#beautifully written and amazing

[eatmyson]

this one's inspired by @cringefailvox's time has changed the metaphor!

It was such a good read and I couldn't stop thinking about these three ever since.

[crossaik]

watched all the movies recently

[gayofthefae]

Girl, I'm so sorry, but if you he really was gonna tell her he loved her before Argyle interrupted them, I would not want somebody to say to me

"I guess, I just, I don't know, I guess I just wanted to say that I love you."

You guess you love me? What, you don't know? Be sure then come back to me.

[questwithambition]

It was so sunny that I decided to eat breakfast and read on the porch

[paradiserotting]

i finally watched the substance

[borgialucrezia]

ok so i'm re-reading blood and beauty once again, and i have to say that sarah dunant is the superior borgia fiction writer out there. i absolutely love her delicate and evocative writing as well as how she brilliantly humanizes the characters through compelling narratives. not to mention her attention to detail and meticulous research creates a rich historical backdrop, immersing us in the fascinating world of the borgia family. she also has an exceptional understanding of how hot and terrible cesare can be while still making him nuanced. it's a personal win for me as someone who's pretty much bored of his character being softened up and romanticized in other works. the more he does something awful, the more compelling he becomes to me (although he wasn't romanticized much in showtime's the borgias but his image of an over-ambitious, sadistic, gaslighting, and manipulative guy seems to appear innocent that watchers tend to overlook it, and some of his misdeeds were dumped onto juan, like making him the only one having an affair with sancia of aragon when cesare was involved as well, or having him kill lucrezia's lover, paolo, etc., which is why i wasn't as interested in cesare as i was in juan because juan does nasty acts, but you get an idea of why he did what he did and still find the human in the heinous.) the most phenomenal writing part for me was to not lean into the rumors by not having cesare kill juan because it's closer to historical reality. and as much as cesare's 'from envy to fratricide' pipeline can be groundbreaking like how it worked in showtime's the borgias, dunant proved that juan's murder can still be astounding without the fratricide. because even if cesare did have a tempting motive to kill him, as he wanted his position so badly, cesare's letters to him make me doubt that he ever had any involvement in his murder since the letters show so much fraternal love. i also want to add that rodrigo's deep love for his children, while being self-aware and devastated over the fact that he uses them and forces them into roles they're incompetent for and marriages for political gain, was a standout aspect in the book. in short, the book is emotionally engaging because it delves into the intriguing world of the borgia family's renaissance. imo, it's a must-read for borgia enthusiasts.

[avoxiado]

MHA fic rec!

• Word count: 343,538

• Chapters: 101/101

• Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic

• Rating: Mature

Summary:

Izuku Midoriya's Quirk was...dangerous. Since the age of four he knew what true nightmares were made of. Demons were the soldiers of hell, and they made it their mission to terrify him for fun. Peeling skin, black sillouhettes, and grating screams that froze him in place where only a part of it. Their words and dark hymns followed him, crushing his body and soul.

But not as much as his mother did. Inko was prone to using her fists and venomous words to beat him down, and she was worse than the demons who followed him day and night.

"God does not shine upon you,"

The demons repeated it like a mantra, and they were all right. God hated them all, the fallen wingless angels who he damned for eternity. He loathed Izuku too, the boy who could see them. Izuku was cursed with an uncontrollable Quirk, but he tamed those demons. They were his, and his alone.

God sneered at him, and he smiled devilishly back. God had given the demons exactly what they needed...

Izuku Midoriya. A King.

[liar-or-lawyer]

[dreaminterlude]

just finished ta-nehisi coates's the message and it was incredible

[starrrabbit]

I'm giving all fic writers a kiss on the forehead and a warm drink and cozy blankets.

You all deserve the world <3

[explosionshark]

Everyone fucking pray for me I'm about to read the final and longest story in We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

[symbioticsimplicity]

Listening to Clem Turner's Pen Pals and crying.

[longagoitwastuesday]

you seem to have a wide taste in books !! what are some books that you would recommend ??

Hmmm I wonder. I have the feeling I just read the same couple of books over and over, and at times only different iterations of the same story, like in that line by Borges ("the various intonations of a few metaphors").

I find recommending books without knowing anything at all about the person asking rather difficult. What I'd suggest to one may differ greatly from what I'd recommend to someone else. I'll give a list of some of my favourite books that I think are enjoyable in general:

— Thoughts by Pascal

— Cain: a mystery by Lord Byron

— The Iliad by Homer

— Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky

— Othello by Shakespeare

— Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

— Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

— The fragments of the Presocratics

— La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas, Clarín

— Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Wittgenstein

— East of Eden by John Steinbeck

— Vita nova by Dante

— Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor

— Caligula by Albert Camus

— North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

— Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

— Some essays by Russell. I personally love Mysticism and Logic

— Metamorphoses by Ovid

Poetry is perhaps harder to recommend because at times it translates horribly, but in general I love Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rilke, Byron, Quevedo, Góngora, Lope de Vega, Horace, Catullus, Ovid, Tennyson, Maiakovsky, Garcilaso de la Vega, Oliverio Girondo, Vicente Huidobro, Emily Brontë, T. S. Eliot, Luis Cernuda and Edgar Allan Poe, to name a few.

[luciphe-r]

i have been seeing a lot of really cold takes on atsv and i will say, with the risk of siding with scorsese with whom i have beef over many things but this one, that the marvel cinematic universe has completely fucked the way people consume media to the point that no one knows what strong narrative looks and sounds like. everyone has been complaining that there is no emotional payoff similar to the what's up danger sequence in atsv and like??? of course there couldn't be one, not only there wasn't one, there could! not! be! one!!!!! aaaaaaaaa

[atherix]

sending you an ask via irl (sorta) while I wait to be free of work so I can read the new updates

(Transcript:

Dearest Atherix,

I hope you are doing well on this fine morning. This letter is coming to you from my local lecture hall, full of uncomfortable seats and people who know way more about this subject than I do. I am writing to you both out of boredom and also due to the fact that I saw that you posted more chapters this morning. I haven't even had time to recover from the previous chapters and yet I anxiously await a break in my day so I can read the new ones. Even though I suffer when the blorbos suffer, I still thoroughly enjoy every new update. Thank you for sharing this lovely story with all of us. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day.

All the best,

Em.)

EM I'M WHEEZING this is amazing thank you so much. This is delightful, it has made my whole day. Thank you for reading and enjoying, I hope I'm not distracting you from the lecture too much!!

Also your handwriting :o When I write in cursive you need a decoder ring and a prayer circle to read it, yours is so clear! It makes me feel like I have just received a letter from across the sea and am reading it by candlelight.

I would have responded in kind but again, my cursive is.... well. Mm. Let's just say my English teachers in high school sent me to the computer lab for essays <3

[bearsbeetsbeskar]

Not me going to post that I desperately wish the writer for Stitches (@djarinsbeskar) would come back to Tumblr soon to satiate us with more content before mando s3, ONLY TO GET A NOTIFICATION THAT SHE HAS POSTED ON HERE