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It's the stress

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i just remembered that one tumblr post like this

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So I reread Captive Prince this weekend and um… I missed these boys

Expect some redraws of old fanart sooner than later

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kees kees

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“Red, the colour of the Regency flowing over the hilltop like wine from an over-full cup, staining and darkening its slopes, spreading.” 

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rainy days

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Nicaise: So, am I in trouble?

Laurent: Take a guess.

Nicaise: No?

Laurent: Take another guess.

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Books of 2018

(inspired by @readingislife2016‘s post)

In 2018, i read (in no order at all)...

 Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Aftercare Instructions by Bonnie Pipkin

NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman

Uniquely Human by Barry M. Prizant

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Way It Is by William Stafford

The Shining by Stephen King

The Chaos of Longing by K.Y. Robinson

Outsider by Stephen King

She Walks In Beauty by Caroline Kennedy

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Simon vs. The Homo sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller

This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis

Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

I started Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat at the end of 2018, and finished it at like 4am, January 1st of 2019. I’m in love. Currently reading the second book.

Note: I didn’t pleasure read as much as I should have this year. Mostly I read books assigned by teachers, and spent more time doing homework and doing extra studying to try and rise to the top of my class during junior year than cherishing the time I had available to read what I wanted. In 2019, I will read what I want to read, so hopefully I can return with more than 23 books finished next year!

Currently reading: Prince’s Gambit by C.S. Pacat.

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Laurent: I think you’re acting a little immature.

Nicaise: I’m not acting.

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hey anyone else think about the scene that ended with laurent and nicaise walking off hand in hand?? i do

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parade of the dead innocent

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Nicaise. Been on a Nicaiselives! AU kick lately.

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all i could think about when i saw this was nicaise and damen

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alright, so i’m reading the song of achilles for the first time right now (it came in a few hours ago and i just started it) and on page 122, there is a portion that reads “I went to Peleus. I knelt before him on a wool rug, woven bright with purple. He started to speak, but I was too quick for him. One of my hands went to clasp his knees, the other reached upwards, to seize his chin with my hand.” this describes, as stated immediately after, the ‘pose of supplication,’ meaning a beggar’s pose – the posture that one takes when addressing their last hope, essentially. so not only is this super cool because it brings in real ancient greek history (wow! in a book based on the iliad?), but because it references an event later in the iliad AND this handy-dandy super-cool painting by jean auguste dominique ingres from 1811, named ‘jupiter and thetis.’

here it is, and more analysis follows…

haha! see, its funny because thetis thinks herself so much higher than mortals – and patroclus, especially, because she hates him so much due to the fact that his death causes her son to go on a fate-defying murder spree – and yet later on in the story of our beloved iliad, she ends up stuck in the same lowly position, substituting patroclus for herself and peleus for zeus (or jupiter. whatever floats your boat, mr. dominique ingres)

by the way, here’s the quote from the iliad depicting that moment: “She sank to the ground beside him, put her left arm round his knees, raised her right hand to touch his chin, and so made her petition to the Royal Son of Cronos.”

in thetis’ case, she is begging zeus to intervene with achilles’ fate, knowing that he has somehow altered it (or maybe just that he was going to die, but i like to think it’s deeper than that). in patroclus’ case, he is begging peleus to reveal the whereabouts of achilles after thetis has kidnapped him.

anyway. just wanted to point out that handy dandy parallel just in case some people don’t obsessively look into things like i tend to or if y’all have read the son of achilles but not the iliad (which is chill)

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Inspired from a scene from dirty dancing.

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enjoying some downtime