can i recommend a book the intoxicating mr lavelle by neil blackmore 👉👈 idk what to think of it like i dont know *my* opinion of it yet, but tbh i just want to see others dissecting it and nobody talks about it so yeah. i wonder what you would think about it

Oooh, I've never heard of this actually! So, thank you for the recommendation! I will look into it and if I review, I'll deffo post it here.

started watching iwtv and yeah sam reid is a little bit too macho to be lestat like he’s not nearly twinky enough and lestat de lioncourt could never have a thick neck like that but mannn does he make up for it with sluttiness

the rollercoaster of emotions i felt towards grace throughout the last hours is unreal😅 here she is, writer of the first fire message - grace blackthorn 🥀

characters by @cassandraclare

"Hast thou gone among the streets of the city and the watchmen there, and found the one thy soul loves?" 💛

characters by @cassandraclare 🫶

before james was old enough to wield a seraph blade his weapon of choice was rather questionable…🪿

characters by @cassandraclare 🤍

i think the best thing about american psycho is actually how pathetic patrick bateman is actively characterized as and portrayed. he’s insecure, none of the other characters take him seriously, he has to kill people to compensate, he gets visibly triggered over every tiny inconvenience, he’s perceived as a sniveling spineless prick. the psycho in american psycho, who we’re not sure actually exists, is the intimidating sigma male patrick wants to be but is just not. and it’s been thirty years since incels have been misunderstanding and misappropriating this aspect of his character, which adds another layer of humor and harrowing concern to the debacle.

Recommendations for media about translation, interpreting, and foreign languages

Movies and TV

Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020) The Interpreter (2005) The Last Stage (1948)

Books

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri The Interpreter by Suki Kim Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok Translation Nation by Héctor Tobar Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip Translation State by Ann Leckie

Other Important Topics and Subjects

La Malinche The Rosetta Stone The Tower of Babel The Adamic Language Esperanto Philology Goethean World Literature

Documentaries and History

The Interpreters: A Historical Perspective The Nuremberg Trials Biblical Translation St. Jerome - patron saint of translators Shu-ilishu's Seal (first depiction of an interpreter)

💚 Juanita: a bilingual children's book 💚

This is a bilingual children's book, written in both English and Spanish, which is set in Trinidad and Tobago. I wrote this with three of my friends after working with Venezuelan migrant children in a few UNICEF-led programmes here in the Caribbean. Juanita is perfect for teaching your little ones Spanish and/or English language skills and about Caribbean culture! And there's a cat in it!

Juanita is set in Trinidad and Tobago, features Latina rep, West Indian rep, disability rep, abd is great at addressing the conflicting emotions migrant children often experience.

Link to purchase as an ebook: here!

Link to purchase as a paperback: here!

i think this may be my favourite photograph from james and cordelia’s honeymoon 🫶

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pretty iconic that on one stormy night a bunch of dark academia gays gave the world not just frankenstein but also the broody vampire as we know it

Hey, Olivie! Absolutely adored "The Atlas Complex" and I'm excited to hear you have two brand new books coming in 2025. Can I ask if "Stargazing is Necrophilia" also has a prospective pub year as well? Thanks!

that book is going to require a lot out of me to finish and it aksi requires me to be very offline (when I wrote AWYITE I didn't have a twitter and I only used instagram to look at architectural digest and, like, fashion blogs) but I will probably work on it this year, so it will maybe come out late 2026 or, more likely, early 2027, depending on the order I write it with the gothic romance and my third standalone SFF

I’m midway through TAC (and goddamn it I love you, woman) and I need to say that I absolutely love how you’ve focused on how the Society is not exempt from being a large corporate bureaucracy highly dependent on the ebb and flow of late-stage capitalism. It’s also incredibly neat that the one person who isn’t highly privileged (or isn’t pretending to be highly privileged) aka Gideon is the one to point this out to Nico and mention this elephant in the room. This is just the perfect representation of academia. We like to pretend academia is a mystical and grandiose apolitical beacon of learning and knowledge that exists outside of the confines of operational society and taxes and red tape. But no—21st century academia and the Society are ultimately very much the same thing: a business venture reliant on depressed wage workers to function.

yes, never trust an institution I always say. I'm sure I've mentioned this before as well but when I briefly sat on an admissions panel to help determine which incoming freshman would get my merit scholarship, the instruction I was given was that we were not choosing the smartest or most accomplished student who would excel at the university—we were choosing the student who was most likely to go on to a lucrative career and contribute back to the university via donations, which is obviously a very different consideration. and I loved my university! but that experience has never left me. it's also a major theme in works like Babel, of course, but in executing it for this series, I wanted it to gradually become clear that atlas blakely, the alexandrian society, and the archives were all very separate agendas in service to very different ends (the alexandrian society's being profit)

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

"Too Sweet" by Hozier is so Klaroline-coded like I'm gonna scream actually

since you’re into dark academia, do u have legendborn on your tbr??

It is on my TBR! The only reason I haven't read it yet is because I haven't been in the mood for YA fantasy for a hot minute. But definitely wanna read it sooner rather than later. I love Arthuriana so maybe when the urge takes me again.

warm up doodle of polidori and percy ⚰️🕯