#arrested literature

[nymphpens]

[thepersonalwords]

Love sets you free the moment it arrests you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[electrosweaters-arts]

Alright guys WHO took those whores down!!!! Let Utterson go he did nothing wrong!!!

[star-berry-cake]

small, rough draft version of the intro to the book I'm writing

lesbian fairies hell yeah also absolutely insane lesbians (both of them are insane and we love that here)

[quotespile]

The old growth, the maples, turned first. They rusted one leaf at a time, where ocean breezes bruised them, late in August. Paulo, the tree warden, once told Journeyman that the first trees to change reveal a map of damage. The earliest turning were those once sickened or lightning-struck. So Journeyman saw the season as a theater of succumbing. The wind’s bite called each tree to solidarity with the weakest. Only the evergreens were refuseniks. Primordial trees, dinosaur trees — in their gummy hearts, they were deader than the trees that turned.

Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest

[thelordhunkyhair]

The gang at six flags:

Fits and tam: trying to understand what’s going on

Lihn and keefe: having the time of their lives breaking about 40 laws in the process

Dex: hacking all the games

Sophie: eating cotten candy for the first time in five years crying

Forkle: disappointed

[gogandmagog]

🪦 Dark and oppressive houses in literature. 🪦

[laurapetrie]

THE ARTIFICIAL SILK GIRL BY IRMGARD KEUN Everything about me is just first class.

[howifeltabouthim]

All these goings-on . . . had merely postponed Morgan's growing up.

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

[nymphpens]

[thetruearchmagos]

Fun fact, curly hair is debaucherous excess!

[kathi-tanenbaum]

I love reading classical books and watching my silly little shows.

[bogkeep]

i am used to long travel times by car or train, but i very rarely go on long flights (you'd be surprised how far you can get within 2-3 hours in europe), so getting to watch movies on a plane is a very fun and novel experience to me. it also presents a very good opportunity for me to watch them, because there is not much else to do and i HAVE to sit there for several hours anyway!! it's perfect!!! my flights also had a pretty good catalogue too, even if it got shaved down when i filtered by closed captions availability.

ANYWAY here's all the movies i watched on my trip

The Batman - i liked it, i think it did a good job of capturing the droopy depressed vibe thst i remember from an animated batman show i watched as a kid (not the most known one but one just called the batman i think????). creepy And wet. made a respectable attempt at being critical of cops and letting the antagonist have a point but i felt very "sweetie you're So close to getting it." alas it's a big franchise superhero movie so like. of course it won't say acab

Blue Thermal - sports anime movie about glider planes! the pacing was weird and i wish they had included more scenes of the protagonist actually flying and not just telling us about it, but i enjoyed the vibes. very immersive experience to watch on a plane

The Croods: A New Age - I BARELY GOT HALFWAY AND THE NEXT FLIGHT DIDN'T HAVE IT. TRAGIC. i was actually having a lot of fun with it, i do enjoy caricatures of Those Neighbours That Are So Much Better Than You In Every Way. it's fun to see what overly specific details get portrayed. also appreciate the Girl Friendship. i hope i can finish watching it sometime :')

the new thor movie uhh love and thunder something - i gave up maybe not even a third in. it was unbearable. i just wanted some easily digestible entertainment but the new flight catalogue had less options and i was like, i'll give this a go, i liked ragnarok. but no. it was unwatchable to me. not even the inclusion of norway saved it for me. actually that probably made it worse - it makes sense to have an american spelling and pronounciation of Åsgard!! but having to hear them say asgard asgard asgard repeatedly in the middle of tønsberg (was it real tønsberg? was it cgi tønsberg?) was just too much, in addition to make a constant mockery of norse mythology. bye

Mortal Engines - now THIS was a lot more fun. i know zero things about the books it was based on, but i thoroughly enjoyed how extremely YA the world-building and the character interactions were. like it was genuinely endearing to me!! this movie was also a very immersive experience to watch on a plane. honestly the most pleasant surprise out of all the movies i tried i was just so stoked about big scary city with a maw like a literal metaphor

Pitch Perfect 3 - uuuhhh i liked the singing? "i brought a cup" was my favourite joke from it. maybe the only joke that made me feel anything at all. had more US military propaganda (ew) and fight choreography (nice) than i expected.

started a rewatch of mitchells vs the machines for the last hour of the flight. it's a banger obviously

[biggestbrainidk]

dulia part 2 here we go

i wrote a poem this time. this is dedicated to @tarosucheon my brainrot bestie because taro mentioned yes to heaven on my previous dulia post and so i sought to capture that vibe in this one. it's pretty long but it looked much tinier on google docs so oh well.

a little note before the poem: the stars represent awakeners who are 'shining' in the world-- they're at the top of their game and very eager to maintain their position. so basically they're the ones who are propagating the brokenness and toxicity of the awakened world. and duke is one of them, and lia is one of them, because they, too, are seeking to become powerful, but their realisation together of this fact sets them apart. anyways hope u enjoy and let me know if there are any questions with regard to interpretation :)

Starfall

I shall make shields around you. I shall build

fortresses, wall upon silver-blue wall, and rock-firmness,

steel-shine, and shadow-depth will compel you

into this shared narrow slipstream 

where we can be perfect and forever.

Keep warm. My shield will curl upon you so that the air

will not sting with ice, flay with crystal. And you

shall never be wounded by the bright hostile world,

while I and my shield survive.

Forever, 

I shall risk, I shall dare, and I shall bar you,

my love, from the assault of the stars

cold, unperturbed, and meaning death. Nor shall you

suffer one touch of crimson pain or recollection of evil

when you are beside me; nor shall you suffer 

the harshness of this tundra-universe

while I can hold you safe.

For I have locked a little of your life into my life,

and within my shield there is another ring:

my body and my arms, within this smooth round of light

like a brittle window keeping out the dark. 

The cold starry endless enemy crowds us in. But

for one more magic circle I have my love.

Let us lie down in our sleep among the stars,

my love. Lie still, my love. If there is peace

arrested in any memorable fragment of time

I have shut you within it and drawn a sphere.

[apotelesmaa]

I wish I could get a degree in lit/ethics but that would possibly be the only thing more useless than a viscom degree but goddamn do I love literary (or any media) analysis truly nothing is more fun than picking apart a story to find your own interpretation of the authors intentions and defending it. Lovveee to make a philosophical argument based on the actions of characters.

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is not less than a denial of the soul.

from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde