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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MIETTRESOR
you bottle Miette??
#for the love of god montresor#edgar allan poe#poe#the cask of amontillado#wine tasting#miette#hellsite#tumblr literacy
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Where Are My Mutuals?
I've been on Tumblr for two years and barely connect with anyone. It's time for a change. In a vain attempt to connect with people, I shall list my interests. I have too many to fit in one post, so here's Volume One: Classic Literature. Stay tuned for more. Do not adjust your set. Make Tumblr Interactive Again.
Lord of the Rings. (currently working on a "sauron gets the ring" AU with my nerd brother but that's another story) I would die for Pippin. Also for Frodo. Eowyn and Faramir are one of my favorite ships. Also Aragorn/Arwen and their parallels to Beren/Luthien. (Tolkien feels like a beloved character himself because of his own beautiful love story with Edith and all the mischief he got up to with CS Lewis.) Can't remember if I've finished the Silmarillion but I should someday.
Which brings me to mythology! I (metaphorically) burned through most of the mythology section in the children's library as a kid. I'd like to know more about Native American myths from my region someday.
Greek myths: Eros and Psyche. Persephone and Hades of course. Orpheus and Eurydice. (I know most of the lyrics to Hadestown.) LOVE Prometheus. (And many other Christ figures, including but not limited to Jesus.) Pygmalion/Galatea has some nice potential for stories but I haven't thought about it much. Endymion/Selene is a beautiful story.
Norse: I'm not as into Norse myth but Neil Gaiman's obsession with Odin makes me go "all right, he's cool." Loki (myth Loki is a separate character from Movie Loki) is redheaded and dangerous and tricky and beautiful. Anything Loki or Odin does interests me. The other gods, not so much.
Celtic: I can't remember that many but I liked Cuchulainn, the Morrigan, and anything about the Tuatha de Danann and Tir-na-nOg. Their myths and gods mostly descended into fairy tales and fairies under Christianity, so I also like the stories of the Sidhe and their kidnappings and magic.
Fairy tales. I also burned through most of the fairy tale section as a kid. (NOT LITERALLY.) I liked all the different Cinderella stories, and Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Red Riding Hood, and anything else pretty or bloody. Grimm's Fairy Tales are hit or miss because the moralizing sometimes outweighs the drama.
Shakespeare. Oh Boy. Hamlet (I could fill a notebook with theories on Ophelia and ideas of how to play her), Much Ado About Nothing (I'm told I could play a good Beatrice...if I knew how to act, that is), Romeo and Juliet (as glorious to this night as angels are unto the white-upturned wondering eyes of mortals that fall back to gaze on them), Henry V (but only if he's played by Tom Hiddleston), Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth (I didn't say it, I wrote it, don't @ me). I go to a Shakespeare play every year on my birthday. So far I've seen Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It. This year I'll see Much Ado.
The King Arthur legends. Recently read John Steinbeck's version. I like all the magic women. Morgan, Morgause, the Lady of the Lake, Nyneve. The Sword in the Stone by TH White is wonderful.
#long post#where are my mutuals#lord of the rings#faramir x eowyn#aragorn x arwen#pippin#frodo#beren x luthien#silmarillion#tolkien#greek myth#eros and psyche#hades and persephone#orpheus and eurydice#prometheus#norse myth#odin#loki#celtic myth#tuatha de danann#tir na nog#fairy tales#sleeping beauty#snow white#shakespeare#hamlet#twelfth night#much ado#sidhe#king arthur
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she ain't got those teeth for nothing
a series of unfortunate events au where the baudelaires take one for the team and kill olaf
i think sunny's the most likely to do it
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If the curse is "undiagnosed masked autism" then the cure is "stop masking autism"
My mom literally described masking (and stimming) the other day and I don't even think she knows what masking is. "Oh yeah I used to be so nervous about what people thought of me that I had to squeeze my hands together really hard before I entered a Gathering hahaha!!!"
But girls aren't allowed to have The Tism.
I'm just saying, if there's a curse that runs along your family line and you don't tell your kids about it, how the hell are they supposed to go on a quest to stop it?
#i need to whack her over the head with a copy of the DSM-5 at this point#but first i need to find one#do any of yalls mothers have a Neurodivergence#that you're Not Allowed To Have because Neither Are They#neurodivergent#neurodivergence#autism#the tism#actually autistic#perhaps. verdict to follow#masking#stimming#undiagnosed autism
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I watched the Netflix show and then decided I wanted to read the comics. All of them. In order. If I hadn't seen the show I might never have read the comics. The show WAS the gate.
Hi Mr Gaiman!
What’s your opinion on people saying someone is only a real fan of something if they consumed all of the available media of that thing? (e.g. “you aren’t a real fan of sandman if you only watched the netflix series”)
I feel like more and more people do this to sort of gate keep otherwise amazing fandoms and personally i think it’s quite sad to see.
As I posted on a more or less dead site a couple of years ago:
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"I as an adult don't feel comfortable with teens reading my Horny Posts(TM)" is Completely Valid.
"Teens should not Read/Write about Sexy Stuff Ever" is unfair.
If you're old enough to ask, then you're old enough to know. I wasn't allowed to read sex scenes well into my teens. That just made me feel bad for wanting to read them.
Restricting teenagers from reading/writing Anything Sexual Ever can be as invasive as pushing sexiness on them.
poking the hornets’ nest with this one but the current insistence that not only should teenagers/“minors” not have or read about sex, they should also be shielded from any knowledge or generational exchange about it is a) US-American as fuck b) really weird and against the nature of teenagers and the fact that puberty is a whole thing c) literally proven to be the worst approach to protecting teenagers from abuse and/or pregnancy and STIs
#this obviously doesn't mean “creeps should interact with teens”#this doesn't mean “teens should read creepy stuff”#they'll possibly be naturally put off by creepiness and want to find less creepy stuff
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refrogging this so i can find it again
realest thing i have seen in a while
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SHAI-HULUD
MAY HIS PASSAGE CLEANSE THE WORLD
Pangur :}
I was inspired to paint Pangur so I could have the little goblin watch me sleep at night (or scream silently)
Photo reference from @pangur-and-grim
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Artist: Hozier
What is your gender: Francesca
How I feel now: Unknown
If I could go anywhere: In the Woods Somewhere/Wasteland, Baby!
Favorite mode of transport: Movement
My best friend: Someone New
Favorite time of day: First Light
If my life was a TV show: Nobody
Relationship status: Would That I
My fear: Dinner & Diatribes
@gallusrostromegalus you don't know me but I'd be interested to see what you put? @littlestpersimmon I wonder what songs you like but if you don't feel like it that's cool @neil-gaiman cause why not? @the-crooked-library idk man you seem cool @thunderandsage @theshitpostcalligrapher you'll prob either ignore this or put some h*ckin gregorian chants... @weirdly-specific-but-ok you'll make this about good omens somehow, I doubt not
Stealing this from @angel-with-paper-wings because it looks super fun! :D
Using only song titles of one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and then tag people:
Artist: The Grateful Dead
What is your gender: Lady with a Fan
How do you feel: Hell in a Bucket
If you could go anywhere: Standing on the Moon
Favorite mode of transportation: The Wheel
Your best friend: Friend of the Devil
Favorite time of the day: Till the Morning Comes
If your life was a TV show: Eyes of the World
Relationship status: Unbroken Chain
Your fear: Fire on the Mountain
Tagging: @cornistasiathecoblinking @chaifootsteps @les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques @margoteve @scientistservant @jennyfair7 @wishuponastarion @theawkwardarchaeologist @scouts-mockingbird
#hozier#tag game#andrew hozier byrne#i feel unknown#in the woods somewhere#wasteland baby#hoziest#first light SLAPS#first light#music game#song titles#song game
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AMEN BROTHER
The thing about Éowyn giving up being a shieldmaiden is that those who complain about it are entirely missing the point.
What she truly wants is not to specifically fight and kill and kick ass in battle. All those things are representations of her actual desire: to be recognized.
She is constantly being cast aside and forced into the corner and left behind, and she wants to actually leave an impactful mark, a legacy, which the society of Rohan will not permit her to create. She directly tells Aragorn that she wants to do great deeds, and she is most afraid of losing her chance to do anything meaningful with massive ripple effects. She has the very human and very relatable need to be seen and noticed and remembered.
She sees all these warriors achieving glory and becoming the subjects of songs on the battlefield, so she thinks that’s her only way. And she fears that once the war is over, there will be no other way, that it will all go back to the way it was for her.
Then by the end, she learns that’s not true. She can do great deeds and achieve recognition post-war, and she does.
She becomes the Princess of Ithilien, a land decimated by war which means she and Faramir essentially get to start from scratch in rebuilding the land and the society. As Faramir’s equal partner, it is up to her, as much as it is up to him, to make the land beautiful again, to decide how it should be run, to mentor the younger generation to take proper care of it all. She can introduce horses to the land and teach people to ride. She can teach self-defense because everyone needs to know that kind of stuff. She can do so many things and make so many major decisions for the benefit of so many people who look up to her and need her.
And above all, Éowyn can shape Ithilien to be what Rohan never was to her: a place where all women are seen and heard and respected.
And the best part is, she gets all the freedom and makes all the impact that she has always dreamed of, and yet she doesn’t have to deal with any of her responsibilities alone. While before she had no support in being Théoden’s nurse, and dealt with it all by herself, now she is surrounded by love and encouragement. She’s got Faramir there to always hold her hand. She’s got supportive friends in Aragorn, Arwen, and Merry.
Éowyn giving up being a shieldmaiden and warrior is not the equivalent of abandoning her dream; it is the equivalent of achieving her dream.
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you're telling me a shrimp fried this rice? well i sure hope it did
#shrimp fried rice#i love shrimp fried rice#vines#vintage vines#but not the clothing brand#classic vines#road work ahead#well i sure hope it does#quality shitposting#artisanal bullshit
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In the first Lego movie, Boy sneaks into the basement to play with his dad's meticulous Lego displays. He casts Dad as Lord Business because Daddy Issues. Dad tries to glue everything down. Then they resolve their differences. Happy Ending interrupted by the arrival of Toddler Girl. "We are fwom Pwanet Dupwo and we are hewe to destwoy you".
Movie 2: Boy has hit puberty and made Lego Table World into Grimdark Angsty Apocalypse. Girl (no longer Toddler but still Smol) steals Batman and plans to marry him to her OC (Queen WhateverIWannaBe). Was there a cat involved? I don't remember. It doesn't matter.
I hate hate HATE all those 2edgy 4me theories about kids shows. Like Angelica dreaming up the rugrats, or the ed, edd, and eddy children being ghosts, or literally anything that takes a lighthearted and fun kids show and has to turn it into some tragic take of rape or murder or misinformed mental illness.
So you know what? From now on I’m gonna do the exact opposite. Every cool grim-dark show is now because of a bunch of children. To get us started:
Game of Thrones: A middle-school DnD campaign with the most angry, vindictive DM who has promised to kill everyone’s player characters (and their family) by the end.
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effervescent
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secrecy has been the lifeblood of VFD (both sides) for so long, for far too long. Jacques realizes that their beloved secrets are going to die and disappear unless they are revealed. So, driving his taxi with Quigley in the backseat, he tells him a story. About his old friends Beatrice and Bertrand and their three children. All of those old friends have had to hide for far too long. And it's too late now for them to be known, they're dead and gone, but Jacques can still tell their story.
“I knew you were alive,” Quigley said. “Jacques Snicket told me all about you, Klaus, Sunny, and even your parents. He knew them quite well before you were born.”
do you ever think about how jacques told quigley about the baudelaires. probably a significant amount for quigley to say "all about you". and also he told him about beatrice and bertrand. jacques, the snicket we've seen less in the books (both asoue and atwq), with this mysterious vibe, hidden in the shadows, jacques who wrote the letter to jerome that didn't explain things clearly, or at all. jacques who's more in the shadows than lemony, more ambiguous and mysterious, a quiet, hidden figure. told quigley quagmire all about the baudelaires, the kids and the parents.
#and though you're gone believe me#your memory will carry on#your weary widow marches on#mcr#lemony snicket#lemon snickers#lemon snicker#asoue#atwq#asoue netflix#jacques snicket#quigley quagmire#beatrice baudelaire#bertrand baudelaire#violet baudelaire#klaus baudelaire#sunny baudelaire
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kind of interesting how the land and the weather outside Gormenghast are the complete opposite of it in that they're brightly colored and changing and unpredictable, forest to desert to plains to rocks, baking heat to torrents of rain. And Gormenghast stands still and grey and unmoving, unchanging, bound in tradition more predictable than the seasons. Titus runs away to the forest again and again. The Thing lives in it and embodies it, even as she dies. Flay is banished to the forest but learns to love it and comes back gentler. Every time the rain comes in the books, it changes something important in Gormenghast. Fuchsia runs away to the forest when she's younger, but as she gets older and less free she does this less and less, and when she finally falls she hits her head on the grey stone of Gormenghast. Strange how she was looking at the water when she died, hoping it would release her even then.
I wonder if the still grey Gormenghast contrasted with the wild colorful country around it is anything like the English settlement in China where Mervyn Peake grew up. The traditions of the British Empire fading slowly in a fortress surrounded by an alien landscape with wild weather.
My small town feels a little like Gormenghast at times. I wonder if the world outside is bright and wild and dangerous, and if I could survive it.
#i lift my eyes to the hills#gormenghast#titus groan#fuchsia groan#mervyn peake#british empire#literary history#literary analysis#lit crit#literary criticism#though that seems pretentious#symbolism#man vs nature
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cue music:
"DREARY, DREARY" by The Gothic Archies
#WERE TEARY TEARY EYES ONCE BRIGHT#WEARY SIGHS THE TUNE#DREARY DREARY FOR ALL THE NIGHT#AND EERIE LIGHT OF THE MOOOOOOOOOOOON#dreary dreary#the gothic archies#lemon snickers#asoue#lemony snicket
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THAT'S WHAT I DIDN'T FRICKING LIKE ABOUT DUNE 2
HE STOPS BEING A PERSON
Chani can't understand him, no one can understand him, he becomes impersonal as a sandstorm. In the book, he kept being a person, trapped inside a destiny he couldn't move or change. But the movie treated him as lost, as if he'd become evil. (He probably would have gotten more attention and understanding if he HAD become evil.)
A thing that sticking with me about Dune Part2 [SPOILERS] once Paul takes the waters of life, he stops being the protagonist. The film isn’t from his POV anymore, we don’t see his visions, the camera rarely meets him at eye level. He’s not a character anymore, but a force people must navigate.
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