#LiT eclipse

[evening-art]

Happy Halloween @muzzlemouths !! Sorry this is a teeny bit late in the evening, had a busy day, but I was your secret skeleton for DCAH!! I was originally going to write a thing with Lost in Transmission, but no matter how hard I tried the writing spoons were not happening, so have a spooky doodle instead!!! I hope you like it!!! :-D Flat color version beneath the cut!!

[histhoughtslately]

During this time, speak these 5 words into existence…

“I can let go now…”

Repeat it. Chant it. Sit with it. Feel it. This is your moment; now! 🌱

#solareclipse2024

[sfsolstice]

Emily Dickinson, from The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

[sunshines-child]

Happy birthday Apollo how does it feel knowing your sister outshone you today

[amicus-noctis]

It has been found again...

What?

Eternity

It is the sea mingled with the sun

― L'Eternite, Arthur Rimbaud

[muzzlemouths]

✔️ - Tell us a random fact about any of the characters in your AU

LOST IN TRANSMISSION PLEASE

LiT Eclipse loves chores. Sweeping, dusting, laundry, dishes, whatever keeps the hands busy and the mind busier. They love to feel like they're helping, but this habit mostly stems from the need for a distraction. They can't go five minutes without something to do before turning into a tiger pacing their cage, claustrophobic. Cabin fever is a constant ailment. Comes with the trauma.

Y/N is a collector of mugs! They have more than than know what to do with and will still grab more every time one catches their eye, especially vintage and second hand mugs. There's something about a mug with a silly saying on the front and a chipped handle that brings them comfort. This comfort is also why they reacted so poorly to dropping one in response to Eclipse's lighthearted attempt at playing games back in Chapter 2.

[academic-vampire]

“One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief.”

-Annie Dillard, “Total Eclipse”

[splattered-ink]

Today, I saw Wonder.

If but for a minute.

The Moon asked the Sun

If she would hug her

and today, she indulged her

wrapping our Luna in her warmest embrace

Today I saw Love

a brilliant meeting of two lovers

humanity would call it an eclipse

Sol and Luna needed no name for it

for their love was understood

without human things, like words

Today I saw Brilliance

when the moon and the sun meet

the sun gives her everything

just to show how beautiful her lover is

a halo of light,

complete darkness,

the faintest twinkle of stars.

[lupinedreaming]

Remember, horror friends, it’s okay to have boundaries in the horror media you consume! Don’t let anyone make you feel like you’re not a real fan if there are certain things you don’t want to watch or read, even if they’re popular or classics.

Personally, I don’t want to watch torture p*rn at all, so I refuse to watch the Saw movies and the Terrifier films. I want nothing do with extreme horror books either.

There are other movies and books I just personally have no interest in because the plots don’t strike my fancy.

Gatekeepers are losers, If you like horror media, even if it’s tamest stuff, that’s all you need to be a horror fan! 👻

[starakex]

Nothing is going to go as hard as this

April 8th 2024, around 3pm

[kalashtars]

starting a commonplace book and actually committing to it was one of the best things I've done this year. this is your sign to start a commonplace book 🫵

[hussyknee]

Everyone stop what you're doing and go read KJ Charles. She is a master class in queer historical fiction and writing diversity authentically.

[cto10121]

I think I had a breakthrough as to why the tiresome fan theory that Meyer was racist towards Jacob to the point of “destroying” her own character to elevate Team Edward is so popular. And I think it has to do with racism.

Almost from the very beginning Jacob has been framed as the socially appropriate and even conventional choice of suitor for Bella. His dad and Bella’s have been friends for years and Bella had known and played with Jacob’s sisters. When they meet again after many years Bella remarks how easy it is for her to talk to Jacob. During New Moon Charlie approves of Bella’s friendship with Jacob and is firmly Team Jacob in Eclipse. When Jacob says that he and Bella together as a couple would be as “easy as breathing” and that Bella wouldn’t have to give up anything of her human life with him, it not only rings true but is affirmed by Bella’s narrative, re: her vision of two kids running into the forest. And he’s a Native American character.

Edward, on the other hand, the inappropriate star-crossed lover—forbidden in a particularly visceral way—the one for whom it would be downright dangerous to Bella’s health to be with, the one who is most attracted to her blood, the one that haunts Bella’s dreams and fills her with aching passion, lust, and fascination, the one whom she goes the distance (literally) for to save and be with, the one who incurs Charlie’s wrath and disapproval and Renée’s concern…is the fantasy equivalent of a rich white guy.

Socially and economically, Bella is not supposed to be with Edward. Her true “social math” match as a girl from a working class white family is with Jacob.

In framing these love interests the way she has, Meyer subverts the common love triangle framing of dark/light, forbidden/conventional, even in classic romances (Linton as the conventional rich white guy and Heathcliff as the racially ambiguous forbidden lover in Wuthering Heights, the rich white Fleur-de-Lys and the poor but exotically beautiful Esmeralda in Notre Dame de Paris). In doing so Meyer elevates class as the most potent obstacle for the romance instead of race.

I’m not sure why Meyer did this—most likely her Austen influence reared its genteel bonneted head, as Brit Lit is notoriously class-obsessed. But for a series written for an American audience and is otherwise very American (the car culture especially, ho boy), this inevitably inspired backlash. Americans are notoriously very precious about race and Meyer’s blatant disregard for it in the romance definitely struck a racist (and classist) chord.

To say that a low-income Native American love interest would have been a perfectly acceptable if conventional choice for the white heroine than the rich white male love interest is something few people with racial prejudice (or who see everything through race and disregard class entirely) would accept. Meyer did not toe the race line—which means, of course, that she is racist herself, either in not making race the exclusive factor or in making the white lead as the superior and more intense love. Is she truly, though—or is that mere fan projection in being triggered by antiracist choices in the narrative?

[bendwill]

✏️

𝙳𝙾𝚅𝙰𝙷𝚉𝚄𝙻 𝙽𝙸𝙲𝙺𝙽𝙰𝙼𝙴𝚂.

“Kreinvolun.”

[muzzlemouths]

Muzz help I can't stop reading your fics/drabbles. Every one of your aus sucks me in and I start thinking and wanting more.

I recently gobbled up Lost in Transmission and the centipede imagery had me vibrating in my seat. What's that blue eye about, Muzz? Why does Eclipse feel the need to hide it? Hmm hmm hmm?

Either way I love him and I love your writing and your attention to detail and symbolism and foreshadowing and just the sheer amount of thought you put into every word. It truly is inspiring and admirable. I love a work I can truly dig my teeth into. A work that deserves multiple read throughs

kicking my feet twirling my hair giggling and blushinggggg YOU ARE TOO SWEET. THANK YOU. I'm elated that you enjoy my silly little stories so much!!

I've been taking my time with the next LiT chapter cause it's kind of a doozy in the emotions department (when aren't my works emotionally compromising, though?) but here. have a crumb for now.

[academic-vampire]

“If there had ever been people on earth, nobody knew it. The dead had forgotten those they had loved. The dead were parted one from the other and could no longer remember the faces and lands they had loved in the light. They seemed to stand on darkened hilltops, looking down.”

-Annie Dillard, “Total Eclipse”