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sapphicweisz · 10 months
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flowerytale · 11 months
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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert
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rhfffas · 4 months
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gonna love these lesbian jokes
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bones-ivy-breath · 1 year
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Reading the writing of women from Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë to Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath, we were surprised by the coherence of theme and imagery that we encountered in the works of writers who were often geographically, historically, and psychologically distant from each other. Indeed, even when we studied women's achievements in radically different genres, we found what began to seem a distinctively female literary tradition, a tradition that had been approached and appreciated by many women readers and writers but which no one had yet defined in its entirety. Images of enclosure and escape, fantasies in which maddened doubles functioned as asocial surrogates for docile selves, metaphors of physical discomfort manifested in frozen landscapes and fiery interiors—such patterns recurred throughout this tradition, along with obsessive depictions of diseases like anorexia, agoraphobia, and claustrophobia.
The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
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wistopia · 3 months
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"She looks like a fairy tonight,"
- Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert. October 1851
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hehelio · 4 months
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they are so right
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• Love Letter from Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert
• Heaven by Mitski
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stuffypuddle · 5 months
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Four years since the release of Dickinson!!!🫀
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x-gona · 5 months
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Emily x Sue
Dickinson (2019)
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ssteinfeld · 1 year
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damonslayer1912 · 1 year
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czencious · 7 months
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emily dickinson was onto something
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comradekatara · 9 months
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#their relationship does make sense i just dont get why they would get back together 😭
I know comics are dubiously canon at best, but there is a little side comic set in Ba Sing Se just after Azula takes over where she gets pissed Zuko is moping about Zuko things (Iroh and his guilty conscience). Her solution to distract him from himself after trying a couple other tactics is to push him and Mai into getting (back?) together. It's consistent with the way we see Azula metaphorically orchestrate shoving them at each other in the garden fountain during the flashback in Zuko Alone.
There's definitely a sad internal logic to this that I've seen play out more than once IRL where deeply closeted girls from very traditional (read: American conservative, quite often Mormon in my personal experience) families will push their crushes at any of their eligible male siblings because then, "we get to be sisters for real and we'll have each other forever!"
yeah, I mean, whether or not you subscribe to that comic (I’ve read that comic, it’s fine, I like seeing azula and ty lee scheme, if anything) I definitely think we’re supposed to believe that azula orchestrated their relationship so that she could control them. of course, she also immediately hates seeing them together and comes to regret that decision very deeply at the boiling rock. azula wants them together because she thinks it will cheer zuko up and give him further legitimacy in the court. mai is from a good family, so it’s a beneficial match. but when I said “I don’t get why they would get back together” I obviously meant in the finale, once azula’s influence is no longer a factor, zuko has legitimacy in the court (obviously), and mai has enough agency to know better. going back to her boyf(ag)riend who treated her like shit is a bad move, mai!!! i love you girl but STAND!!!!!! UP!!!!!
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What do you think about Emily Dickinson’s love life?
Hi! Thank you so much for your ask!
As I've said here, there have been many speculations about Emily Dickinson's love life, though she never married. Some of these possible love interests include Charles Wadsworth, Samuel Bowles and Judge Otis P. Lord, but more interestingly, in my opinion, Susan Gilbert, Emily's friend and sister in law.
Susan and Emily lived in the same town and attended the same school, Amherst Academy, as well. In 1853, Susan had married Emily's brother Austin too.
It's no secret that Emily and Susan were close and that Emily confided in her and valued her opinion. In a letter, she's compared Susan to Shakespeare as well. There were more than 500 letters, most of them expressing "strong homoerotic feelings" (as said by Lena Koski in The Emily Dickinson Journal)
In modern media, their relationship is portrayed to be a romantic one, rightfully so based on the evidence and letters between the two. Emily wrote passionately to Susan, and trusted her too.
To this day, scholars debate whether Emily and Susan were romantically involved. Though I've not dedicated nearly as much time and research towards this debate, I believe that there was chemistry between the two that is much more than friendship. Honestly, it's difficult to label what the two had as "sisterhood" or just "friendship" when there are so many romantic connotations behind the letter. In my opinion, Emily has perfectly captured the essence of true love through her letters to Susan, and expresses it beautifully.
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Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round One (Bracket 7)
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mikereads · 1 year
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Emily x Sue.
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