#{ genial <3 }

[hiyuki]

ꕥ CHISATO ♡ TAKINA ꕥ

▷ Lycoris Recoil | + fashion outfits

[dylanlila]

she's the door, she can't be the room

L'Amica Geniale - Elena Ferrante | Holly Warburton | Stephanie Says - The Velvet Underground | Winter Lady - Leonard Cohen | x | Suzanne Siegel

[cinematic-literature]

L'amica geniale S03E07 (Ancora tu)

Book title

Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert

Anna Karenina (1877) by Lev Tolstoj

Moll Flanders (1722) by Daniel Defoe

[scianvih]

[printempsdessens]

Lila and Lenu through the years

[zorosdimples]

i think that childe commits terrible atrocities in the name of love and revels in your horror and disgust; he fans the flames of your resentment so that you lash out. but what’s even more alarming—what makes your skin crawl—is how much pleasure he derives from your anger, from the physical pain you try to inflict on him. he lures you to the edge of rage and sits back and enjoys the destruction—until he decides it’s time to take over, that is.

[recitedemise]

Spot a familiar face a thousand times, and there'll inevitably flower a sense of camaraderie. After all, so numerous are these portraits and so robust are these grand and spiraling halls. Yet, for all those details in these jaw-dropping works, it's but another living soul that'd enthrall him the most. Like Monet. A Caravaggio! How deep his intrigue.

But then, darling Gale — lost, graceless as he stumbles in his life's new chapter — is a soul of a make much lonelier, too. Funny. Maybe Charlie would withhold it, so skilled as he is in all manners of statecraft; however, it's more the cosmos than ruses this professor pairs with his jammy scones, and admittedly, Charlie is a face he's sought out on occasion. He laughs. At the very least, this peculiar man has learned his schedule.

"Shame. I would have insisted that you did. Seeing as though you aren't, however," Gale teases, abundantly genial, "I suppose I've been forced to keep that to myself." Charlie gathers himself, scrabbling for some dignity Gale hasn't even realized he'd somehow lost. Still, he makes no mention of it, gentling the matter with that affable grin. He tries not to sound overly eager. "I'm here for leisure. It's Wednesday. I come between classes when I can," he says, "but you're hardly interrupting. Besides, I'm of the opinion that art is made all the better shared. Were it to be a singular affair, we wouldn't have these large, lumpy ottomans waiting to be taken. Gale Dekarios. I believe I was subtly asking you if you enjoyed the stars yourself." / @rvolving, continued from here.

[stardustweare88]

Now this was a successful hunt and only took me visiting two library departments today lol

[eleanoroliphant]

pretty much everything they're releasing about my brilliant friend is elena-related. this is why i'm mad they cast rohrwacher. is she talented? of fucking course, no one's denying that. does it mean we can expect this production to be unbiased? apparently no, and we never could. it's been perfectly clear since her casting was revealed on the show whereas irene maiorino's wasn't even announced. it's gonna be the elena show from now on. i pray to god someone stood up for lila in the writing at least.

[jonismitchell]

sometimes stories come to you when you need them because in 2021 i read my brilliant friend and didn't continue with the sequel and then i gifted the first book to the girl i thought was my brilliant friend and in 2024 we fell out forever and now i need ferrante more than i did then so. you get it. i'm reading the story of a new name now.

[muppetminge]

finished l'amica geniale and i'm done complaining this is lesbian lit to Me. idc i want what those two bitches are having ngl

[dylanlila]

I HAVE BEEN ANTICIPATING THIS ANXIOUSLY... they literally glorify the other one and diminish themselves over the exact same things... we think lila is the brave one because elena is the narrator, but lila thinks elena is the brave one... and they are BOTH brave... lila is brave instinctively when it comes to grabbing life with both hands and playing the heroine, but she is not brave emotionally the way elena is with her endless introspection that is something entirely frightening and foreign to lila... but then again elena has her moments of book heroine bravery, but for her they take effort because writers cannot also be the star of the narrative. (but reality is never this neat and everybody escapes the role they were given because nobody is just a role, but a person instead <- when this happens elena's narration seems contradictory and i think that's delicious)

[cinematic-literature]

L'amica geniale S03E06 (Diventare)

Book title: Die Abschweifung by Elena Greco

[scianvih]

[mercedes-lenz]

das schlimmste an den wahlverwandtschaften ist dass ich sie actually geliebt habe ich find sie tatsächlich gut und jetzt weiß ich nicht wo ich weiteren wahlverwandtschaften content herbekommen soll weil jeder sie anscheinend hasst

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

I'm glad Lenù exhibits destrucity at least in the third sense, since she's not getting a moment of mastery anytime soon, and her beliefs, attitude, integrity, and wisdom are questionable as well.