#and the canterbury fucking tales.

[jaiofalltrades]

it drives me a little bit nuts when other asexual people use asexuality to justify being weird about sex in texts. like i’ve run into multiple people in my college classes who either refuse to engage with or just fully sensationalize the sex in plays/books/stories/whatever we have to read. like i get being personally skeeved out by sex. i do! but that doesn’t absolve you of the responsibility to destigmatize sex and be sex positive. idk how you can call yourself a feminist or an advocate of queer rights if you think sex is inherently unpalatable. again, i get the feeling. i also think the idea of sex on a personal level is gross. i also get uncomfortable when people or media talk about it. but 1) i know being asexual doesn’t give you a monopoly on being repressed. just think of the catholics. the asians. the eggs. and 2) i’m not gonna ignore the thing that makes me uncomfortable. i’m gonna engage with it. bc were fuckin english majors and that’s what we do. i’m ace, not a puritan. you know? also. while we’re here. sex positivity means sex neutrality. fighting for the rights of the sex enjoyers to enjoy sex means fighting for the rights of the sex not havers to not have sex. please don’t take this as me shaming anyone for being a prude. i’m shaming people for perpetuating the stigmatization of sex and being bad literary critics.

[medievalandfantasymelee]

THE HOT MEDIEVAL & FANTASY MEN MELEE

QUALIFYING ROUND: 97th Tilt

Francesco de Pazzi, Medici (2016-2019) VS. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1972)

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Francesco de Pazzi, Medici (2016-2019) Portrayed by: Matteo Martari

“My problematic blorbo. My little meow meow. He did nothing wrong and then he did everything wrong and he's an idiot and I adore him. He gets a redemption arc and then an anti-redemption arc. He is sweet and he is lost, and he is cute, and he is hot, and he is angry, and he is scared and have I mentioned he's hot? Because he is!!! He has the kind of chiseled face that not even STATUES get to have!! And those eyes!!! And that hair!!! I will treasure him forever.”

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1972) Portrayed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini

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For Francesco de Pazzi:

“The brooding bad boy of my dreams. He has cheekbones that could slice skin and very, very nice hair. And his HANDS? Let's just say... I am Looking™”

[Gifset]

[Gifset]

For Chaucer:

[captainsy-cookiemonster]

Reasons my studying for my oral exam was a bit of fun today:

I hadde the beste quoniam myghte be

"I had the best cunt"

- The Wife of Bath, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

[savage-rhi]

Fuschia/Magenta?

[fooltofancy]

i have memorized. so many poems, dude. it was like. every year.

[sixofravens-reads]

i think it's safe to say by now that I'm only reading The Canterbury Tales (listening to, really, I've given up on following along in the physical copy, I don't care as much about understanding every detail of these stories as I did with Sir Gawain) for vague historical interest and not really for any actual personal interest.

The Knight's Tale was vaguely interesting but a pretty typical historical story and far too long, the Miller and Reeve's tales were just two gross dudes trying to outgross each other, the Baker's Tale was shaping up as more of the same but Chaucer didn't even bother to finish it, and the Man of Law's tale was a whole fucking hour of "oooohhhh this is Constance the most Holy Bitch To Every Holy oooohhhh she's sooooooo great" etc etc.

Pretty sure the next tale I'll listen to today (The Shipman's Tale I think) is more vulgarity for vulgarity's sake. Was Chaucer 12 when he wrote this??

[darlingdearest0]

ancient literature is so cool , like you're telling me this story has been passed down verbally for generations before being written down and has inspired centuries of music, literature, and historical perspective?? and i can read all of this for free?? sign me the fuck up

[bookwyrminspiration]

oh sick! I love Frankenstein!! read it last year for school and wrote sooo many essays on it it was fabulous

It's incredibly sick! It's diseased and unhealthy! It's downright unwell!

My school for all it's benefits is a little bit horrible at exposing us to the classics so I'm taking it upon myself to read them on my own time, and the Frankenstein emails are just add a little fun to it all! It's nice to get to see others' thought and to supplement my own conclusions and thinking with that from others. Maybe I should join a book club hmm.

Anyway, I will not be writing any essays for any classes over Frankenstein--unless it comes up in a later college class, but for now I will be enjoying the experience :)

[bunny-banana]

"And specially, from every shires ende,

Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende"

Now why was this so fucking smooth

[lovinnelily]

You gotta understand I'm taking all the literature classes of both English and Portuguese language, all on the same semester

from ml.books

[dullahandyke]

anyway im putting a note in my phone to lug my hardcover thousand-page copy of tcomc from home to my apartment. so i can have it

[mashmouths]

is david "the mage" cadwallader the fucking canon from chaucer's "the canon's yeoman's tale"

[whiskeysorrows]

tried to read the john fisher version of the canterbury tales and i think i might be having a stroke

[chronbinary]

And smale fowles maken melodye That slepen al the nyght with open ye

[evilasiangenius]

Lately, circumstances have reminded me that various restaurants will sub out items for you without much trouble. Like swapping in sourdough for a hamburger bun, or adding chile relleno to a burrito. All one has to do is ask.

Along those lines, I have been thinking of adding a note to my ao3 profile, something inviting readers to come talk to me instead of feeding my work into some ai chat bot. Not that I know of anyone doing that, but why not invite user interaction instead of getting mad?

Like, if you want more or something that doesn't exist yet, ask the chef? I'm willing to at least discuss options or sketch something for a reader if not actually write something. Though I admit it can be slow work if I need to research, figure out a good structure, etc.

Hell, you could probably even ask for porn. I even have porn in mind that i haven't written XD

[fuckblast]

Hi if you're out of high school and still complaining about how you didn't like the teacher who made you learn symbolism, do yourself a favor and move on. Seriously, there's nothing you can gain that association. This post isn't about your English teacher from 5+ years ago. Bad teachers throw a wrench in your passions, but at some point you can reignite it on your own.

Or you can be mad forever that someone tried to teach you symbolism and let that permanently impact how you interact with stories.

I'll never understand the "curtains are just blue sometimes" people. I was soooo fucking excited learning about symbolism. You have a story and what the story tells you. Then you have the fact that it was written at all by someone and that's another story. And then there's also hidden extra story info?