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lukas-broken-bow · 6 months ago

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every time I read a new essay on the strange case of doctor jekyll and mr hyde or otherwise hear about someone's interpretation of the book or simply just the way it impacted them, I'm astounded at how different each experience is from all the others

I did not interpret jekyll and hyde the same way vladmir nabokov did, or the way joe hill did, or the way kelly hurley did, or the way some person I just saw on tumblr did, and they did not experience it the same way as I did.

I think it's beautiful that one book can have such a wide variety of impacts on so many people, and I cherish

#it's my favourite book #and i love it #it really hits me hard in a way i can't explain #and i see myself in it so much #even the adaptations are all so different #because all of those creators had such a unique vision for it #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #doctor jekyll #mr hyde #robert louis stevenson #jekyll and hyde #favourite books

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anetherealpoetess · 6 months ago

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the absolute restraint i have shown not to talk shit about by emerald fennell adapting wuthering heights. please why are we letting an extremely wealthy white english woman with a history of shallow films adapt a profanely violent story about racism, victorian-era class oppression, and generational trauma. ten bucks says she casts a white man to play heathcliff and completely ditches the second part of the novel which focuses on the second generation.

#god #wuthering heights is already impossible to adapt #it's one of those deeply personal novels that gets beneath your skin and shivers for all eternity #not something that is easy to translate on screen #also hollywood likes to focus solely on catherine and heathcliff #(but while ignoring his race and class and the fact she straight up says she cannot marry someone of low social status)#also they like to ignore the incest and the cloistered cousins terrorised by domestic abuse forced into marriage of the second generation #anyway #it's my favourite book #i think we should stop letting white people adapt it (i say this as a white person)#(also stop letting people terrified of genuinely gut-shocking gothic tropes adapt it too)

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bantambookeater · 8 months ago

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Nine Goblins -- A really, really good book by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)

Number of Goblins, ranked

One Goblin - That's just a goblin. He's probably just getting his groceries or something. Leave him alone, you asshole.

Ten Goblins -- That's a fairly normal amount of goblins. There's generally around ten goblins in any given situations. They're just here for aesthetic, so you know it's a fantasy world. Remember to tip them when you leave.

One Hundred Goblins -- Ok this is too many goblins, but this is a reasonable amount of too many goblins. Like, this is maybe an army of goblins or something? My point is that they're probably here for a good reason. Best not to mess with them, they're likely load-bearing in some way.

One Thousand Goblins -- This is probably a goblin town, in which case this is really more a case of One Human, which is a completely different list only available on goblintube. If not, all these goblins are lost. Return them to the goblin town. The orcs are worried.

One Million Goblins -- A million goblins? I'm not sure I've even seen a million things in my life , and now there's a million goblins? That's, like, all the goblins. Why are you at a convention of all the goblins? Are you a goblin? Actually, no, that would make sense. Yeah, that's probably what's going on here. Sorry you had to find out this way.

One Billion Goblins -- Ok, look, at this point you have clearly been sent to a future time where humanity is extinct and goblins have inherited the earth. I can think of no other explanation for a billion goblins. This sadly means that you're the weirdo, and you have to go be a cryptid now. At least you can find a phone and read the goblin creepypastas about you.

One Trillion Goblins -- How? What is happening? This is more goblins then there are birds, and they'll all in your house? How is your house this big? Wait, forget the goblins, how is your house this big? Are the goblins here to guillotine you? Probably! Move out of your stupid mansion and let the goblins have it, you weird rich bird-hoarding freak.

One Quadrillion Goblins -- One quadrillion? I'm only like 80% sure that's even a real number! Luckily, you won't have to deal with a quadrillion goblins for long, because soon they'll collapse together under their gravity, forming a far more manageable single planet-sized goblin. Picard's not gonna be happy about this one!

More Goblins -- Fuck off, you do not have more then a quadrillion goblins. Why are you lying? Are you worried I won't like you if you don't claim to have an implausible number of goblins? Don't worry. Your worth is not dependent on your goblin numbers. Go back to the actual number of goblins secure in the fact I love you, no matter how few goblins you have <3

#it's my favourite book #my boss who is the best got it printed for me for christmas because it is online only #i felted him a rabbit #tor says you can do whatever you want with the book once you have it so it was chill for it to get printed

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lucidloving · 1 year ago

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@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks