#OH YES IT'S LIT

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

And remember kids, the next time someone tells you, "George R. R. Martin wouldn't make Jon Snow the typical fantasy hero because that's cliche".....

Oh yes he would!

One viewer wants to know what character would you play (on the show)? GRRM: If I could magically clap my hands and become a different person, it would be cool to play Jon Snow who's much more of the classic hero. Everybody wants to be the classic hero! ABC Interview, 2014

GRRM: And the character I’d want to be? Well who wouldn’t want to be Jon Snow — the brooding, Byronic, romantic hero whom all the girls love. Meduza Interview, 2017

In fact he already has ☺️

[emberz7]

fell asleep in class again 🍇

[nowyoursoulisforfeit]

Vax being buttery-smooth with his flirting and courting attempts as Percy is just tired but hopelessly in love and oblivious to realizing the feeling is mutual is my favorite.

[musicalyeetreblr]

[hanzajesthanza]

the headcanon that regis can hang from the ceiling to sleep or rest like a bat is funny on its own, but when i consider geralt and others in the hanza holding conversations with him like this, it’s made better by my understanding of this as just an advanced “neurodivergent sitting” technique

[sfsolstice]

exurb1a, from "You Will Have Been" in Poetry for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too

[amuseoffyre]

I don't know about you guys, but I am having a Time of It

Me: look at all the bird symbolism all through the episodes! Also me: OMG look at all the myffic beastie metaphors and the symbols tied up within them and around them! Kraken! Mermaid! Unicorn! Phoenix! Also also me: OMFG I CAN'T BELIEVE THE FISHIE ALLEGORIES TOO! AND THE SHARKS! AND TRIPLE LAYERS OF THEM DEPENDING WHO USES THEM AND HOW THEY RELATE TO OTHER PEOPLE! Also also also me: THEY USED THE FRIGGING TOUR OF THE SHIP MUSIC FROM 1x04 FOR IZZY GIVING STEDE A TOUR OF PIRATE SKILLS!!!!! REPRESENTING A MUSICAL AND TONAL SHIFT IN DYNAMIC AND IZZY INVITING STEDE INTO HIS WORLD LIKE STEDE INVITED ED! Also also also also me: SYMBOLIC USE OF RUBENS AND CARAVAGGIO PAINTINGS THAT APPEAR BRIEFLY IN SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS AND REFLECT THE CURRENT TENSIONS OF THE NARRATIVE!!!!!!!!! Also also also also also me: i need to write another fic right this instant because if i don't get this out of my head i will scream

[oneirossomnus]

dorks.

[islenskihesturinn]

Someone in my class has a Tennessee Walking Horse and we both geeked out over each other's gaited horses hahaaa

[nedlittle]

everyone give it up for another year of flops, disappointments, and failures!! i read some absolute dogshit this year and now i have to share my suffering with the rest of you

the bangalore detectives club by harini nagendra ⭐

Why go through all the trouble of setting up that plot thread only to retract it at the next possible moment? That's not even a red herring. That's padding for a mystery that apparently took 13 years to cook and still came out fucking raw.

vampires of el norte by isabel cañas ⭐

Isabel Cañas writes like she's being held at gunpoint by a thesaurus.

the plague letters by v. l. valentine ⭐

I have read books with nonsense plots and books with horrible characters and books that read like a first draft done on the back of a napkin in crayon, but never, NEVER EVER have i read a book where the author decides to sprinkle in the fact that one of the protagonists can see ghosts at the halfway point.

yellowface by r. f. kuang ⭐.5

Yellowface, more than anything, rings hollow as a critique of privilege when written by someone who went to an elementary school where one year cost more than all four years of my university tuition combined.

everyone knows your mother is a witch by rivka galchen ⭐.75

Overall, I do not recommend this book except as a sleep aid.

manhunt by gretchen felker-martin ⭐.75

I weep for the potential Manhunt would have had if Gretchen Felker-Martin's Internet access had been cut off while she was writing.

the petticoat men by barbara ewing ⭐.75

This is a book your mom mentions she read for her book club because she wants you to know that she read a book about gay people.

the crimson ribbon by katherine clements ⭐⭐

The issue isn't that Clements decided to make Lizzie Poole gay. She decided to make Lizzie Poole gay so that her eventual execution would be more tragic. This isn't even a bad-faith reading of the text.

a rustle of silk by alys clare ⭐⭐

you don't need to be good at your job or care about what you're writing, you just have to have enough ideas to be able to wring every shred of life from your original gimmick until publishing decides they're no longer interested.

lovers at the chameleon club, paris 1932 by francine prose ⭐⭐

Francine, you did not make up those characters or events. You changed the names after reading a couple of history books on Paris.

[cinematicnomad]

it's like a decade+ later but i really am convinced that my queer lit professor had a crush on me in undergrad and really, fuck me for not realizing i was bi earlier bc i would have pounced on that.

[tamalesnsuch]

"I didn't really understand what mothers were because mine was in a tree, but I knew they were very good things and you were very angry and sad if you lost them..." -Naomi Novik - Spinning Silver

[mistninja]

*kicking my legs and giggling* I love uni

[a-miserable-wretch]

Ah, hello dear readers, good morning!

I do apologize for my forgetfulness, updating slipped my mind, I'm afraid.

Romano and I had a lovely day; we didn't go anywhere, however he invited me to bake with him. I'm not so sure I did well, but he said I did a good job, so I suppose I'll believe him!

He's just made us breakfast! It's time for me to go eat; I hope you all have a wonderful morning and the rest of your day!

Adam F.

[falinscloaca]

one of the most important aspects to be learnt of being a political thinker online, a passive or active viewer of sociopolitical discourses and marginalization, is that just because you find someone to be “wrong” on a subject, have a bad take on a words definition or have shitty political/strategic takes, or just be fucking annoying to you personally, doesn’t make them stop being from the same marginalized group or group-of-groups as yourself. tragically sometimes a comrade-in-arms also just fucking sucks without it being a cishetero bourgeois psyop or a more-particularly-advantaged-yet-still-marginalized-group punching down. like there can be “self-hating” people from demographics actively trying to oppress said demographics but 9 times out of 10 Kaleb from My Discourses isn’t a Dennis Prager rubbing elbows with literal nazis he’s just that dipshit who thinks Judaism as a social category necessitates matrilineal affiliation (even though the people that actively hate Judaism as a social category don’t conceive of it as such). For example I mean.

this should really go without saying but good fucking god my own time in the ‘strangers with a word or two in common trying to kill each other online’ trenches neeeeded

[transingthoseformers]

Megatron at some point absolutely scares the fuck out of everyone as he drops the hardest human curses in a single sentence.

And Optimus is just over there