Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!
Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.
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ever since I read that one analysis of Heathcliff digging up and lying with Cathy's body and what exactly it meant back in like seventh grade I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.
it's an intimate, quiet goodbye that lingers. a final act of love. holding close the only person you have ever loved like you're just a scared child seeking solace from all the monsters that hide in the dark. it is a desperate grasping for a heart that used to beat alongside your own. it's desperation, ugly and raw and wailing. it's praying prayers in vain and screaming towards the heavens for your angel to fall once more. it's seeking comfort from the only person left - even if they are nothing more than hollow emptiness. it is still them. you remember them, bright, lovely, laughing. it is now the only way you can be close. to them ever again. it is still not close enough, but it is all that you have left.
every ship must experience this at least once.
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Show us the less-fun-to-draw, angry-about-having-emotions-Keith, you coward.
ok but he just looks like this
ok ok but on a serious character note it's really just this piece i did for one of nico's fics. like. i imagine keith defines himself so fully by what he can do and what his duty is that having feelings that unironically seriously impede his daily cognition to a certain degree like. enrages him. and terrifies him a little.
it's not fun for me to draw because its literally just. him being miserable. it's all internal, too, so there's not much to visualize.
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My beautiful chart outlining what a modern feminist retelling of Wuthering Heights would look like if Cathy tried to solve the problem with some weird QPR situation
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Massive spoilers for canto VI
This canto was basically just "do you think we're a couple in different universes?"
But thanks to PM its 100% more depressing
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my favorite love stories are where two people are obsessed with each other but can't be together for whatever reason and make it everybody's fuckin problem.
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thinking about all the depressing books i'm going to read once i'm no longer so suicidal that reading/watching my usual pick of media makes me feel worse instead of better 💕🥰
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this might be a little out of character for me but im so fucking tired of this perpetual slandering of vegaspete stans on twt.
believe it or not but ppl who ship vegas and pete do possess some media literacy and thinking skills. jesus, we know vegaspete is toxic and unhealthy but heres the thing….. we simply dont care bc nothings real its fiction. who said we shouldnt be allowed to enjoy two messy FICTIONAL characters destroying/loving each other IN A MAFIA TV SHOW? its hard to understand for some but not everyone wants to see lovely and wholesome relationships portrayed on screen and we rather have overly fucked up ugly type of love instead. and u shoulnt make us feel embarrassed for it or policing the content every chance u get. have u even listened to what the actors had to say about their characters? what bible had to say about vegas? did u even care? storytelling and relationships arent always black and white. i think the narrative is quite aware that vegaspete is dysfunctional and that vegas needs a lifetime of therapy (and so does pete btw). tbh i chuckle every time i see tweets abt how vegas doesnt deserve pete bc hes evil, but.. what does 'deserve' even mean or matter in the face of what the characters want? their romance is also quite the catalyst to create the personality shift in both vegas and pete. its moving the story forward. not everything has to be vibe checked or approved to be good and compelling. if fiction isnt the place to tell a fucked love story, then where else? in fact vegaspete carried from their first shy interactions to their explosive ones towards the end and is2g there isnt anything wrong with that either. be mad abt it without being too condescending.
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Thoughts on Emily (2022)
Yeah yeah, not accurate at all, but but but as a translation of the themes of Wuthering Heights (and may I add, Jane Eyre and Vilette) into the lives of the Brontë siblings…… I’m speechless
First, disclaimer, I do not condone the heterosexuality and like to think of Emily as someone who could conjure up all those feelings of desire, hatred, longing, without having to undergo a love affair in the process. But it would’ve been so easy to come up with a Heathcliff to Emily’s Cathy, and I think the movie avoided this in the best way possible. It seemed to me that Emily’s proximity to both Branwell and William was there to show her the possibility of expansion of the self, duality found within a “best earthly companion” (to borrow from Charlotte), while not making neither of them Heathcliff. Both Heathcliff and Cathy were rather in the emotions that these relationships stirred within Emily, getting to the heart of Cathy’s cry of “I am Heathcliff”. It’s Emily who cries “let me in”, it’s Emily who’s left in the abyss. Moreover, I adored the scene where William tells Emily she’s not a fish in the pond of Haworth, but a fish in the deep ocean of the moors. The impression the moors give of being frozen waves, together with the constant howling of the wind, falling of the rain, and crashing of the waves in the soundtrack stirred all the sensuality of the landscape, Emily’s expansion into it and her belonging solely in that wilderness.
Second, I do not condone of Charlotte’s portrait either - at times, it seemed lazy black-and-white setting of the prim vs the rebellious sister. That being said, I forgave it all at the final scene, when Charlotte sits by Emily’s desk and feels Inspiration coming through the window. If we look at the portrayal of Charlotte as that of a time when she was at her most repressed, shutting off everything that made her truly herself for worldly approval, then the final scene serves to recognise the fiery passion, wilderness, and desolation that exists too in her prose. The torch of passion is lit in her for writing Jane Eyre, and most devastatingly, so is that of solitude, made so poignant in the character of Emily, and which will haunt Charlotte even more after her sisters’ deaths, to the writing of Vilette.
So, though Emily (2022) had 2 things that are pet peeves of mine in interpretations of the Brontës’ lives, it left me in the end with the swollen heart of one who had just finished WH/JE/V for the first time, a feeling I’d thought I’d never have again. So I guess I loved it.
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me detailing the entire episode of wedding impossible to worstie and while im talking he sends some sea creature reel like why would u do this
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