sonofa-dreamer

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the goldfinch (2019) // nietzsche // the goldfinch (2019) // the goldfinch (2019) // eurydice // fabritius, the goldfinch // fyodor dostoyevsky // euripides // the wedding date (2005) // richard siken // the goldfinch (2019) // richard siken // donna tartt

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Some practice 🤨

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reading the goldfinch is truly an experience bc it is entirely from Theo Decker’s POV and I love that boy but istg he is lying to me like every other paragraph 😭

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the goldfinch made me feel something i hadn’t felt about reading in a long time; which is being so engrossed in a book’s universe that finishing it makes you need a recovery time. For four days I was stuck in a liminal bubble outside of everything, and I couldn’t stop thinking about the characters, I had very vivid images of places I’ve never been to before, cinematic stills etched in my mind, all that because donna tartt is so fond of detail. And I know some people would’ve liked the book to be shorter and that some things probably didn’t need as much detail but it had that specific purpose of creating such an emotional, vivid picture, where every phrase, every interaction, every minor character, every description has a place and a tone, that it is meant to submerge you even deeper in that little universe, just like you would spend hours staring at brushstrokes and feeling slowly captured by a painting

which is even more impressive because theo as a narrator is not that relatable to me, except for his expressions of grief, yet i was so entranced and inhabited by his thoughts, by his speech pattern, because the writing is so incredibly good that it makes you part of his universe instantly and without question

anyways. I think that it is a book that honors donna tartt’s love for the craft of writing, and it’s beautiful

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succession is a great show bc a character will say that they sent more than a few liters of their own blood to someone and it's not even like in the top 3 important things that happened in the episode

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theo really quoted radiohead’s okay computer while ranting about his best friend (totally platonic hmm) getting a girlfriend. he is the quintessential queer kid experience for losers.

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love the 90s yellowjackets scenes because it's the funniest assortment of characters you've ever seen. you've got the virgin laura palmer, her homoerotic girl best friend who's pregnant from an affair with laura palmer's boyfriend, a hot prophet and her devotee who explodes, a lesbian who eats dirt in her sleep, her girlfriend who gets her face eaten by a wolf due to the sleep dirt eating, a girl who is trying to drug and manipulate an adult gay man into loving her, a bottle blonde who was complicit in the death of her father, and also some guy named travis. travis is definitely also there.

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"They could only inch through a book a chapter or two at a time, curled up together in Paul’s bed and reading from the same copy."

hi, i'm back

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i have not stopped thinking about this since i read it for the first time two days ago. i will never stop thinking about this ever

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Ronan & Gansey & Theo & Boris: bloody knuckles

[ the mountain goats / the front bottoms / xavier dolan / donna tartt / brit bennett / uncredited / f. scott fitzgerald / fleur jaeggy / taylor swift / john crowley / donna tartt / maggie stiefvater ]

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3.09 | 4.04 SUCCESSION (2018-2023)

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— The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater

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Dreaming a miniature sun for Gansey’s mint plant was the gayest thing Ronan did in Call Down the Hawk, and he had gay sex in that book

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kenstewy is clown4clown and i for one think that is beautiful

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pauljulian from micah nemerever’s these violent delights

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— andrew didn't budge beneath his weight. he was something solid to lean against, something violent and fierce and unmoving. neil couldn't remember what it felt like to have someone hold him up. It was terrifying and liberating all at once.