#william faulker

[hiyapandanurse]

Absalom Absalom is the homestuck of 20th century literature

[barnbridges]

suicidals, the Boston Great Bridge and dead men, The Secret History // The Sound and the Fury

[mooncustafer]

Not a bizarre-celebrity-death story, but the thing that convinced my spouse to get an iPad years ago was being at a party where somebody with an internet connection to hand was able to shut down the guy who kept insisting against all argument that John Steinbeck wrote the script for The Big Chill (1983)

Anecdotally, one of the big differences between pre-Internet and post-Internet popular culture is a sharp reduction in misinformation about bizarre celebrity deaths.

Back when the Internet wasn't a thing and most people had very limited access to current information about anything that wasn't covered on the evening news, basically any time a notable celebrity dropped out of public view or a year or two, rumours would start circulating that they'd died in a bizarre accident – and sometimes, those rumours became accepted common knowledge, at least until the celebrity in question made their way back into the news cycle.

(There were weirdly specific recurring themes, too: I can think of like three otherwise-unconnected celebrities who "everybody knew" had died while attempting to jump a motorcycle over the Grand Canyon!)

One of the big consequences of Internet access going mainstream is huge numbers of people suddenly becoming aware that a bunch of celebrities they'd been led to believe had been killed in unlikely ways were in fact alive and well. For all that the Internet facilitates the spread of misinformation, it killed this one very particular type of popular misinformation stone dead.

[tickletastic]

Omg other Duke fans!! the favorite child is my baby!! In my head hes ticklish but he so nice and gentle with his sibs when tickling them that they only tickle him when he actually wants to be tickled.

yes yes yes omg, he's absolutely so soft with them, except for the few times he feels extra playful (usually with tim or jason)

i think he probably falls lee to dick and jason a lot, dick because of his whole older brother act, and jason because jason secretly really really loves duke but absolutely doesn't know how to show it. eventually tim probably clues duke in on the fact that messing with people is how jason shows affection, and duke just lets jason mess with him every time after.

i also think duke and jason would bond over books and literature. while jason's books of choice lean towards regency/edwardian english literature, i think duke would love love love modernist american literature, and he'd also sometimes dip his toes into post-modernist american lit. I think duke loves ralph ellison, william faulker, eudora welty, and tennessee williams, and him and jason absolutely both bond over having niche guilty pleasures for kafka

[skinnywristz]

william faulker’s grave

[addictedtostorytelling]

thanks for the tag, @valueloyalty!

(also, thank you for your very kind words about my fic in the replies, too! i'm so glad you enjoy my stories. ❤)

last song: started with "16 carriages" by beyoncé and by the time i finished writing this up i was on "long wave" by dessa

favorite color: either pink or a deep teal

currently watching: renegade nell and abbott elementary

sweet/savory/spicy food: spicy

relationship status: single (and happy about it because aroace)

current obsession: watching documentaries about the bone wars. childhood paleontology interest reactivate! also reading every american regional gothic story and theory book i can get my hands on 'cause i'm teaching a course on it fall semester.

last thing i googled: "barefoot prehistoric runner faster than olympic sprinter australia"

currently reading: as i lay dying by william faulker 'cause that's what i'm teaching in my lit class right now, plus that old ace in the hole by annie proulx and never whistle at night: an indigenous dark fiction anthology edited by shane hawk and theodore c. van alst jr. for funsies (and the aforementioned regional gothic course prep)

—aaaaaaaaaand my blog is where ask games go to die, so if anyone has a hankering to play, just consider yourself tagged and @ me, okay? please and thank you!

[j1gsawz]

FINALLY FINISHED SOME MORE!! enjoy :)

shotgunshipping:

rustynailshipping:

piranhashipping:

shamelessly promoting my saw playlists <3

chainshipping:

coffinshipping:

3Dshipping:

mark hoffman:

amanda young:

works in progress i may or may not finish: adam stanheight, lawrence gordon, scott tibbs, rustynailshipping, piranhashipping, shotgunshipping, spiralshipping, tappsing, & a general sawcore playlist :P

[hornyforpoetry]

Summer Reading Challange

Hello, Tumblr followers, casual watchers, first-timers, and anonymous visitors. I created this blog to share my passions with other academics. As a workaholic master's student, Tumblr is my little oasis of peace.

  Since summer vacation just started and I, due to school and work, haven't been able to read as much as I would have liked, I decided to start a summer reading challenge, from July 1 to September 30. The goal is to read as many books as I can. I will occasionally post reviews of the books I will read.

  If you want, you can leave recommendations, leave your own opinions or share your own summer challenge and progress. The first version of my list includes 30 titles, I will add more later if something seems interesting to me.

Summer Reading Challenge List:

The Goldfinch // Donna Tartt

The Master and Margarita // Mikhail Bulgakov

Dead Souls // Nikolai Gogol

The Red Room // August Strindberg

The Gothic Rooms // August Strindberg

War and Peace // Lev Tolstoi

The Demons // Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Sound and The Fury // William Faulker

The Trilogy of New York // Paul Auster

Too Loud a Solitude // Bohumil Hrabal

Lullaby // Chuck Palahniuk

1984 // George Orwell

The Winter of Our Discontent // John Steinbeck

The Human Body // Paolo Giordano

Maybe Tomorrow I Will Stay // Lorenzo Marone

Travels in the Americas // Albert Camus

Exile and the Kingdom // Albert Camus

Lotte in Weimar // Thomas Mann

Death in Venice // Thomas Mann

The Flowers of Buffoonery // Osamu Dazai

Lord of the Flies // William Golding

A Clockwork Orange // Anthony Burgess

Spring Snow // Yukio Mishima

Runway Horses // Yukio Mishima

The Temple of Down // Yukio Mishima

The Decay of the Angel // Yukio Mishima

The Metamorphosis and other stories // Franz Kafka

Towards Beauty // David Foenkinos

Oriental Tales // Marguerite Yourcenar

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina // Andreï Makine

[wrongpublishing]

BOOK REVIEW: Cosmic Horror Monthly's Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction 

by Elizabeth Broadbent, Staff Writer.

I stan Bertha. 

You will too once you read Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction (Cosmic Horror Monthly). Rage-made art, editor Joolie Toomajan’s anthology howls into the dark night of oppression; its fury-crafted stories push back against the true horrors of our marginalization. Come for the politics—all proceeds go to fund abortion rights in America—but stay for some of the year’s best stories, which shine against the tarnish of injustice.

There’s spec fic here for everyone: literary retellings, a redone fairy tale, sci-fi, fantasy, surrealism, ghost stories, serial killers. Fury seethes through them: fury at abandonment, fury at erasure, but (justly) often fury at objectification. We are baby-carriers, walking wombs. Our sexuality is villainous. We endanger the patriarchy by refusing to die, a la Mrs. Rochester in Laura Blackwell’s “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word.” 

I finished the first two stories in this anthology (Jennifer Lee Fleck’s brutal “The Girls of Channel 9” and Joe Koch’s “By Their Bones You Shall Know Them”, which reminded me of Brian Bilston’s “America is a Gun”) and had to walk away. “This is one of the best anthologies I’ve read all year,” I told my husband as I took a breather. “I’ve only read two of them and holy shit, this is good stuff.”

You knew, of course, that Haley Piper’s would be a standout. You didn’t know how much of a standout. I might’ve cried while reading “The Girls with Claws that Catch”—bonus points if you can ID the reference. William Faulker wished he’d written Moby Dick; I’d’ve given a lesser toe to pen this one. 

I might’ve cried while reading a lot of these. 

Remember the tears you shed when you heard about Roe? Here they all, wrapped up into speculative fic. 

I could wade through every story and rave about its uniqueness, its bravery, its place in the Golden Age of Indie Horror (then thank the God of Horror Writers—nomination for Black Tezcatlipoca, Aztec god of nighttime and darkness—that I’m lucky enough to review right now). I’ll spare you, expect to say that someone other than Joolie Toomajan’s winning a Stoker for this, and I’m not sure who.

Special shoutout Laura Cranehill: Nectarine, Apple, Pear is her first published short story—and she wrote it in the midst of parenting three small kids. Laura, we best see more of your work soon. 

Buy Aseptic now; don���t wait for StokerCon. Like Ai Jiang’s Lingham, this book’s gonna sell out. 

Watch the launch party hosted by P. L. McMillan and Chelsea Pumpkins—you deserve these stellar readings in your life.

Cosmic Horror Monthly Twitter: @ CosmicHorrorMo Instagram: @ cosmic.horror.monthly

[c0ffinrehearsal]

hmmmm a snow day this week? a love of waffle house? are you a fellow southern american also?

you and william faulkner’s works both living in my head rent free for a good reason???

lmao YES, born & raised in swva, now i live in east tennessee. love 2 find someone else in my part of the world <33

also i am a terrible southerner bc i’ve actually never read anything by faulker but i feel honored to share your brain space with him

[claude-hoenet-the-morningstar]

“The saddest thing about love…is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”

- William Faulker

I think this has been something that I have been struggling with. It’s no longer just your absence. It’s mourning the loss of the heartbreak. A two-in-one. I get to grieve you, then grieve the heartbreak as it slowly fades into nothingness. One day it will all come piling back in one fell swoop. Like a tower crashing again. I’ll be at a stop light. And a certain smell, sight, sound, phrase. Will trigger the avalanche. And I will weep.

But today I just passively resign. Bleed slowly.

[spamlets-blog]

wrote some lesbians in the style of william faulker for an english final and now i need to draw them

[mightyflamethrower]

At the Time, Biden's Actions Post-Drone Attack Left This Fox News Host Aghast

President Joe Biden is taking his sweet time responding to the brazen drone attack launched by Iran-backed militias against American forces in Jordan on January 27. The attack on a US base left three Americans dead and another 25 wounded. Katie wrote about it over the weekend. The Biden White House released a statement following the attack. It took days to contact the families of the fallen—a detail that shocked Fox News host Harris Faulkner (via Daily Caller):

A one-way attack drone crashed into the Jordanian base Saturday night and killed three service members and injured 25 others. Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq carried out the attack, sparking a major escalation in the Middle East, according to The White House.  Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich said Biden has yet to contact the families of Sgt. William Rivers, Specialist Kennedy Sanders and Specialist Breonna Moffett.  “Also, Harris, watching for news that the president has contacted the families of these fallen soldiers or that he plans to attend their dignified transfer at Dover. Neither of those questions [did] the White House have any answers on yesterday,” Heinrich told Faulker Tuesday.  “It’s been three days,” Faulkner said.  “Yeah,” Heinrich replied.  “That’s a lot,” Faulkner replied. “Well, we’ll thank them. We’ll thank those families and those patriots we’ve lost and all those men and women in harm’s way in the Middle East. We’ll say thank you and tell them that we love them.” 

Now, Biden did speak with the families on Tuesday. Still, that development was muddied by this administration’s waffled response to the attack, where pussyfooting is going to get more Americans killed 

President Joe Biden on Tuesday indicated he had decided how to respond after the killing of three American service members Sunday in a drone attack in Jordan that his administration has pinned on Iran-backed militia groups, saying he does not want to expand the war in the Middle East but demurring on specifics. 

[…] 

"The attacks on U.S. forces by Iraqi militias over the past four months have placed the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in an awkward position. Sudani was brought to power by Iranian-allied factions but has also attempted to stay in Washington’s good graces and has condemned the attacks on U.S. forces serving in Iraq as part of an international commission to fight the Islamic State. Iraqi and U.S. officials on Saturday opened talks aimed at winding down the commission’s presence.  Kirby said that Biden spoke with the soldiers’ families Tuesday morning and extended his condolences, pledging full assistance to the families as they grieve.  In separate calls with the families, Biden also gauged their feelings about his attendance at Friday’s dignified transfer of the fallen service members’ remains at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday, and “all of them supported his presence there,” Kirby said. 

Okay, but then what the hell is this, Mr. Biden: 

This White House is unserious, with a dementia-ridden president and a cabinet that is fraught with incompetence. No wonder why people are dying under Biden’s leadership. We’ve been adrift for months, at home and abroad, and it was only a matter of time before we crashed into the reef.

[thekeyofreason]

Found in "Springboard to Tokyo" by Canfield Cook. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1943.

Brown silk bookmark. Found in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. Published by Altemus, no copyright page, ca. 1890.

Found in "Light In August" by William Faulker. Published by Penguin, 1960.

Found in "Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation" by Joel Chandler Harris. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1905.

Found in "Oakwood and Its Lessons; or What We Can Do." Published by the Congregational Publishing Society, 1872. No author listed.

Found in "Our Traveling Party in England and Scotland" by Daniel Eddy. Published by Lothrop, 1882.

Bookmark preaching the benefits of the hamster as a pet. Found in "Dugout Jinx" by Clair Bee. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1952.

Found in "Catastrophe Theory" by Alexander Woodcock and Monte Davis. Published by Dutton, 1978.

Found in "Hopper" by Rolf G. Renner. Published by Taschen, 2000.

Found in "Birth of Berea College" by John A. R. Rogers. Published by Berea College Press, 1933.

Found in "The Christians' Inheritance" by Samuel Clarke. Published by Evert Duyckinck, 1823.

Forgotten Bookmarks found in books (x)

[dangerouslyuncaffeinated]

A Rose for Emily by William Faulker

i've always hated this image because it implies i would try to sleep as far away from the corpse as possible. i would not fucking do that. i would tuck them in and get right in beside them. shame on you.

[ya-no-la-quiero]

William Faulker