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hi can you recommend some healing books? fiction or non fiction. i dont want anything triggering but something a little more light hearted. thank you
hello! i think with any healing books there may be some triggering content, of course with the main focus on overcoming & then healing. not so much triggers but “______ was traumatic but this is what i’m going to do to make it better.” i’ve chosen ones that don’t go into a lot of detail & i’ll place warnings on what you might come across in the book in case you want to completely avoid. i haven’t read specific healing books, more the types that allude to it, so mainly fiction.
‘Waiting,’ by Marya Hornbacher (alcoholism/addiction, depression)
‘The Year of Magical Thinking,’ by Joan Didion (death)
‘Devotions: The Selected Poems,’ by Mary Oliver
‘The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers,’ by Alice Walker
‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost,’ by Rebecca Solnit
‘Gravity & Grace,’ Simone Weil
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Film Noir Movies
People think that Film Noir is a reaction to World War II. Not true. Most of the great hard-boiled and noir pulp fiction came out during the 30’s, as a reaction to the great depression. Film noir didn’t become a big thing until after the war (post 1945), because the powers that be didn’t want to release pessimistic, down-ending films that would lower the country’s morale.
This could be a very loooong list. Hundreds of films in fact. So I am just going to list the films that I heard mentioned specifically in various film noir documentaries and books, as examples of great noir.
Film Noir Era 1945-1958
The Letter (1940)
The Stranger on The Third Floor (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Glass Key (1942)
This Gun For Hire (1942)
Shadow of A Doubt (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Laura (1944)
Murder My Sweet (1944)
Phantom Lady (1944)
Detour (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
Leave Her To Heaven (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Black Angel (1946)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
The Dark Corner (1946)
The Dark Mirror (1946)
Decoy (1946)
Gilda (1946)
The Killers (1946)
Notorious (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
Body and Soul (1947)
Born To Kill (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
Crossfire (1947)
Dark Passage (1947)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
Desperate (1947)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Lady In The Lake (1947)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Out of The Past (1947)
Ride The Pink Horse (1947)
T-Men (1947)
The Big Clock (1948)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Cry of The City (1948)
Force of Evil (1948)
He Walked By Night (1948)
Hollow Triumph (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
Pitfall (1948)
Raw Deal (1948)
The Street With No Name (1948)
They Live By Night (1948)
Act of Violence (1949)
Border Incident (1949)
Criss-Cross (1949)
Impact (1949)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
The Set-Up (1949)
Thieves’ Highway (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
White Heat (1949)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
D.O.A. (1950)
The File on Thelma Jordan (1950)
Gun Crazy (1950)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Night and The City (1950)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
Side Street (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Ace In The Hole (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
The Prowler (1951)
Strangers On A Train (1951)
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952)
Clash By Night (1952)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
Sudden Fear (1952)
Angel Face (1953)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Niagra (1953)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Crime Wave (1954)
Human Desire (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
The Big Combo (1955)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Night of The Hunter (1955)
The Killing (1956)
While The City Sleeps (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Neo-Noir Era 60’s-90’s
À bout de soufflé/ Breathless (1960)
Shoot The Piano Player (1960)
Underworld, U.S.A. (1961)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Harper (1966)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Body Heat (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blood Simple (1984)
To Live and Die In L.A. (1985)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
The Grifters (1990)
King of New York (1990)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
New Jack City (1991)
The Silence of The Lambs (1991)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
True Romance (1993)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Devil In A New Dress (1995)
Heat (1995)
Se7en (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Fargo (1996)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Payback (1999)
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“Do you realise I would have gone through life half-awake if you’d have the decency to leave me alone?”
Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory
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Some words to use when writing things:
winking
clenching
pulsing
fluttering
contracting
twitching
sucking
quivering
pulsating
throbbing
beating
thumping
thudding
pounding
humming
palpitate
vibrate
grinding
crushing
hammering
lashing
knocking
driving
thrusting
pushing
force
injecting
filling
dilate
stretching
lingering
expanding
bouncing
reaming
elongate
enlarge
unfolding
yielding
sternly
firmly
tightly
harshly
thoroughly
consistently
precision
accuracy
carefully
demanding
strictly
restriction
meticulously
scrupulously
rigorously
rim
edge
lip
circle
band
encircling
enclosing
surrounding
piercing
curl
lock
twist
coil
spiral
whorl
dip
wet
soak
madly
wildly
noisily
rowdily
rambunctiously
decadent
degenerate
immoral
indulgent
accept
take
invite
nook
indentation
niche
depression
indent
depress
delay
tossing
writhing
flailing
squirming
rolling
wriggling
wiggling
thrashing
struggling
grappling
striving
straining
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“Modernity, for Heidegger, is simply the time of realized nihilism, the age in which the will to power has become the ground of all our values; as a consequence it is all but impossible for humanity to dwell in the world as anything other than its master. As a cultural reality it is the perilous situation of a people that has thoroughly—one might even say systematically—forgotten the mystery of being, or forgotten (as Heidegger would have it) the mystery of the difference between beings and being as such. Nihilism is a way of seeing the world that acknowledges no truth other than what the human intellect can impose on things, according to an excruciatingly limited calculus of utility, or of the barest mechanical laws of cause and effect. It is a “rationality” of the narrowest kind, so obsessed with what things are and how they might be used that it is no longer seized by wonder when it stands in the light of the dazzling truth that things are. It is a rationality that no longer knows how to hesitate before this greater mystery, or even to see that it is there, and thus is a rationality that cannot truly think.”
— A Philosopher in the Twilight: Heidegger’s philosophy as a meditation on the mystery of being by David Bentley Hart
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writer aesthetics
john keats: the lavender in sunsets, flowers in the rain, sunlight slipping through clouds, lazy summer afternoons, the heavy scent of musk, flickering candlelight reflecting off the gold titles of books, fireflies on a cool summer night, being wrapped in fresh bedsheets, the ache of wanting what you can never have, dripping sunlight like gold, loving someone so exquisite, soft lips and soft whispers, fingers through hair, names of lovers carved in trees, broken glass, the insistence of being perpetually dreamy
f. scott fitzgerald: mahogany wood, crisp winter skies with cold bright stars, the solitude of an early autumn morning wrapped in fog, empty bottles on stacks and stacks of books haphazardly placed in a messy room, pale bruised arms reaching out into the darkness, cigarette smoke just barely hiding the scent of alcohol, a wall of books all poetry and old and weathered, a bad thunderstorm occurring at the end of a beautiful day, the way tragedy strikes in your heart but ends up stopping your breathing for a moment, your favorite sweater, parties spilling into four a.m. with the stars above spinning and dancing, the contrast of blood against snow, a purple split lip oozing blood, black eyes fading to blue to pale skin, the butterflies of falling in love for the first time, the statues falling apart over time in cemeteries, the romanticization of self-destruction
franz kafka: the weight of dread that sits heavily in your stomach when thinking about the future, decrepit houses cloaked in mystery from children telling stories of people who died there, the way not even light can escape a black hole, the rich smell of old books, delicate veins in the wrist, ghosts filling lungs, shattered bones, raindrops on the tongue, rusting metal, nostalgia that aches, the way hope feels like a plastic bag over your head
h.p. lovecraft: the anxiety felt when staring into an unknown cave, pouring rain and mud, a child’s fear of the dark, thinking so many questions about your existence as you stare at the vast expanse of never ending ocean, the silence of three a.m., danse macabre by camille saint-saens playing on a record in an empty house, the possibility of aliens and the weird feeling it gives you that you can’t explain, unexplainable phenomena, strange lights in the sky in the dead of night, ouija boards and urban legends
jack kerouac: the brisk pine air of being on a mountain, travels without a destination, those nights where you’re missing three hours of memory, screaming to a lifeless desert about how you’re so alive, coffee shops late at night, car rides at night spent speeding and laughing in the dark, naps spent in the sun, novels highlighted and underlined with notes and epiphanies in the margins, the way uncertainty sits on the shoulders, ignoring flaws and loving life, wind through hair, depression as fog in the brain, impossible ideals, a quiet sunrise, walks alone, when you think about trying to discover all the secrets to the universe, dazzling people, open lands stretching out into infinity, falling in love with being alive
edgar allan poe: the ocean’s horizon inseparable from fog, hollow bones, a preserved heart held in hands, twinkling stars above an old graveyard, the way everything turns to dust, silent black birds with eyes full of wisdom, self-inflicted flames, perfection depicted as a rotting corpse, death as bricks in the heart, lips barely brushing against each other, glassy glazed eyes, biting into a lemon, heart-shaped bruises, rotting flowers on a grave, dried blood and spilled liquor, the hush of dusk when it begins raining, the intimacy of a secret
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Can you suggest a basic reading list for a person who trying to fit into the dark academia aesthetic. Obviously it won't be considered set in stone, but I'd love to hear your suggestions .x
The Basic Eight, Daniel Handler
The Groves of Academe, Mary McCarthy
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Miss Timmins’ School for Girls, Nayana Currimbhoy
The Rehearsal, Eleanor Catton
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
Maurice, E.M. Forster
If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio
The Lake of Dead Languages, Carol Goodman
Sleepwalking, Meg Wolitzer
The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket
The Lessons, Naomi Alderman
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Pictures from an Institution, Randall Jarrell
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay
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Basic movie list for dark academia?
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Lost and Delirious (2001)
Novitiate (2017)
Maurice (1987)
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
The Great Debaters (2007)
A Separate Peace (1972)
Black Swan (2010)
The History Boys (2006)
Raw (2016)
A Little Princess (1995)
Suspiria (2018)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
The Riot Club (2014)
Freedom Writers (2007)
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secret history
stained wine glasses; a broken teacup lying on the floor; wool mittens; is that red wine or blood?; butterfly knives; whispers under trees; an out of tune piano; melted candles; quills; bowl of milk on the windowsill; cherries; secrets almost told; books stacked on every surface; knowing looks across the room; multilingual conversations, kisses on stairwells
dead poets society
dog eared books; bandaids on scraped knees; red bicycles; white coffee mugs; number 2 pencils; untied shoelaces; bits of moss and leaves in your hair; (does he like me?); dollar store snacks; mist; confessions of love carved on a school desk; would you rather games in moonlight; crinkled paper; books laid open on the bed; hugs so tight they hurt; Shakespearean insults; platonic (or maybe not) touches
kill your darlings
cracked spines of paperbacks; wire rimmed glasses; broken windows; sweaters; elbow patches; polaroids locked in a box; overdue library books; bitten nails; avoiding eye contact; grass stains on suits; splinters; touches under moonlight; bruises; withdrawal; crackling of fires; late night coffee runs; sweaty palms while talking to the one you love
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homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay
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things awsten knight does not fuck w
street broccoli
minesweeper
no dogs allowed
geoff
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