#cor reads

[llycaons]

what's actually striking me during my reading is how inane and trite all those proship arguments are in their attempts to compare themselves to published works handling those topics. like go and actually read the bluest eye or lolita and then come back and try to tell me your underage marvel omegaverse incest oneshot is doing the same thing. like we know it's not! we know!

[morganbritton132]

No one tells you when you get a Big Serious Job™ how many fucking abbreviations you’ll be forced to learn.

[dearorpheus]

“I am writing this in 2021, 700 years after the death of Dante.  Dante’s Divine Comedy, completed in 1320, a year before he died, begins with the most famous book, The Inferno, where Dante is taken on a tour of Hell, with its 9 circles of horror, each one a kind of Behaviourist operant chamber, where nothing can ever change, where the same miseries and the same responses are acted out every day, because that’s what hell is - a place where nothing can change. At the end of Book 3, Paradiso, Dante sees the divine vision. At last he sees what ‘is’. The fundamental reality. And it’s not God is Logic. It’s not God is Thought. It’s not Descartes’ res cognita (a thinking thing). It is this: ‘L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.’ ‘The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

— Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next

[daifei]

hi guys im so normal & have not been spending the last 6 years of my life hyperfixating on ffxv old man yaoi. anyway if you’re going to anime expo and think abt cor leonis kissing his buds as much as i do, come to my table (j54 in artist alley) & yell straight into my ear canal so i can get the dopamine hit faster!!! also yeah i will be selling these (in a very limited quantity bc i mostly made these for my own personal torture nexus) my friends made me cut the drautos/nyx design because they think im crazy for it bUT MARK MY WORDS NEXT ROUND IM MAKING ONE FOR ME!!!

[crown-of-roses-thsc]

Me: this comic won’t get TOO dark aside from the murder and a few implications / foreshadowing until the TCW / Crown of Thorns Ending

Chapter 10:

Me:

Chapter 10:

Me:

[booksmyquerencia]

September 23, 2024

I ran to you not just with my bruised knees and muddy hands, but with all the joys, worries, and secrets my heart could hold.

You were the guardian of my little stories, little secrets; your embrace is my refuge where I never outgrew.

Always yours ❤️‍🩹🙏🏾

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[cor-is-a-mess]

okay going to bed for realsies because i saw this quote and i HEAVY related to it

[recapitulation]

thoughts on kaleidoscope of death

i REALLY REAAAALLY liked the reasons behind the doors in the book. i loved the way they truly were a gift and how important it was to protect them from being stolen from you. that was so so so so interesting. night and day from the vr bullshit but i guess u gotta do what u gotta do

and also i loved how your appearance changed in the door.. not only that but it could be influenced by being sick or hunching over or wearing a wig?? im mesmerized by that im still thinking abt it

i really missed a lot of characters that were much more essential in the show... li dongyuan and tan zaozao in particular. it made some doors a lot less interesting particularly the river god one. like where are my friends all my friends are gone.

i hated the authors notes so much i wish i could have turned them off. initially they are the main reason i thought i hated the book. they were just so. like. ewpugh. idk

the translation was a bit jarring too but it wasn't an official translation and im the clown who can only read english so that one is on me

baijie and qiuqiu........ felt something

the way their relationship progressed actually felt really genuine and nice and HEALTHY! like damn they both think the other person is the coolest smartest sexiest person on this earth and that really comes through. i was kind of surprised because initially rnz came off as kind of creepy. but again. i think that was bc of the authors notes.... god. anyway

[torawro]

i am thinking very heavily about heian era sukuna tonight….true form sukuna…..save me, please. save me from this miserable existence.

[llycaons]

okay let me organize. this will probably take me to next year but I do want to prioritize what was already on my list

already up there, no matter the quality:

sorceror to the crown

when fox is a thousand

a taste of gold and iron (if I ever get around to it...)

sistersong - need to give this one a shot

snow crash

tress of the emerald sea - my baby brother LOVES this one I must not disappoint new:

anna karenina - my mom likes this one and I'm excited for the drama and writing

don quixote - a parody, I think

the count of monte cristo - I saw the movie! definitely on the list

the bluest eye - I was unable to keep reading this one when I initially started it but I really love morrison's other works so I'm bringing it back now

the metamorphosis - on the list but not available as an audiobook so it could be a while

things fall apart - definitely a priority, but not available as an audiobook

dracula - available but im saving it for halloween. the structure intrigues me. I tried doing the dracula daily but got bored

frankenstein - on the list!

gods of jade and shadow - not considered a classic but I still want to read it, don't want it to be left behind now that I'm in another bout of book-reading

giovvani's room - 14 weeks wait :(

journey to the west - I think I know enough to be able to follow it but maybe an annotated copy would be better

epic of gilgamesh - release an audio version 🥺🥺🥺 pleaseeee

one hundred years of solitude - I do want to read this but I think I will need help

crime and punishment - I tried to read this one when I started college but it was DENSE. lower priority

moby dick - I have friends into this one!

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - this looks extremely well-researched and I'm pretty intrigued by the language that's referenced, the one that women use to communicate with each other

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan - I like Tan's work, and this one is new to me

The Book of Chuang Tzu - so this is a chinese classic, written in the 4th century. goodrreads claims 'Where the Tao Te Ching is distant and proverbial in style, the Chuang Tze buzzes with life and with insights, often with considerable humour behind them." and if that's true I would love to read it

The Activist's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for a Modern Revolution - I have no way to know how good this book is but the concept definitely interests me. it reminds me of an article about taoism's relationship to anarchism I read years ago. the summary makes me a little nervous tho

I've already read all of austen and the brontes I've wanted to, I read les mis, no interest in little women, I hate oscar wilde on a personal level, I struggle a lot with surrealism so I'm sticking to more conventional structures, I don't have a lot of interest in white 20th-century americana, I consider ishiguro's books to be modern classics with beautiful writing but they make me too sad, hmm why the fuck is call be by your name on this list...I'm interested in Taoism in novels but I haven't found a lot that offer that besides the danmei I've already read (ha) but it sounds like it will be a definite theme in JTTW. another reason to get an annotated copy. all the books I'm finding look like they're written by white academics anyway. I mean there's THE Tao Te Ching but I definitely need that one annotated and I think it would be difficult for me to focus on since it sounds a little dry.

I do want to get into historical texts like jttw it's just a question of how much I'd understand which is why an annotated physical copy is probably the way to go with something like that. like I saw an excerpt of the tale of genji and I was completely lost

[wanderingwolpertinger]

One of my uncles was impressed that I knew part of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas and I had not the heart to tell him I knew of it because it was quoted in Batman fanfiction

[todayisafridaynight]

Since you mentioned it, what did you think of Speak No Evil? I was thinking of watching it myself :0

i really liked it ............ my friend scoffed at me when i told her i was watchin it so take my opinion with a grain of salt tho </3

[blakyoo]

i traveled today so i didnt do anything productive grahhh leave me alone thats a good enough excuse

[torsamors]

hi tori is there any particular story behind your poetry blog url? 🩷🩷🩷

yeah it’s a little lame but kandksma in hs i participated in a national poetry reading contest called poetry out loud n i rly liked the name + i think there’s something so nice abt hearing poetry spoken out loud<3 so i stole it for the blog

[alex-dontknow]

"don't expect many creative posts" JUMPSCARE have another corrupted fara doodle

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