#stephen kind

[cynicalrainbows]

Stephen King: The character of Wendy in The Shining struggles with her abusive relationship with her mother, with guilt after being blamed for her father’s death and with the shame of her mothers implication that there was something incestuous between them. Even the thought of living with her mother is traumatic for her. In addition, it’s stated that she’s had to live through three years of her husband being a chronic alcoholic.

Stephen King: But I’ve also written her as hot and blonde, so clearly she’s never actually experienced any real problems in her life.

[nytehavyn-circle]

So, you've already read The Dark Tower and I'm going to guess that Wizards and Glass is your favorite installment(?).

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*hides*

I haven't read The Dark Tower books yet...

I've only ever had glimpses into that world through some of his novels, one being one of my favorite books of Stephen King's, which was written with Peter Straub, is The Talisman.

I know they made a movie/TV miniseries of that book, which I heard was pretty good (for a TV miniseries) but I canNOT, for the life of me, find it ANYWHERE.

I will eventually get around to reading The Dark Tower series, though, I promise...

[yankeece]

"Le paure dell'infanzia sono dure a morire. Scrivere è un atto di autoipnosi e in quello stato scatta spesso una molla di particolareggiato ricordo emotivo e ricominciano ad aggirarsi e ansimare terrori che sarebbero dovuti essere morti e sepolti da un pezzo." — Stephen King, Quattro dopo mezzanotte (Una nota su "Il poliziotto della biblioteca")

[anotherunusualname]

Charlie And Meeks Best Moments 4K IMAX | Dead Poets Society |

A friendship built on vaudeville bits

[miaoqing]

Okay dilf!bingge won't leave my head so imagine:

Shen Yuan moves to a new town and starts teaching at the local school. It's nice and all but.... why do 80% of the kids have the same surname? In every year?

Eventually Shen Yuan has to do parent-teacher meetings and Luo Bingge just camps outside his office all day. (he brings a thermos and all) The mothers change for every kid but Luo Bingge just. sits. there. the. whole. day. (To be fair, he is actually a very attentive father, asking questions and scolding the kids when needed. How does he even keep track of them?!) Still, Shen Yuan thinks he's going crazy. Isn't anyone going to acknowledge this? How can the vast majority of the kids at school have the same father?! How is everyone just... okay with this?! What the fuck is going on in this town!!

Eventually one of the Luo kids calls him "mom", as kids sometimes do, and that makes ALL the Luo kids call him mom. The actual mothers are furious.

Luo Bingge does Not want to deal with that. But... they can't complain if Shen Yuan actually is their mom, right? Shen Yuan just has to marry him and officially become their stepmommy, and then everyone will get off his back. Great success!

So, time to romance Shen Yuan. How hard can it be?

[bathylychnops]

jett dropped his toast ifyou liked his boobs youll love his mental breakdowns

(IF YOU WANTTO SEE EVERYTHING MEAND MY WIFE HAVE POSTEDABOUT OUR OCS GO TO #murph an joanies supernormal OKAY ITS ALL IN THERE OKAY)

[birbwell]

dont get shot boy

[the-bobest-bob]

Okay who's gonna be my homoerotic best friend who's also j as sexy and hot as me and we go on adventures together and everyone ships us but it will never be canon cause we're both in a straight relationship with partners that we have little to no chemistry with that diminishes both partners character potential to just a sad hetero relationship to stop the gays

[horror-aesthete]

Christine, 1983, dir. John Carpenter

[sushiisiu]

one sided scollace but instead of wallace suffering its scott... i keep seeing one sided scollace where wallace always suffers and shit

LOL ive actually thought of this a lot before i lowkey love the idea that maybe wallaces perceived attraction is warped from scotts main character syndrome in a way where hes like "well he likes men so of course he wants me" and if he ever tries to go for it imagine a moment like the kim kiss in vol 6 where its like "havent you always been there for me? you liked me but i didnt realize i swung that way yet." and wallace has to be like "what. you thought I'd want you just because im gay?"

in something more adjacent to canon though i think a very likely scenario is that scott only realizes the extent of his feelings well after wallace moving on so theres really not much that can happen but it makes him wonder what could've been. I always found it interesting how much scott seems to dislike mobile for absolutely no reason LOL

[blog001sblog]

Richie doesn't forgive or stay friends with the others after they finally killed the clown.

He read somewhere, "You will never have any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve," and he knew it was true.

The people who pulled him away from Eddie and made him leave Eddie behind weren't the friends he knew back then, not the Bill who was Eddie's hero, not the Mike who gently carried Eddie when he was injured, not the Beverly who would affectionately ruffle Eddie's hair, and not the Ben who would give Eddie the softest hugs.

The friends Richie remembered wouldn't have been so indifferent about Eddie's death; they wouldn't have moved on so quickly.

The friends Richie remembered would have been devastated as he was; they would have cared.

The friends Richie remembered would have helped him carry Eddie out of there.

[airas-story]

I love you’re writing! For Ironstrange prompt… Stephen teasing Tony for being shorter then Stephen?

Stephen stared at Tony. There was something… off. “I could have sworn…” 

Tony looked up at him. “What?” 

Wait. Tony looked up. “Did you shrink?”

Tony’s nose wrinkled. “No.”

Stephen moved closer. It was strange, but Stephen had to look down to meet Tony’s eyes. “You shrank,” he said. “Tony… you’re short.”

Tony sighed. “This is why I wear lifts.”

“I’ve never seen you barefoot before?” How had he never seen Tony barefoot in the year they’d been dating? “You’re short,” he repeated, delighted. “Tony you’re adorable.”

Tony looked murderous.

Stephen would never be over this. His boyfriend was short.

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of october

alfred starr a dark dreambox of another kind: the poems of alfred starr: "didn't you ever search for another star?

stephen spender new collected poems: "auden's funeral"

marianne boruch keats is coughing

noa micaela fields zoeglossia: poem of the week, may 17, 2021: "echolalia"

kevin young diptych

richard siken real estate

crisosto apache kúghą/home

mikko harvey for m

nathan hoks nests in air: "the barbed wire nest"

john a. holmes noon waking

crisosto apache 37 common characterisi(x)s of a displaced indian with a learning disability

oliver de la paz requiem for the orchard: "at the time of my birth"

zhang xun jiangnan song (tr. bijaan noormohamed)

paul violi fracas: "extenuating circumstances"

tianru wang after "yellow crane tower"

lloyd schwartz cairo traffic: "nostalgia (the lake at night)"

kamiko han the narrow road to the interior: "the orient"

rigoberto gonzalez unpeopled eden: "unpeopled eden"

adelaide crapsey verse: "to the dead in the graveyard underneath my window"

chester kallman night music

alan shapiro covenant: "covenant"

tom clark light and shade: new and selected poems: "radio"

tc tolbert my melissa,

charlie smith in praise of regret

carolyn kizer cool, calm, and collected: poems 1960-2000: "fanny"

julie sheehan orient point: "hate poem"

arthur sze the redshifting web: poems 1970-1998: "streamers"

joumana altallal everything here...in the voice of tara fares

abid b al-abras last simile

w.s. merwin to lingering regrets

george scarbrough music

shout me a coffee

[verdigrispatina]

I've mostly experienced Discworld through the audiobooks but recently I've been buying print copies of my favorites to have for referencing and loaning to friends and WOW, there's a lot of textual and visual quirks that don't carry over to the audiobooks!

The biggest ones I think are when characters' accents are written into the text and Death's dialogue being in a gothic font, but I'm skimming through Soul Music right now and just shouted because I noticed that Imp's dialogue always has extra L's because he's from Llamedos. That's such a funny small touch, I love it

If anybody has any favorite visual gags/quirks in the Discworld books, or just jokes that may not work in an audio format, please share!

[quatregats]

Something I've been thinking about is how Patrick O'Brian manages so skillfully to write characters whose actions contradict their beliefs, which I think is honestly a big part of why his characters feel so real. Mostly with Stephen and Jack—e.g., and perhaps most notably, Stephen has notably leftist sympathies (honestly I have no idea how to characterize his politics in period terms) who nonetheless becomes very comfortable with his rise to the landed gentry, while Jack is a card-carrying Tory who much of the time sympathizes far more with working class sailors and farmers than with the upper classes—but I'm sure he does it to a lesser degree with some of his minor characters (James Dillon, while perhaps not precisely minor, comes to mind), and I love that he's able to do that, especially the way in which he embeds it in the narrative. We see how they're all unreliable narrators of themselves; we understand how they want to be seen and how that does and doesn't coincide with the reality, but most importantly, this isn't presented as something reprehensible, just as a part of their own humanity. They are not their expectations for themselves, but they don't need to be those expectations to be beloved.

[eusuchia]

at the formal event