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boygenius by Hobbes Ginsberg for the new york times

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Another shot from the Boys New York Times photoshoot by Hobbes Ginsberg via coralie.kraft on instagram!

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2023 IN BOOKS - A LONG POST

What I read last year, divided into a few categories. I didn't in the end feel like writing down all 80-ish books, so this is a selection.

1 Poetry - I'm trying to get into poetry, but I'm not a 'natural' poetry reader.

Aftonland - Pär Lagerkvist

Bluets - Maggie Nelson

Sonnets - William Shakespeare

Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come for Us - Fatimah Asghar

Wild Embers - Nikita Gill

The Wild Iris - Louise Glück

Poems - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Blue Horses - Mary Oliver

Love Letters to the World - Meia Geddes

Aún - Pablo Neruda

from Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Bestiary - Donika Kelly

Winter Recipes from the Collective - Louise Glück

Selected Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley

2 Short Stories and Novellas

Skördad - Anna Jakobsson Lund

The October Country and Other Stories - Ray Bradbury

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

Burning Girls and Other Stories - Veronica Schanoes

Galatea - Madeline Miller

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang

3 For Work

Konsten att undervisa - Filippa Mannerheim

Poesi direkt - Daniel Boyacioglu

4 Comics and Graphic Novels

The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman

Nimona - N D Stevenson

Sandman vol 5 - Neil Gaiman

5 Rereads

The Fellowship of the Ring - J R R Tolkien

The Two Towers - J R R Tolkien

The Return of the King - J R R Tolkien

The Rook - Daniel O'Malley

Stiletto - Daniel O'Malley

Blitz - Daniel O'Malley

Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb

Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb

How to Marry a Werewolf - Gail Carriger

6 Favourites

Toll the Hounds - Steven Erikson

Augustus - John Williams

Circe - Madeline Miller

This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Crippled God - Steven Erikson

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter - Theodora Goss

Infomocracy - Malka Older

Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey

+ The Paper Menagerie, Stories of Your Life and most rereads...

7 Other Noteworthy Reads

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold

Shards of Honor - Lois McMaster Bujold

Barrayar - Lois McMaster Bujold

The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold

The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold

Dust of Dreams - Steven Erikson

Women Talking - Miriam Toews

Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

An Inheritance of Magic - Benedict Jacka

The Power Naomi Alderman

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss

Ice - Anna Kavan

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boygenius for The New York Times by Hobbes Ginsberg

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Hobbes Ginsberg, Self Portrait

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"I'm in a lot of girl groups on FB and see a lot of like well intentioned language "policing" around terms like "femme / female / female-identiefied / biological sex / etc" but I feel like a lot of ppl miss the point w why we need to watch our language... like it's not abt memorizing what new term is the "good" one and what's "offensive" like u gotta actually interrogate urself on where ur coming from and why ur actually using those terms in the first place. re-contextualize what they mean to u and what categories u sub-consciously create around them"

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hobbes and chole

by hobbes 

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INFP - INFJ Characters I Relate To

Luna Lovegood - Harry Potter 

Wanda Maximoff - WandaVision 

Number 7 - The Umbrella Academy 

Cassie Ainsworth - Skins

Max Caulfield - Life Is Strange

Peter Parker - Spider-man

Lapis Lazuli - Steven Universe

Raven Queen - Ever After High

Bubbles - Power Puff Girls

Newt Scamander - Fantastic Beasts 

Nico di Angelo - Camp Half-Blood

Charlie Kelmeckis - Perks of Being a Wallflower

Amelie - Amelie 

Aurora - Sleeping Beauty 

Musa - Winx Club 

Alice Kingsleigh - Alice in Wonderland 

2-D - Gorillaz

Persephone - Greek Legends 

Victor Van Dort - Corpse Bride

BMO - Adventure Time

Asriel Dreamer - Undertale

Jason Dean - Heathers

Courage - Courage the Cowardly Dog

Lucy Pevensie - The Chronicles of Narnia 

Romeo and Juliet - Romeo and Juliet 

Barry Allen - The Flash 

Davy Jones - Pirates of the Caribean 

Merlin - Merlin 

Susanna Kaysen - Girl, Interrupted 

Emma Chotta - The Red Band Society

Carrie Krueger - The Amazing World of Gumball

Arwen Undomiel - The Lord of the Rings

Ethan Lewis - Euphoria 

Anne Shirley - Anne of Green Gables

Rue - Hunger Games

Ratcatcher 2 - Suicide Squad 

Misty Day - American Horror Story

Lydia Deetz - Beetlejuice

Joshua Washington - Until Dawn

The Phantom - The Phantom of the Opera

Aurora - Maleficent 

Alison Cameron - House M.D.

The Monster - Frankensstien 

Crybaby - K-12

Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd

Abigail Hobbs - Hannibal

Credence Barebone - Fantastic Beasts 

Kermit the Frog - The Muppets 

Ofelia - Pan’s Labyrinth 

Ponyboy Curtis - The Outsiders

Coraline Jones - Caroline 

Rogue - X-Men

Candy Chiu - Gravity Falls

Eloise Turner - Last Night in Soho

Zoe Benson - American Horror Story 

Sam Manson - Danny Phantom 

Louis de Pointe du Lac - Interview with the Vampire

Antigone - Greek Legends

Wiccan - Marvel

Orpheus - Hadestown

Melinda Sordino - Speak

Evey Hammond - V for Venddetta

Fisk - Undertale 

Harry Osborne - Spider-man

Greg Wuliger - Everybody Hates Chris 

David - Hilda

Buffalo Bill - Silence of the Lambs 

Christine Daae - The Phantom of the Opera

Scorpius Malfoy - Cursed Child

Frances Houseman - Dirty Dancing

Max - Sharkboy and Lavagirl 

Susie Salmon - The Lovely Bones

The Grabber - The Black Phone 

Ethan Morgan - My Babysitters a Vampire

Stevonnie - Steven Universre 

Abby Sciuto - NCIS

Miles Halter - Looking for Alaska 

Jacob Portman - Miss Peregrine 

Sarah - Labyrinth 

Marius - Les Mis

Bridgitte Fitzgerald - Ginger Snaps 

Thomasin - The VVitch 

Edith Cushing - Crimson peak 

Basil - Dorian Gray 

Allen Ginsberg - Kill Your Darlings 

Jane Eyre- Jane Eyre

Andrew Detmer - Chronicle

Wanderer - The Host

Kurt Wagner - X-Men

Scout Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird

Emma - Blue is the Warmest Colour

Syrena - Pirates of the Caribbean 

Sara Crewe - A Little Princess

David Haller - Legion 

Skeeter - The Help 

Nico Minoru - Runaways 

Dave Lizewski - Kick-Ass

Annie Sawyer - Being Human 

Nugget - Kindergarten 

Chip Dove - Jennifer’s Body

Mia Warren - Little Fires Everywhere 

Chase Mathews  - Zoey 101

Eli Goldworthy - Degrassi 

Willow Rossenberg - Buffy

Fiona - About a Boy

Violet Harmon - American Horror Story 

Anastasia - Anastasia 

Spike - Buffy

Theo Putnam - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 

Frances Shea - Legends 

Micheal Darling - Peter Pan

Jughead Jones - Archie Comics

Johnathan Morgenstern - The Shadowhunters

Rapheal Santiago - The Shadowhunters 

Bree Tanner - Twilight 

Angela Weber - Twilight 

Michelle Jones - Spider-man Homecoming

Davina Claire - The Originals

April Ludgate - Parks and Recreation

Alec Lightwood - The Shadowhunters

Nia Nal - Supergirl 

Raven - Teen Titans 

Remus Lupin - Harry Potter 

Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird

Will Grahm - Hannibal 

Harley Quinn - DC Comics

Amy Dunne - Gone Girl 

Lexi Howard - Euphoria

James - The End of the Fucking World

Vision - WandaVision 

Nina Sayers - Black Swan 

Veronica Sawyer - Heathers 

Mathew Murdocck - Daredevil

Gellret Grindelwald - Fantastic Beasts

Dawn - Total Drama

Sally - The Nightmare Before Christmas

Eurus Holmes - Sherlock 

James Wilson - House M.D. 

Professor X - X-Men

Ester Coleman - Orphan

Winter Anderson - American Horror Story 

Needy - Jennifer’s Body

Joan of Arc - Clone High

Micheal Morbius - Morbius 

Nick Goode - Fear Street

Miss Honey - Matilda

Cole Sear - The Sixth Sense 

Brea - The Dark Crystal 

Ingrid Beuachamp - The Witches of East End

Victoria Winters - Dark Shadows

Bella Swan - Twilight

Ramona Flowers - Scott Pilgrim 

Fern Arable - Charlottes Web

Dwayne Hoover - Little Miss Sunshine

Rose Bukate - Titanic 

Candyman - Candyman 

Magenta - Rocky Horror

Tom Riddle - Harry Potter 

Bruce Banner - The Hulk 

Sirus Black - Harry Potter

Barbra Godron - Batman 

The Enchantress - Suicide Squad 

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What would Louis think of modern literature? Or, worse, post-modernism? (You mentioned this in your fic but i need a headcanon to steal)

I am going to try so hard to keep my taste in literature separate from Louis' taste in literature here. It is not separate at all in BA.

(All of my headcanons are free to a good home, pls do)

I'm positive this is so much more information than you wanted but I don't have the ability to answer Louis questions in short form

After giving this some thought, I've come to the conclusion that the biggest factor in Louis' literary taste is probably that he's a product of the late 18th century. He was born in the 1760s and raised in the culturally French Louisiana upper-class at the height of the Enlightenment and he's coming of age during the American Revolution (his young adult life is also likely impacted by the French Revolution). His family is not aristocratic, so their ties and loyalty to the Ancienne Regime and Old World monarchical conservatism would likely have been minimal.

Because of his unique position in history and predilection to learning, it seems likely that his mortal and early vampire life would've been spent reading at LEAST proto-Enlightenment authors like Hobbes, Bacon, and Locke and likely works by contemporary philosophers like Rousseau, Voltaire, and Kant (Louis' ethics are extremely Kantian and I don't think that's a coincidence). The foundation of his tastes would be rooted in the growing rationality and empiricism of his age, but he's also a devout Roman Catholic which makes him very representative of his time I think, right on the cusp between Pre-Modern and Modern thinking.

ANYWAY to answer your actual question, Louis is pedantic as hell and loves Smart People Things like confusing and complicated literature from any time in history, so I think he'd have a lot of opinions about both (the important thing is that he either look smart reading it or sound smart criticizing it). Louis expresses an enjoyment of Romantic poetry in IWTV (I'm trying to remember if AR ever canonized anything else regarding his specific taste in books but I can't think of anything, I'll have to go back and look) and that fits his character pretty well in my opinion. If that's what he likes enough to mention specifically, I imagine him taking rather well to some Modern writers. (Though he still doesn't consider it High Literature if it was written post-war)

If I had to choose some Modern authors I think he'd like, I'd say maybe Woolf, Fitzgerald, Nabokov, Forster, Plath, and the like. They're probably more minimalist in language than any of the purple prose he would have read previously, but I can see him taking quickly to the use of simplified use of figurative language and complex social commentary in Modern lit. He seems like the type to appreciate new approaches to writing as long as they're suitably intellectual. I don't see him enjoying the style of writers like Steinbeck or Hemingway. He would find them simplistic and dull I think, rough around the edges, you know? Too parsimonious and lacking any good intertextuality. Straight-shooting prose doesn't seem like his thing, even if there is some deeper meaning.

Post-Modernism would be a mixed bag for him, and he'd definitely like to bitch about the flakiness and lack of conviction. Baby boy is a little black and white sometimes and I don't think he'd appreciate the lack of certainties or total ambiguity of truth sitting at the heart of Post-Modernism and I'm sure he'd call it "disingenuous" or "lacking moral fiber". Some of it would just be too vulgar and tasteless like Bukowski or Ginsberg, too low-brow for his refined literary palate.

However, some Post-Modern lit brings back the conceptual, meta nature of a lot of 19th-century works. I think he'd appreciate the darker themes of disillusionment and cultural cynicism explored by writers like Eliot and Burgess or maybe even the more elevated exploration of counterculture from a Kerouac or the Beat poets.

Around the 90s, I think he'd probably get some kind of superiority complex around the surge in the increasing commodification of popular fiction and go back to the pre-20th century literary sphere, maybe get into foreign language novels or something. Probably something depressing and Russian like Dostoevsky. And there would be lots of loud complaining about sell-out genre fiction, Instagram poetry, and bad movie adaptations of old classics that he would totally never watch (just like he totally hasn't read all the Harry Potter books).

(That said, as I mentioned in my Louis headcanons, he absolutely reads shitty YA and bodice-ripper erotica to decompress sometimes but he'll take that information to the grave. If he ever goes into the fire, City of Bones is coming with him.)