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The indigenous cuisine wins out in the power play if the criteria are geographical spread and breadth of market. Native food feeds more people in more areas of the Philippines than does the colonial cuisineâbecause it is what the majority can afford. It is also the food most plentiful and readily available.
Doreen Fernandez, in "Tikim: Essays on Philippine Food and CultureâExpanded and Updated Edition" (Anvil Publishing House, 2024)
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Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004
#lit#mary oliver#quotes#writings#words#understanding#typography#fragments#quote#essays#long life: essays & other writings#p
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absolutely enraptured rn
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Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.
[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]
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#aesthetic#dark academia#coffee#books#academia#college#light academia#literature#studyblr#work#poems#essays#art#artists#career#life#life goals
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Arundhati Roy, âOur country has lost its moral compassâ
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@heavensghost // Erin Moran, "940 Main Street" // Jason Schneiderman, "Little Red Riding Wolf" // @mah_hirano on tw // Adrienne Rich, "Planetarium" // Richard Siken, Editor's Pages: Black Telephone // Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken my Body: Essays // @loputyn // Mason O'Hern, "You Are Not Just Anything" // Friedrich Nietzsche, Good and Evil
#theme: a woman in the shape of a monster#web weaving#web weave#webs#poetry#prose#aesthetic#prose poetry#literature#art#book quotes#novels#books#novel quotes#essays#quotes#words#writing#inspo#compilation#parallels#on womanhood#on femininity#femininity#womanhood#illustration#richard siken#friedrich nietzsche#nietzche#poems
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How to improve your writing style : a 5-steps guide.
Intro : I love the 5-steps format, donât mind me. Again, this essay is based on my personal experience.
Read in different genres. Ok, I know youâve probably heard this advice more than you can count but did you ask yourself why it is so important ? You probably wonder ââHow reading some historical fiction will help me writing my sci-fi novel ?ââ For that simple reason my friend : they meet different purposes. You donât know how to describe a castle ? Itâs okay, historical fiction got your back. Because it aims at something more realistic and accurate, it would tend to be more specific and detailed when it comes to describing clothes, furniture, places and so on. Why ? Because, most of the time, THEY ACTUALLY EXISTED. Take a closer look at how it is done and draw your inspiration from it (but please avoid plagiarism itâs bad - and illegal)
Take notes and CLASSIFY them. To make reading somehow useful, you have to actually make it concious, which means you have to write things down to remember them. When I come across a description I like, I tend to takes notes of the figures of speech that are used and class them, so when I have to write a similar scene, I have an idea of what have been already used, and weither or not it achieved its goal. I am NOT talking about COPY another authorâs style !!!! Itâs about finding inspiration and new approaches. I also tend to take notes of the new words I wish to incoporate into my writing. The thesaurus is my new bestie.
Rewrite the same scene from different POVs. First of all, itâs fun. And itâs a really good way to spot quirky formulations. For instance, if you describe a ship, the captainâs POV should be different from that of a simple observer. The first one would be naming each part princisely whereas the other would only be admiring the surface without knowing anything. If the caption is the same for both POVs, maybe you should consider write your passage again (or have a good reason, like a strong amateurism for the mere observer). Itâs go hand in hand with coherence - but it would be an essay for another time (maybe).
Read your text aloud. I put major emphasis on that one because itâs as underated as reading books for various genres. You have no idea how much we DONâT speak the way we write. Even dialogues are crafted in our stories - so make sure to give them proper attention. (i even read my email aloud but-). I KNOW how cringey it might be as I am doing it MYSELF but the benefits are worth the 35-minutes shame I endure from my own mess. Before you can shine, you have to polish (shout out to the one who said that first if itâs not me).
Take a step back. I strongly advice you to let some time pass before reading your text again and profreading it. It will cast a new light upon your work and with fresh eyes youâd be more likely able to spot what needs to be erased or rephrased.
Thatâs all for me today. Since I would be entering my proofreading phase for my writing contest, the next essay would probably about proofreading (with examples from my own novel ?). Unless someone wants me to write on a specific subject first.
Gentle reminder that Iâm still French and not a native so please forgive my dubious grammar and outrageous mispellings.
#writing process#writing resources#creative writing#essays#writing a book#writing help#writing advice#writing tools#novel writing#fiction writing#writerscommunity#writer blog#writing style#books and literature#writing#resources for writers#writers on tumblr#writing resource#writing tips#writingblr#writeblr
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An Asexual's love letter to Good Omens 2
There's an infamous quote by Neil Gaiman going around, regarding the general vibe of season 2, and many people (I believe humorously) yelling that it could not be further from the truth. Particularly in the last episode, where that happens.
I disagree.
The final episode of season 2 was deeply, deeply comforting to me.Â
I am asexual. Have been my whole life. Even before I had the words to describe what that was, child-me had this feeling in their gut of being an outlier, that everyone was exaggerating, or in on some joke, that I wasnât privy to. Because I was bombarded on all sides by shows and movies and books, telling the same story of love, again, and again, and AGAIN. Itâs drilled into our brains with the same fervor as the days of the week, or the quadratic formula. Meet-cute -> misunderstanding ->declaration of feelings ->kiss. More or less steps can be added to account for runtime or complexity of narrative, but thatâs the basic structure that a relationship follows. It MUST be, because thatâs the formula every character who's ever been in a story goes through, often times when it even feels like an add-on, like itâs only there because this is a story, there HAS to be a romance. And it has to follow the steps.
For a long time, I felt love wasnât for me, because if thereâs only one way to be in love, I sure as hell wasnât feeling it.Â
Instead, the relationship I ended up in looked a lot like what Beezlebub and Gabriel go through. Meeting someone routinely until it starts to feel comfortable. Getting to know them and slowly growing more attached. Eating chips and listening to music.
We like to joke whenever someone asks us how long weâve been together, because the answer is we just sort of slowly fell into it, and we honestly donât know when the line got blurred between âfriendsâ and âpartnersâ. And, at least for me, a good deal of that confusion, that hesitancy to label, came from the fact that what I was feeling, what we were, couldnât be love. It couldnât be romantic.Â
We were just quiet and gentle.
And that wasnât love.
Because it was slow, because it wasnât physical, because there was no structure aside from consistency and companionship. Because it didnât follow the Rules.
Then I found myself in stories, and it felt like a revelation.
Beelzebub and Gabriel arenât the first time Iâve seen a love like I feel represented in a narrative, but it never stops feeling special. And I donât know if Iâll ever stop celebrating it.
Throughout the sequence in the pub, I kept expecting them to âconfirmâ Gabriel and Beelzebub. A dramatic line, a kiss, a whatever. Thatâs what Iâve been taught to expect, after all, thatâs the only way a relationship is ârealâ. Of course, this doesn't mean Crowley and Aziraphale sharing a dramatic kiss is wrong, or that I canât see why it resonated with so many people, but for me. Those moments in the pub are worth so much more.The last scene might have been literally showstopping, but those handful of moments between the duke of hell and an archangel were the beating heart of the season for me. A simple love story in four scenes. No kisses. No âI love youâs. Not even any definition of what. The love Gabriel and Beelzebub have is strong enough for them to both want to shatter their worlds and flee their lives and it's just.Â
It's just that.Â
Two people in a pub, playing the other's favorite song, giving a little gift, buying a packet of crisps.Â
That sequence means far more to me than any kiss ever could.
Love isnât only real when it's hot and sudden and ephemeral, it can also be
Quiet.
And gentle.
And still romantic.
Still real.
#I sometimes remember this sequence and just feel so light inside#good omens#good omens season 2#good omens season 2 spoilers#good omens s2#good omens s2 spoilers#asexual#ace#ace pride#actually asexual#asexual spectrum#essays#ineffable bureaucracy#lord beelzebub#archangel gabriel
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Regretfully, I had to leave all my books behind. I couldnât bear to make the choice between my beloveds, so I left them all. Â Give them back. Give us back our beds. Give us back our offices. And give us back our books.
Nabil S., from "It Was All Songs: A Letter From Gaza" translated from the Arabic by Sarah Aziza, published in Mizna on February 12th, 2024. You can read the entire essay here.
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âThe most important part of my job is to make the library a safe space. One where kids burst through the door and go running with glee to the childrenâs area so they can say hello to whoever is at the desk. One where a patron can have a full metal meltdown about the state of the world and still be given resources to find housing, a shower, a meal. One where someone can come in blasted high for years and then return the next day sober and clean, ensconcing themselves in the safety of the books to stay that way.â
Lisa Bubertâs Instagram bio reads "Public librarian who has seen some đ©," and her latest piece makes clear just how much âsomeâ is. When so much of our society has seemingly turned its back on its neediest members, public libraries have never been more important. To read âSafety Net,â head to Longreads.
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Praise for Katherine Rundell's new nonfiction bestiary of extraordinary animals, VANISHING TREASURES
âWhether she is writing about a jumping spider, a hedgehog, or the curious, pine-cone-like mammals known as a pangolin, Katherine Rundell stuns us with wonders. Each of her essays is a polished gemâand each will leave you newly smitten with love for life.â âSy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus
#sy montgomery#bestselling nonfiction#animal books#the soul of an octopus#my octopus teacher#hedgehog#vanishing treasures#katherine rundell#nonfiction#impossible creatures#author#conservation#nature#animal facts#essays#nonfiction essays
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04.10.2024âactually working from a desk for a change. wild. thanks for 13.8k!!
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Does it matter why Lot's wife looked back? She looked back because she loved her daughters. She looked back because she loved her home. She looked back because she loved the past. She looked back because she loved the world. Remember Lotâs wife: it's intended as a warning, but I have adopted it as a creed. When the world burns, I will fill my eyes with as much of it as I possibly can. I can think of no greater honor than to remain on the earth. You are worth turning around for. You are worth transformation. You are the heat that lights the match that lights the hearth that warms me. You are everything.
Amelia K., âI: Vision - Eurydice, Manganâs Sister, & Lotâs Wifeâ
#haunted by this essay that i never saved still STILL#q#lit#quotes#amelia k#essays#eurydice mangans sister and lots wife#one more kiss before we turn the lights off#favourite#m#x
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In light of the recent attack upon an elderly Muslim gentleman in India, who was assaulted by Hindu extremist sanghis on a train for carrying beef, here are more essays to read, demonstrating how the concept of "pure vegetarianism" in India cannot be separated from ideas of caste hierarchy, oppression of marginalized groups and how foods and diets of different groups are shaped as much by economic disparities as by belief and spirituality:
Note: I know this shall breach containment soon but yeah, white vegans, "pure" vegetarians, and sanghis don't touch this post.
#resourcess#casteism //#islamophobia#casteism#books#essays#activism#india#hindutva#mimiwrites#ethnonationalism#politics#caste politics
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