#fragments of love

[witchofanguish]

[03jyh23]

entry #1

alright so im seriously thinking about re-writing first part of fragments of love? i’ve already written the second part (its almost 6k words) and i feel like i did way better on it than the first part so??

maybe it’s just me wanting for it to be perfect since it’s my first fic on here but yeah

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954

[feral-ballad]

Zehra Naqvi, from The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose; “Dear Baba”

[fairydrowning]

– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"

[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]

[maryqos]

coco mellors, cleopatra and frankenstein.

[sunshinesere]

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone / This is How You Lose the Time War

[gloop898]

2023 Media Thread - Part 114, 115, 116, 117

Takemiya Jin Extravaganza!!

I read several of mangaka Takemiya Jin's works right in a row, so instead of doing them individually, lets do them all in the same post! To be honest, I read so many of these so quickly that they've kinda blurred together, but I'm not letting that stop me.

KiLa KiLa, Steps, and Game

These three are actually connected together. Following the same characters, and only really being complete when you've read all three. The story can be a bit hard to follow with the amount of characters and with the plot jumping about time just a bit. It's nothing spectacular, but it only amounts to about 3 volumes total so its not a very long read. Maybe just pay closer attention to who's who than I did.

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Omoino-Kakera

(Fragments of Love)

There's some nice drama in this one with the characters having to open up and come to terms with things. While there is a slight bitter feeling to some of it, it balances it out with some comedy.

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Itoshi Koishi

(Love and Longing)

Uh Oh! Problematic Age Gap Alert!! This one is cute, but just barely avoids being uncomfortable. Now obviously, age gap fiction like this is a big matter of taste, but I feel there are some key factors that can make it more palatable. Often the most palatable ones have a slow progression of friendship to admitting feelings to relationship. The younger of the pair often has a "one up" on the older when it comes to a shared interest. And often the solidifying of their relationship into a romantic one happens after the younger comes of age.

Itoshi Koishi doesn't really manage to do any of those. The manga starts with the pair in a romantic relationship. Some background is given, but its not enough to escape the feeling of "the older one had intentions near the start." While they do support each other and enjoy each others' company, they aren't shown to share a strong shared interest, leaving less opportunities for the younger to get a "one up" on the older.

It's not horrible, and definitely has lots of cute moments, but even I, with a high tolerance for this sort of "problematic" content, felt just a tad icky about the relationship.

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An Absurd Relationship

(Irrational Us)

I think this might be the best I've read from Takemiya Jin. The drama and development of the characters is really good. With the first volume being more about building up the relationship and then the second exploring it, the manga has a really nice pace. It doesn't quite have a huge emotional climax to finish off the story, but there's enough development to be satisfying.

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[witchofanguish]

[healing-through-the-pain]

[shisasan]

The intimacy of holding hands, meeting each other's eyes in silence, lingering in the quiet before the kiss.

[derangedrhythms]

silence and the scent of winter flowers

Hilary Mantel, from 'An Experiment in Love'

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from "Inseraparable: A Never Before Published Novel,"

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You Were”

[fairydrowning]

Quote to Owner / Somewhere, There's a Party by Holly Warburton / "The Prophet" Book by Khalil Gibran / Quote to Owner / Spirit Hold by Holly Warburton / "Freak" Book by Jonathan Harnisch

[saetiate]

one thing about dating sae is on really bad days you may sometimes feel he doesn't love you because he thinks it's so obvious the way he loves you. he thinks you already know completely and utterly because how could you not? his teammates make fun of him for being "down bad" for you all the time. he is so in love with you and he does not understand how you could ever think otherwise. telling him you want to hear the reassurance about it makes him sick to his stomach. did he do something? did someone tell you otherwise?

he cups your face in his hands. looks at you until you squirm under the attention, like you might finally reveal the answer if he can just find it.

"i love you." and then, "don't ask stupid questions." but it's genuine and it's true, like a soft bell that rings, struck right at the middle of the heart. he kisses you deeply, hopes it might etch into your brain. like he might be able to convince to you, like a whisper on the wind, to know it.