#manga is literature!!

[someicingsugar]

natsuki! this is a redraw from 2018 :) i was really into ddlc at the time haha (alternate version below! (it's not gore, dw!!))

just natsuki! :D

[starplatinumnun]

manga where a teenage girl is isekaied into a dostoevsky novel as the grizzled 20+ year old male protagonist but she isn't phased whatsoever because her special interest was 19th century russian literature

[chipsy]

[ladyvictoriart]

The three wyrd sisters, powerful witches with second-sight, met the ill-fated MacBeth and prophesied his future ascension to the throne of Scotland.

[iohym]

judith, shakespeare's sister from a room of ones own by virginia woolf. Wolfie was right, but class is a bigger factor methinks.

anyways this ones for all the henry dargers and judith shakespeares of the world. No ones watching, but the show must go on. Just some ramblings from outside plato's cave.

recommended reading: a room of ones own (duh), I know why the caged bird sings, can the subaltern speak?, microhistory, outsider art, Octavia butler's wikipedia page

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[charlies-a-thief]

I suppose there's no better time to post this here than on Halloween 🎃 Goth Poe 🫶

[careysattheonsenagain]

Ritsuka Uenoyama completing his boyfriend's deceased  boyfriend's unfinished song as a gift to his love and to his love's childhood friends in a gesture of healing and of hope...

And then singing backup vocals for said song with the childhood friends for his love in the audience...

If I have to wait much longer to hear Umi e, I shall perish.

[skieystar]

I found this really cool post about the highest-rated book by a local author in every country, and can I just say.

I love how this is foreshadowing that a day will come where Bungou Stray Dogs and Mo Dao Zu Shi will be the acclaimed literature everyone is forced to read in highschool.

[lucidloving]

Han Kang, Human Acts (trans. Deborah Smith) // Virginia Woolf, diary entry c. 1931 // Olga Bergholz, "Conversation With a Neighbour" // 墨香铜臭, Heaven Official's Blessing // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer (edited by @tanchirou) // Haruki Murakami, IQ84 // Natalie Wee, "Never Been Kissed" // Euripides, Grief Lessons: Four Plays (trans. Anne Carson) // a.j., "weight"

[dostokatz]

⋆ ♱ RATS IN THE DEAD HOUSE AND THE DECAY OF THE ANGEL LITERARY REFERENCES ♱ ⋆

[daughterofchaosstuff]

~Avatar The Last Airbender (Book II: Earth)

[oceanwithouthermoon]

ive had several people tell me that my take on teruhashi is overdramatized but like. it genuinely isnt and i say that with my whole chest.

i KNOW that the girls in saiki k are written pretty stereotypically and yeah im 100% sure that asou didnt really mean to make his character a deep take on beauty standards and misogyny, but he was writing a parodied take on the perfect girl trope and focused a lot on how people objectify her and how shes never truly satisfied because shes always trying to fit what men want from her... so thats how it turned out. im not overdramatizing it, im just using more descriptive terms for it 🤷🏻‍♀️

[littlemut]

my year of rot and rumination

[m0thiarq]

yuri doodle again ⋆.˚

[ladyvictoriart]

"The Gom Jabbar test of humanity"

Based on Frank Herberts 'Dune'

[emy-hyy]

eu amo pitiquices ! ֹ ⑅᜔ ׄ ݊ ݂ ၄၃ ۪ ֹ ᮫