#Mad Bad and Dangerous to know

[peteburnsgifs]

“But I’m in too deep”

- Pete Burns - In Too Deep music video

[socialmediasocrates]

oh boy camp sure is here

[mobiusstripper]

Wew I FINALLY finished Leviathan Falls after rotting on the library waiting list for months, and I feel like I have to take a minute to voice how utterly delighted I was with the way the authors wrote Tanaka.

It was sincerely refreshing to see a villain treated with such complexity and nevertheless allowed to be just...a total irredeemable piece of shit. She had the sob story backstory, she went through it in the present day plot, she even did the thing fans always joke about characters like her needing to do and went to therapy. She got a mirror held up to her from every angle, had every opportunity to rethink her life, and she stayed a straight nasty bitch, right to the bitter end.

Thank you, James S.A. Corey. From the bottom of my bastard-loving heart.

[cannedbluesblog]

"Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure" Lord Byron

[badmaddangerous]

The Art of Short Storytelling: A Tale from Byron Lord

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[donnahinkleystaceytroy]

[azulhood]

Conversations between best friends has often led to some reckless/stupid/not thought out at all decisions. Like one conversation the amity park trio had where Danny said that he couldn't see Tucker as a doctor (the medical kind) to which Tucker responded with "Alright, bet." and enrolled in medical school. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Wayne and Tucker Foley somehow by coincidence *cough* clockwork* became friends. And stayed friends even after Bruce dropped out and Tucker went on to finish med school. It was a strange friendship that was mainly just Bruce calling Tucker from the weirdest locations and asking things "Out of curiosity, if an immortal nutjob wanted you to marry his daughter and become his heir what would you do? uh-huh, uh-huh, really? ok, thanks." and meeting up for coffee every now and then. It was during one of these coffee meet-ups that Bruce confessed that he wanted to adopt a recently orphaned child by the name of Richard. There was currently push back from people who didn't think 'Brucie Wayne' would be a good parent and from others who didn't want a random kid having a chance to inherit the Wayne fortune, the media was also having a field day. Everyone kept asking him to "reconsider" and doing everything they can to stall/stop the adoption process. Tucker, being the good friend he was, said "Don't worry, I got this" Stood up from the cafe table, walked to the nearest library and politely asked to use one of their computers, spent a good ten minutes on it, printed something out on the library's printer, walked back to the cafe where he left Bruce waiting. And finally, he handed over the paper with the words "Take this." and continued drinking his now cold coffee. Bruce was, understandably, confused. "What is-" "Trust me, it'll work." Tucker assured him. That is how Bruce Wayne adopted one Richard 'Dick' Grayson.

And after that, Bruce went to Tucker whenever he came across a kid that he wanted to adopt, which was often. It's one reason why Tucker will do everything in his power to make sure Danny and Bruce never meet for fear that the Gothamite might try to add the Halfa to the growing army of children. Aka

Tucker Foley is The Guy

[gothiccharmschool]

Byron on instagram would be AMAZING.

Shelley would be That Guy on Reddit. Polidori would mostly vaguepost on FB.

Mary would have a personal blog site.

Clare would write self-insert RPF.

my toxic trait is thinking i could survive the byron-shelley friend group however. i think it would be much simpler than whatever i have been doing for the last 5 years

[palephx]

The Prince Formerly Known as Artist?

[peteburnsgifs]

You choose life on the road

So give your permission

While others just fool around

With my ignition

[mermaidsirennikita]

frustrating levels of discourse continue happening on twt ugh https://x.com/lara_e_brown/status/1839303817256645101

Lol yeah, I've honestly just given up on reading takes like that because once you've seen one, you've seen 'em all.

It's an extremely shallow reading, using things like "pale", which you can in fact be while having a darker complexion, with both examples relating less to a physical appearance and more to his aspect in the moment (his face is "white" because he's scared; he's "pale and effeminate" because he's in a wan and weakened state). And I say "both" because you tend to come up with faaaar fewer examples of the text relating Heathcliff as pale than... not.

I also find it funny that this user uses Heathcliff marrying Isabella as an example of why he MUST be white, when Heathcliff and Isabella literally run away together because nobody wants them to be together, PARTICULARLY her brother, and this rips the Linton family asunder. Almost as if.......... it was............... breaking a taboo......................

Like, yeah! 18th century Yorkshire wouldn't have accepted that marriage. And if there's one thing we know about Heathcliff—if it's not accepted, he's not gonna do it.

One of the entire points of his character is that he lives against law and taboo and societal norms (while at the same time being deeply aware of the fact that his existence doesn't gel with them). In that thread, that user references the Byronic hero, with the name drawing from Lord Byron and his own literary fascinations. Byron was obsessed with taboo, lived to break them (most famously the taboo of sleeping with people of the same sex, and probably the taboo of incest as well... COME TO MY TED TALK TO DISCUSS HOW THAT COULD RELATE TO HEATHCLIFF, ALSO). One of the reasons why more recent scholarship (and I don't even mean super recent) surrounding Wuthering Heights has come to terms with the interpretation of Heathcliff as a man of color is that he does embody the taboo even more.

And obviously... some taboos (the incest one) exist for a reason. But the book also seems interested in questioning how much we really gain by treating someone (someone like Heathcliff) as other and wrong simply for existing. Again, we go into the cycle of abuse.

I also find it rather belittling of people to refer to general 18th and 19th century values when discussing how people "would have" seen Heathcliff, or interpreted the text. Because, for one thing—yeah! A lot of contemporary readers did not in fact Get It. Perhaps in part because they did have the biases that people like that user seem to believe would have prevented the author from exploring Heathcliff as a man of color.

... But if Emily Bronte thought exactly as the detractors of her novel (who condemned it as wicked and aberrant) did, she never would have written the book, I think. Who's to say, though? It's difficult for EITHER side to make leaps about what Emily knew or thought, because she is someone who didn't live very long, has been portrayed as an eccentric (and perhaps even maligned by Elizabeth Gaskell's portrayal of her) and definitely had something of an offbeat upbringing. We just don't have much directly from HER. So it's a bit rich to me to make assumptions about the kind of limited worldview she may have had on topics like race, when we really do not have a lot of definitive information about her worldview, but DO know that the book she wrote, which some theorize to be about a man of color, REALLY upset some conventional readers.

Like... why would you contextualize that book within a purely conventional reading when the entire reason why Wuthering Heights matters is that it defies convention?

I do shy away from using the word "canonical" to describe Heathcliff's race, because while I know what people mean when they say it (and I'm sure I've said it at some point) it's just a word choice that people like that user will latch on to. Like I've said before, there is no way to prove with 100% certainty Heathcliff's race either way. Which isn't to say that you have to do so to state that he's a man of color. It's just the kind of pedantic strategy people will use in threads like these.

And I'll notice, too, that she omits Nelly's line wherein she speculates that Heathcliff's mother could be Chinese or Indian. I mean, what's her take on that specificity combined with the lascar speculation? No mention of Liverpool relating to people... not... from America or Spain...?

I do worry sometimes that people see someone's major concentration (say, if someone has a BA in English or something, which for the record I don't) and go "Damn, that's end-all, be-all" A) it's not, there's more to research than getting a degree B) you could also use literal wikipedia footnotes to kickstart your own deeper dive into this, there are tons of people who've made careers discussing books like WH debating the issue C) having a degree of any level never kicks your bias.

To go back to my own degree... I knew old art historians who saw nothing gay at all in Michelangelo's work. You can know a lot about a lot, and it doesn't mean you have an open mind.

I think anyone can read WH, do some research about the era and Emily, and drawn their own conclusions. And you are just going to have to make your conclusions based on your own assessment. There is no smoking gun here, and there never will be because the smoking gun would be a living Emily Bronte willingly telling you what she meant.

And I didn't read Heathcliff as a person of color from the jump, for the record. I was thirteen when I read that book for the first time; I'm white; I picked that book in the context of it being a Great English Classic, and as far as I knew, those were all about white people. Because... that's what you were taught about WH at the time, at least where I was.

But when I was first introduced to that interpretation some time later, it was a literal "OH!" moment. Because like... yeah. There isn't a smoking gun for Dorian Gray's sexuality (and yes, we know a lot more about Oscar Wilde than we do about Emily Bronte; but the absence of knowledge of Emily's interests and attitudes doesn't mean we can assume she DIDN'T have an interest in writing Heathcliff as a person of color) but The Picture of Dorian Gray makes way more sense when you interpret his queerness for what it is. Wuthering Heights makes way more sense when you interpret Heathcliff's race for what it is.

[erendur]

Fëanor as a Romantic hero

Images : Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia, Cover art for an unknown edition of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Albrecht Dürer, Knight, Death and the Devil, Roger Moore as Ivanhoe in the 1958-1959 series of the same name.

I was thinking of Fëanor in terms of Romantic hero this morning - not as in, Fëanor in relation to Nerdanel, but Fëanor as a character who, as per Wikipedia's description of the Romantic hero, "rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has themselves at the centre of their own existence", whose characteristics often include "wanderlust, melancholy, misanthropy, alienation and isolation" - think Heathcliff, Faust, the protagonist of A Hero of Our Time, or Victor Frankenstein (the doctor who makes the monster and is eventually killed by his own creation).

I was thinking of Fëanor in those terms because of :

a. it fits him so well (and we can throw in Nerdanel as well as the very-much suffering partner of the Romantic hero)

b. the parallels between Fëanor and the French romantic poet Gérard de Nerval.

Nerval's most famous poem is called "El Desdichado", meaning in the context "The Dispossessed One" (it has also been translated as "The Unfortunate One", or "The Outcast"), a reference to Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe, in which the main character fights incognito in a tournament under the name "El Desdichado", in reference to the fact that he has been disinherited by his father.

And of course, Fëanor (and his heirs), are, as per Mandos' Doom, "The Dispossessed Ones" as well. "The Unfortunate One" (as in, the one disfavoured by fate) or "The Outcast" fitting quite well too.

One of the main "obsessions" of Nerval is also his dead mother. Nerval's mother had followed her husband, an army surgeon in Napoleon's armies, and died somewhere in Eastern Europe, the exact location of her tomb unknown, when Nerval was a very young child. He has no memories of her, no portraits of her, the closets he gets is a small painting of another woman "that was said to look like her". Of course Fëanor would have portraits of his mother - or wouldn't he ?- but I can see him obsessing over the lack of image or mental picture of his dead mother.

The first line of "El Desdichado goes"

"Je suis le ténébreux, le veuf, l'inconsolé", "I am the shadowed one, the widower, the unconsoled one."

Fëanor is canonically "the shadowed one" : there is a darkness in him, and that's why Galadriel refuses to be pal with him. He is not a widower, but an orphan, and his wife left him ; he is certainly "the unconsoled one", especially after the death of his father.

There is another line in the poem that mentions "the dark sun of Melencolia", a reference to Dürer's engraving of the same title, and if that engraving doesn't give you Fëanor's vibes, I don't know what does. The grumpy face, the crafting instruments, the theme of light and darkness (forget the wings ! -could be very Melkor though). Very Fëanor.

Since I was doing vibe-based associations, Dürer's Knight, Death and the Devil also makes me think of Fëanor. The one who forges weapons in secret. The one who is harassed by the devil, who wants to seduce him, corrupt him, steal his stuff, and kill his father (it really doesn't get more Romantic than that). The one who is haunted, and hunted down, by death (both parents dead - dies himself young - no body left - will never get reembodied but has to stay in Mandos until the end of times).

Fëanor "mad, bad, and dangerous to know".

[fallstreakfeathers]

Anyway, we were robbed. Hantengu and his clones should've played a bigger part in the story. We should've been able to see their true strength. Not the one-trick-pony crap that only hints at what they could do. I mean, they're the 4th most powerful demon/s in existence aside from Muzan. We should've been able to see them kill entire groups of Slayers. I want to see Urogi torture his victims with a gleeful, bloody smile. I want to see him pulling the guts from a human and devouring them alive. I want to see Aizetsu chastise them for being so weak as he raises their body into the air with his spear. I want to see Sekido kill or disable scores of people in an instant. I want to see Karaku use his fan to create wind that throws people into the lake, where Urogi waits underwater to scream. I want to see dozens of Slayers bodies rising to the surface, drowned and shattered. And I want to see them work together and combine their unique abilities in horrifying attacks that tell you that you've got no chance of surviving the night. That these demons could be deities. That to look at them is to look upon death itself.

We. Were. So. ROBBED.

[bunnyboy-juice]

spent the first hour and change at work deleting some old files and am having a grand ol time laughing at myself for not realizing i was a lesbian sooner

[ken-katayanagi]

There are two wolves inside u: One wants to write a lengthy bitch post about everyone fighting since the tickets went on sale and the other one is just sad they’re never going to do a tour like this for Danger Days cause it would never sell.

[socialmediasocrates]

she's been having a single bad day for fifteen fucking years

when i write the durgetav one-shot nobody ever asked for just know that it's @negentropies fault