#English hawthorn

[flowerishness]

Crataegus laevigata (English hawthorn, var: "Punicea" or maybe var: "Crimson Cloud")

When I was a six-year old kid in England, I used to climb a local hawthorn tree - as a challenge. Yes indeed, I know from experience, they have formidable thorns. But all the hawthorns growing in the countryside where I lived had plain, white flowers. However, just like it's wild cousin, in early summer this delightful, hot pink confection is always covered in bees.

[academic-vampire]

“…kind and loving, though unloved; and dimly feared.”

-“The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

[burningvelvet]

I've been considering different ideas for historical fiction novels about the Romantics and one of my concepts teeters into the realm of the alternate history subgenre. As a result, I decided to start doing some preliminary research on the history of the subgenre itself. Then I find this...

Of course I've known that there have been a bunch of historical fiction & alternate history novels made about the Romantics throughout time (maybe most famously Henry James' Aspern Papers in 1888). BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR INSPIRING THE WHOLE SUBGENRE!!!

The Romantics/Georgians were so iconic they inspired their fans to invent historical fanfiction over a hundred years ago & we're still writing it... their impact...!!!

But tbf I should have known Byron would be involved somehow because most roads of modern literature often point back to him & his cult of personality — & practically everyone who knew him or was inspired by him ended up writing books about him, whether fiction or nonfiction.

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Something I'm trying to do is re-read all the books I was forced to read for High School English and hated them because they were homework. It's been fascinating to re-read them and find that I'm enjoying them now that a teacher isn't forcing me to.

So, help me choose my next one.

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Life On Standby • Dissolve And Decay • Niki Fm • The Transition • Blue Burns Orange • Silver Bullet • Screenwriting An Apology • Ohio Is For Lovers • Wake Up Call • Sandpaper And Silk • Speeding Up The Octaves

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[bestloversfan]

To me, it's so weird to see people (including some Everlark shippers) still considering the passage "Gale is mine. I am his" an evidence that Katniss had romantic feelings for Gale. Because although that passage may seem like an admission of romantic feelings at first, context clearly indicates that it isn't.

In the morning after, Katniss was already longing for Peeta. And when her mother suggested she loved Gale, she thought she didn't know how she loved him, admitted she kissed him in the heat of the moment and hoped he would FORGET THE KISS, which is a clear indication that she regretted it. And then she asked her mother "where's Peeta?". And on the next chapters, she said she loved Gale in a "LIMITED WAY", and felt relieved that she no longer had to worry about hurting him and could enjoy the "impossibly good" feeling of Peeta's lips on her neck. So, considering all of this, how was that passage supposed to show "her romantic love" for Gale?

I guess people are focusing too much on the possessiveness Katniss felt towards Gale in that moment (as if possessiveness and love were the same thing) and ignoring everything that happened afterwards. 

[luuuna-rambles]

Community gifs - 205/?

1x24, English as a Second Language

[eliotheeangelis]

scuderia ferrari + english drivers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇹

peter collins, mike hawthorn, john surtees & nigel mansell

[ladycatashtrophe]

It is very inch resting being an English Writing student with 3 different disorders that all have obsession/compulsion/impulsivity as symptoms because do I ~like~ Hawthorne or Emerson? No. Am I, perhaps, wasting my time in a library that closes too damn early researching transcendentalism and romanticism and how they lead to a whirlpool that contains gothic literature, surrealism, and sentimentalism because these crotchety old men were out of their gourds but sometimes right? Yes. Yes I am.

[firawren]

[beevean]

🗝️ favorite antagonist?

I'm assuming from AA since we share the fandom :)

I love Dahlia. In a series where most villains are people in power, and we escalated from legendary prosecutors to chiefs of police to TV celebrities that hire assassins to international spies to straight up queens... Dahlia is just a normal woman. A woman so consumed by bitterness against everyone in her life that she spreads misery wherever she goes. A woman so determined to get her way that she cheated death out of spite. A woman who, in her sloppiness to cover up after herself, killed her step-sister, manipulated her "boyfriend" to kill himself on the stand, poisoned another man into a coma, traumatized her cousin, killed her ex to make him shut up, nearly poisoned her new boyfriend out of annoyance, and nearly killed her other cousin in the body of her mother/her own aunt. It's not like Von Karma or Ga'ran whose actions got the biggest consequences due to their reach: Dahlia simply would not stop. And this is not accounting for all the emotional cruelty she displays, like reveling in the idea that Maya might have killed herself because it makes Phoenix suffer. She's not a magnificent bastard the likes of von Karma and Kristoph Gavin, but her sheer hatred makes her a memorable foe.

AA uses the "sweet woman is secretly a bitch" trope a lot, ever since April May. But Dahlia goes above and beyond because she is genuinely scary. Yeah her spirit form is one of the creepiest moments in the OG trilogy, but this sprite alone

gives me chills. You know she is seething, but you don't see a thing, she's standing there, unmoving. It's worse than her white death glare, or her sneer.

And she has some badass lines too, like "And my profession? Permanently retired". (she apparently died a painful death, too...) Or man, how her first testimony in 3-5 after she revealed herself has her theme! And speaking of which, Distant Traces of Beauty is a beautiful piece that conveys so many emotions depending on the context! It sounds both sweet and empty. How do you do that?

Her design is 10/10 too. Her giant moe eyes look almost uncanny with how big and black they are (going by her original sprite, not the HD one). She's so pink and frilly, but her sash is floating, which is both unnatural and makes her look like a butterfly (I think they used this concept again for Nahyuta, but they could make it flutter for him lol). The red hair is... admittedly a bit of a tired trope to indicate an evil character lol, but considering that her entire family is made of black-haired people and some brunettes, it makes you wonder if she deliberately dyed her hair to distance herself from her mother's clan, that person who deemed her worthless...

also I just love this animation. it's neat. T&T has some great spritework.

Ah, I could go on. I love her. Fucked up evil woman with a tragic past that doesn't even begin to excuse all the awful things she has done 🥰 she deserved being roasted into oblivion 🥰

oh yeah simon keyes is also a fave of mine for similar reasons as to dahlia, except he didn't even personally hurt anyone. a king

[academic-vampire]

“Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practice an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.”

-“The Birth-Mark,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

[jadetheblueartist]

It’s the one time a year where I get to do art in my classes, so check it, yo.

We have to fill the five boxes and the border with drawings and thematic writing (?) about the story we read. If you haven’t read The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it’s about a mad scientist who married the most beautiful woman, but was obsessed with her one “flaw”- a hand-shaped birthmark on her cheek. They both go to great lengths to remove it, but it only ever is removed after her death.

The top left box references a dream the scientist had about how he tried cutting away the birthmark, and he kept cutting until he found that it was attached to her heart.

The bottom right shows the remnants of the elixir that ended up removing the mark and killing her in the process.

I only really ended up liking the heart because I was pleasantly surprised at how using purple to shade worked.

Okay, that’s it. I just finished it and wanted to share hahaha

[xoheartsaurore]

“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

[jaded-abyss]

IM BACK BITCHES!!!

Been overwhelmed with work today but its going!!

Current to do list for english is:

ESSAY: “How far does the confrontation between Pinkie and Ida conform to our expectations of crime fiction?” = 500-700 words

ESSAY: “Explore the significance of element/ of crime writing in this extract. Remember to include in your answer relevent detailed analysis of the ways the author has shaped meanings” = On an extract from ‘Force of Nature’ - Jane Harper (2017)

Analysis and annotations of extracts:

‘The Cold Cold Ground’ - Adrian McKinty

‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ - Robert Louis Stevenson

‘And Then There Were None” - Agatha Christie

‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ - Roald Dahl

‘The Scarlet Letter’ - Nathanial Hawthorne

So wish me luck!!! Other alters might post on here- we might just turn it into a general academic motivation blog tbh :]

[incorrectclassicbookquotes]

Something I learned from English class that o forgot to share while I was in it. Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s relationship was basically this:

Herman Melville: You’re my friend but I’d fuck you if you asked me to.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: What?!