#Classic Literature

[can-of-w0rmz]

So, the Nosferatu movie was surprisingly good

[metamorphesque]

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

[lolanovaaa]

Making this movie a part of my personality ☺️

lolita (1997) film stills ୨୧

[escapismsworld]

📍Villa Balbianello, Lake Como, Italy

[velartis]

there’s nothing quite like the heartbreak of rereading a book you loved some years ago and realizing now how legitimately ass it was

[deadpan-dice]

no longer human by osamu dazai. the topic of alienation and otherness is HEAVY. so heavy.

I really enjoy neurodivergent readings of classic literature because the whole "i have an obsession with being pure/great/always seen as morally good" "sometimes I get obsessed with an idea and believe I'm on the right path and don't act rationally" "i feel uneasy and incapable of enjoying things since [traumatic event(s)]" "I feel alienated from society and don't understand it at all" bunch of thoughts that are very present in most classics are almost always big symptoms of some kind of mental illness (which, in fact, does add a lot to the story) and I love to see people talk about them from that perspective instead of just "lol this guy is whiny and dumb"

[reveuseinflorence]

"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."

- Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[luzmiere]

[text id: i am seeking, i am striving, i am in it with all my heart. – Vincent van Gogh

my darling, my dying, my light, my sight, my night, my whole day long. – Velimir Khlebnikov

i miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly. – Franz Kafka, "Letters to Milena".

i think i’d miss you even if we’d never met. – "The Wedding Date" (2005).]

[annes-blog-of-dreams]

"It is not as the writer of 'Wildfell Hall,' but as the sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë, that Anne Brontë escapes oblivion—as the frail 'little one,' upon whom the other two lavished a tender and protecting care" (Mary Augusta Ward)

I've seen classics with "spoil every plot point in detail" introductions.

I've seen classics with "twist the book so I can analyze it through a specific lens rather than letting you come to your own conclusions based on the actual text" introductions.

But I think the introduction to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, written by some woman (Mary Augusta Ward) who died in 1920, that says "no one would remember this book if Anne Bronte didn't happen to have Emily and Charlotte (actual geniuses) as sisters" might be the worst introduction I've ever seen.

[can-of-w0rmz]

Can I just say how mad the Nosferatu controversy has made me?

Like I’m not really talking about people who didn’t realise they were walking into an art horror movie and got whiplash, I mean the entire misunderstanding of the themes of sexuality in the movie. Like, why are so many audiences assuming that sexual themes can only exist for their personal gratification, and either, from that, A) getting mad that they don’t find the movie sexually appealing, or B) completely misunderstanding the work and romanticising and sexualising it in ways that completely juxtapose the intent of the director?

I’ve seen so many people either getting so mad that the movie ‘made them uncomfortable’ or that the Count was an ugly corpse with no capacity to love, (the intent of the ORIGINAL novel, by God above 1992 Dracula has fucked with some people’s brains), or completely romanticising his relationship with Ellen and mischaracterising it as some forbidden monster romance.

Like, I know this was a thing with Dracula as a whole, right? I’ve been around in this space for ages, of course I’ve seen it, but to be honest it’s never really bothered me too much because I always assumed it was just out of complete ignorance. But if you watched the 2024 Nosferatu and somehow left the theatre thinking you saw the new Coppola’s Dracula, I genuinely don’t know what to tell you.

Just because a movie prominently features sexuality doesn’t make it porn. The mention of sex doesn’t solely exist for your personal gratification. Sex and sexuality are complex and normal human subjects that deserve to be explored in media.

Nosferatu (2024) is a horror movie.

[theres-rue-for-you]

gaston leroux being the most unserious writer moments in TPOTO:

-raoul scaling down a tree to see Christine while she’s roaming the moors at night mid breakdown

-one of the opera staff claims that christine has friends plotting against Carlotta, to which another staff member goes “christine has friends?”

-gaston describes a toad coming out of Carlotta’s mouth and then goes “lmao I’m just messing that didn’t actually happen” what a troll

-the unnamed narrator holding Richard’s hand for and I quote “a few minutes” because he saw the opera ghost and got scared

-raoul straight up crying during a performance because christine sounds nervous

[escapismsworld]

The Three Graces

Marble relief carving

Late 16th/ early 17th century

Italian

[velartis]

please tell me i’m not the only writer who googles words to make sure they absolutely mean what i always assumed they meant.

[blumenundpoesie]

a blanket of snow on fairy lights

[wedarkacademia]

Yeah now we've entered the back pain stage