this is the image most people will say.

AND SOMEHOW THIS PHOTO OF TAYLOR AND NICK THAT WE ALL THOUGHT WAS ALEX AND HENRY LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME AS IT

This is the most random connection and it's definitely a stretch but as someone who cried over the ship in the top half at the age of 11 I am so fucking amused by this comparison

#rwrb #red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #taylor zakhar perez #alex claremont diaz #nicholas galitzine #henry fox mountchristen windsor #henry hanover stuart fox #firstprince #dream of the red chamber #jia baoyu #lin daiyu #also the boy and the girl are technically cousins but we don't talk about that #rwrb parallels #taynick? I don't know what this counts as anymore #rwrb rambles #again this is purely self indulgent #meraki translates #but I find joy in sharing things of my culture that i approve of #and translating is fun #the dream of the red chambers is the most complex out of the four Chinese classics #it has the most literature scholars studying it #also we technically have two sets of tragic lover they're one of them #the other one basically is beat for beat romeo and juliet #and they die and turn into butterflies #anyways i'm done rambling for this #chinese literature

[a-galaxy-away]

I care about Alyosha a normal amount

#the brothers karamazov #alyosha karamazov #russian literature memes #fyodor dostoevsky #he’s my baby baby boo boy #pure little meow meow

[lvoless]

On oranges

oranges - jean little / the sun egg - elsa beskow / the dream thieves - maggie stiefvater / we are okay - nina lacour / still life with oranges - robert spear dunning / 400 lux - lorde / golden girl - frank ocean

#web weaving #mine #art #poetry #photography #music #literature #jean little #oranges #love is quite literally stored in the orange !! #Elsa beskow #maggie stiefvater #the dream thieves #tdt #trc #ronan lynch #gansey #ronsey #nina lacour #we are okay #robert spear dunning #lorde #400 lux #pure heroine #frank ocean #i know there’s been like 20 different versions of this post but yknow #parallels #from my head

[moonchildsfae]

i got an A on my exam about the victorian era so i’d like to formally thank all irish people (but specifically oscar wilde and yeats), david tennant as alec hardy, david tennant as phileas fogg, david tennant as the ghost of christmas present, and the doctor who episode “tooth and claw” staring david tennant as the doctor and billie piper as rose tyler

#—︎ my posts 💭 #i’m running on three hours of sleep and pure adrenaline #chaotic academia #dark academia #literature #sad uni student core #studyblr #david tennant #oscar wilde #w b yeats #victorian era #jules verne #thomas hardy #broadchurch #atwi80d #charles dickens #doctor who #billie piper #chris chibnall

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

#simone weil #weil #quotes #philosophy #wisdom #life #literature #writer #books #write #psychology #attention #rare #pure #gernerosity #generous #idea #ideas #meaning

[unitedstatesoffandom]

Can you do the following (You can do one of them too if you need to): Purelily (Pure Vanilla Cookie x White Lily Cookie), Sayonika (Sayori x Monika), and Natsuri (Natsuki x Yuri)?

United States of Purelily + Sayonika + Natsuri !!

#american flag #edit #united states of fandom #doki doki literature club #cookie run kingdom #ddlc #crk #purelily #pure vanilla cookie #white lily cookie #sayonika #ddlc sayori #ddlc monika #natsuri #ddlc natsuki #ddlc yuri

[all-or-nothing-baby]

when you start a new book or fanfic that you bought/borrowed/saved etc bc you liked the sound of it and then you read the first chapter and it's just. exactly what you'd been hoping for... what! an exquisite! feeling!

#an injection of pure unadulterated joy #straight to the pleasure centre of your brain #nothing like it #fiction #lit #literature #stories #books #novels #fanfiction #fanfic #fic #all of the above my beloved <3 #thought this when i started my new book recently: #wolfsong #t j klune #then again a moment ago when i started a fic by entanglednow #sterek #i can see me ploughing through all their stuff bc WOW #serotonin hit #it's like billy idol said #in the midnight hour babe give me more more more #AO3 IF YOU CRASH TONIGHT I WILL HAVE A COMPLETE MENTAL BREAKDOWN ISTG #aha

[jojoblessed365]

"Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. It's all about how much you love each other every day."

#literature quote #true love #pure unadulterated love #soulmate quotes #light academia #quotes about love

[amaliatheartist]

That recent twitter meme with the comfort characters

#amalia's art #I realized I haven’t showed any art from the sketchbook I started recently so I gotta rectify that #these here are Oswald the lucky rabbit and Ishmael from moby dick (and more specifically the greek musical) #in my head I couldn’t decide which one saying to the other would be funnier #I also debated whether I should put in Starbuck instead of Ishmael but in the end I drew Ishmael #this is purely self indulgent #art #artists on tumblr #oswald the lucky rabbit #ishmael #moby dick #moby dick the musical #moby dick musical #classic literature #moby-dick

[angel-derangement]

full respect to insane people drama on the internet but it actually doesn’t hold a candle to the insane people drama I watched go down during the time I was in a christian group on a university campus. a guy (age 20) stormed out of my sister’s place during a big party bc she lit a spatula on fire on the barbecue and had the GALL to call the fire department in case it lit the roof on fire, so his wife (age 19) had to track him down on the streets bc he couldn’t drive. she had to walk him back and force him to apologise to my sister then he led a bible study in her front room during the party about anger. later that week he posted on the facebook page of a lady who had lost her 17yr old brother in a car crash that her brother deserved to die bc he had gone to schoolies. neither he nor his wife talk to me anymore bc he borrowed a pen and offered to drive it back over at 1am in the morning and I said no thanks keep it and he interpreted this as me leading him to stumble. none of these or any other events involved any drugs or alcohol.

#it’s so sad too bc she was so unimaginably hot and I desperately wanted to fuck her #but he was so ugly. like so ugly. like in a way that they’re ugly purely bc you can see in their expression how hateful they are #he told me that pride & prejudice is not ‘literature’ bc it didn’t change the world. then said that yeah that means Naruto is literature. #no internet drama can give me that rush ever again

[glorious-destruction]

the worst trope in literature is when good people needlessly suffer

#this man is pure!! innocent!! #do not put a cloud in sunny sky! #let my boy be happy #I know it’s realistic but I get attached to fictional people!! #it makes me viscerally ill #and my therapist is sick of me crying about another made up person dying #in conclusion we should take all the pain out of literature and let the little dudes in the story be happy #I just finished the first lotr books and if something bad happens to Frodo I’m going to kill myself #dark academia #literature #books

[buthappysoverrated]

that colour poll question makes me so upset... It's probably an personaly ick for me and it just. Do you understand how it works. The same colour looks different in different lighting!!! Especially if it's being exaggerated in paintings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like sure it itself looks bad to you but a colour will never be bad objectively. Seriously I bet it will look different if I put it in a differet set up!!!!!!!!!!!!

#like. first of all I need you to know what off white is #if you put it next to pure white then it's absolutely not white #then you can do whatever. your off white can be purple like in the post or like the opposite like yellow or green. it will read as white #in the right CONTEXT #some people has no literature anaylisis skill and it extend to EVERYTHING #delete later #hy speaks #nothing

[athousandpagesyettoread]

Sometimes, the language of your love is silent.

Sometimes, you're in a crowded party and your eyes catch mine and your pupils dilate. You look at me and you smile and you squeeze your eyes closed. You've already said hi and you're probably telling your friends about me but it's your eyes looking for mine that makes me feel less alone.

Sometimes, you send me nonsensical stickers to make me smile after a long day. You spam my inbox until I can't help but laugh even though we're in the same room. You've already listened to me cry and scream, held my hand and offered advice, but it's texting me while we're in the same room that warms my heart.

Sometimes you mouth ‘i love you’ across the street. You turn around when you get to the car and you search for my smile saying goodbye. You've already said ‘goodbye’ and ‘take care’ and ‘eat your lunch’ a thousand times, but it's this unheard little thing that rings in my ears through the day.

Sometimes you hold my hand and play with my fingers. You draw little patterns in my palm and you squish my fingers on your own. You've already held me through the busy road and stopped me from crossing the street without looking carefully, but it's the unconscious touch that's mine.

Sometimes, you love me in ways that are hard to say and harder to encapsulate in the pages of my heart. Sometimes, it's the way you love me without saying a single word or doing a single thing. Sometimes, that's the language of love that's the loveliest of all.

#poetry #poem #poets on tumblr #female poets #literature #poetic #original poem #fall in love #writers and poets #spilled feelings #spilled ink #pure love #love poetry

[destiel-wings]

I'm 93k words into writing the most epic Supernatural fanfiction ever (that is nowhere near the end by the way, it's gonna be like 300k) and I'm feeling stupid every day for putting that much literary effort into this because it's fanfiction and i should be an author irl, and i think i should stop writing it but also i can't possibly stop writing it because it's too damn good dammit and am i supposed to let it be untold??? when it's so real and raging in my own mind??? it's going to be silly and romantic and seriously epic and dramatic and action-packed and angsty and a character study and filled with themes and metaphors and actual plots and storylines and interesting original characters but at the same time everything is completely ingrained in the show and its mythology and hopefully takes it to full potential providing an alternative s15 and a completely different ending for the show, it's basically a literary masterpiece but it's fanfiction and what the hell am i supposed to do with it

#spn fanfic #destiel fanfic #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic discourse #i apologize for the lack of fake humility #i swear I'm a humble person #like seriously I'm a failure in literally everything else in my life #but i know how to write okay #that's my dream #but i haven't found an original story that i felt strongly enough to tell yet #so I've always been writing fanfiction #and i am the biggest supporter of fanfiction as a quality content genre of literature #like it should be legitimized and respected more #this isn't about making money out of it it's about recognition #i just think there's so many high quality fics out there and they deserve to be praised #but people still see it as an inferior kind of writing #just because you're not paid for it #if anything that makes it even superior because you're not doing it for the cash but for pure passion and love for the art #i assure you it takes the same insane amount of time to write it #but you share it for free being constantly scared of it being stolen because it has less rights than a recognized original work #when the actual writing and transformative content (story) being told is in most cases original #and it's true that anyone can write it and not everyone is good at it but isn't that what true art is for?? #doesn't it belong to the people?? #it's about expression and sharing something that's inside and can reach others #let's be honest not all art and literature that we've received from the past is at the same level of greatness even #i just think it should be its own genre and have a place in literature #there's a reason why we write it read it and connect to it and that's what matters #anyway this was supposed to be about my epic longfic but it took a Leader-of-a-revolution kind of vibe #I'm just mentally living in a perfect future society where my words are valued for their quality&not worthless cause they're serving fanfic

[sulasnsleep]

“If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.”

— Nizar Qabbani

#bookblr #books & libraries #books and literature #books and reading #books #dark acadamia quotes #beautiful quote #academia #classic lit quotes #classic literature #nizar qabbani #madnessquote #madness #we’re all mad here #hearbroken #heartbreaking 💔 #heartbreaking quotes #pure madness #tw depressing thoughts #deep thoughts #like wtf #depressing shit #kinda depressing #sorry for being depressing #i dont know #writerblr #poetry #arabic poems #arabic poetry #tw depressing stuff