#literature as metaphor

[justaravingwritingdesk]

orv sidestories hitting real hard with the lit metaphors, callbacks and reveals...

like that one line about extras being extras because their stories are unwritten... how they do their roles as extras best in the blanks between the ink... how they stop being “true” extras when their story comes to light... how characters who get even a little of od!kdj's attention get elevated to side character...

when the realization that ysa and lgy and jhw were never actually extras but hidden characters finally hits... that maybe he crossed paths with all of them because they were all-important to the story... that their meetings could possibly be coincidences turned to fate...

and the hidden stories of 41 regressions of yjh who never met disaster of floods... the instrumentally hidden stories that mirror world of zero in many ways... with an incomplete kim dokja pulling strings in the background... even “small fry” cheon inho's previously unexplored potential for ultimate antagonism...

that only 51% of kdj is oldest dream... that od!kdj is a kdj who acknowledges himself... that 49!kdj doesn't want to be kdj but plays along anyway... the metaphorical and literal denial of self... 51!kdj's theme of fictional reality... 49!kdj's theme of lies and impersonation... 49!kdj's ultimate abstract denial by considering “kdj” a mask of identity... the twisted contrast to 51!kdj thinking himself the “real” or “better” kdj...

[bebx]

"dog as a symbol or metaphor is overrated and boring" WRONG.

I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies (thank you hozier)

devoted as a dog

hunted down like a dog with rabies

how a dog loves

I can be a good dog. I can be good

like a good good dog

I want to be your dog

bad dog gets punished

loyal like a dog

a wounded dog will bite anything

I'm not a violent dog. I don't know why I bite

a dog’s trust

chained up like a dog

I could go on and on. like I’m sorry you can’t see the beauty of using dog as a symbol/metaphor. sorry you can only see shallowness in the depth of rawness. anyway MORE DOG AS A SYMBOL AND MORE DOG AS A METAPHOR

[nothingbizzare]

I can't find my way out

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

A Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)

[deviaflumenmaga]

is somebody gonna match my freak

[chillandnormalrambles]

i’m still not sober but here’s some sketches of the famous last words music video

[macaulaytwins]

[kimdokjas]

on looking back & repetition as metaphors for grief

1. a grief observed - c.s. lewis // 2. spirited away - dir. hayao miyazaki // 3. orpheus tries to hold on to eurydice (c. 1791) - françois gérard // 4. omniscient reader's viewpoint - singshong // 5. gilgamesh a verse narrative - tr. herbert mason // 6. omniscient reader's viewpoint - singshong // 7. on the other side of grief with ocean vuong - aaron schwartz // 8. time travel told in five parts - judas h. // 9. omniscient reader's viewpoint - blackbox art // 10. housewife, the vanishing princess - jenny diski // 11. poem in pieces, a log; a history of too much - adrianne kalfopoulou // 12. the butterfly's burden; cadence chooses me - mahmoud darwish // 13. metamorphoses - ovid

image ids under the cut:

1. A quote by C.S. Lewis. I look up at the night sky. Is there anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?

2. Dialogue from the Spirited Away screenplay. Haku says: But I can't go any farther. Just go back the way you came, you'll be fine. But you have to promise not to look back, not until you've passed through the tunnel.

3. A painting by François Gérard. Orpheus tries to hold on to Eurydice as she lies prone in his arms. Orpheus has a desperate expression on his face.

4. An extract from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. A tale of this new world continued to flow on. But then, just as the subway's doors closed, Han Sooyoung looked behind her with a slightly unsure, hard-to-read face of someone that left something behind. Even Yoo Joonghyuk looked back, too. The only person who didn't was Kim Dokja.

5. An extract from The Epic of Gilgamesh. If you are Gilgamesh and did those things, why / Are you so emaciated and your face half-crazed? / I have grieved! Is it so impossible / To believe? he pleaded. / My friend who went through everything with me / Is dead! / No one grieves that much, she said. / Your friend is gone. Forget him. / No one remembers him. He is dead. / Enkidu. Enkidu. Gilgamesh called out: / Help me. They do not know you / As I know you.

6. An extract from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. None of them could understand. They couldn't understand that there was someone in this world who could never live in the present.

7. A quote by Aaron Schwartz. In a way, grief is a marker of time. There was this and then there wasn't this, but you're still here,

8. A stanza by Judas H. so in the dream you find a way to go back / back to the days of sunshine on her not-yet grey hair / back to the hummingbird that came / when she called / back to when she still had a voice / to call them at all / time travel and grief are really not so different / it is all about looking back

9. Official art of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint by Blackbox. Yoo Joonghyuk and Han Sooyung turn to look back at the viewer. Kim Dokja in the background walks ahead without looking back.

10. A quote by Jenny Diski: People don't understand about repetition, do they? How it is at the heart (thump, thump, thump) of obsession; at the erotic centre (drip, drip drip) of desire. You do, of course. Repetition is insatiability spelt sideways.

11. A quote by Adrianne Kalfopoulou. Grief will keep you reaching back / for what is not there

12. Poetry by Mahmoud Darwish. I am still here / but you won't return as you were when I left you / you won't return, and I won't return

13. A quote from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

[parlapina]

[bonefall]

This AU is basically the Dungeon Meshi of Warrior Cats. This is a high compliment.

It's so funny, I get that a lot and I totally see it + appreciate it, but BB actually predates me being a fan of Dungeon Meshi! I've been getting that compliment since even before the anime dropped.

It makes perfect sense though. Dungeon Meshi uses food as a metaphor for communication across individuals, class, and most relevantly culture. It's something that brings people together, even when that's being addressed as a sinister thing when.......

Ah. No spoilers. You should go and read the manga to find out what I'm teasing ;)

I do something with a lot of overlap in BB. Food is an extension of the culture of the five Clans. I use it to characterize individuals too and as a metaphor for things at times (like Darkstripe's growth or cultural friction in Heartstar's Rise), but most of all, I try to emphasize the food as the product of the society that makes it. The biome, the diet, the behaviors of its chefs... so Dungeon Meshi and BB are naturally going to draw some interesting similarities.

Plus, Dungeon Meshi's a good ass series man, it's downright awe-inspiring. I hope I can make a narrative as satisfying as Ryoko Kui can, lmao. I love how much that girlie loves food

[queeringclassiclit]

Victor Frankenstein & Henry Clerval

from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Metaphorical Frames

Metaphorical frames - conceptual structures representing particular areas of knowledge and experience. An example:

The FIRE frame

Entails frames: natural phenomenon, heat, light

Elaborated in frames (chiefly for UK citizens): Great Fire of London

Metaphorical frame relations: anger, desire, conflict

Core frame elements (with examples):

cause (spark),

initiation (ignite, light, break out, erupt),

endurance (burn, rage),

substance (engulf, consume),

transmission (spread),

sustenance (fuel, fan the flames, inflame),

cessation (extinguish, put out, burn out)

Non-core frame elements:

time, place, manner (intensely, violently, rapidly),

instrument/means (petrol bomb, fire-hose),

materials (wood)

Associated scripts/scenarios: Emergency, Danger, Warmth, Safety

One analysis of metaphorical frames distinguishes:

Core elements - essential to the meaning of a frame, and

Non-core elements - not unique to a frame but may be a salient feature of it.

The convention has developed to identify frames and elements in small capitals.

C. Hart, 2018 ⚜ Source ⚜ Word Lists ⚜ Notes & References

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

I AM NOW THE PROUD OWNER OF A 400-PAGE LONG BOOK OF ACADEMIC ANALYSIS ABOUT MDZS (both the novel and CQL, as well as the wider danmei sphere, internet authorship, fan reactions in both CN and non-CN spheres, and so many more interesting things – there are photos of the contents list below) >:DDDD

I only got it this afternoon so have only read the (quite long?) excerpt available online and pages I came across while flipping through, but everything I've read so far is really interesting and well-written. If you're interested, it's promoted on the blog of @pumpkinpaix, where there are also chapter spotlights with comments from authors of each paper/chapter about them and about MDZS in general (which is how I found out about it, one came up in tumblr's 'based on this tag you follow...' recommendation), as well as FAQs (including where to buy it, though I did link that at the start). Alternatively, all posts about it are in the tag #catching chen qing ling!

I really recommend it, especially if content about MDZS interests you! and I promise I haven't been told to advertise this it's just something so so cool... a collection of academic work about MY FAVOURITE BOOK... and I know people do follow me for meta/analysis so this might be the sort of thing people looking at this blog will be interested in..?

[devilhoney]

to love like a dog.

faithful to the last, briton riviere // moon song, phoebe bridgers // laika, sarah doyle // hannibal // unknown // i'm your man, mitski // el perro, francisco goya // isle of dogs // cop car, mitski // i bet on losing dogs, mitski // bite the hand, boygenius // dante and virgil, william alphonse - bouguereau // i'd hate me too, susannah joffe // dog days, ethel cain

[metamorphesque]

food as a metaphor for existence, food as a love language, food as just food (poetry recommendations)

September Tomatoes by Karina Borowicz

Ode to Tomatoes by Pablo Neruda

I Ask My Grandmother If We Can Make Lahmajoun by Gregory Djanikian

Here, There Are Blueberries by Mary Szybist

The Orange by Wendy Cope

Oranges by Gary Soto

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

Persimmons by Li-Young Lee

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

Self-Portrait as So Much Potential by Chen Chen

Chasing Utopia by Nikki Giovanni

In the Kitchen by Chen Jun

Food by Brenda Hillman

Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I love you. I want us both to eat well by Christopher Citro

Baked Goods by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Bread by W. S. Merwin

buy me a coffee

[soulsunpoets]

(I've never known a love so tempest like)