#i love Virginia Woolf sm

[outstanding-quotes]

Rippling and questioning begin. What do I think of you— what do you think of me? Who are you? Who am I?— that quivers again its uneasy air over us, and the pulse quickens and the eye brightens and all the insanity of personal existence without which life would fall flat and die, begins again.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[noxtivagus]

I LOVE LITERATURE SO MUCH. MY FAV COURSE FR

[aemi-k]

I love how virginia woolf describes romanticism in orlando <33 she really captured its essence even though it's like the most indescribable movement/period ever

[denwritesandcries]

gf!Shauna Shipman HCs

Pairing: shauna shipman x fem!reader

Summary: To be Shauna's girlfriend is… Something else, to say at least.

Word count: 1,4k.

Content: 96’ timeline, cursing, suggestive, kissing, kinda toxic shauna, jealousy, fluff, the team being done with u two.

Note: I think that’s probably a little too long for headcanons but I’m really glad someone asked for it cause I love writing for Shauna sm.

English is not my first language.

- You most likely only spoke to each other because you were paired up on some project in a class that you both hate. A classic, but also one of the few ways for Shauna to actively approach anyone she hasn't known for years or been introduced to by Jackie, the girl isn't very sociable.

- She definitely found the most random and stupid reason possible to not like you at first, just because she enjoys being a little hater.

- Like she doesn't want to meet with you to discuss the topic and just leaves you to do your part alone and you just do it because this quiet girl on the football team is pretty hot and also scares the hell out of you.

- When you guys inevitably put it all together she'd take one look at it and say it's shit and make you do it all from scratch again in like one night as if it was your fault.

- And you simply wouldn't understand why she decided to pick on you. She’d have a beef with you that only exists in her head and you’ll be like??? Wondering why the heck she keeps staring at you like a judging hare even after getting (surprisingly) an A+.

(that’s a strangely accurate description, but you think it fits her perfectly well. Eyes widen following you and nose angrily twitching when you pass by.)

- She has a crush on you. Since the beginning. But she has too many problems to actually admit that to herself.

- She would finally admit that fell for you when she sees you reading something by an author she loves. She's a cliché and a failure, no matter how much she tries to deny it. You'd be in the stands during one of the Yellowjackets' practices (by pure chance, definitely not because you want to watch her too), with a notebook open at your side and a book on your lap, working on an assignment for extra credit, Shauna would see you when she stopped to have some water and she wouldn't be able to concentrate on anything else for the rest of the day.

Especially if it was something by Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson or Shirley Jackson. She’d go feral. Seriously.

- Then she finally decides to act (after some suspicious looks from Jackie and screams from Taissa for disturbing everyone during the game) and it's like she was never mean to you. She’ll literally act like she's already your friend because she doesn't know how to apologize and start something properly. Will sit next you in class – and kick out whoever actually sat there – and talk to you normally, looking away and chewing on the end of her pen, speaking in a soft and innocent voice.

- You're very much confused and a little suspicious about all this, but you're not gonna complain about it with her slowly running a hand up your arm and blinking her bright deep eyes at you. Even though she still stares. A lot.

- This is how you get a girlfriend, which isn't really what you expected at all, but it's a pretty welcome change.

- gf!Shauna who only asked you out and took you for a milkshake on your first date, even though she doesn't really like sweets, when she heard Nat tell Van that she was thinking about doing that exactly same thing and finally decided to do something (they did it on purpose, just so that Shauna would stop bothering them with her constant yearning).

- gf!Shauna who accompanies you to all your classes, sometimes even being late for hers. She is so show off carrying your backpack for you and walking close enough for your shoulders to brush and rushing to Jackie's side after opening the door for you.

- gf!Shauna who keeps a hand on you all the time, on your shoulder, on your waist, on your arm, but who is too shy to hold your hand and intertwine your fingers properly. She'll become a mess if you hold her hand in the hallways or in front of the team and pretend like she doesn't like it, complaining that you're being clingy (she won't let you let go of her hand at all though).

- gf!Shauna who is jealous and possessive as fuck, no one is safe from her, not even Jackie. She will shoot daggers with her eyes and scare anyone who even breathes near you in a way that makes her feel insecure. Especially if it's someone on the team. Lottie is usually a recurring target of her reactions, making a point of keeping as much distance as possible from Shauna on the field after she sees her talking to you.

- Will totally pretend not to care and say there's nothing wrong when you ask if she's alright, while silently seething with rage and acting weird towards you, keeping everything to herself until she eventually explodes. gf!Shauna who waits until she's alone to write shit about you and the other person in her diary with a horrible, rushed handwriting.

- gf!Shauna, with whom you have to be really patient.

- gf!Shauna with whom you have study dates where she actually makes you study because she won't admit being with someone with a poor average, but who will start kissing you pretty quick until she ends up straddling you the moment she gets tired and decides you both had enough.

- gf!Shauna who absolutely loves seeing you in the stands during practice or a game. She'll show off like never before as soon as she realizes you've come, especially if you yell or cheer for her when she scores a goal. Nat, Lottie and Tai are rolling eyes hard for you two every single time.

- gf!Shauna who takes you in her car wherever you want and whenever you want, driving with one hand on the steering and an elbow resting on the window. Who looks at you with her big eyes shining like a kicked puppy if you ever say you don't need a ride.

- gf!Shauna who has the worst, most questionable taste in movies ever and who gets outraged if you mention it or try to get her to change her choice on a movie night. She's too stubborn to change her mind, so you settle for admiring her profile and leaning back against her warm body on the couch.

- gf!Shauna with whom you have almost weekly sleepovers because her parents are too oblivious to realize there’s something between you. Sleeping in her bed under the pretext that the floor is too cold and keeping the door closed so as not to bother anyone with your teenage nonsense and loud music. It's the perfect combination.

- gf!Shauna who keeps her favorite polaroids of you on your dates alongside the photos of her and Jackie on her bedroom wall.

- gf!Shauna who's always the big spoon and loves feeling your body against hers. She's practically a furnace, perfect for hiding your face on her neck or chest. The best way to fall asleep is with her arms around you and your face buried in her soft skin.

- gf!Shauna who loves to bite and leave marks for every inch of exposed skin you have. Who bites your shoulder joint and digs her nails into your back when you have her pressed against the mattress or the lockers in the changing room.

- gf!Shauna who goes crazy when she sees you in her clothes, especially her button-down shirts and flannels. Sometimes even hides your clothes just to have the excuse to give you hers, because she doesn't know how to ask you to wear them.

- gf!Shauna who writes cheesy and lame love poems for you like a victorian poet, because she doesn't know how to express herself in words without being on impulse or in a fight. You always praise her and thank her a thousand times for them, without letting her know that you don't understand most of what she writes.

- gf!Shauna who demands you tell her you love her before she does it first. She literally asks for it. And then she only says it back weeks later, rushed and nervous, at the moment you least expect it.

[wishblown]

I don’t know what ‘human nature’ is. Maybe leaving descriptions of what we wipe out is part of human nature […]

— Ursula K. Le Guin; The Word for World is Forest

January Reads!

A Room of One’s Own & Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf — 4.25/5: two very good essays that should definitely be read together (and are thus usually paired up anyway), I enjoyed Three Guineas even more than A Room bc imo it went deeper into analysis of patriarchal structures and systems that uphold them such as capitalism and its connections to war and fascism. both still just as relevant today as they were then.

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka — 4.5/5: i mean, yk? what’s there to say: finally got round to reading this after reading sm of his other work and hugely enjoyed this (no surprise here)

Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann — 4/5: such an interesting story! the style reminded me a lot of Wolf’s (+++); a novel to just dive into without reading too much about it beforehand. great if you’re into character ruminations and unwinding childhoods and relationships

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo — 5/5: gave into the hype and wasn’t disappointed! a very quick read but such a good one! would love to read more stories like this one (Malina actually reminded me a little of it). love how the author got her point across in so few words without missing anything

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin — 4.75/5: Le Guin my beloved <3 one of her shorter works of the Hainish cycle (afaik) but carries such a punch! there really are no easy answers, are there? how does the very necessary fight against oppression change the oppressed? can you put the weapons (and the war) down afterwards?

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer — 4.25/5: the premise of this novel was what initially caught my attention — a woman is separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall behind which the rest of the world seemingly has been frozen/has died — but reading it, it is so much more than some scifi-esque story element (= the weird wall). it’s both depressing and oppressive and yet so full of hope and a deep longing for life and a will to keep going despite despite despite. also the way Haushofer shows care and tenderness persevering in the human heart is beautiful.

[donedoll]

i love virginia woolf sm

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own [originally published 1929]

[dearharriet]

hii, happy birthday love!! can i get a inviting the guest 💌 for the birthday bash? (with the hp boys preferably, any era!!)

my favourite singers and bands include the driver era, boygenius, mitski and lana!

i love art, especially writing and painting!!

i'm an aquarius sun and gemini moon, and my favourite book is the waves by virginia woolf or the bell jar by sylvia plath and i'm studying psychology!

hopefully that's enough? thanks if you decide to do it! 💐

thank you sm!!! <3

ooo okay i would def put you with remus!! i feel like u have a very emotional/cerebral vibe to u and i could see you both reading and having chats about what you learned in class!

[cephiius]

THE LETTERS THAT EVELYN HUGO WROTE TO EACH OTHER and THE LETTERS THAT VIRGINIA WOOLF AND VITA WROTE TO EACH OTHER

*SNIFFS LOUDLY AND PASSIONATELY*

THAT'S THE GOOD SHIT

[dangeroustaintedflawed]

thank u sm for the tag @stephaniesblogxx @lanaswansblog @lanadelreystan101 !! <3

girlblogger questions 🤍

last song u listened to: world class sinner/i’m a freak - lily rose depp (i love it😭)

favourite colour: pink

hobby: reading, watching movies/TV, listening to music (just consuming media lol i need more hobbies)

favourite place: the cinema

favourite book: looking for alaska by john green (i have so many in my room i haven’t started yet tho 💔)

currently reading: mrs dalloway by virginia woolf

favourite movie: scream (1996)

favourite tv show: american horror story

favourite food: waffles

no pressure tags (im scared i annoy u guys by always tagging in these but i love it im sorry !!): @newwavesylviaplath @coentinim @cult-of-lambs @lilblondedarling @insanegirlbloging @izzy444angel @luxbunn

girlblogger questions! 🤍

last song you listened to: violets for roses - lana del rey

favourite colour: pink & red

hobby: guitar

favourite place: small cafes

favourite book: 1984 by george orwell

currently reading: the wartime sister by lynda loigman

favourite movie: sabrina

favourite tv show: gilmore girls

favourite food: pizza

tagging: @lilbaegirl @lanadelreystan101 @lilblondedarling @mimiicritter @maxxxthewpoet @aurora-doll-333 @waifangels @crucified-cam @cryingporcelaindoll @georgiannesblog @gossipgirlblogger101 @knowitsforthebetterr @lipglossuser @lovelyasteraceae @hrts4kenny @nobodysnymphet @neptun4ngel @i-know-you-wanna-kiss-me @ivoryteacups @notyourfavlolita @unknownn-girl @velvetpetalss @manicpixieangel444 @diizzzie @stellablahh @parisqx @pureprinc3ss @purebbyfawn @dollsleeping @becauseimsoothatgirl @dangeroustaintedflawed @777inpieces @trxpico @ang3linebn

have fun 🤍

[mirclealignr]

Bestie I just wanna say congrats again and ilysm

And also willow tree perhaps?

I love the theme of this celebration

thank you sm ily

song; youth by daughter

colour; navy

quote; “i am in the mood to dissolve the sky.” — virginia woolf.

4.5k celebration!

[halfofwhatyouare]

hi do u have any book recs? i love ur fics sm so i was wondering what kind of books u like!

Thank you for asking :)

My absolute all time favourite book is The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I recommend everything by Anne Carson and Virginia Woolf, too. Life changing stuff - no exaggeration. Frankenstein fucking slaps and Mary Shelley really Did That at 17. In my gothic phase (lol as if that ever ended), I devoured The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis.

If you're looking for books released more recently then: Boy Parts by Eliza Clark - v entertaining. The Binding by Bridget Collins. @qliterous would not be happy with me if I didn't suggest Milk Fed by Melissa Broder and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong is a MUST. Seriously, if you don't read that then I will be disappointed. In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde. Also rather enjoyed Sarahland by Sam Cohen recently. I always suggest Disoriental by Negar Djavadi to people as well.

This isn't even touching on The Gay Classics like: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters' books, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, The Well of Loneliness, Maurice by EM Forster etc etc

Hope this was useful!

Edit: I forgot Angela Carter sHAME ON ME

[terfslying]

Is it possible for you to cover biphobia in terf circles more? I don't have a set question, but after reading the past couple of posts I'm curious

You prompted to me to look up some more TERF discussion of bisexuality and I found “Bisexual politics: A superior form of feminism?” by Sheila Jeffreys (1999). That link goes to the abstract, I had to use my uni login to get access (though I can share the pdf if people are interested). Anyway, reading it, this is basically the biphobia handbook. In the quotes below anything called “Lesbian feminism” is actually talking about political lesbianism - female separatism + lesbian by choice.

First Jeffreys falls on the old “bisexuals are just promiscuous” by comparing bisexuality to BDSM because… some bisexuals like BDSM?

“[O]ne bisexual sado-masochist explained that SM activities are “gender-free” […] Here ‘bisexuality’ consists solely of sexual acts. This is significantly different from the lesbianism of lesbian femnism, which is not seen simply or even necessarily as sexual acts and encompasses a love and valuing of women, a community of friendship and support, the creation of a history and culture and a form of political resistance to male dominance.”

She then talks about how bisexual people are predatory, based on the concept of bi women finding women for a threesome with their boyfriend:

“This bisexual practice [of sharing female lovers] entails the sexual exploitation of lesbians for the titillation of heterosexual couples and might account for some considerable distrust of bisexuals on the part of lesbians who do not wish to provide such an amusement. The attention to love and relationship, to loving and valuing women that characterises lesbian feminism is quite startlingly absent.”

(I fully agree that “unicorn hunting” is a shitty thing, but it’s also got nothing to do with bisexual women ‘preying’ on lesbians in particular)

There’s then a section which starts with “Imaginary bisexuality: in this category are women who identify as bisexual though they have no sexual or romantic relationships with women and do not particularly intend to”. That should tell you what you need to know about that one.

She then basically calls bisexuality internalized homophobia,:

“Bisexuality as a way to not identify as lesbian or gay. [..T]hough bisexual activists tend to angrily reject the suggestion that their bisexuality is just a phase […] [Findings about gay and bi men’s preferred ‘roles’ in anal sex] suggest that bisexual men were those determined to maintain a traditional masculine identity…”

And also accuses bisexual people of exploiting lesbian relationships in multiple ways, talks about how polyamory is just a way for bisexual men to justify their cheating on their wives, and has a section called “Bisexual takeover of lesbian history and culture”, which is a long ramble but seems to mainly complain that some bisexuals argued Virginia Woolf was bisexual and not a lesbian. And also about how bisexual women remain loyal to men over women so they can’t be feminists.

So I’m going to go ahead and say that the bisexual hatred was well and truly established by 1999!

[secondhand-trash]

I was thinking about your story about ghosty Shinso, and I remembered a book that has a lot of touching and beautiful descriptions of the feelings and thoughts of the characters. Can I recommend this book to you? I think you will love its atmosphere and plot. This is "The Waves" by Virginia Woolf

Ooo I adore Woolf sm, I read Orlando last year (don’t judge I haven’t been able to read much since then) and I will never shut up about it. I’ll totally put it in my “read after exams are done” list^^

[veurona]

top 5 classics you like to read ???? i love u sm

thank u honey! i love you! xx

to the lighthouse by virginia woolf

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

hamlet by william shakespeare

the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald

the bell jar by sylvia plath

ask me top 5 anything

[viiinz]

@rockbells-automail

hi!! thank you sm for the tag :D

currently reading: in my free time: To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (it’s so good, I think this book is gonna be one of my new favourites!!), as well as keeping up with the substack of Dracula Daily (Dracula by Bram Stoker, for the second time this year lol) and Letters from Poor Folk (Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky). I also just started reading Franz Kafka’s Letter to His Father last night and i plan on reading Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin this week (I started reading the first chapter a couple weeks ago, but then exams came). Besides that I’m also reading a lot for my thesis, including: Renaissance Self-Fashioning. From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England by Mark Breitenberg, (and a lot of other books on this subject on my to read list), also some essays and some Shakespeare.

favourite colour: i don’t really have a favourite colour, but I really like dark colours, like dark blue and dark red. also greens!!

last song: Are You Statisfied? by Marina (I also love your last song!!)

last movie: idk it’s been so long since i’ve seen a movie :(

sweet/spicy/savory: savory all the way!!

currently working on: my thesis :3 (it’s about representation of masculinity in Early Modern England, specifically in Shakespeare plays (but using this as a way to talk about the context of the time period as a whole))

ty for the tag @onlyyseedaylight!!!

Currently Reading: the charlotte holmes series, by brittany cavallaro!! i just finished the last of august (the second book) and am about to start a case for jamie (the third)!!! the lnco vibes are inSANE

Favorite color: green and purple :)

Last song: If I’m Being Honest by dodie!!

Last movie: hmmmmm i think it was Sleepless in Seattle

Sweet/spicy/savory: sweet allllll the way

Currently working on: getting rid of my migraines and figuring out summer plans :D

Tag 9 mutuals you want to get to know better:

@loverswillowed @just-another-lovesong @matthewkniesys @waitingforthesunrise @wellgoslowly @lee-says-things @sixpence-none-the-richer @daisy-joness

[heartcountry]

Some of my favorite quotes because I can't pick just one: “There is so much / I need to tell you - but I only earned / one life.” - Ocean Vuong “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” - Haruki Murakami “Silence carries your name; it glows in the dark over my grey-blue dreams.” - Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.” - Neil Gaiman

my heart!!! i love ocean vuong sm and i love the rest too thank you for sharing