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mournfulroses · 4 months ago
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Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "Work," featured in The Southern Review (edited)
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nedlittle · 2 years ago
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it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...
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stillgotscars · 2 months ago
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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. July 1907
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hellalugosi · 2 months ago
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that man was NOT listening
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merlinemryspendragon · 5 months ago
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I cannot stop thinking of you. Bridgerton - 1.05 | 2.07 | 3.04
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sfsolstice · 8 months ago
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Emily Dickinson, from The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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parisoonic · 2 months ago
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Partnered up newheadcanon with for this years tf2bigbang ! Send your love their way for the fic (read here!) - I love anything which is a taste of a could-be episode of a TF2 tv show! Coolhorse also did a piece of artwork for this fic too!
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kidovna · 1 year ago
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A couple of ❤️s
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seance · 7 months ago
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EDWIN and CHARLES in THE CASE OF THE VERY LONG STAIRWAY
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enviies · 4 months ago
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THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR happy birthday @alicenthighstower ♡
I love you and I love you and I love you, on battlefields, in shadows, in fading ink, on cold ice splashed with the blood of seals. In the rings of trees. In the wreckage of a planet crumbling to space. In bubbling water. In bee stings and dragonfly wings, in stars. In the depths of lonely woods where I wandered in my youth, staring up — and even then you watched me. You slid back through my life, and I have known you since before I knew you.
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rexwrendraws · 5 months ago
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Saw a gifset of Morpheus and had the random thought that he'd make a fantastic children's picture book mouse character— and now I really, really want a fic where he appears in a kid's dream as a Kevin Henkes/Helen Craig/Beatrix Potter -esque mouse as to not scare them or something. I think it's something about Morpheus' usual mousey moue and big wet eyes that make it work in my head lolll Mousepheus!!
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mournfulroses · 7 months ago
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Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath; "Three Women," (edited)
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betweenlands · 5 months ago
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i walk into the literature convention wearing a shirt that says ask me about the uniquely complex conditions of live improvisation, limitation of expression by narrative and physical constraints, meta-awareness of a specific audience, video editing/framing choices, and amateur enthusiast storytelling that contribute to virtual improv roleplay* being a fascinating nascent artform that is uniquely suited to telling stories that cannot be told in any other format and everyone cheers & claps & whoops & hollers and then they read the smaller text saying *especially within Minecraft builds, maps, servers, streams, and videos and then everyone boos & yells & shoots me with lasers and guns & blows me up with grenades & hits me with 2x4s
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stillgotscars · 2 months ago
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Jane Austen, Emma
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kiisuuumii · 22 days ago
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Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence (tr. Sinan Antoon)
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notebookmusical · 6 months ago
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get to know me meme ♡ favorite books → this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone
“i want to meet you in every place i ever loved. listen to me. i am your echo. i would rather break the world than lose you.”
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