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Jane Eyre Heresy Masterpost
Warning and Disclaimers
Introduction (incl Quick Summary of the Beginning)
Jane's Arrival at Thornfield Hall
Meet Cute
Enter Mr Rochester
The First Nocturnal Incident
The Party at Thornfield
The Gypsy Woman Episode
The Merry Company
The Second Nocturnal Incident
Interlude
Mind Games
With a proposal like this, who needs death threats?
Would I Lie To You? (Yes, You Would)
Blanche Ingram (incl Digression - A Better Man)
A Note on Fake Dating
The Engagement (incl Mrs Fairfax's Warning and The High Street Hell)
The Third Nocturnal Incident
The Wedding
The Secret Wife
The Connections of the the Uncle in Madeira
The Solicitor and the Clergyman
Rochester the Scoundrel
Rochester's Origin Story
Not Insane in the Brain
The Inconsistencies
I Choose Violence
Mad and Bad and Dangerous?
Some ideas on Bertha's State
Age Is Mad
Richard Mason
Wide Sargasso Sea
What Edward Did Next
Celine Varens (incl Digression - What in the Sherlock?)
Womaniser, Womaniser
Indecent Proposal
The Escape (incl Was There a Better Way?)
The Shelter
New Fortune, New Family
The Saint John (incl What Could Have Been)
The Return to Thornfield
The Innkeeper's Testimony
Grace Poole
The Firestarter
Reunited
Stupid Girl
Reader, She Married Him
Adele
Happily Ever After
Final Thoughts
What the Year of Our Lord?
Real Life
The Cancelled Sister
But Really?
Bronte Tragedy
Other Posts
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best books of 2022 rec list:
fiction:
chouette by claire oshetsky
forty thousand in gehenna by cj cherryh
fierce femmes and notorious liars by kai cheng thom
sula by toni morrison
everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily r. austin
jane eyre by charlotte bronte
villette by charlotte bronte
non-fiction:
gay spirit by mark thompson
we too: stories on sex work and survival by natalie west
transgender history by susan stryker
blood marriage wine & glitter by s bear bergman
love and rage: the path to liberation through anger by lama rod owens
gay soul by mark thompson
between certain death and a possible future: queer writing on growing up in the AIDS crisis by mattilda bernstein sycamore
the man they wanted me to be: toxic masculinity and a crisis of our own making by jared yates sexton
nobody passes: rejecting the rules of gender and conformity by mattilda bernstein sycamore
cruising: an intimate history of a radical pastime by alex espinoza
gay body by mark thompson
what my bones know: a memoir of healing from complex trauma by stephanie foo
the child catchers: rescue, trafficking, and the new gospel of adoption by kathryn joyce
the opium wars: the addiction of one empire and the corruption of another by w. travis hanes III
a queer history of the united states by michael bronski
the trouble with white women by kyla schuller
what we don't talk about when we talk about fat by aubrey gordon
the feminist porn book by tristan taormino
administrations of lunacy: a story of racism and psychiatry at the midgeville asylum by mab segrest
the women's house of detention by hugh ryan
angela davis: an autobiography by angela davis
ten steps to nanette by hannah gadsby
neuroqueer heresies by nick walker
the remedy: queer and trans voices on health and healthcare by zena sharman
brilliant imperfection by eli clare
the dawn of everything: a new history of humanity by david graeber and david wengrow
tomorrow sex will be good again by katherine angel
all our trials: prisons, policing, and the feminist fight to end violence by emily l. thuma
if this is a man by primo levi
bi any other name: bisexual people speak out by lorraine hutchins
white rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide by carol anderson
public sex: the culture of radical sex by pat califa
I'm glad my mom died by jenette mccurdy
care of: letters, connections and cures by ivan coyote
the gentrification of the mind: witness to a lost imagination by sarah schulman
skid road: on the frontier of health and homelessness in an american city, by josephine ensign
the origins of totalitarianism by hannah arendt
nice racism: how progressive white people perpetuate racial harm by robin diangelo
corrections in ink by keri blakinger
sexed up: how society sexualizes us and how we can fight back by julia serano
smash the church, smash the state! the early years of gay liberation by tommi avicolli mecca
no more police: a case for abolition by mariame kaba
until we reckon: violence, mass incarceration, and a road to repair by danielle sered
the care we dream of: liberatory & transformative justice approaches to LGBTQ+ health by zena sharman
reclaiming two-spirits: sexuality, spiritual renewal and sovereignty in native america by gregory d. smithers
the sentences that create us: crafting a writer's life in prison by Caits Meissner
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Linda. 40s. European. Welcome to the delicious mess that is my Tumblr blog. Agatha Christie, L.M. Montgomery, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Marvel, self-improvement, writing, photography, quotes. Sam Claflin. (A lot of Sam Claflin.)
Cat lady. Anti-heroine. Madwoman in the attic. Part fairy godmother, part problematic aunt. I support women's rights and women's wrongs. Heretic and frequent strong opinions haver. That one Sam Claflin fan who hates Me Before You and Love Rosie.
Adults only please. If you see me post something that resonates with you, great. Interact if you want to. If not, move along, nothing to see here.
Links:
Photography blog (Wordpress)
Writing blog (Wordpress)
Jane Eyre Heresy sideblog (block if you're a fan of the book)
My AO3
I write original fiction (short stories) primarily, and post them on the above mentioned Wordpress writing blog. I don't write much fanfic, but I have written some pieces for Billy x Camila of Daisy Jones and the Six, as I cannot accept what the show has done with them.
Tags:
My photographs #mine
Sam Claflin #samblogging
Agatha Christie #agathablogging
L.M. Montgomery #lmmblogging
Very unpopular/controversial Hunger Games opinions #suzanne botched it (filter if you're a fan and value your life, please!)
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Heresy is a fun concept. "no you're interpreting these characters and stories so wrong you should DIE"
Anyway Animal Farm by George Orwell is about how horses are either devoted communists who work so hard they die or defect immediately away from communism with no in between, and Jane Eyre is about how you should murder your prospective husband's wife who lives in the attic killing small birds and blind him yourself, otherwise you'll have to hang out with your annoying cousin for a couple months.
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Masterlist
Started: 9/16/24
Book Reviews (if you're interested)
Cursed Cocktails
Night Lords Omnibus
Dracula
Spear of the Emperor
The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet
The Right Hand Of Amon
Jurassic Park
Sleeping Murder
Jane Eyre
Horus Heresy: False Gods
Eisenhorn: The Omnibus
The Picture of Dorian Gray
In the Company of Witches
The Hunger
Fanfiction
Warhammer 40K
Eye of the Storm: Part 1
Call Of Duty
Knockout 1
Knockout 2
Random Experimental One-shots
Starry Thoughts
Thunderstorms and Interests
Harry Potter AU Idea
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Side tangent but Charlotte Bronte famously hated Jane Austen's books. This is what she said after reading Emma:
I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works Emma-read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensible and suitable-anything like warmth or enthusiasm; anything energetic, poignant, heart-felt, it utterly out of place in commending these works: all such demonstration the authoress would have met with a well-bred sneer, would have calmly scorned as outre and extravagant. She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously well; there is a Chinese fidelity, a miniature delicacy in the painting: she ruffles her reader by nothing vehement, disturbs him by nothing profound: the Passions are perfectly unknown to her; she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy Sisterhood; even to the Feelings she vouchsafes no more than an occasional graceful but distant recognition; too frequent converse with them would ruffle the smooth elegance of her progress. Her business is not half so much with the human heart as with the human eyes, mouth, hands and feet; what sees keenly, speaks aptly, moves flexibly, it suits her to study, but what throbs fast and full, though hidden, what the blood rushes through, what is the unseen seat of Life and the sentient target of Death-this Miss Austen ignores; she no more, with her mind's eye, beholds the heart of her race than each man, with bodily vision sees the heart in his heaving breast. Jane Austen was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman; if this is heresy-I cannot help it. If I said it to some people (Lewes for instance) they would directly accuse me of advocating exaggerated heroics, but I am not afraid of your falling into any such vulgar error.
Jane Austen had died by the time Charlotte was writing but considering that the plot of Northanger Abbey contains a sub-plot where Catherine believes Mr. Tilney's father had either murdered his own wife or locked her away in the basement before Tilney finds out and makes fun of her for suspecting such ridiculous things, we can guess what she would have thought of the plot of Jane Eyre.
So in this light would Jane and Emma hate each other? Or would they become friends in spite of their own author's distaste for each other?
we should have crossovers but like. with classic literature. I wanna see jane eyre try to deal with emma "gets bored and makes it everyone else's problem" woodhouse
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"An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break." — Chinese Proverb
"There’s something between us [...] a sort of pull. Something you always do to me and I to you—"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, from 'Presumption'
"I am stretched like a bow with your pull."
— Rumi, The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication; from ‘Give Up Yourself’, tr. Will Johnson and Nevit Ergin
"Something of you still taut / still tugs still pulls, / a rope that trembled / hummed between us."
— Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman; from 'Vino Tinto'
"I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame."
— Charlotte Brontë, from ‘Jane Eyre’
"There was a silence between them, and a strange tension of hostility. They always kept a gap, a distance between them, they wanted always to be free each of the other. Yet there was a curious heart-straining towards each other."
— D. H. Lawrence, from 'Women in Love'
"I could feel the inevitable magnetic polar forces in us, and the tidal blood beat loud, Loud, roaring in my ears, slowing and rhythmic."
— Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath’ — 15th May 1952
"The tides inside your heart still pull me towards you."
— Richard Jackson, from 'After All This', published in 'Salt Hill 22'
"By then I was used to silence. / Though something stretched between us / like a whisper, like a rope:"
— Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Orpheus (1)’
"— what still deepens pulls us back together."
— Caitríona O’Reilly, The Nowhere Birds; from ‘Possession’
"We're connected by a thread / If we're ever far apart / I'll still feel the pull of you"
— The National, from ‘The Pull of You’
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On Row 1:
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Maugham’s novel is about an American pilot traumatized by World War I who sets off in search of meaning in his life. I think this echoes Evan’s terrible past in the Blood Clan. The novel is surprisingly hopeful though, because the main character’s search for meaningful experiences allows him to thrive compared to other materialistic characters. Or maybe this is a comment about how the hedonistic Blood Clan will fall because they’re too blinded by material things.
Borges’ story is hard to explain, so I suggest people read it themselves. I think this is just one of those philosophical things Evan likes to contemplate. He thinks a lot about eternity, infinity, the universe, etc.
Does anyone need an introduction to Faust? Haha, it’s the play about the man who makes a deal with Mephistopheles. Anyway, I like this summary about its message: “Faith and heresy, hope and nihilism, sensuality and asceticism, love and lust, art and politics – all of these battle for redemption or damnation in different versions of Faust.�� This is Evan’s character theme in a nutshell. He is a man of extraordinary contradiction. I can go on and on about his innate gentleness and the monstrosity of his vampirism. Light and Night writers balance this tension so, so well.
On Row 2:
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Uh, there’s a lot of stories in the Canterbury Tales so I’m not too sure what to take from this.
Daniel Keyes’ non-fiction novel is about the first person in the US to be acquitted of a major crime by pleading multiple-personality disorder. I’m also not sure what to take from this? It’s also interesting that this is a non-fiction story, because Evan has said on multiple occasions that he prefers fiction stories to non-fiction.
Evan’s reading list containing Dracula will never not make me laugh. Naturally, the Blood Clan should know about the most influential work on vampires out there. On another note, with the addition of Dracula, Evan’s reading list consists of a lot of famous English literature.
On Row 3:
Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Kirkegaard’s philosophy work “outlines a theory of human existence, marked by the distinction between an essentially hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life” which sounds so much like the thoughts Evan has about the Blood Clan society. He disdains their hedonism.
Harari’s book is not too surprising. Evan is extremely curious about people’s experiences in life and whatnot, and I imagine he’s also curious about how humanity reached this point.
One other book brought up strongly with Evan is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, although this was actually his mother’s favorite book. It can vaguely apply to Evan and the heroine’s relationship too though, such as the “skeleton in the closet” for Rochester, and how the two only got together after Jane became truly independent and Rochester was no longer haunted by his past.
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13, 28, 30
13. what books make you happy?
Jane Eyre!! also Fangirl just gives me the warm fuzzies
28. do you always finish a book, even if it is dull?
yes! the only book I didn’t finish was the Age of Reason by Thomas Paine…because it veered into weird heresy instead of being an interesting exploration of natural law
30. favorite book this year?
new book? a grief observed by c.s. lewis. it was just so heart-wrenchingly honest
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Vague || Closed RP
@the-dimitrescu-seamstress “The answer was evasive. I should have liked something clearer; but Mrs. Fairfax either could not, or would not, give me more explicit information of the origin and nature of Mr. Rochester’s trials. She averred they were a mystery to herself, and that what she knew was chiefly from conjecture. It was evident, indeed, that she wished me to drop the subject, which I did accordingly.” Bela shut the novel gently within her hands at the close of the thirteenth chapter, as tempting as it was to continue onward in the reading. If only they did not run through maids as often as they did, a part of her wondered if she would have been contented leading a small group of them into becoming more cultured, educated creatures. When they died so soon there was little point in bringing them above being dull as cattle. Most of them were only that, but there were a few exceptions. After placing the book gingerly aside, Bela removed her gloves. She never did so before reading from the book. It was a seventh edition, but even so Jane Eyre was on the list of nearly sacred texts. Not literally, of course, and she certainly wouldn’t make such a statement out loud. That was heresy. “I wonder why she was being so vague....” She said of the novel, despite the fact that she absolutely knew why the household staff was refusing to reveal certain aspects of his background. Despite having read it so many times discovering the secret that Jane’s new employer kept was surprising and scandalous each time. Certainly, it was less shocking than what occurred regularly in the castle dungeons and cellars. Other people’s skeletons in the closet- or attic, as it were- always seemed worse than one’s own. Though it could not be said that the Dimitrescus were exactly hiding any skeletons- be it figurative or literal. Bela observed Magda at work. When the seamstress had invited her to recite poetry in her workshop the witch had been thrilled. It was the chance to behave like a proper lady. Have poetry readings and a cup of ordinary tea. The tea she would merely touch her lips to and make a pantomime of drinking, of course. If there was blood it would be more agreeable to her, but it would ruin everything. There was was more fun in this rare façade of humanity. Over the months, the poetry inevitably evolved into this. Hell would freeze over before she let any.... companion of hers pass through life without having read her favorite novel. Companion was an interesting word, would friend be better? Was that too....- Favourite? No. Bela would think more on it later. “What are you currently working on?”
#verse; rubata#(lol Magda- did you think you would get through this without knowing the drama)#(within Thornfield hall?)#(Bela will not allow it)
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Tag 10 people you wanna know better
Tagged by @miriel-therindes, thank you!
Relationship status: Single as a pringle and perfectly content. (also alsjdflsj Lyndeth I've proposed to people with ringpops before as a joke)
Favorite colour(s): Blues, teal-greens, purples, gold, silver
Favorite food: Specifically my mom's cucumber sushi. It's to die for.
Song stuck in my head: Don't Stop Believing. I heard it over a store radio and it's been haunting me. I hate it.
Last thing you googled: Ring verse black speech
Time: 8:18 pm
Dream trip: I literally don't know. I want to visit all seven continents (3/7 so far) so maybe get Antarctica out of the way?
Last thing you read: Today's Dracula Daily
Last book you enjoyed reading: In full? Lord of the Flies
Last book you hated reading: Jane Eyre. Not my cup of tea.
Favorite thing to cook/bake: Hmm. Probably devil's food cake or chocolate chip cookies. The former because it's to die for and the latter because they're super easy. I like making lots of stuff though.
Favorite craft to do in your free time: Well if writing counts, that, I do origami sometimes when I'm bored and I've been trying to get into embroidery...
Most niche dislike: Bad history teachers, specifically. More than any other subject to me, a history teacher makes or breaks the class, and even I who loves history will grow to hate it.
Opinion on circuses: I haven't been to one since I was six, and barely remember it. I remember thinking it was pretty cool- the acrobats are definitely a highlight, but I'm glad that less circuses are using animals now.
Do you have any sense of direction? ...A little. A very little. I can figure out NESW via the sun and can sorta recognize how to get to places I'm very familiar with but. Yeah. GPS is a wonderful thing.
Tell us about your D&D character(s): HAHAHAHA!!! INFODUMP TIME!!!
Kaelind Siankiir-Kranuv: Half-elf Bard/Cleric (College of Lore/Life domain), my perfect angel of do no harm take no shit. She's got wanderlust and a tendency to never fit in, made worse by her setting, but she's shockingly well adjusted overall. Her backstory is very jack of all tradesy- her parents traveled for her mother's seasonal dock-work and her father's scholarly odd-jobs, she was involved in both of those and music from a young age, she became a cleric bc her mother was healed by one after a serious accident. She actually isn't a cleric to her primary deity (his domain is mostly music) so her service has some interesting warlock-pact undertones since she is doing it for power, even if that power is intended to help. Which is kinda heresy but unbeknownst to me at the time actually fits her god's backstory really well. Her campaign has been set aside for now in favor of Aret's bc hers is all homebrew while theirs is Waterdeep: Dragon Heist so it'll be easier to get everyone used to each other/the game. She's my pfp!
Aret "Reign" Pyrnomos: Tiefling Sorcerer (Wild Magic) and also an investigative attorney. They came about bc I thought "You know what would be funny? A bunch of demon tiefling lawyers who love order but have super chaotic magic. And like a really big family. I mean really big. The family tree I made has 75 people. The family business (Pyrnomoi & Co. at Law) was started by great-great grandpa who made a pact with his grandmother Fierna for power and prosperity of his descendants so long as the law firm stands, more or less. Aret and their family and the business are all kind of inexorably linked? As a result of prejudice everyone is hyper aware of how what they do affects the family and business, and are very strict in how they act publicly. We have a rogue on the team but Aret literally refuses to aid/abet crime without serious backup plans so that's gonna be interesting! Also they have half-proficiency in animal handling bc of all their little cousins XD
Aster Stardew: "Drow" Oracle Track Druid (1st lvl but he's gonna be Circle of Stars). His name coinciding with my favorite game was unintentional on my part but delightful- I translated it from dndelvish "Holistacia" without realizing lol. Drow is in quotes bc his campaign is in a homebrewed Owl House setting (hence the Oracle Track)! I know very little about the Owl House, so it's gonna be interesting to play! He is best characterized in short as "neurodivergent and a minor", and also "looks like he wants to kill you (edgy), is actually a cinnamon roll". He tries to be edgy (his background is "haunted one" bc it's hilarious but also suits if I play up the edgelord a little) but literally can't stop himself from being nice, to his dismay and his therapist's delight. He's probably read the Boiling Isles version of My Immortal unironically. I just made him a few days ago, so he's still percolating in my mind, but he's babie and I love him.
Tagging: anyone who sees this and wants to. I don't have the brainpower to tag people right now, but rest assured I want to get to know yall better!
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It just occurred to me, with regards to Bertha's knife, the one she stabbed Richard with. I always presumed she took it from the kitchen, during one of her nightly escapades out of the attic. It seems the most logical place, as that's where you usually find knives. So--why was it not discovered that a knife was missing? Did the cook not notice? How many knives do they have in the Thornfield kitchen??
It's possible Mary, the cook, could have thought another servant took it for whatever purpose they needed, but if it wasn't returned for some time, did she not get suspicious? (Unless Bertha got it only a short time before she attacked Richard.) The servants knew there was a "lunatic" under Rochester's roof and they knew the "lunatic" occasionally slips out of the attic. They should have been more cautious. Or, Rochester should have trained them better, I should say. I don't want to place any blame on the servants. I like to think of Mrs Fairfax as a good housekeeper.
Bertha could have taken the knife from another room, but I can't think of another place she would have got it from. It's not mentioned if Thornfield has a weapons room or anything like that--and if there was one, then it should have been doubly locked, under the circumstances... Kitchen is the most obvious place to go when you need a knife. And it would be empty at night.
The "I suppose she has no knife now" and "One never knows what she has, she's so cunning, yadda yadda" after the aborted wedding is just... callous, like they're being so carefree about a person the author constantly tries to portray as dangerous. I very much defend Grace on this blog, I wrote a fanfic of which half is from her POV, in first person, but I admit I struggle with that line of hers. I put it down to her being overly dramatic or trolling, though it's a lazy way out. Anyway, Grace is only an employee. If she can be so casual about her charge picking weapons left, right and centre, and yet her boss still keeps her and pays her generous wages, then that's says something about the boss.
All of this is just another proof that Bertha was not mad. Because if she was, and if she was truly that dangerous, there would have been better safeguarding at Thornfield. Or else it's just incompetence, in which case, fuck you, Edward, for putting your staff in such danger!
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The lovely @avantegarda tagged me for 11 questions. (The deal as I understand it is answer the 11 questions, come up with 11 questions of your own, tag 11 people.) Here we go...
Which of your OCs likes pineapple on pizza and which of them is FURIOUS AT THE VERY IDEA? Anairon loves pizza and pineapple and thinks both together is wonderful. But I don’t think any of my other OCs have ever considered the question (some of them don’t even know about pizza) so none of them can really take the part of the ‘pineapple on pizza is sacrilege or possibly heresy’ crowd.
What is your favorite mood to write? (angst, comedy, etc) Changes based on my current mood.
Do you prefer writing/headcanoning about romance or friendship or family more? This is not an either/or for me so much as a ‘how do I feel today?’
Which author would you fight in a Denny’s parking lot at 3 am? If I’m awake at 3am, I’m either reading or writing, not fighting. That said, in the unlikely event that I were in a Denny’s parking lot at 3am and Ayn Rand happened to be there...
Do you like to write and highlight in your books or do you keep them pristine? I do not write in books. I am however the queen of post-it flags.
Which is harder: writing dialog or writing description? Whichever one I am having trouble with at the moment. (Right now, description. Tomorrow may be the other one.)
Which fictional character would you like to run your country? Pippin Galadriel Moonchild.
Is there a historical period you really like writing or reading about? Yes. (As you didn’t actually ask which one it was, I am saved the trouble of trying to narrow it down to fewer than five.)
Are you secretly a robot? If I tell you, it’s not a secret, is it?
Are there any books you read in school that you really hated? Finally, a question that’s easy to answer! The Red Badge of Courage, Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, whatever the assigned Herman Melville book was that I noped out of so hard I just turned in a blank paper because I wasn’t even going to Cliff Notes that crap, Traumnovelle, Leiden des jungen Werther, and Der Richter und sein Henker (but I feel like I should give that one a second chance, for Reasons. The other ones I’m pretty sure I still cordially detest and will never open again.)
Is that a raven rapping at your chamber door? Tis some visitor, nothing more.
Ok. That was difficult. Now for the 11 questions I came up with:
1. What hobby do you do that might surprise people?
2. What are you writing/drawing/creating right now that isn’t ready to share but you would love to tell people about (in even a vague sort of way)?
3. What’s your favorite non-fictional animal?
4. You can take a 48 hour vacation anywhere in the world. Time, money, and distance are no impediment. Where are you going?
5. Which fictional character would you like to run your country? (Yes, I didn’t come up with this one, but it’s an excellent question and I’m curious what other people will say.)
6. What’s a book you re-read regularly/semi-regularly?
7. Spiders - friend or foe?
8. William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe?
9. What is your favorite drink?
10. Do you have a favorite planet?
11. Why 11?
I tag @heartofoshun, @jane-ways, @joyfullynervouscreator, @naryaflame, @feanope, @essenceofarda, @princess-faelivrin, @queen-haleth, @zeroatthebone, @z-h-i-e, and @hrymfaxe. As ever, only if you want to play, no pressure! (Anyone else, if you look at this odd jumble of questions and think, ‘I WANT TO ANSWER THOSE!’, consider yourself tagged!)
And for the record, my ability to come up with 11 people was severely hampered by Tumblr’s insistence on a) putting the suggestions all the way at the bottom of the screen so I could only see the top 2, and b) continually suggesting Neil Gaiman as soon as I got as far as ‘@’. (Which is not to say that Neil Gaiman is not awesome, but I am not going to tag him on this.)
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Excerpts from L.M. Montgomery's journals that mention Charlotte Bronte.
LMM visited Haworth on her honeymoon (a rare pleasure she got out of that marriage), though she couldn't go inside the Parsonage. However, I have to disagree with her here: "we went to Leeds and next morning motored twenty miles through a very ugly country to Haworth". Don't listen to her, Yorkshire moors are breathtaking! I know bc I've been there too and I have pics to prove! (I mean I've not gone the way from Leeds to Haworth bc I live in Manchester, so that's where I travelled from, but I doubt it's much different; even going on a train from Manchester to Leeds is a pleasant ride). I suppose the moors are an unusual type of a landscape. Also it depends on your own definition of beauty.
Anyway, what I like about these excerpts is that while LMM obviously admired Charlotte a lot, she had no issue with roasting her, and I'm so here for it!
It is customary to regret Charlotte Bronte’s death as premature. I doubt it. I doubt if she would have added to her literary fame had she lived. Resplendent as her genius was it had a narrow range and I think she had reached its limit. She could not have gone on forever writing Jane Eyres and Villettes and there was nothing in her life and experience to fit her for writing anything else.
Ha!
But then this:
There was a marked masochistic strain in Charlotte Bronte—revealing itself mentally not physically. This accounts for “Rochester.” He was exactly the tyrant a woman with such a strain in her would have loved, delighting in the pain he inflicted on her.
Speaking the truth. LMM had no time for "brooding" heroes. (And yeah, there's Dean Priest, but he's a different case and he was not Emily's true love.)
I have been asking myself “If I had known Charlotte Bronte in life how would we have reacted upon each other? Would I have liked her? Would she have liked me?” I answer “no.” She was absolutely without a sense of humor. I could never find a kindred spirit in a woman without a sense of humor. And for the same reason she would not have approved of me at all. All the same, had she been compelled to live with me for awhile I could have done her whole heaps of good. A few jokes would have leavened the gloom and tragedy of that Haworth parsonage amazingly. Charlotte would have been thirty per cent better for it. But she would have written most scathing things about me to Miss Nussey and Mrs. Gaskell.
I think she gets it.
And this:
People have spoken of Charlotte Bronte’s “creative genius.” Charlotte Bronte had no creative genius.
I love this bc that's totally something I would say. People will be like: "thing/person is sooo amazing" and I'd say, "thing/person is not amazing".
Her genius was one of amazing ability to describe and interpret the people and surroundings she knew. All the people in her books who impress us with such a wonderful sense of reality were drawn from life. She herself is “Jane Eyre” and “Lucy Snowe.” Emily was “Shirley.” “Rochester,” whom she did “create” was unnatural and unreal. “Blanche Ingram” was unreal. “St. John” was unreal. Most of her men are unreal. She knew nothing of men except her father and brother and the Belgian professor of her intense and unhappy love. “Emmanuel” was drawn from him and therefore is one of the few men, if not the only man, in her books who is “real”.
Talk about "burn".
I have argued on my Jane Eyre Heresy sideblog that Rochester, too, is based on Professor Heger. Nothing stopping Charlotte from putting the same dude into more than one book. I actually think Rochester is very real. The way he talks about Bertha is quite typical of douchebags like him talking about their wives/ex-wives/soon-to-be ex-wives/ex-girlfriends. "She a mad bitch" is, like, the most common phrase uttered by men over the course of human history. There is nothing special about Rochester.
Emily Bronte also gets a mention, but Anne does not. I wonder what LMM thought of Anne Bronte, if she had ever read her. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall's romantic hero is named Gilbert!
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Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley
Emma Cline - Girls
Kirsty Logan - The Gracekeepers
Seth Patrick - Lost Souls
Slyvain Neuval - Waking Gods
Mark Z. Danielewski - The Familiar Vol 1
Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project
Austin Wright - Tony & Susan
Patricia Highsmith - Carol
Darcie Wilder - Literally Show Me A Healthy Person
Tracy Chevalier - New Boy
Andy Weir - Artemis
Michelle Paver - Dark Matter
Robert Daws - The Posisoned Rock
Laura Lam - False Hearts
Italo Calvino - If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler
Megan Bradbury - Everyone Is Watching
Sunil Yapa - Your Heart Is A Muscle the Size of A Fist
George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings
Sarah Moss - The Tidal Zone
Matthew Blakstad - Lucky Ghost
Toni Morrison - Tar Baby
Jeff Vandermeer - Annihilation
Colson Whitehead - Zone One
Kathy Reichs - Death Du Jour
Ann Cleeves - The Crow Trap
Ward Moore - Bring the Jubilee
Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies
Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
Michael Crichton - State of Fear
Neil Gaiman - How the Marguis Got His Coat Back
Agatha Christie - The Double Clue
James Patterson - NYPD Red 2
Maud Pember Reeves - Round About A Pound A Week
Paul Torday - Salmon Fishing In the Yemen
Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Daniel H Wilson - Robopocalypse
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
David Wong - John Dies At the End
Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
John Ajvide Lindquist - Let the Right One In
Gregory Maguire - Wicked
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Paul Beatty - The Sellout
Jane Shemilt - Daughter
Jane Isaac - The Truth Will Out
Karin Slaughter - Genesis
S.K. Tremayne - The Fire Child
Isaac Marion - The Burning World
Adrien Bosc - Constellation
Laura Power - Air-Born
Laura Power - Earth-Bound
Keith DeCandido - House of Cards
Wayne Simmons - Flu
Harper Lee - Go Set A Watchman
Dean Koontz - The City
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Ali Smith - The Accidental
John Burnside - Glister
Lauren Owen - The Quick
Tom McCarthy - Satin Island
Dave Eggers - The Circle
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Robert Harris - The Ghost
Michel Faber - The Fire Gospel
Michel Faber - The Book of Strange New Things
James Patterson - Pop Goes the Weasel
Jeff Lindsay - Dexter’s Final Cut
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
Sinclair Lewis - It Can’t Happen Here
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Cory Doctorow - Makers
YA/Children's Fiction:
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Patrick Ness - More Than This
Andrew Smith - Stand Off
Andrew Smith - The Alex Crow
Johan Harstad - 172 Hours on the Moon
Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
Tommy Wallach - We All Looked Up
Karen Thompson Walker - The Age of Miracles
Tess Sharpe - Far From You
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Darragh McManus - Shiver the Whole Night Through
Rachel Cohn & David Levithan - Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Laura Lam - Pantomime
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Cassandra Clare - The Bane Chronicles
Cassandra Clare - Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy
Cassandra Clare - The Shadowhunters Codex
Cassandra Clare - Lady Midnight
Cassandra Clare - Lord of Shadows
Andrew Smith - 100 Sideways Miles
Karen Nesbitt - Subject To Change
Anna Day - The Fandom
Brendan Reichs - Nemesis
Chinelo Okparanta - Under the Udala Trees
Nina LaCour - We Are Okay
Sarah Alexander - The Art of Not Breathing
Liz Kessler - Read Me Like A Book
Lisa Williamson - The Art of Being Normal
Laurie Halse Anderson - Wintergirls
Marie Lu - Legend
Eve Ainsworth - 7 Days
Lesley Walton - The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Malinda Lo - Ash
Larry Duplechan - Blackbird
Makina Lucier - A Death Struck Year
James Patterson - Witch & Wizard
Jandy Nelson - I’ll Give You the Sun
Nick Burd - The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Libba Bray - Beauty Queens
Jack Cheng - See You In the Cosmos
Jennifer Niven - Holding Up the Universe
Becky Albertalli - The Upside of Unrequieted
Lauren Oliver - Replica
Ken Catran - Deepwater Black
Will McIntosh - Burning Midnight
Tahereh Mafi - Shatter Me
Libba Bray - The Diviners
Emily M Danforth - The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Carolyn Jess-Cooke - The Boy Who Could See Demons
Bali Rai - Killing Honour
Gayle Forman - If I Stay
Andre Aciman - Call Me By Your Name
E. Lockhart - We Were Liars
Katie Coyle - Vivian Versus the Apocalypse
Leah Thomas - Because You’ll Never Meet Me
David Arnold - Mosquitoland
Laure Eve - The Graces
Lisa Heathfield - Paper Butterflies
Ransom Riggs - Hollow City
Em Bailey - Shift
Francesca Haig - The Map of Bones
Rainbow Rowell - Carry On
Bryony Pearce - Phoenix Rising
Lou Morgan - Sleepless
Graham Marks - Bad Bones
Jess Vallence - Birdy
Teri Terry - Slated
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Brian Cox - Human Universe
D’Arcy Jenish - The NHL: A Centennial History
Greg Oliver - Don’t Call Me Goon
Andrew Hodges - Alan Turing: The Enigma
Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts
Carl Sagan - Cosmos
Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Brian Cox - E = mc“?
Stacey Schiff - The Witches
Julian Sayarer - Interstate
404 Ink - Nasty Women
Lynn Povich - The Good Girls Revolt
Michael Finkel - The Stranger In the Woods
Kent Russell - I Am Sorry To Think That I Have Raised A Timid Son
Luke Harding - Snowden
Mary Roach - Stiff
Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus
Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent
Naomi Klein - No Is Not Enough
Dave Cullen - Columbine
Ian Nathan - Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts
Bob McCabe - Harry Potter Page To Screen
Adharanand Finn - Running With the Kenyans
Aurellien Ferenczi - Masters of Cinema: Tim Burton
Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner - Think Like A Freak
Olivia Lang - The Lonely City
Michelle Tea - The Chelsea Whistle
Simon Singh - Big Bang
Tristan Taormino - The Feminist Porn Book
Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without A Country
Nick Frost - Truths, Half Truths & Little White Lies
Russell Brand - Revolution
Robert M Pirsig - Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Francis Spufford - The Child That Books Built
Dominic Hibberd - Wilfred Owen
George Vecsey - Baseball
Richard Wiseman - Paranormality
Neil Gaiman - Adventures In the Dream Trade
Nicola Field - Over the Rainbow
Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti - Yes Means Yes
Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction
Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill
Stephen Smith - Underground London
Plays/Poetry/Short Story Collections:
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Joe Hill - Strange Weather
Dean Atta - I Am Nobody’s N*****
Amerlle - Because You Love To Hate Me
Roxanne Gay - Difficult Women
Mark Gatiss - Queers: Eight Monologues
Graphic Novels/Manga:
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Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 7
Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 8
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Some harder (maybe?) ones! Top 5 books I need to read ASAP, I'd love to know your Top 5 Irish things (plays, books, etc.), and Top 5 meals you would love to eat again.
AHHHH
books you need to read ASAP (i am targeting this specifically at chelsea, fyi, but also everyone should read these)
1. rebecca by daphne du maurier2. east of eden by john steinbeck3. jane eyre by charlotte bronte4. of human bondage by w. somerset maugham5. never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
irish things (i hate this i’m so mad that i came up with this)
1. colin2. the heart’s invisible furies by john boyne3. the glorious heresies by lisa mcinerney4. all we shall know by donal ryan5. the hit 1992 film the crying game
meals i’d like to eat again
1. noodle pudding gnocchi2. this veggie wrap thing from my favorite caribbean fusion restaurant in new orleans3. pizza margarita from gusta pizza in firenze4 - 5. other pasta from bologna that will only end up depressing me if i describe it in detail
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