#book vocabulary

[late-draft]

Ever since I saw there are ATLA chibi shorts, my brain has never been the same

[nothatsmi]

Lovely isn't he.

I finished the third book. It's been a few days already but with work and stuff... Anyway now I'm digging through the additional content Nora posted on Tumblr, took me a while to understand how it works but now I am pleased.

I cannot express the emotionnal damage these books have done to me, but I'm not finished drawing any of the foxes. Just saying.

[wittybibliophile]

HAPPY SUNDAY!

WORDS *Endear - To make somebody/ yourself liked by somebody. *Disgruntled - Disappointed, angry and annoyed. *Saccharine - Excessively sweet or sentimental. *Pews - One of the long wooden seats in a church. *Neoclassicism - The revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture or music. *Inhibition - A shy or nervous feeling that stops you from saying or doing what you really want ; feeling that makes one self-conscious. *Vandalised - Deliberately destroy or damage something. *Aplomb - Self-confidence or assurance, especially when in a demanding situation. *Conniption - A fit of rage or hysterics. *Subarctic - Relating to the region immediately south of the arctic circle. Xoxo, Ironically Witty!

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Leafed through what I think is one of the best Spanish translations of North and South, 30 dead, 79 injured.

[magpie-trove]

Actually I don’t think you are actually fr an adult author if you can’t write something without a s*x scene in it

[visenyaism]

can you give an example of fascism in an interesting way in literature that you talked about in the tags against mishima’s work? I don’t mean it in a sarcastic way btw I’m genuinely interested in what you meant

ok so my least favorite book we ever had to read in high school was the sound of waves by known tortured gay japanese fascist yukio mishima.

i described it as “fascist in a boring way,” which i stand by. down on his luck (because the americans bombed his fishing boat) fisherman kid Shinji meets beautiful traditional virginal pearl diver Hatsue, but must compete for her affection with gigachad caricature Yasuo with his digital wristwatch terrible work ethic and general enmity for nature standing in for the concept of modernity. meanwhile evil jealous bitch Chiyoko spreads rumors that Shinji is a rapist because she’s jealous that Shinji does not return her affections (meanwhile Yasuo actually is an attempted rapist but gets thwarted because he gets stung like on the dick by a hornet in the attempt. nature does not like him.) It all comes to a head when Shinji and Yasuo are both working together on a fishing boat but Shinji works harder and is more willing to brave the typhoon that hits them. Then he marries Hatsue after proving his worth, they both pray that things will stay the same forever at the local shrine, the fish return to the sea, and her rich and powerful father adopts Shinji as his own son, which is what he’s always wanted since his father died in the war.

We were supposed to like death of the author it as far as I can remember, but to me the book is really only interesting with the added personal and historical context of the author. like this is a desperate childish dream of a Japan that cannot exist and probably never really existed. it will never be the same after the war and there is no going back. Mishima’s personal angst about being unable to participate in the heteropatriarchal institution of the military is very clear.

books about fascism tend to be about 2 things before anything else: power and masculinity. obviously there’s plenty of interesting ways to write about this. I think that books about fascism get waaaaay more interesting the second that they acknowledge that there is any amount of cognitive dissonance happening in the minds of people who are all-in true believers because there are many irreconcilable worldviews within the fascist narrative that just cannot coexist. Sound of Waves as I remember it was way more prescriptive just like this is how the world should be and that’s just less compelling than unpacking why anyone would think like that.

[very-bad-poetry-captain]

Yeah McCoy that's a NORMAL thing to tell your captain and best friend-

ACTUALLY WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU *bites him*

Page 90 of The better man ☠️

[cutter-kirby]

one of my favorite things to come out of the book of bill is all of the bill possessing ford content. like both in canon and in fanworks. bipper did something irrevocable to me back in 2014 but ciphord/bord is such a unique clusterfuck of possession horror and it haunts me.

[anghraine]

I've been moving and navigating further departmental nonsense etc (my pseudo-dissertation got approved for defending, though! l o l). But it was interesting to see the Worst P&P Takes poll I reblogged accumulating more results and the general tenor of responses in the notes.

I mean, the results are definitely to be expected if you're familiar with the side of Austen fandom doing a lot of the reblogging etc. But still, interesting!

Many Tumblr polls specify that they're asking about personal preferences that may be irrational—favorite/least favorite, coolest/most annoying, or something like that. This one, though, asked for the worst interpretation of P&P, not the most annoying one—and the current leader is "Darcy is never really proud, he's just shy and probably has anxiety" against some very steep competition on the Bad Takes front.

I was thinking about why that seemed a kind of tediously predictable choice even though I agree that the take is wrong, and realized that while I do disagree with the shy Darcy interpretation and I particularly disagree with the specific formulation where he is never proud at all, it ultimately feels to me like a failure of nuance rather than just completely wrongheaded like some of the others. And this is probably my fundamental difference with a lot of Darcy takes I see!

In my opinion, a character who is introverted and who feels awkward in various social situations and who doesn't like common social activities and who has to work himself up to talking to his crush and who is repeatedly suggested to behave very differently in contexts where he's more comfortable being interpreted as shy and anxious is not that big of a leap.

Yes, it's important that he is actually fundamentally confident and haughty, that he makes his personal feelings of discomfort other people's problem, and that he thinks he's such a unique and special butterfly that he doesn't need to even put in an effort outside his personal social circle. But it's a misreading that is easy to follow (and long predates the 2005 P&P, as I've mentioned before!).

The additional misreading that a shy and anxious Darcy is also never proud at all is a much more drastic leap, and in my experience, condemnations of shy Darcy interpretations rarely differentiate between "Darcy is shy as well as arrogant" and "Darcy is shy rather than arrogant" as interpretations (although their basic arguments are quite different). But even that as the worst possible misreading of P&P when Darcy is not even the main character is ?????????

I mean, for one alternative (not even the one I voted for!), the idea that Elizabeth is an author avatar Mary Sue seems a far worse misreading of P&P than basically anything to do with Darcy at all. The center piece of the entire novel is Elizabeth's epiphany of self-knowledge about her own shortcomings that do not particularly resemble Austen's at all, but were ethically a concern for her, and she's a complex, interesting character in general whom Austen correctly regarded as a major achievement. Inverting that into Elizabeth as an improbably perfect, reality-warping self-insert is deeply wrong and frankly pretty misogynistic as well.

(ngl though, it's a little funny to see such a blatantly terrible reading of Elizabeth rank so far behind the shy Darcy votes. I've gotten "does anyone actually think/say that?" so many times on my posts about Austen fandom's prioritization of Darcy's character development over Elizabeth's and yet...)

And even just going with the Darcy-centric misreadings, the idea of Darcy as a "bad boy" seems easily the most absolutely wrong take on him. His pride is at least complicated and the finer points can be fairly debated and it's a quality that actually changes somewhat throughout the novel, and you can have discussion over what happened when, whose testimonies should be weighted more, etc. But there is no point at which "bad boy" isn't utterly wrong for him. However, there's definitely a tendency in some wings of the fandom to find the idea of Darcy being misread too favorably more objectionable than him being read too unfavorably, regardless of the particulars, so it's not a surprise.

I suppose you could argue about what "worst" means in the context of variously bad interpretations. Like, is an interpretation that is about a fairly trivial aspect of the book but extremely wrong about it "worse" than an interpretation that is pretty bad but at least comprehensibly so about something very important?

[german-enthusiast]

Einsamkeit und Zweisamkeit

I'm trying to finish Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by the end of today (= the end of February) and just arrived at this passage

This is wrong.

The feeling of being alone (= allein) even when you're with other people is Einsamkeit (= loneliness, einsam = lonely)

Zweisamkeit is when two people are spending time together, often in harmony and sometimes even romance, without being disturbed by other people.

As you might notice:

einsamkeit (1-sam-keit) -> being lonely

vs.

zweisamkeit (2-sam-keit) -> being with one other person

[writers-potion]

Do you have any cool alias for "zero" ? It's not for character name so I don't mind if it's complicated

Words to Use Instead of...Zero

I'm not sure if my ideas are "cool" in your standards, but here we go:

nought

nothing (not a single thing, not anything, nothing at all)

nil

naught

aught

none

nowt

nix

oh/o

zilch

nix

not a sausage

sweet Fanny Asams

zip

the nadir

nada

bupkis (= nothing at all)

goose egg

cipher

void

nullity

void

nullus

the additive identity

the subtractive indentity

the positional value/notation

the commutative ring

the trivial

algoritmi

Maybe you can try an analogy of some sort:

the circle

the big wheel

the ring

the undefined

existance of non-existence

the large dot

vacant star

You can try building on zero in language other than English:

Russian: ноль (nol')

Chinese (Mandarin): 零 (líng)

Japanese: ゼロ (rei, maru)

Korean: 영 (yeong)

Arabic: صفر (sifr)

Hindi: शून्य (shunya)

Swedish: noll

Turkish: sıfır

Greek: μηδέν (midén)

Hungarian: nulla

Czech: nula

Thai: ศูนย์ (sǔun)

Finnish: nolla

+ You don't need to answer, but why do you need a cool alias for zero? I'm genuinely curious LOL

[literatureaesthetic]

just saw someone on tiktok talking about pride & prejudice by jane austen and they said, 'the language is so dated' 😭😭😭

[elisedonut]

btw starker has introduced me to the term 'doe eyes/doe-eyed' and i'm going to be very annoying about that i feel

[psychologicalwarclaire]

Some fun quotes from my Shakespeare Troup's first (and very rough) run through of As You Like It

Wait, come back, he needs to throw you! You're supposed to die over here!

Jaques can't you be normal?!

"Or fool, I kill thee! Or to do thee better I will"-- ow that is my foot.

Thus quoth the bard: ew it's hair.

Slap me when I call you a slut.

Slap me, remember?

Now slap me!

*starts sentence* Nope, that's your line.

*offstage cast members miming eating various fruits, eventually resulting in a fake heimlich maneuver, squeezing lemon juice in each other's eyes, and slipping on a banana peel*

"All the world's a stage!" *kicks pumpkin Trick-or-Treat bucket*

*pokes deer carcass* Oh it's dead.

[thatmintleaf]

Time to learn some sweet sweet vocabulary

[frogmanfae]

Writing newsies fanfiction is great for people who's vocabulary comes from books and they don't know the actual meanings of words but they know the vibe of the word. Yeah you may be misusing the word indigent because you don't really know what it means but you know who else is misusing the word indigent because they don't really know what it means? The guy in your story who's saying it.