#literary forms

[darkspicyevanstan]

⚡️ Literary Forms ⚡️

View the Literary Forms below the cut!

Cozy Mystery

Crime Fiction

Epistolary Fiction

Ergodic Fiction

Fantasy Fiction

Arthurian Legend

Dark Fantasy

Contemporary Fantasy

Epic Fantasy

Fantasy Romance

Grimdark

High Fantasy

Historical Fantasy

Low Fantasy

Portal Fantasy

Romantic Fantasy

Romantasy

Science Fantasy

Sword and Sorcery

Urban Fantasy

Feghoot

Gothic Fiction

Contemporary Gothic

Dark Academia

Gothic Fantasy

Gothic Horror

Gothicpunk

Gothic Romance

Gothic Surrealism

Midwestern Gothic

Southern Gothic

Urban Gothic

Historical 

Creation Fiction

Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Rome

Medieval Era

Renaissance Era

Victorian Era

Age of Sail

Regency

1600s

1700s

1800s

1920s

1930s

1940s

World War I

World War II

Vietnam War

Cold War

Western

Horror

Alien Horror

Camp

Comedy Horror

Cosmic Horror

Creature Horror

Eldritch Horror

Erotic Horror

Fantasy Horror

Found Footage

Lovecraftian

Monster

Paranormal Horror

Parasitic Horror

Psychological

Slasher

Supernatural Horror

Urban Horror/Legend

Punk Fiction

Aetherpunk (Magic Punk)

Apunkalypse

Anthropunk (Furpunk)

Atompunk

Biopunk

Bitpunk

Bronzepunk

Castlepunk

Cattlepunk

Clockpunk

Cyberpunk

Decopunk

Desertpunk

Dieselpunk

Dreadpunk

Dungeonpunk

Elfpunk

Flowerpunk

Formicapunk (Casette Futurism/Modem Punk)

Hopepunk

Lunarpunk

Nanopunk

Oceanpunk/Piratepunk

Solarpunk

Silkpunk

Steampunk

Stonepunk

Tidalpunk

Satire

Speculative Fiction

Alternate History

Apocalyptic Fiction

Avant-Garde Fiction

Bangsian

Bizarro Fiction

Climate Fiction

Dystopian Fiction

Magical Realism

Post Apocalyptic

Science Fiction

Slipstream

Space Opera

Supernatural Fiction

Utopian Fiction

Weird Fiction

Thriller Fiction

[vaguely-concerned]

so for obvious reasons, rye is not generally all that popular with most of the senior watchers. however. I think there is a certain type of younger watcher to whom he is The ultimate hot badboy icon and fantasy. (we're talking about a group of extreme indoor kid goth nerds who've barely been outside. it doesn't take a lot ot achieve bad boy status in this context and the only thing in this world that lasts forever is a bad reputation in a small insular group like the watchers.) it's SO funny because rye thinks of himself as such a disappointing fuckup of a son of the grand necropolis. and meanwhile there are novices kicking their feet and giggling as they're like

'Ingellvar is so cool. no one knows where he's from he was found down here as a baby. mysterious orphan appeal. he could be a secret dalish prince or something for all we know. (*annoyed extra nerd watcher novice voice*: umm actually the dalish don't have princes, merrivar?? read a real book sometime maybe???) he's a rebel. he doesn't care what the senior watchers think no time for politics he just gets the job done. (*small sad rye voice* I care a lot what the senior watchers think actually. a pathetic amount, in fact. it just rarely seems like it helps anything at all) I heard he graduated almost top of his class even though he spent all his time as a student partying up in the city and having a torrid affair with the son of a noble family. sometimes in his spare time he wears a cool punk leather jacket but like the fantasy version of that. he has tattoos apparently but no one's seen them for years. yuh-uh it's true too, I know someone who knows someone he dated once. they say he saw a knife fight once. like, in a bar brawl, with living people. all that, and he's even sneakily emotionally unavailable. *starry-eyed sigh* what a dreamboat'.

needless to say this only grows worse with the events of the game, after he takes out the formless one and rumours start to spread that he maybe killed a god or something too???? and this being nevarra, more importantly he's out there killing dragons with his sworn companions?? like a fucking fairytale prince but with that devil-may-care rebellious streak???? he's the safely unavailable first crush at a distance of many a young watcher. now imagine the reaction when he shows up home for the first time in a year after the war of the banners accompanied by The one true bad boy fantasy to rule them all: literally the sad brooding crown prince of the crows of antiva in leather pants who has WINGS and a dark tortured side of his nature that he has to constantly battle against for the sake of those he loves.

(the perception vs. reality situation for both of these characterizations is. so unspeakably hilarious needless to say. consider how much of the above lucanis characterization is accurate to the person he actually is and then you've basically found the level of distortion lens being applied to rye as well. is most of it technically true? sure. 'technically' is having to do a whole world of heavy lifting there tho fhdfska)

what I'm really saying here is that there is a subsection of this group that's been ferociously writing rye/lucanis rpf from the moment they were seen trotting down into the necropolis depths together (other pairings within the lighthouse gang as a whole, caught in tantalizing glimpses as they visit the necropolis, of course having their own devotees), and when this fandom subgroup eventually discover they were right it's with all the insane glee of a sixteen year old fanfic writer on wattpad (is that still where the kids are these days. idk i'm getting old folks) finding out that their dark mafia prince AU is basically true. varric might be gone but the legacy of friendfiction lives on after him. the king of thedas rpf being the shoulders of titans that young watchers are standing on to write fevered WILDLY inaccurate depictions of the private life of two of the most low-key domestic quietly devoted and undramatic people on the continent, one of them being varric's own poor little meow meow slash mentee, is something that can actually be so personal. rye does not end up terribly famous in the end considering the shit he manages to get done in this game, and he thanks his lucky stars for it. but to a tight-knit community of mourn watch fic writers he is blorbo from my apocalypse. it's all I could have wished for him.

(funniest possible outcome of all this: myrna gets so fucking tired of trying to understand what the novices are being so tittery about that she asks rye 'watcher ingellvar with the realization that this is a long shot and the admission that vorgoth and I have exhausted all other avenues of investigation: do you possess secret insight about what an 'x reader' is. and also 'ship war'. your name seems to come up in this context a surprising amount'. 9000000 points of incoming psychic damage about to hit the fan.)

[hawnks]

Anyway… at one point you read something and you loved it so much it made you want to write. That love is still inside you. You can love like that again, if you try.

[jctko]

no one cares but a character dying is not the same as a character haunting the narrative. dying is a plot point, while haunting must be structural redefinition of the entire piece's form. it's why haunting of hill house begins and ends with the same line. it's why cassandra tells the audience of the oresteia exactly what is going to happen. they are defined by their endings- something that not all deaths lead to

[anachronistic-cat]

I think everyone needs to be at least a little obsessed with some old piece of literature that nobody else around you cares about. It's good for you.

[saysthenightingale]

if i ever start talking about making warhammer ocs. start hitting me and snap me out of it because that is when you know i am too far gone . I can’t be allowed to do this

[totopopopo]

girl i don’t know how to tell you this but the prince of egypt isn’t contemporary zionist propaganda it is a retelling of the first half of the book of exodus. which is. sorry to tell you this. SO MUCH FUCKING OLDER than zionism.

[forkborb]

Hori made Deku so out of character as a reference to Kishimoto’s out of character forced weddings between Naruto & Hinata and Sasuke didn’t even wanna show up

Why do all shonens want a final “and they held hands and had babies potentially” moment. Let the story end where is ends and allow the readers to think about it for eternity.

Horikoshi made us fall for Katsuki Bakugou and I love this character as I see so many common traits with him. Something tells me this was a “fuck you” “fuck you I don’t wanna draw more” moment so he bent under the template for shonens and said “ha you want that? Now everyone hates this show”

💀💀💀

[thirdity]

What all the culture critics who descend from Hegel and Marx have been unwilling to admit is the notion of art as autonomous (not merely historically interpretable) form. And since the peculiar spirit which animates the modern movements in the arts is based on, precisely, the rediscovery of the power (including the emotional power) of the formal properties of art, these critics are poorly situated to come to sympathetic terms with modern works of art, except through their “content.” Even form is viewed by the historicist critics as a kind of content.

Susan Sontag, "The Literary Criticism of Georg Lukács"

[cpcposting]

Probably one of my fave things about CPC is the fact that Gwen genuinely isn’t conventionally attractive, she’s not just some girl who *gasp* wears glasses and has her hair in a ponytail or something X_X The amount of ”””ugly””” characters I’ve that seen that fall into that trope bruhhh. But as the comic goes on, like Frederick, you get used to her appearance and come to appreciate her as truly beautiful bc of who she is <3 

[spending-life-pretending]

*banging at the doors of graduate schools* let me innn…let me innnnnnnnnn don’t you want to hear what I have to say about how the decision to make dogberry and verges sherlock stans is one of the best adaptational choices in all of media history probably

[firestorm09890]

Hell Screen

narrator: Yoshihide was an artist that everyone hated and who was an awful person, but his daughter was kind and sweet and everyone loved her so we all kinda tolerated her dad

Yoshihide: I would do anything for my daughter, Yuzuki. I can't paint something unless I've seen it with my eyes.

Yuzuki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_piety

Lord Horikawa: You've painted some nice art for me. I'll do literally any favor for you now.

Yoshihide: Can you release my daughter from your service

Lord Horikawa: no. fuck you

narrator: he wasn't in love with her or anything, he just felt bad that Yoshihide was her only family.

Lord Horikawa: Also I'm commissioning a massive scene of the Buddhist Hell, artist who can't paint something without having seen it

Yoshihide: ok

[various agonies of Yoshihide's apprentices]

[psychological agonies of Yoshihide also]

Yuzuki: [is seen growing unhappier and more stressed as the days go by]

narrator: people are saying Lord Horikawa's forcing himself upon her. this is false because he is too cool. this is Yoshihide's fault

[incident in which the narrator encounters Yuzuki fleeing from what was clearly assault]

narrator: yeah

Yoshihide: I'm almost done with the painting. I just need to see a maiden burn in a carriage so I can paint it

Lord Horikawa: okay [puts Yuzuki in a carriage and burns it]

narrator: stop saying it's because she didn't reciprocate his love it was clearly to punish Yoshihide for being so fucked up. I know this is true because Lord Horikawa said so

-- End --

[vaguely-concerned]

just going about my day idly contemplating how some of the ways hawke can interact with a romanced anders are not at all unlike how they interact with leandra (and a bit of carver too, especially with a purple hawke), and then thought about my hawke in the timeline where he romances anders and was hit straight in the face with 'was he ever actually in love, or was he just desperately trying to renegotiate with his mother's ghost in any way he could' and now i need to lie down. this is the power of dragon age 2

[plutonium-humanitatis-studia]

Okay so you know the part of the book when the Creature is brought to life?

How his eyes, his horrible eyes, are described by Victor as yellow?

You know how Victor then leaves it, goes to his bedchambers and paces until sleep befalls him?

Victor has a nightmare about the death of Elizabeth and then wakes to the dim, yellow light of the moon?

How then he finds the creature above him?

Looking at Victor, the only other living creature he knows? His creator? His father, just like Victor previously had proudly proclaimed he would become?

I’m sure we all know how light tends to be representative of hope, do we not?

And how fitting is it not then that the creature’s eyes are yellow, the same as the dim light the moon?

Could you not say that the dim, yellow light of the moon is a representation of the dimming hope in the creature’s yellow eyes?

The dimming hope that his creator might actually help him? Might guide him? Might do more than simply bring him to life?

I know Victor calls those watery eyes horrible, but what I would give to look into them and tell them how beautiful they really are.

[felixravinstills]

fun(?) fact: the first time (like 3-4 years ago) I really got cannibalism was when I read a short fanfiction about a man cannibalizing his stillborn son... I understood then... the potential...

(previous to this, I also shadowed a fandom with a subsection of people that thought cannibalism was really boring, so weirdly, I think I went on the opposite journey that most people have with the topic... I was afraid I was going to get called shallow and boring for when I first was like hey! cannibalism is kinda fun to explore!)

[mswyrr]

This quote is (sadly) often relevant in fandom rn:

"Romance reading, Radway opines, “gives the reader a strategy for making her present situation more comfortable without substantive reordering of its structure rather than a comprehensive program for reorganizing her life in such a way that all needs might be met” (215, emphasis added). This statement rests on the assumption that literature can provide a “comprehensive program for reorganizing” the life of the reader. To take this assumption literally, we must imagine a novel providing, through its form or through its content, a “program” for reorganizing readers’ lives. Has any book ever done this? Certain novels of ideas come to mind as possible candidates. Uncle Tom’s Cabin contributed mightily to the abolition of slavery. 1984 remains a strong argument against totalitarianism. Certain books with charismatic protagonists inspire readers to pursue certain professions. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird has sent some of its readers to law school. James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small has undoubtedly inspired some of its readers to become veterinarians. Any number of books motivate readers to become teachers. But none of these books can be said to lay out a comprehensive program. Radway’s criticism of the romance novel is a criticism of its form: the ending is the culprit. Can the form of a novel accomplish, or, as Radway claims, thwart, a “comprehensive program for reorganizing” the reader’s life? Of course not. Literary forms do not have this power. Readers are free to ignore, skip, stop, disbelieve, dislike, reject, and otherwise read quite independently of the form. Readers of a given genre often read with another genre in mind. Female readers have done this for generations."

--Regis, Pamela. A Natural History of the Romance Novel (pp. 12-13). University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.. Kindle Edition.