#William Trevor

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Alex Hamilton (editor) - Splinters - Berkley - 1971 (cover by John Holmes)

[rherlotshadow]

Mood

The House in Paris, The Silence in the Garden.

[orangerosebush]

William Trevor, Torridge (featured in: The Penguin book of Gay Short Stories, ed. David Leavitt & Mark Mitchell)

[lolochaponnay]

[book51ut]

Review of Birthday Stories Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami

Oh this one was so interesting. It’s a connection of stories centering or touching on the topic of birthdays. Murakami compiled this anthology and added a short story to accompany it, along with his introduction. The stories were excellent, and each had their own merits and revealed things about their cultural contexts and experiences, which I always find fascinating. I think the thing I want to focus on, though, in this little writing exercise that I catapult into the void, is Murakami’s introduction.

First, the topic of birthdays. What a whimsical little topic to pick. What a silly thing to write about. In some of these stories, the birthday is obviously central. In others, it is merely noted- all of the events would’ve unfolded anyway- but it changes the lens through which we read the story. We can assign such high expectations to this day- our birthday, our parent’s birthday, our partner’s birthday. I, for one, love birthdays! I think it’s a wonderful excuse to celebrate yourself and the people that you love. But we put so much pressure on it. Many of these writers go dark with the birthday stories- birthday strife, birthday tragedy, birthday awkwardness. And it’s so easy to do so: we are supposed to be at such a high, it is incredibly easy to be brought down low, to feel that tension that makes a story a story. We can discuss to what extent the “perfect” birthday is even a myth. Are these sad birthday stories the closest we will get to reality?

The second thing that really struck me was Murakami’s first person writing style in the introduction and this blurbs about the authors. I thought it was so cute and comical. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It strayed far from his usual third person mystical narratives that are a sign of his almost autor nature of writing. It also was jarring then, when I read his story, that I was immediately thrust back into that world of immateriality and surrealism. His ability to shift between the conversational and simple writing to heavily artistic and philosophical writing was interesting to witness within the same 200 pages.

The last thing was just a little point of order that I found to be interesting. He published this book both in Japanese and in English, where he says he did most of the translating work himself into Japanese from the original English of many of the short stories. This surprised me when I read it because I didn’t know he did translations. Most of the work of his that i’ve read has been translated by someone else. What surprised me even more was that when it came time for his story, he wasn’t the one that did the translation from Japanese to English. That boggles my mind a little bit. If you have translator capabilities, wouldn’t you be the most capable one to translate your own work. He would be the one most able to retain the intention and mood behind every sentence. That was just odd to me.

[gabinete63]

[anokatony]

Gone, but not Forgotten Redux

  In 2013 I posted ‘Gone but not Forgotten’ in which I highlighted authors who made a strong vivid impression on me and who had recently died. Now, ten years later, it is time again to remember those who have left us recently. This is a personal list of authors who may or may not have been all that famous but who had at least one work that I found impressive. Günter Grass (1927 – 2015) The German…

[ayanos-pl]

ウィリアム・トレヴァー、栩木伸明訳『聖母の贈り物』（国書刊行会、2007年1刷、2017年3刷）

周囲の理解が得られず居場所がない人や思惑が噛み合わない家族を描いていて『わたしたちの怪獣』と重なるが、本書は田舎の偏狭な人間関係から逃げられない閉塞感がひしひしと。幻想味やユーモアはあまりない。

[blckbrrybasket]

𓆩 𓉸 𓆪 Kinktober 2024

• MDNI! porn with little plot

• all of these are x reader with no use of y/n

• both female and gender neutral readers featured

꒰33k+ words total꒱

1st. — “Hotter than a Burning Fire”

        -> Face sitting + Inexperience, Robin Buckley

2nd. — “Give and Take”

        -> Squirting + Edging, Steve Harrington 

3rd. — “Bite her Hip”

        -> Caught + Hate Sex, Nancy Wheeler

4th. — “Yer Killin’ Me”

        -> Boot Worship, Arthur Morgan

5th. — “Girls on Film”

        -> Being Filmed, Mickey Altieri

6th. — “Heaven in Your Mouth”

        -> Throat Fucking + Breath Play, Rafe Cameron

7th. — “Closer”

        -> Mutual Masturbation + Forbidden, Robin Buckley 

8th. — “Oh Honey”

        -> First Time + Domination, Kurt Kunkle

9th. — “Hearts a Mess”

        -> Public Sex + Gag, Art Donaldson

10th. — “Ghosting”

        -> Under the table, Javier Peña

11th. — “Burning For You”

        -> Sleepy Sex + Cockwarming, Sejanus Plinth

12th. — “She’s in Parties”

        -> High sex, Rafe Cameron

13th. — “Melting With You”

        -> Double Penetration, Stu and Mickey

14th. — “As You Are”

        -> 69, Ellie Williams

15th. — “Of Love For Love”

        -> Cream Pie + Cum Play, John ‘Soap’ MacTavish

16th. — “Maneater”

        -> Dacryphilia + Masochism, Kurt Kunkle

17th. — “What I Need”

        -> Degradation + Cum Eating, Ethan Landry

18th. — “I was made for loving you”

        -> Praise Kink + Body Worship, Steve Harrington 

19th. — “Takin’ Time”

        -> Spanking + Orgasm Denial, Joel Miller

20th. — “Sweet As Whiskey”

        -> Blood Kink + Period, Vampire!Eddie Munson

21st. — “Wind You Up”

        -> Hair Pulling + Rough Sex, Trevor (Hellraiser)

22nd. — “Eyes On Me”

        -> Bondage + Femdom, Agent Whiskey

23th. — “Show and I’ll Learn”

        -> Sex Toys, Robin Buckley

24th. — “If You Knew”

        -> Overstimulation + Wet Dream, Joel Miller

25th. — “Hell And You”

        -> Mask Kink + Knife Kink, Stu Macher

26th. — “You’ve Got Me Now”

        -> Dry Humping + Tipsy Sex, Eddie Munson

27th. — “Happy Birthday, Baby”

        -> Lingerie + On The Counter, Walter ‘Keys’ McKey

28th. — “Quit While Ahead”

        -> Pussy slapping, Rafe Cameron

29th. — “Love My Way”

        -> Scissoring, Tara Carpenter

30th. — “Suck It Up”

        -> Marking + Possessiveness, Love Quinn

31st. — “Body Electric”

        -> Cucking + Breeding Kink, Eddie Munson and Steve Harrington

taglist closed!

[bookjotter6865]

Winding Up the Week #314

Winding Up the Week #314

An end of week recap “The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.” – Louisa May Alcott Wherever you live and however you plan to spend the next few days, I wish you a happy, healthy and peaceful end of year. I will catch up with you before 2021 is out. As ever, this is a post…

[acekazoo]

nhl as textposts.. offseason is driving me crazy

[asexual-juliet]

OUTSIDERS MUSICAL COSTUMES MASTERPOST

CHARACTER-DEPENDENT COSTUMES These costumes are the same no matter who plays the character (save for a few small details) - Ponyboy Curtis - Johnny Cade - Dallas Winston - Darrel Curtis - Sodapop Curtis - Cherry Valance - Bob Sheldon - Paul Holden

GREASERS - Daryl Tofa as Two-Bit - Renni Anthony Magee as Steve/Two-Bit - Tilly Evans-Krueger as Ace - Milena J. Comeau as Ace - Anna K. Bermudez as Ace - Jordan Chin as Steve/Two-Bit - Henry Juliàn Gendron as Steve/Two-Bit - Ryo Kamibayashi as Steve - Andre T. Malcolm as Steve

SOC BOYS - RJ Higton as Chet - Barton Cowperthwaite as Brill - Sean Harrison Jones as Trip - Henry Juliàn Gendron as Chet/Brill/Trip - Victor Carrillo Tracey as Chet/Brill/Trip - Ryo Kamibayashi as Chet/Brill/Trip - Melody Rose as "Melvin" - SarahGrace Mariani as "Sergei" - Kevin Csolak as Trip (last performance 8/25/24)

SOC GIRLS - SarahGrace Mariani as Marcia - Melody Rose as Bev/Marcia - Maggie Kuntz as Marcia/Bev - Milena J. Comeau as Bev - Anna K. Bermudez as Bev

[tkachukisms]

read the last one as: nylander > marner > matthews. she's scruffed but i refuse to leave it out as it makes me cry every time i think about it. anywho | read the other fucked up newspaper editions i've created

[brainddeadd]

Nico Hischier ¹³

Joseph Woll ⁶⁰

Matt Rempe ⁷³

Quinn Hughes ⁴³

Luke Hughes ⁴³

Jack Hughes ⁸⁶

Matthew Tkachuk ¹⁹

Auston Matthews ³⁴

William Nylander ⁸⁸

Trevor Zegras ¹¹

Matthew Knies ²³

Brock Boeser ⁶

Devils In Her Corner (young player x NJD players & others)

[chukys-mouthguard]

short n’ sweet

status: being written

a series of blurbs inspired by sabrina carpenter’s - short n’ sweet

Taste

-> auston matthews

Please Please Please

-> matthew tkachuk

Good Graces

-> william nylander

Sharpest Tool

-> trevor zegras

Coincidence

-> cam york

Bed Chem

-> matt rempe

Espresso

-> jamie drysdale

Dumb & Poetic

-> quinn hughes

Slim Pickins

-> arber xhekaj

Juno

-> nico hischier

Lie to Girls

-> jack eichel

Don’t Smile

-> luke hughes

[in-love-with-movies]

Jurassic Park III (2001)