Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

You are so right and it's one of the things I love most about it. Another place where I noticed this structure is with Ellwood worrying all the time in the first third about Grant returning from the war changed and never being able to return to how he used to be.

But then it's Ellwood who changes the most, who struggles the most with returning to life, to how he was.

It's tragic, it's poetic, it's beautiful. Everything about the book is.

One of my favorite parts of In Memoriam is the dynamic changes in both protagonists. They both make a sort of X, crossing toward the starting points of each other another along the spectrum. In the beginning, Gaunt is hard/pessimistic/intimidating; Ellwood is soft/jovial/optimistic. By the end, they’ve switched places to make Gaunt soft and Ellwood hard, Gaunt becomes gentler while Ellwood becomes infinitely angry and frequently vicious. In the beginning, Ellwood was prying into Gaunt, in the end Gaunt was prying into Ellwood. But I will say that my favorite transformation was in their responses to their homeland. In the beginning, Ellwood is enchanted, adoring, in love with England and it’s no passing thing. He truly loves England. He tries to get Gaunt to join him in saying England is magic. He loved it. And before the Great War, Gaunt is in deep opposition to this as he is both deeply rejecting of war and empire and England’s empire/war role. He thinks it’s foolish to say England is magic. After the Great War, they move to Brazil and Ellwood loves it. He walks down the streets learning the names of all the flowers and gasping in delight. And Ellwood hates England. He looks at the country side and says “I tried to feel what I once felt. But I felt nothing.” And he says he goes for rides there and all he sees is mud and he reviles that land because it’s the land that he and his men were forced to die for. He was in the middle of bayoneting enemies and thought “England is magic. Nothing is worth this.” And then there’s Gaunt, who is still as staunchly anti-empire&war as he has been the entire book while he argues with people about how wrong this patriotism is — but he also looks at Brazil and sees everything in opposition to his home England. There’s no spring; the rain is too warm and thick; the colors are too exotic; the flowers are all wrong; all he wants is to go home and walk the frosty country lanes again. He said he misses England like it’s a person.

Gonna scream oh my Gd

"pasta only fills you up with empty calories" have you considered that it also fills me with love

Snowball in Hell, acrylics, 30cmx20cm

I used a random piece of wire to paint the smallest details..!

me watching 'gratitious' sex and violence and ''problematic representation'' in my shows and movies made for adults

I'm just glad you're back.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

4.07 | The Initiative

John Mitchell

i have one episode left in s3 and i'm not sure i have the willpower to withstand whatever happens

Take the test

You can only do 12 options in a poll so if you tie choose which one you prefer???

i love them, your honor

All this about not getting to see John Lennon on twitter but I think the real tragedy is that Freddie Mercury never had an instagram

After S2 David Tennant and Michael Sheen discuss driving the Bentley :)

Michael: Series One David spent his whole time moaning about how hard it was to drive that Bentley.

David: And cursing. Cursing.

Michael: This series, I get to drive it.

David: Yes. How are you finding it?

Michael: Awful.

David: Yeah.

Michael: Absolutely awful. I understand everything you’ve-

David: It's terrible. It’s beautiful. It's a thing of great beauty, but you don't want to have to actually drive the blooming thing.

Michael: Just turning the wheel...

David: Yeah.

Michael: It's like The World's Strongest Man event.

David: Yes.

tv show concept: a human buys an old house already owned by a vampire. since the vampire is dead, they cannot hold a lease, however any eviction notice also isn't legally binding, so they have no choice but to live together, and both spend all their spare time trying to make each other's lives as annoying and miserable as possible in an attempt to force the other person to leave